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White Box Rodeo

Robert Valentine, Kayvan Nikjou

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Whitebox means you crack it open and look at the actual code, the internals, how the thing really runs. That's the podcast. We do whitebox testing on entrepreneurs, startups and VCs. Get past the pitch deck and into the real workings, the messy parts, the stuff nobody puts on LinkedIn. And the rodeo? Because building a company is a wild ride.

Recent Episodes

OCT 12, 2026
Robin Wauters, Co-Founder of Tech.eu | Obsessed With Solving a Problem
Robin Wauters, co-founder of Tech.eu, talks with Robert Valentine and Kayvan Nikjou at HumanX in Amsterdam. Robin wrote for TechCrunch and was European editor of The Next Web before he started Tech.eu in 2013 to cover the European tech scene. He sold the
57 MIN
OCT 9, 2026
Fabian Hedin, Co-Founder & CTO of Lovable | Billionaire on a Bike
“I'm still riding my bike to the office every day,” says Fabian Hedin. He co-founded Lovable in Stockholm, a tool that in his words lets anyone create software and create companies. Forbes estimates his net worth at 3.1 billion dollars. He is 27.
54 MIN
OCT 5, 2026
Jürgen Ingels, Founding Partner of Smartfin | Being an Entrepreneur Is a Sh*t Life
“It's a sh*t life. Being an entrepreneur is a sh*t life,” says Jürgen Ingels. He co-founded the payments company Clear2Pay, which FIS bought in 2014, and afterwards people told him he had been lucky. He wanted to show he could do it again and set up the f
94 MIN
SEP 25, 2026
Mo Gawdat, Former Chief Business Officer of Google X | Challenging Mo Gawdat
The episode of history where humanity was the apex intelligence is about to end. That is how Mo Gawdat, former Chief Business Officer of Google X and author of Scary Smart, sees it. Kayvan interviewed him on stage at the Love Tomorrow Summit in front of t
82 MIN
SEP 18, 2026
Attention Beats Capital
Attention beats capital. In Europe the money is there but the attention is not, and the founders who work that out get ahead of the ones still waiting for a grant.
62 MIN