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Boardroom Club

Boardroom Club 91 Episodes Aug 23, 2026

Boardroom Club is a media platform that connects students with board members from top tech companies. The podcast features interviews with founders and C-suite executives from companies like NVIDIA, Palantir, AMD, Cisco, Snowflake, ServiceNow, Wiz, Twilio, and Box. It aims to provide insights into leadership and business strategies.

Episodes

Rubrik CTO: The End of Zero Trust?
Rubrik CTO: The End of Zero Trust? Aug 23, 2026 00:44:52 Arvind Nithrakashyap is the Co-Founder and CTO of Rubrik (NYSE: RBRK) the cybersecurity resilience platform.We started by exploring how Rubrik has evolved from a data backup and protection company into a #CyberResilience and data security platform - and what's next in the new AI era and RAG technology.And indeed the world is changing, Enterprise security was built around deterministic policies
Chainguard CEO: Can AI Break Open Source?
Chainguard CEO: Can AI Break Open Source? Aug 16, 2026 00:23:47 Dan Lorenc is the Co-Founder of Chainguard, which raised ~$900M to make it Open Source secure to use.We started by discussing the #challenges around the distribution and consumption of open source. It’s free and ubiquitous - but do we really consume the source code itself?Or as Dan phrase it:"It's free as in puppy, not free as in beer"We then explored #ChainguardImages, what the future holds for #
Radical AI CEO: Discovering New Materials with AI | Apex Series
Radical AI CEO: Discovering New Materials with AI | Apex Series Aug 4, 2026 00:44:04 One space everyone is excited to see revolutionized by AI is MaterialsScience, and a company at the forefront of it is Radical AI.A key part of materials science is trial & error. We discussed how Radical AI captures valuable “negative data” (the error side) from its self-driving #labs to train #AI models and accelerate discovery.We then explored their unconventional #InverseDesign approach -
Speechify CEO: From Dyslexia to 60M+ Users | Apex Series
Speechify CEO: From Dyslexia to 60M+ Users | Apex Series Aug 2, 2026 00:19:06 From having dyslexia to building a tech powerhouse with 60M+ users!We started by exploring Cliff’s journey - from studying #renewable energy engineering to choosing not to race after a fancy job. Instead, he stayed on campus and started building something completely different: what would become Speechify.#Customer obsession was key: from calling users directly on #FaceTime to running customer supp
IQM CEO: Why Quantum & AI Must Work Together | Apex Series
IQM CEO: Why Quantum & AI Must Work Together | Apex Series Jul 26, 2026 00:30:51 Watch our exclusive interview with Jan Goetz, Co-Founder and CEO of IQM Quantum Computers (NASDAQ: IQMX).IQM Quantum Computers just made #history - becoming the first European quantum computing company to go public on Nasdaq!We started by exploring the dynamics between #Quantum and #AI - and why Jan believes the future will be a #hybrid approach, with quantum computing embedded into other compute
Zeta Global CEO: We Rebuilt Everything | Apex Series
Zeta Global CEO: We Rebuilt Everything | Apex Series Jul 19, 2026 00:48:29 Watch a preview of our exclusive interview with David A Steinberg, Co-Founder and CEO of Zeta Global (NYSE: ZETA)Zeta Global has been built like layers of dreams - just like #Inception - with each chapter requiring the company to reinvent itself.We started in 2017, at the #pivotal board meeting where Zeta decided to transform from a customer lifecycle platform into an AI-native company, sunsetting
Island CEO: Quantum Changes Everything in Cybersecurity | Apex Series
Island CEO: Quantum Changes Everything in Cybersecurity | Apex Series Jul 12, 2026 00:46:24 Watch our exclusive interview with Michael Fey, Co-Founder and CEO of Island.The #browser has become the core workspace layer for enterprises, and a company at the forefront of this shift is Island.We started by exploring how #AI has transformed Island’s product roadmap, and how they see AI differently, as a positive force from a #cybersecurity standpoint, with products like AI Publish, enabling t
QM CEO: AGI? Quantum is Bigger | Apex Series
QM CEO: AGI? Quantum is Bigger | Apex Series Jul 5, 2026 00:35:42 Watch our exclusive interview with Itamar Sivan, Ph.D., Co-Founder and CEO of Quantum Machines.The quantum space is having some serious momentum, and one of the companies at the center of it is Quantum Machines.We started by discussing what #quantum computing is all about, and how Quantum Machines is changing the game with its #orchestration layer for quantum processors.One of their latest product
Intercom President: From New AI Roadmap to $3.6B Acquisition by Salesforce | Apex Series
Intercom President: From New AI Roadmap to $3.6B Acquisition by Salesforce | Apex Series Jun 28, 2026 00:35:17 Watch our exclusive interview with Archana Agrawal, President at Intercom (Fin).Intercom has transformed its whole sales motion, shifting from selling seats to selling #outcomes.We started by discussing how this change has reshaped the company's #GTM and customer success strategies, and why understanding #customers has become more critical than ever.From there, we explored how #brand marketing
Texas Instruments CTO: Our Innovation is Everywhere | Apex Series
Texas Instruments CTO: Our Innovation is Everywhere | Apex Series Jun 21, 2026 00:36:22 Watch our exclusive interview with Dr. Ahmad Bahai, CTO at at Texas Instruments (NASDAQ: TXN). We could find Texas Instruments innovation everywhere, from #datacenters chips, to embedded processors and even calculators.We started by discussing #KilbyLabs and how they decide what to develop, including how they evaluate whether an idea has enough moat to justify the required R&D investment and t
Open Source Models Could Outperform Frontier Models | Fireworks AI Co-Founder | Apex Series
Open Source Models Could Outperform Frontier Models | Fireworks AI Co-Founder | Apex Series Jun 17, 2026 00:32:17 Watch our exclusive interview with Benny Yufei Chen, Co-Founder of Fireworks AI.Fireworks raised ~$327M, most recently at a $4B valuation to change the AI space, enabling the enterprises to own the model themselves.We started by exploring Fireworks AI's mission of enabling companies to access, fine-tune, and deploy #AI models through a simple platform - and the significant #cost savings potent
Glean CEO: Save 50% of Tokens Using Glean | Apex Series
Glean CEO: Save 50% of Tokens Using Glean | Apex Series Jun 14, 2026 00:36:06 Watch our exclusive interview with Arvind Jain, Founder and CEO at Glean.Glean has raised over $770M and is valued at $7.2B, with a mission to unlock enterprise knowledge.As they cracked the enterprise #search space, we started by discussing Glean's early #contrarian bets - from defining the problem differently to building a single-tenant architecture that could be easily deployed within a cus

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