We Built It Because We Had To - Tech Founder Backstories
By Jonathan W. Buckley of The Artesian Network
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Episodes: 38
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We Built It Because We Had To is a founder-interview podcast from The Artesian Network, hosted by Jonathan Buckley. Each episode digs into the real founder journey behind B2B SaaS and tech startups — the backstories, the drama, the lessons, go-to-market, product-market fit, fundraising, enterprise sales, scaling, and how agentic AI is reshaping the bet.
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The Wall Every AI Data Center Is Quietly Hitting (Vivek Raghunathan)
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Oct 01, 2026 |
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Assume Everything Will Break. That's What Fast Scaling Feels Like. (Daniel Rosenrauch)
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Sep 24, 2026 |
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Everyone Ignored In-House Legal. He Built Its Operating System. (Evan Wong)
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Sep 17, 2026 |
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Nobody Wanted His Sales Playbooks. They Wanted the Recorder. (Gerald Zankl)
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Sep 10, 2026 |
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Your AppSec Tools Find 15% of Defects, Not 95% (Chris Near)
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Sep 03, 2026 |
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They Hired Consultants and Got Order Takers (Stephanie Taylor)
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Aug 27, 2026 |
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Why Treating Returns as a Cost Center Is the Problem (Ricardo Morgado)
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Aug 20, 2026 |
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The AI Worker With Her Own LinkedIn Page (Daniele Bernardi)
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Aug 13, 2026 |
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He's Teaching AI to Answer the Internet in Your Brand's Voice (Hank Leber)
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Aug 07, 2026 |
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He Lost His Brother To A Misdiagnosis. Then He Built Medome (Dr. Steven Charlap)
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Aug 06, 2026 |
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From Government CISO to AI-Native Security Founder (Robert Wood)
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Jul 30, 2026 |
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Selling "Chaos" to the Fortune 100 Almost Killed His Company (Kolton Andrus)
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Jul 23, 2026 |
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His Data Found Carbon Monoxide Poisoning That Two Top Hospitals Missed (John Kelley)
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Jul 16, 2026 |
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He Sold Persistent Chat to Microsoft Before Slack Existed (Nick Fera)
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Jul 09, 2026 |
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He Skipped School Until 25 — Now He's Building AI Governance for 48% of the Economy (Callen Sapien)
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Jul 02, 2026 |
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He Lost $3M on a Failed Pivot — Here's What CloudTask Does Differently (Amir Reiter)
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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He Fired His Freelancers and Built a 500-Person Dev Shop to Replace Them — Furqan Aziz, InvoZone
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Jun 25, 2026 |
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How Klearly Pivoted to Dominate Hospitality Payments (Geus Walder)
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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The Customer Success Branding Gap Most SaaS Companies Miss (Arne Hurty)
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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2 Million Autonomous Fixes In PayPal Production — Then He Spun It Out (Suresh Mathew)
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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Why AI Data Centers Could Break the U.S. Power Grid | Michael Parrella
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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Inside the 64 Billion Identity Breach Data Lake — Andres Andreu, CEO of Constella Intelligence
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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Exploitation Validation: Beyond Blinking Red Dots (Karen Nguyen)
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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The 272-Day B2B Sales Cycle (Nick Turner)
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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The AI Pushing Back on Insurance Denials (Michael Riley of Gabeo.ai)
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May 28, 2026 |
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AGE: The 4th Axis the AGI Conversation Is Missing | Rana Gujral
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May 26, 2026 |
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50 Customers, One US Patent, and a Tool That Plays Nice (Stephen Franklin)
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May 21, 2026 |
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Laid Off by the DoE — Then He Built an AI Startup | David Blumenthal
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May 19, 2026 |
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The EdTech Founder Bootstrapping AI for Higher Ed (Preeti Tanwar)
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May 15, 2026 |
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Don't Hire That Full-Time CMO Yet — Here's Why (Eyal Dror)
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May 14, 2026 |
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Building a $235M SaaS Business by Being Human First (Nick Mehta)
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May 12, 2026 |
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"Be Afraid Every Day": 30 Years of Disruption in Capital Markets (Ashok Mittal)
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May 07, 2026 |
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PodcastFrom Phone Hacking in the 80s to OT Cybersecurity (Patrick Miller)
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May 05, 2026 |
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From Coca-Cola & Unilever to an AI Startup at 60 (Stan Sthanunathan)
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May 04, 2026 |
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The $57M Bet on Blockchain Identity (Rohan Pinto)
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May 04, 2026 |
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300% Year-Over-Year: The AI Content Machine for Law Firms (John Fly)
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May 04, 2026 |
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The 4-Time Exited Founder Going for the Fifth (Peter Pezaris)
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May 04, 2026 |
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The 3am LinkedIn Slip That Started Metadata.io (Gil Allouche)
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May 04, 2026 |