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Part 2 of 2: Tweener Fund Road Trip to Winston Salem
In Part 1 we talked about the WS innovation district and the ConvergeSouth facilities. This week we dig into the content.
 • Scot Wingo
Will Duckett, Co-Founder & COO of Equity Shift: Opening Up How Private Company Ownership and Markets Operate.
Will joins me to talk about building a broker-dealer from the ground up, and how 41 patents on blockchain quietly power a new operating system for…
[REDACTED] Episode 10: A Non-Technical Founder Doesn't Need a Technical Co-Founder Anymore
Parker walks us through Signify's live sales pipeline and why he thinks non-technical founders no longer need a technical co-founder.
 • David Shaner and Taylor Cotner
Steven King, Founder of Blue Sky Robotics: How a Metaverse Project Pivoted to Hospital Robotics
Steven chats with me about pivoting from metaverse capture to warehouse picking to hospital automation, why real-world data beats synthetic data, and…
Part 1 of 2: Tweener Fund Road Trip to Winston Salem
Now that we’re state-wide, for the next year we’re going to be traveling the state for venture pitch events and report on the region’s startup ecosystem…
 • Scot Wingo

August 2026

Ben Scruggs, CEO of Altis Biosystems: Building the Gut Model That Predicts Which Drugs Actually Work
Ben on trading a venture partner's chair for the operator's seat, building human gut models that de-risk drug development, and why every…
[REDACTED] Episode 9: He Gave His AI Assistant 64 Tools and Zero Permission to Delete Anything
Josh Guter breaks down how his AI ops assistant for small teams actually works under the hood and how he audits a system he admits has become a partial…
 • David Shaner and Taylor Cotner
Founder-to-Founder: Running a GREAT Board Meeting... Part 1 of a Multi-Part “Investor Relations/Comms Strategy for NC Founders” Series..
You’ve started your company, gotten some SAFEs, in a pre-seed and now completed a priced seed. Congratulations, you now have quarterly board meetings…
 • Scot Wingo
Adam Steege, Founder & CEO of Trio Labs: The Startup Failure That Became a Med-Tech Manufacturer
Adam joins me to talk micro-scale metal 3D printing and the eleven-year path from a senior design project to commercial-scale manufacturing in…
Nick Genty, Co-Founder & CEO of AgEye: From a Storefront Full of Robots to a Deal in Qatar
Nick Genty joins me to talk indoor farming robotics, why food deserts persist, and how a network of introductions turned into $5M in funding and a new…
[REDACTED] Episode 8: We Hired an AI Sales Rep and Became Its Manager
On Episode 8 of Redacted, we walk through the daily AI agent loop that now runs our sales pipeline and the real math on how many hours AI-assisted work…
 • David Shaner and Taylor Cotner
SaaS Apocalypse takes turn for the worse: Late SaaS Founders Face Severe Re-rating Thanks to Airtable + Bending Spoons - Todd Olson @ Pendo…
Just when you thought the SaaS-Ageddon/SaaS Apocalypse couldn't get worse...
 • Scot Wingo
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