Interviewing Every YC Company - Palmier (Summer 2024)

This is the Max Depth Podcast. Today we speak with the co-founder and CEO of Palmier. Palmier is a video editor built for AI, where Claude and Codex can edit your timeline directly: trimming, reordering, and generating footage. We used it to make 15+ cinematic AI launch videos for YC companies and it's now open-source and free to download at palmier.io.   

This is the Max Depth Podcast. Today we spoke with a founding engineer at Autumn. Autumn is building the first real-time signal intelligence platform for GTM teams. We monitor posts, commits, blogs, and announcements, surfacing buying signals the moment they appear. Define your ICP and the signals that matter, and we deliver a condensed, real-time feed filtered by intents.   

This is the Max Depth Podcast. Today we speak to the founder and CEO of Light Anchor. Light Anchor operates one flagship brand and multiple experiment stores, all run by AI agents on a shared platform that compounds with every new brand launched. The vision is thousands of consumer businesses, operating with little to no human intervention. We hope you enjoy and take away some practical tips from today's conversation.

In today's episode we speak with Tuna Uskudar about his company Provenance, the company seeking to improve the way large financial institutions use Excel and PowerPoint. We spoke about the vision for the company, fundraising, team, moats, customer obsession, and lots more. I hope you find this conversation exciting.

Today I had a guest on who decided to remain anonymous, though through his stories you can learn a lot about who he is and what he believes. He produces incredible videos on tiktok of his travels: raw, honest, digestible. His TikTok is https://www.tiktok.com/@gcvvgcvvgcvv?_r=1&_t=ZP-96nVYBwioxi if you want to check it out. We had a pretty excellent conversation, speaking about religion, global politics/influence, and so many personal stories. From Africa, China, and the Stans, to declining Europe and the very livable Latam - we covered a lot of the world. I am really happy to have had the conversation today, and I hope you all enjoy. 

Today I sat down with Mark Inger, the founder of Pleep, who is building AI sales agents for medium to large business across MENA, South America, and APAC. I found him extremely intelligent and focused on building an enduring company, a very challenging feat in the rapidly advancing world of 2026.    https://pleep.app

Today I spoke with Alek Petuskey, the founder of Reflex - the platform for enterprises to build and scale apps. Having identified a problem with his roommate and co-founder, Reflex gained massive traction (10,000 users) very quickly, rising to the top spot on Hacker News. From there the company has sought to monetize, experiencing 100% MoM growth for the past 6 months, with over 1M apps built on the platform and 30% of the Fortune 500 using Reflex. Today we talk about how to develop focus, how to think about open source, and what it takes to build a world class company. I hope you enjoy today's episode.

Todays conversation is hosted in person in NYC. Isaiah Washington and I discussed how he built AI tools built with Claude Code as a largely non technical person for his organization. We also discussed his experience at Facebook and Insight and his current role at Artemis. I greatly enjoyed the conversation and hope to have many more like it in the future.

Check out our guest: www.rosemaryd.com Reiki was not something that I had heard much about before my conversation with Rosemary. The ability to sense and heal people using energy and intuition was always slightly outside of my scope of belief / understanding. Through my conversation with Rosemary, however, I became thoroughly impressed by her. Both her commanding knowledge of many different subjects areas across psychology, neuroscience, and history, as well as her ability to see people for who they truly are. She spoke to me about people that she had met who had died for 7 minutes and were revived and how their stories affected her, the different colored auras she can something see radiating off of people, and her ability to understand people at the level of the soul. She is a torch of light. I greatly enjoyed my conversation with her.

Today I hosted Andreas Tempereau on the podcast. He currently attends Stanford, will be joining Anduril next year, and has been building a insane military helmet for the past few months. I sat down today to understand his outlook on the world, how he sees the current state of technology, and what motivates him to solve interesting problems... (spoiler! he just loves solving interesting problems). I hope you enjoy today's conversation, I sure did. Please check out today's sponsor: https://courtside1.mysharetribe.com — The platform that connects athletes and business with talented creators in their area. Now, on to the program.