Building Deep Tech

Ilir Aliu

The show for founders building real deep tech. Each episode features founders, executives, and builders in AI, robotics, and hardware — breaking down how they build, scale, and learn. Hosted by Ilir Aliu | 22Astronauts. Whether you’re building now or just curious — tune in.

100 - Ep 100 | You Need To Be 10x Better (w/ Evan Beard)

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Building Deep Tech

Episodios

Ep 100 | You Need To Be 10x Better (w/ Evan Beard)

Ep 99 | You Can’t Be What You Can’t See (w/ Grace Brown)

Ep 98 | Discipline Is a Transferable Skill (w/ Camilla Mazzoleni)

Ep 97 | Why Robotics Keeps Rebuilding the Same Infrastructure (w/ Stephen James)

Ep 96 | Talent Didn’t Save Me, Consistency Did (w/ Steve Xie)

Ep 95 | The Hard Part Is Not Training Robots. It Is Making Them Generalize (w/ Animesh Garg)

Ep 94 | What Made Us Strong Is Now Holding Us Back (w/ Marco Huber)

Ep 93 | Scaling Is Harder Than Building The First Robot (w/ Stefan Dörr-Laukien)

Ep 92 | New Opportunities Grow From Every Failure (w/ Stephan van den Brink)

Ep 91 | The Real Truth Of Autonomy Lives In The Stats (w/ Harals Schäfer)

Ep 90 | Why are you not throwing yourself into this? (w/ Hendrik Susemihl)

Ep 89 | Business Masterclass: Selling First Before Building (w/ Albane Dersy)

Ep 88 | Always a Bit of a Generalist, Never Only One Thing (w/ Jon Miller Schwartz)

Ep 87 | Speed Is Objectively the Most Important Thing in Life (w/ Axel Peytavin)

Ep 86 | It’s Not A Hardware Problem. It’s A System Problem (w/ Tom Zhang)

Ep 85 | Having A Company Is Maybe The Hardest Way To Get Rich (w/ Maximilian Schilling)

Ep 84 | Fundamental Improvement Over Incremental Change (w/ Xavier (Tianhao) Chi)

Ep. 83 | You Become Who You Hang Out With (w/ Ashish Kapoor)

Ep 82 | College Is Going to Be Obsolete by the End of This Decade (w/ Brian Walker)

Ep 81 | Opportunities Only Arise After An Incredible Amount Of Work (w/ Jan Liphardt)

Ep 80 | You Will Die If You Don’t Do It (w/ Bob van Luijt)

Ep 79 | Calm Down, Slow It All Down, Let Clarity Emerge (w/ Vikash Kumar)

Ep 78 | Don't Start With A Whiteboard, Talk To Customers (w/Brennand Pierce)

Ep 77 | If Other People Can Do It, Why Not Us? (w/ Aaron Tan)

Ep 76 | Fear and Pressure Fade When Joy Takes Over (w/ Brendah Njiru)

Ep 75 | We Should Scale It Up Ourselves (w/ Lerrel Pinto)

Ep 74 | Why Early Corporate Experience Is Valuable for Entrepreneurs (w/ Benji Barash)

Ep 73 | Learn It Yourself Before Hiring for Expertise (w/ Madison Maxey)

Ep 72 | Found the perfect track, combining science and design (w/ Matthieu Lapeyre)

Ep 71 | The Team Ends Up Like Charting the Path Too (w/ Kaan Dogrusoz)

Ep 70 | Real Confidence Comes From The Work (w/ Benjamin Bolte)

Ep 69 | You can really build things with a small team (w/ Nikolaus West)

Ep 68: Personal Agency and Shaping One's Own Life (w/Chang Liu)

Ep 67: Doing Plan A to Do B Doesn’t Work (w/ Dhanush Radhakrishnan)

Ep 66 | Ship One New Product Every Week Until Something Sticks (w/ Tibo Louis-Lucas)

Ep 65 | The Failing Part is Not Very Valuable if You Don't Learn (w/ Victor Splittgerber)

Ep 64 | Degrees and Job Doesn't Matter - What Matters Is Being True (w/ Haixuan Xavier Tao)

Ep 63 | At the Start, Fundamental Knowledge Matters Most (w/ Dmitrii Rudnitckii)

Ep 62 | Physical AI Has a Data Problem (w/ Pedro Milcent)

Ep 61 | Bad feedback is the most important feedback (w/ Nicolas Rabault)

Ep 60 | Once You Know What You Want to Do, Life Gets Easier (w/ Eris Sako)

Ep 59 | Most Important Thing: The Ability To Get Shit Done (w/ Etienne Lacroix)

Ep 58 | Find the Right Co-Founder... It’s Everything (w/ Sandor Felber)

Ep 57 | A True Master Is An Eternal Student (w/ Ryan Saavedra)

Ep 56 | You Should Know Why You’re Doing It (w/ Antoine Van Malleghem)

Ep 55 | Just keep on building and you’ll figure out what you want. (w/ Frédéric Legrand)

Ep 54 | Work hard, make it fail less and get better (w/ Sankaet Pathak)

Ep 53 | Make Bionic Limbs Accessible To Humans & Robots (w/Aadeel Akhtar)

Ep 52 | Building Autonomous Household Robots (w/ Usman Roshan)

Ep 51 | Don't Found a Startup Without Decade-Long Passion (w/ Adrian Macneil)