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Pathfounders

Mike Butcher

Pathfounders, with Mike Butcher, covers the tech startup and venture ecosystem.

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  • English

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  • May 6 · 16 min

    Rezonant and the new AI software bottleneck

    AI coding agents are making software faster to build, but it’s creating a headache for product managers, who are now the bottleneck. In this episode, Pathfounders’ Mike Butcher speaks to Emma Burrows, former Stripe UK CTO and founder of Rezonant, about why the next crisis in AI-driven software development may be the messy handoff between product managers, engineers and, now, Agentic engineers. Rezonant is now launching from stealth with a workspace designed to turn product intent into Agent-ready specs.

  • May 1 · 15 min

    Is this the hottest young founder network globally right now?

    Sigma Squared has brought together over 1,100 young founders across local chapters spread around the world, and its members have collectively raised more than $2.5 billion in venture capital, but the organisation is not simply a talent network or investor pipeline. President Julia Zhou joined Mike Butcher on the Pathfounders Podcast to peel back the curtain on this fascinating network.

  • April 23 · 10 min

    YC-backed Ontora is an AI to map the ‘guts’ of a company

    Ontora — a startup from Germany which just won YC backing — is building an AI agent designed to interview every employee in a company, surface hidden knowledge, and turn that into process maps, operational insight and context that AI tools can use. Pathfounder’s Mike Butcher spoke to the founders about the tool and their YC / Bay Area experience during today’s AI boom.

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