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Salmon is turning noise into a multi-billion dollar secular growth story in Southeast Asia by focusing on one core mission: building a lending product that customers can actually love. With a 4.8-star app rating and 99.9% uptime, they're proving that high-growth credit doesn't have to mean unhealthy customer relationships. Listen to the full conversation now on The Further, Faster Podcast.

Meet Thor: A 3.5-ton beast re-engineering the future of autonomous hardware. Fran Infante, Founder & CTO of Voltrac recently joined us on The Further, Faster Podcast to talk about how he went from building hypersonic planes to developing cutting-edge, dual-use electric vehicles for agriculture and defense. Check out Thor in action below- the absolute pinnacle of autonomous hardware and deep tech engineering.

The ultimate playbook for scaling fintech where legacy systems fail. 🚀 Most traditional fintech strategies fall flat in emerging markets. So how do you actually win? You rewrite the rules. In this episode of The Further, Faster Podcast, Antler Elevate partner Fady Abdel-Nour sits down with Pavel Fedorov—former CEO of digital banking pioneer Tinkoff and co-founder of Salmon—to discuss how Salmon are disrupting the financial landscape in the Philippines. Listen to the full episode now 👇

As @rex_woodbury, founder of @daybreak_fund says, there is a massive difference between a founder who wants to start a company, and a founder who has an “aura of inevitability.” One is trying out an idea. The other is executing at a velocity that makes you want to bet everything on their success. Listen to the full conversation now, on The Further, Faster Podcast.

The brutal reality of fundraising is weeding out the tourist founders. Fresh off announcing a $100M fund, @daybreak_fund founder @rex_woodbury sits down with Jeff Becker on The Further, Faster Podcast to drop some serious macro truths. This episode is a complete masterclass on avoiding deadly valuation traps, the art of "artisanal" company building, and in Rex’s opinion, why the next multi-billion-dollar empires are being built in New York over San Francisco. Whether you're raising a day-zero seed round or studying tech history, this conversation lays out the real roadmap to building a multi-billion-dollar business. Listen now.

Driven by a fierce determination to challenge the status quo, Di Challenor, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Constantinople isn't backing down from the monumental task of rebuilding the banking stack. While others might shy away from such a massive undertaking, she leans into the challenge with a relentless work ethic and a clear vision for the future. For Di, aiming to build one of the world's largest companies isn't a pipe dream—it’s a necessary pursuit. Listen now.

Can you completely rebuild the global banking stack from scratch? In this episode of The Further, Faster Podcast, Bede Moore sits down with Di Challenor, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Constantinople, to unpack one of tech’s most ambitious missions. Di reveals how legacy infrastructure traps traditional banks in operational gridlock—and how her team is breaking them free. Discover the realities of pitching to bank CEOs, scaling to five major clients on a single code base, and the relentless momentum it takes to build a generational business. Listen to the full conversation now.

The deadliest trap for a founder isn't running out of cash—it's running out of time. Between venture capital rounds, bridge funding, and government grants, it has never been easier to keep a flatlining startup on artificial life support. But as Unicorn founder @destraynor points out, capital is replaceable—your 20s and 30s are not. If your real-world usage, adoption, and ARR growth are mediocre, no amount of venture capital can mask that emptiness. Raising money is just a milestone; it is not market validation. Listen to the full conversation now on The Further, Faster Podcast.

Many founders get comfortable at the top. @destraynor did the exact opposite—he helped steer a tech unicorn through a massive pivot, discarding a legacy household brand name to go all-in on AI. It’s a strategy that clearly paid off, with Salesforce recently announcing an agreement to acquire @fin_ai for $3.6B. On this week’s episode of The Further, Faster Podcast, Antler Partner Tobias Bengtsdahl talks to Des Traynor, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Fin, formerly known as Intercom, to get the real, unvarnished playbook on product-market fit, ruthless scaling, and survival. Listen now.

If you aren't breaking things, you aren't moving fast enough. As Thibaud Lecuyer says in the latest episode of The Further, Faster Podcast, in the early stages of building a business, failure isn't a setback-it’s data. Every misstep is just an iteration getting you closer to what actually works. Listen now.

From a childhood croissant delivery hustle in France to moving to Brazil to co-found the massive fashion marketplace Dafiti, Thibaud Lecuyer has never been one to slow down. In this episode of The Further, Faster Podcast, Antler Partner Ronald Jan Schuurs sits down with Thibaud to dissect the reality of scaling in Latin America and more. Thibaud breaks down his uncompromising blueprint for shifting company culture toward profitability, teaching an entire staff the true meaning of EBITDA, and adopting a strict "sea urchin in your pocket" mindset to aggressively cut costs. Listen now.