Zero Prime

Zero Prime

The Zero Prime Podcast with Pete Soderling explores the early stories of top startups as seen through the eyes of their engineer-founders. In each episode we uncover insights on what it takes to start a company as an engineer in the words of the founders themselves. From the most cutting edge infrastructure companies to the newest trends in developer tooling, we introduce you to the engineer-founder personalities behind the up and coming software startups that you can’t afford to ignore.

Recent Episodes

May 13, 2025

E30 - From Flight Sims to Authorization: How AuthZed's Jake Moshenko …

In this episode we talk to Jake Moshenko – Co-Founder and CEO of AuthZed. Hear from Jake as he traces his journey from building flight simulators to creating cutting-edge authorization systems – not mincing words when discuss...

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April 13, 2025

E29: Sudarshan Lakshminarasimhan Founding Engineer at E6data

This week I chat with Sudarshan Lakshminarasimhan, Founding Engineer and Performance Research Lead at e6data. With over two decades of experience at technical consulting firm Thoughtworks and a seat on their Technology Adviso...

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March 13, 2025

E28: Classical Pianist to Observability Pioneer - Charity Majors Co-F…

In this episode of the Zero Prime podcast, we chat with Charity Majors, Co-Founder and CTO of Honeycomb, who traded piano keys for keyboard commands on their journey from trained pianist to systems firefighter. Tune in to get...

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Feb. 13, 2025

E27: From Unix Coder to BI Pioneer: Rob Woollen's Journey Founding Si…

In this episode of Zero Prime, we sit down with Rob Woollen, co-founder and CTO of Sigma Computing, to explore the intersection of engineering and entrepreneurship. Rob shares his journey from writing Unix kernels at HP to ar...

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Dec. 5, 2024

E26: Balancing Open Source and Business with Spencer Kimball (Cockroa…

In this new episode of the 0P podcast, we welcome back Spencer Kimball, co-founder and CEO of Cockroach Labs, to discuss the evolving landscape of software licensing in the cloud era. Spencer shares insights on how companies ...

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Aug. 5, 2024

E25 [DEEP DIVE]: How Metric Trees Are Transforming Businesses with Vi…

In this episode, we introduce a new format for the podcast—a deep dive into a technical topic with an engineer-founder who is an expert on the subject. For our first Deep Dive, I sit down with Vijay Subramanian, the visionary...

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About the Host

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Pete Soderling

Founder: Data Council & Zero Prime Ventures

Pete Soderling is the founder of Data Council and Zero Prime Ventures. As a former software engineer, repeat founder and investor in more than 70 data-oriented startups, Pete’s lifetime goal is to help 10,000 engineers start successful companies. Most importantly, Pete is a community builder — from his earliest days of working with the data engineering community starting in 2013, he has witnessed the unique power of specialized networks to bring inspiration, knowledge and support to technical professionals.