The Infra Pod brings you insightful and thought-provoking discussions on the world of infrastructure software. This podcast is started by two engineers, Ian Livingstone (tech advisor for Snyk) and Tim Chen (General Partner at Essence VC), team up with a rotating cast of guests to dive deep into the latest trends and hot topics in the software infrastructure space.
68 episodes transcribedDave McJannet — CEO of Dome Systems, former CEO of HashiCorp, and a veteran of Cloud Foundry, Hortonworks, and GitHub — joins Tim (Essence) and Ian Li...
What if the entire LLM industry has been solving language generation the slow way — one token at a time?In this episode of The Infra Pod, hosts Tim Ch...
In this episode of The Infra Pod, hosts Tim Chen (GP at Essence VC) and Ian Livingstone (CEO of Keycard) sit down with William Morgan, co-founder and...
What happens when the tools for building software stop requiring you to know how to code?In this episode of The Infra Pod, hosts Tim Chen (GP at Essen...
What happens when you combine world-class mathematicians with cutting-edge AI systems? In this episode, Ian Livingston (CEO of Keycard) and Timothy Ch...
In this episode of The Infra Pod, hosts Tim Chen (Essence VC) and Ian Livingstone (Keycard) sit down with Benny Chen, co-founder of Fireworks AI, to e...
Tim (Essence VC) and Ian (Keycard) interviewed Louis Vichy, co-founder of OpenRouter, about why he built OpenRouter to de-risk AI app development (end...
In this episode of The Infra Pod, hosts Tim Chen (Essence VC) and Ian Livingstone (Keycard) sat down with Catherine Jue, co-founder and CEO of Kernel,...
Tim (Essence VC) and Ian (Keycard) sat down with Tejas Bhakta (CEO of Morph) to chat about building infrastructure for the fastest file edit APIs for...
In this episode of The Infra Pod, hosts Tim and Ian sit down with Dexter Horthy, CEO of Human Layer, to explore the evolution of AI coding agents and...
In this episode of the Infra Pod, hosts Ian Livingston (Keycard) and Tim Chen (Essence VC) interviewed the Field CTO Akshay Shah of Antithesis, diving...
Join Tim from Essence VC and Ian Livingston from Keycard for the year-end 2025 recap of Infra Pod! In this special episode, Tim and Ian reflect on the...
In this episode of The Infra Pod, hosts Tim from Essence VC and co-host Ian Livingston (Keycard) interviewed Sammy Sdu, CEO of Eventual, a multimodal...
In this episode of The Infra Pod, hosts Tim and Ian are joined by Anurag, CEO of Render, to discuss the journey of building a modern cloud platform fr...
Welcome to Episode 53 of The Infra Pod! Hosts Tim from Essence and Ian from Keycard are joined by special guest Alex Eagle, CEO and co-founder of Aspe...
In this episode of the Infra Pod, hosts Tim (Essence VC) and Ian (CEO of Keycard) sat down with Lucas Thelosen, founder of Gravity and former head of...
Join host Tim Chen (Essence VC) and Ian Livingston (Keycard.sh) as they sat down with Ivan Burazin, CEO and co-founder of Daytona to explore the cutti...
Ian (Keycard) and Tim Essence VC) engage in an insightful discussion with Hunter Leath, CEO of Archil. The episode delves into the motivations behind...
Tim (Essence VC) and Ian (Keycard) sat down with Aditya, CEO of Blacksmith, to explore the inception and innovative approach of Blacksmith in the CI/C...
In this episode of The Infra Pod, Tim (Essence VC) and Ian (Keycard.sh) delve into the fascinating world of AI memory with Charles, the CEO and co-fou...
