Catching up with my old friend Benito Serna, CTO of briq.mx, for a relaxed chat about what actually goes on behind the scenes of a software powered business. We get into Ruby on Rails (yes, the stack Shopify and GitHub still run on), why it reads almost like English, how his team uses AI day to day, and what happens when non engineers try to vibe code their way past 20 messages.

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Growing revenue means nothing if none of it reaches your bank account. In this episode, Armando sits down with Nate Littlewood, founder of Future Ready CFO, to talk about why so many founders feel financially stuck even as their businesses scale.

Nate spent a decade on Wall Street and another decade building his own e-commerce company before launching Future Ready CFO, a fractional CFO practice for early-stage and growth-stage founders.

If you are running a business and want to build a healthier relationship with your numbers, this episode is a great starting point. Hit subscribe for more conversations with founders, operators, and experts building the future.

Connect with Nate:Website: https://futurereadycfo.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanlittlewood/

Tommy Cotter from Benzinga joins the show to break down how stock market news actually works, and why their API business is quietly powering dashboards built by hobbyists at 2am and banks with millions of users alike. We get into the rise of prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi, how people are running arbitrage bots across them, and why 84 terabytes of historical news data is gold for training trading models. If you have ever wondered how financial media really makes money or thought about vibe coding your own trading tool, this one is worth your time.

Most food brands do not die because the product is bad. They die because they scaled too fast, took on too much risk, or jumped into retail before they were ready. In this episode, Armando talks with Omar Attia, founder and CEO of Zero Carb Life, the company behind the highest protein pizza on the market and a line of high protein chips now in 556 Target stores.

Omar spent years at Kraft Foods, Procter & Gamble, and ConAgra before leaving corporate to build his own company. He shares exactly how he did it, what he would tell a first time founder today, and why patenting a process matters more than patenting an idea.

Read more here: https://zerocarblyfe.com/

AI models keep getting more powerful, but are we actually more secure, or just more confident? And what happens when the same tools defenders use become available to every attacker on the planet?

In this episode, Armando sits down with Eran Medan, CTO of Arnica, to talk about what the Mythos release really means for cybersecurity, why supply chain attacks are still dangerously easy to pull off, and what vibe coders can do right now to protect themselves.

In this conversation, you will learn:

• Why the Mythos benchmarks deserve healthy skepticism and how models can game their own evaluations
• How the Axios supply chain attack worked and why transitive dependencies keep developers exposed
• Two simple NPM/PNPM config changes that block 99% of supply chain attacks
• Why MCPs are often unnecessary overhead when you already have a CLI and a well-documented API
• How AI is democratizing both attacking and defending, and why cybersecurity companies will be needed more than ever
• Why the current moment is a rare window for non-engineers to build real businesses before the playing field levels out
• The practical security checklist for anyone shipping vibe-coded apps to production

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Guest Contact:

• Arnica: https://arnica.io
• DepsGuard (free, open source): https://depsguard.com

Most business owners think access to capital means getting a bank loan or winning a pitch competition. Tyrus Shivers, partner at Legacy Wealth Capital Group, breaks down why that thinking keeps founders stuck and underfunded. From scaling masterminds to $10 million in revenue alongside Dr. Eric Thomas to helping sub-$10M founders position themselves for real capital raises, Tyrus shares the playbook most entrepreneurs never get access to. If you have ever wondered how to make your business fundable, or why $10,000 in grant money disappears overnight, this one is for you.

Travis Malone returns to The Web Talk Show to break down Mythos, Anthropic's unreleased frontier model that autonomously found over 5,000 software vulnerabilities, escaped a secured sandbox, and even tried to hide what it had done. Armando and Travis walk through what makes Mythos a categorical leap in AI reasoning, why Anthropic chose not to release it publicly, and how Project Glasswing is organizing 12 major companies to patch critical internet infrastructure before a comparable model hits the open market. If you run a business, build software, or just use the internet, this one lays out what you should be thinking about right now.

If you are a business owner, Travis's tip was to make sure to look into AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) tools.

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What happens when a brilliant technical expert gets promoted into leadership and suddenly none of their skills seem to work? Bianca Riemer, an executive coach and former Morgan Stanley stock market analyst, shares the communication frameworks that took her from nearly getting fired to getting promoted and doubling her salary in six months. She breaks down why leaders need to think like marketers, how to craft "newspaper headlines" that get senior stakeholders to act, and a powerful technique from neuro-linguistic programming that changes how people respond to you instantly.

Connect with Bianca Riemer:Website: https://biancariemer.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/biancariemer