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On the CTO Confidential segment of the Strictly From Nowhere podcast, Irina Nazarova sits down with Mike Rispoli to discuss her journey from C++ engineer and investment banker to CEO of Evil Martians. They cover the Rails renaissance driven by AI and agentic coding, how Evil Martians monetizes open source projects like AnyCable, why dynamic languages win for fast experimentation, and how to build sustainable businesses around open source. Irina also shares how AI is enabling smaller teams to be more ambitious and why specialization creates value even in the age of AI.
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