Beyond the Noise: Signals, Stories, and Spicy Takes

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David Crawshaw: From Tailscale to exe.dev, and Why AI Agents Need Their Own Computers

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In this episode, Matt talks with David Crawshaw, co-founder and CTO of Tailscale and co-founder and CEO of exe.dev. David's love of computers started in northern Australia, where he taught himself to program by hacking on the Clipper-based medical record software his father wrote for the family's practice. From there, David followed his passion (a girl, not programming) to the US, where he spent 7 years at Google working on search infrastructure, Google+, the Go team, and a stint porting the ...

Randy Shoup: He Grew Up Inside Xerox PARC, Then Built eBay's First Real-Time Search Engine

September 22, 2026

Randy Shoup's path into software started before he was born. His father, Richard Shoup, was one of the earliest computer science PhDs in the country and part of the original crew at Xerox PARC, where he built Superpaint, the world's first digital paint program with a live video frame buffer. Randy grew up begging to spend weekends in that lab... then set out to become an international lawyer instead, until two years at Oracle and a law firm internship convinced him engineering was the better ...

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The publicly listed emails for Beyond the Noise: Signals, Stories, and Spicy Takes: info@bitdrift.io and rlutsky@bitdrift.io.

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Beyond the Noise: Signals, Stories, and Spicy Takes typically books industry leaders. Typical guest background: Senior engineering or technology leadership experience, a notable role in building or operating software systems at scale, or a significant contribution to infrastructure, cloud computing, or developer tools. Common among recent guests: Founded or led a technology company; Held senior engineering roles at major technology companies; Built or led widely used software infrastructure. Recent guests include David Crawshaw, Randy Shoup, and Joe Beda.

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High. It mostly books established leaders in its field.

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