The Brave Technologist

Luke Mulks

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Booking Overview

The Brave Technologist spotlights how emerging tech affects real users—privacy, AI, crypto, and digital rights—with guests from product, research, and policy. For PR, it’s a strong platform to reach founders and builders who care about transparency and public-interest outcomes, not hype.

Metrics

Episodes: 206

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 66.2k subscribers

Contact Information

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Host

Luke Mulks - Hosted by Luke Mulks, VP Business Operations at Brave Software—makers of the privacy-respecting Brave browser and Search engine—and now powering AI everywhere with the Brave Search API.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Founders/CEOs, technologists, and product leaders working on user-impacting emerging tech (privacy, AI/LLMs, cryptography/mixnets, and Web3), often with a transparency/public-interest framing.
Required Achievements:  
CEO/founder of a privacy or consumer-facing technology company, Responsible for scaling AI/agent products used by large customer bases, Leadership in privacy-preserving cryptography/mixnet approaches or standards-related work, Measurable deployments producing significant negotiation/data volumes

Recent Guest Discussions

Riccardo Arnaldi - Building And Scaling Brand-facing LLM Shopping Agents; AI Autonomy Vs Human Sensitivity; Qa/testing For Agentic Systems; Embedding Brand Voice Into Agents

Zach Shefska - AI Agents Negotiating Car Deals; Transparency-first Car Buying; Data From Agent-driven Negotiations; Limitations Of Frontier AI In This Domain

Harry Halpin - Why Vpns Aren’t Enough For Anonymity; Metadata Vs Content; Mixnets And Privacy; Privacy And Freedom-of-speech Implications; Integration Between Nym And Brave

Recent Topics

Privacy, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Rights, Cryptography, Web3

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Brave Technologist
:

Pandora: How Much Freedom Should a Shopping Agent Have? (AI Summit LDN)

June 24, 2026

Riccardo Arnaldi, Agentic AI Product Manager at Pandora, shares what it actually looks like to build and scale a brand-facing LLM shopping agent live with millions of customers. He explains why too much autonomy is a liability, how a deterministic routing layer keeps the AI from going off-script, and why traditional QA teams had to rebuild their processes from scratch. He also breaks down a real customer interaction that exposed the gap between automation and appropriate human sensitivity, ch...

AI Is Now Buying Cars and Negotiating Better Than You

June 17, 2026

 Zach Shefska, Founder & CEO of CarEdge, shares how he and his father (a 43-year auto industry veteran) turned a broken, opaque car buying process into a transparency-first business powered by AI agents that now negotiate deals on behalf of consumers. He also explains how data collected from over 100,000 agent driven negotiations is reshaping what buyers can know before they even walk into a dealership.  Key Takeaways:  Why the car buying process is structurally designed to work against bot...

Why Your VPN Isn't Actually Keeping You Anonymous

June 10, 2026

Harry Halpin, CEO of Nym Technologies, shares why the surveillance Web is more dangerous than most people realize, and why most privacy tools aren't enough. He explains how traditional VPNs still leave you exposed, why metadata is more revealing than the content of your messages, and how Nym's decentralized mixnet offers unique protection. Key Takeaways: Why encrypting your data isn't enough and what metadata reveals that most people don't consider What a mixnet is and why it's built diff...

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