The Tech Trek

Amir

abormand@elevano.com

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Booking Overview

The Tech Trek is a practical show on how founders and technical leaders build and lead technology companies, with a special focus on AI, product/engineering execution, and operational decision-making. It’s a strong booking target for PR professionals representing credible builders who can share repeatable lessons on product, teams, and growth.

Metrics

Episodes: 677

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Instagram: 133 followers

Contact Information

abormand@elevano.com

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Host

Amir - Hosts episodes featuring founders, CTOs, engineering leaders, and operators who share how they make decisions around product, engineering, AI, data, teams, hiring, and growth. In the provided episo...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Founders/CEOs of AI or technology startups; CTOs/engineering leaders/operators with responsibility for product + engineering decisions; leaders who can speak to governance, workflows, hiring, and execution (often with domain expertise such as healthcare or enterprise/government AI).
Required Achievements:  
Founded or led an AI or technology company, Built and shipped AI-enabled products or platforms, Demonstrated expertise in operational execution (teams, hiring, product/engineering workflows), Domain credibility in regulated environments (e.g., healthcare) or enterprise/government contexts

Recent Guest Discussions

Mike Choi - Building An AI Monetization Company, Founder Decision-making With Incomplete Information, Learning From Big Tech Without Copying, And Dealing With Speed/shiny-sobject Syndrome In AI Startups.

Shaun Modi - Sovereign AI, Shadow AI, Model Dependency, Government Use Cases, Governed Auditable AI Workflows, And AI Design/ux For Voice And Physical-world Applications.

Edmund Jackson - Healthcare AI For Operations (scheduling, Staffing, Follow-up, Payer Coordination, Interoperability), Choosing Pragmatic Workflow Problems, Regulated/hard-to-capture Operational Context, And Interoperability Challenges (fhir).

Recent Topics

Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Product, Engineering, Startups

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Tech Trek
:

Yahoo CTO on AI, Engineering Velocity, and Why the SDLC Has To Change

June 18, 2026

Yahoo is not just adding AI on top of existing products. It is using AI across product experiences, internal tools, engineering workflows, and modernization efforts.In this episode of The Tech Trek, Lee Zen, CTO at Yahoo, joins Amir Bormand to talk about modernizing at massive scale, moving from on prem infrastructure to the cloud, rebuilding internal tools with AI, and how engineering organizations need to rethink process when agents can move faster than people.Lee also shares how Yahoo view...

Why AI Founders Need to Say No Faster

June 16, 2026

Mike Choi wanted to work at Apple for years. Then he got there and had the moment many ambitious builders eventually hit.Is this the thing I was sprinting toward?In this episode of The Tech Trek, Mike Choi, co founder at Koah, shares his path from Korea to the United States, mandatory military service, Apple, Twitter, and eventually building Koah, an AI monetization company helping AI app builders create sponsored experiences.The conversation is less about the glamour of startups and more abo...

Why Sovereign AI Matters Now

June 11, 2026

AI is moving fast, but the bigger question for companies and governments may be control. Who owns the data, the workflow, the output, and the risk?In this episode, Amir talks with Shaun Modi, cofounder and CEO of Capitol AI, about sovereign AI, shadow AI, model dependency, government use cases, and why organizations need repeatable, governed, auditable workflows before AI becomes part of core operations.Shaun also brings a design lens to the conversation, connecting AI adoption to user experi...

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