Jason Margolin, a seasoned tech professional and fractional CTO, joins Rob Woodhead to talk about a career that started with self-taught HTML at 13 and wound its way through Meta before landing in the world of startup advisory.They get into the big question on every non-technical founder's mind right now: how far can you actually get with AI-assisted prototyping before you need real engineering firepower? Plus, what's genuinely changing about the speed at which senior engineers can move, and what does good AI integration actually look like in practice?
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A must-listen for anyone curious about where AI is taking software development, and what it means if you're building something without a technical co-founder.
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How and why Old.St Labs began at the height of the Covid pandemic.
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In this episode, we speak with Kath Hipwell, CEO of the Association of British Climbing Walls, about her mission to improve safety and accessibility across the UK’s climbing facilities. She shares how a new live incident reporting tool helps climbing centers track real-time data, identify risks earlier, and strengthen safety standards.
Welcome back to the lab! Following our last article on outsourcing product development, Rob and I spent some time exploring this tricky piece of the startup puzzle, and today we’re going to share our insights in more depth. It’s a topic we have discussed with a variety of people since we started Old.St and we’ve […]
