Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

05:24 What hooked him on code

09:13 The idea behind tiun

10:22 Funding the early days

11:30 Beyond media payments

13:42 Building a great checkout

15:39 The pivot

18:58 How to choose investors

21:46 Angel round or VC first

24:15 What "Tiun" means

24:42 From two founders to three

27:06 The Product Hunt launch

29:23 Handling launch-day traffic

33:12 Building with AI agents

34:55 Codex vs Claude Code

37:57 Three best moments

39:36 Handling the tough days

42:57 Building from Switzerland

45:23 Choosing where to build

49:29 Advice for young founders

51:10 Books and learning resources

54:02 Open mic

54:58 Conclusion

Show Notes:

tiun: https://tiun.io

Deep Work by Cal Newport: https://calnewport.com

Stripe Press: https://press.stripe.com

YC Startup School: https://www.startupschool.org

ETH Zurich: https://ethz.ch

Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com

Chris's LinkedIn: https://ch.linkedin.com/in/christian-heiduschke

If your kid or your closest friend came to you tomorrow and said, "I want to switch into software engineering as a career", what would you actually tell them? Our guests answer that question.

Show Links:

https://fortune.com/2026/05/26/uber-coo-ai-spending-tokens-claude-code/

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-service-outage-ai-bot-kiro

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-the-job-market-2026

https://www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang-500k-engineers-250k-ai-tokens-nvidia-compute-2026-3

https://x.com/steipete/status/2055346265869721905/photo/1

https://youtu.be/FQpZdCKgc6w

Follow our guests:

- https://x.com/boredabdel

- https://x.com/soub4i

- https://x.com/el_ateifSara

- https://x.com/saidbouig

In this episode, we talk honestly about what it takes to build a global product from outside Silicon Valley, why he changed his mind about solo founders, the mistake almost every technical founder makes when they bring in a "business" co-founder, and how AI tools have flattened the geography of software.

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

02:50 Starting on an MSX, fixing CRT monitors, and studying math before CS

05:18 Binary Interactive Studio

07:50 Jobland: video-CV app

10:35 POS Rocket

12:45 Raising from local VCs vs. the US

14:18 The secret sauce of POS Rocket

15:55 Switching from builder to investor

22:38 Why he co-founded Xpand Conference

27:30 Leaving Propeller to start Maza VC

31:30 Why pre-seed is both more impactful

33:30 The advantage of building from your home country

38:48 Did he miss coding?

42:00 Solo founders: red flag → green flag

46:25 The countries producing the best founders right now

48:18 The #1 mistake technical founders make

51:35 Mountain biking

55:50 New Section: Paul Graham, vibe code, mountain biking

56:50 Closing

Show Links:

- LinkedIn: https://jo.linkedin.com/in/tambijalouqa

- Maza VC: https://maza.vc

- Maza VC Handbook: https://handbook.maza.vc/about/introduction

- Propeller VC: https://propellervc.com

- Xpand Conference: https://www.xpandconf.com

- Claude Code: https://claude.com/claude-code

- Y Combinator: https://ycombinator.com

- Paul Graham essays: https://paulgraham.co