Build To Succeed: Digital Experience Design & Product Development; Flutter, AI & Tech Leadership

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Build To Succeed: Digital Experience Design & Product Development; Flutter, AI & Tech Leadership

"Build To Succeed" explores the world of building successful tech products by dissecting the experiences of leaders who have brought ideas to life and nurtured them into long-term successes. The show delves into the delicate balance of speed and resourcefulness required in today's business landscape, emphasizing the importance of building "the right thing, the right way" – crafting products for longevity while optimizing for business goals. Through interviews with these experienced individuals, listeners will gain insights into navigating the space between launch and long-term growth, making good decisions, and uncovering the patterns that lead to repeated success. Build to Succeed is brought to you by Very Good Ventures.

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11 February 2026

Viktor Lidholt, Serverpod — Streamlining Full-Stack Dart for Faster Engineering Teams

On today’s episode, we’re joined by Viktor Lidholt, Founder of Serverpod, whose previous roles include CTO at JoinBuzz, founder and CEO at Newstech, and senior software engineer on the Flutter team at Google. Viktor is currently building Serverpod, a full-stack Dart framework transforming how Flutter teams approach backend development. We explore Viktor’s journey from game development to startup...

28 January 2026

Kody Peterson, Foresight Sports — Rebuilding Mobile Architecture With Flutter and 3D Innovation

On today’s episode, we’re joined by Kody Peterson, whose previous roles include work on large-scale systems at Walt Disney Company, leadership at multiple startups, and mobile product development in the golf technology space. He is currently Director of Software Engineering for Digital Studio at Foresight Sports, where he leads teams building high-performance software experiences for athletes and...

17 December 2025

Phil Rabin, SoFi — Enterprise-Scale Flutter: Modernizing Architecture for a 2-Million-Line Flutter Codebase

On this episode, we’re joined by Phil Rabin, whose previous roles include Senior Engineering positions at Uber, where he spent a decade scaling one of the most demanding mobile organizations in the world. He is currently Director of Engineering, Mobile, at SoFi. Phil discusses what it takes to lead one of the largest Flutter engineering teams in production, and how to scale systems and people....

03 December 2025

Martin Remmelgas, Codemagic — The Power of Community in Scaling DevOps and CI/CD for Flutter

On this episode, we’re joined by Martin Remmelgas, whose previous roles include Industrial Placement in Singapore and Consultant at Ernst & Young. He is currently CEO at Codemagic, a company deeply embedded in the Flutter ecosystem. Martin discusses his journey from chemistry to technology, how Codemagic became a key player in the Flutter community, and what it takes to scale developer tools...

12 November 2025

Frank van Puffelen, Puf — Low-Code, No Fear: Building the Future of Apps With Flutter and LLMs

On this episode, we sit down with Frank van Puffelen — more commonly known as puf — an industry veteran, ex-Googler (2015-2024), and one of the most influential voices in the Firebase and Flutter communities. He shares his journey from software engineering to developer advocacy, offering insights into the changing role of developer relations, the rise of low-code tools, and the impact of AI on...

29 October 2025

Michael Harker, Ritchie Bros. — The Future of Product Leadership: AI, Customer Empathy & Scaling Legacy Enterprises

On today’s episode, we’re joined by Michael Harker, whose previous roles include Director of Product Management at Comcast and Director of Corporate and Business Development at SAP. He is currently Vice President of Product Management at Ritchie Bros., the world’s largest marketplace for used commercial equipment. Michael discusses product leadership, customer empathy, and driving digital...

03 September 2025

Andrew Brogdon, Google — Developer Relations in the Agentic Era

On today’s episode, we’re joined by Andrew Brogdon, whose background spans creative writing, software engineering, and developer advocacy. Before joining Google, he held roles in advertising technology and has built a reputation as one of the early champions of Flutter. He is currently Staff Developer Relations Engineer at Google, leading efforts that connect the Flutter SDK with its global...

13 August 2025

Pratap Ranade, Arena — The Future of Applied Science and Humanity With AI

On today’s episode, we’re joined by Pratap Ranade, whose past roles include Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, CEO and Co-Founder at Kimono Labs (acquired by Palantir), Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir Technologies, and VP of Engineering at Enigma Technologies. Pratap is a physicist, who sold his last company to Palantir and is now CEO and co-founder of Arena. Arena is building...

23 July 2025

Andrew Tunall, Embrace — From QA-Heavy to AI-Ready: Modernizing Product Delivery

On this episode, we’re joined by Andrew Tunall, whose past roles include VP at New Relic and Technical Product Manager at Amazon Web Services. He is currently President of Embrace, where he leads the company’s product strategy and team operations. Andrew shares his perspective on observability’s growing role in modern app development, how AI is transforming product workflows, and why reliability...

10 July 2025

Kevin Smith and Mikel Corcuera, Snipd — Small Team, Big Vision: Shipping Fast With Autonomy and AI

On today’s episode, we’re joined by Kevin Smith and Mikel Corcuera, Co-Founders at Snipd, the AI-powered podcast app built to help capture and rediscover insights from spoken audio. Kevin and Mikel discuss the origin of Snipd, the challenges of building an AI-native product from scratch, and the role of Flutter in enabling rapid, cross-platform development. Key Takeaways:(01:54) Snipd lets users...