What if the biggest bottleneck in your company isn’t execution, but the fact that your data can’t talk to itself?

That’s the problem DROdio has been quietly obsessing over for decades. And now, with Storytell, he’s betting that fixing it doesn’t just make companies more efficient. It fundamentally upgrades how humans think.

DROdio is a repeat founder and former YC-backed CEO who has built through multiple platform shifts, from early web development to DevOps to AI. After raising $83M and landing enterprise giants like JP Morgan and Sony at Armory, he’s now building Storytell, a platform turning fragmented, incompatible company data into a strategic advantage, right when AI makes that finally possible.

In Today’s Episode We Discuss:

00:01 Introduction & Guest Background
02:30 Early Entrepreneurial Roots & First Lessons
04:00 GE Experience & Operating Discipline (Ownership + Deadlines)
06:00 Recognizing Platform Shifts (From Mobile to AI)
08:00 The Builder Mindset & Vibe Coding
10:30 Consistency Across Startups & Leveraging Technology
13:00 Empowering Non-Technical Builders
15:00 Co-Founder Dynamics & Evolving YC Advice
18:30 Product-Market Fit vs Learning First
21:00 Armory: Building, Scaling, and Enterprise Sales
24:30 Fundraising Strategy & The FRAP Framework
29:00 Open Source to Enterprise Lessons
32:00 Founder Conflict & “Clean Communication” Framework
38:30 Storytell Origin: The Data Problem Inside Companies
43:00 Concept Graphs & Making Data Actionable
47:00 Real-World Use Cases (Paramount, Retail, Ad Tech)
50:30 Competing in the AI Stack (LLMs, Context, Agents)
53:30 Future of Work & AI as a Thought Partner
56:00 Final Thoughts & Where to Find Daniel

“The answers are already out there. You’re just not asking the right question.”
“Build the right thing fast instead of the wrong thing right.”

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What if the most broken part of healthcare isn’t the medicine—but the paperwork quietly suffocating it?

Ryan Eder has spent his career staring directly at that invisible bottleneck. Now, as the founder of LainaHealth, he’s building infrastructure to fix one of healthcare’s least glamorous—but most consequential—problems: how data, billing, and administrative workflows actually move (or don’t).

Ryan is the co-founder of LainaHealth, a company rethinking healthcare operations from the ground up. With a background at the intersection of healthcare and technology, he’s tackling a system where inefficiency isn’t just costly—it’s existential. LainaHealth sits in a critical layer of the stack, helping providers operate faster, smarter, and with fewer administrative headaches at a time when margins are tighter than ever.

In Today's Episode We Discuss:

00:01 – The Hidden Crisis in Healthcare Operations

02:10 – Ryan Eder’s Background & Path to LainaHealth

05:00 – Why Healthcare Feels Broken (But Isn’t Where You Think)

08:15 – The “Unsexy” Opportunity in Admin & Workflows

11:40 – Understanding Healthcare’s Complex Stakeholders

15:05 – Why Innovation Struggles to Scale in Healthcare

18:20 – Building in a Highly Regulated Industry

22:10 – Founder Mindset: Patience vs Speed

25:30 – Identifying Infrastructure Plays Early

29:00 – Misaligned Incentives Across the System

32:15 – How LainaHealth Approaches Workflow Redesign

36:00 – Lessons from Building in Healthcare

39:10 – Contrarian Bets in HealthTech

42:00 – The Future of Healthcare Operations

45:00 – Final Thoughts & Advice for Founders

Along the way, Ryan shares a perspective many founders miss: sometimes the best startups don’t invent something new—they untangle something old.

“The real problem isn’t lack of innovation—it’s that the system can’t absorb it.”

“If you fix the workflow, you don’t just save time—you unlock the entire system.”

Ryan didn’t set out to make healthcare more efficient. But somewhere along the way, he realized that fixing the pipes might matter more than inventing the next drug—and that’s exactly where LainaHealth is placing its bet.

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Most investors think venture capital is about spreadsheets. Aram Attar thinks it’s closer to poker—played in the dark, with incomplete cards, and a brain wired to trick you.

What if the real edge in venture isn’t better data—but better thinking?

In this episode, Aram Attar—General Partner at The VC Factory—unpacks a deceptively simple idea: in a world of extreme uncertainty, how you decide matters more than what you know. After 15+ years and ~50 deals across LBOs, growth equity, and VC, he’s now building a new framework—mindset-based investing—to decode how the best investors actually make decisions when the data is messy (which, in venture, is always).

Aram has trained 50+ VCs globally and now focuses on thought leadership, helping both GPs and LPs rethink how capital gets allocated in the earliest, riskiest stages of innovation.

In Today's Episode We Discuss:

00:01 – Intro & Aram Attar Background

02:30 – Transition from LBO to Venture Capital

05:00 – Intuition vs Data in VC

08:00 – How Investment Committees Really Work

11:30 – Missing Deals & Veto Dynamics

14:00 – Move to Austin & VC Factory Vision

16:30 – Mindset-Based Investing Framework

20:00 – Founder Evaluation & Drive

23:00 – Promotion vs Prevention Mindset

26:00 – COVID Insight & Decision Psychology

29:00 – LP Mistakes in Evaluating GPs

32:00 – Track Record vs True Signals

35:00 – The Six Key Criteria for Emerging Managers

38:00 – Portfolio Construction Debate

42:00 – Power Laws & High-Volume Investing

46:00 – Deal Flow, Networks & YC Strategy

50:00 – AI in Venture Decision-Making

54:00 – System Design as a VC Advantage

58:00 – Pattern Recognition vs Bias

01:02:00 – Common Cognitive Biases in VC

01:06:00 – Investment Committee Blind Spots

01:10:00 – Venture Market Shifts & Barbell Effect

01:14:00 – Advice for Emerging Managers

01:17:00 – Rapid Fire Insights

01:20:00 – Closing Thoughts & Legacy

🔥 Pull Quotes

“In venture, intuition doesn’t work—at least not the way you think. The best investors delay it.”

“The question isn’t ‘Is this a good deal?’ It’s ‘Am I trying to win—or just not lose?’”

🧩 The Bigger Idea

Zoom out, and you start to see a pattern.

Finance used to be about information asymmetry—whoever had the best data won.

Now, information is everywhere. Everyone has the same decks, the same metrics, the same AI tools.

So the game has shifted.

The new edge is decision asymmetry—who can think clearer, resist bias, and act decisively under uncertainty.

Aram is betting that the next generation of great investors won’t just have better access—they’ll have better mental models.

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