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Knuckle Up with Nakul Podcast Transcripts

Nakul Mandan · 14 episodes with transcripts

Knuckle Up is about the HOW of building iconic companies. Recruiting, culture, intensity, the inner game of being a founder CEO. The stuff that actually separates great companies from good ones.

Spoken has transcripts of 14 Knuckle Up with Nakul episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 13, 2026.

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How Railway says no to 90% of ideas and keeps winning | Jake Cooper (Founder, CEO)

October 13, 2026

Jake Cooper (0:00)

Most startup devices are overrated. I didn't even really start this as a company. It was never a fully intentional thing until it got to a point where I had no job offers but a few angel checks. And I was like, all right, screw it, I can always go back. I work sun up to sun down, Monday to Friday, and then I try and…

Never even really crossed my mind to have this in person because remote allows us to pull the best people from literally every facet of the world. We don't use AI internally for any of the memos or things that we go in and put together. Nobody should have to read the thing that you have swapped out and just pushed…

Nakul Mandan (1:09)

Jake Cooper told me something over dinner last night that defines how he's building railway. He said, if Stripe is doing something, if Cursor is doing something, he doesn't want to hear it. He solves the problem himself first. Only as a last resort, he checks what others have done. That one trait explains everything…

But the more interesting story here is the operating system of the person building it, and what happens to that operating system when the company goes from 100 million of ARR to 500 million and beyond.

Jake Cooper (2:05)

I'm excited to be here. This is awesome.

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