# Dev Propulsion Labs

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Author: Evil Martians
Episodes: 36

## Resource

Dev Propulsion Labs is a podcast about the business of developer tools, hosted by Victoria Melnikova. Victoria is a business and go-to-market expert for developer tools and AI, working with 40+ early-stage startups a year as Head of New Business at Evil Martians. She sits down face-to-face in San Francisco with founders behind companies like Cursor, Sentry, Supabase, Resend, CodeRabbit, WorkOS, Elixir, and PlanetScale to talk about what actually makes developer-focused businesses work. Dev Propulsion Labs is produced by Evil Martians, a design and engineering consultancy for developer tools, AI, and cybersecurity startups. Enjoyed by 45K+ listeners.

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## Episodes
- [Matt Biilmann of Netlify: why agent experience is the new developer experience | Evil Martians](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/matt-biilmann-of-netlify-why-agent-experience-is-the-new-developer-experience-evil-martians) — 2026-05-12T03:00:00+00:00
- [Lingo.dev co-founder Max Prilutskiy: AI localization, AX, and having a lean team | Evil Martians](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/lingo-dev-co-founder-max-prilutskiy-ai-localization-ax-and-having-a-lean-team-evil-martians) — 2026-04-28T03:00:00+00:00
- [Firestreak partner Amir Rustamzadeh: what VCs look for in devtools founders | Evil Martians podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/firestreak-partner-amir-rustamzadeh-what-vcs-look-for-in-devtools-founders-evil-martians-podcast) — 2026-04-14T03:00:00+00:00
- [Anuraag Gutgutia, co-founder of TrueFoundry: trust closes enterprise deals | Evil Martians podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/anuraag-gutgutia-co-founder-of-truefoundry-trust-closes-enterprise-deals-evil-martians-podcast) — 2026-03-24T03:01:00+00:00
- [Stas Kelvich, co-founder of Neon: $1B acquisition and databases for agents | Evil Martians podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/stas-kelvich-co-founder-of-neon-1b-acquisition-and-databases-for-agents-evil-martians-podcast) — 2026-03-10T02:45:00+00:00
- [CodeRabbit CEO Harjot Gill: going viral in Japan and AI code guardrails | Evil Martians podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/coderabbit-ceo-harjot-gill-going-viral-in-japan-and-ai-code-guardrails-evil-martians-podcast) — 2026-02-23T21:39:30+00:00
- [David Gomes of Cursor: why half of developers still aren't using AI | Evil Martians podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/david-gomes-of-cursor-why-half-of-developers-still-aren-t-using-ai-evil-martians-podcast) — 2026-02-10T01:08:06+00:00
- [Monica Sarbu, founder of Xata: rebuilding Xata and why diverse teams win | Evil Martians podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/monica-sarbu-founder-of-xata-rebuilding-xata-and-why-diverse-teams-win-evil-martians-podcast) — 2026-01-26T19:35:00+00:00
- [Piyush Agarwal, co-founder of Reo.dev: intent signals and devtool GTM | Evil Martians podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/piyush-agarwal-co-founder-of-reo-dev-intent-signals-and-devtool-gtm-evil-martians-podcast) — 2026-01-12T20:32:45+00:00
- [David Cramer, founder of Sentry: building for the Fortune 500,000 | Evil Martians podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/david-cramer-founder-of-sentry-building-for-the-fortune-500-000-evil-martians-podcast) — 2025-12-16T17:02:00+00:00
- [Abhi Aiyer, co-founder of Mastra: TypeScript for AI agents and making moves | Evil Martians podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/abhi-aiyer-co-founder-of-mastra-typescript-for-ai-agents-and-making-moves-evil-martians-podcast) — 2025-12-09T17:00:14+00:00
- [Michael Grinich, founder of WorkOS: the plumbing behind OpenAI and Cursor | Evil Martians podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/michael-grinich-founder-of-workos-the-plumbing-behind-openai-and-cursor-evil-martians-podcast) — 2025-11-19T15:12:27+00:00
- [Ivan Burazin, CEO of Daytona: walking from $300K ARR to build for agents | Evil Martians podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/ivan-burazin-ceo-of-daytona-walking-from-300k-arr-to-build-for-agents-evil-martians-podcast) — 2025-11-12T15:32:06+00:00
- [Supabase CEO Paul Copplestone: scaling to 5M developers with no meetings | Evil Martians podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/supabase-ceo-paul-copplestone-scaling-to-5m-developers-with-no-meetings-evil-martians-podcast) — 2025-11-11T00:08:29+00:00
- [Sam Lambert, CEO of PlanetScale: databases that never go down | Evil Martians podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/sam-lambert-ceo-of-planetscale-databases-that-never-go-down-evil-martians-podcast) — 2025-10-28T14:00:16+00:00
- [Zeno Rocha, founder of Resend: $18M Series A by obsessing over every detail | Evil Martians podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/zeno-rocha-founder-of-resend-18m-series-a-by-obsessing-over-every-detail-evil-martians-podcast) — 2025-10-23T16:34:12+00:00
- [Jeff Huber, co-founder of Chroma: context engineering and modern AI search | Evil Martians podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/jeff-huber-co-founder-of-chroma-context-engineering-and-modern-ai-search-evil-martians-podcast) — 2025-10-22T18:48:15+00:00
- [Sarah Wooders on why LLMs are like Memento and building the infrastructure for stateful AI agents](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/sarah-wooders-on-why-llms-are-like-memento-and-building-the-infrastructure-for-stateful-ai-agents) — 2025-09-11T15:38:40+00:00
- [Adam Frankl on why 2025 is the best year ever to build a developer tool startup](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/adam-frankl-on-why-2025-is-the-best-year-ever-to-build-a-developer-tool-startup) — 2025-09-03T22:56:24+00:00
- [Jason Bosco on building a profitable search engine serving 10 billion searches without VC funding](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/jason-bosco-on-building-a-profitable-search-engine-serving-10-billion-searches-without-vc-funding) — 2025-08-19T20:06:35+00:00
- [Anna Veronika Dorogush on why having high-density talent on the team is crucial for Recraft](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/anna-veronika-dorogush-on-why-having-high-density-talent-on-the-team-is-crucial-for-recraft) — 2025-07-31T16:01:07+00:00
- [Michael Magán, co-founder at tambo ai, on how a friendly octopus makes AI more approachable](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/michael-maga-n-co-founder-at-tambo-ai-on-how-a-friendly-octopus-makes-ai-more-approachable) — 2025-07-10T20:31:32+00:00
- [José Valim, creator of Elixir: building a language from curiosity, not trends | Evil Martians podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/jos-valim-creator-of-elixir-building-a-language-from-curiosity-not-trends-evil-martians-podcast) — 2025-06-30T12:00:24+00:00
- [Adam Wenchel, CEO at Arthur AI, on building AI guardrails, the last mile problem, and coaching code bots](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/adam-wenchel-ceo-at-arthur-ai-on-building-ai-guardrails-the-last-mile-problem-and-coaching-code-bots) — 2025-06-24T16:37:54+00:00
- [Sam Bhagwat on Gatsby and Mastra, YC and tapping into your inner child](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dev-propulsion-labs-6704290/sam-bhagwat-on-gatsby-and-mastra-yc-and-tapping-into-your-inner-child) — 2025-05-20T15:00:32+00:00

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