Benjie De Groot
Co-founder & CEO, Shipyard
Benjie De Groot is Co-Founder and CEO of Shipyard, and has been building deployment and automated environments for multiple companies over the last 4 years. Benjie is a serial entrepreneur who previously founded two companies and has experience building and...
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The Kubelist Podcast Ep. #54, The Age of Personalized Software with David Crawshaw
In episode 54 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc and Benjie sit down with David Crawshaw. David shares how a weekend WireGuard experiment became Tailscale, and how a series of unsuccessful developer-tool experiments eventually became exe.dev. The conversation offers a candid look at product discovery, technical failure, cloud economics, and building infrastructure for AI agents.
The Kubelist Podcast Ep. #53, Render and the New Cloud Stack with Anurag Goel
On episode 53 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc Campbell and Benjie De Groot sit down with Anurag Goel. Anurag shares his journey from early employee at Stripe to founder and CEO of Render, one of the fastest-growing application platforms in cloud infrastructure. They discuss Kubernetes, platform engineering, bare metal, AI agents, and what the future of application deployment looks like.
The Kubelist Podcast Ep. #52, Beyond the Hyperscalers with Hugo Santos of Namespace
On episode 52 of The Kubelist Podcast, Marc Campbell and Benjie De Groot speak with Hugo Santos. They discuss the evolution of Namespace Labs, why traditional cloud infrastructure isn't always optimized for developer workflows, and what it takes to build a vertically integrated platform for builds, testing, and developer productivity. Hugo also shares lessons learned from nearly a decade at Google and years of startup building.
