Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
At the 2026 Kleiner Perkins Fellows Founders Summit, Roadrunner co-founders Ajay Natarajan and Eugene Shao join their co-founder Joubin Mirzadegan for a conversation about becoming repeat founders and building an AI-native company from the ground up.
Ajay and Eugene reflect on their early careers at Caltech, NASA, Citadel, and Meta, building and selling their first company Athena, and why they chose to start over again with Roadrunner to reinvent quote-to-cash. They share what they learned from their earliest customers, how they think about hiring exceptional zero-to-one talent, what gets easier and harder the second time around, and the advice they would give aspiring founders.
At the 2026 Kleiner Perkins Fellows Founders Summit, Roadrunner co-founders Ajay Natarajan and Eugene Shao join their co-founder Joubin Mirzadegan for a conversation about becoming repeat founders and building an AI-native company from the ground up.
Ajay and Eugene reflect on their early careers at Caltech, NASA, Citadel, and Meta, building and selling their first company Athena, and why they chose to start over again with Roadrunner to reinvent quote-to-cash. They share what they learned from their earliest customers, how they think about hiring exceptional zero-to-one talent, what gets easier and harder the second time around, and the advice they would give aspiring founders.
