alphalist.CTO Podcast · 2026-06-18 · 1h 13m
Anurag Goel was Stripe's fifth engineer before he built Render into a platform millions of developers deploy on. Here's his contrarian read on agents, security, and why "the AI cloud" is the wrong thing to be. Show Notes Anurag Goel joined Stripe as its fifth engineer in 2011 and later ran risk. He left to solve a big problem and landed on the one he'd watched eat Stripe's engineering time: making infrastructure disappear. This conversation is about what Render learned on the way to millions of developers and what changes now that a lot of what gets deployed isn't a website, it's an agent. * Key topics:* From Stripe's fifth engineer to founding Render The "application cloud" vs.
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