Our interview today is with his founder of Astronomer. Yes, the code play astronomer. It's Rye Walker.

Now, Rye launched Astronomer in 2015 and walked away in 2022 during their $213 million series C when the business was doing tens of millions of revenue.

And his new company he launched is really special. In the next 20 minutes, he's going to show you exactly how this serial entrepreneur went from

zero to product market fit in 60 days, why he believes that AI agents will 10x his revenue

in the software development market overall, and lastly, how he's going to land a million dollar

per year Fortune 50 customers.

Plus, he'll show you why pool merged pull requests

are his North Star metric and the creative way he's actually getting marketers, not engineers,

to virally spread his product. Let's jump in. Hey folks, my guest today is Rye Walker. He is a Cincinnati

based entrepreneur and software engineer. He's this founder and CEO of Tembo.io. It's an AI developer teammate. We're going to talk about here in a second. Before that, though, he co-founded astronomer. Obviously, in the news today, we'll talk about that as well and differential. He's recognized for his leadership in tech. Rai is also an active investor. Rai, you ready to take us to the top?

I sure am.

All right.

This was so funny when I was preparing for this interview. I was going to share my screen and show you this. I'm going, man, Rye, Rai, right, right, because your team reached out to me. I said, how do I know this guy? And I remember you were one of the OGs on the podcast back in the day. this was literally eight years ago.

I think you had just hit 60K of MR at Astronomer.

Yeah.

The early days. And that was probably a lie back then, too. I don't even know if I told you the truth, but I'm sure you get that a lot, right? Yeah, I think you just raised two million bucks. But anyways, we have to obviously talk about it, like at least quickly before going to Tembo. Astronomer's obviously in the news right now, a famous Coldplay concert. What's your involvement now there as a founder? Well, I left the company and left

the board in 2022. So, yeah, not super involved. However, you know, I have some great friends. People

I hired are still there, especially a couple of group of college kids.

Their first job was at astronomer and they're still there from a program called DFA,

venture for America out of New York originally.

Yeah, so I have some friends.

Obviously, I talked to them a bunch during the, which I called a Coldplaygate situation.

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