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Your MVP doesn’t need a Kubernetes cluster

4 Aug 2026 · 31 min · Episode 975

Ryan welcomes Anurag Goel, CEO and co-founder of Render, to discuss why most startups shouldn’t start by managing their Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure. They discuss how frustration with spinning up nodes at Stripes led him to build a company, a future where your application itself may allocate its own compute, and why DevOps jobs aren’t going anywhere.

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Render calls itself the cloud for builders, intuitive infrastructure for scale.

Connect with Anurag at anurag@render.com.

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