{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Luba Show","title":"$6.8B GovTech Founder On Why Most Startups Fail Selling to Government - Ben Rudolph","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/343cd406\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3422,"description":"Today I'm talking to Ben Rudolph, co-founder and CTO of Peregrine Technologies, to trace his path from Stanford gymnastics to building one of the fastest-growing companies in government technology. They discuss his time at the UN working with refugees, the 18 months he and co-founder Nick Noone spent embedded inside a police department, surviving the early \"wilderness\" of company building, and how Peregrine grew into a multi-billion dollar business. The conversation also covers leadership lessons, company values, and balancing fatherhood with running a fast-scaling company.\nTimestamps:\n00:00:00 Trailer\n00:01:18 Intro\n00:01:21 Stanford gymnastics and meeting Nick\n00:09:06 Working with refugees at the UN\n00:16:20 Deciding to start the company\n00:19:10 Moving into a police department for 18 months\n00:26:44 Where the Peregrine name comes from\n00:31:23 Winning the California RFP\n00:41:47 Growth from wilderness to product-market fit\n00:44:58 Biggest mistake and hardest lessons as a leader\n00:48:39 Becoming a father while scaling the company\n00:48:52 How Peregrine uses AI internally and externally\n00:56:01 Life philosophy and closing thoughts\n00:57:00 Outro\nLinks:\nBen Rudolph\nWebsite: https://www.benrudolph.info/\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/__benrudolph/?hl=en\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brudolph\nLuba Yudasina\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/lifeoflubaa\nX: https://x.com/LubaYudasina\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yudasinal/","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ONx6qkZ5gydA71J-P4uIp124-y3fHXUZwnZmRAOojRs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82MWJm/MGFjNmM2N2JjNjcz/ZmVmOGMzOTA0Y2Rk/OGI1NS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}