Episode 5: Reinventing Company Culture, in Code

Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler reveal Mate: a custom-built social platform designed to bring remote teams closer through clubs, shared interests, and personality-rich profiles. Then they spotlight Clay, a sleek relationship management tool that helps founders and teams stay in touch with the people who matter, minus the CRM bloat. Finally, in the news: OpenAI signs a $30B cloud deal with Oracle, Trump issues an executive order banning “woke AI,” and Google reports its AI Overviews now reach 2 billion users monthly, with 100 million using AI Mode in the U.S. and India.

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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro

(0:51) Why we built “Mate”: a social app for our team

(2:10) What Mate is and how it works

(4:13) Why remote teams need tools like this

(5:04) Demo: profiles, badges, clubs, and interests

(7:21) How our team uses it today

(8:56) Tech stack: built with Bolt, Cursor & Supabase

(10:30) Google’s AI user numbers are wild

(13:32) Wrap-up & final thoughts

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Platforms / Tools Mentioned:
• Ryz Labs – https://www.ryzlabs.com
• Mate (internal tool)

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Jordan Metzner
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Sam Nadler
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