From bootstrapped chaos to VC-backed scale, Built 2 Scale is your backstage pass to building high-growth startups at the edge of business, tech, AI, and robotics. Hosted by founders Matt Perrott and Scott Wilcox, this podcast dives into the raw, unfiltered reality of turning big ideas into scalable companies. Each week, we unpack the messy middle—fundraising, hiring, product-market fit, and the growing role of automation and AI in modern business. No hype. No jargon. Just real stories, hard ...
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Google CRUSHES Everyone + Elon's $10B Anime Crisis + The Age of Agents
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1:24:43This week on Built 2 Scale, we deliver our most packed episode ever with rapid-fire coverage of Google's dominant month, Warren Buffett joining our audience, and our first-ever Top 5 Most Influential People in AI draft picks. Plus: why 95% of corporate AI spending shows zero ROI and Elon's latest anime obsession crisis. Built 2 Scale | Episode 22 T…
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NVIDIA's Trojan horse, Yann LeCun Timebomb, 8 Sleep Mega Raise and the Physical AI Boom
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1:24:42This week on Built 2 Scale, Matt navigates Austin life while Scotty recovers from his US adventure. We break down the massive AI shakeups: GPT-5's controversial launch causing user rebellion, Meta's AI division downsizing (with Yann LeCun on the chopping block), and Nvidia's shocking announcement to build robots and compete with ALL their clients. …
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The Elon vs Sam FEUD Explodes + GPT-5 First Look & Remote Construction Robots
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1:22:24This week on Built 2 Scale, Matt's building his Austin studio while Scotty's back from his US adventure. We break down the explosive Elon vs Sam Altman social media war, deliver our first-look GPT-5 review, and explore why remote-controlled excavators are about to revolutionize construction. Plus: Perplexity's audacious $34B Chrome bid, Google's Ge…
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OpenAI Goes Open Source and just dropped GPT 5 + Google's Interactive 3D World Generator
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1:18:38This week on Built 2 Scale, Scotty returns from his epic US adventure (complete with custom cowboy hat drama) while Matt settles into Austin life. We dive into Google's mind-blowing Genie 3D world generator, OpenAI's game-changing open source release, and why 82% of new Australian jobs are now government-funded. Plus: Meta's superintelligence pivot…
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Live from LA - Matt and Scotty’s Austin and LA adventures, plus NVIDIA and Google power plays
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48:40Built 2 Scale | Episode 18 - Show Notes Hosts: Scott Wilcox (W & Elycium) & Matt Perrott (BuildPass) Description: This week on Built 2 Scale, Scotty & Matt fly to LA for an epic recording session covering Google's coding-killer Opal launch, why 50% of Aussies now rely on government income, and Jensen's claim he's "created more billionaires than any…
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Built 2 Scale | Episode 17 - Show Notes Hosts: Scott Wilcox (W & Elycium) & Matt Perrott (BuildPass) Description: This week on Built 2 Scale, Scotty & Matt break down the most expensive pre-seed valuations in history with Mira Murati's $12 billion Thinking Machines, Grok-4's unprecedented overnight integration into Tesla vehicles, and the browser w…
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Episode Overview Weekly analysis of artificial intelligence business strategy, startup acquisitions, and technology market dynamics featuring the Oracle-OpenAI $30B deal, AI subscription cancellations, and Jack Dorsey's mesh network project. Hosts: Scott Wilcox (W & Elycium) & Matt Perrott (BuildPass) Key Headlines & Topics AI Infrastructure & Part…
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Episode Summary Scott and Matt dive into the biggest tech stories of the week, covering Meta's aggressive talent acquisition spree, XAI's massive $10B funding round, Neuralink's breakthrough presentations, and the escalating race to artificial superintelligence. Plus: robot soccer leagues, Dyson's strawberry venture, and why AI nerds are now being …
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$2B for No Product, Robots Under $3K & Australia's Massive Miss
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1:34:07Title: $2B for No Product, Robots Under $3K & Australia's Massive Miss Hosts: Scott Wilcox (W & Elycium) & Matt Perrott (BuildPass) This week, Scotty & Matt explore the seismic shifts in AI talent acquisition, humanoid robots reaching consumer price points, and Australia's untapped potential to become a tech superpower. Episode Highlights The Great…
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Episode Snapshot Scott returns from China with a chipped tooth and eye-opening insights into Shenzhen's tech dominance, while Matt reports from Vegas conferences. This week: Zuckerberg's $15B talent grab, Jensen's European roadmap, the reality behind viral ARR growth, and why Tesla's $40K robo-taxi approach might crush Waymo's $180K strategy. Quick…
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Episode Snapshot Scotty and Matt blitz through the week’s wildest tech headlines—from Google’s eye-watering $400/mo Ultra plan and Perplexity’s Samsung coup to China’s 100-mile, zero-human freeway. Along the way: domain names purchased under the influence, why Notebook LM might replace your MBA, and the very real rise of remote robot workers. Quick…
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Built 2 Scale — Episode 11 Title: How to make every Australian a MILLIONAIRE Hosts: Scott Wilcox | Matt Perrott Runtime: ≈ 58 min Release Date: 2025-05-30 Quick Synopsis How do you turn $20 trillion of natural resources into $1 million per Aussie? Scott Wilcox & Matt Perrott unpack Google IO hacks, Jony Ive’s OpenAI deal, the rise of “just-in-time”…
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Google I/O 2025 AI Bombshell, Nvidia’s $50 Trillion Robot Bet & Coinbase Hacked
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1:13:52Segment Highlights & Takeaways 00:00 - Founder-life Banter 1080p ear-hair, distribution hacks, and why humor matters for reach. 08:30 - Delegation vs “Founder Mode” Why Zuck, Chesky & Musk still get their hands dirty—plus a 3-step audit to decide when you should delegate. 18:55 - Coinbase HackAnatomy of a social-engineering breach and why Brian Arm…
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Full-Stack AI, Zapier MCP & Limitless Pendant | $10 M Boring Tunnels
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1:02:00This week on Built 2 Scale: Scott loses his brand-new Limitless pendant (turns out “Find My” isn’t included), Matt explains why Zapier’s new MCP server might let interns run the office, and the guys dissect YC’s “full-stack AI” memo. They roast Google’s Gemini branding fumble, cheer OpenAI’s Sheryl-Sandberg-style hire, and marvel at Elon’s autonomo…
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Jensen Huang Tops CEOs, Archistar Lands LA, Australia Wary on AI, Productivity Hacks Unpacked
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1:09:54This week on Built 2 Scale, Scott’s caffeine shakes are finally under control, Matt’s new Mac has quit gas-lighting him, and Australia tops a brand-new chart—for fearing AI more than any other country. From a paralyzed creator who edited a YouTube video with his thoughts to Stripe’s surgical strike on Apple’s 30 % cut, the lads unpack the future of…
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The AI Arms Race, Pelosi Act, BMW’s Robotics Shift & Apple’s Comeback?
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55:07This week on Built 2 Scale, Scott returns jet-lagged from Texas while Matt battles a fresh Mac-switch identity crisis—yet somehow they still squeeze in everything from congressional insider-trading memes to humanoids doing side-flips. The duo dissects BMW’s surprise deal with China’s DeepSeek, Figure AI’s “three-robot” lawsuit, and Apple’s quiet ro…
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The Blueprint for Scaling: Google’s A2A protocol, GPT-4.1, Memes and more
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1:08:50This week on Built 2 Scale, Matt and Scott unpack the rise of AI agents, lawsuit battles in SaaS, and what Chick-fil-A can teach startups about scale. From Tesla’s self-driving deliveries to Waymo rides in Austin, the boys dive into the golden age of automation and why execution—not just ideas—is the new currency. They explore agent-to-agent workfl…
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The New Construction Era: AI Agents, Robots & Rebuilding Faster
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1:15:45This week on Built 2 Scale, Matt and Scott go deep into the evolving world of robotics, AI innovation, and the future of construction. Fresh from a US trip through LA, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley, Scott shares firsthand insights on wildfire recovery, housing shortages, AI agent frameworks, and why Waymo's autonomous future is already here. Fr…
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The Robotics Rundown: AI Agents, Secondary Markets & the Future of Construction
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1:09:07Episode Title The Robotics Rundown: AI Agents, Secondary Markets & the Future of Construction Description In this episode of Built 2 Scale, Matt and Scott dive deep into the rapidly accelerating world of robotics, AI agents, and the new frontier of startup building. From the meteoric rise of Figure AI and the power of secondary markets, to Nvidia’s…
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