Ry Walker started his career building one of the first web agencies in the '90s, sold it right before the dot-com bubble burst, and led technology teams at multiple companies afterward. In 2015, he co-founded Astronomer, scaled it to a unicorn, and then started all over again, raising $20M to found Tembo.

Ry talks with Warner Moore about why he sees life as an open world RPG, the night he was on the phone with an investor asking how to shut Astronomer down before a different call saved the company instead, and why he calls venture capital "liquid bravery." The conversation also covers where AI is headed: why Ry thinks the real transformation is a 10-year story, his case for private, self-hosted AI, how Tembo's cloud coding agents work, and the risk of centralizing an organization's knowledge into a single AI memory system.

The conversation covers entrepreneurship, risk-taking, venture capital, AI adoption timelines, private AI, and lessons from three decades of building companies.

🔗 Connect:

Ry Walker: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rywalker/

Tembo: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tembo-inc/

Warner Moore:⁠ https://www.linkedin.com/in/warnermoore/⁠

Gamma Force: https://gammaforce.io

📚 Mentioned in the episode:

➡️ The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek

➡️ Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse

➡️ The Molecule of More by Daniel Z. Lieberman

➡️ The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

Peter Dohm has spent his career working with systems where failure can have serious consequences. He started in telecommunications during the early days of the internet, spent nearly 20 years at Battelle, including serving as CISO, and worked on cybersecurity problems involving nation-state adversaries and major defense systems.

That experience shaped a principle that comes up throughout this conversation: observe everything.

Peter talks with Warner Moore about why visibility becomes so important when you cannot assume every attack can be prevented, how humans can become valuable security sensors, and why some of the most useful signals may come from places security teams rarely look.

He also shares the story of helping leaders rethink the cyber risk around a $20B weapons system by looking at the economics from an attacker’s perspective. Today, as CTO and employee number one at Black Mesa Technology, Peter is applying the same first-principles mindset to biomanufacturing, using AI and LLMs to help smaller manufacturers identify quality issues faster and reduce risk.

The conversation covers nation-state cybersecurity, observability, incident response, attacker economics, first-principles risk management, AI in biomanufacturing, startup product-market fit, and what decades of working with complex systems have taught Peter about managing risk.

🔗 Connect

Peter Dohm: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-j-dohm/

Gamma Force: https://gammaforce.io

Warner Moore: https://www.linkedin.com/in/warnermoore/

📚 Mentioned in the episode

➡️ The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy

➡️ Intelligence Matters podcast

Matt McCann has worked across defense contracting, NASA, computer vision for drones, Amazon AI, and now seed-stage startup life. That is not exactly the standard LinkedIn career path, and that is what makes this conversation so good.

After six years as a software engineer, Matt co-founded PixElement, a computer vision company working with drone technology. After selling the company, he joined Amazon, where he worked on GenAI and reinforcement learning. Now, as Co-Founder and CTO of Zaqa, he is building GenAI agents for industrial customers, where mistakes do not just create bad chatbot answers. They can create real-world consequences.

Warner Moore sits down with Matt for a conversation about reinforcement learning, AI agents that can show evidence, the difference between big tech and startup execution, raising capital, founder grit, family life, and the many versions of winning after an exit.

🔗 Connect

Matt McCann: https://www.linkedin.com/in/r-matt-mccann-0494b512/

Zaqa: https://www.linkedin.com/company/105160161/

Gamma Force: https://gammaforce.io

Warner Moore: https://www.linkedin.com/in/warnermoore/

📚 Books mentioned

➡️ The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

➡️ Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

➡️ Blindsight by Peter Watts

➡️ The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

➡️ Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Alex Frommeyer was completely out of money when he crashed a Kentucky Derby party, cornered two Sequoia-backed VCs over a mint julep, and walked out with a meeting that saved his company. That is just one chapter of his story.

Over 14 years, Fro built Beam Benefits from a smart toothbrush into a real force in the employee benefits space. He ran out of money twice, got fired as his own CEO, and laid off two-thirds of his team before Beam hit $1M ARR in six months. Now, as Founder and CEO of Stack Health, he is starting over on a bigger, harder problem.

Warner Moore sits down with Fro for one of the most honest founder conversations on Project Gamma yet.

🔗 Connect

Alex Frommeyer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexfrommeyer/

Gamma Force: https://gammaforce.io

Warner Moore: https://www.linkedin.com/in/warnermoore/

📚 Books mentioned

➡️ The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

➡️ Zero to One by Peter Thiel

➡️ The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

What changes when you go from engineer to executive across every stage of a tech company?

In this episode of Project Gamma, Mike Berkman, CPTO at ScriptDrop, joins Warner Moore to talk about building inside startups, growth companies, and large enterprises. The conversation covers CoverMyMeds’ rapid growth and acquisition, the realities of being a technical co-founder at an early-stage startup, and what it took to help mature ScriptDrop through acquisition by GoodRx.

Mike also shares his perspective on AI, systems thinking, product leadership, and why future tech leaders need more than deep technical skills to succeed.

If you’re building in tech, leading engineering teams, or trying to understand where software companies are heading next, this episode is packed with practical insight.

🔗 Connect with the guest and learn more

Mike Berkman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/berkmanmd/

Gamma Force: https://gammaforce.io

Gamma Force LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gammaforce

Warner Moore: https://www.linkedin.com/in/warnermoore/

📚 Book mentioned

The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge M.D.

What happens when you split the CEO role in two?

In this episode of Project Gamma, Andrew Wolfe (Co-CEO & CTO at Bloomfilter) joins Warner Moore to explain why the Co-CEO model works in practice, how leadership responsibility is actually shared, and why most companies get accountability wrong at the executive level.

The conversation looks at what it actually takes to build tech companies today, from the differences between services and product businesses to how incentives shape decisions in VC-backed and public companies. It also challenges the idea that AI is replacing work, showing instead that cycles repeat, roles evolve, and demand for builders remains.

Andrew also explains what he means by the “golden age of cybersecurity” and why AI is accelerating both attack and defense, forcing organizations to rethink how they approach risk and responsibility.

If you’re building in tech, leading a team, or thinking about where AI and cybersecurity are heading, this conversation will give you a clearer way to think about it.

🔗 Connect with the guest and learn more

Andrew Wolfe: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-wolfe-5a127034/

Gamma Force: https://gammaforce.io

Gamma Force LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gammaforce

Warner Moore: https://www.linkedin.com/in/warnermoore/

📚 Books and resources mentioned

➡️ The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick M. Lencioni

➡️ The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

➡️ Software is eating the world: https://a16z.com/why-software-is-eating-the-world/

➡️ East of Eden by John Steinbeck

What happens when an engineer starts asking why beyond the code?

In this episode, Michael Supeck (Ohio Angel Collective) shares his journey from building startups to funding them and what actually separates founders who grow from those who stall. The conversation explores the shift from engineering to entrepreneurship, how systems thinking shapes better decisions, and what’s changing as GenAI redefines how software is built.

We also get into what investors really look for in early-stage founders and why ecosystems like Ohio are gaining momentum.

What we cover

➡️ The shift from engineering to entrepreneurship

➡️ Systems thinking in startups and investing

➡️ How GenAI is changing software development

➡️ What investors actually look for

➡️ Why Ohio’s startup ecosystem is gaining momentum

💡 Key ideas

Don’t let perfect get in the way of good.

Don’t be afraid to fail in public.

🤝 Connect with Michael

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikesupeck/

Email: mike@ohioangelcollective.com

Pitch your startup: https://www.ohioangelcollective.com/pitch

Join OAC: https://www.ohioangelcollective.com/join-us

The startup world loves the dropout story, but many successful founders build companies after years of real-world experience.

In this episode of Project Gamma, Warner Moore talks with Orlie Benjamin, Founder & CEO of Lasoh, about her path from law school to entrepreneurship, and how a non-linear career across strategy, customer experience, and marketing shaped the company she built.

Orlie shares why customer-centric problem solving matters more than hype, how Lasoh empowers entrepreneurs by removing platform dependency, and what it took to move from MVP to 1.0 as a non-technical founder.

This conversation is for founders, operators, and leaders who believe experience is an advantage, not a liability.

📚 Book mentioned: High Output Management by Andy Grove

🔗 Connect with Orlie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/orliebenjamin/

📩 Email: orlie@lasoh.io

🎙 Hosted by: Warner Moore, Founder of Gamma Force

🔐 Helping tech companies scale securely through fractional cybersecurity leadership

👉 Learn more: https://gammaforce.io