Crypto has grown up.

It's now no longer just about overnight millionaires and meme coins. It is now how the largest corporations do business. 

JP Morgan has processed over $5 trillion through its blockchain division, even though Jamie Dimon famously hated crypto a decade ago. Visa, Mastercard, ...

How much does it cost to build an app?

Is my agency ripping me off?

How do I know if what they built is any good?

Am I being too demanding — or not demanding enough?

Every non-technical founder is terrified when they start working with developers. If you don't have a background in tech, you d...

Contrast two AI projects.

One cost $600,000 to build, $500,000 per year to maintain and was shut down as functionally unusable.

The other cut energy waste, reduced equipment damage, and returned 35.8% on investment.

Same tech. Different outcomes.

The difference had nothing to do with the AI —...

A financial analyst spots something wrong with a deal. He writes up his dissent.

But the AI disagreed. The investment committee spent 90 seconds discussing his objection, and went with the AI score.

A year later, the analyst stopped writing dissents entirely — what’s the point?

This story is f...

Slack went viral without spending on ads. Dropbox grew 3,900% without a marketing team. Every founder knows these stories. What most don't know is what was actually happening behind the scenes.

This episode is about the marketing myth that is costing founders millions — and what the smartest one...

A non-technical CEO built a mobile network, then transformed a startup into an AI company. Here's exactly how he did it — and what he learned about investors.

Peter Scott has done things that most people would walk away from.

He was handed a business running on Power BI reports and a vision tha...

Many non-technical founders don't lose money in one big mistake — they lose it in four small stuck points that all feel completely reasonable at the time.

In this episode, Sophia walks through the four questions that reveal exactly where you're getting stuck, why it's a knowledge gap and not a p...

What is Nvidia actually worth?

You could look at their factories, their hardware, their staff. But their most valuable assets — the patents, the processes, the institutional knowledge — don't appear anywhere on their balance sheet.

And Nvidia is not an exception.

Research from Stanford and Chi...

Most founders start with the best intentions.

And then somewhere along the way — without noticing — the company they've built becomes something they're ashamed of.

Not because they're bad people. But because nobody taught them how to prevent it.

Eric Ries wrote The Lean Startup — the book that...

The internet is full of people telling non-technical founders which AI tool to use to build their product. Lovable. Claude Code. Cursor. The list grows every week.

But the tool is almost never the real problem.

In this episode, Sophia Matveeva cuts through the noise to help you figure out exact...

Six years of building a global business teaches you things no business school will.

What actually drives revenue. What wastes your time.

What you wish someone had told you before you started.

In this episode, Sophia Matveeva shares the six lessons that have shaped how she built Tech for Non-Te...

Giving away 10% of your company before you have a product might seem like a reasonable price for mentorship and introductions.

But do the math at exit, and you get a very different story.

In this episode, Sophia Matveeva talks to Melanie Nabar, growth equity investor at Volition Capital, about ...