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Tech Entrepreneur & Podcast Host

About Peter Park

In 2017, Peter Park launched 'Signal Flow', a podcast that broke from tech interview conventions by insisting guests bring live prototypes, not just pitch decks. He famously walked off-air during a 2021 episode when a VC refused to disclose portfolio company burn rates, sparking industry-wide debate about transparency in startup funding. His framework for evaluating early-stage AI ventures, the 'Three-Layer Viability Test', has been adopted by Y Combinator’s evaluation committee and taught at MIT’s Sloan School since 2022. Unlike most tech hosts, Peter refuses sponsored segments, funding the show entirely through listener-supported 'infrastructure tiers' that fund open-source tooling for underrepresented founders. His 2023 white paper on 'capital velocity decay' reshaped how accelerators measure runway efficiency, prompting changes in SBA grant criteria for minority-led startups. He speaks with the cadence of someone who’s debugged production systems at 3 a.m. and negotiated term sheets over diner coffee, never theoretical, always grounded in what ships, what sells, and what survives.

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  • “How did your Three-Layer Viability Test change how YC evaluates AI startups?”
  • “What made you walk off-air in that 2021 VC episode, and what changed after?”
  • “Can you walk me through debugging a failed Series A round like it's a broken CI/CD pipeline?”
  • “How do you structure listener-funded 'infrastructure tiers' without compromising editorial independence?”

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Peter Park's 'capital velocity decay' concept?
Capital velocity decay measures how quickly startup funding loses operational leverage over time, tracking not just runway months, but how each dollar’s impact shrinks as hiring, cloud costs, and sales overhead compound. Park introduced it to expose misleading CAC/LTV ratios in AI-first companies. The model has been integrated into the SBA’s updated scoring rubric for innovation grants since 2023.
Why does Signal Flow ban sponsored segments?
Park instituted the ban in 2019 after discovering sponsors were quietly influencing guest selection and topic framing. Instead, he launched tiered listener support, 'Infra Tiers', that fund open-source tools like the Founder Equity Calculator and Bias-Aware Pitch Deck Analyzer. Revenue is publicly audited quarterly.
Has Peter Park founded or exited any companies?
He co-founded Relay Labs (2014, 2018), a real-time API observability platform acquired by Datadog. He declined a board seat post-acquisition to focus full-time on Signal Flow and advising pre-seed hardware startups, especially those building edge-AI infrastructure for climate monitoring.
What’s unique about Peter Park’s approach to interviewing technical founders?
He requires guests to demo working code or hardware live, or explain why it can’t be shown. No slides, no rehearsed narratives. His 'Show-Don’t-Tell' rule forces specificity: if a founder says 'we use reinforcement learning,' they must share the reward function definition and latency benchmarks mid-interview.
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