James Walker, PhD · Podcast
Field Reports
The shortest path to proof.
Field Reports is a show about the messy middle between an idea and actual revenue. James Walker, PhD — operator, ex-CEO, ML researcher — sits down with founders, CTOs, and the investors who back them to get specific about how new products really get built, validated, and sold. Deep on AI when it matters, plain software when it doesn't.
All episodes
Every conversation.
One real 0→1 story at a time — founders, CTOs, and the investors who back them.
About the show
Conversations on taking new ideas to revenue.
Each episode, I sit down with a founder, CTO, or investor and pull apart one real 0→1 story — the bet they made, the thing they built, and what it cost them to find out if it was real.
No hype, no origin-myth hagiography. Just the build calls that mattered and the shortest path they could have taken to proof. If you're pre-product, pre-traction, or shipping the first version of something new, this is for you.
Your host
James Walker, PhD
Operator with research-grade depth: a decade in software as engineer, CEO, and researcher. Bootstrapped an enterprise software business for seven years with customers across multiple continents. PhD in machine learning, 500+ citations.
I build the first version of new products for founders and teams — deep on AI when it matters, plain software when it doesn't.
Want to come on the show?
If you're building the first version of something new, I'd like to hear about it — on the show or off it.