The CTO Show with Mehmet Gonullu
Broadcasting from Dubai, The CTO Show with Mehmet explores the latest trends in technology, startups, and venture funding. Host Mehmet Gonullu leads insightful discussions with thought leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs from diverse industries. From emerging technologies to startup investment strategies, the show provides a balanced view on navigating the evolving landscape of business and tech, helping listeners understand their profound impact on our world.mehmet@yassiventures.com
The CTO Show with Mehmet Gonullu
Broadcasting from Dubai, The CTO Show with Mehmet explores the latest trends in technology, startups, and venture funding. Host Mehmet Gonullu leads insightful discussions with thought leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs from diverse industries. From emerging technologies to startup investment strategies, the show provides a balanced view on navigating the evolving landscape of business and tech, helping listeners understand their profound impact on our world.
mehmet@yassiventures.com
Recent Episodes
June 12, 2026
#606 AI Can Generate Code. It Still Can’t Replace Engineering Judgment | Jason Li
In this episode of The CTO Show with Mehmet, Mehmet sits down with Jason Li, CTO at Laurel. Jason brings experience from enterprise software, Salesforce, Ironclad, and AI-native product development. The conversation reframes ...
June 7, 2026
#605 AI Won’t Fix Broken Organizations. It Exposes Them | Jürgen Dauk
In this episode of The CTO Show with Mehmet, Mehmet sits down with Jürgen Dauck, advisor, consultant, and creator of the Leadership Operating System. AI is not the real bottleneck. Broken organizational design is. The convers...
June 4, 2026
#604 AI Can Generate Expertise. It Still Can’t Generate Judgment | Dan Pratl, Founder & CEO, Quadron
In this episode of The CTO Show with Mehmet, Mehmet sits down with Dan Pratl, Founder and CEO of Quadron. Dan is building infrastructure around trust, credibility, reputation, and human judgment in a world where AI can genera...
May 31, 2026
#603 Startups Scale Too Early. The Basics Are Still Broken | Raphael Peyret
In this episode of The CTO Show with Mehmet, Mehmet sits down with Raphael Peyret, Founder and Principal Advisor at SHA/RP. Raphael brings experience across product, cybersecurity, Google, and startup execution from MVP to ac...
May 28, 2026
#602 AI Can Set Meetings. It Still Can’t Build Trust | Alex Grant
In this episode of The CTO Show with Mehmet, Mehmet sits down with Alex Grant, SVP of Sales at North. Alex brings more than 16 years of experience building sales teams across fintech, payments technology, and SaaS. The conver...
May 24, 2026
#601 The AI Bottleneck Is No Longer GPUs. It’s Energy and Memory | Eugene Cheah
In this episode of The CTO Show with Mehmet, Mehmet sits down with Eugene Cheah, CEO of Featherless AI. The AI bottleneck is no longer just GPU access. Power, memory, inference cost, and model reliability are becoming the rea...
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About the Host
Mehmet Gonullu
Author / Advisor / Investor
Tech Executive | AI, Cybersecurity & DeepTech | GTM & Strategy | Advisor & Investor
I track how AI, cybersecurity, and DeepTech reshape markets before the consensus forms.
20+ years in enterprise technology and 500+ conversations with global technology leaders on The CTO Show have built a pattern-recognition engine most people in this space simply do not have. I see what is coming, connect technical signals across ecosystems, and help companies act early, before opportunities become obvious.
That perspective is grounded in deep operating experience. At Rubrik, Veeam, and Riverbed, I led technical and commercial go-to-market expansion across the Middle East, Africa, and beyond. I have carried quota, built regional systems engineering and sales teams, opened markets, and closed complex enterprise deals at scale.
I do not just study technology markets. I have engineered and built inside them.
That same pattern recognition became a book. From Nowhere to Next documents two decades of lessons from building inside emerging technology markets, written for operators who want to see around corners, not just execute against a playbook.