Henry Fisher of Techlore talks to Vishnu about privacy, surveillance, and the future of the internet.

They discuss why it’s never too late to leave Big Tech, how age verification and online surveillance are reshaping our lives, and why this is the best moment to take control. Henry also shares how he has personally grown up along with Techlore over a decade and his plans for the future.

This is a pragmatic, optimistic conversation about fighting for a better internet without losing your sanity.

Chapters:

00:00 Intro

00:57 Why privacy matters to Henry

02:42 How late is too late?

07:34 Techlore's origin story

11:33 Using YouTube to spread privacy

15:21 Threat modelling

18:58 Henry's threat model

22:19 Team behind Techlore

23:24 Techlore forum shut down

25:01 Techlore's business

31:30 Content consumption

34:45 Content creation

36:36 Facing the worst on the Internet

43:26 Influences on world view

45:48 Gratitude

46:50 Artificial Intelligence

57:03 Dystopia

1:03:16 Parenting

1:10:26 Improving privacy

1:14:43 Helping privacy tools

1:17:09 Compromising privacy

1:20:00 Rapid fire

1:24:18 Techlore's future

1:26:12 Henry's hope

Links:

Website: https://techlore.tech

Twitter: https://x.com/techloreinc

BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/techlore.tech

YouTube: / @techlore

PeerTube: https://techlore.tv

Henry's talk @ Ad Filtering Dev Summit: • We Lose 73% of Revenue to Ad Blocking (AFD...

Privacy Dad: https://theprivacydad.com

They See Your Photos: https://theyseeyourphotos.com

How do you build internet-scale financial systems without venture capital, ads, or growth-hacking?

In this episode, Vishnu speaks with Kailash Nadh, CTO of Zerodha - one of the world’s largest trading platforms. They cover how Zerodha stays fully bootstrapped, remains highly profitable (USD 500 million+ in profit), and grows with zero ad spend.

They dig into Zerodha’s engineering philosophy, self-hosting, open source, privacy, and why the internet feels increasingly broken. This is a grounded conversation on scale, incentives, pessimism, and building companies that last.

Kailash: https://nadh.in/

Zerodha: https://zerodha.com/

FLOSS/Fund: https://floss.fund/

Ente: https://ente.com/

Chapters:

00:00 Start

00:16 FLOSS/fund

03:30 $500 million in profits

07:19 Company culture

13:04 Engineering problems

17:50 Childhood

26:36 Artificial Intelligence

28:36 Artificial General Intelligence

32:09 Venture Capital

41:21 Privacy

45:36 Climate Change

45:59 Next FOSS project

52:40 Inner peace

55:30 Learnings

1:01:20 Rapid fire

1:07:48 Social media

1:10:00 Optimism

Mozilla announced Firefox would become an "AI browser" - and the internet lost it. Users called it tone-deaf. Reddit threads exploded. Mozilla promised a kill switch.

So I sat down with Raffi Krikorian (CTO, Mozilla) and John Dickerson (CEO, Mozilla.ai) to get answers. We talked about the AI backlash, Firefox's future, open source AI, Mozilla.ai's developer tools, small language models, on-device AI, Mozilla's $1.3 billion war chest, raising venture capital, and what their "rebel alliance" for open source actually means.

00:00 Intro

00:57 Raffi's story

03:27 John's story

06:27 Mozilla's structure

13:25 AI @ Mozilla

25:10 Firefox

28:56 Thunderbird & Mozilla VPN

30:28 Revenue models

33:55 Mozilla raising venture capital for AI

36:32 Rebel alliance

38:56 Criticism against Mozilla

41:30 "Rapid" fire

48:26 Optimism

52:08 Advice for founders

53:40 The End

Carl Dong, CEO of Obscura talks to Vishnu Mohandas, CEO of Ente on all things VPNs, Bitcoin, Privacy Tech, User Experience and a lot more.

Carl Dong - https://x.com/carl_dong

Obscura VPN - https://obscura.net/

Vishnu Mohandas - https://x.com/VishnuKVMD

Ente - https://ente.io/

Links mentioned in the video -

https://obscura.net/blog/bootstrapping-trust/

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf

https://reproducible-builds.org/