



7 episodes
by Shamil Malachiyev · English
The Founder's Code is for entrepreneurs, builders, and visionaries at every stage of their journey. Building a startup isn't easy—it’s filled with hard choices, constant struggles, and moments of uncertainty. Join me, Shamil Malachiyev, founder of FluidLabs, as I openly share my own journey of building my IT consultancy, learning weekly from honest conversations with some of the world’s most successful founders. We cover the tough stuff that all founders face: finding the right co-founders, hiring C-level talent, scaling your business, overcoming limiting beliefs, and even managing the mental









How to interview and implement AI effectively in organizations—focusing on AI literacy, choosing first use cases, measuring ROI, building prototypes fast, and handling data quality and regulation in…
12 Nov 2026 · 1h 6m · 29 chapters
How to adopt AI in organizations without hype-driven “check-the-box” deployments, emphasizing change management, observability, and data readiness.
30 Oct 2026 · 1h 6m · 26 chapters
Why AI projects fail in production despite improving models—root causes are data readiness, multimodal data availability, and “AI memory”/infrastructure gaps (data timing, format, tooling,…
1 Oct 2026 · 53m · 21 chapters
Agentic AI security and governance, focusing on how hallucinations and weak controls can cause catastrophic actions (e.g., deleting repositories), why “defense in depth” and strong identity/data…
16 Sep 2026 · 1h 2m · 25 chapters
How top legal teams use AI to speed contracting (intake to redline), improve legal ops workflows, and keep humans responsible for judgment and ethics.
28 Aug 2026 · 1h · 27 chapters
FinTech governance of enterprise AI—how to move from prototypes to production safely in heavily regulated settings.
17 Aug 2026 · 1h 2m · 22 chapters
How Xentral’s co-CEO Domenico Cipolla thinks about AI in a cloud ERP—arguing that “grand AI strategies” are less important than practical, deterministic automation, clean data/tech stacks, and fast…
10 Aug 2026 · 47m · 14 chapters