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Research Radio highlights conversations with founders, operators, and industry experts from the startup ecosystem. Listen in for insights you won’t find anywhere else.

Research Radio

Join us in NYC for an in-person intimate fireside chat as we dive into the state of fintech infrastructure with industry leaders.

The State of Fintech Infrastructure

A conversation with Contrary’s Megan Kao and product leaders from DoorDash, Gopuff, Faire, and Uber Eats about building and scaling marketplaces.

Balancing Marketplaces

On May 22nd, we're hosting our next Tech Talk with Ramp, Hex, Sourcegraph, Semgrep, Onehouse, and Weaviate in San Francisco. The evening will feature eng demos and conversations with senior leaders from the featured companies, followed by food and drinks.

SF Tech Talk

Shensi Ding (co-founder of Merge), Ben Fletcher (Partner at Accel), and Contrary’s Kyle Harrison on the founding of Merge and more.

Merge: A Startup Story

A conversation with Contrary’s Jen Yang-Wong and leaders from HashiCorp, Vercel, and Sourcegraph on building products that customers love.

Building Customer Love

Amjad Masad (CEO of Replit) and Contrary’s Kyle Harrison on Replit’s founding story, building with open source AI, and more.

Replit: A Startup Story

Designers, start your Config week in SF at Pixel Punch, a curated event of design lightning talks and drinks with senior design leads from Replit, Hex, Faire, Glean, and ex-DoorDash.

Pixel Punch: Design Lightning Talks & Happy Hour

We’re thrilled to host our first NYC Tech Talk of the year featuring eng leads and founders from Ramp, Warp, Railway, Together AI & Moment. It's an evening built by engineers for engineers — each company will live demo their latest product innovations for leading builders in NYC.

NYC Tech Talk

Join our COO Jen Yang-Wong alongside founders and senior leaders from Baseten, Decagon, Codeium, Doss, Patch and Mercor as they demo the latest from their startups in front of an audience of top engineers.

Undo. Undo. Redo. - a celebration of both design failures and triumphs. This lightning-talk style event for senior designers will feature unabridged stories from Contrary, Ramp, Anthropic, and Notion.

Undo. Undo. Redo.

Designers, start your Config week in SF at Pixel Punch, a curated event of design lightning talks and drinks with senior design leads from Ramp, Windsurf, and Numeric.

Pixel Punch

Contrary is hosting NYC Tech Talk on June 9th, featuring eng leads from Clay, Graphite, Hebbia, and Moment. An evening built by engineers for engineers — each company will live demo their latest product features for leading builders in New York.

Join Contrary Research live for in-depth conversations with founders, operators, and industry experts. 

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In-Person and Virtual Events

The State of Fintech Infrastructure, plus refreshed memos on Arcadia and Pave

Our latest deep dive on a decarbonized economy, plus new memos on Charm Industrial, Calm, and more

Our latest deep dive on the finance tech stack, and new memos on Patreon, SeatGeek and more

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