Sam Bhagwat on Gatsby and Mastra, YC and tapping into your inner child

In this episode of Dev Propulsion Labs, we sit down with Sam Bhagwat, the dev tools visionary who co-founded Gatsby and is now transforming AI development with Mastra - the TypeScript framework that's rapidly gaining adoption among serious AI developers.

After selling Gatsby to Netlify, Sam identified a critical gap in AI tooling that was forcing developers to build complex infrastructure themselves. Now, his YC-backed framework is helping startups and enterprises build production-grade AI agents with far less overhead.

You'll discover:

- The pivotal moment Sam realized existing AI tools weren't solving the right problems

- Strategic insights from his YC Winter 2025 experience that accelerated Mastra's growth

- Why TypeScript-first is the right approach for building maintainable AI applications

- The thoughtful ...