Sep 17, 2026 · 47 min · 13 segments
Shyeon Delnawaz is the co-founder of Puralink, a startup building autonomous pipe inspection robots. Saurav and Shyeon talk about the origin story behind Puralink, what living in both the US and…
Shyeon DelnawazGuestSaurav RizwoodHost... your formative years and, you know, where some of this entrepreneurial streak might have come from.
Dude, so all the way from, like, my grandfather, my dad, or my grandfathers on both side- sides, um, my mum, my dad, all my uncles, aunties, have all done something of their own at some point, I think.
I don't know if that encouraged me to become an entrepreneur or start something in the end.
Like, I definitely wanted to avoid it for the first part of, you know, maybe the 15, 15 to 18 years of my life.
I was like, "Nah, never." Um, but then once it was time for me to go and, and double down on Purelinq and actually start my own thing with Harry, um, I think it was quite normalized.
So it wasn't like I was doing this crazy drastic thing that no one had ever done before.
And what was it about seeing those experiences that initially detracted from the idea of doing it?
I think it was a lot of doing all of that hard work, and then regardless of, you know, creating something helpful, having good customers, all that sort of stuff, um, it still ending poorly.
And I think for me there was a, you know, a period of time where I thought, "It's just not worth the risk." Um, as you can see, I've obviously changed my mind.
... your formative years and, you know, where some of this entrepreneurial streak might have come from.
Dude, so all the way from, like, my grandfather, my dad, or my grandfathers on both side- sides, um, my mum, my dad, all my uncles, aunties, have all done something of their own at some point, I think.
I don't know if that encouraged me to become an entrepreneur or start something in the end.
Like, I definitely wanted to avoid it for the first part of, you know, maybe the 15, 15 to 18 years of my life.
I was like, "Nah, never." Um, but then once it was time for me to go and, and double down on Purelinq and actually start my own thing with Harry, um, I think it was quite normalized.
So it wasn't like I was doing this crazy drastic thing that no one had ever done before.
And what was it about seeing those experiences that initially detracted from the idea of doing it?
I think it was a lot of doing all of that hard work, and then regardless of, you know, creating something helpful, having good customers, all that sort of stuff, um, it still ending poorly.
And I think for me there was a, you know, a period of time where I thought, "It's just not worth the risk." Um, as you can see, I've obviously changed my mind.
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