Jul 15, 2026 · 25 min · 12 segments
In this episode, I was lucky enough to interview Ryan Rusnak, CTO and co-founder of Airspace. Ryan shares how, as a psychology graduate with a passion for technology, he found his way into solving…
Ryan RusnakGuest
Jay AgnewHost
From somebody who's actually been in the space using it for practical real world stuff for that long.
Where are we at today compared to when you guys were using it back then? What were you using it for? I mean, I kind of get an idea back of where we were back then, but it certainly wasn't where we are or where we're headed.
So how are you guys using it today versus when you started using it before even people really were messing around with it much in 2017?
So previously that same router that I was talking about, What was going on was it got very good at finding the absolute fastest flight period.
That might be a flight into Baltimore and then like a hot shot drive down into Virginia.
But if it's for like a surgery the next day where this is like a cryogenically frozen vein, they want the flight into Dulles.
They just, you know, don't try to save them 45 minutes and cost them an extra thousand dollars on the one that's a little bit slower.
So we had these different configurations where there's like the absolute fastest one.
And what we needed to do was rewrite the entire router because we were kind of building these config files for like what kind of routing the customer wanted.
From somebody who's actually been in the space using it for practical real world stuff for that long.
Where are we at today compared to when you guys were using it back then? What were you using it for? I mean, I kind of get an idea back of where we were back then, but it certainly wasn't where we are or where we're headed.
So how are you guys using it today versus when you started using it before even people really were messing around with it much in 2017?
So previously that same router that I was talking about, What was going on was it got very good at finding the absolute fastest flight period.
That might be a flight into Baltimore and then like a hot shot drive down into Virginia.
But if it's for like a surgery the next day where this is like a cryogenically frozen vein, they want the flight into Dulles.
They just, you know, don't try to save them 45 minutes and cost them an extra thousand dollars on the one that's a little bit slower.
So we had these different configurations where there's like the absolute fastest one.
And what we needed to do was rewrite the entire router because we were kind of building these config files for like what kind of routing the customer wanted.
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