When the Internet Breaks: Building Infrastructure Resilience with Edward Tsinovoi
From Built Not Born: The Startup Go-To-Market Podcast by Venture Guides
January 15, 2026 · 26 min · Episode 11
About this episode
The episode discusses the critical importance of infrastructure resilience in the face of potential internet outages, featuring insights from Edward Tsinovoi.
What if a single internet outage could take down your entire business? In this episode of Built Not Born, the conversation unpacks a growing but under-discussed risk in modern infrastructure: edge fragility. Host Sage Nye sits down with Edward Tsinovoi, Co-founder and CEO at IO River, to discuss that as digital businesses scale, the risk of a single CDN outage can cascade into massive financial and operational damage. Edward draws on decades of experience in deep-tech infrastructure to explain why edge resilience has become mission-critical in 2026, and how multi-CDN strategies can be implemented without months of custom engineering. The conversation spans both technology and leadership, covering vendor lock-in, fault-tolerant system design, and the importance of decoupling edge infrastructure from application services. Edward also shares hard-earned lessons from building and scaling a deep-tech company, from assembling world-class teams to creating products that move from “nice-to-have” to truly indispensable.
People in this episode
Host: Sage Nye
Guest: Edward Tsinovoi
Topics covered
- infrastructure resilience
- edge fragility
- CDN outage
- multi-CDN strategies
- fault-tolerant system design
- vendor lock-in
Keywords
- digital businesses
- deep-tech infrastructure
- application services
- scaling companies
Mentioned in this episode
Products: IO River
Books & works: Built Not Born
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