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Ex-Agency Pro Warns: 90% Marketing Cuts, Then an OpenAI Bailout
My guest today is CJ Chilvers, who went independent after parting ways with Studio North, a marketing agency.CJ’s my first return guest. He was on episode #3, “The AI...
How AI Finally Made Him a Founder
My guest today is Noah Levin. After years of suffering from what he calls quote “founder envy,” he finally took the plunge to become a founder.In less than 5 months of...
Demis Hassabis: How the Google DeepMind CEO Thinks
In this episode, I profile Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind. Demis's mission is to build AGI—artificial general intelligence—and use it to solve science's bi...
Buddhism, Bots & Billionaires
My guest today is David Perlman.David has a PhD in Neuroscience and Meditation, and he’s an expert in misinformation.He’s got an unusual background observing leaders u...
This AI Company Has Paid Out $20M to Content Owners
Marty Pesis is co-founder and CEO of Troveo.Troveo helps content and data owners license their video, audio, and text to top AI models like OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anth...
AI Wants Needles in a Haystack. He Finds Them
Chris Keevil is co-founder and CEO of Versos AI, a company helping AI labs find the needles-in-the-haystack data they need to train their models.Chris works at the cen...
Mustafa Suleyman: How the Microsoft AI CEO Thinks
Mustafa Suleyman helped build DeepMind, sold to Google, licensed to Microsoft for a billion—and now he’s warning us what’s coming next.This is based on the The Coming ...
Sailing Champ Builds “the AdSense for AI”
Nic Baird is the co-founder and CEO of Koah Labs -- they are building what Tom Tunguz of Theory Ventures calls the AdSense for AI.Nic breaks down:• AI token economics ...
AI Models Got the Hype—But Apps Decide Who Wins Next
Andy Beach was the CTO of AI for Microsoft in their Media and Entertainment business.He now consults AI startups and is a VC investor at Hallstone, a firm investing in...
Top Podcaster: AI Kills Info Podcasts—Not Personalities
Chris Hutchins is host of the All the Hacks podcast — heard by over a million listeners, with 10 million+ downloads. AI describes Chris as “Tim Ferriss meets Mr. Beast...
AI Stole 7M Books…Why This Publishing Insider Is Still Bullish
Thad McIlroy is author of The AI Revolution in Book Publishing – and the most strategic thinker I know on where AI and books collide. He knows the big publishers and a...
The Data Center Expert’s “Ride or Die” Plan for When AI Turns
Jennifer Elliott is a veteran engineer in data centers whose customers have included Google, Meta, AWS, and Netflix. She has a wild story to share. What makes Jennifer...
Ex-Meta Dealmaker Behind $1B in Content: What Actually Wins
JC Cangilla was Head of Entertainment Deals at Meta, where he led a 20-person team spending $1 billion+ per year acquiring content to power experiences across Facebook...
Dow Jones Ex-Head of Innovation: Woo or Sue AI?
Mark Riley was the Head of Innovation at Dow Jones and is now Founder and CEO of Mathison.ai.At News Corp, Mark met with more than 110 AI companies—before ChatGPT even...
SPIN’s CEO: AI Can’t Break the Next Nirvana
Jimmy Hutcheson is the CEO of SPIN and a private equity investor hunting for the next great media brand.If you like music and tech, you’re going to love this one.Jimmy...
The AI Copyright “FICO Score” Hollywood Is Testing
Tommy Petrov is the Ukranian-born Co-Founder and CEO of CopySight AI. Tommy and his team have built a Similarity Score — think of it as a FICO score for copyright risk...
Get Paid by OpenAI: How All Publishers Finally Can
Doug Leeds is the co-founder and CEO of RSL and previously creaed and led IAC Publishing (now People Inc.). He’s tackling the question every media CEO and content own...
Should OpenAI Rename ChatGPT? The Naming Guru’s Verdict
Anthony Shore is a linguist who's helped bring more than 270 names to market, such as Accenture, Yum Brands, JetBlue, Tonal, Fitbit Sense and Verizon. I get Anthony's ...
The AI Content Strategist Big Tech Calls First
CJ Chilvers is author of Principles for Newsletters, A Lesser Photographer, and The Van Halen Encyclopedia. He ghostwrites about AI for major tech companies. And he's ...
Ex-Meta & Snap VP: How to Monetize Content Without LLMs Stealing Chickens from the Coop
Ty Ahmad-Taylor is a founder & two-time CEO with a career at the center of media & tech. He started at The NY Times, built and sold his startup FanFeedr to Samsung, an...
