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Anthropic Is Watermarking AI Content. Publishers Need the Other Half.
My guest today is Erik Svilich, the CEO of Encypher, a technology company that lets you prove who created a piece of content — and whether AI made it, changed it, or t...
OpenAI Should Pay Studio Ghibli $20M/Year — And AI SEO Should Die
My guest today is Eric Burgess, CEO of Credtent, a Public Benefit Corporation devoted to getting creators paid by AI. He's also a professional game designer. I loved E...
How to Find the Right AI Buyers for Your Content
My guest today is Dan Steiny, who advises content companies on AI deals. Dan has spent nearly 25 years in licensing, including leading content partnerships at SoundHou...
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 A...
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 o...
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...
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, Ant...
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 ce...
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 economic...
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 ...
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 an...
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 Jennif...
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 ev...
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. Ji...
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 o...
