Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSierra Just Repriced Customer Service
Season 1 Episode 56
Sierra closed a $950 million round at a $15.8 billion valuation, led by Tiger Global and GV with Benchmark, Sequoia, Greenoaks and others. Eight mont…
5 months, 1 week ago
Anthropic Buys Distribution Through Private Equity
Season 1 Episode 55
Anthropic is reportedly finalizing a roughly $1.5 billion joint venture with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, and General Atlantic to d…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Inference Got Cheap. Renegotiate Everything.
Season 1 Episode 54
For eighteen months the story has been the same. AI is expensive, and getting more expensive. That story has inverted. The price of using AI, not bui…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Agents Need a Boss
Season 1 Episode 53
Google is selling the enterprise agent control plane from the top down. Employees are building the AI workforce from the bottom up.
In today's YPO Te…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Agents Don't Go Rogue. They Inherit.
Season 1 Episode 52
An AI coding agent at Amazon was given a bug to fix. It found a solution. It deleted and recreated the entire production environment.
That is not the…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Grown-Up Era Of Enterprise AI
Season 1 Episode 51
The honeymoon era of enterprise AI is over. Three stories landed this week that change the conversation in your boardroom from whether to do AI to ho…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Stasi Took Decades. Meta Took A Week.
Season 1 Episode 50
Meta installed monitoring software on every U.S. employee laptop — keystrokes, clicks, periodic screenshots — to train AI agents that will replicate …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
MCP Is The Plug. You Still Need The Outlet Cover.
Season 1 Episode 49
MCP — Model Context Protocol — has gone from a curiosity to enterprise infrastructure in less than a year. Last Friday, the Linux Foundation made it …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Google Just Built An HR System For Agents
Season 1 Episode 48
Google retired Vertex AI in a single afternoon and replaced it with the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform — what Sundar Pichai called "mission control…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Twenty Agents, 1.2 Humans, 2.4 Million Closed
Season 1 Episode 46
Most AI conversations happening in boardrooms right now are cost conversations — G&A reduction, procurement automation, headcount trimming. This epis…
5 months, 3 weeks ago