Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur | Start and Grow Your Own Business 1327: Make Better, Faster Decisions with the Data You Already Have w/ Bobby Thompson
In a world buzzing with AI, how do you cut through the noise to make decisions that actually grow your business? This episode features Bobby Thompson, the founder of WUNN Labs, who is demystifying the world of data for entrepreneurs. Bobby breaks down how the information you already have—from sales calls and emails to CRM entries—is a goldmine waiting to be tapped. He explains how modern AI makes it possible for any business to analyze both quantitative and qualitative data to gain a competitive edge. This isn't a high-level theoretical chat; it's a practical guide on shortening your innovation cycles, solving problems faster, and building a well-oiled machine that moves with speed and clarity. Tune in to learn how to harness data to build a smarter, more agile, and more successful business.
💡 What You'll Take Away For YOUR Business
- 🚀 Why your qualitative data (emails, call transcripts, Slack messages) is just as valuable as your quantitative data, and how AI can finally make sense of it all.
- 💰 How to identify and eliminate the 20% of sales efforts that are going nowhere, effectively boosting your revenue without increasing your workload.
- 🧠 A framework for approaching AI: Start with your biggest business problem, not with the technology, to find the right solution.
- ⚡ How to shorten your business cycles from years to months (or months to weeks) by making better, faster decisions backed by real data.
- 🤝 Why AI won't replace entrepreneurs but will empower smaller, more agile teams to compete with monolithic companies.
- 📈 How to move beyond simple dashboards and get the full context behind your data to make decisions you can feel confident about.
📝 About Bobby Thompson
Bobby Thompson is the founder of WUNN Labs, where he is building the infrastructure for better human judgment in an AI-driven world. With a background as a data scientist and a former Chief Product and Technology Officer, Bobby has spent his career at the intersection of data, design, and decision-making. He got disillusioned with the slow, expensive cycle of traditional data science and saw an opportunity with AI to create a shorter, more effective bridge between data analysis and real-world business action. His unique perspective helps entrepreneurs move past the hype and use data to build truly intelligent and efficient companies.
🎯 Bobby’s BEST Piece of Advice for Wantrepreneurs and Entrepreneurs
“It's the golden era for ambition. Be ambitious. You could do so much more than you could before, and so the people that try and are resourceful and ambitious, they're going to have a lot of success.”
📢 Memorable Quotes
- "If we keep accelerating faster without better decisions, we're just going to kind of end up in weird places as businesses." – Bobby Thompson
- "The bigger question should be what are your biggest problems that you're actually trying to solve?... And then it's just, AI to solve that thing specifically." – Bobby Thompson
- "I do think you're not going to need as many monolithic companies, which I actually think is cool, especially for a podcast about entrepreneurship. There's going to be a big boom of smaller companies." – Bobby Thompson
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