Bryan Talebi learned the value of education after fleeing Iran and living in a Turkish refugee camp. He worked for NASA at age 16 and, after helping lead many successful startups, started Ahura to disrupt the education system "which hasn't changed in 150 years". Bryan realized the millions of workers being displaced by automation need a way to more rapidly prepare for careers in the labor market of the future.Listen and learn...What skills are required to succeed in the new labor marketWhat impact a single robot can have on an entire factory of skilled laborersHow biometric data can be used to optimize the learning processWhat employers are doing to up-skill rather than replace current employeesWhy "AQ" is replacing IQ and EQ as the way to find 10x talentContact Bryan and Ahura AI for more information:www.ahuraai.combryan@ahuraai.com@bryantalebi3D

Milin Desai was an executive at VMware before taking the CEO role at Sentry last year. Since then, he led a $60M funding round that valued the company at $1B. An exceptional group of investors including Accel and NEA as well as new investor BOND participated. In this discussion with Dan Turchin, Milin openly shares the challenges of growing a startup and where there's room for innovation in the crowded monitoring space.Listen and learn...What all other monitoring vendors are missing that created an opportunity for SentryWhat Sentry does better than the legacy APM vendorsThe dirty secret of DevOpsWhy NoOps won't replace DevOps any time soonThe one non-technical skill that has helped Milin most in his careerThanks to Banjot Chanana for the introduction to Milin!

Slater Victoroff is a machine learning expert and science fiction writer who is never shy when sharing opinions about AI and the future of technology. His passion for giving unstructured content meaning led to the founding and success of Indico. The company has since raised $36M from an impressive set of investors including Jump Capital and Sandbox Ventures. In this discussion, hear how Slater went from dorm room programmer to entrepreneur.Listen and learn...How Indico was launched by pineapple and onion pizza consumed from 5:00 PM to 5:00 AM on Sunday nights. What it was like to found the company as CEO then later hire a replacement to become CTO. How Slater defends his 2012 comment that "the war is over... deep learning lost."How NLP is being used to unlock value trapped in unstructured data.Why every knowledge worker "needs a bionic arm".Why Slater says AGI, artificial general intelligence, doesn't exist as a concept.Follow Slater @sl8rv on Twitter.

A first on the show this week... we meet a guest whose digital twin has its own YouTube channel. Dr. Mark van Rijmenam is a futurist, best-selling author, and entrepreneur. He is a popular keynote speaker about issues related to how we co-exist with technology in an increasingly digital world.Listen and learn....Why it is we're living in "exponential times"How future societies will be organized by "digitalism" instead of "liberalism" based on who can access and control dataWhy blockchains as a technology are currently about at the maturity level of the internet in 1997What Dr. Mark means when he says "...be prepared to reinvent yourself every five to ten years"Resources mentioned in the episode:The Future is Faster Than You Think by Peter DiamandisCoded Bias, the documentaryWeapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'NeilCharlene Li on AI and the Future of WorkBill Davidow on AI and the Future of Work

Zi Wang, Timeless founder and CEO, learned a lot at Google in eight and a half years. Enough that he was inspired to turn his Google-esque bold vision for the future of time management into a company. Timeless isn't solving the calendar app problem - Zi and his team are solving the problem of how to get the most out of what little time we have.Listen and learn...The founding vision of TimelessAbout the future of time managementThe value of a "marketplace for time" Why data privacy is a 21st century human rightHow time graphs will be used to optimize your calendar Resources mentioned on the show:Zi's manifesto on timeThe Timeless visionWalt Mossberg and "The Disappearing Computer"

Most of us won't learn as much in a career about DevOps as Banjot Chanana forgets in an afternoon. Having built teams and products that have given rise to DevOps over a 20-year career as a product leader, Banjot is qualified to have strong opinions about the right ways to develop and deploy software. The best part? He's as enthusiastic as ever about what's ahead.Listen and learn...Where there are opportunities to innovate in and around DevOps.Where VMs failed and created an opportunity for containers.What ephemeral infrastructure means for the future of CI/CD.What attributes are common across companies with great product cultures.Companies and projects referenced:Open TelemetryBackstageSentryCloudPhysics

It's tough being entrepreneurs in Belgium and Italy. Our appetite for risk and access to capital in the U.S. is an unfair advantage. Ciro and Jacopo moved to Silicon Valley to pursue their dream and, in the process, learned why entrepreneurship is a full-contact sport. Their journey from MIT to startup to successful exit is a classic tale of grit and determination.Listen and learn...What's unique about Silicon Valley for founders.How to turn a technology into a product.What distinguishes human cognition from machine intelligence.Why NLP is so hard.How product interfaces can introduce bias.What we can (and can't) expect from AI.People and organizations mentioned:The Alchemist AcceleratorCoveoNoam ChomskyMarvin MinskyJosh Tenenbaum

Kordel France taught himself to code to automate his Calculus homework. He was inspired by seeing robot tractors on the family farm. Not the conventional background for a high-tech CEO. Kordel and Seekar have turned a passion for AI and machine learning into novel applications in fields as diverse as medicine, law, and professional sports. The best parts of this conversation are when Kordel describes what it means to practice responsible AI. A heads up for investor-types: Seekar is a hot company in a hot space and will soon be raising a series A. Contact Kordel for details.Listen and learn...How to instrument explainability into AI algorithms and create a culture where algorithm developers are required to explain how their algorithms workBest practices for monitoring AI model accuracy to know when re-training is requiredThe challenges and opportunities of putting AI models at the edge of the networkHow AI is making radiologists better at detecting medical conditions like COVID... and why AI won't replace human experts any time soonEpisodes and companies mentioned:Philippe Cases, Topic Networks CEO, on AI and the Future of WorkDeryk van Brunt, CredibleMind CEO, on AI and the Future of WorkSeekar Technologies

Two firsts this week on the podcast: first time we’ve had a two-guest interview and first time we’ve had guests who aren’t native to the tech industry. Rishon Blumberg and Michael Solomon are pioneers in the talent management space having worked with A-list celebrities like Bruce Springsteen and John Mayer. A decade ago they set out to bring what they learned in entertainment to the tech talent economy.They’ve since published the popular book Game Changer: How to be 10x in the Talent Economy and have been busy helping the tech community find gigs.Listen and learn...What it takes to be 10x better at everything.The unique personal attributes that separate "10xers" from everyone else.What the guys learned managing Bruce Springsteen.How one 10xer changed the world...starting with energy bars.Why managing rock stars is a lot like managing tech talent.The guys advice for entrepreneurs: "...when hustling fails grit is what gets you back to hustling again."References in the show:Rishon's TED talk10x ManagementMusicians On CallEthos Water and Charity Water

This week's guest has been called “America’s Best Leader” by U.S. News and “The Entrepreneur Whisperer” by ABC, Fox, and NPR. Linda Rottenberg is the Co-founder and CEO of Endeavor, the world's leading community of high-impact entrepreneurs. She's also an accomplished author, speaker, investor, and mentor for global entrepreneurs. Linda's a mom of twins, a compassionate leader, and a force of nature having overseen the creation of more than four million jobs and 27 billion in revenue from Endeavor companies.Listen and learn:About inspirational entrepreneurs like Wences Casare from Argentina and Vu Van from Vietnam.  Why "...chaos is the friend of the entrepreneur."Why "...the days when we thought entrepreneurs were boys in hoodies in Silicon Valley will soon be an ancient relic."How personal tragedy made Linda a better leader.About Linda's advice to a younger version of herself: "be less super and more human."Why you should take the #MindsetChallenge from Endeavor and Masters of Scale.Entrepreneurs and companies mentioned in the episode:MercadoLibreVu Van from ElsaLateefa Alwaalan from YatooqReid Hoffman and Masters of ScaleMelanie Perkins from CanvaWhitney Wolfe Herd from Bumble