Denis Jacquet is concerned that automation is causing traditional jobs to mutate... and governments around the world are mismanaging the opportunity to prepare citizens for the new labor market. He has written extensively on how regulation is stifling innovation. Denis is a serial entrepreneur having started and sold multiple successful companies including EduFactory in the e-learning space. He's also an accomplished author and frequent TV and radio contributor in France on the future labor market.Listen and learn...Why many events will remain virtual long after the pandemic... even though humans have a fundamental need for direct contact.What Europe can learn from countries like Israel and Korea about how to embrace innovation to stimulate company creation.Why companies like FoxConn are preparing to replace a million low-paying jobs with robots in the next decade.Why so many entrepreneurs sacrifice family for career.Thanks to Philippe Cases, Topio Networks CEO, for the introduction to Denis.References in this episode:AI Superpowers by Dr. Kai-Fu LeeJoe Rehmann, CEO of Victory Farms KenyaFoxConnMcKinsey & Company

Joe Rehmann went from investment banking to fish farming. His passion for solving the protein problem in Eastern Africa led to one of the most successful aquaculture farms in the world. Joe's story should inspire entrepreneurs everywhere. No problem is too big to solve. Technology we take for granted can be used in ways we can't imagine... until leaders like Joe redefine what's possible.Listen and learn...What inspired Joe to start Victory FarmsHow Victory Farms used mobile phones to solve the tilapia cold chain problemWhat the western world doesn't understand about building a business in KenyaHow fish guts and market ladies may be part of the next great technology success storyCompanies and organizations mentioned on the show:Endeavor, the world's leading community of high-impact entrepreneursVictory Farms

Philippe Cases has been an entrepreneur and investor in Silicon Valley for more than 25 years. Most recently, he founded Topio Networks to automate the process of generating business insights in tech markets like edge computing, IoT, and blockchain. Philippe has strong opinions about everything from autonomous driving to augmented reality and is paid to influence how they evolve.Listen and learn...How an engineer growing up in France and Germany came to be a Silicon Valley success story.Why we may never "fully automate the process of generating business insights".What technology is limiting mainstream use of edge computing for AI tasks.Of truck drivers, stock brokers, and real estate agents, which will be made obsolete first by AI.What needs to change about Silicon Valley.Also mentioned on the show:Accelerators including YC and AlchemistWaymo and Mobileye for autonomous drivingTinyML low-power machine learning for edge computingThanks to Erin McMahon for the introduction to Philippe!

Tim Crawford, accomplished CIO, CIO advisor, and influencer, distinguishes transformational CIOs from the rest. For more than 20 years, he has been coaching CIOs about embracing new technologies by first identifying how they'll solve business problems. Tim is a frequent contributor to publications like The Wall Street Journal, CIO.com, Forbes, SiliconAngle and TechTarget. Thanks to Steve Kaplan from Nutanix for the introduction.Listen and learn...How three distinct types of AI help businesses in different waysThe single biggest way AI could help employees todayA strategy for helping CIOs adopt AIHow and when AI should be regulatedWhich jobs are at risk of being complemented... or eliminated by AIWhy "companies and countries will ultimately be measured based on how well they leverage technology and data"Episodes and podcasts mentioned on the show:AI and the Future of Work with Colin FletcherCIO in the Know podcast

Rory O'Driscoll has been investing in startups since founding Scale Venture Partners 27 years ago. He and his team have invested in transcendent companies like Box, DocuSign, Omniture, Bill.com, HubSpot, and others. Listen to this one multiple times. You'll learn something new each one.Hear Rory's insights on AI and venture investing..."The venture business is more a decision business and less an action business.""The purpose of AI is to make better, more cost-effective decisions.""It’s extraordinarily hard to replace people with AI.""It’s hard to regulate what you don’t understand."How software is eating into traditional spending on telco and banking.Why successful startups must pick one of three strategies: "fight, focus, or fly" Previous episodes and companies mentioned on the podcast:Bill Davidow on AI and the Future of WorkDave Kellogg on AI and the Future of WorkForterDialpadZoom

This week, Wendy Pfeiffer, Nutanix CIO and former CIO at GoPro, shares her journey to becoming a public company exec and how she has grown as a technologist and leader. Hear about Wendy's proudest accomplishment at Nutanix and what she's learned from an eclectic group of role models.Listen and learn...What it means to "lead with grace".Why the future of enterprise tech will look more like consumer tech.How to empower girls to pursue STEM careers.How Wendy and her team have used NLP technology to help employees and consistently achieve 90+ NPS scores.Resources mentioned in the episode:NutanixGoProrandomfrankp on YouTubeThe John Madden RV

Rak Garg recently shifted from Product Management at companies like Atlassian and Redfin to investing at OpenView Venture Partners, the iconic firm behind companies like Datadog, ExactTarget, Instructure, and others. He shares the playbook for enterprise software startups looking to disrupt incumbents like Splunk and Atlassian. His thesis on SIEM (security event management) and log analytics spawned an excellent blog post on how startups are unbundling Splunk and defining new categories in the process. Follow Rak at rak_garg on twitter.Listen and learn...Why investing is harder than being a Product ManagerWhere Splunk and Atlassian are vulnerable to disruption from startupsRak's perspective on what must change about Silicon Valley cultureThe importance of "don't F&*%$ the customer" as a core component of company cultureCompanies mentioned in this episode:NotionLinearFigmaAsanaSnowflake

Glenn Solomon has discovered and invested in many iconic companies like Slack, Zendesk, and Square. In this episode, he shares his investing philosophy and how he became great at what he does. This one's worth a listen just to hear Glenn share stories from when he first met the founders of Airbnb and HashiCorp.Listen and learn...Why the stock of Domino’s Pizza has outperformed Google over the past decade.How Opendoor stumbled… before eventually going public and reaching a $20B valuation.Why Nike employs more software engineers than shoe designers. What technology will define the next "Zoom" moment.Companies, episodes, and people mentioned in this episode:Barr Moses from Monte CarloUnravel DataTonicEvangelos Simoudis from Synapse PartnersHaixun Wang from Instacart

Elaine Zelby is an investor at SignalFire, a blogger, podcaster, and former Product Marketer at Capriza and Slack. She shares her perspective on the proliferation of SaaS tools, what's sexy about unsexy markets, and what companies she's ready to fund.Listen and learn...Why entrepreneurs describe SignalFire as the "kind" VCThe one technology that will change work most in 2025What Elaine learned as an operator that has helped her as an investorWhy the exodus from big cities may not be a thing after allThanks to Ilya from SignalFire for the introduction to Elaine. Episodes and companies mentioned on the show:Deborah Hanus from SparrowTestbox

The future of cities, work, and transit all rely on technological advances in the field of autonomous vehicles. On this week's episode, Evangelos Simoudis, acclaimed author, futurist, and investor, discusses  the present and future of everything from robo-taxis to urban planning.Listen and learn...-How ethical implications and regulatory frameworks pose as big a threat to adoption of autonomous vehicles as technology-Why a combination of knowledge-driven and ontological approaches are often required to optimize the accuracy of AI-Why the classic trolley problem from a 1970s philosophy paper is more relevant than ever-The pros and cons of  using neural nets to train autonomous vehicles-Why Evangelos attributes his success to a history of systems thinking