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Most conversations about AI are either too technical for business leaders or too generic to be useful. What Comes Next with Arun fills that gap. Each episode translates real-world data and AI strategy into the language of competitive advantage — drawing on Arun’s 20+ years inside the world’s most complex enterprises, six years as a Microsoft Data & AI Executive, and his experience building Tipsora into a platform serving more than 95,000 professionals worldwide. This is not a podcast about AI tools. It is a podcast about building the organizational intelligence that makes tools matter.
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Send us Fan Mail What happens to teams when everything around them gets automated? David Lengyel has spent more than 40 years answering a version of that question. As Managing Director of Venture Up, one of the first team building companies in the U.S., he and his team have worked with more than 8,000 companies and 500,000 people across a dozen-plus countries — from Procter & Gamble, McKinsey, and Caterpillar to Microsoft and HP. In this conversation, David traces Venture Up's unlikely st...
Send us Fan Mail Most leaders don't have a strategy problem. They have a noise problem. Executive coach Steve Barton spent 30 years as a florist, grew his business from roughly $200K to $2M serving high-end destination weddings in Maine, and then had an experience 34 years ago that changed how he understood human potential. Today he coaches founders, CEOs and high performers with The Game of Ten®, a registered coaching process built to help leaders let go of fear, self-doubt, guilt and shame ...
Send us Fan Mail AI has made it possible to build a product in six to eight months. So here's the uncomfortable question: if you can build it that fast, why can't your competitor? Christopher Hussain has spent more than 20 years answering versions of that question from the inside. He was the #1 mortgage originator in the U.S. for two consecutive years, co-founded Sindeo (one of the original modern online mortgage platforms), and founded RealKey, an AI and automation platform that grew to 3,60...
Send us Fan Mail Most organizations aren't behind on AI. They're behind on the thinking required to use it. That's where this conversation with Frank Bravo starts — and it doesn't let up. Frank is a Bay Area technologist who spent more than three decades leading technology through disruption. For 32 years he was CTO of Embarcadero Media, home of the Palo Alto Weekly, where his team published an entire newspaper's editorial content to the web in 1994 — before Google, before Yahoo, before most ...
Send us Fan Mail Your AI agent can book a flight, move money, and open accounts on your behalf. But it can't take a selfie or hold a driver's license — so how does anyone know it's really acting for you? Arun sits down with Ravi Bijlani, founder and CEO of KYXStart.Ai, who is building the trust and verification layer for the agentic era. Ravi spent 24 years in identity and payments before betting that the real bottleneck in AI wouldn't be intelligence — it would be trust. In this conversation...
Send us Fan Mail High earners rarely lose money because they make bad decisions. They lose it in the gaps — between a financial advisor who only sees stocks and bonds, a CPA who shows up 60 days before the deadline, an insurance agent working a different angle, and an estate plan that's either missing or out of date. Nobody is coordinating the whole picture. In this episode, Arun sits down with Lord Munjal, Founder & CEO of Alpheva AI, who is building a financial operating system for high...
Send us Fan Mail Most conversations about AI in finance stop at "we use AI." This one goes deeper. Aidan McConnell started as a data science intern at Sezzle in 2019, worked his way up to Head of AI/ML, then left to build QuantLink AI — a vertically integrated data and analytics platform for investors. Think premium market data, quant workflows, and institutional-grade charts, made accessible enough that a first-time investor can actually use them. In this episode, Arun and Aidan trace the bu...
Send us Fan Mail In the finale of this series, Arunansu Pattanayak brings together every framework from the show into a single worldview — one he argues is the most important strategic idea for any leader heading into the next decade. The claim is simple and uncomfortable: the winners won't be the organizations with the best AI. They'll be the ones that build the most intelligent architecture underneath it. Tools are commoditized. Buying the same software as your competitor gets you the same ...
Most conversations about AI are either too technical for business leaders or too generic to be useful. What Comes Next with Arun fills that gap. Each episode translates real-world data and AI strategy into the language of competitive advantage — drawing on Arun’s 20+ years inside the world’s most complex enterprises, six years as a Microsoft Data & AI Executive, and his experience building Tipsora into a platform serving more than 95,000 professionals worldwide. This is not a podcast about AI tools. It is a podcast about building the organizational intelligence that makes tools matter.
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