AI Rebels
by Jacob and Spencer
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AI That Pays for Itself with Rob Wright
AI That Pays for Itself with Rob Wright
About this podcast
The AI Rebels Podcast is dedicated to exploring and documenting the grassroots of the current AI revolution. Every week a new episode is posted wherein the hosts interview entrepreneurs and developers working on the cutting edge. Tune in to benefit from their insight.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 88 episodes
- AI That Pays for Itself with Rob Wright · 1 h 4 minWhen does an AI tool actually make a business better? Rob Wright, a founder of Waffl, joins Spencer and Jacob to explore the practical business case for AI. He traces Waffl's…
- Can We Trust AI? With Jonathan Schaeffer · 59 min · Season 4 Episode 23AI can win championships, write convincing answers, and still get the facts wrong. What would make it worthy of our trust? Spencer and Jacob sit down with Jonathan Schaeffer, the…
- AI Is Moving at 100 MPH. Your Company Probably Isn’t. ft. Sreedhar Peddineni · 54 min · Season 4 Episode 22Sreedhar Peddineni has built companies through the internet, SaaS, cloud, and now AI, which makes his perspective especially valuable because he is not reacting to hype — he is…
- Cavemen With Fire: Governing the AI Agent Fleet ft. Logan Kelly · 57 min · Season 4 Episode 21Everyone's shipping agents. Almost nobody is asking what happens when a hundred of them go off the rails at 100% utilization while a customer is on the other end. Logan Kelly —…
- Why Your AI Projects Keep Failing (It's Not the Tech) ft. Barbara Wittman · 52 min · Season 4 Episode 20Barbara Wittman has spent 25 years cleaning up broken transformation projects, and the root cause is never the technology. In this episode, she breaks down how AI is exposing…
- Bhaskar Sunkara: The AI Agent That Never Sleeps. How Bicycle AI Catches Revenue Leaks in Real Time · 58 min · Season 4 Episode 19Bhaskar Sunkara built AppDynamics into a $3.7B company. Now he's back with Bicycle AI, an always-on agent that catches revenue leaks before your team even knows they exist. In…
- RAG, Agents, and the Future of AI Memory with Roie from Pinecone · 1 h 3 min · Season 4 Episode 18Most RAG implementations are fundamentally broken; and the company that coined "vector search" just told us why. In this episode, Roie from Pinecone breaks down the "Franken…
- You Can't Have an AI Story Without a DataStory ft. Dalan Winbush, Nasuni · 1 h 1 min · Season 4 Episode 1795% of enterprises are failing at AI. Not because the technology doesn't work, but because they're measuring the wrong things. In this episode, Nasuni CIO Dalan Winbush breaks…
- Making Insurance Fair: How Tuio Puts Customers First With AI ft. Juan Garcia, Tuio · 56 min · Season 4 Episode 16Insurance was built to profit off confusion, and Tuio is proving it doesn't have to be that way. Juan Garcia and his co-founders rebuilt insurance from the ground up as a fully…
- Same Effort, 10x Results: How a Neurodivergent Artist Uses AI as a Force Multiplier ft. Victor Varnado · 49 min · Season 4 Episode 15A billion-dollar liquor company paid a rapper with ADHD low six figures to build them a custom video game, and he delivered it in two weeks. That rapper is Victor, and in this…
- AI Prototyping at Zero Cost: How Ian Cook Ships What Others Can't · 49 min · Season 4 Episode 1495% of enterprise AI projects fail, but not for the reasons you think. Ian Cook has spent 16 years shipping AI products across healthcare, physical security, consumer goods, and…
- Humanoid Robots Are a Distraction (Here's What Actually Works) ft. Grigorij Dudnik · 1 h 2 min · Season 4 Episode 13What happens when AI leaves the screen and enters the physical world? It breaks. Spencer and Jacob sit down with robotics researcher Grigorij Dudnik, who's been running real…
- The Hidden Tradeoffs of AI Automation (and Why Friction Still Matters) ft. Jakob Ambuehl, Brex · 58 min · Season 4 Episode 12How does generative AI actually work inside a large, regulated fintech company when real customers, real money, and real regulations are on the line? The AI Rebels Crew sits down…
- From Hype to Controls: Securing AI Before Regulation Catches Up · 55 min · Season 4 Episode 11Most companies are racing to adopt AI, but almost none can explain who’s responsible when it goes wrong. Cordell Robinson of Brownstone Consulting joins the AI Rebels crew to…
- Inside Dreami.me: Why Safer Companion AI Means Saying “No” More Often ft. Ryan "Zuda" Satterfield · 57 min · Season 4 Episode 10Chatbots are starting to feel less like tools and more like something you relate to, and that shift comes with real risks. On AI Rebels, we sit down with Ryan “Zuda” Satterfield…
- AI Is Getting Cheaper. Human Judgment Is Getting More Valuable ft. Daniel Yoo, Finmate AI · 59 min · Season 4 Episode 9AI isn’t magic, and pretending it is may be the biggest risk in tech right now. A former financial advisor turned AI founder argues that most AI products are already becoming…
- Your Next News Anchor Is AI ft. Nikolai Yakovenko, DeepNewz · 1 h 6 min · Season 4 Episode 8AI is now spotting the news before journalists even know it exists. DeepNewz’ founder reveals how their system scans real-time signals from across the internet to uncover…
- Beating the Machines: How Bot Spot Levels the Playing Field Against Hedge Funds ft. Robert Grzesik · 1 h 1 min · Season 4 Episode 7Most retail traders don’t realize they’re battling algorithms that execute 70–80% of all market activity. Robert Grzesik reveals how Bot Spot turns plain-English instructions…
- The Next Big AI Wave: Context Engines, Not Chatbots - ft. Ping CEO Camden Bean · 55 min · Season 4 Episode 6AI note-takers are already obsolete, and Camden Bean, CEO of Ping Assistant, explains why the real power is everything that happens before and after the meeting. In this episode…
- Why Companies Fight Over Engineers Who Don't Write Code ft. Austen Allred · 1 h 2 min · Season 4 Episode 5Austin Allred lived in his car in San Francisco teaching himself to code, and now he runs a program where students never write a single line. At Gauntlet AI, engineers learn to…
