Innovation Unpacked | Mike Boysen
by Mike Boysen
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992 “unicorns” and no way out: which business models were just…
992 “unicorns” and no way out: which business models were just…
About this podcast
Mike Boysen shares insights into the evolution of First Principles and Jobs-to-be-Done, especially in the age of Generative AI. He makes the previously secret process more accessible new approaches and automated tools that vastly reduce the time, effort, and cost of doing what the large enterprises have been investing in for years. This will be especially interesting for the earlier stage, smaller enterprises, and those investing in them who have always had to rely on a superstar, or guess (or maybe that's the same thing!). So...check it out!
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Episodes
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- 992 “unicorns” and no way out: which business models were just stories all along? · 9 minIf you hold a stake in a late-stage private company, you know the feeling. The number on your statement is big. The way to turn it into cash isn’t there. Here’s how big the…
- Strategy ROI: Can You Show Your CFO What Last Year’s Strategy Bought? · 7 minMost leaders can’t show what last year’s strategy bought, usually because the plan never said which number it would change. That’s a fixable problem. But you want to fix it…
- You Paid for Full Self-Driving. The Person Next to You Got It Free. · 9 minA lot of Tesla owners have had the same strange moment. They paid thousands of dollars for Full Self-Driving, often years ago, because they were told the price was going up…
- Tesla Robotaxi and Optimus: Can They Carry a Stalled Car Business? · 9 minTesla Robotaxi and Optimus after Tesla’s Q3 earnings: can the robot bet carry a stalled car business while spending more than doubles? Making a big bet ahead of your sales? Book…
- Enterprise Decision Velocity: Does a 1,149x Cost Gap Justify Deleting the Queue Layers? · 25 minEnterprise decision making and decision velocity: why AI agents and copilots won't speed up your company's biggest decisions, where the time really goes, and how to prove a…
- AWS Wasn't Built on Spare Servers: The Idle Capacity Myth · 11 minAWS Wasn’t Built on Spare Servers: The Idle Capacity Myth You’ve probably heard it: Amazon bought too many servers for the holidays, they sat idle in January, so somebody decided…
- Every CRM Giant Is Building the Same Thing · 12 minEvery big CRM vendor is racing to add AI agents. Salesforce, Microsoft, HubSpot, Oracle, SAP, ServiceNow and Zoho all have them. But look closely and the agents are mostly typing…
- Musk vs Amazon: Will the Idea Hold? · 10 minQuestion: who believes you need a consumer survey to figure this stuff out? Not me. Waste of time and money. I deleted the survey. You should too. Amazon just blocked Grok’s…
- Starlink Sells the Sky It Can’t Turn Off: The One-Owner Idle Capacity Play · 16 minDisclaimer: this video was created 99% by my Grok Bot. The other 1% is my knowledge base and Innovation Lattice (which both power my Venture Proof platform. I’m trying to deliver…
- Who Will Win the AI Race? Meta vs OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Google vs xAI (2026) · 12 minWho Will Win the AI Race? Meta vs OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Google vs xAI (2026) Five companies are spending more than almost anyone ever has to build the smartest AI in the world…
- Tesla Robotaxi vs Waymo: Is the Cybercab Ready to Scale? · 12 minTesla's Cybercab is giving paid rides in Austin with no steering wheel, no pedals, and nobody in the front seat. It's a real step forward. But can it scale? In this video I walk…
- Bring the Fix to Their Workflow - or Make Them Come? · 17 minYou absolutely do not need Venture Proof. You can build the strategy yourself. Or you can hire a consulting firm the way you always have. You keep the costs you know. You keep…
- Does an Honest Warning Outsell Feature Hype? · 14 minYou absolutely do not need Venture Proof. You can build the strategy yourself. Or you can hire a consulting firm the way you always have. You keep the costs you know. You keep…
- Why Build Distribution When a Channel Has Your Users? · 14 minYou absolutely do not need Venture Proof. You can build the strategy yourself. Or you can hire a consulting firm the way you always have. You keep the costs you know. You keep…
- One Integrated Release - or Separate Modules? · 13 minYou absolutely do not need Venture Proof. You can build the strategy yourself. Or you can hire a consulting firm the way you always have. You keep the costs you know. You keep…
- Automate Follow-Ups - or Kill Why You Need Them? · 11 minYou absolutely do not need Venture Proof. You can build the strategy yourself. Or you can hire a consulting firm the way you always have. You keep the costs you know. You keep…
- Selling a Cost Center - or an Asset That Pays Back? · 14 minYou absolutely do not need Venture Proof. You can build the strategy yourself. Or you can hire a consulting firm the way you always have. You keep the costs you know. You keep…
- Cut a Feature - or Delete a Buying Step First? · 13 minYou absolutely do not need Venture Proof. You can build the strategy yourself. Or you can hire a consulting firm the way you always have. You keep the costs you know. You keep…
- Is the Wrong Stakeholder Owning the Upside? · 12 minYou absolutely do not need Venture Proof. You can build the strategy yourself. Or you can hire a consulting firm the way you always have. You keep the costs you know. You keep…
- Should Every Roadmap Claim Wear a Label? · 11 minYou absolutely do not need Venture Proof. You can build the strategy yourself. Or you can hire a consulting firm the way you always have. You keep the costs you know. You keep…
