Best DataRobot Podcasts (2025)

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What does it take to run a successful AM business? In conversation with Brad Keselowski. 43:31

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3+ y ago43:31

43:31

In this episode, Marcus Seibold and Dr Mohsen Seifi interview Brad Keselowski, the founder of Keselowski Advanced Manufacturing. Brad discusses the pain threshold and the need for corporate cover fire in AM, especially when tackling friction points for buyers and programme managers. He explains the delicate balance needed to achieve specs for creat…

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What does it take to run a successful AM business? In conversation with Vishal Singh 40:24

3+ y ago40:24

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In this episode, sponsored by Siemens Energy, Marcus Seibold and Dr Mohsen Seifi interview Vishal Singh, Co-Founder and CTO at Link3D. He covers how to scale the AM business, minimise the risk of production and maximise output by applying learning from the software industry. These lessons give insight into the best economic, business, and cultural …

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What does it take to run a successful AM business? In conversation with Neil Mantle 38:37

3+ y ago38:37

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Success in Additive Manufacturing goes beyond technology. It encourages new ways to think about business governance. Sponsored by Siemens Energy, Marcus Seibold and Dr Mohsen Seifi invite experts to discuss the economics, operational constraints, and the role of culture in creating a successful AM business. Their first guest is Neil Mantle, Directo…

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Jett Oristaglio, DataRobot 37:07

5y ago37:07

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Data Scientist Jett Oristaglio joins us to talk about Humble AI. Trusted AI and asks, What is everything you need to trust in AI for your life? He goes on to share that trust is not binary- it's multi -dimensional - and so, there are a number of criteria that should be evaluated. Performance- or, does the model predict the problem being solving for…

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Tom Kartanowicz, Financial Services Cyber Security 10:44

5+ y ago10:44

10:44

Tom Kartanowicz joins us and shares his thoughts on CISO Reporting, Prioritization and the evolution of the CISO journey.

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Christine Vanderpool, Florida Crystals 25:10

5+ y ago25:10

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Christine Vanderpool is an Executive Board Member for Cyber Security Hub. She was Inteligenca's 2019 Woman Cyber Security Leader of the Year and Molson Coors' CISO before being whisked away to the world's larges sugar cane refiner- Florida Crystals (which includes Domino Foods). So Christine is certainly an excellent current example of a CISO. Her …

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Bob Turner, University of Wisconsin 22:45

5+ y ago22:45

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Bob Turner- a friend and Board member of the Cyber Security Hub- as well as the University of Wisconsin-Madison CISO - was kind enough to make some time for an interview. The following is an overview of the past, the present and perceptions of the future cyber security reality. The University of Wisconsin is a research one level university with abo…

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Suresh Chowdary, Nokia 19:45

5+ y ago19:45

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During this digital summit panel, Suresh Chawdhary, head of security & privacy for Nokia, stresses the importance of a layered, multi-pronged cyber security approach to best protect from phishing and whaling. This layer defense mechanism moves away from a one-size-fits-all strategy, ensuring that everyone across the enterprise is well equipped to s…

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Jim Brady, Fairview Health Services 35:42

5+ y ago35:42

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During this digital panel session, Jim Brady discusses real-time change in incident management. His extensive experience in a multitude of security roles throughout his career means he has seen a lot of changes in the healthcare cyber security field. Naturally, the latest change to make its mark is the new remote work environment COVID-19 has deeme…

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Jamal Hartenstein, Cyber Security Expert 19:09

5+ y ago19:09

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Jamal Hartenstein is prior unified security management (USM) in military intelligence. He's worked with the department of defense on military bases, as a part of joint task forces and has experience with every branch of service. He's helped with cyber security and data privacy initiatives for hospitals, federal agencies, pension funds and other pri…

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Robert Welborn, GM 25:09

5+ y ago25:09

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Robert Welborn is the Director, Data & Data Science for General Motors. As he sees it, global corporate enterprise has- for the most part, seen data as a luxury, "we'll get to reporting when we get to reporting, we'll upsell, we'll monetize." Not that monetizing is a bad thing, but Robert's point is that we haven't been using data as the ultimate e…

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Max Just, Coca-Cola 21:17

5+ y ago21:17

21:17

Max Just has been talking about the Future of Work for quite some time. We now all know that the conceptualizing Max had been doing paid off in immediate fashion as the Future of Work is here.

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Elan Frank, Slack 18:32

5+ y ago18:32

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Elan Frank from Slack joins us and shares that the tool began life as a side project of another initiative. It's grown to be a true alternative to email. Channel based messaging is built for the future of work and as we discuss, the future of work is here, now.

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CX: David Campos, SertaSimmons 38:21

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AIIA: AI BFSI Panel 31:27

5+ y ago31:27

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This BFSI Panel features key industry experts who share their strategies around pushing their organization into the future. They note that the technology available is user-friendly and rarely the barrier to entry. It is the mapping, the process, and post-implementation that makes or breaks a digital transformation. Agile development and change mana…

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CX: Fred Reichheld (Employee Engagement) 9:26

5+ y ago9:26

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Fred Reichheld joins us again, this time to discuss employee engagement. The business benefit to ensuring a positive employee experience is because that translates to a positive customer experience. As Fred discussed last time, a good customer experience means an increase in profit. However, Fred is careful to clearly define what make a good employ…

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PEX: Kristen Workman, Schneider Electric 22:30

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AIIA: Max Just/Julie Seitz (Future of Work) 12:24

5+ y ago12:24

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Max Just is accompanied by a special guest on this episode of Future of Work. Julie Seitz is an expert on all things workspace, which makes her the perfect partner for the topic of—you guessed it—the future of workspaces. While she notes that an enterprise can't necessarily futureproof themselves in this regard, she encourages them to get out of th…

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CX: Fred Reichheld (Customer Centricity) 12:50

5+ y ago12:50

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Fred Reichheld, the creator of the Net Promoter System (NPS), joins us to discuss the task of building a customer-centric culture. Companies that do the best at enriching the lives of their customers are growing two-and-a-half times faster than their competition. Today, word of mouth and truth spreads like wildfire. The modern enterprise can no lon…

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PEX: Gary Pilacinski, L.A. Care Health Plan 21:26

5+ y ago21:26

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Gary Pilacinski, director of business process improvement engineering with LA Care Health Plan, discusses the importance of cultural transformational change. From start-ups to legacy organizations, Gary stresses how critical culture is for the success of an enterprise. One common stumbling block to a successful culture change is a lack of buy-in fr…

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AIIA: Roland Haefs, Henkel 23:46

5+ y ago23:46

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Roland Haefs, with Henkel, discusses enterprise evolution and the shift from having purely transactional relationships to becoming a true business solutions provider. It takes strong leadership and an entrepreneurial spirit to pull off such a transformation, which Roland details. In order to demonstrate his point, Roland lays out Henkel's approach …

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CX: Deena John, McDonalds 21:21

5+ y ago21:21

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McDonald's senior director of innovation, Deena John, joins us to talk about digital transformation. While definitions vary, Deena describes digital transformation as "transforming through integration of technology" with the goal of generating maximum value for the customer. End-to-end disruption means looking into the future and creating a transfo…

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PEX: Karen Tilstra, Florida Hospital 30:28

5+ y ago30:28

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Karen Tilstra is the co-founder of the Florida Hospital Innovation Lab. In this conversation, Karen emphasizes the intent of the Innovation Lab, which, not surprisingly, is innovation. However, the process to innovation is often overlooked. Karen describes it as a "multifaceted journey of learning, of discovery, of openness." In other words, innova…

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SSON: Gerald Lackey, GAF 17:58

5+ y ago17:58

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Gerald Lackey, VP of Business Optimization and Agility at GAF, discusses their 18-month journey into their current transformation. Gerald is no stranger to enterprise transformations, having participated in a few himself, but he outlines a few unique strategies GAF is taking. For example, GAF is especially focused on business outcomes for their cus…

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AIIA: Dimitri Popov, Mann + Hummel 31:15

5+ y ago31:15

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Dmitri Popov, global service management lead for Mann + Hummel Group, joins us today to discuss scaling RPA. Dmitri himself admits that such a process is painful, in part because of the few successful enterprise examples for which to model after. Dmitri points to IBM as a company who has done it well. Next, Dmitri discusses how to leverage shared s…

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CX: Todd Gilliam, Comcast 16:00

5+ y ago16:00

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Todd Gillam joined Comcast a decade ago—when the word "Comcast" was met with severe negativity. During the first part of our conversation with Todd, he laments over those dark days and discusses the progress they made the first five years after he was hired. They cleaned up their image by addressing common complaints such as hold times and technici…

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PEX: Peter Van Den Heuval, Shell 16:32

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Peter Van Den Heuval, product manager with Shell, is better known internally as Peter PI. In this conversation, he explains the origin story of his nickname, a nod to Shell's use of OSIsoft's PI System data infrastructure. Shell has been ahead of the data game since 1996, as they understood the long-term implications of real-time data and looked fo…

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SSON: Tomorrow Today Ep. 4 10:04

5+ y ago10:04

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On this episode of "Tomorrow Today," Barbara Hodge discusses the power of continuous education. With the turn of the decade, Barbara decided to make some changes to her own learning path. She is fully open to, and expects, new insights from her new experience to spill over into the way she works. On an enterprise level, global corporations also exp…

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AIIA: Deepak Subbarao (Unstructured Data) 9:32

5+ y ago9:32

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Deepak Subbaru joins us again, this time, to discuss unstructured data. The recent explosion in technology inputs has raised the bar for customer expectations. They want more, and they want it now. Requests are coming via phone calls, social media, emails, etc. The product of this feedback is unstructured data. Deepak goes in depth on three actiona…

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CX: Uzair Rashid, CVS Healthcare 22:01

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Uzair Rashid, with CVS Healthcare, explains the importance of structuring innovation. Uzair brings a unique perspective to CVS, a Fortune 10 healthcare innovations company, because prior to CVS, he spent many years as a consultant. He understands how to level set and create meaningful change in legacy companies. When it comes to healthcare disrupti…

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PEX: Steven Remsen, Intel 22:06

5+ y ago22:06

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Intel's Steven Remsen made the cross-country trip from Portland, OR to Orlando for OPEX Week. We caught up with him to discuss process mining. Steven starts out with a quick history of a few special algorithms before noting the strengths of traditional mapping methods. As a practitioner, he understands the three basic steps of process mining from t…

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SSON: Reka Mishra, SVB 23:59

5+ y ago23:59

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Reka Mishra is the managing director of the transformation office for the SVB Financial Group. She lays out the basics of mergers and acquisitions before diving in on operational excellence. For M&A, it is imperative to have a target operating model in place. That model must consist of four key elements: people, process, technology, and data. Chang…

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AIIA: Heather King 17:56

5+ y ago17:56

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Heather King is the managing director for both the Shared Services & Outsourcing Network and the Intelligent Automation Division for the Americas. She oversees a team that puts on the dynamic events of relevant content for the industries of the same name. Having been in her role for the past seven years, Heather gives a brief timeline of the creati…

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CX: The Genworth Financial Team 25:06

5+ y ago25:06

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The entertaining Genworth Financial team joins us from OPEX Week 2020 to tell us their enterprise's transformation story—or journey, more accurately. Kathleen starts off by explaining her view of the company 15 years ago: "It was a very siloed organization. It was very much command and control; very hierarchical. We were focused very much on our pr…

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PEX: Joe Jordan, Edward Jones 32:15

5+ y ago32:15

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Joe Jordan joins us from OPEX Week in Orlando. As the director of operational excellence for Edward Jones, Joe sought inspiration from the hit TV show Shark Tank to give a platform to the innovative minds of Edward Jones. If anyone across the firm's workflow has an idea about how to transform their part of the business, they are given the opportuni…

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SSON: Adrian Terry, GM Financial 28:33

5+ y ago28:33

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Adrian Terry, VP of GM Financial's OpEx function, discusses their unique approach to IT and RPA. Initially, IT had some processes they wanted to automate. From there, a pilot was developed. It soon became clear that the broader organization could benefit from similar processes, so GM onboarded their own RPA business automation talent. Now, IT and R…

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AIIA: Dr. Ayanna Howard, Georgia Tech University 34:21

5+ y ago34:21

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Dr. Ayanna Howard is a chair of the School of Interactive computing at Georgia Tech, an academic, and a startup founder. While her talents are as vast as her pursuits, she sums up their relation as interactive computing. In her words, "Interactive computing is really this theme that the human is center to everything that we do when we think about c…

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CX: James Dodkins 27:42

5+ y ago27:42

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James Dodkins, Customer Experience Expert and heavy metal enthusiast, discusses the parallels between the two. First, he touches on the cyclical nature of refining a product to please its audience. Whether it's music or tech, improving upon the output based on feedback about the original product moves the needle forward. At the same time, innovatio…

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PEX: Angie Fearn, TD 34:17

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SSON: Tomorrow Today 13:48

5+ y ago13:48

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Barbara Hodge reflects on 2019, identifying the trends that shaped the decade. Data, self-service, and automation has affected us all. A new awareness of personal data and its power—for good and for evil—came to light, for example, with the Cambridge Analytica scandal. At the same time, all of that data that has been given and taken has made surpri…

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AIIA: Paul Bao, BitCherry 16:59

5+ y ago16:59

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BitCherry's Paul Bao explains the blockchain process behind the platform's commercial applications. Working similar to Amazon's eCommerce model, BitCherry will offer a platform to buy, sell, and network goods using digital currency. Regulatory roadblocks make penetration in the U.S. difficult, but BitCherry has over 2 million members and 120,000 ac…

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AIIA: Blockchain Standards/Blockchain Island 22:17

6y ago22:17

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Malta, a small European island, is quickly becoming a blockchain hub, and thus, accurately nicknamed "Blockchain Island." This panel discussion delves into blockchain developments, standards, and laws. Malta's progressive, global view of blockchain implications has allowed Blockchain Island to progress in a healthy, robust, safe way, complete with …

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AIIA: Tom Trowbridge 20:11

6y ago20:11

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Tom Trowbridge is the former president and one of the founders of Hedera Hashgraph, a distributed ledger technology. He is also an avid investor and advisor in the technology space. Hedera's governing council consists of companies like Nomura, Deutsche Telecom, IBM, Boeing, and Swisscom. Tom notes that Hedera met with the Facebook Cayenne team in 2…

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AIIA: Kexin Xie, Salesforce 35:22

6y ago35:22

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Kexin Xie is a data scientist for Salesforce. Among other things, Kexin is responsible for building the engineering infrastructure, services, and frameworks that makes the Salesforce marketing cloud so powerful. In this conversation, Kexin discusses how the power of predictive analytics is leveraged in businesses for "next-best-action" interactions…

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CX: Max Just, Coca-Cola + Julie Seitz, United 12:01

6y ago12:01

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Max Just is accompanied by a special guest on this episode of Future of Work. Julie Seitz is an expert on all things workspace, which makes her the perfect partner for the topic of—you guessed it—the future of workspaces. While she notes that an enterprise can't necessarily futureproof themselves in this regard, she encourages them to get out of th…

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PEX: Pamela Wolfe, NASA 33:23

6y ago33:23

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NASA's Pam Wolfe joins us to discuss their RPA journey, which started over two years ago in their Shared Services Center. Establishing RPA governance across NASA has taken time, strategy, and strong support across the agency. In many ways, NASA's move to RPA is very similar to the typical enterprise, but let's not forget—NASA sends people to space.…

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SSON: Lee Coulter, IEEE 50:13

6y ago50:13

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In this episode, IEEE's Lee Coulter discusses the notion that the future of every successful company will depend on its transformation into a technology services business—even the local pizza joint. This far-reaching conversation covers the entirety of the current "data chasm." Lee kicks the discussion off by justifying his aversion to the term RPA…

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AIIA: Kenneth Farrugia, Bank of Valetta 31:12

6y ago31:12

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Kenneth Farrugia is the chief business development officer with the Bank of Valletta. Kenneth starts this conversation off with a bang, making the case that if banks don't stay on top of the technological revolution, they run the risk of becoming irrelevant. Next, Kenneth, perhaps counterintuitively, labels legacy financial operations who've jumped…

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CX: Juan Araya, (Lessons Learned) 16:25

6y ago16:25

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Juan Araya discusses structuring for scale from the eyes of the disruptor and disruptee—both of which Juan knows well. Juan reminds us that before making any actionable change, an end goal must be set. Next, Juan discusses the role speed plays in structuring for scale. Some industries need to move faster than others, which affects their decision ma…

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PEX: Robert Welborn, (Myths Part 2) 11:09

6y ago11:09

11:09

Robert Welborn joins us again for the second part of autonomous vehicle myths. During this discussion, Robert compares the vast and critical differences between the capabilities of today's math and the necessity of developing tomorrow's math before fully autonomous vehicles are a safe, mainstream option. He parses out the weakness in today's autono…