Best Eric Dyson Podcasts (2026)

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FF5 #88 - New Year's Resolutions or Written Goals? 12:48

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In this episode of Friday Fiduciary Five, Eric Dyson encourages plan fiduciaries and advisors to set structured, written goals for 401(k) plans in 2026, contrasting them with the low success rate of New Year's resolutions. He cites a Harvard MBA study showing that only 3% of the graduating class had written goals. Their success far exceeded the rem…

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Shannon Edwards: What's in a Number? 42:52

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For over 20 years, Shannon and her team at Tristar Pension Consulting have acted as a secret weapon for financial advisors, CPAs, small businesses, and plan sponsors. They are the go-to resource for plan design, fixing broken retirement plans, client presentation support, and high-touch customer service. Since starting the firm over two decades ago…

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Dave Rhoads - CEO - Blue Street Capital: Annual Goal planning and Vision building conversation 52:10

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DAVE and I would be having this conversation regardless of the podcast. We started recording these several years ago and they've become a crowd favorite. Here we discuss strategies and thoughts around how we're going to plan for 2026 and build our visions for the lives we want to live. Reach out to connect with me here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/…

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FF5 #87 - A Special Christmas Episode 5:56

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In this episode of Friday Fiduciary Five, Eric Dyson talks about the origins of Christmas, explaining its historical roots and its transformation by Emperor Constantine into a Christian holiday. He highlights the significance of December 25 as the day that we celebrate Christ's birth and its integration into Roman life. Eric draws a parallel betwee…

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Dan Fay: Managed Account Solutions 47:43

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Dan Fay serves as Chief Distribution Officer, overseeing Stadion’s sales and business development teams. In this role, he is responsible for distribution through Stadion’s institutional relationships, which include retirement recordkeeping partners, retirement advisor firms, and asset managers. With Dan’s leadership, Stadion has expanded our nation…

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FF5 #86 - A Thought for 2026 6:07

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In this episode of Friday Fiduciary Five, Eric Dyson explores why plan sponsors and finance professionals should carefully consider how record-keeping fees are paid in 401(k), 403(b), and 457 plans. He explains that having companies directly write checks for these fees can reduce fiduciary risk and enhance transparency. Dyson notes that the Departm…

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Jennifer Giannini: The Annual Plan Financial Audit and Internal Controls 45:45

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Jennifer Giannini brings more than 30 years of experience leading independent audit engagements for corporate clients across a wide range of industries. Throughout her career, she has developed deep expertise in employee benefit plan audits, making this a primary focus area. After many years of working at Baker Tilly, a national CPA firm, Jennifer …

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Why the Next AI Revolution Will Happen Off-Screen: Samsara CEO Sanjit Biswas 38:21

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Sanjit Biswas is one of the rare founders who has scaled AI in the physical world – first with Meraki, and now with Samsara, a $20B+ public company with sensors deployed across millions of vehicles and job sites. Capturing 90 billion miles of driving data each year, Samsara operates at a scale matched only by a small handful of companies. Sanjit di…

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FF5 #85 - America's Game 5:46

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In this episode of Friday Fiduciary Five, Eric Dyson talks about America’s Game! Army - Navy Football that is! He encourages everyone to show appreciation to service members during the holiday season and throughout the year. Eric suggests small gestures like buying meals or snacks for service members, emphasizing that while they may politely declin…

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Tamra Miller: The Advisor RFP Process 43:51

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Tamra Miller is a prime example of the “Break the Paper Ceiling” movement—building her career from the ground up after starting work right out of high school and rising through determination, capability, and earned trust. She is deeply grateful for the leaders who recognized her talent without requiring a college degree, and her recent completion o…

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The Rise of Generative Media: fal's Bet on Video, Infrastructure, and Speed 1:02:18

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fal is building the infrastructure layer for the generative media boom. In this episode, founders Gorkem Yurtseven, Burkay Gur, and Head of Engineering Batuhan Taskaya explain why video models present a completely different optimization problem than LLMs, one that is compute-bound, architecturally volatile, and changing every 30 days. They discuss …

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Why IDEs Won't Die in the Age of AI Coding: Zed Founder Nathan Sobo 40:13

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Nathan Sobo has spent nearly two decades pursuing one goal: building an IDE that combines the power of full-featured tools like JetBrains with the responsiveness of lightweight editors like Vim. After hitting the performance ceiling with web-based Atom, he founded Zed and rebuilt from scratch in Rust with GPU-accelerated rendering. Now with 170,000…

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FF5 #84 - Thanksgiving Message 2025 6:58

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In this episode of Friday Fiduciary Five, Eric Dyson expresses gratitude to his podcast audience, which includes ERISA advisors, service providers, and listeners. He highlights the importance of committee members and plan sponsors as guests, noting that episodes featuring them are the most popular. Dyson also thanks his production team at Turnkey P…

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Richard Clarke: ERISA Bond and Fiduciary Liability Insurance 46:18

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Richard Clarke is the chief insurance officer at Colonial Surety. With more than three decades of experience, he leads insurance strategy and operations for the expansion of Colonial Surety’s SMB-focused product suite, building out the online platform into a one-stop shop for America’s SMBs. In this episode, Eric and Richard “Dick” Clarke discuss: …

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FF5 #83 - The IPS and Interpretive Bulletin 2016-1 7:22

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In this episode of Friday Fiduciary Five, Eric Dyson discusses the importance of clear and specific investment policy statements (IPS) for ERISA plans and non-ERISA plans like 403(b) and 457(b). He emphasizes that IPSs should not include language that suggests the committee or advisor is not bound by the terms, as this undermines the purpose of hav…

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Brandon Shea - The Evolving DC Landscape: What's Next for 2025 and Into 2026? 38:16

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Brandon Shea is a defined contribution strategist for the Global Retirement Strategy team. The team leads an enterprise retirement strategy, advises on the development of new products and services, and helps amplify the firm’s voice in retirement security-related public policy initiatives. Brandon is a vice president at T. Rowe Price Associates, In…

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How End-to-End Learning Created Autonomous Driving 2.0: Wayve CEO Alex Kendall 41:36

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Alex Kendall founded Wayve in 2017 with a contrarian vision: replace the hand-engineered autonomous vehicle stack with end-to-end deep learning. While AV 1.0 companies relied on HD maps, LiDAR retrofits, and city-by-city deployments, Wayve built a generalization-first approach that can adapt to new vehicles and cities in weeks. Alex explains how wo…

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FF5 #82 - Back to Basics - Plan Documents 4:31

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In this episode of Friday Fiduciary Five, Eric Dyson emphasizes the importance of ERISA plan committee members and retirement plan professionals reviewing their plan documents and investment policy statements (IPS). He notes that forfeiture lawsuits can arise from non-compliance with plan documents. In addition to forfeiture issues, compensation de…

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How Google’s Nano Banana Achieved Breakthrough Character Consistency 43:38

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When Google launched Nano Banana, it instantly became a global phenomenon, introducing an image model that finally made it possible for people to see themselves in AI-generated worlds. In this episode, Nicole Brichtova and Hansa Srinivasan, the product and engineering leads behind Nano Banana, share the story behind the model’s creation and what it…

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FF5 #81 - Advisor Cost Structure 6:05

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In this episode of Friday Fiduciary Five, Eric Dyson discusses why advisors and plan sponsors should consider including recordkeeper searches in advisor base pricing. This in consideration of an RFP interval every three to five years as assumed by the Department of Labor. He explains that this approach would simplify the process for plan sponsors, …

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OpenAI Sora 2 Team: How Generative Video Will Unlock Creativity and World Models 1:00:25

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The OpenAI Sora 2 team (Bill Peebles, Thomas Dimson, Rohan Sahai) discuss how they compressed filmmaking from months to days, enabling anyone to create compelling video. Bill, who invented the diffusion transformer that powers Sora and most video generation models, explains how space-time tokens enable object permanence and physics understanding in…

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Nvidia CTO Michael Kagan: Scaling Beyond Moore's Law to Million-GPU Clusters 41:31

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Recorded live at Sequoia’s Europe100 event: Michael Kagan, co-founder of Mellanox and CTO of Nvidia, explains how the $7 billion Mellanox acquisition helped transform Nvidia from a chip company into the architect of AI infrastructure. Kagan breaks down the technical challenges of scaling from single GPUs to 100K and eventually million-GPU data cent…

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FF5 #80 - Custom Investment Benchmarks 8:29

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In this episode of Friday Fiduciary Five, Eric Dyson talks about how custom benchmarks in target date funds can potentially create a false sense of success. He cautions that using a custom benchmark as the only benchmark to measure performance does not necessarily reflect strong performance if, for example, the underlying strategy is weak. Citing t…

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Justin Witz - Catapult HQ and the RFP Process 40:02

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Justin, a seasoned U.S. Air Force veteran with extensive experience in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, is the Co-Founder and CEO of Catapult HQ, Inc. Catapult provides a flexible Request for Proposal (RFP) platform designed to serve multiple industries and project types, including RFPs, RFIs, RFQs, DDQs, Cybersecurity, Government, Hea…

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Securing the AI Frontier: Irregular Co-founder Dan Lahav 44:09

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Irregular co-founder Dan Lahav is redefining what cybersecurity means in the age of autonomous AI. Working closely with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind, Dan, co-founder Omer Nevo and team are pioneering “frontier AI security”—a proactive approach to safeguarding systems where AI models act as independent agents. Dan shares how emergent behav…

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FF5 #79 - ERISA 3(21) v 3(38) 11:00

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In this episode of Friday Fiduciary Five, Eric Dyson talks about the differences between ERISA 3(21) investment advisor and 3(38) investment manager arrangements in retirement plans. A 3(21) advisor provides investment advice but lacks discretion, while a 3(38) investment manager has discretion over fund selection. Eric emphasizes the importance of…

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Donovan Ryckis & Brenda Kruse: ERISA Fiduciary Responsibilities for Health & Welfare Plans 36:14

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Donovan Ryckis is the award-winning founder and CEO of Ethos Benefits, leading the charge in fiduciary-driven healthcare strategies for employers. A former Securities Advisor, he shifted from investment advising after uncovering inefficiencies in employer healthcare plans—achieving 40% savings for a client without reducing benefits. Alongside his w…

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Why AI Will Transform Customer Experience: Cresta CEO Ping Wu and Sequoia’s Doug Leone 44:46

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Ping Wu built Google's contact center business before becoming CEO of Cresta, where he's pioneering a unique approach to contact center transformation. Rather than full automation Ping advocates a dual approach, automating what's ready while using AI to assist humans with the rest. He makes the case for an abundance mindset—imagining new customer e…

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FF5 #78 - ERISA Fiduciary Training 6:31

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In this episode of Friday Fiduciary Five, Eric Dyson discusses the importance of ERISA fiduciary training for plan committee members and industry professionals. He announces the launch of a new training platform, which will offer SHRM professional development credits, CE for advisors with the Fi-360 designation, and CFP certification. Eric emphasiz…

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Block CTO Dhanji Prasanna: Building the AI-First Enterprise with Goose, their Open Source Agent 59:43

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As CTO of Block, Dhanji Prasanna has overseen a dramatic enterprise AI transformation, with engineers saving 8-10 hours a week through AI automation. Block’s open-source agent goose connects to existing enterprise tools through MCP, enabling everyone from engineers to sales teams to build custom applications without coding. Dhanji shares how Block …

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Why Businesses Are Rejecting the AI They’ve Asked For: Agency CEO Elias Torres 44:49

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Elias Torres has been building AI systems since 1999, from chatbots at IBM to co-founding Drift and now Agency. He believes businesses are caught in an expectation mismatch—demanding AI while rejecting it due to imperfection anxiety. Drawing from his experience scaling HubSpot, Elias explains why human-led customer experience doesn’t scale and how …

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FF5 #77 - ERISA Bond v Fiduciary Liability Insurance 7:09

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In this episode of Friday Fiduciary Five, Eric Dyson talks about the differences between ERISA bonds and fiduciary liability insurance. ERISA bonds protect against fraud and theft, while fiduciary liability insurance covers fiduciary breaches. Eric emphasizes the importance of having both types of insurance, noting that ERISA bonds are required by …

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Sage Burke - Big wave surfer, Yogi and all-around hard charger 47:55

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Sage Burke is a hard charging and accomplished Big Wave surfer. He is also an old soul who is wiser than his age by far. Don't let his humble demeanor fool you, he goes on some of the scariest waves on the planet. He is also an amazing yoga instructor and we hear his story here. Check him out on Instagram @sage_burke and see some of the waves we di…

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FF5 #76 - A Cyber Risk That's Simple to Fix 3:38

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In this episode of Friday Fiduciary Five, Eric Dyson talks about a common and easily fixable cybersecurity risk in retirement plans: participants who have not set up user IDs and passwords for their accounts. This oversight is the most frequent cause of cyber breaches, not the fault of plan sponsors or record keepers. Eric shares an anecdote about …

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Ellen Alphonso: Employee Benefit Plan Audit Best Practices 36:05

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Ellen Alphonso, CPA, is a Senior Manager at Boyum Barenscheer PLLP and a recognized expert in employee benefit plan audits, with extensive experience guiding plan sponsors through the complexities of employee benefit plan compliance. Licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in Minnesota, Ellen has led audits for retirement plans ranging from under…

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Building the "App Store" for Robots: Hugging Face's Thomas Wolf on Physical AI 43:08

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Thomas Wolf, co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face, explains how his company is applying the same community-driven approach that made transformers accessible to everyone to the emerging field of robotics. Thomas discusses LeRobot, Hugging Face's ambitious project to democratize robotics through open-source tools, datasets, and afford…

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FF5 #75 - McDonald v LabCorp Decision - Part 3 8:36

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In this episode of Friday Fiduciary Five, Eric Dyson talks about the McDonald v LabCorp lawsuit, focusing on part three and float compensation. He recaps previous episodes on record-keeping fees and investment share classes. The court found the plan's fee monitoring process sufficient. Float income, earned on stale checks, is a plan asset under ERI…

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Deal Velocity, Not Billable Hours: How Crosby Uses AI to Redefine Legal Contracting 49:59

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Ryan Daniels and John Sarihan are reimagining legal services by building Crosby, an AI-powered law firm that focuses on contract negotiations to start. Rather than building legal software, they've structured their company as an actual law firm with lawyers and AI engineers working side-by-side to automate human negotiations. They've eliminated bill…

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FF5 #74 - McDonald v LabCorp Decision - Part 2 7:06

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In this episode of Friday Fiduciary Five, Eric Dyson talks about the McDonald v. LabCorp ERISA litigation, focusing on investment share classes and collective investment trusts. He highlights that institutional share classes offer lower costs, and LabCorp moved participants to these classes within a reasonable timeframe. Eric emphasizes the importa…

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Jonathan Lee: A CHRO's Perspective 29:51

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As Vice President of Human Resources at Glazer’s Beer & Beverage, Jonathan collaborates with his GBB colleagues to establish, implement, and improve people strategies and processes. Prior to joining GBB, Jonathan held HR executive roles across various industries, spanning over 20 years. His previous roles include stops at M&M Manufacturing (a Berks…

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n8n CEO Jan Oberhauser on Building the Universal AI Automation Layer 35:44

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When the AI wave hit, n8n founder Jan Oberhauser faced a critical choice: become irrelevant or become indispensable. He chose the latter, transforming n8n from a simple workflow tool into a comprehensive AI automation platform that lets users connect any LLM to any application. The result? Four times the revenue growth in eight months compared to t…

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FF5 #73 - McDonald v Labcorp Decision Part 1 6:17

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In this episode of Friday Fiduciary Five, Eric Dyson talks about the LabCorp case, focusing on record-keeping fees. Plaintiffs argued fees should be $20-$25 per person per year, while the plan completed RFIs in 2017, 2019, and benchmarked in 2021 and 2022. The court found the process met the standard of care, though some argue a competitive bid pro…

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Jenny Kiesewetter: Fiduciary Duty in Selecting Health Plan Providers 31:54

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Jenny Kiesewetter has more than 24 years of experience advising businesses in ERISA, employee benefits, compensation, fiduciary responsibility, and compliance matters. As a member of the firm’s Employee Benefits and Tax Practice in Nashville, she advises clients on all aspects of employee benefits and executive compensation, including qualified and…

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Scaling the ‘Cursor for Slides’ to $50M ARR: Gamma founder Jon Noronha 30:05

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Before ChatGPT made AI mainstream, John Noronha was building Gamma with a simple insight: everyone hates making slides but needs visual communication for high-stakes ideas. His background at Optimizely proved crucial as Gamma became a testing laboratory for AI models, running hundreds of experiments to discover that Claude excels at creative taste,…

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FF5 #72 - Alternative Investments Executive Order 11:39

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In this episode of Friday Fiduciary Five, Eric Dyson talks about the August 2025 Executive Order by President Trump on alternative investments in 401(k) plans. He references his article in 401(k) Specialist Magazine, Private Equity in 401(k) Plans: Policy Shift or Practical Reality? and the 90 North newsletter - Private Equity in 401(k) Plans: What…

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Tom Kmak: Benchmarking Managed Accounts 41:42

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Tom Kmak is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fiduciary Decisions (FDI, formerly Fiduciary Benchmarks). During his 16 years with the firm, FDI has become the industry’s leading firm for benchmarking retirement plans using a patented approach that recognizes the mathematical truth that “Fees Without Value is a Meaningless Comparison.” To…

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Delphi’s Dara Ladjevardian: How AI Digital Minds Can Scale Human Connection 39:05

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Dara Ladjevardian, founder and CEO of Delphi, is creating digital minds that allow people to scale their thoughts and availability without replacing human connection. Inspired by Ray Kurzweil’s theory of mind as a hierarchy of pattern recognizers, Dara built an adaptive temporal knowledge graph that captures how people think and reason. From helpin…

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FF5 #71 The Devil is in the Details - Part 2 8:34

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In this episode of Friday Fiduciary Five, Eric Dyson discusses intricate details of retirement plan record-keeping fee structures, emphasizing the importance of understanding those details. He references a case where a plan with several hundred million dollars and thousands of participants decided to eliminate revenue sharing and conduct an advisor…

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Nevin Adams: Default Income Solutions - Yea or Nay? 31:59

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Now “retired” (whatever that means), Nevin is the former Chief Content Officer and Head of Retirement Research for the American Retirement Association. One of the retirement industry’s most prolific writers, these days he’s “retired”, which means he writes less, but continues to keep his eye on developments in, and threats to, the nation’s private …

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Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch: Building the Generative Web with AI 1:00:59

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Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch has spent years obsessing over reducing the friction between having an idea and getting it online. Now with AI, he's achieving something even more ambitious: making software creation accessible to anyone with a keyboard. Guillermo explains how v0 has grown to 3 million users by focusing on reliability and quality, why Cha…