Best Jon Ackerman Podcasts (2025)

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943: Creative Machines: AI in Music and Art, with Prof. Maya Ackerman 56:38

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Creative human-AI partnerships and AI-generated music: WaveAI CEO and co-founder Maya Ackerman speaks with Jon Krohn about learning to see – and accept – AI’s potential as a creative partner in a human-centric, AI-forward future. Listen to the episode to hear Maya Ackerman discuss reframing hallucination as a creative force, her work at WaveAI, and…

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945: AI is a Joke, with Joel Beasley 56:11

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Is there humor in data? Joel Beasley, host of Modern CTO, tells Jon Krohn how he used AI to turn his sights to stand-up comedy. He also shares his tips on tech leadership that he learned from his popular podcast, Modern CTO, and how he is using generative AI as a collaborative partner in his creative work. This episode is brought to you by the ⁠⁠De…

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944: Gemini 3 Pro: Google’s Back on Top 8:21

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Google is steaming ahead with launching its top-league new Gemini 3 Pro model across their product suite, from Google Search to Vertex AI cloud services. The multinational tech company is also letting eager early adopters like Wayfair and GitHub. Get all the detailed data, its performance across hard-to-game industry benchmarks, and what this all m…

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Episode #249 - Behind the Numbers- Wins, Struggles & Creatively Growing NOI 23:04

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Behind every successful property turnaround is a set of choices that shape the outcome. In this solo episode of the Real Estate Investor Podcast, Gary Lipsky walks listeners through a detailed case study of Icon on Spanish Trail, the 256-unit Tucson property he acquired in December 2023. He explains why the deal stood out (an institutional-quality …

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It's Thanksgiving Week: The Best Week of the Year! 51:57

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Send us a text This week on The Carpool Guys Podcast, Jon and Asher take the wheel for a special Thanksgiving edition — and yes, Dave’s off the hook (or maybe just on turkey duty). In this cozy, laugh-filled episode, the guys share their love for Thanksgiving, from family traditions and favorite foods to the real power of gratitude. They swap perso…

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942: Odds of AGI by 2040? LEAP Expert Forecasts and Workforce Implications 6:13

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What’s on the horizon for AI? Jon Krohn wades through opinions from more than experts, curated by the Longitudinal Expert AI Panel (LEAP), about what we can expect from the industry. From estimates on AI-assisted workers through energy consumption to AI performance in highly skilled domains, find out just how much LEAP thinkers believe AI is permea…

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The Drive By: Dave From Flatbush on Giving His Kids Haircuts 1:18

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Send us a text In this week’s mini Drive By episode, Dave From Flatbush shares what happens when dads decide to “save a few bucks” and give their kids haircuts at home. ✂️💈 Spoiler alert: the results weren’t exactly professional. From uneven bangs to emotional damage (mostly Dave’s), this quick pit stop of parenting chaos will make every parent nod…

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941: Multi-Agent Human Societies, with Dr. Vijoy Pandey 1:06:14

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Vijoy Pandey imagines a bold new society in which agents and humans make scientific discoveries and complete physical tasks together, and he tells Jon Krohn about his work at AGNTCY, Cisco’s open-source platform for the Internet of Agents. Listen to the episode to hear Vijoy Pandey talk about how a future society in which multi-agents and humans in…

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940: In Case You Missed It in October 2025 43:27

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Jon Krohn curates a selection of clips from the month that was. Hear from the orchestrators of an expanding AI universe in this episode of In Case You Missed It, with news, views and groundbreaking ideas from Sheamus McGovern, Jerry Yurchisin, Stephanie Hare, Larissa Schneider, and Adrian Kosowsky. We cover baby dragons, the Hippocratic Oath, and, …

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Episode #248 - Asset Management Mastery with Tim Chui 17:22

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Joining Gary on the show today is Break of Day Capital's Director of Asset Management, Tim Chui. With over a decade of experience in institutional real estate, Tim Chui has held senior roles at leading firms including JRK Properties, Essex Property Trust, and American Realty Advisors. He began his career analyzing equity and fixed income opportunit…

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Mini Mentors: Lessons From Our Children 49:29

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Send us a text In this lively episode of The Carpool Guys Podcast, the dads dive headfirst into the chaos, curiosity and comedy of learning from life's greatest teachers... our kids! From epic tantrums and jet-lagged meltdowns to the unforgettable concept of “foreign tushies” (trust us, you’ll never hear that phrase the same way again), this episod…

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939: Mixture-of-Experts and State-Space Models on Edge Devices, with Tyler Cox and Shirish Gupta 1:06:11

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State space models (SSMs), granite models, and Mamba: Dell’s Tyler Cox and Shirish Gupta discuss with Jon Krohn why state space models can process information so efficiently, and how Dell’s AI factory helps enterprises manage custom AI workloads. Hear the latest on the Dell Pro AI Studio and Dell’s partnerships with IBM and Hugging Face in this epi…

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938: Frontier AI Agents for Data Science, with Sphinx’s Rohan Kodialam 19:14

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Jon Krohn speaks to Rohan Kodialam, Cofounder and CEO of Sphinx, the company that redefines how machine intelligence reasons data with frontier AI. In this Feature Friday, Jon and Rohan discuss the benefits of using Sphinx to assist with data analysis. Get under the hood to learn how Sphinx operates, from running commands to ensuring your data stay…

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The 2 Minute Ride: Asher on High School Open Houses 2:10

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Send us a text The 2 Minute Ride: High School Open Houses — Why Are We Still Nervous? You’d think we’d be over it by now… but apparently, high school open houses still make us sweat. 😅 In this quick pit stop from The Carpool Guys Podcast, Asher takes the wheel to talk about the surprisingly real anxiety that comes with walking those shiny hallways.…

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937: How to Design AI-First Products, with Marc Dupuis 59:32

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AI tools won’t eliminate but elevate data scientists, says Marc Dupuis. The CEO of fabi.ai talks to Jon Krohn about the new wave of AI-driven platforms that integrate workflows within popular work tools like Slack and email, and how building AI-first products means widening access to all ability levels. This episode is brought to you by the Gurobi⁠…

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936: LLMs Are Delighted to Help Phishing Scams 5:07

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How much power – and risk – do we carry around with us in our pockets? A Reuters investigation about how easily LLMs can be utilized for online phishing scams is the subject of this week’s Five-Minute Friday with Jon Krohn. By asking six of the most popular LLMs (Grok, ChatGPT, Meta AI, Claude, DeepSeek and Gemini) to generate phishing emails speci…

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Episode #247 - Joe Rinderknecht — The Work Behind Operational Success 31:01

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Today on the podcast, Gary sits down with Joe Rinderknecht, founder of Upgrade Partners Capital, a fund of funds, and Cowboy Capital, a real estate investment firm specializing in value-add multifamily properties. With nearly a decade of experience in commercial real estate, Joe has owned and invested in roughly 600 apartment units across Montana, …

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Rejected! It's Not You... It's Life! 56:52

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Send us a text Rejection hurts- Whether it’s not making the team, missing that dream school, or just getting ghosted by opportunity itself. In this episode, The Carpool Guys — Asher Dworetsky, Jon Ackerman, and Dave “from Flatbush” Tannenbaum — take the scenic route through life’s “no’s,” sharing personal stories that hit home (and sometimes hit fu…

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935: Global Issues Accelerated by AI (with Solutions), feat. Stephanie Hare 1:17:27

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Jon Krohn speaks to researcher, broadcaster and author Stephanie Hare about how the Hippocratic Oath might apply to artificial intelligence, and a guiding ethos for pushing innovation while protecting users from harm. A code of conduct, she says, could be one approach to ensuring that people are using technology more mindfully and ethically, as wel…

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934: Is AI Replacing Junior Workers? 6:55

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With the number of jobs dramatically slowing in the last year, many question if this decline is down to companies turning to AI for completing entry-level tasks in particular. Research published earlier this month by Yale University shows no major difference in the types of roles and tasks in so-called `white-collar jobs` since late 2022, an auspic…

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Episode #246 - Chad Ackerman - 7 Myths of Passive Investing 28:12

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So much investing advice sounds convincing until the market shifts and the assumptions break. In this episode of the Real Estate Investor Podcast, we sit down with Chad Ackerman to unpack common myths that trap limited partners (LPs) and explore how to replace them with a disciplined, strategy-first approach to passive real estate investing. Chad i…

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The Pilot: The Best Advice We Ever Got 43:52

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Send us a text 🎙️ The Pilot — The Best Advice We Ever Got Welcome to the very first ride of The Carpool Guys Podcast, where three dads — Asher Dworetsky, Jon Ackerman, and Dave “from Flatbush” Tannenbaum — talk about life, work, family, and all the chaos in between. In this inaugural episode, the guys open up about what it really means to balance p…

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933: Future-Proofing Your Career in the AI Era, feat. Sheamus McGovern 1:15:10

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Sheamus McGovern, CEO of Open Data Science, takes Jon Krohn and his listeners on a journey to launching his popular data science and AI conference, now in its tenth year, as well as the great shifts to the fields that he has seen on the way. For Seamus, the growth of his Open Data Science Conference has shown him that an AI engineer is just the beg…

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932: Should You Build or Buy Your AI Solution? With Larissa Schneider 29:10

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Larissa Schneider speaks to Jon Krohn in this Feature Friday about finding the right time to invest in AI solutions, and when it’s better to build them yourself. She discusses her work leading global strategy and operations at Unframe, and how they raised $50 million in venture capital since the company’s launch in March 2025. Additional materials:…

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931: Boost Your Profits with Mathematical Optimization, feat. Jerry Yurchisin 1:13:12

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AI predictions, and how to act on them: Data Science Strategist at Gurobi, Jerry Yurchisin, speaks to Jon Krohn about how mathematical optimization helps enterprises automate decisions for business success and where to find the resources to make it happen. This episode is brought to you by the ⁠ODSC, the Open Data Science Conference, by Fabi, by ⁠D…

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930: In Case You Missed It in September 2025 37:25

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Jon Krohn’s highlights from this month of interviews focus on ways to future-proof your career, looking at the hardware that will get you the most mileage, the emerging roles that are well worth a look, and the developments in AI that will endure in a field constantly testing the durability of its own breakthroughs. Additional materials: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…

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Episode #245 - From Poker to Mobile Home Communities with Pasha Esfandiary 19:14

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What do poker strategy and mobile home investing have in common? More than you might think! In this episode of the Real Estate Investor Podcast, we sit down with Pasha Esfandiary to dig into the secret behind his success in real estate and how he is shaking up the mobile home space. Pasha is the CEO and Managing Partner of Evoke Capital, a real est…

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929: Dragon Hatchling: The Missing Link Between Transformers and the Brain, with Adrian Kosowski 1:14:28

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928: The “Lethal Trifecta”: Can AI Agents Ever Be Safe? 5:55

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Prompt injections, malicious code, and AI agents: In this week’s Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn looks into the current security weaknesses found in AI systems. A structural vulnerability that The Economist dubs a “lethal trifecta” could cause havoc for AI users, unless we take the necessary steps to contain our systems. Additional materials: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…

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927: Automating Code Review with AI, feat. CodeRabbit’s David Loker 1:19:18

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926: AI is Disrupting the Legal Industry: Are Paralegals Doomed? 4:47

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In this Five-Minute Friday, Jon Krohn explores how AI is reshaping the legal industry. He investigates how AI tools are helping lawyers make conclusions faster, how paralegals are being retrained, and the latest in-demand role in law (hint: It concerns AI). Listen to hear how Harvey AI and Thomson Reuters’ CoCounsel are using AI to help lawyers get…

Jon Ackerman Podcasts

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The Carpool Guys

Jon Ackerman

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Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

Jon Krohn

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Real Estate Investor Podcast

Gary Lipsky

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943: Creative Machines: AI in Music and Art, with Prof. Maya Ackerman 56:38

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945: AI is a Joke, with Joel Beasley 56:11

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944: Gemini 3 Pro: Google’s Back on Top 8:21

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Episode #249 - Behind the Numbers- Wins, Struggles & Creatively Growing NOI 23:04

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It's Thanksgiving Week: The Best Week of the Year! 51:57

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942: Odds of AGI by 2040? LEAP Expert Forecasts and Workforce Implications 6:13

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The Drive By: Dave From Flatbush on Giving His Kids Haircuts 1:18

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941: Multi-Agent Human Societies, with Dr. Vijoy Pandey 1:06:14

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940: In Case You Missed It in October 2025 43:27

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Episode #248 - Asset Management Mastery with Tim Chui 17:22

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Mini Mentors: Lessons From Our Children 49:29

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939: Mixture-of-Experts and State-Space Models on Edge Devices, with Tyler Cox and Shirish Gupta 1:06:11

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938: Frontier AI Agents for Data Science, with Sphinx’s Rohan Kodialam 19:14

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The 2 Minute Ride: Asher on High School Open Houses 2:10

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937: How to Design AI-First Products, with Marc Dupuis 59:32

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936: LLMs Are Delighted to Help Phishing Scams 5:07

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Episode #247 - Joe Rinderknecht — The Work Behind Operational Success 31:01

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Rejected! It's Not You... It's Life! 56:52

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935: Global Issues Accelerated by AI (with Solutions), feat. Stephanie Hare 1:17:27

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934: Is AI Replacing Junior Workers? 6:55

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Episode #246 - Chad Ackerman - 7 Myths of Passive Investing 28:12

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The Pilot: The Best Advice We Ever Got 43:52

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933: Future-Proofing Your Career in the AI Era, feat. Sheamus McGovern 1:15:10

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932: Should You Build or Buy Your AI Solution? With Larissa Schneider 29:10

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931: Boost Your Profits with Mathematical Optimization, feat. Jerry Yurchisin 1:13:12

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930: In Case You Missed It in September 2025 37:25

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Episode #245 - From Poker to Mobile Home Communities with Pasha Esfandiary 19:14

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929: Dragon Hatchling: The Missing Link Between Transformers and the Brain, with Adrian Kosowski 1:14:28

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928: The “Lethal Trifecta”: Can AI Agents Ever Be Safe? 5:55

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927: Automating Code Review with AI, feat. CodeRabbit’s David Loker 1:19:18

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926: AI is Disrupting the Legal Industry: Are Paralegals Doomed? 4:47