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Steven Wolfe Pereira: How Can You Govern Something That You Don't Understand?

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(0:00) Intro

(1:28) About the podcast sponsor: The American College of Governance Counsel

(2:15) Start of interview

(3:17) Steven's origin story

(7:09) The AI Market Explosion

(10:07) Introducing Alpha: the company he leads.

(16:01) On Events and Board Forums: "There is going to be a premium on IRL really moving forward because the bar is going to be so high"

(17:50) The Necessity of Tech-Savvy Directors

(19:58) Steven's State of the Art of AI for directors. "The AI wave is driven by 4 forces: 1) Compute (the most important), 2) Data, 3) Algorithms, and 4) Robotics."

(25:11) Recommendations for directors on how to dive deeper into AI. *Reference to Menlo Venture's 2025: The State of Consumer AI

(29:24) Understanding AI Tools and Their Value

(31:55) Governance in the AI Age "How can you govern something you don't understand?"

(38:21) Navigating Private vs. Public Companies

(44:58) Geopolitical Tensions and AI. The options: 1) The Empire Strikes Back (China); 2) Star Trek (EU); and 3) The Capitalist Version of Mad Max (USA)

(49:28) The Future of Agentic AI

(52:12) The Importance of Data as an Asset

(58:53) How can the Board address the AI challenge

(1:04:14) Books that have greatly influenced his life:

  1. Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
  2. Start with Why, by Simon Sinek (2009)
  3. The Coming Wave, by Mustafa Suleiman (2023)

(1:05:36) His mentors

  1. Chinh Chu
  2. Viola McCausland
  3. Paul Sagan
  4. David Kenny
  5. Lisa Hook

(1:07:39) Quotes that he thinks of often or lives his life by: "You become what you give your attention to.

(1:08:19) An unusual habit or an absurd thing that he loves.

(1:09:20) The living person he most admires.

Steven Wolfe Pereira founded Alpha to solve a critical problem: most boards are governing AI transformation without the frameworks, intelligence, or peer networks they need to make sound fiduciary decisions.

You can follow Evan on social media at:

X: @evanepstein

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/epsteinevan/

Substack: https://evanepstein.substack.com/

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To support this podcast you can join as a subscriber of the Boardroom Governance Newsletter at https://evanepstein.substack.com/

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Music/Soundtrack (found via Free Music Archive): Seeing The Future by Dexter Britain is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License

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Content provided by Pacifica Global, LLC. and Evan Epstein. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Pacifica Global, LLC. and Evan Epstein or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://podcastplayer.com/legal.

(0:00) Intro

(1:28) About the podcast sponsor: The American College of Governance Counsel

(2:15) Start of interview

(3:17) Steven's origin story

(7:09) The AI Market Explosion

(10:07) Introducing Alpha: the company he leads.

(16:01) On Events and Board Forums: "There is going to be a premium on IRL really moving forward because the bar is going to be so high"

(17:50) The Necessity of Tech-Savvy Directors

(19:58) Steven's State of the Art of AI for directors. "The AI wave is driven by 4 forces: 1) Compute (the most important), 2) Data, 3) Algorithms, and 4) Robotics."

(25:11) Recommendations for directors on how to dive deeper into AI. *Reference to Menlo Venture's 2025: The State of Consumer AI

(29:24) Understanding AI Tools and Their Value

(31:55) Governance in the AI Age "How can you govern something you don't understand?"

(38:21) Navigating Private vs. Public Companies

(44:58) Geopolitical Tensions and AI. The options: 1) The Empire Strikes Back (China); 2) Star Trek (EU); and 3) The Capitalist Version of Mad Max (USA)

(49:28) The Future of Agentic AI

(52:12) The Importance of Data as an Asset

(58:53) How can the Board address the AI challenge

(1:04:14) Books that have greatly influenced his life:

  1. Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
  2. Start with Why, by Simon Sinek (2009)
  3. The Coming Wave, by Mustafa Suleiman (2023)

(1:05:36) His mentors

  1. Chinh Chu
  2. Viola McCausland
  3. Paul Sagan
  4. David Kenny
  5. Lisa Hook

(1:07:39) Quotes that he thinks of often or lives his life by: "You become what you give your attention to.

(1:08:19) An unusual habit or an absurd thing that he loves.

(1:09:20) The living person he most admires.

Steven Wolfe Pereira founded Alpha to solve a critical problem: most boards are governing AI transformation without the frameworks, intelligence, or peer networks they need to make sound fiduciary decisions.

You can follow Evan on social media at:

X: @evanepstein

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/epsteinevan/

Substack: https://evanepstein.substack.com/

__

To support this podcast you can join as a subscriber of the Boardroom Governance Newsletter at https://evanepstein.substack.com/

__

Music/Soundtrack (found via Free Music Archive): Seeing The Future by Dexter Britain is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License

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