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This is Above the Clouds: Stories from the Boardroom. In every episode, we soar into a world of navigating the complex skies of B2B markets by talking to their leaders.
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Google Said No. SpaceX Said No. He Built It Anyway. (opens the original)
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Rama Afullo pitched in-orbit compute to two of the most ambitious companies on the planet. Google passed. SpaceX passed. So he left and built it himself. Satlyt installs software on satellites already in orbit — no launch, no hardware, no waiting on Starship. Rama walks Richard through the trade study that killed his original plan for physical orbital data centers, why up to 90% of downlinked satellite data is lost or worthless, and what happens when you run a small language model in orbit to fi
How Small Firms Beat Big Ones (opens the original)
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James Kim is President and Co-Founder of PKU Industries, a Houston engineering firm he started last year — and he's competing against companies a hundred times his size. His strategy comes from asymmetric warfare: don't match the big players deliverable for deliverable, because you'll lose 99% of the time. Stay lean, build a coalition of boutique specialists who stay in their lanes, and let AI do the coordinating. He and Richard get into why projects fail on unanticipated risk rather than engine
Your AI Is Only as Good as Its Data (opens the original)
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Everyone's racing to point AI at their customers. Dr. R. Sukumar has a problem with that. A former marketing professor turned founder of OSG, he's spent his career on a deceptively simple question: what do customers actually want — not what the historical data says they wanted. In this episode, he and Richard get into why most AI runs on shallow, backward-looking data, why the "law of averages" quietly kills good products, and why the companies winning the next decade will be the ones that own d
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