CEOs Unscripted
Real Talk. Real Growth. Real Results in the Mid-MarketJane Gentry consulted in enterprise for 20 years. And, after being a CEO in a mid-sized company, she realized why they say it is loneliest at the top.
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Ex-CIA Officer Is Betting Everything on American Factories (opens the original)
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He went from the CIA, including a year in Afghanistan to dropping out of business school to building companies. Now he's on a mission to keep America the global leader in physical AI. In this episode of CEOs Unscripted, host Jane Gentry sits down with Alexander Torrey, founder of AIC, to unpack "physical AI," the trapped capacity hiding inside American factories, and why he'd never bet against American industry. Alex explains how AIC acquires and modernizes founder-led original component manufac
13 Years at SpaceX Taught Him How to Move an 1800s Industry | Matt Soule (opens the original)
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How do you bring autonomous vehicles to an industry that hasn't fundamentally changed in 200 years — and get century-old regulators on board? In this episode of CEOs Unscripted, host Jane Gentry sits down with Matt Soule, founder of Parallel and a 13-year SpaceX veteran, to unpack what building rockets taught him about leading change everywhere else. From battery-electric autonomous rail to the messy human side of transformation, Matt shares the leadership principles behind moving a legacy indus
He Sold Company After Company — This Is What He'd Tell You (opens the original)
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Most business owners wait until they're tired to think about selling. By then, it's too late — and it costs them millions. In this episode of CEOs Unscripted, host Jane Gentry sits down with Ryan Frederick, principal of Transform Labs — a serial entrepreneur who has started and sold company after company, and whose latest venture was just acquired (fresh off the deal). Ryan and Jane pull back the curtain on what buyers actually want, why a full calendar is a red flag, and the uncomfortable truth
This Industrial CEO Using AI in Ways Most Tech Companies Have Not Figured Out Yet (opens the original)
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Most CEOs talk about innovation. Drew Allen lives it. From taking his first trip to China at 13, to speaking Mandarin and Portuguese, to attending an AI hackathon hosted by the PayPal Mafia before most CEOs even knew what a large language model was, Drew Allen is not your average CEO. As the leader of Grace Technologies, Drew has quietly built one of the most experimentally driven, AI forward, high performance cultures in the industrial electronics space. And in this episode of CEOs Unscripted,
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