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"Foundations with Larisa Hovannisian," the unfiltered podcast where we explore the foundational principles that fuel the success of creators, entrepreneurs, scientists, and public figures.
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Episode #25: Armen Rostamian's Foundations — The AI Slowdown (opens the original)
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Thanks for joining us today. We're recording this while the story is still moving, which is unusual for us and part of why I wanted to do it now rather than in a month.And I’m so glad to have with me today a friend of the pod, technologist Armen Rostamian. So, what happened?On September 12, 2026, Dario Amodei — CEO of Anthropic, the company that makes Claude — published an essay called "We Must Pace the Frontier." His core sentence: we must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of A
Episode #24: Shant Hovnanian’s Foundations (opens the original)
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Today's guest is Shant Hovnanian. Shant is Wharton educated, infrastructure building-real estate developer, technology pioneer/ inventor, and entrepreneur whose career runs through the roots of the telecom and artificial intelligence together . In 1985, together with his father and engineer Bernard Bossard, he co-founded CellularVision, pioneering LMDS — Local Multipoint Distribution System — a broadband millimeter-wave system now providing tremendous capacity for 5 G networks. The company later
Episode #23: Zara Matevosyan's Foundations (opens the original)
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Welcome back to Foundations, with your host, Larisa Hovannisian. Today's guest is Zara Martirosyan — a clinical hypnotherapist, transpersonal regression therapist, and family constellations facilitator based in Dubai. Zara's path wasn't a straight line: she built inKin, a global wellness tech platform, then found her own mental health needed the same attention she was giving others, which sent her deep into meditation, hypnotherapy, energy work, and eventually a full career shift into holistic h
Episode #22: Manana Hakobyan's Foundations (opens the original)
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My guest today is Manana Hakobyan. Manana is Chief of Staff for GenAI at Scale AI in San Francisco — which means she works inside one of the companies the frontier AI labs depend on to make their models good. Before Scale, she was a product manager on IBM's Data and AI team. She holds a master's in data science from Harvard and degrees in economics and data science from Berkeley. She has a line I keep coming back to: "humans will always be in the loop.”
Episode #21: Armen Rostamian's Foundations (opens the original)
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Welcome back to Foundations, with your host, Larisa Hovannisian.This is the first episode of season two, and I want to start by telling you what's changing.Season one was about builders and their stories — where they came from, what they decided to make, and what it cost them. Those conversations still hold up. But something kept happening while we were recording them: the ground moved faster than the stories could settle.So this season we're changing the format. Every week, I sit down with one
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