Ignite: Conversations on Startups, Venture Capital, Tech, Future, and Society

1. Episode · Sep 29, 2026

   Ignite Startups: Why Corporate Training Is Being Rebuilt Around AI and Just-in-Time Learning | Ep298 (opens the original)

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   Arusto has seen roughly 40–50% of demos convert to pilots, with about 80–85% of pilots converting to rollouts. Yuvraj Singh Shergill is the co-founder and CEO of Arusto. He launched his first company at 17, grew it to about $1 million in revenue over five years, and eventually sold it. He later spent roughly four years at McKinsey and served as one of the youngest advisors to the office of the president in the UAE. His work building corporate learning academies exposed him to the workflow Arusto

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2. Episode · Sep 22, 2026

   Ignite AI: How AI Can Let One Fund Controller Manage 10X More Capital with Rajesh Gopi | Ep297 (opens the original)

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   Zive says a 14-person team and 200+ AI agents are supporting $6.2 billion in assets while automating core fund administration workflows. Rajesh Gopi is founder and CEO of Zive AI, an AI-native fund operating system for GPs, fund admins, and CFOs. He has spent 30 years as a software engineer and previously co-founded two twelve, after roles at IBM, Freescale, Coinbase, Hypori, and others. His path into fund administration began after seeing VCs reconcile shadow books against fund administrator re

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3. Episode · Sep 15, 2026

   Ignite Marketing: The Real Growth Engine Behind Profitable Apps with Jonathan Maxim | Ep296 (opens the original)

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   Jonathan Maxim once drove 14,000 app downloads in a single day, but not one of those users became a paying customer. Jonathan Maxim is the founder of Viral App Launch. In 2019, he worked on TikTok’s U.S. expansion before campaigns in Brazil, the UK, Italy, and Thailand. He says he has worked on roughly 373 app launches. His own first app reached about 50,000 users and received a $2 million investment LOI from Kevin Hart, but the deal fell apart in legal and the company later imploded without a m

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4. Episode · Sep 10, 2026

   Ignite Startups: Why Distribution Matters More Than Margins in Insurance Tech with Terry Wang | Ep295 (opens the original)

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   Release planned for a 40% loss ratio and ended up near 75 to 80% before winding down in March. Terry Wang is the founder of Clarity Labs. Before that, he spent four years building Release, where the team built an insurance MGA with a cell captive and assembled reinsurance capacity. Earlier, at Freight Path, he helped take the business from pre-launch LOIs to almost $2 million in signed ARR before exiting in 2021. Terry’s most counterintuitive claim is that distribution matters more than underwri

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5. Episode · Sep 8, 2026

   Ignite VC: The New Funding Models Founders Need to Know with Ethan Mayers | Ep294 (opens the original)

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   Ethan Mayers is tracking venture-adjacent funds targeting $50 million to $500 million exits instead of betting every portfolio on unicorns. Mayers is a venture partner, operator, and former founder who has worked across 50-plus countries. He produced Stephen A. Smith’s talk show, worked around Pat Summitt’s program at Tennessee, joined a Lehman Brothers and Warburg Pincus portfolio company, went through Techstars, led corporate venture for a $3 billion company, and turned around a major influenc

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