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#70 Your AI Agent Does Not Need an API. It Needs a Login. | Furqan Kidwai (opens the original)
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# Your AI Agent Does Not Need an API. It Needs a Login.## Guest IntroductionI'm joined by Furqan Kidwai, Co-Founder & CEO of Plouton AI, which builds AI finance co-workers for mid-market CFO teams. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree who started his career building credit-risk models at Deloitte, he explains why his agents log in instead of integrating.## Episode SummaryMid-market finance teams do not lack tools. They lose days copying data between them, because most of their ERPs and bank portals have
#69 Why Founders Underprice — From Someone Who Priced for 8 Years (opens the original)
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## Guest IntroductionI'm joined by Gregor Biljardt, CEO of Mondrio and a former Simon-Kucher pricing lead who spent roughly eight years pricing startups before building an agentic pricing platform. He's seen exactly where founders leave money on the table — and why the AI era just rewrote the rules.## Episode SummaryPricing is one of the highest-leverage levers a founder has, yet most set it once on gut and never touch it again. The bigger shift: AI has turned pricing from a static, annual exerc
#68 How to Land Press With Zero Journalist Connections | Startup PR | Kathy Wang (opens the original)
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# How to Land Press With Zero Journalist Connections## Guest IntroductionI'm joined by Kathy Wang, Co-Founder at Press Club. She's an ex-Dropbox designer who built a 10,000-person audience before she had a product, and now lands founders in Forbes, TechCrunch, and Axios entirely through cold outreach, without knowing a single journalist.## Episode SummaryLanding top-tier press has nothing to do with knowing journalists. It's a repeatable cold-outreach system that surfaces the ~200 reporters most
#67 You Won't Notice You've Become the Boss You Hate | Leadership Under Pressure | Sabina Nawaz (opens the original)
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Guest Introduction I'm joined by Sabina Nawaz, CEO Coach, Keynote speaker, Author, Board member at Nawaz Consulting LLC. She spent fourteen years at Microsoft running executive development for over 11,000 managers before becoming an executive coach to CEOs and leaders across the globe. Episode Summary Her book argues it's not power that corrupts leaders, it's pressure. This episode shows how the exact strengths that built your company can quietly turn you into the manager your team fears, and ho
#66 Quiet Quitting Is a Design Outcome, Not an Attitude Problem | Work Design | Justin Robbins (opens the original)
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I'm joined by Justin Robbins — he spent years studying why the best employees go silent, and his answer is that it's never a people problem. It's always a design problem. He's the founder of Metric Sherpa and author of More Than a Motto. ## Episode Summary Most leaders believe quiet quitting is a people problem — a failure of attitude, motivation, or grit. Justin Robbins argues it's a design outcome: a predictable result of organizations that promise one thing and practice another. His research
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