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Ex-Meta Insider: AI Is About to Change Forever (and nobody even realizes) | Ep 54
If open source models keep getting better, shouldn't the demand for GPUs collapse? And if your entire business depends on rented access to a single frontier lab, what happens the day that lifeline gets cut? In this episode of Inside the Silicon Mind, we sit down with...
Silicon Valley AI Founder: You’re Not Ready for the Next Phase of AI Hackers | Ep 53
When code becomes something anyone can generate, attackers get the upgrade first. Global cybersecurity spending is now well into the hundreds of billions a year, yet ransomware, nation state attacks, and AI-generated deepfakes keep getting worse. So is all that money...
How A 51 Year Old Dad Built A $300M Tech Company From Nothing! | Ep 52
Is the American dream really dead, or, as Jared Shepard puts it, are you just not paying attention? And what if the lowest point of your life, the one you would rather forget, turned out to be the foundation for everything you build afterward? In this episode of...
Ex-Amazon Insider: AI Is About to Change Healthcare Forever | Ep 51
What if the trait that decides whether your startup survives its first twenty-four months isn't speed, but patience? And in an industry where a clinical record sells for magnitudes more on the dark web than a Social Security number, can AI's benefits to healthcare...
MIT AI Expert: AI Is Writing Code Nobody Understands | Ep 50
What happens to observability when the person staring at the dashboard can no longer understand the code an AI just wrote? For twenty years, monitoring tools have been built on one assumption, that a human is watching. As AI writes more of the code and the telemetry,...
The Truth About Agentic AI No One Tells You | Ep 49
What if the AI buzzwords dominating every founder conversation, prompting, RAG, context windows, and now agents, are exactly what's causing you to miss the big picture? And what happens when saying yes to a brand-name customer quietly destroys your ability to scale?...
Ex-Google Insider Reveals The Future Of AI in 2026… | Ep 48
What happens to a trillion-dollar AI industry when the intelligence it sells becomes something you can own outright, running on your own laptop, impossible to throttle, degrade, or switch off? And if a model one hundred times smaller than the frontier systems in the...
Ex-Apple Insider: No One Knows What’s Coming With AI | Ep 47
What skills do you teach your children when the career path you spent your life building is on the verge of being entirely automated? If an eight-year-old can already see AI taking over coding, art, and storytelling, how do we prepare the next generation to thrive—not...
$1B Founder: Claude Just Changed SaaS Forever | Ep 46
When code becomes virtually free to generate, where does value actually go? If any founder can spin up a functional software product in a weekend, what stops a trillion-dollar frontier engine from erasing your entire business with a single API update? In this episode...
Ex-Google Insider: You’re Not Ready For The Next Phase of AI | Ep 45
When we look at the explosive market for LLMs and coding assistants, it’s easy to think we’re already standing on the doorstep of AGI. But what if the systems we call “advanced” are actually operating at the level of a preschooler when it comes to the visual world...
AI Expert: TV Is About to Change Forever | Ep 44
When you watch a movie for the second time, what if you could experience it entirely from the villain's perspective without the director ever having to film a single extra frame? In this episode of Inside the Silicon Mind, we sit down with Alberto Taiuti, co-founder...
The Hidden Cost of Using AI at Work: Who Sees Your Prompts? | Ep 43
When you paste contracts, strategy docs, or internal PDFs into ChatGPT, it feels like you’re just talking to a smart assistant. In reality, you might be throwing your company’s trade secrets over the wall into someone else’s infrastructure. In this episode of Inside...
The $1 Trillion Dollar Question in Venture Capital: What Will Still Matter in 10 Years? | Ep 42
When AI can generate production‑grade software in hours instead of months, the old rules of “build fast, raise money, win” stop working. The hard question every founder, engineer, and investor is now quietly asking is: what will still matter in 10 years when code is...
Anyone Can Now Code Software and it’s Completely Free | Ep 41
Coding used to be the bottleneck for startups. In the age of agentic AI, that’s no longer true. MVPs that once took teams months can now be built in hours, which means the real advantage for early-stage founders has shifted from raw coding output to judgment,...
Prevention Is Dead: A $70M Founder’s Playbook for Surviving AI Attacks | Ep 40
Prevention is dead in cyber security. The companies still trying to build higher walls are already losing ground to AI-driven attackers who can move faster than any human team. In this episode of Inside the Silicon Mind, Artemis co-founder Shachar Hirshberg explains...
80% of His Team Were Trapped. This CEO Made One Bold Decision That Saved His Company | Ep 39
When Russia invaded Ukraine, 80% of Cyberhaven’s engineering team was in Kyiv. Overnight, a scaling cybersecurity startup became a company fighting for its survival, and CEO Howard Ting had to decide what kind of leader he was going to be. In this episode of Inside...
You Don’t Realise What You’re Giving Up When You Become a Founder | Ep 38
You don’t realise what you’re giving up when you become a founder.Most people talk about the upside of starting a company – autonomy, impact, wealth – but very few talk honestly about the real cost of becoming a founder. In this episode, Firas sits down with Cosmin...
How AI Turns Teenagers into Hackers | Ep 37
AI has just lowered the bar to hacking. In this episode, cybersecurity founder Peyton Smith explains how script‑kiddie teenagers, China, and Russia are all using AI to probe critical infrastructure - and what defenders have to do next. If you work in tech, security,...
The Most Overlooked Change in Healthcare Is Coming | Ep 36
Our latest conversation with Neil Patel is now live, and it explores one of the most important shifts happening in healthcare right now: how AI is beginning to reshape workflows, access, care delivery, and the future of work across the sector. Neil makes the case that...
He’s Seen This Bubble Before. It Ended Badly. | Ep 35
Mike Kropp has built products at Microsoft and AWS that scaled to millions of users. Now he's building AI for highly regulated industries at Iridius - and he says most AI startups won't survive the coming extinction event. What you'll learn:- Why apps and bots are...
He Sold Software to Microsoft for $50K – It Became a $1T Company | Ep 34
They sold their software to Microsoft for $50,000.It became part of a trillion-dollar outcome. In this episode of Inside the Silicon Mind, Jim Harding - who was there at the birth of the personal computer - shares what really happened behind one of the most important...
From Nuclear Weapons Lab to AI Cybersecurity: Why Every Breach Has a Warning | Ep 33
Monzy Merza spent 12 years as an applied security researcher in a nuclear weapons lab before going on to lead teams at Splunk, Databricks, and HSBC. In this episode of Inside the Silicon Mind, he shares the moment that changed everything - when he realised the...
Venture Capital vs Private Equity How Value Is Really Created | Ep 32
Most people think venture capital and private equity are just different stages of investing. They’re not - they operate on completely different principles of value creation. Why this matters: Understanding how capital actually works is critical if you're: -...
Why Hollywood And Silicon Valley Think Completely Differently | Ep 31
Hollywood runs on relationships.Silicon Valley runs on product. When those two worlds collide, most people misunderstand both. In this episode of Inside the Silicon Mind, Sandy Climan, CEO of Entertainment Media Ventures, breaks down how media, technology, and...
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