10-Minute Tech Talks: Business Insights and Growth Hacks for Time-Crunched Entrepreneurs

Are you building technology or are you building results?

In this episode, you are going to hear why some leaders believe AI has been massively overhyped and massively undersold all at the same time. And why? The companies that win aren't just chasing trends. They are chasing outcomes.

Pittsburgh Technology Council CEO Audrey Russo interviewed Jonathan Jungk of Palantir and Chris Johnson of TeleTracking Technologies at the Pittsburgh Tech Council's 2026 Think!AI Summit to get their insights.

So if you care about growth, revenue, and real impact, this one is for you. Hit PLAY and listen right now.

Produced by the Pittsburgh Technology Council, this is a podcast for tech and manufacturing entrepreneurs exploring the tech ecosystem, from cyber security and AI to SaaS, robotics, and life sciences, featuring insights to satisfy the tech curious.

Here's a quick question for you. If your software can make decisions for your customers, should it, or should it simply make them smarter?

In this episode of 10 Minute Tech Talks, you will get a front-row seat at the Pittsburgh Technology Council's 2026 Think!AI Summit. You're going to hear why some of the most advanced AI leaders in healthcare believe technology should recommend not rule. And by getting this wrong, can cost you trust adoption, possibly even the entire market.

The Tech Council's CEO, Audrey Russo interviewed Jonathan Jungk of Palantir and Chris Johnson of TeleTracking to get their insights.

They reveal that the goal isn't to replace human judgment. It is to elevate it. If your product makes users feel smarter, safer, and more confident, you win. If it makes them feel replaced. You lose.

Produced by the Pittsburgh Technology Council, this is a podcast for tech and manufacturing entrepreneurs exploring the tech ecosystem, from cyber security and AI to SaaS, robotics, and life sciences, featuring insights to satisfy the tech curious.

What does it really take to scale a startup when early traction turns into real momentum?

In this episode of 10 Minute Tech Talks, Jonathan Kersting of the Pittsburgh Technology Council and TechVibe Radio breaks down a powerful segment from his TechVibe interview with Wendy McSparren and John Mihalik, co-founders of Admirra, a fast-growing mental health technology startup.

You'll learn how they:

• Scaled from early customers to national growth

• Built a strong startup team without losing focus

• Kept their SaaS product simple and competitive

• Used customer feedback to guide development

• Prepared their company and infrastructure for long-term success

This episode is packed with practical insights for entrepreneurs, startup founders, and business leaders who want to grow smarter, not just faster.

After listening, check out the full TechVibe interview to hear Wendy and John's complete story, including their origin, partnership, and mission to expand access to mental health care through technology.

If you're building, scaling, or planning your next move, this episode is for you.

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Building a startup is hard.

Building a startup with your spouse? That's a whole different level of difficulty.

Today on 10 Minute Tech Talks, we're exploring how Wendy McSparren and John Mihalik built Admirra together, not just as co-founders, but as partners in life. Admirra provides software and service solutions for private mental health practices to help them onboard new clients and efficiently manage business workflows.

This is a story about trust, boundaries, leadership, and learning how to win together.

Wendy and John remind us that startups aren't just built on code and capital. They're built on trust, patience, and the willingness to grow together. Admirra works because its founders work, first as partners, then as entrepreneurs.

Listen to their entire TechVibe interview here.

Produced by the Pittsburgh Technology Council, this is a podcast for tech and manufacturing entrepreneurs exploring the tech ecosystem, from cyber security and AI to SaaS, robotics, and life sciences, featuring insights to satisfy the tech curious.

What you're about to hear isn't just a conversation about healthcare. It's a masterclass in how modern organizations use technology to scale expertise, reduce friction, and make better decisions at speed.

In this episode, we excerpted a segment from the Pittsburgh Technology Council's Health Care Reinvented Podcast featuring Highmark leaders Maria Baker and Mari Vandenburg as they talk about how artificial intelligence and predictive analytics are transforming healthcare by synthesizing massive amounts of data and turning it into clear, actionable insights for clinicians.

For entrepreneurs, the parallels are immediate. This is about using AI to give experts superpowers, eliminating low-value work, and designing systems that surface the next best action instead of overwhelming people with dashboards and noise.

If you're building a company, leading a team, or thinking about how AI actually creates value beyond the buzzwords, this clip offers real-world lessons from one of the most complex industries on the planet.

Produced by the Pittsburgh Technology Council, this is a podcast for tech and manufacturing entrepreneurs exploring the tech ecosystem, from cyber security and AI to SaaS, robotics, and life sciences, featuring insights to satisfy the tech curious.

AI is everywhere right now. It can write code, generate content, fix bugs, and give you a starting point in seconds. But if you're an entrepreneur building a real product, you've probably already realized something important: AI alone isn't enough.

In this 10 Minute Tech Talk, we are joined again by Greg Lutz from Mescius, a Pittsburgh-based software company that's spent decades building tools for developers who need to move fast and build things that actually work in the real world. In this clip, Greg shares a grounded, practical perspective on where AI truly adds value, where it can lead you astray, and why purpose-built development tools still matter more than ever.

If you're using AI to accelerate your work but wondering how to turn those quick wins into sustainable software, this conversation is exactly what you need to hear.

And check out Code Clinic at https://developer.mescius.com/codeclinic

Produced by the Pittsburgh Technology Council, this is a podcast for tech and manufacturing entrepreneurs exploring the tech ecosystem, from cyber security and AI to SaaS, robotics, and life sciences, featuring insights to satisfy the tech curious.

You're building something. You're moving fast. And at some point, the code starts slowing you down.

Today's 10 Minute Tech Talks is for founders and entrepreneurs who are doing some of their own development and wondering if there's a smarter way to build without reinventing every wheel. Greg Lutz from Mescius, a Pittsburgh-based company that's been helping developers save time for more than two decades, joins Host Jonathan Kersting to detail Code Clinic.

Greg breaks down Code Clinic, a free, approachable learning resource designed to help developers solve real problems, learn faster, and ship better software, without needing to be an expert on day one. If you've ever thought, "There has to be a better way to do this," this one's for you.

And check out Code Clinic at https://developer.mescius.com/codeclinic

In our next 10 Minute Tech Talks, we'll go deeper with Greg into how AI fits into this picture, where it helps, where it falls short, and why real development tools still matter more than ever. Stay tuned.

Produced by the Pittsburgh Technology Council, this is a podcast for tech and manufacturing entrepreneurs exploring the tech ecosystem, from cyber security and AI to SaaS, robotics, and life sciences, featuring insights to satisfy the tech curious.

Why do so many promising business conversations quietly disappear after a handshake?

In this episode of 10 Minute Tech Talks, we explore a problem every tech entrepreneur knows too well. You meet the right people. You have great conversations. And somehow… nothing happens next.

ConfirmedApp.com Founder David Radin breaks down why networking isn't broken because of people, but because of systems. And how recognizing that gap led to him building Confirmed Meet & Greet to solve it.

If your business depends on relationships, sales, or partnerships, this insight could change how you think about in-person connections forever. Plus, provide a reminder that the most powerful startup ideas often come from everyday frustrations we've all learned to tolerate. Until someone decides not to. Just like David.

This is a podcast for tech and manufacturing entrepreneurs exploring the tech ecosystem, from cyber security and AI to SaaS, robotics, and life sciences, featuring insights to satisfy the tech curious.

What if the thing you're most proud of building… is the thing holding your business back?

Today on 10 Minute Tech Talks, we're digging into a moment every tech entrepreneur eventually faces. You've got momentum, a smart team, and something that looks polished and impressive, until you realize it doesn't actually solve the problem.

Host Jonathan Kersting interviewed serial entrepreneur David Radin of ConfirmedApp.com on the Pittsburgh Technology Council's TechVibe Radio Show to pull back the curtain on why David's team walked away from months of work, scrapped a "good" idea, and made the hard call most founders avoid.

If you've ever wondered whether you're building a real product or just a shiny feature, this episode is for you.

Here's the takeaway. The hardest part of being a tech entrepreneur isn't building. It's knowing what not to build.

In our next episode, David takes this lesson one step further and shows how a real-world frustration at networking events sparked an entirely new product idea. One rooted in human behavior, not hype.

Because once you kill the wrong idea, you finally make room for the right one. Listen to the entire interview here.

This is a podcast for tech and manufacturing entrepreneurs exploring the tech ecosystem, from cyber security and AI to SaaS, robotics, and life sciences, featuring insights to satisfy the tech curious.

If AI is everywhere, why are so many companies still struggling to make it work?

In Part One "Why Tech Entrepreneurs Can't Treat AI as an Experiment Anymore", we talked about how AI crossed into the business mainstream. Now it's time for the harder question: why do so many implementations stall, underperform, or quietly fail?

In this episode of 10 Minute Tech Talks, we talk to Justine Kasznica and Chris Farmakis of Babst Calland to get into the real blockers, from data quality and security risks to leadership missteps and workforce anxiety — and what smart organizations are doing to overcome them.

This is where AI strategy meets reality. AI doesn't fail because the technology isn't powerful enough. It fails when leadership treats it like a tool to buy instead of a capability to build.

Produced by the Pittsburgh Technology Council, this is a podcast for tech and manufacturing entrepreneurs exploring the tech ecosystem, from cyber security and AI to SaaS, robotics, and life sciences, featuring insights to satisfy the tech curious.