July 14, 2026

AI Expert Dan Chuparkoff: Try It Before You Fear It

32 minutes

What if the best thing you did with AI this week wasn’t a big strategy overhaul, just one small experiment? Dan Chuparkoff spent three decades building software, from the early PC era through a stint at Google, before going all in on AI. Now he travels the country helping business leaders make sense of the hype. In this episode, Dan joins Gene Marks to explain why trying AI beats fearing it, why it’s about doing more rather than working faster, and how your AI assistant can double as your new coach.

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Topics include:

00:00 – Episode preview and guest introduction

01:31 – Dan’s work as a speaker & career path

04:54 – AI, change, and public perception

09:00 – What “using AI” actually means

11:08 – Connecting AI to your data

17:10 – Small businesses building their own AI

21:10 – High-ROI use case: Capturing conversations

24:42 – “Our Data Is a Mess” – Does it matter?

28:18 – AI as a coach

30:36 – Wrap up and thank you

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