CTRL SHIFT

Jeremy Abel carried a graph pad through high school, drawing specs and blueprints for buildings he wanted to put up in New York City. Then an 11th grade drafting class taught by a burned-out retired architect talked him out of it.

A friend showed him web development instead. Ten years later he'd been a developer at Bank of America, patented a model at Wells Fargo, joined Ally's first AI team, and left as Director of AI to start something of his own.

In this episode he tells DeVanté about the manager who handed him a model and dared him to beat it, what it actually took to stop saying "I got this" and let his team do the work, why the delegation skills he resisted turned out to be the ones that matter in an agentic era, and the decision he knew he'd regret forever if he didn't make it.

He's now co-founder and CTO of Ivy, an agentic video production platform.

Jeremy on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jeremynabel/ Ivy: ivy.video

Ctrl Shift is an interview podcast about the shifts people make in their careers and lives, and the shortcuts they pick up along the way. Hosted by DeVanté Pickering, Founder and President at Pick 2 Solutions. Follow to receive new episodes every other Thursday.

Welcome to Ctrl Shift, an interview podcast about the shifts people make in their careers and lives, and the shortcuts they pick up along the way.

Host and Pick 2 Solutions Founder, DeVante Pickering, sits down with seasoned leaders to trace the whole arc of a career: where they started, what changed, and what they learned navigating the turns. Every episode opens with the same question, "When you were younger, what did you want to be when you grew up?" and follows the honest path from that first answer to now.

New episodes every other Thursday. Follow now so you don't miss the first conversation.