Firefly in the Dark

Garrett Ensign has spent his career on the other side of the ledger - auditing Washington's state and local governments, checking vendor prices in Boeing procurement, and running finance at tech companies as a CPA and assistant controller. In this conversation we look at money the way a business does: the small amounts that add up, the timing that quietly saves thousands, and the rules that keep shifting underneath all of it.

Brian Gant has been in the tech industry since 1991 — from small machine shops running Lotus 1-2-3 to Microsoft to the age of AI. In this conversation we trace the full arc: the PC revolution, the dot-com crash, the rise of social media, big data, and now AI. What did disruption actually look like from the inside? What did we get wrong? And what does someone who's seen it all think is coming next?