Latent Supercompanies are among us. In this conversation with Greg Shove, Wade Foster, co-founder and CEO of Zapier, shares how he’s found massive success integrating AI internally and with customers.

Zapier was already a success story. Three friends co-founded the automation company in college and built it into a $5B company by working nimbly and embracing remote work early on. Now, Wade is fully embracing wide AI adoption. Learn how Zapier was able to drive 50% employee adoption in just a week, and the strategies that have been key to Zapier’s continued success.

Links:

Zapier.com

Wade's website

AI can be your most powerful productivity tool… or a shortcut to cognitive decline. Neuroscientist Dr. Sahar Yousef joins Greg on stage at SXSW to debate whether AI allows us to borrow 30 IQ points, or ultimately makes us dumber?” Dr. Yousef shares new, unpublished UC Berkeley data about cognitive offloading, and outlines how to leverage AI without losing your mind.

Some of the challenges with developing better AI have already been faced by other new technologies - like autonomous vehicles. Whether building human-in-the-loop systems or emergent scaling issues, AV companies like Waymore and Zoox are pioneering real-world solutions. What should the broader industry be learning from them?

Tech and policy reporter Tim Lee (Understanding AI, Ars Technica, Washington Post)) joins to discuss his and Greg’s shared appreciation for autonomous vehicles. Tim has covered AVs for years, and breaks down what a company like Waymo can show us about what’s ahead for AI at large.

Links:

Understanding AI newsletter

Tim’s Twitter

Greg plays guest on It's All About AI with Danilo McGarry.

Learn what's actually happening inside companies adopting AI and why most leaders are getting it dangerously wrong. Greg shares what he sees on the ground, working with enterprise AI leaders across the US and Europe.

Watch AI Truth Serum on YouTube, @aitruthserum.

Episode Links

1. It's All About AI YouTube channel
2. Danilo's website

AI has the power to completely reshape the tasks we do - and how we approach our work in the first place. Greg taps Ed’s expertise as a custom AI agent developer to understand what leaders should know about what agents can do for us today. How can we convert inference into business value today?

Ed shares the VVV framework he uses as part of his process for automating workflows. Plus, which tech industries might own the future - SaaS, Cloud, AI?

Episode links:

Ed’s LinkedIn

Machine & Partners website

Journalist and author Brian Merchant (Motherboard, LA Times), joins to discuss his book Blood in the Machine, and what the AI revolution should learn from the Luddite movement. Brian’s substack functions as part of Greg’s conscience, and they talk about the current political climate in AI, and why AI companies face a strategy challenge after driving adoption with free services.

When a tech critic and an AI CEO compare notes, where do they find common ground?

Plus, Greg pitches Brian on his vision of future supercompanies. For more on that, see Juliet Bailin’s analysis in Episode 2 - Who’s Going to Win in the AI Economy?

Episode links:

Brian’s newsletter, Blood in the Machine

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cokKQKhBtPw

AI is driving an arms race in classrooms, but what about the tech’s potential to give individualized instruction? What other ways might new technology change how we learn for the better? What’s ahead for the education tech landscape?

Claire Zau, venture partner at GSV Ventures and author of the AI & Education newsletter, specializes in educational technology investment. She joins Greg from New York to discuss what’s next for education.

Episode Links:

Claire's newsletter AI & Education

Claire's Instagram Zauey Talks

GSV Venture's website

It’s been a big year for fake news. So this New Year’s Eve, we look back at the hype, pitches, and rumors about AI we’ve heard in 2025, and Greg shares his predictions for 2026.

And are we in a bubble? There may be a few, but there’s more to the story. If there’s one thing we can count on, it’s another year of AI’s presence growing in our lives.

This episode has presentation visuals on YouTube.

Business strategist and best-selling author Sangeet Paul Choudary joins Greg to discuss why AI is such a big deal for corporate structures and platforms. 

As AI requires organizations to fundamentally rethink how their structures work, it enables savvy competitors to exploit new operating paradigms. And as these tools allow users to cross traditional work boundaries, the impacts of AI to knowledge work promise to be many.

How will new efficiencies change client demands, and how will firms and individuals structure their work? What should we do when the AI bubble bursts? Sangeet shares what he tells execs and heads of state, and discusses ideas from his book Reshuffle.

Episode links:

Sangeet’s LinkedIn

Platform Thinking Labs

Sangeet’s Substack

At a time when AI narratives are being pushed by board rooms and C-suites, how big is the present moment, really? Investor Juliet Bailin, venture partner at Kindred Capital, joins Greg to give a bird's eye view of the changing AI economy.

Are we in a bubble that’s going to burst, or a boom that will carry us forward – and which companies will successfully make the jump to the future? Greg gets some Canadian founder therapy along the way.

Links:

Juliet's LinkedIn

Kindred Capital

Arsenal F.C.