When most of us think of messaging, we think of talking to friends and family using apps like Snapchat, WhatsApp, or Line. But a growing number of companies are developing innovative ways to use these apps for business. In this episode, Jon Prial talks to two entrepreneurs doing just that. Get a glimpse into the future of messaging with Eytan Oren, CEO of Block Party - a consultancy focused on messaging for business, and Stuart Wall, CEO of Signpost - a SaaS marketing software company.

Artificial intelligence is often perceived as a black box. Most companies don't know how to approach it and some even fear it. In this episode, Jon Prial talks with Brian Garcia, Chief Technology and Product Officer at Welltok, one of the world's leading health optimization platforms. Together, they explore how Welltok is using artificial intelligence and IBM Watson to create better customer experiences with their data and discuss how companies in other industries can start using these technologies.

The blockchain is a game-changing technology everyone's talking about. It's disrupting other technologies in the same way that the Internet did more than 20 years ago. The problem, however, is that few people seem to actually understand what it's all about and what its applications are for online security. In this episode, Jon Prial talks with entrepreneur and investor William Mougayar about this important new technology at that intersection of software engineering, cryptography and gaming theory.

We live in a world that’s increasingly fueled by data and analytics. But for companies to unlock the value all of that information represents, and improve business processes, they need some very specialized help. In this episode, Jon Prial talks to Georgian Partners’ own Chief Analytics Officer Chris Matys about data scientists. Find out what they do, where you can find them, and what it takes to build a successful data science team.