Being the biggest leader in your industry sector doesn’t guarantee the future anymore. These days it can be quite the opposite, as we continue to witness big-dog leaders being dethroned by the next generation of agile tech-enabled competitors.On this episode of The Reboot Chronicles Show we have a sit down with Wayne Levings, a CEO, Chief Client Officer, and Executive Committee Member at Kantar, to learn from one of the biggest reboots of our decade.For Kantar, the struggle over the last decade has been real, as they have been through multiple reboots, adapting to the global power shifts in the market. The first reboot came with a mandate to breakup some of the pieces and spinout the company from the WPP Mothership through a partnership with Bain Capital. Now on their own, Kantar is a $3.5B marketing data and analytics powerhouse with 25,000 employees operating in 100 countries. With massive backing from Bain they have an opportunity to invest in next-gen areas, like AI and automation, and seize what’s next. But it won’t be easy to fight back and disrupt the disruptive disruptors.Watch or listen as we unpack this exciting reboot in progress, as they search for the perfect balance of AI and human-driven data—with a sneak peek into the future in this frothy hyper-competitive market being disrupted by AI.

These days, it’s not a matter of “if”, but when you or your organization will get hit with cybercrime. AI compounds the problem, arming lone attackers and organized gangs with cheap and easy tools to commit their misdeeds. It’s one thing when you know what might be coming, and quite another to defend against new exploits, the “unknown unknowns” that can tie your team up in knots and cause massive damage.This episode connects two topics we’ve been talking about on the show: AI, with all its hype, and cybercrime, which is becoming more and more of a threat in line with our ever-expanding digital footprints. Between phishing links, deepfakes, and scam calls, more than a trillion dollars were lost globally last year alone, and today’s guest on the Reboot Chronicles, DataVisor CEO Yinglian Xie, is combating the surge. Yinglian is a former Microsoft Researcher that turned tech entrepreneur with a new mission in mind; to stay as many steps ahead of cybercriminals as possible. At the cutting-edge intersection of AI, cybersecurity, and fintech, she has built a company that isn’t just fighting fraud, it’s redefining how the world protects itself in real time. And for those of us who continue to get sketchy emails in our inboxes—this is good news!

It’s easy to get lost in the AI gold rush exploding around the globe. On this episode of The Reboot Chronicles Show, Appian CEO Matt Calkins explains why AI’s greatest value isn’t about replacing humans, but about helping organizations work faster or smarter. Now it is time for a moment of truth about the basic value of AI.

A great American entrepreneurial growth story, Matt has grown Appian from a scrappy basement startup to the most successful software IPO of 2017 with only $10 million of pre IPO capital. Most CEOs don’t raise capital so efficiently before going public—which is one reason we wanted him on the show. I guess also because Dean did the same thing, as the CEO of Autoweb, which he took public at a billion-dollar valuation. It’s a small club…but getting bigger with AI companies.

This rapidly growing group now has a $2B market cap and thousands of employees that have rebooted into a ‘Process AI’ firm built to enable a ‘worker’ model for organizations.Hot off the heels of their World Conference, where they unpacked the future of tech, and how to put AI to work, Matt cuts through the hype to help us peer around corners with a realistic take on what’s next for our organizations and our lives.

When it comes to fast food, people mostly focus on fast. With improving efficiency and a new sales-driven promotion every month, the faster a company can get food to customers, the better, right? Maybe not. Chick-fil-A developed a smarter idea—prioritizing People over Profits with Purpose and Faith.

On this episode of The Reboot Chronicles, one of Chick-fil-A’s founding C-Suite leaders, Steve Robinson, reveals untold stories on how they did it—in good times and bad. Steve was the founding Chief Marketing Officer of Chick-fil-A, where he and Founder Truett Cathy, built the most unconventional franchise model by doing something the world’s top corporations struggle with—prioritizing People over Profits. And it worked.

After some setbacks, Steve went on to create the most iconic fast-food advertising campaign—that not only differentiated them in a sea of fast-food sales-focused chains—but rebooted an industry. Now with over 3000 locations Chick-fil-A is one of three brands with U.S. sales over $20 billion, along with McDonald’s and Starbucks.

He went on to became a Chick-fil-A board member and authored Covert Cows and Chick-fil-A: How Faith, Cows, and Chicken Built an Iconic Brand.  It, and this episode, is the inside story of how they rebooted the sector, turning prevailing theories of fast-food marketing upside down while building one of the most successful and beloved brands in America.

Most everyone remembers the tale of David and Goliath, one of the greatest underdog stories. We have seen the story repeat itself in business, across sectors from food and car companies to consumer products and tech. But what about AI? The AI computer chip wars are heating up—on fire actually—as companies attempt to topple the Goliath that Nvidia has become. Our David for this episode is Cerebras Systems, one of the rapidly-growing AI chip powerhouses that has built some of the world's fastest supercomputers. This increase in speed wasn’t just a few percent faster either, tests are showing that Cerebras' work came in up to 75 times faster than their competitors. Cerebras CMO, Julie Choi, joins this episode of The Reboot Chronicles Show for an insider’s look into how they created the next-gen technology which is driving their record-breaking success. Julie has seen Cerebras through their $700 million in funding, filing to take the company public to raise $1B, and building strategic partnerships with businesses like the Mayo Clinic and the Department of Energy. Now, on a mission to accelerate generative AI by building a new class of AI supercomputer, that could change the course of progress, Julie shares stories about both the nerdy side of chips and the future of technology as this industry hits breakneck speeds around the globe.

The art of business growth often requires being in the right market, at the right time, with the right resources to make an impact—and mastering the discipline of what you are going to build, buy, and borrow. Most companies deploy a mixture of these three methods, but our guest on this episode has mastered the buy side, with a well-funded market-making acquisition machine. Rich Eknoian, CEO of World Insurance Associates, has built one of the fastest-growing insurance companies in the world, which has acquired hundreds of companies that serve over 300,000 clients through 250 carriers in 300 locations—and they are just getting started again.World continues to lead the market, and their acquisition hot streak, with an additional $1B investment from Goldman Sachs—rocketing them to a $2 billion premium platform. Rich and his team are living the aggressive growth story that most CEO’s only dream about. Follow along as we unpack the secrets of this record-breaking organization, how they are leveraging AI technology, along with the spoils and tough challenges that come with the journey.

Have you ever wanted to attend the greatest show on earth and see what’s coming next in consumer electronics? Here’s your chance. The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) represents most all of the tech companies on the planet and owns and produces CES—the most powerful tech event in the world. Started over 100 years ago, CES is the largest show on the planet, with 4500 exhibitors, hundreds of thousands of attendees from 150 countries, and 6000 global media and analysts—including Reboot Media’s Reboot Chronicles Show. CTA President, Kinsey Fabrizio, joins us for this episode of the Reboot Chronicles Show with a look into her crystal ball about the future of innovation—like AI, robotics, healthcare, televisions, audio equipment, smartphones, tablets, computing devices, wearables, cameras, video games—and home appliances like washing machines and dishwashers, and much more.

With the AI hype cycle spiraling forward, and speed often being prioritized over security, many industry leaders, analysts, and data center operators are warning about the dangers lurking in the code many of us use every day. On this episode of The Reboot Chronicles Show, we went to the source, to figure out how that gap is being closed with Serial CEO and top Rebooter, Peter McKay - CEO of Snyk. Snyk is a developer security platform that’s reshaping how vulnerabilities are caught, fixed, and prevented—at the source—before the code goes live.

Watch or listen in on this episode as Peter shares how he rebooted Snyk, got them to move faster than the hackers, how AI has changed the coding game, why you should “give a shit” and not just “throw crap over the fence”—and how they are on their way toward being a billion-dollar market leader.

AI and High-Performance Computing are driving the global economy—and leaders, from chips to data centers, are trying to keep up and get ahead of the growth curve. The next generation of semiconductor companies, like NVIDIA, have become the poster child of the AI boom, with the microchips and technology that make it all possible. Our guest for this episode of the Reboot Chronicles Show is making waves in how chips need to be designed, manufactured, and integrated at scale in the future.With the bedrock of tech, Moore’s Law, slowing down, Silicon Box CEO, BJ Han has been busy revolutionizing semiconductor integration with a next-gen platform called Chiplet technology. With massive investments from Intel, Tata and many others, his team is building a $2 billion facility in Singapore, and a $3.6 billion facility in Italy. Listen in for the inside scoop on how technology is being reshaped to meet global demand, what’s next in the semiconductor driven world we all rely on, and much more.

Do you have Growth Gems? Dr. Anish Shah, Group CEO and MD of the Mahindra Group does—a lot of them. Mahindra Group is one of the world’s largest and most admired multinational companies with diverse businesses in 20 industries which employ over 260,000 people in 100 countries.

With over $25B in annual revenue, the organization has a broad federation of companies across industry sectors, from cars, SUVs, trucks, motorcycles, technology, energy, logistics, to hospitality, real estate, financial services, and agriculture—and is also the world’s largest tractor company by volume. Under his leadership, the group has been rebooting itself into a global growth and innovation machine across the globe, and receiving the Economic Times Company of the Year award. Listen in or watch to learn why Anish believes purpose drives profits, what’s next in his 20 market categories, why you need tech leadership in your businesses, and how to prioritize your most important “growth gems”.Listen, Watch, and Subscribe wherever you get podcasts or at RebootChronicles.com