🎙️ Skills Are Teachable. Identity Isn't. | Abhijit Bhaduri (Abhijit Bhaduri LLC)

The AI conversation is stuck on skills: learn AI or get replaced. Abhijit Bhaduri says that misses the real threat entirely. AI can learn any skill you bring to the table. What it cannot replicate is what you feel when you do the work, and that is where the identity gap opens up.

Abhijit is CEO of Abhijit Bhaduri LLC and has led talent strategy inside some of the largest companies in the world: Wipro's first Chief Learning Officer, Global Head of Learning & Development at Microsoft, and HR leadership at PepsiCo, Colgate-Palmolive and Tata Steel. He is a LinkedIn Top Voice with over a million followers, SHRM's #1 HR influencer on social media, author of six books including Career 3.0, and his seventh, AIdentity, is coming later this year. In this conversation he and Dave land on the same conclusion from opposite ends of the room: the companies winning with AI are not the ones with the best models. They are the ones solving the people problem underneath.

In this episode:

00:00 Meet Abhijit: from CLO to a million followers

02:03 The guitarist who plays every genre

04:37 The biggest myth in every company: money motivates

06:59 Dave: judge people by their opportunities, not their limitations

09:36 What the identity gap actually is

11:45 Why AI makes everything average (the Picasso test)

14:11 You bought the piano but skipped the lessons

16:45 The man training AI at the cost of his kid's job

20:12 Keystroke logging kills innovation

25:56 Why sharing knowledge is now a superpower

31:07 The new book: AIdentity

34:43 Introduce yourself without your title or employer

36:50 The 80/20 future: work like water, not ice

41:05 Tokens as currency and identity as the new talent layer

44:44 The one failure Abhijit still carries

If this conversation changed how you think about AI, your team or your own work identity, subscribe to the Think AI Podcast, drop a like, and tell us in the comments: how would you introduce yourself without your title?

🔗 Links & Resources
Abhijit Bhaduri on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhijitbhaduri/
Abhijit's website and newsletter: https://abhijitbhaduri.com

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🎙️ Healthcare AI: The Hype Ends Here

Most hospitals cannot answer one basic question: what AI is running on our network right now? James Green went from Pixar under Steve Jobs, to running the World Series of Video Games, to building the tech behind the NFL first down line, to CEO of Cognome, a healthcare AI company deployed in 20 hospitals including Montefiore and NYU Langone. In this episode, we strip the hype out of healthcare AI and talk about what actually works, what is genuinely dangerous, and the unintended consequence nobody is discussing: a billing system where nurses are expenses and AI is profit.

In this episode:
00:00 From Pixar and esports to healthcare AI
01:46 Why healthcare is adopting AI 2.2x faster than other industries
12:15 AI Sniffer: finding every hidden AI on a hospital network
18:08 Ambient dictation and the wrong leg problem
21:55 The judge and jury system that kills hallucinations
26:17 Why missing context is the second most dangerous thing in clinical AI
29:36 Silent mode: the right way to deploy AI with physicians
34:44 AI already beats doctors 99.9% of the time, with one catch
39:42 Nurses billed like bed linen: the consequence nobody sees coming
43:34 LLMs are now healthcare's fastest growing cyber threat
46:52 The next 3 to 5 years: thousands of AI agents per hospital
49:32 What Steve Jobs was really like: seven reasons in 2.5 seconds

If this conversation made you think differently about AI in your industry, subscribe to the Think AI Podcast, drop a comment with your take on the nurse billing question, and share this with someone in healthcare who needs to hear it.

🔗 Links & Resources
Cognome: https://www.cognome.com
James Green on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesangreen/

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🎙️ Speed Is No Longer a Moat | Alex Galert, BRNZ

Everyone in AI is racing to ship faster. Alex Galert, CEO of BRNZ, says that race is already over, and speed was never the real advantage. In this conversation he breaks down why accountability, not velocity, is the new moat, and how his studio builds complete AI-powered companies for equity, with a 67% founder floor in writing and zero investors.

In this episode:

00:00 The thesis: why speed stopped being a moat

01:31 The Hero Founder and 10,000 hours in one industry

08:55 Business for equity: how BRNZ actually works

14:14 The anti-VC model: no fees, equity only by shipping

18:54 Inside DUDE.AI and the five levels of AI autonomy

26:08 The dirty secret of AI-generated code, and a real data hole

31:48 The failure that changed how Alex builds

45:31 Can a company run with no humans?

55:02 Five moves you can make Monday morning

If you build with AI, this one will change how you think about shipping. Like, subscribe, and drop a comment with the one move you are taking into Monday.

🔗 Links & Resources Website: [brnz.com] | [DUDE.AI]

Guest LinkedIn: [Alex Galert] (comment BUILD on the pinned post for the BRNZ Playbook)
WhatsApp: message DIAGNOSIS to [wa.me/491711254074] for a Startup Loop Diagnosis ▶️

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🎙️ There Is No Magic Wand: What AI Can (And Cannot) Actually Do

Dilip Bagrecha built mission-critical financial systems at RBS and UBS where failure wasn't an option. Now, as founder and CEO of Wishtree Technologies, he's watching enterprises treat AI like it can solve everything—and it's not working. In this episode, we unpack why only 5% of enterprises have truly adopted AI, the reliability discipline that separates real engineering from hype, and the uncomfortable truth most AI consultants won't say out loud: there is no magic wand.

In this episode:
(00:00) The reliability standard that built global banking systems—and why AI ignores it
(02:30) Why 99.9% uptime is a death sentence for enterprise deployment
(06:15) The shift from "AI tools" to "AI teams"—what actually changes for leaders
(14:00) How to spot which AI use cases will actually work (and which are technical debt waiting to happen)
(20:45) The fixed-pricing trap: why outcome-based contracts don't work yet
(28:15) The CFO mindset killing AI ROI: cost obsession vs. value obsession
(36:00) Advice for the nervous mid-market CEO: think transformation, not tools
(42:45) Why honesty is rare in AI consulting—and why Dilip refuses to play along

If you're leading enterprise AI initiatives, skeptical of the hype, or about to invest in AI and want straight talk instead of magic-wand promises, this conversation cuts through the noise.

Subscribe to Think AI Podcast wherever you listen and send this to a leader in your life who's buying AI or building their first autonomous system. You'll get answers differently.

Links and Resources:
Dilip Bagrecha on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dilipbagrecha/
Wishtree Technologies: https://wishtreetech.com/
Think AI: https://thinkaicorp.com/

#EnterpriseAI #AIAdoption #FinTech #AIConsulting #ProductEngineering #AINative

🎙️ The Myth of Too Small to Hack

Tom Kirkham, founder and CEO of Kirkham IronTech and two-time Amazon bestselling author of Hack the Rich, sits down with Dave to break down how AI has turned phishing and ransomware into a high-volume numbers game, and why he says over 90% of breaches still come down to one thing: human failure.

In this episode:

00:00 Tom's ISIS kill list story and why "why would a hacker want me" is the wrong question

03:37 How AI personalizes phishing emails at scale

08:41 The Colonial Pipeline attack and why small businesses are the real targets

12:43 Why 90%+ of breaches are human failure, not a tech failure

17:51 The three things every business needs: awareness training, EDR, and MFA

27:01 Why your CFO should never run IT

36:35 Shadow AI and why privacy is security

49:02 Is a global cyber pandemic already here?

59:49 Hacking's GDP is bigger than most countries

If you run a business of any size, this episode will change how you think about risk. Like, subscribe, and drop a comment on the one thing you're going to fix this week.

🔗 Links & Resources

Books by Tom Kirkham: Purchase on Amazon

Kirkham IronTech: kirkhamirontech.com

Follow Tom Kirkham on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomkirkham/

#CyberSecurity #AI #Ransomware #ThinkAIPodcast #Leadership

🎙️ Data First, AI Second, People Always | Scot Burdette, ABB CIO

"𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻." - Scot Burdette

Scot Burdette runs digital transformation at ABB across 3 business lines, 60+ countries, and 17 factories. 40 years in technology, from HP and EDS to global division CIO, and a 2025 Ohio ORBIE Awards global finalist. In this conversation with Dave Goyal, he lays out a simple order of operations: 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁. 𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱. 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀.

We get into the unglamorous data plumbing nobody celebrates, why a demo is the easy part, what good data means across 60 countries, capturing hard-won knowledge before people retire, and how the CIO role moved from the basement to the boardroom.

If you lead data, AI, or a team through change, this one is for you.

⏱️ Chapters:
00:00 Meet Scot Burdette: 40 years, 60+ countries, 17 factories
01:01 A day when one decision touches 60 countries
03:34 Using AI to run his own calendar and time
05:30 Why expecting AI to be perfect on day one backfires
06:54 The multi-year build for end to end order automation
09:33 What good data actually means across 60 countries
13:49 Why the data plumbing has to come first
14:56 Building a demo is easy, the foundation is hard
17:12 Capturing tribal knowledge before the retirement wave
21:13 Why the team, not the tech, are the rock stars
23:40 Right people, wrong seat
25:44 From the basement to the boardroom
27:54 Will AI take jobs? AI as a tool
29:38 Teach kids to use AI, not just build it
32:30 Data and AI: transformation and adoption

🎧 Watch or listen:
YouTube: https://youtube.com/davegoyal
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7z6mVpTBjbqwuAgLtxgoSq?si=1171658bc9e944af
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-ai-podcast/id1884395529

About the Think AI Podcast:
Dave Goyal sits down with the operators and leaders putting AI and data to work in the real world, minus the hype. New episodes weekly.

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🎙️ Prescription Before Diagnosis is Malpractice | Sung Paik, Data QI

"Prescription before diagnosis is malpractice." Most AI is sold backwards, and Sung Paik came with the autopsy. In this episode, Dave Goyal sits down with Sung Paik, VP of AI Go-To-Market for North America and Field CTO at Data QI, to break down why most manufacturing AI projects die in pilot purgatory, and what the 5 percent that actually work do differently.

They get into the data foundation nobody wants to fix, the 6 percent output jump that added $3.6 million to one production line, the silver tsunami retiring out of factories, and why the operator on the floor, not the executive who signs the check, is the real buyer of AI.

In this episode:
00:00 Meet Sung Paik: finance, code, startup, and the sales number
01:13 Prescription before diagnosis and the AI chasm of confusion
03:22 Data before AI, and why data is never garbage
05:43 The 6 percent output jump worth $3.6 million
08:09 Walking away when the ROI isn't there
11:31 How to say no to a client and still keep them
15:08 Why the operator is the single most important person
18:41 The silver tsunami and capturing institutional knowledge
24:50 Assistant vs agent, explained simply
34:52 Innovation sprints and escaping pilot purgatory
53:40 What actually separates one AI vendor from another

If you build, sell, or buy AI for the factory floor, this one is a blueprint. Subscribe for more, drop your biggest AI-in-manufacturing question in the comments, and hit like if "prescription before diagnosis" just reframed how you think about AI.

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🔗 Links & Resources
Data QI: https://dataqi.ai/
Sung Paik LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sungpaik/
Grow Without Sacrifice: https://growwithoutsacrifice.com/

#AIinManufacturing #ManufacturingAI #IndustrialAI #AIStrategy #ThinkAIPodcast

🎙️ Meet My AI Crew

I opened the garage door on the system that runs my company. Not a chatbot. A real crew of AI employees with names, jobs, and shifts that show up on my calendar every morning. I will not hand you the secret wiring, but by the end you will know exactly what is possible and have the shape to build your own.

**In this episode:**
00:00 The handbike and the garage door
01:11 The real bottleneck was me
03:24 What an AI employee actually is (not a chatbot)
05:29 Meet the crew: Maya, Morgan, Sasha, Owen, Felix, Harper, FIO
07:39 MCP vs API in plain English
10:05 Inside Felix, my CFO financial cockpit
16:41 Watching my AI employees clock in on my calendar
24:25 A Fortune 500 back office for the cost of a coffee a day

If you have ever felt like your business only moves as fast as you do, this one is for you. Subscribe for more, drop a comment with the first role you would hand to an AI employee, and if you want the step by step build, come join me.

👉 Learn to build your own AI crew inside Grow Without Sacrifice: https://growwithoutsacrifice.com

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🎙️ The 5F's of a Legendary Life | Coach Kevin

Coach Kevin has coached more than 40,000 people across five continents, from everyday entrepreneurs to heirs and billionaires. In this episode he tells Dave Goyal what almost every single one of them got wrong about success, why his first three billionaire clients were suicidal, and how to build KPIs for the parts of your life that actually matter: your marriage, your kids, your fitness, your faith.

We get into the Five Facets framework (Fitness, Faith, Family, Finance, Fun), why a grind season is fine but a "season" without an end date is just laziness, the teenager KPI that will rewire how you parent, and a brutally honest take on what AI is doing to entrepreneurs right now (spoiler: it lets you overclock until you melt).

In this episode:
00:47 The two truths almost no one will tell themselves
03:16 Why coaching billionaires taught Kevin that money is not enough
10:32 The Five Facets framework: Fitness, Faith, Family, Finance, Fun
14:29 Deferring joy is the same as deferring profit
19:25 How to set real KPIs for marriage, faith, and family
31:30 Grind seasons are fine. Seasons with no end date are not.
38:18 The KPI every father needs to be tracking
44:36 The teenager hack: crossroads and giving them the radio
53:46 AI is the tractor of the mind (and why it will melt you)
59:04 The constraint you didn't choose but should be grateful for
1:05:20 Love yourself warts and all

If this episode gave you a new lens, hit subscribe, drop a comment with the one KPI you're going to start tracking this week, and send it to the entrepreneur in your life who needs to hear it.

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🔗 Links & Resources
Coach Kevin: https://itscoachkevin.com
Grow Without Sacrifice: https://growwithoutsacrifice.com/

#ThinkAIPodcast #CoachKevin #Mindset #Entrepreneurship #LiveLegend

🎙️ Grow Without Sacrifice

This is an episode about three things that looked unrelated and turned out to be the same thing: a composer, a hand bike, and an AI workforce. If you have ever felt like the business you built was the thing standing between you and the life you actually wanted, this one is for you. By the end, I'll show you how an AI workforce gave me back my Saturdays, my hobby, and my today.

In this episode:

00:00 The dark monitor moment that changed everything

03:30 Why sacrifice doesn't bill you in hours

05:30 The composer who stopped trying to play every instrument

08:30 The Kishore Kumar song that reframed why I build AI

10:30 AI as a cognitive prosthetic for the founders no one talks to

15:00 Meet the AI team: Maya, Morgan, Sasha, Owen, Felix, Harper, Theo

21:30 The hand bike: the real proof

25:00 Where to start in your next 90 days

If this episode lands for you, pick the one role you would hire first, write a one-page job description, and send it to me on LinkedIn. I'll tell you if it's the right place to start.

🔗 Links & Resources

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/davegoyal/
Grow Without Sacrifice (Pilot Program): https://growwithoutsacrifice.com/

Think AI Consulting: https://thinkaicorp.com/

#GrowWithoutSacrifice #AIWorkforce #SoloEntrepreneur #DisabledFounder #DataAIStudio