Predicting AI: Rob Toews' scorecard from the frontier
Every December, Rob Toews publishes ten AI predictions in Forbes, then comes back a year later and grades himself in public. That habit of putting a stake in the ground, and owning the misses, makes h...
9 Juli 33min
The rogue agent problem: A conversation with Gil Elbaz at the Hg Digital Summit
In this episode, John Cranmer is joined by Gil Elbaz, Co-Founder and Chief AI Officer at Onyx Security, the company building the secure AI control plane for the agentic era. Gil, formerly in the CTO o...
10 Juni 34min
Patrick Debois on why context is the new code: A conversation from the Hg Digital Summit
The inventor of DevOps explains why AI needs engineering rigour and human collaboration. The engineer who coined "DevOps" in 2009 thinks he is watching the same pattern play out again, only faster. I...
28 Maj 30min
Jonathan Sanders, CEO of Light: fear is not a strategy
When Jonathan Sanders pitched Light to investors, the reaction was unanimous: rebuilding ERP would take a decade and a hundred million dollars. He did it in two years, with AI at the core. Today Light...
15 Maj 54min
Evan Goldberg of NetSuite: 3 decades and 2 platform shifts
Evan Goldberg co-founded NetSuite in 1998 with a five-minute phone call to Larry Ellison when his "graphics stuff" wasn't going great. He pioneered cloud computing before SaaS existed, sold to Oracle ...
23 Apr 31min
Marjorie Janiewicz of Mistral AI: flipping the adoption curve - why SaaS with data can win in an AI world
Marjorie Janiewicz has sold enterprise software through every platform shift for three decades: Oracle, MySQL, SAP, MongoDB, HackerOne. Now as Chief Revenue Officer at Mistral AI, she's taking a Frenc...
17 Mars 51min
The race for alpha: Varun Anand of Clay on inventing a new role and why GTM needs a new AI strategy
Most B2B software founders don't spend four years working on presidential campaigns. Varun Anand did - on Hillary Clinton's 2016 run - and he argues that startups and political campaigns share the sam...
3 Mars 22min
Everything, everywhere, but not all at once: Hg’s Matthew Brockman on what's really happening in software right now
In this rare internal conversation, Matthew Brockman, Hg's Chief Investment Officer, offers an insider's view on what's actually working versus what's still hype. Far beyond speculation, this is priva...
20 Feb 38min
