AI Rebels
Jacob and Spencer
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The AI Rebels Podcast is dedicated to exploring and documenting the grassroots of the current AI revolution. Every week a new episode is posted wherein the hosts interview entrepreneurs and developers working on the cutting edge. Tune in to benefit from their insight.
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S4E22 AI Is Moving at 100 MPH. Your Company Probably Isn’t. ft. Sreedhar Peddineni
Sreedhar Peddineni has built companies through the internet, SaaS, cloud, and now AI, which makes his perspective especially valuable because he is not reacting to hype — he is comparing this shift…
S4E21 Cavemen With Fire: Governing the AI Agent Fleet ft. Logan Kelly
Everyone's shipping agents. Almost nobody is asking what happens when a hundred of them go off the rails at 100% utilization while a customer is on the other end. Logan Kelly — CEO of Waxell and a…
S4E20 Why Your AI Projects Keep Failing (It's Not the Tech) ft. Barbara Wittman
Barbara Wittman has spent 25 years cleaning up broken transformation projects, and the root cause is never the technology. In this episode, she breaks down how AI is exposing dysfunction that…
S4E19 Bhaskar Sunkara: The AI Agent That Never Sleeps. How Bicycle AI Catches Revenue Leaks in Real Time
Bhaskar Sunkara built AppDynamics into a $3.7B company. Now he's back with Bicycle AI, an always-on agent that catches revenue leaks before your team even knows they exist. In this episode he breaks…
S4E18 RAG, Agents, and the Future of AI Memory with Roie from Pinecone
Most RAG implementations are fundamentally broken; and the company that coined "vector search" just told us why. In this episode, Roie from Pinecone breaks down the "Franken answer" problem plaguing…
S4E17 You Can't Have an AI Story Without a DataStory ft. Dalan Winbush, Nasuni
95% of enterprises are failing at AI. Not because the technology doesn't work, but because they're measuring the wrong things. In this episode, Nasuni CIO Dalan Winbush breaks down why adoption…
S4E16 Making Insurance Fair: How Tuio Puts Customers First With AI ft. Juan Garcia, Tuio
Insurance was built to profit off confusion, and Tuio is proving it doesn't have to be that way. Juan Garcia and his co-founders rebuilt insurance from the ground up as a fully digital, AI-native…
S4E15 Same Effort, 10x Results: How a Neurodivergent Artist Uses AI as a Force Multiplier ft. Victor Varnado
A billion-dollar liquor company paid a rapper with ADHD low six figures to build them a custom video game, and he delivered it in two weeks. That rapper is Victor, and in this episode he shows two…
S4E14 AI Prototyping at Zero Cost: How Ian Cook Ships What Others Can't
95% of enterprise AI projects fail, but not for the reasons you think. Ian Cook has spent 16 years shipping AI products across healthcare, physical security, consumer goods, and now cultural data,…
S4E13 Humanoid Robots Are a Distraction (Here's What Actually Works) ft. Grigorij Dudnik
What happens when AI leaves the screen and enters the physical world? It breaks.Spencer and Jacob sit down with robotics researcher Grigorij Dudnik, who's been running real experiments with real…
S4E12 The Hidden Tradeoffs of AI Automation (and Why Friction Still Matters) ft. Jakob Ambuehl, Brex
How does generative AI actually work inside a large, regulated fintech company when real customers, real money, and real regulations are on the line?The AI Rebels Crew sits down with Jake from Brex’s…
S4E11 From Hype to Controls: Securing AI Before Regulation Catches Up
Most companies are racing to adopt AI, but almost none can explain who’s responsible when it goes wrong. Cordell Robinson of Brownstone Consulting joins the AI Rebels crew to unpack the uncomfortable…
S4E10 Inside Dreami.me: Why Safer Companion AI Means Saying “No” More Often ft. Ryan "Zuda" Satterfield
Chatbots are starting to feel less like tools and more like something you relate to, and that shift comes with real risks. On AI Rebels, we sit down with Ryan “Zuda” Satterfield, the builder behind…
S4E9 AI Is Getting Cheaper. Human Judgment Is Getting More Valuable ft. Daniel Yoo, Finmate AI
AI isn’t magic, and pretending it is may be the biggest risk in tech right now. A former financial advisor turned AI founder argues that most AI products are already becoming commodities, with little…
S4E8 Your Next News Anchor Is AI ft. Nikolai Yakovenko, DeepNewz
AI is now spotting the news before journalists even know it exists. DeepNewz’ founder reveals how their system scans real-time signals from across the internet to uncover emerging stories faster than…
S4E7 Beating the Machines: How Bot Spot Levels the Playing Field Against Hedge Funds ft. Robert Grzesik
Most retail traders don’t realize they’re battling algorithms that execute 70–80% of all market activity. Robert Grzesik reveals how Bot Spot turns plain-English instructions into actual Python…
S4E6 The Next Big AI Wave: Context Engines, Not Chatbots - ft. Ping CEO Camden Bean
AI note-takers are already obsolete, and Camden Bean, CEO of Ping Assistant, explains why the real power is everything that happens before and after the meeting. In this episode, he reveals how Ping…
S4E5 Why Companies Fight Over Engineers Who Don't Write Code ft. Austen Allred
Austin Allred lived in his car in San Francisco teaching himself to code, and now he runs a program where students never write a single line. At Gauntlet AI, engineers learn to direct AI systems that…
S4E4 Plotly Thickens — How Open Source Is Powering the Next AI Wave ft. Domenic Ravita
What if rebellion looked like collaboration instead of chaos? Plotly’s VP of Marketing Dominic Revita traces his journey from coding the first internet-only bank in the 90s to shaping the next…
S4E3 Practical AI and the One-Click Shift: Making Tech Effortless ft. Derek Crager
Derek Crager, founder of Practical AI, joins AI Rebels to explain how voice is set to become the next one-click revolution. Derek shares his journey from industrial construction to Amazon, weaving in…
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AI Rebels has published 86 episodes since January 2024, covering topics in Business, News.
AI Rebels is currently declining with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 52m.
