The AI Chopping Block
David Stepania
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Learn what works in AI right now and future-proof your business or your career so you don't end up on the AI chopping block.
Right now, AI is used for less than 1% of the problems it can solve. We're here to change that.
Every week, we interview industry insiders & the builders behind game-changing AI-powered companies to uncover practical insights you can implement in your business or career to get ahead.
Hosted by David Stepania with tech veterans Ben Smokovic & Derek Skinnell, these conversations cut through the hype to show how real businesses are leveraging AI's untapped potential.
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S2E3 Scaling 3000 Sites With 1 AI Agent
In this episode, Mark Michael, founder of DevHub, breaks down what it really looks like to scale a non–AI-native company in the age of AI agents.DevHub powers thousands of franchise and…
S2E2 Nonprofits Are Saving 12 Hours a Week With AI — But That’s Not the Real Breakthrough
Nonprofits are uniquely positioned to benefit from AI — yet most are still struggling to adopt it.In this episode, Remy Reya, Director of AI and Thought Leadership at Compass Pro Bono, breaks down…
AI Hiring From 60 days to 2 Hours
Hiring shouldn’t take 60 days. In this episode, Alex an AI recruiter designed to interview everyone, summarise every conversation, and help employers and staffing firms move from “endless screening”…
S1E29 AI is changing startup immigration, how? (Gale, YC-backed)
In this episode, David Stepania talks with Haokun and Rishabh, founders of Gale, an immigration service provider bringing more tech into the U.S. visa process so employers, beneficiaries, and vetted…
S1E28 No Job Is Safe Anymore | What Cleanlab’s CEO Revealed Shocked Me
In this episode, Cleanlab CEO Curtis Northcutt shares a perspective few leaders are willing to say publicly:“I don’t even think my job is safe.”We discuss the exponential acceleration of AI, how…
S1E27 Your Data Labeling Job is Going to Zero: AI Disruption & Web3 Data Revolution
AI & Web3 are killing data labeling jobs – Sapien CEO Rowan Stone reveals how blockchain quality control and human-in-the-loop methods reshape AI data pipeline.In this hard-hitting episode titled…
S1E26 One-Click Mortgages: How Approval AI Automates Home Buying
First-time homebuyers and refinancers, meet Approval AI (now Clevy), the AI-powered mortgage marketplace turning tens of hours of rate shopping, paperwork, and lender negotiations into a streamlined,…
S1E25 Will AI Replace Engineers? The Future of Software Roles
Bind AI co-founder Amogh Mundhekar (ex-Intuit/Mailchimp) breaks down how “developer-less” development lets technical founders ship full-stack apps from a chat, image, or GitHub repo—complete with…
S1E24 State-of-the-Art AI Localization for Apps, Right in CI/CD
Shipping a feature and waiting a week for translations? In this episode, Max Prilutskiy, co-founder & CEO of Lingo.dev(YC), breaks down how teams ship every language in the same release without…
S1E23 From 1% Replies to Real Pipeline | Trigger-Based Outbound Explained
PMs and GTM leaders: ditch spray-and-pray. In this interview, Dor Vordi (Co-founder, Samplead) breaks down trigger-based outbound, how to spot person-level buying signals, score them with a…
S1E22 Bootstrapped to $300K ARR with 7 AI Builders
7 people. No investors. $300K ARR.Royal Tomar built an AI startup that prints profit — without spending on ads or hiring big teams.In this episode, Royal reveals how he turned a simple Instagram…
S1E21 Building The Future Of Money With Agentic Commerce
Discover how AI agents are reshaping commerce and payments.What is agentic commerce and why it matters nowHow Skyfire enables AI agents to authenticate and pay autonomouslyThe future of money:…
S1E20 AEO Secrets: How to Make ChatGPT Cite Your Brand
Discover the powerful secrets of Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) and how to get your brand cited by ChatGPT and other AI-driven search engines. This video unveils cutting-edge strategies for brand…
S1E19 From Viral LinkedIn Experiment to AI Ghostwriting Startup | João on Building Crafted
What happens when a viral LinkedIn post turns into a startup idea? 🚀 In this episode, João (Founder of Crafted) shares how he went from launching a 30-day “1 hour per day, $1K capital” challenge with…
S1E18 AI Transforms Silent Churn Into Predictable Growth
Failed payments silently drain $443B from SaaS and subscription businesses every year. Most founders accept it as an unavoidable cost — but it doesn’t have to be.In this episode, FlyCode CEO Tzachi…
S1E17 The Silent Killer of Sales — Fixed by AI with Brian Grech
Most online businesses don’t realize they’re losing 2–15% of revenue to false declines — when legitimate customers are wrongly flagged as fraud. It’s the silent killer of sales.In this episode, we…
S1E16 Ship AI Features in Minutes, No Coding Required.
In this episode, we talk with Tyler Postle, CEO & Co-Founder of Voker AI, a Y Combinator-backed startup helping small and mid-sized businesses scale without in-house AI engineers. Voker makes it…
S1E15 Behind YC’s AI Agent Boom
YC’s latest wave is all about AI agents — but how do you actually make them scale? In this episode, we sit down with Sam Bhagwat, co-founder of Gatsby and now founder of Mastra, a…
S1E14 From Months to Minutes: The Future of Market Testing with AI Societies
From recreating months-long experiments in minutes to forecasting customer behavior through AI personas, discover the future of rapid, safe experimentation powered by artificial collective…
S1E13 AI Pricing Secrets from Uber to Shopify with Peter Moot
🚀 AI pricing tech once reserved for Uber is now boosting Shopify store revenues by 50%+!Discover how former Uber Product Manager Peter Moot is transforming e‑commerce pricing for small and mid‑sized…
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The AI Chopping Block has published 32 episodes since May 2025, covering topics in Business, Education.
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