"Autopilot" with Will Summerlin

In this episode of the Autopilot podcast, James Kaplan, Chief Technology Officer of McKinsey & Company’s Technology practice shares his unique career journey from a history major to a tech leader, discussing the evolution of technology from the .com era to modern AI implementations. James also shares the challenges enterprises face in adopting AI, evolving dynamics between startups and incumbents, and provides valuable advice for navigating a successful career in technology. 🔥 Apply to join over 400 founders and Execs in the Turpentine Network: https://hmplogxqz0y.typeform.com/to/JCkphVqj -- RECOMMENDED PODCAST: 🎙️ Unpack Pricing - Dive into the dark arts of SaaS pricing with Metronome CEO Scott Woody and tech leaders. Learn how strategic pricing drives explosive revenue growth in today's biggest companies like Snowflake, Cockroach Labs, Dropbox and more. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1765716600https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1765716600 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1765716600] Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/38DK3W1Fq1xxQalhDSueFghttps://open.spotify.com/show/38DK3W1Fq1xxQalhDSueFg [https://open.spotify.com/show/38DK3W1Fq1xxQalhDSueFg] -- -- LINKS: http://www.mckinsey.com [http://www.mckinsey.com] (McKinsey) -- X/SOCIAL: @WillSummerlinAI (Will) @jmk37 (James) -- TIMESTAMPS: (00:00) Preview (01:40) Intro (04:20) Lessons from the dot-com era (07:39) AI adoption in enterprises (12:50) Value of generative AI (18:07) Inefficiency in law firms (21:31) Future of ontologies and knowledge graphs (24:50) Incumbents vs. Startups: Who will win? (30:13) Role of gen AI in software development (41:16) Adoption cycle of AI in enterprises (44:15) Reflecting on a successful career (45:12) Wrap

In this episode of the Autopilot podcast, Surojit Chatterjee, founder of Ema AI, former Chief Product Officer at Coinbase and ex-Google VP, discusses the future of AI employees in enterprise. He explores how Ema's AI employees can boost productivity for any role and any company by automating mundane tasks. Surojit draws parallels to past technological shifts, emphasizing the current phase shift as an opportunity for startups to overtake incumbents, and shares his vision for a more productive and imaginative future. 🔥 Apply to join over 400 founders and Execs in the Turpentine Network: https://hmplogxqz0y.typeform.com/to/JCkphVqj -- RECOMMENDED PODCAST: 🎙️ Unpack Pricing - Dive into the dark arts of SaaS pricing with Metronome CEO Scott Woody and tech leaders. Learn how strategic pricing drives explosive revenue growth in today's biggest companies like Snowflake, Cockroach Labs, Dropbox and more. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1765716600https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1765716600 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1765716600] Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/38DK3W1Fq1xxQalhDSueFghttps://open.spotify.com/show/38DK3W1Fq1xxQalhDSueFg [https://open.spotify.com/show/38DK3W1Fq1xxQalhDSueFg] -- 📈 ECON 102 W/ NOAH SMITH - Keeping econ entertaining - Noahpinion author Noah Smith and Erik Torenberg break down business news and politics every week. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Mos4VE3figVXleHDqfXOH [https://open.spotify.com/show/3Mos4VE3figVXleHDqfXOH] Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/id1753399812https://podcasts.apple.com/id1753399812 [https://podcasts.apple.com/id1753399812https://podcasts.apple.com/id1753399812] -- LINKS: https://ema.co/ [https://ema.co/] -- X/SOCIAL: @WillSummerlinAI (Will) @surojit (Surojit) -- TIMESTAMPS: (01:13) Intro (01:24) Journey to building Emma (03:31) Will Google be enriched or threatened by AI? (06:01) Ema: The AI Employee (09:38) Horizontal vs Vertical approach in AI (13:40) Use cases and value creation with Emq (16:01) Measuring the productivity boosts (18:02) Pricing model (20:15) AI’s impact on the labor force (25:30) Advice for starting a career (27:43) Wrap

In this episode of the Autopilot podcast, host Will Summerlin interviews Russell D'Sa, the founder of LiveKit, a company building critical infrastructure for real-time audio and video communication, used by OpenAI to voice ChatGPT. Russ shares his journey from growing up surrounded by technology in Silicon Valley to founding LiveKit, and discusses the complex challenges of delivering reliable, high-quality audio and video at scale. They discuss the future of multimodal interactions and explore how technologies like LiveKit are enabling more natural human-AI interfaces. - 🔥 Apply to join over 400 founders and Execs in the Turpentine Network: https://hmplogxqz0y.typeform.com/to/JCkphVqj -- RECOMMENDED PODCAST: 🎙️ Unpack Pricing - Dive into the dark arts of SaaS pricing with Metronome CEO Scott Woody and tech leaders. Learn how strategic pricing drives explosive revenue growth in today's biggest companies like Snowflake, Cockroach Labs, Dropbox and more. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1765716600https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1765716600 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1765716600] Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/38DK3W1Fq1xxQalhDSueFghttps://open.spotify.com/show/38DK3W1Fq1xxQalhDSueFg [https://open.spotify.com/show/38DK3W1Fq1xxQalhDSueFg] -- X/SOCIAL: @WillSummerlinAI (Will) @dsa (Russel) -- TIMESTAMPS: (00:00:00) Episode Preview (01:51) Early career and Silicon Valley influence (03:46) First foray into entrepreneurship (08:06) Lessons from Y Combinator (10:41) Founding LiveKit: The vision and challenges (17:01) The role of LiveKit in AI and real-time communication (20:41) Technical challenges in real-time audio and video (25:22) Handling high traffic and failures (27:54) The buy vs build dilemma (28:15) LiveKit's open source and commercial offerings (29:34) Scaling and deployment strategies (32:51) AI infrastructure challenges (37:48) Future of multimodal AI (43:52) Vision Pro and AR/VR future (47:49) Closing thoughts and contact information

In this episode of the Autopilot Podcast, Will interviews Dr. Thomas Fu, an emergency medicine physician and founder of Enabled Health. Dr. Fu shares how Enabled Health uses AI and computer vision technology to help combat patient deconditioning in hospitals, improving outcomes and efficiency. They discuss the aging population crisis, healthcare staffing shortages, the potential for AI to augment and assist medical professionals, and more. 🔥 Apply to join over 400 founders and Execs in the Turpentine Network: https://hmplogxqz0y.typeform.com/to/JCkphVqj - RECOMMENDED PODCAST: 🎙️ This Won't Last Eavesdrop on Keith Rabois, Kevin Ryan, Logan Bartlett, and Zach Weinberg's monthly backchannel. They unpack their hottest takes on the future of tech, business, venture, investing, and politics. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1765665937 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1765665937] Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2HwSNeVLL1MXy0RjFPyOSz [https://open.spotify.com/show/2HwSNeVLL1MXy0RjFPyOSz] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThisWontLastpodcast [https://www.youtube.com/@ThisWontLastpodcast] - 📈 ECON 102 W/ NOAH SMITH - Keeping econ entertaining - Noahpinion author Noah Smith and Erik Torenberg break down business news and politics every week. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Mos4VE3figVXleHDqfXOH [https://open.spotify.com/show/3Mos4VE3figVXleHDqfXOH] Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/id1753399812https://podcasts.apple.com/id1753399812 [https://podcasts.apple.com/id1753399812https://podcasts.apple.com/id1753399812] -- LINKS: Enabled Health: https://www.enabledhealth.ai/ Thomas Fu: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-fu-md X/SOCIAL: @WillSummerlinAI (Will)

In this episode, Will sits down with Freda Duan, investor at Altimeter Capital. They explore critical topics such as the energy bottlenecks in AI development, the future of AGI and ways in which we may have already achieved it today, and the future role of AI agents. Freda also discusses the capital expenditure trends among big tech companies and the nuanced competition between open source and closed source models. 🔥 Apply to join over 400 founders and Execs in the Turpentine Network: https://hmplogxqz0y.typeform.com/to/JCkphVqj [https://hmplogxqz0y.typeform.com/to/JCkphVqj] - RECOMMENDED PODCAST: 🎙️ This Won't Last Eavesdrop on Keith Rabois, Kevin Ryan, Logan Bartlett, and Zach Weinberg's monthly backchannel. They unpack their hottest takes on the future of tech, business, venture, investing, and politics. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1765665937 [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1765665937] Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2HwSNeVLL1MXy0RjFPyOSz [https://open.spotify.com/show/2HwSNeVLL1MXy0RjFPyOSz] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThisWontLastpodcast [https://www.youtube.com/@ThisWontLastpodcast] - 📈 ECON 102 W/ NOAH SMITH - Keeping econ entertaining - Noahpinion author Noah Smith and Erik Torenberg break down business news and politics every week. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Mos4VE3figVXleHDqfXOH [https://open.spotify.com/show/3Mos4VE3figVXleHDqfXOH] Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/id1753399812https://podcasts.apple.com/id1753399812 [https://podcasts.apple.com/id1753399812https://podcasts.apple.com/id1753399812] -- LINKS: https://x.com/fredaduan [%20https://x.com/fredaduan] X/SOCIAL: @WillSummerlinAI (Will) @fredaduan (Freda) TIMESTAMPS: (00:02:32) Energy consumption in AI data centres (00:05:20) Challenges and solutions for energy supply (00:09:00) Cooling and infrastructure innovations (00:12:10) CapEx and ROI in AI development (00:20:22) Open source vs closed source models (00:25:21) The rise of XAI and smaller models (00:27:35) Economic risks and historical parallels (00:29:54) Investment cycles and AI's future impact (00:36:13) The AI agent revolution (00:38:16) Debating AGI and its implications (00:48:15) The future of AI-driven industries