What's the future of hiring and skilling? / w/ Erran Berger, LinkedIn's VP for Product Engineering

What's the future of hiring and skilling? / w/ Erran Berger, LinkedIn's VP for Product Engineering

In this special episode of The Boss's Code, I ask a simple but urgent question: what does it take to thrive professionally when everything around you is changing? Erran Berger, VP of Product Engineering at LinkedIn, has spent over 15 years building the platform that holds the world's professional pulse. LinkedIn started as a place to park your résumé — today it's becoming something far more powerful: a navigator for your entire career in an AI-disrupted world. Erran joins me to break down how the platform is evolving, what AI means for recruiters, builders, and learners alike, and why the leaders and professionals who will win in this new world of work are the ones willing to jump headfirst into the unknown. Segments: 00:00 - Intro: AI Skills Are Required for Every Job 00:53 - Meet Eran Berger, LinkedIn VP of Product Engineering 01:52 - Inside LinkedIn's Product Engineering Team 03:13 - How the LinkedIn Profile Has Evolved Since 2009 06:00 - Building Products for Recruiters, Sellers and Marketers 06:18 - LinkedIn Hiring Assistant: Automating the Toil 08:35 - Protecting Job Seekers from the Automated System 09:05 - JobMatch and Closing the Skills Gap 10:41 - The Economic Graph and AI-Powered Learning 12:44 - Showcasing Work Beyond the Job Description 13:30 - The Full Stack Builder Vision 17:53 - Why Domain Experts and Maestros Still Matter 20:39 - Expert Networks: What LLMs Can't Replace 22:33 - Building a Better LinkedIn Feed Through Intentionality 24:40 - Be Curious: The Career Strategy for the AI Era 26:20 - The Future Recruiter: Judgment, Creativity, Relationships 28:13 - Wrap-Up

How are enterprises really using AI? | w/ Snowflake's Head of AI Research, Dwarak Rajagopal |

Artificial Intelligence is everywhere — but what is actually working inside enterprises, and what is still hype? In this season finale episode of The Boss’s Code, I speak with Dwarak Rajagopal, Head of AI Research at Snowflake, who has spent years building AI systems at the intersection of research and real-world deployment. This conversation goes beyond models and benchmarks to examine how AI is being operationalised inside large organisations — and what it takes to make AI reliable, trustworthy, and useful at scale. In this episode, we discuss: What enterprises are really doing with AI today — and where expectations still outpace reality Why open source remains critical to innovation, talent, and long-term AI leadership How Snowflake is addressing hallucinations, bias, and trust in enterprise AI systems The growing divide between corporatised, closed AI development in the U.S. and academic, open approaches emerging from China Where India stands in the global AI race — opportunities, risks, and what it must get right This is a grounded, strategic conversation about AI as infrastructure — not spectacle — and what leaders need to understand as AI becomes embedded in business, policy, and society. 🎧 Listen now on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. #AI #EnterpriseAI #OpenSource #Snowflake #ArtificialIntelligence #TheBosssCode #Leadership #Technology #FutureOfWork #IndiaAI

This startup beat Amazon on a patent, and is now rewiring the delivery system

Autonomous delivery isn’t just coming — it’s being quietly built from the ground up. And one startup has already done the unthinkable: beat Amazon to a core logistics patent.In this episode of The Boss’s Code, I speak with Dan O’Toole, CEO of Arrive AI, the company building a fully autonomous, asynchronous delivery network powered by its patented Arrive Point system — a universal docking station designed for robots, drones, and human couriers.We explore:🚚 How Arrive AI’s system works — and why it’s a fundamentally different approach to last-mile delivery🔧 The patent battle with Amazon, and what makes Arrive’s IP defensible🤖 Why asynchronous delivery (no scheduling, no human handoff) could unlock global scale📦 Use cases in healthcare, retail, and smart-city logistics💡 What it takes for a startup to out-innovate giants🌍 The future of autonomous mobility, and the regulatory shifts needed to reach mass adoptionIf you’re curious about the future of logistics, robotics, or how small innovators can outpace industry giants, this conversation offers a rare and honest look inside the next frontier of delivery tech.#autonomousvehicles [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/autonomousvehicles] #robotic [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/robotic] #robotdelivery [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/robotdelivery] #amazon [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/amazon] #ArriveAI [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/arriveai] #autonomousdelivery [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/autonomousdelivery] #automatic [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/automatic] #startup [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/startup] #disruptivethinking [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/disruptivethinking] #patent [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/patent]

How is Krafton building an esports and gaming ecosystem in India?

India’s gaming landscape is exploding, but what does it take to build an actual ecosystem, not just hit games? In this audio-only episode of The Boss’s Code, we go inside Krafton India’s long-term strategy with two of the leaders shaping it: Nihansh Bhat, Corporate Development Lead, and Anuj Sahani, Head of Gaming IncubatorThis conversation focuses on how Krafton is nurturing India’s next generation of game studios, creators, and technologies through its incubation program — from identifying promising founders to providing mentorship, resources, and market access. We also explore how the company’s corporate development team is evaluating the Indian market, spotting opportunities, and making strategic bets that extend beyond gaming into entertainment, tooling, and interactive experiences.If you’re curious about where Indian gaming is headed, how global publishers think about India, or what it takes to turn a fast-growing sector into a sustainable industry, this episode offers a grounded, insider look at the ambitions and mechanics behind Krafton’s ecosystem-building play.🎧 Listen now on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.#Gaming #IndiaGaming #Krafton #GameDevelopment #VentureInvesting #TheBosssCode #EcosystemBuilding #CorporateDevelopment #esports

How DataDog is making cloud data intelligent? | w/ DataDog's India Market Leader Namit D' Cruz

In this episode of The Boss's Code, I dive deep into the trillion-dollar digital industry that you probably aren’t watching: cloud data observability. I sat down with Namit D’Cruz, Datadog’s India Enterprise Market Leader, for a revealing conversation on how observability is reshaping the future of IT, AI, and enterprise cloud strategies. We discuss: 1.How organizations are evolving from “monitoring” to true observability 2. Why Indian enterprises are embracing multi-cloud and hybrid strategies for flexibility and resilience 3. The growing role of AI in observability (from virtual co-pilots to intelligent automation that helps teams act faster and smarter) 4. The importance of focusing on value over cost, especially in emerging markets. 5. The critical conversation around data trust, privacy, and localization in a connected world. #observability #cloud #data #monitoring #APM #logstash #tracing #IT #Leadership #CEOTalks #DataDog #CloudManagement #Tech