"Autopilot" with Will Summerlin

By: Will Summerlin | Turpentine
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  • The podcast discusses the past, present, and future of automation and its impact on our biggest industries. Guests include Sergiy Nesterenko of Quilter, Aaron Slodov from Atomic, and Jordan Domash from Responsiv. Host Will Summerlin is the Founder and Managing Partner at Autopilot. This podcast is part of the Turpentine podcast network. Learn more: turpentine.co
    2024
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Episodes
  • James Kaplan, Chief Technology Officer of McKinsey & Company’s Technology Practice on AI Adoption

    James Kaplan, Chief Technology Officer of McKinsey & Company’s Technology Practice on AI Adoption
    Oct 15 2024
    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/id1765716600 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/38DK3W1Fq1xxQalhDSueFg -- -- LINKS: 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
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    47 mins
  • Agentic AI Employees You Can Hire Today with Surojit Chatterjee, Founder of Ema, ex-Coinbase / Google

    Agentic AI Employees You Can Hire Today with Surojit Chatterjee, Founder of Ema, ex-Coinbase / Google
    Aug 6 2024
    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/id1765716600 Spotify: 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 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/id1753399812https://podcasts.apple.com/id1753399812 -- LINKS: 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
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    30 mins
  • How LiveKit is Giving OpenAI's GPT 4.0 Voice in Real-Time with Russell d'Sa, Founder

    How LiveKit is Giving OpenAI's GPT 4.0 Voice in Real-Time with Russell d'Sa, Founder
    Jul 16 2024
    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/id1765716600 Spotify: 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
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    50 mins

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