Ready, Fire, Aim

🚀 What if your AI could THINK like a C-suite executive — not just follow instructions? In this episode of Ready, Fire, Aim, host Thad sits down with Victor Kovalev, AI scientist, 3x IPO veteran, and co-founder of Scale-Agentic, to unpack a completely new approach to go-to-market strategy. Victor reveals why the secret sauce behind his AI platform ISN'T a large language model — and breaks down the...

Jazib Ahmad is a serial founder who's been deep in the AI trenches — from tackling the context window problem with his tool Open Context, to launching his newest startup Scouty in real time. In this conversation, Thad and Jazib dig into why bigger context windows aren't the real solution, how vibe coding is changing what one person can build, and why the best version of your product should probabl...

🔥 Welcome back to the Ready Fire, Aim Podcast! In this episode, Thad Barnes sits down with long-time technologist, AI pioneer, and founder of Redshift Labs , David Siegel — a man who was taking AI classes at Stanford back in 1983 … before most people even knew what a computer was. This conversation goes deep into: The early days of AI (yes, before the internet) Why today’s LLMs work the way they...

AI Balancing, Fine-Tuning & Catastrophic Forgetting

In this episode of Ready, Fire, Aim , host Thad Barnes sits down with Ruth Birman , founder of Dysrupt Digital , to talk about navigating the rapidly evolving world of AI — and how businesses can thrive rather than freeze in fear. Ruth shares her journey from service design and UX to building modular AI workflows that help companies modernize legacy systems without being locked into vendors or unp...

In this episode of Ready, Fire, Aim , host Thad Barnes sits down with Troy Stange , founder of Brandpop and longtime design strategist, to explore a life and career full of unexpected turns. From creating keynote decks for Fortune 500 executives, Richard Branson, and even Barack Obama, to competing on the world stage in Olympic weightlifting at age 57 , Troy’s story is one of reinvention, resilien...

What does it really take to build a startup that blends AI innovation, leadership, and resilience in today’s fast-changing world? In this episode of the Ready, Fire, Aim Podcast , I sit down with Matt Farmer, founder of Moment 37 , to unpack his journey from the early days of bootstrapping to building a business that thrives in uncertainty. Matt shares how he’s leveraged Artificial Intelligence, c...

Join host Thad Barnes on the Ready Fire Aim Podcast as he sits down with John Fontenot, co-founder and chief product officer of Path2Product.io . John shares his journey from struggling to break into product management to creating a platform that helps aspiring PMs gain hands-on experience and land their dream roles. Discover how Path2Product cuts through the noise with a practical curriculum, por...

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From Near Bankruptcy to $125M: Trev Muir’s Leadership & Resilience Story | Ready, Fire, Aim Podcast Ep. 001 What happens when your company is on the brink of collapse, your personal life is falling apart, and the future is uncertain? For Trev Muir, co-founder and former CEO of Surepoint Group, the answer was radical transparency, vulnerability, and a culture of caring. In this episode of the R...