Tech Can't Save Us

This week on Tech Can't Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Shawn Owen, CEO of SALT Lending, a pioneer in the blockchain space since 2016. As a serial entrepreneur with over 26 years of experience and a passion for Bitcoin dating back to 2011, Shawn provides a unique perspective on bridging the gap between legacy finance and the digital asset revolution. They discuss the fundamental problems SAL...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Taran Lent, CTO of Illumia. A leader in enterprise-grade cloud software, Illumia was born from the strategic merger of Transact Campus and Seaboard, two powerhouses focused on revolutionizing commerce and credentialing solutions. They discuss the unique challenges of modernizing the tech stack for mission-critical legacy industries, inc...

This week on Tech Can't Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Ivan Gekht, CEO of Gehtsoft USA, a prominent leader in software delivery for highly regulated environments. Ivan’s professional journey is remarkably unique, beginning as a Siberian aerospace engineer before he transitioned into the high-stakes world of fintech and trading. As the creator of the New York Stock Exchange’s first-ever FX m...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us , host Paul David is joined by Jonatan Allback , Co-founder and CEO of NjiaPay , a payments-as-a-service company simplifying online commerce across the African continent. With nearly 15 years of fintech experience, Jonatan is now applying big-tech growth principles to one of the world's most exciting emerging markets. They discuss the immense hurdles of operating in...

In this episode of the Tech Can't Save Us podcast, host Paul David interviews Jonatan Roose, the co-founder of Healthy Workers. Based in Amsterdam, the company specializes in making every building smart through innovative building automation and energy management solutions. Since its founding, Healthy Workers has grown to manage over three million square meters across various asset classes, includ...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, host Paul David is joined for part two of a deep dive with Gary Bonilla, the co-founder of GoodMora. Following their previous discussion on why business transformations fail, they shift focus to the future of leadership, decision-making, and how behavior changes with better data and insights. The conversation explores how strategy is shifting from trying to lock in...

This week on Tech Can't Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Steven Puri, founder and CEO of The Sukha Company. Steven has led a fascinating career, transitioning from a high-level studio executive and producer at major Hollywood studios like DreamWorks and Sony to raising $21 million in venture funding across three tech startups. Together, they explore how remote work has broken traditional prod...

This week on Tech Can't Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Tessa Clarke, co-founder and CEO of Olio, a free app on a mission to tackle waste in homes and local communities. Since its launch in 2015, Olio has grown to over 8 million users who have collectively shared more than 130 million meals and prevented 300,000 tons of CO2 emissions. Tessa discusses how waste has become endemic across socie...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us , host Paul David is joined by Leo Crowe , the co-founder and CEO of Souk , a newly launched AI platform transforming how companies build and scale channel partnerships. Selected for Antler’s 2025 London cohort from over 150,000 applicants, Leo brings a wealth of experience from leadership roles at Deel and Papaya Global to solve the age-old inefficiencies of partne...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us , host Paul David is joined by Robert "Robby" Cobbs , CEO and founder, and Kyle Sumrow , director of development at TechMySchool . As the Caribbean’s leading EdTech consulting nonprofit, TechMySchool serves over 40 schools across Puerto Rico, the U.S., and internationally, helping them modernize systems and create student-centered learning environments. They discuss...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us , host Paul David is joined by Asmaa Bencherif , founder of Lori . Lori is an AI operating system designed to make real-world patient stories and outcomes usable at scale, helping individuals find health products that genuinely work in a crowded and often untrustworthy market. Asmaa shares her personal journey of being diagnosed with an autoimmune condition and the...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Galen Wolfe-Pauly, co-founder of Tlon. Tlon is a company radically reimagining the internet's foundation to create a simpler, more personal computing experience. They discuss the structural flaws of the modern internet, where users rely on centralized identifiers and servers they do not own, leading to issues with privacy, data mining,...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us , host Paul David is joined by Richard Savoie , Founding CEO of Adiona , an award-winning AI-powered delivery optimization platform that is reinventing how cities move goods. As urban populations grow and delivery volumes explode, the "last mile" has become the most expensive, complex, and emissions-intensive part of the supply chain. They discuss the "cracks" in mo...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us , host Paul David is joined by Connor Mason and Glenn Stephenson, co-founders of Fluid Focus , a Belfast-based company rethinking our relationship with technology. With research showing the average adult spends nearly a third of their waking hours—and Gen Z over six hours a day—on their smartphones, Fluid Focus aims to flip the dynamic from tech consuming our lives...

This week on Tech Can't Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Jinesh Vohra , founder and CEO of Sprive , a UK-based fintech on a mission to help homeowners pay off their mortgages years earlier and save thousands in interest. The conversation dives deep into the structural flaws of the UK mortgage system, where high property prices relative to salaries have forced many into 30 or 40-year mortgage...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Greg Freeman , founder and CEO of Data Literacy Academy , an organization dedicated to building data-confident cultures within the world’s top companies. They discuss the staggering reality that up to 83% of the workforce is data illiterate, leaving businesses unable to effectively monetize or act upon the billions of dollars they inves...

This week on Tech Can't Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Matthew Whyatt, founder and chief strategist at TechTorque, a consultancy that helps B2B software and SaaS companies sharpen their go-to-market strategies, scale revenue, and build predictable sales systems. They discuss how AI is fundamentally reshaping B2B software sales while emphasizing that great selling isn't dying, it's evolving....

This week on Tech Can't Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Mijke van Ballegooijen, CEO of BYBORRE, a pioneering textile innovation company based in Amsterdam that's redefining how fabrics are designed, produced, and valued through data-driven design and radical transparency. They discuss the fundamental problems plaguing the global textile industry, which accounts for up to 10% of global carbon...

This week on Tech Can't Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Kirsten Karchmer , CEO of Conceivable , a pioneering digital health company that is revolutionizing precision medicine for fertility and women's wellness. Kirsten's career spans more than two decades transforming how women approach their reproductive health. After running one of North America's largest fertility wellness clinics as the...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us , host Paul David is joined by Gary Bonilla, Co-Founder of GoodMora, a company pioneering structural intelligence. AI-driven tools that make the hidden architecture of a business visible, measurable, and adaptable. Gary’s career spans newsroom reporting, global brand strategy, and creative leadership at Nickelodeon, where he helped revive icons like SpongeBob Square...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us , host Paul David is joined by Erin Lee, CEO of Flow Neuroscience, the Swedish health-tech company behind a breakthrough in depression treatment: a wearable brain-stimulation headset that offers a safe, evidence-based alternative to traditional antidepressants. Flow’s device uses transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to gently activate brain regions respons...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us , host Paul David is joined by Andy Ellwood , founder and CEO of Stretch , the first shopping intelligence platform built to help families save money and make smarter grocery decisions. Andy’s career spans private aviation, startups acquired by Facebook and Google, business development at Waze, and years spent coaching top founders and now he’s bringing that eclecti...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us , host Paul David is joined by Dr. Serge Santos, entrepreneur, investor, and award-winning leader known as The Business Physicist . After deploying over $1 billion in capital during his investment banking and hedge fund career and achieving a multi-million-dollar exit with his previous company, Serge is now tackling one of the UK’s most persistent economic challenge...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us , host Paul David is joined by Professor Rob Young, Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer of Quantum Base, a pioneering deep-tech company using quantum physics to authenticate products and stop counterfeiting at the atomic level. Rob explains how Quantum Base’s flagship technology, Q-ID, a tiny, printed tag containing “atomic-level uniqueness,” delivers provably se...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us , host Paul David sits down with John Richardson, Co-Founder and Director of Coaching at MySalesCoach, the fast-growing platform tackling a problem almost every sales leader knows too well: sales reps simply aren’t getting enough meaningful coaching. John explains why traditional sales management often fails to deliver authentic coaching, outlining the fundamental d...