The PlayerZero Podcast

Christina Guo is the co-founder of Cue AI , an AI tool that makes it easier for businesses to get value out of their data. Cue AI adds interactive, customer-facing analytics into a company’s product with the use of data API, front-end components, and a no-code editor. Christina is a graduate and former startup accelerator-head at Cal Berkeley where she spent most of her time helping SaaS and ML st...

Shane Smith is the founder of Everetics , a customer experience / Saas tool that helps organizations turn their customers into assets. Shane Smith is a SaaS and Customer Experience veteran of over 20 years. Over his career, Shane has built and scaled Support and Service organizations ranging from 20k to 1.4b, led global operations and delivery for small and large companies, and brought multiple ne...

Shaan Bassi is a co-founder @ Kouo , an emotional analytics company that helps product teams interpret real human emotions from wearable data using AI. Kouo allows companies to create hyper-customised user journeys and experiences while also gaining insights into the emotions that drive retention. In our episode together, Shaan and I discuss how building tools around our users’ emotional needs can...

Stefano Puntoni is the co-director of AI, a professor of marketing, and a world-renowned behavioral scientist at The Wharton School. His research examines the psychology of Artificial Intelligence to understand consumer reactions and adoption patterns. Stefano teaches about technology, brands, consumers, and decision-making. He is passionate about research teaching, and connecting with others to s...

Once a year, ProductCamp Atlanta hosts a collaborative, participant-organized professional unconference, focused on Product Management, Marketing, and UX topics. For this week’s podcast, I went around and bothered several attendees to try and discover how AI has impacted the role of a product manager in the corporate & startup worlds. At ProductCamp, everyone participates in some manner: prese...

David Garcia and Nathan Schlaffer are the founders of MarketMate AI - MarketMate AI is a new B2B marketing platform powered by AI that helps product marketers and GTM teams with target market identification, messaging creation, content automation, and sales enablement. MarketMate aims to make generative AI more user-friendly for real marketing workflows by generating tailored content for your buye...

Animesh Koratana is a Stanford AI researcher, inventor, and the founder and CEO of PlayerZero, and Matt Kasner is a GTM leader at PlayerZero, a first of its kind software-quality platform driven by the proprietary NEO engine that helps teams build, fix, and test what’s most important. The company has created the first ever end-to-end platform that correlates customer performance signals to release...

Nick Gomez is the founder & CEO of Inkeep , a company that uses large language models (LLMs), proprietary retrieval algorithms, and a company’s existing content to provide immediate answers to developer questions. Before founding Inkeep, Nick graduated from MIT and went on to work his way up as a senior PM at Microsoft before striking out for himself with the developer-focused AI company. Here...

Cody Ho is the winner of 2023’s DEFCON , the world's largest and most famous hacker conference. This year, Cody took home two of the three top spots in competitions revolving around manipulating popular AI models like ChatGPT and Google Bard. Cody is a current Stanford student, developer, and hacker. Here’s an overview of our conversation: * How did you get into hacking? (0:00) * White Hat vs Blac...

Aliya Grig is the founder of Evolwe AI , a deep tech company known for creating the first empathetic and conscious AI for human-like interactions and personalized experiences. Aliya is also the founder of The Cosmos City, an edutainment center and innovation hub for space tech startups. As an AGI researcher, Aliya Grig developed a cutting-edge AGI architecture that integrates various principles fr...

Billee Howard is the co-founder & CEO @ BRANDthrō - the AI-driven SaaS platform for emotionally optimized CX. Throughout her career, she’s been a passionate innovator, customer advocate, marketing strategist, and storyteller. Today she advises the world’s top brands and their leadership on how to build data-backed strategies that drive emotional engagement across all stakeholder groups. Here’s...

Pankaj Kedia is a tech intrapreneur turned early-stage AI / deep tech investor, venture partner, CXO advisor, and board member. Pankaj currently serves as the founder and managing partner of 2468 Ventures and is a board member and CEO advisor to numerous early-stage start-ups and non-profit organizations. In our conversation, we discuss Pankaj’s journey from intrapreneurship to entrepreneurship, h...

Terry Rodriguez and Salma Mayorquin are the founders of Remyx - by alleviating the dependence of large, curated data sets with synthetic data, combined with their AutoML engine for model customization, Remyx AI's platform enables users to efficiently process and analyze image and video data. In our conversation, we talk about machine learning, the jump from software to hardware in computer vision...

Dwayne Samuels is the founder of Samelogic - an AI company that harnesses the power of your community and team with AI to build products that solve real problems. In our conversation, Dwayne and I discuss entrepreneurship in the Caribbean, adjusting to life in the United States, winning an international tech competition hosted by Microsoft, and how L stands for Learning. Here’s an overview of our...

Dr. Jennifer Prendki is the founder of Alectio - the DataPrepOps Company™ (by the way, she invented that term). In our conversation, we talk about the drawbacks of big data and how to make the most of small datasets for training AI. Listen on to find out how Jennifer went from PhD in particle physics to leading data science at massive companies, growing startups, and ultimately taking the plunge t...

Erica Jenkins is a fractional product management consultant working with startups and B2B SaaS platforms. In today’s episode, she discusses her perspectives and hot takes on the SaaS industry and the hyper surrounding AI, discusses valuable lessons from her past as a successful founder & in-house product leader, and lays out a roadmap for working with founders both as an internal executive and...

Nate Andorsky is the founder of Patent355 - a behavioral science-driven product studio that partners with high growth companies to help them build, validate assumptions and accelerate their product growth. He’s also a multi-time founder and author of “Decoding the Why” - in which he outlines strategies for building technology based on the 95% of human emotions and thoughts that occur before the cu...

Pierce Healy is the co-founder of Zelta - an innovative AI venture that’s helping lead the charge in revamping the way businesses make customer-centric decisions. With a firm grounding in the tech and consulting industry, Pierce leverages his comprehensive knowledge to mold the future of AI and its real-world applications. In our discussion, we unpack what exactly Zelta is all about, delve into th...

Tyler Carlson is the co-founder of Resquared - the ultimate AI-powered tool for anyone looking to sell to small businesses. In our conversation we discuss the role of AI in product makers’ lives, Tyler and his co-founder’s journey as a YC-backed startup, the challenges of scaling a company over the long term and much more. Here’s an overview of our discussion: Introduction and background (0:00) Th...

Barkha Herman is the founder of South Florida Women in Technology - a community of women in tech who are passionate about helping each other out & empowering more women to succeed in the tech industry. In this episode, Barkha discusses the universe of opportunity that AI has opened up for anyone who wants to get into tech, how to go far when all you have is grit and determination, and lays out...

Marko Jak is the co-founder of Secta Labs - the AI headshot generator. In this episode, Marko discusses the 3-step diffusion process that Secta uses to make the magic happen, the crucial role that we play as AI builders in shaping the ethics of the industry - and how we can do so more responsibly, and gives his takes on the state of the industry and its ever changing nature. Here’s an overview of...

Seth Earley is the CEO of Earley Information Science and the author of "The AI-Powered Enterprise" . In this episode, Seth discusses the vast potential of AI in business processes, the importance of understanding your organization's needs, and the best strategies for implementing AI initiatives. He emphasizes the role of AI in enhancing both customer and employee experience, and how properly utili...

William Bakst is the co-founder and CEO of SOTAI AI , a company that assists other businesses in leveraging their data effectively with the use of AI by providing transparent models that go beyond black box modeling. In this episode, William delves into the potential of AI, the uncertainties surrounding its future impact on society, and the potential dangers of not properly understanding AI system...

In this episode of the Future of Product podcast, Ashwin Singhania , co-founder @ Unwrap , shares his insights into how AI can unlock valuable insights from customer data and transform product management. Ashwin discusses the challenges and benefits of integrating AI into product development and how advancements in technology are making it easier to parse through data. Here's an overview of our di...

Matt Kasner is the head of product at PlayerZero, a cutting-edge company that serves as your AI product monitoring copilot. In this episode, Matt offers invaluable insights into how product people can avoid being replaced by AI through a balance of automation and empathy to deliver outstanding customer experiences. In our conversation, we explore a range of topics, including the importance of user...