Keep Going

Work is eating our lives. That much feels obvious. What is less obvious is why we let it happen. I spoke with psychologist and author Guy Winch about his new book Mind Over Grind , which looks at a familiar but poorly understood problem: the slow psychological takeover that happens when work becomes the dominant force in a person’s life. Many of us think we are simply tired or busy. Winch argues t...

On this week’s episode of Keep Going, I spoke with Patricia Martin , writer, researcher, and author of Will the Future Like You? She has spent a decade studying what happens when failure is not just professional but personal. The kind that makes you wake up and ask, who am I now? Patricia calls it identity-threatening failure. Not every setback qualifies. Missing a target or losing a client stings...

Kevin Gaskell walked into a room expecting to be fired. Instead, he was handed the keys to Porsche UK. That moment says a lot about his career. He is an engineer by training. Then he added an MBA. Then accountancy. Blueprint and balance sheet. He joined Porsche in his twenties, rose through operations, and found himself in a company that was sliding. Three years of unsold inventory. Brutal headlin...

I sat down with Constantin Kogan last week after we randomly met in Salt Lake City. We both live near New York. Sometimes the universe has a sense of humor. Konstantin is the founder of Holistic Capital , a multi strategy investment firm focused on digital assets. He also runs a podcast called Holistic Investments. Over 100 episodes. More than 600,000 followers across platforms. Not bad for someth...

On this episode of Innovators, I spoke with Jason Ambrose of People.ai about what “agentic AI” actually means, why sales data is messier than most people think, and why blindly trusting large language models is a mistake. People.ai has been around long enough to see multiple waves of enterprise software come and go. Now it’s repositioning itself squarely in the agent era. Most CRM systems tell you...

This week on Keep Going, I talked with Chantelle Shakila Tiagi , the founder of Tiagi , a creative production and artist consultancy that works across fashion, beauty, and lifestyle. What struck me was not the scale of the work, which spans London, Los Angeles, and Mumbai, but how unplanned the entire thing was. Tiagi did not start as a master plan. It started as momentum. Chantelle came up throug...

On this episode of The Innovators, I sat down with Mitchell Jones , founder of Lava , to talk about one of the least glamorous and most urgent problems in AI right now, getting paid without going broke. Mitchell is building what amounts to billing infrastructure for AI products. If you are running agents, LLM powered tools, or anything where compute costs change by the minute, you already know the...

I caught up with Marcos Bravo, a Chilean guy living in Portugal, who has spent most of his adult life bouncing between tech, sales, marketing, and whatever paid the bills. He is 46 now. He has a family. And he is in that phase where you look at your work and ask a blunt question: Is this all I am showing my kids, that life is just paying bills. Marcus is not doing the clean midlife pivot. He is do...

On this episode of The Innovators , I spoke with Jasper Fu , CEO of CoinSub , about what crypto payments actually look like when you strip away the hype and aim for real adoption. CoinSub has been operating for roughly two and a half years and has grown to a 22-person team, most of them engineers. The company’s focus is narrow by design. Instead of trying to convince millions of merchants to adopt...

This week on Keep Going I talked with Nelly Mendoza , the founder of Nelly Creative Studios. She has been making jewelry for about ten years, and her story is not a clean startup arc. It starts with her walking into a class in the basement of her college art center, kind of by accident, and finding the one thing she kept coming back to, even while she was majoring in economics. The part that stuck...

This week on Keep Going, I sat down with Karl Alomar , Managing Partner at M13 , and former COO of DigitalOcean. Carl’s career, when you say it fast, sounds like a highlight reel. He came to the US from England with an engineering background, started his first company in California in the late 90s, sold it in 2000, got an MBA at Columbia, built a global fintech business to real revenue and exited...

Some talks stick under your skin. This one did. On this week’s Keep Going I sat down with Mechele Dickerson , a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. Her new book is called “ The Middle Class New Deal: Restoring Upward Mobility in the American Dream .” It comes out in January 2026. I picked up the pitch because I have the same nagging feeling everyone else has. The midd...

Most people meet plant cell culture in the grocery store without knowing it. You see it in the perfect row of blueberries, the identical bananas, the white orchids that look the same every single year. You do not see the lab bench and the flask behind them. On The Innovators, I talked with Yoni Kalin, CEO of Plant Cell Technology , about the quiet infrastructure under all of that. His company has...

I am writing this with an Audigo mic sitting next to a hulking broadcast preamp on my desk. The old rig is a nest of cables and knobs. The Audigo is a small square that looks like it fell out of the future and landed in my hand. That contrast is the whole story. On this episode of Keep Going I talked with Armen Nazarian , founder and CEO of Audigo. He is a drummer who took a long detour through en...

My guest is Sudheesh Nair, co-founder and CEO of Tinyfish . He has done this before. Early at Nutanix through IPO. Then six years running ThoughtSpot. He left both without drama. Not because of ego or boredom. Because the rooms filled with the same talks about price and discount. Because he wanted to build again, from first principles, and be accountable as the one in the chair. Tinyfish is an AI...

I recorded this episode in an old hoodie, unshaven, feeling more “survival mode” than “thriving.” Which is exactly why I wanted to talk to Jon Rosemberg . Jon is the co-founder of Anther and the CEO of Strongpoint Group . He also has a background in positive psychology and a new book coming out, A Guide to Thriving , from Wiley on November 25. On paper he is the kind of person my inner cynic wants...

Most people never think about the battery until it dies. Charlie Welch has spent his whole career thinking about nothing else. On The Innovators, he walked me through what he is building at Proper Voltage . Before this, he was doing applied research in battery chemistry at Northrop, trying to get “interesting and exotic” chemistries into real military systems, from underwater gear to aircraft to s...

I used to think my job was to judge founders. Now I ask people to tell me what broke and what they did next. I call it a podcast. It is also penance. This episode is with Dr. Rod Berger . He is a writer, consultant, and the author of The Narrative Edge. We talked about story. Not the fake kind. The real kind. Rod’s view is simple. Story is how people survive each other. You get pulled over for spe...

I spoke with Mikhail Baklanov , CEO and founder of Donkit , about a problem every enterprise AI team hits sooner or later, retrieval augmented generation that is accurate enough for production. The numbers he quotes are familiar. Companies spend heavily and still spend 18 months experimenting with indexes, chunking, embeddings, evaluators, and guardrails. Accuracy is often not good enough at the e...

I first spoke with Ehren Cruz and felt something I do not get often in this space, grounded optimism. He runs a retreat center north of Asheville and guides people through psilocybin journeys with a process that looks more like a rite of passage than a thrill ride. Here is how he works. He starts with a real assessment. Meds, mental health history, trauma, and whether he is the right person to hel...

Robots do not need pep talks. They need power. In the field, cables and careful hands are a liability. That is the problem Quaze is trying to solve, and it came through in my talk with Francis Roy , their Chief Strategy Officer. Quaze’s pitch is simple. Turn big surfaces into charging points. Not small targets that demand perfect alignment. Broad mats that you can fold, carry, and drop on dirt or...

In this week’s Keep Going , I sat down with Steve Rad , founder and CEO of Abacus Brands and Backdrop.com , to talk about building two thriving companies from the ground up. His story starts not in a boardroom but in a Taco Bell parking lot, selling trade show displays out of the back of a car after the 2009 financial crash. What grew from those early hustles became Backdrop.com, a full-scale even...

We recorded late in Tokyo, and Evan Burkosky , CEO of Kimaru AI , laid out a claim that is both obvious and ignored. Most supply chains still run on spreadsheets. People glue together ERP exports, POS reports, CRM notes, and a flotilla of pivot tables, then hope the next week behaves like the last one. It rarely does. Kimaru calls its approach decision intelligence. Strip away the hype, and you ge...

My guest this week was Ashley Manta , a certified sexologist and relationship coach. She works with high achieving women and with couples. Here focus is on pleasure, connection, honesty, and the habits that keep those things from drying out. She says we have to start with stress. If you run a company or live inside one, you know the drill. You carry the day in your jaw, in your shoulders, in your...

In this episode of The Innovators , I spoke with Pablo Zegers , Chief AI Officer at Kaspix , a company that’s turning everything we think we know about artificial intelligence upside down. Zegers and his team are building analog AI—systems that don’t need transistors, GPUs, or data centers. Their technology runs intelligence directly in hardware, even when that hardware has physical imperfections....