Show Your Priors Podcast

Connect with Alex https://strategyzer.com **Michael's Upcoming Book** https://a.co/d/045OQdAa Music by  ThunderWof. https://www.instagram.com/apache_thunderwof_18/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/4092jgp59goD4nZIL2mQw5 Alex Osterwalder, creator of the Business Model Canvas and founder of Strategyzer, joins Show Your Priors to break down what actually works when you combine business strategy wi...

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The most valuable IPO in history just happened, a frontier AI model got switched off by the US government within days of launch, and Apple quietly handed its flagship feature to a direct competitor. On Episode 15 of Show Your Priors, Michael Nichols and Jason Thompson rip apart the week's biggest business, strategy, and finance stories to find the playbook underneath. SpaceX IPO'd at a sta...

Connect with Annehttps://griffinproduct.co/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/annetgriffin/ https://x.com/annetgriffin Music by  @thunderwofbaybe  https://www.instagram.com/apache_thunderwof_18/https://open.spotify.com/artist/4092jgp59goD4nZIL2mQw5Is AI about to wipe out SaaS, or is that the most overhyped fear in business right now? In Episode 14 of Show Your Priors, the business strategy podcast that...

Connect with Rita - https://www.ritamcgrath.com/Music by  @thunderwofbaybe  .https://www.instagram.com/apache_thunderwof_18/https://open.spotify.com/artist/4092jgp59goD4nZIL2mQw5What happens to business strategy when the old rules stop working? In Episode 13 of Show Your Priors, co-hosts Michael Nichols and Jason Thompson sit down with Rita McGrath, one of the world's leading minds on strategy...

Episode 12 of Show Your Priors covers two of the biggest business stories of the year. Google IO 2026 arrived as the largest developer conference in the company's history, and what they unveiled amounted to a full-scale reimagining of the company. The traditional search results page has been declared over, Gemini 3.5 Flash is now running AI agents across Gmail, Android, and Drive, and Google i...

Cerebras just delivered one of the most dramatic IPOs of the year, popping 68% on day one and putting real pressure on Nvidia's grip on AI inference. On this episode of Show Your Priors, Michael Nichols and Jason Thompson break down whether this punchy little startup with a dinner plate sized chip can actually crack Cuda, why Neuralink and Synchron are racing to put brain computer interfaces i...

The White House just reversed its position on AI regulation, asking the same companies it spent the past year deregulating to suddenly slow down. On Episode 10 of Show Your Priors, Jason Thompson and Michael Nichols break down what triggered the about face, why Anthropic just surpassed OpenAI at a $900 billion valuation, and what Apple opening Siri to third party AI models reveals about who really...

Elon Musk drags Sam Altman and OpenAI into an Oakland courtroom over a $134 billion charity. Berkshire Hathaway holds its first annual meeting in 55 years without Warren Buffett at the helm. Spirit Airlines liquidates overnight, taking 17,000 jobs with it. Co-hosts Michael Nichols and Jason Thompson break down the strategy, finance, and management questions buried inside this week's biggest bu...

Papa Elon just slapped a $60 billion price tag on AI coding startup Cursor, and the structure of the deal is even wilder than the number. Is this a real acquisition or the cleverest IPO pump of the year? In Episode 8, Michael and Jason break down the SpaceX and Cursor deal, then sit down with their very first guest, strategy expert Scott Newton, to talk about what modern corporate strategy actuall...

Episode 7 of Show Your Priors takes on three heavyweights at the intersection of business, strategy, finance, and technology. The Stanford 2026 AI Index Report, the surprise return of SPACs with Chamath Palihapitiya, and what Joseph Stalin's five year plan can teach corporate leaders about the targets sitting on their desk right now. We open with the headlines. Allbirds ditches its shoe busine...

What happens when an AI model becomes so good at finding security vulnerabilities that releasing it to the public would be genuinely dangerous? That is the question at the center of this week's episode, and it turns out the answer reveals just as much about AI business strategy as it does about cybersecurity. Jason and Michael dig into Claude Mythos, Anthropic's unreleased model that has a...

OpenAI just spent over $100 million on a podcast. Oracle let go of up to 30,000 employees in a single email. And everyone wants to know: is AI actually going to replace coders? In Episode 5 of Show Your Priors, we break down the biggest moves in AI, business strategy, and corporate management this week. We start with OpenAI's staggering $852 billion valuation after a $122 billion funding round...

Is your AI making you a better business leader or quietly keeping you delusional? In this episode of Show Your Priors, Jason and Mike dig into one of the most underrated risks in enterprise AI adoption: AI sycophancy. Your AI tools aren't just hallucinating facts, they're telling you what you want to hear, confirming your biases, and systematically pushing you further from the truth. And if you're...

In this episode of Show Your Priors, hosts Michael Nichols and Jason Thompson dive deep into one of the most surprising business case studies in modern history, Five Guys. How did a small family burger joint beat the odds in the brutal fast food industry and grow into a global brand without traditional advertising, without frozen food, and without following the playbook of giants like McDonald&#39...

Unlocking the deep causal model behind enterprise success. In this episode of Show Your Priors, hosts Michael Nichols and Jason Thompson break down business strategy—a rigorous framework designed to bridge the corporate innovation gap and move beyond "Innovation Theatre".In this episode, you will learn: Strategy vs. Tactics: Why "Operational Effectiveness" isn't a strategy...

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