Supercompanies with Greg Shove

Why does AI adoption hit a wall inside large organizations? Brice Challamel joins to unpack what he's learned while leading people-first transformation at orgs like Moderna, and now at OpenAI as Head of AI Strategy and Adoption. Brice shares his five components for supporting transformation, and what playfulness has to do with making AI stick. Plus: why Brice thinks the AI layoff narrative is wron...

AI is in the workplace. As companies adopt new workflows, new conversations are happening and new concerns are arising. How do AI leaders meet the moment and work with their teams to create clarity? Taylor Malmsheimer, Section co-founder and COO, joins to share what she's learned speaking with hundreds of execs about their AI adoption efforts. Taylor walks Greg through the main types of questions...

How does a legacy tech veteran pivot to AI? Sid Sheth joins to share how Claude Code changed everything at d-Matrix almost overnight, what happens when your engineers are generating more code than they can validate, and why Sid appointed his co-founder as company AI czar. Plus: why Sid tells every new grad to ditch the generalist playbook, and how he's using AI in his personal life. Links: Sid's L...

After just five days on the job as Head of AI at Section, Michael Domanic joins Greg for their first one-on-one together. He shares about his experience as VP of Generative Business strategy at User Testing, and how they measured the ROI on AI adoption in the office. Plus, how many agents per employee are we likely to have in the future? Do you have questions about AI or adoption challenges at wor...

How does a 45-year-old hardware company like Logitech go all-in on AI? Eric Porres, Chief AI Officer at Logitech, has been inside that transformation from the start. After his company was acquired, he personally trained over 800 employees and built the playbook that's now scaling across a 7,000-person global organization. Greg and Eric go deep on what it actually takes to move a large incumbent fr...

Latent Supercompanies are among us. In this conversation with Greg Shove, Wade Foster, co-founder and CEO of Zapier, shares how he’s found massive success integrating AI internally and with customers. Zapier was already a success story. Three friends co-founded the automation company in college and built it into a $5B company by working nimbly and embracing remote work early on. Now, Wade is fully...

AI can be your most powerful productivity tool… or a shortcut to cognitive decline. Neuroscientist Dr. Sahar Yousef joins Greg on stage at SXSW to debate whether AI allows us to borrow 30 IQ points, or ultimately makes us dumber?” Dr. Yousef shares new, unpublished UC Berkeley data about cognitive offloading, and outlines how to leverage AI without losing your mind.

Some of the challenges with developing better AI have already been faced by other new technologies - like autonomous vehicles. Whether building human-in-the-loop systems or emergent scaling issues, AV companies like Waymore and Zoox are pioneering real-world solutions. What should the broader industry be learning from them? Tech and policy reporter Tim Lee (Understanding AI, Ars Technica, Washingt...

Greg plays guest on It's All About AI with Danilo McGarry. Learn what's actually happening inside companies adopting AI and why most leaders are getting it dangerously wrong. Greg shares what he sees on the ground, working with enterprise AI leaders across the US and Europe. Watch AI Truth Serum on YouTube, @aitruthserum . Episode Links It's All About AI YouTube channel Danilo's website

AI has the power to completely reshape the tasks we do - and how we approach our work in the first place. Greg taps Ed’s expertise as a custom AI agent developer to understand what leaders should know about what agents can do for us today. How can we convert inference into business value today? Ed shares the VVV framework he uses as part of his process for automating workflows. Plus, which tech in...

Journalist and author Brian Merchant (Motherboard, LA Times), joins to discuss his book Blood in the Machine , and what the AI revolution should learn from the Luddite movement. Brian’s substack functions as part of Greg’s conscience, and they talk about the current political climate in AI, and why AI companies face a strategy challenge after driving adoption with free services. When a tech critic...

AI is driving an arms race in classrooms, but what about the tech’s potential to give individualized instruction? What other ways might new technology change how we learn for the better? What’s ahead for the education tech landscape? Claire Zau, venture partner at GSV Ventures and author of the AI & Education newsletter, specializes in educational technology investment. She joins Greg from New...

It’s been a big year for fake news. So this New Year’s Eve, we look back at the hype, pitches, and rumors about AI we’ve heard in 2025, and Greg shares his predictions for 2026. And are we in a bubble? There may be a few, but there’s more to the story. If there’s one thing we can count on, it’s another year of AI’s presence growing in our lives. This episode has presentation visuals on YouTube .

Business strategist and best-selling author Sangeet Paul Choudary joins Greg to discuss why AI is such a big deal for corporate structures and platforms.  As AI requires organizations to fundamentally rethink how their structures work, it enables savvy competitors to exploit new operating paradigms. And as these tools allow users to cross traditional work boundaries, the impacts of AI to know...

At a time when AI narratives are being pushed by board rooms and C-suites, how big is the present moment, really? Investor Juliet Bailin, venture partner at Kindred Capital, joins Greg to give a bird's eye view of the changing AI economy. Are we in a bubble that’s going to burst, or a boom that will carry us forward – and which companies will successfully make the jump to the future? Greg gets som...

Are we going to lose our minds to artificial intelligence? Cognitive offloading is the biggest bogeyman in AI right now. And with good reason - it took us 10 years to realize what social media had done to our brains, and by then it was too late. New studies from MIT say ChatGPT power users have decreased brainwave activity – and are showing signs of dependence. So can we use AI without giving up o...

Welcome to AI Truth Serum, your antidote to the hype and doom of AI. Join veteran tech CEO Greg Shove as he speaks with AI experts and industry leaders about the real-world impact of AI on our lives. Tune in and learn how to thrive in the age of AI. You’ll get practical information about AI’s impact, actionable insights, and honest punchy commentary from the people building the future. Find AI Tru...