Josh Weiner, senior vice president of consumer engagement and analytics at CVS Health, is passionate about making health care more personalized, connected, preventative, and accessible. On today’s episode, Josh joins Sam and Shervin to explain how the integrated health care company is structured and how it is using AI to achieve those goals. Read the episode ... Show More
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Creating More, Not Less, With AI: GeekWire’s Todd Bishop
AI isn’t taking jobs — it’s changing what jobs are.On today’s episode, GeekWire’s Todd Bishop joins host Sam Ransbotham to dive into how artificial intelligence is reshaping work, learning, and creativity — not by replacing humans but by amplifying what we can do.
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27m 40s
Nov 11
From Rabbit Holes to Recommendations: Reddit’s Vishal Gupta
Vishal Gupta, engineering manager, machine learning at Reddit, joins the podcast to explain how the social media community platform uses artificial intelligence to improve user experience and ad relevance. Much of the advertising work relies on increasingly sophisticated recomme ... Show More
25m 9s
Nov 2024
#262 Self-Service Business Intelligence with Sameer Al-Sakran, CEO at Metabase
We’re improving DataFramed, and we need your help! We want to hear what you have to say about the show, and how we can make it more enjoyable for you—find out more here.We’re often caught chasing the dream of “self-serve” data—a place where data empowers stakeholders to answer th ... Show More
51m 33s
Sep 2024
Grand Challenges in Healthcare AI
<p>Vijay Pande, founding general partner, and Julie Yoo, general partner at a16z Bio + Health, come together to discuss the grand challenges facing healthcare AI today.</p><p>The talk through the implications of AI integration in healthcare workflows, AI as a potential catalyst f ... Show More
37m 40s
Jul 2024
Building a world-class data org | Jessica Lachs (VP of Analytics and Data Science at DoorDash)
<p><strong>Jessica Lachs</strong> is the global head of analytics and data science at DoorDash, where she’s built one of the largest and most respected data organizations in tech. In her more than 10 years at DoorDash, she has served as the first general manager, responsible for ... Show More
1h 19m
Sep 29
Value-Based Oncology at Scale: Inside Thyme Care
<p>Cancer care in the U.S. costs over $250 billion each year, and nearly 2 million Americans receive a new diagnosis annually, yet too often the journey begins with silence: no call, no plan, no guide.</p><p>In this episode, a16z’s Vineeta Agarwala and Jay Rughani talk with Thyme ... Show More
41m 16s
Mar 2022
Russ Altman (Stanford University) & Kim Branson (GSK) - Principled Engineering: AI and Drug Development
<p>Russ Altman is the Kenneth Fong Professor of Bioengineering, Genetics, Medicine, Biomedical Data Science and (by courtesy) Computer Science at Stanford University. His primary research interests are in the application of computing to problems relevant to medicine. Kim Branson ... Show More
58m 25s
Sep 2024
#244 Using Data to Optimize Costs in Healthcare with Travis Dalton and Jocelyn Jiang President/CEO & VP of Data & Decision Science at MultiPlan
In healthcare, data is becoming one of the most valuable tools for improving patient care and reducing costs. But with massive amounts of information and complex systems, how do organizations turn that data into actionable insights? How can AI and machine learning be used to crea ... Show More
39m 43s
Sep 21
From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo (Facebook VP, Sundial CEO, The Making of a Manager author)
Julie Zhuo is the former VP and Head of Design at Facebook (now Meta), author of the bestselling book The Making of a Manager, and co-founder of Sundial, an AI-powered data analysis company. Also, my first-ever podcast guest over 3 years ago!In our conversation, we discuss:1. The ... Show More
1h 36m
Feb 2025
The Man Who Invented Prompt Engineering on AI, AGI & The Future of Humanoids w/ Richard Socher & Salim Ismail | EP #152
In this episode of WTF is Happening in Tech, Richard, Salim, and Peter discuss the latest news in tech and AI, including the LLM war, Grok’s update, and more.
Recorded on Feb 24th, 2025
Views are my own thoughts, not Financial, Medical, or Legal Advice.
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1h 15m
Aug 6
S8E8: Luis von Ahn Is Making Screen Time Count
<p>Luis von Ahn was a tenured professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University who had sold a company to Google. “You were pretty set, a lot of us would say, so why were you so hungry to build something new with Duolingo?” asks Ayesha Karnik, MBA ’25. </p><p>“For ... Show More
57m 51s
Jan 2025
How AI is Transforming Human Resources with John Kannapell, CYPHER Learning
<p>Discover the transformative power of artificial intelligence in HR as we explore how generative AI is reshaping the workplace. <br/><br/>The guest this time is John Kannapell, President, COO and Board Member at <a href='https://www.cypherlearning.com/'>CYPHER Learning</a>, a c ... Show More
23m 59s