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The AI playbook for businesses by Silicon Valley founders
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Inside this conversation.
The hosts examine how businesses can evaluate AI beyond the demo. They discuss the workload created by new vendors, the gap between explaining a tool and understanding it, preparation for adoption, and how to judge practical gains for organizations and individual teams.
Topics covered
- AI demos, vendor overload and administrative work
- Understanding tools before adopting them
- Business ROI and individual productivity
Overview based on the publisher’s official YouTube episode description. Chapters below use the publisher’s timestamps; host opinions are not independent verification of market claims.
Jump to a chapter.
- 0:00Trailer
- 0:38Intro starts (hosts introduce themselves)
- 1:06Topics overview announced
- 2:07Deep dive into AI demo burnout begins
- 4:00Discussion of the 150-180 startups per year
- 6:06Admin burnout & vendor responsibility
- 7:05Illusion of explanatory depth concept
- 12:00Reality gap discussion
- 20:00Preparation topic begins
- 25:00Real gains section starts
- 31:13S&P 500 ROI analysis
- 34:00Individual efficiency discussion
- 36:22Final thoughts on hype cycle
- 38:30Outro
Around the table.
Kanav Hasija ↗ · Tanmaya Kala ↗ · Jon Wright ↗
Meet the hosts ↗


