The Dead Brand Pivot

🎙️ He Ran Innovation for PayPal Out of His Backpack

Mike Todasco talks innovation at Paypal

Starbucks Built a Better Bank

And they did it by selling shit coffee.

When AI Needs a Body

Humans as Infrastructure

🎙️ Why a Disability is an Innovation Superpower

Kate Kalcevich explains how Fable approaches innovation.

Headcount vs. Culture: Which Predicts Innovation Capability?

When AI Calibration Becomes a Class Marker

The Age of Outsourced Reality: Part 4 of 4

🎙️ Was Clayton Christensen Right?

Dr. David Fried spent his career answering this question...

When Taste Becomes the Bottleneck

The Age of Outsourced Reality: Part 3 of 4

When Reality Becomes the Exception Handler

The Age of Outsourced Reality: Part 2 of 4

🎙️ Most Companies Don’t Have an Innovation Problem

According to Dan Keldsen, they have a handoff problem.

When Thinking Becomes Optional, Reality Becomes a Product

The Age of Outsourced Reality: Part 1 of 4

Venture Clienting: When “Buy” Beats “Build”

🎙️ Will Innovation Force Evolution?

Legible vs. Illegible Work

Why incrementing is easy and inventing is not.

Me, Myself, and AI

The role of identity in the era of agentic AI.

🎙️ "What if our kids have crappy passions?"

Educator and innovator Steve Iglesias on shaping our kids' futures.

Case Study: VA vs. The Hyperscalers

AI Isn't a Model Race. It's a Power Grab.

🎙️ Podcast: Scaling a Venture Team from 0 to 40

Learn how Michelle Pacynski built the Ulta Innovation Team from nothing.

People Love Arguing About Innovation

The Only Innovation Pitch That Works

Part 2 of The Innovation Mandate in 2026

🎙️ Podcast: From PI to CIO

How his background as a PI prepared this innovator to run an innovation org.

Innovation Is the Wrong Lens for AI

Part 1 of The Innovation Mandate in 2026

The World's First AI Earnings Call

A hypothetical look at what happens when frontier AI builders go public.