The Corporate Life – Billion Dollar Conversations | Cinematic Stories of Tech CEOs, Multimillion-Dollar Entrepreneurs, and Leading Investors
🎬 Every life is a movie - and the Tech CEOs, multimillion-dollar entrepreneurs, and Leading Investors who come here reveal the real story behind their rise.
The Corporate Life - Billion Dollar Conversations is a cinematic podcast hosted by Hina Siddiqui, CEO & Founder of Corporate Influence Media and creator of Capital-Stage Credibility Positioning.
Every episode uncovers the human story underneath the success - the turning points, reinventions, identity shifts, and billion-dollar decisions that made extraordinary founders, investors, and leaders who they are.
Because the story underneath the success is never the one on the headline. And that story is exactly where real authority lives.
Every life is a movie. Here, we find the scene that changes everything.
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The Corporate Life – Billion Dollar Conversations | Cinematic Stories of Tech CEOs, Multimillion-Dollar Entrepreneurs, and Leading Investors
The Day Microsoft Called And Why Most Companies Still Get AI Wrong
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He was about to quit. Then Microsoft called. Peter built a Slack bot called Howdy, got acquired by Microsoft, and came out the other side with a perspective on AI that most CEOs have never heard.
He's not here to tell you AI will save your business. He's here to tell you why the way you're using it right now is probably making things worse.In this episode we cover:
— Why automating a broken process just runs the problem faster
— What actually happened when Microsoft acquired Howdy
— Why most companies are integrating AI into the wrong things
— How to know if your business is genuinely ready for AI
— What CEOs need to understand before going AI-firstConnect with Peter:
Website: https://www.toilville.com/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterswimm/
Connect with Hina:
Website | https://thehinasiddiqui.com
LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/hinasiddiqui/
Instagram | @hinawithwings
YouTube | @thehinasiddiqui
Email | hina@thehinasiddiqui.com
00:00 Trailer
01:36 Introduction — Peter's unconventional path from library to tech consulting
01:51 Why starting a career in a library builds better consulting instincts
05:47 Building automation before it was a buzzword
07:10 AI and the philosophical question of what work actually means
11:57 The Slack bot Howdy and how the Microsoft acquisition happened
15:28 What changes inside a product after a tech giant acquires it
20:44 Why most companies are automating the wrong problems
23:38 How to know if your business is actually ready for AI
27:07 What CEOs need to hear before going AI-first
28:21 This or That — open source, augmentation, engineers vs product thinkers
37:58 Peter's life as a movie
39:30 Where to find Peter
Production Credit: Edited and produced by @the32collective_ /https://www.the32collective.co/
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