Media - Evangelos Simoudis

Conversations with Ben Lorica

In the 7/11/26 episode, we discuss:

Open source models and corporate AI sovereignty
Neoconsulting for enterprises
Worker productivity and AI tools

In this episode, we discuss:

Robotaxi fleet expansion and customer experience
The characteristics of AI-native startups
The impact of AI on SaaS companies and applications

In this episode, we discuss:

1. The AI bubble
2. Enterprise AI adoption. How to separate AI winners from losers in business
3. A realistic look at the US-China tech race

In this episode, we discuss:

Agents and real enterprise constraints
Building trustworthy, production-ready AI

In this episode, we discuss:

AI regulations and governance. Who should regulate AI?
Why China’s engineering culture gives them an AI advantage (Dan Wang’s new book)
The recent MIT survey: What to do when AI value doesn’t match the hype

In this episode, we discuss AI’s impact on employment and particularly entry-level positions. What I have termed “the great hollowing out”

In this episode we discuss the key characteristics of successful AI implementers: experimentation commitment, early technology adoption, and willingness to redesign business processes

In this episode, we discuss my book The Flagship Experience

Podcasts

My conversation with Alex Housley, CEO of Seldon, a UK-based MLOps company on strategic foresight and organizational readiness for enterprise AI, agentic systems, and why the future of MLOps requires both boardroom vision and developer execution.