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Hosted by Haydn Brain & Ed Gotham · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 268 episodes
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Investment Opportunities: Opto Sessions brings you exclusive interviews with the world’s top investors, fund managers and CEOs, uncovering their secrets to success. Tune in to learn how to invest in the next big idea and gain actionable insights from the industry's sharpest minds.
Haydn Brain & Ed Gotham hosts Opto Sessions – Invest in the Next Big Idea, a business show with 268 episodes published.
In this episode, Ed is joined by Ben Taylor, Chief Financial Officer and President of Recursion UK, to discuss how AI is reshaping drug discovery, biotech, and the future of medicine. Ben explains how Recursion uses AI,
April is rethinking tax as something that should happen year-round, not just at filing time. In this episode, co-founder and CEO Ben Borodach explains how April embeds AI-powered tax filing, planning and estimation tools
What can Kratos Defense do that larger defense primes can’t? In this episode of Opto Sessions, CEO Eric DeMarco explains the company’s low-cost approach to AI drones, hypersonic systems and space infrastructure, and make
AI agents are targeting the biggest problem in healthcare: slow, expensive operations. In this episode, Autonomize AI founder & CEO Ganesh Padmanabhan breaks down why approvals like MRIs can take weeks and how AI agents
In this AI Christmas special of OPTO Sessions, we revisit standout moments from this year’s conversations on how AI is changing products, cost bases and competitive moats, from Better.com and Upstart in lending, to Box a
Leah Price, VP of the Tinman AI platform at Better.com, joins OPTO Sessions to unpack the company’s pivot to a full-stack GenAI mortgage OS and Betsy, the chat- and voice-based assistant embedded across the experience -
Intercom co-founder and CSO Des Traynor joins OPTO Sessions to unpack the company’s AI-first shift and Fin, the 27-part AI customer service agent that delivers better, faster answers up to 94% of the time. ----- The cont
QuantumScape CFO Kevin Hettrich joins OPTO Sessions to unpack solid-state EV batteries, why this tech could enable faster charging, more range and improved safety for electric vehicles, and what Volkswagen’s partnership
Upstart co-founder and CTO Paul Gu joins OPTO Sessions to explain how AI underwriting powers 92% fully automated loans and lifts conversion to approximately 24% as the AI lending marketplace returns to profitability with
Box CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie returns to OPTO Sessions to reveal how AI agents are turning 90% of unstructured corporate data into instant answers, powering automation across roles. He maps where enterprise AI is he
Andy Marsh, Plug Power CEO, joins OPTO Sessions to discuss the current state and future of green hydrogen, emphasizing how hydrogen production can free up scarce grid electricity for other uses while accelerating nationa
Charlie Youakim, CEO and Co-Founder of Sezzle, joins OPTO Sessions to discuss company’s journey from startup to a leading public company in the fintech space, the evolution of Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) model and record g
Nitesh Sharan, CFO of SoundHound AI, returns to OPTO Sessions to discuss the company’s accelerating momentum and why Voice AI is fast becoming the default interface of the future. As pioneers in the space, with deep AI r
Victor Basta, Managing Partner and Co-founder of Artis Partners, joins OPTO Sessions to share his two-stage exit preparation process - designed to ensure companies are bought, not sold. He delves into why success often c
In this episode of OPTO Sessions, Andrew Ye, an investment strategist at GlobalX ETFs, discusses the evolving landscape of the defence industry, particularly in light of recent geopolitical tensions and technological adv
Sir Peter Beck, CEO and Founder of Rocket Lab, returns to OPTO Sessions a year after our first conversation to delve deeper into the company’s evolution as an end-to-end space provider, its growing role in national secur
Dr. Alan Baratz, D-Wave CEO, joins OPTO Sessions to discuss the current state and future of quantum computing, emphasizing the unique capabilities of D-Wave's quantum annealing technology. He explains how quantum computi
In this week’s OPTO Sessions, Ashley Johnson, President and CFO of Planet Labs, explains how the company is using satellites and AI to deliver real-time insights about life on Earth. She breaks down Planet’s evolving bus
In this week’s OPTO Sessions, Craig Bealmear, CFO of Oklo, shares how the company is transforming nuclear energy with small modular reactors. He discusses Oklo’s unique business model model, rising demand from data cente
This week, Sebastian Schroetel, Senior VP of Product Management at UiPath, joins OPTO Sessions to explore the future of AI-driven automation. He shares how UiPath has evolved from robotic process automation (RPA) to end-
Des Traynor
co-founder and chief strategy officer · Intercom
1 appearance on this show
Aaron Levie
CEO and co-founder · Box
2 appearances on this show
Sir Andy Marsh
CEO · College of Policing
1 appearance on this show
Sir Peter Beck
Rocket Lab founder · Rocket Lab
2 appearances on this show
Ashley Johnson
chief innovation officer · Ashley’s Business Solutions
1 appearance on this show
Michael Gayed
editor of the Lead-Lag Report and host of the Lead-Lag Live Podcast · The Free Markets ETF
1 appearance on this show
Edwin Dorsey
Founder and Author of The Bear Cave · The Bear Cave
1 appearance on this show
Anthony Scaramucci
Wall Street financier, broadcaster, former Director of Communications for Donald Trump · SkyBridge Capital
1 appearance on this show
Cathie Wood
Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer · ARK Investment Management
1 appearance on this show
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