The AI-First Business Podcast

AI isn’t coming—it’s already built. Hosted by Tina Yazdi, this is the podcast where you meet the ones who did it first. No panel chatter, no posturing—just sharp strategy, fast builds, and the people reshaping products, ops, and industries with AI.

The AI-First Business Podcast is a business podcast hosted by Tina Yazdi, with 22 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Tina Yazdi hosts The AI-First Business Podcast, a business show with 22 episodes published.

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  How Revolut's Metric Obsession Accidentally Built a Founder Factory (46+ Alumni Startups)

  Sep 16, 202534 minS0

  <p>He bought Amazon gift cards out of his own pocket to hit his KPIs. That's what metric obsession looks like at Revolut.</p><p><br></p><p>Pierre Cahuzac is a product leader at Europe's most valuable fintech—and explains why their alumni start companies at ridiculous rates. It's not the dashboards. It's the ownership model.</p><p><br></p><p>You'll walk away with Revolut's framework for organizing teams around metrics instead of code, the P50 vs P10 methodology for identifying human vs machine performance gaps, and why artificial deadlines create throwaway work.</p><p><br></p><p>Si...

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  From Bedroom Coding to VC Bidding War: The Small AI Models Thesis That Broke Silicon Valley

  Sep 11, 20251 minS0

  <p>He bet against trillion-parameter models when every VC said he was insane—now NVIDIA is publishing papers proving him right.</p><p>Sudarshan from Smallest.ai cracked enterprise voice AI by ignoring Silicon Valley's foundation model obsession. While competitors chased infinite compute, his autonomous vehicle background revealed the truth: compact models handling life-or-death navigation decisions outperform bloated systems requiring massive resources.</p><p>The contrarian thesis almost killed fundraising until one viral launch changed everything. World's fastest text-to-speech hits millions of views, multiple term sheets arrive the same day, $8M seed closes in two weeks. But thousands of curious de...

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  Voice AI for Insurance: The Technology Finally Ready for Prime Time

  Aug 18, 202528 minS0

  <p>Investment banking taught him speed, but Amir Prodensky needed something bigger to build.</p><p>Fresh from Revolut's hyper-growth chaos, Amir saw the massive gap in financial services customer experience. Insurance customers were stuck with phone queues and paper processes while expecting Amazon-level service.</p><p>So he built Strada: AI agents that handle every customer interaction across phone, text, email, and chat while maintaining perfect context. These aren't simple chatbots—they connect to core insurance systems and take real actions like generating certificates and processing claims.</p><p>Amir's framework for AI adoption moves through five stages: from co...

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  AI is Rewriting Data Roles—Will Your Team Survive the Shift?

  Aug 12, 202545 minS0

  <p>He walked away from aerospace engineering and built a SaaS startup cutting data transformation time by 90%.</p><p>Kaustav Mitra, co-founder and CEO of Paradime.io, shares how he turned a restless career path into a weapon—building teams with autonomy, betting on AI before the noise, and rethinking how companies manage data at scale.</p><p>You’ll get clear on:</p><p>Why autonomy isn’t a “nice to have” but a force multiplier.</p><p>How AI is reshaping the modern data stack (ETL → ELT → AI-native).</p><p>The leadership habits that let small teams compete with giants.<...

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  AI’s Hidden Failure Point Is in Your Data Stack (it’s costing you millions)

  Aug 5, 202549 minS0

  <p>Barr Moses grew up running experiments in her dad’s physics lab. Today, she’s the CEO of Monte Carlo, the leading platform for data + AI observability.</p><p>This episode goes beyond her founder story. It’s about why data trust is the new currency in AI—and how Barr built the playbook for companies that want to move fast without breaking everything.</p><p>She’ll show you:</p><p>Why clean dashboards don’t mean reliable data.</p><p>The messy middle of making data dependable at scale.</p><p>The real reasons intuition still matters when the num...

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