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Beyond the Bubble Podcast
AI beyond the financial bubble - what lasts once the hype dies and the narrative flips.
The news only talks about the money. Beyond the Bubble talks about the technology. Every episode is a conversation with the people actually building - separating the use-cases that survive from the ones that vanish when the bubble bursts. The thesis is simple: every world-changing technology arrives wrapped in a financial mania, from the railways to the dot-com bust. The mania fades. The technology stays and reshapes everything. We're here for what stays.
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Founders and operators on what actually lasts once the AI hype fades: scaling revenue, the use cases that hold up, and building through the noise.
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Jul 10, 2026
Claude just shipped organic connector discovery first
with Elliot Garreffa
Ghost Team co-founder Elliot Garreffa on the new discovery layer forming inside Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini, and why MCP apps are becoming infrastructure for agents.
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55:04 Ep 5 · Jul 3, 2026
Experiential commerce is what comes after quick commerce
with Varun Chopra
Varun Chopra, co-founder of Epic, on why AI-flooded storefronts push trust back into the living room, and how a 60-minute home demo took Epic to $4M ARR.
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Jun 26, 2026
MCP is the new front end for the agent internet
with Pierre-Louis Theron
Pierre-Louis Theron, co-founder and CEO of Alpic, argues the Google search bar is being replaced by AI-native interfaces, and MCP is the protocol that will rewire how the internet gets consumed.
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Jun 19, 2026
Crypto rails won. The crypto narrative didn't.
with Paul Dubé
Paul Dubé on why Web3's revolutionary promise quietly collapsed into banking infrastructure, what that tells us about the AI cycle now underway, and where money is actually moving next.
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Jun 11, 2026
Australia is ten years behind on enterprise AI adoption
with Jenny Vo
Jenny Vo, founder of Hera Digital, on selling AI sales infrastructure in a market that still treats ChatGPT as a chat interface, why 69% of pipeline dies at follow-up, and why replacing humans with AI is a bad commercial bet.
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Jun 4, 2026
Travel search was engineered to stay broken
with Saad Saeed
Saad Saeed, founder of Layla.ai and co-founder of Flink, on why the click-driven travel funnel is collapsing, why human agents still sit inside his AI loop, and how he reads the AI bubble after living through the grocery delivery one.
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