The Ignite Podcast
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Hosted by Brian Bell, Ignite brings founders, investors, and thought leaders together for candid conversations about startups, venture capital, technology, and society.
Oct 26, 2026 · 01:13:53
Ignite VC: What Makes a Great Venture Capital Investor with Mahendra Ramsinghani | Ep305
A cybersecurity startup raised over $100 million, reached nearly $30 million in revenue, and was sold for $1 after a cash flow crisis. Mahendra Ramsinghani, founder and managing partner of Secure Octane, joins Brian Bell on the Ignite Podcast to examine the uncomfortable…
Oct 22, 2026 · 00:44:30
Ignite AI: Why Most AI Projects Fail to Deliver Real Business Value with Eric Siegel | Ep304
Most machine learning models never reach deployment, and Gooder AI co-founder Eric Siegel argues that better algorithms won't fix the problem. Eric Siegel is the co-founder of Gooder AI and author of The AI Playbook and Predictive Analytics. With more than 35 years in machine…
Oct 20, 2026 · 00:40:24
Ignite Startups: How VoiceBit Is Transforming Restaurant Ordering with AI with Jay Patel | Ep303
VoiceBit discovered that customers would order pizza from an AI agent even when its first attempt failed to capture the toppings. Jay Patel is the co-founder and CTO of VoiceBit, an AI-powered ordering platform helping restaurants reclaim direct orders from third-party delivery…
Oct 15, 2026 · 00:53:01
Ignite Marketing: How to Turn Customers into Lifelong Fans with David Meerman Scott | Ep302
A Los Angeles dentist increased new patients by 33% and revenue by 23% after turning his skateboarding obsession into a marketing strategy. David Meerman Scott joins Brian Bell for this episode of the Ignite Podcast to discuss The Fandom Playbook, his fourteenth book. David is a…
Oct 8, 2026 · 00:40:55
Ignite AI: The AI Gateway for Models, Agents and Multi-Device Inference with Jonathan Archer | Ep301
A $200 Claude subscription can deliver almost $10,000 worth of usage, but Jonathan Archer thinks those economics will not last. Jonathan Archer is co-founder and CEO of Open LLM, a gateway designed to put multiple AI models, subscriptions, and API keys behind one layer. Before…
Oct 6, 2026 · 00:45:57
Ignite Startups: Ganesh Padmanabhan on Building AI Infrastructure for Healthcare | Ep300
Autonomize AI now powers four of the five largest U.S. health enterprises, targeting the administrative work consuming clinicians’ time. Ganesh Padmanabhan is the founder and CEO of Autonomize AI. Before founding the company, he spent 11 years at Dell, where he worked across…
Oct 2, 2026 · 00:48:50
Ignite Career: AI Is Changing the Rules of Tech Careers with Alana Karen | Ep299
After 23 years at Google, employee #319 Alana Karen says tech careers are getting harder as AI reshapes jobs and corporate priorities. Alana Karen spent 23 years at Google across search, ads, fiber, and other teams, joining as employee #319. She is the author of the best-selling…
Sep 29, 2026 · 00:44:35
Ignite Startups: Why Corporate Training Is Being Rebuilt Around AI and Just-in-Time Learning | Ep298
Arusto has seen roughly 40–50% of demos convert to pilots, with about 80–85% of pilots converting to rollouts. Yuvraj Singh Shergill is the co-founder and CEO of Arusto. He launched his first company at 17, grew it to about $1 million in revenue over five years, and eventually…
Sep 22, 2026 · 00:41:54
Ignite AI: How AI Can Let One Fund Controller Manage 10X More Capital with Rajesh Gopi | Ep297
Zive says a 14-person team and 200+ AI agents are supporting $6.2 billion in assets while automating core fund administration workflows. Rajesh Gopi is founder and CEO of Zive AI, an AI-native fund operating system for GPs, fund admins, and CFOs. He has spent 30 years as a…
Sep 15, 2026 · 00:42:47
Ignite Marketing: The Real Growth Engine Behind Profitable Apps with Jonathan Maxim | Ep296
Jonathan Maxim once drove 14,000 app downloads in a single day, but not one of those users became a paying customer. Jonathan Maxim is the founder of Viral App Launch. In 2019, he worked on TikTok’s U.S. expansion before campaigns in Brazil, the UK, Italy, and Thailand. He says…
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