Spark of Ages
The Spark of Ages podcast is about the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence through a marketing lens.
We are living in the middle of the most important "spark for the ages". Our episodes are either about looking back to teach us what we can learn for this moment, or looking forward for where the next spark might be.
We highlight the stories from business leaders at the intersection of marketing, technology and innovation.
Spark of Ages
Latest Episodes
Why Non-Tech Companies Are AI's Biggest Untapped Frontier/Yair Nativ - Workflows, KPIs, War Zone ~ SOA 71
We sit down with Yair Nativ to separate AI hype from measurable business impact, especially inside traditional companies where the biggest wins hide in plain sight. We dig into executive fear, frontline resistance, and the practical discipline ...
A Stranger Launched Their Product Without Asking — Then a Million Developers Showed Up/Nimrod Kramer ~ SOA Ep 70
We sit down with Nimrod Kramer of Daily.dev to unpack how an accidental internal tool became a daily homepage for millions of software engineers by treating trust as the product. We dig into open source, community-powered curation, and why mark...
The AI With 160,000 Friends That Networks For You/Andrew D'Souza - Boardy.ai, Cold Start, Team ~ Spark of Ages Ep 69
Rajiv Parikh talks with Andrew D’Souza about building Boardy, an AI superconnector that scales warm introductions while protecting its own reputation and the network’s goodwill. We dig into why Boardy rejects SaaS norms, how the team trains an ...
How the Air Force Is Cracking Silicon Valley/Jason Hansberger, John Alora - Ukraine, Drones, Computer Vision ~ Spark of Ages Ep 68
Cheap drones and bounded autonomy are rewriting the economics of warfare and forcing the US military and DefenseTech startups to rethink how we buy, build, and field capability at speed. Our host, Rajiv Parikh, is joined by Jason Hansberg...
The Career Move That Survives AI/Geoff McQueen - Vibecoding, Revealed Preference, Coaches ~ Spark of Ages Ep 67
Rajiv Parikh talks with four-time founder Geoff McQueen about how AI is inverting the business pyramid and forcing everyone, not just executives, to act more entrepreneurially. We dig into why demos are easier than trust, how revealed preferenc...
