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The CEO Retort is a no-nonsense podcast with the mission to create a trusted, grounded medium that inspires critical thinking, questions and challenges conventional narratives, and promotes a balanced understanding of the complex world around us today.

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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 10/11/2025
Roger Wade: Responsible entrepreneurs and investors are the only hope for a better future One of UK's leading VCs and entrepreneurs, Roger Wade, shares his journey, tackling ethics in business, racism and the power of speaking up for change.
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Roger Wade: Responsible entrepreneurs and investors are the only hope for a better future
One of UK's leading VCs and entrepreneurs, Roger Wade, shares his journey, tackling ethics in business, racism and the power of speaking up for change.
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 03/11/2025
Scott Lucas: Why you must now understand politics and the new economic reality We hosted the veteran political and economic professor Scott Lucas to help us understand the reality that goes beyond traditional political boundaries.
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Scott Lucas: Why you must now understand politics and the new economic reality
We hosted the veteran political and economic professor Scott Lucas to help us understand the reality that goes beyond traditional political boundaries.
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 01/11/2025
Groundbreaking research shows that humans are not the only ones who make decisions based on evidence It turns out that chimpanzees have the ability to assess the quality of evidence when making decisions.
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Groundbreaking research shows that humans are not the only ones who make decisions based on evidence
It turns out that chimpanzees have the ability to assess the quality of evidence when making decisions.
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 30/10/2025
Global excessive heat kills one person a minute thanks to climate change inaction New research shows the annual number of preventable heat-related deaths globally has soared to more than half a million.
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Global excessive heat kills one person a minute thanks to climate change inaction
New research shows the annual number of preventable heat-related deaths globally has soared to more than half a million.
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 27/10/2025
May Bulman: Tony Blair’s institute turned into Oracle’s sales and lobbying operation Discover how tech giants influence global policies with the investigative journalist May Bullman, focusing on the Tony Blair Institute’s deep links with Oracle.
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May Bulman: Tony Blair’s institute turned into Oracle’s sales and lobbying operation
Discover how tech giants influence global policies with the investigative journalist May Bullman, focusing on the Tony Blair Institute’s deep links with Oracle.
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 20/10/2025
Cindy Gallop: AI bosses fuel and benefit from toxic masculinity Cindy Gallop discusses her platform “Make Love Not Porn”, advocating for human curation in tech to fight against toxic masculinity and the rising rape culture.
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Cindy Gallop: AI bosses fuel and benefit from toxic masculinity
Cindy Gallop discusses her platform “Make Love Not Porn”, advocating for human curation in tech to fight against toxic masculinity and the rising rape culture.
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 13/10/2025
Angus Hanton: How America owns Britain and can turn countries into vassal states Explore Angus Hanton's shocking revelations about how the UK's economic ties with the US turned it into a vassal state. But the UK is not the only one!
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Angus Hanton: How America owns Britain and can turn countries into vassal states
Explore Angus Hanton's shocking revelations about how the UK's economic ties with the US turned it into a vassal state. But the UK is not the only one!
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 11/10/2025
One in five school students reported they or someone they know has had a romantic relationship with AI CDT survey research finds use of AI in K-12 schools connected to negative effects on students, including their real-life relationships.
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One in five school students reported they or someone they know has had a romantic relationship with AI
CDT survey research finds use of AI in K-12 schools connected to negative effects on students, including their real-life relationships.
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 29/09/2025
Henry Nash: Forget hyped-up AI. We must now focus on real value and ROI Serial tech entrepreneur and author, Henry Nash, discusses AI's hype vs reality, why we must now focus on AI's ROI, and the future of quantum computing.
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Henry Nash: Forget hyped-up AI. We must now focus on real value and ROI
Serial tech entrepreneur and author, Henry Nash, discusses AI's hype vs reality, why we must now focus on AI's ROI, and the future of quantum computing.
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 22/09/2025
Sal Naseem: We allowed racism to grow! Critically important conversation with the ex-investigator of police corruption and best-selling author, Sal Naseem, on how we allowed racism to grow.
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Sal Naseem: We allowed racism to grow!
Critically important conversation with the ex-investigator of police corruption and best-selling author, Sal Naseem, on how we allowed racism to grow.
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 16/09/2025
Misinformation Watch: Who profits from political violence? An emergency Misinformation Watch in light of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, where social media platforms, AI, crypto bros and the Trump family profited financially.
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Misinformation Watch: Who profits from political violence?
An emergency Misinformation Watch in light of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, where social media platforms, AI, crypto bros and the Trump family profited financially.
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 08/09/2025
Jeffrey Funk: The AI Bubble will end in financial catastrophe Veteran technologist and author of Unicorns, Hype and Bubbles, reveals the truth about tech bubbles and the financial losses caused by the current AI bubble.
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Jeffrey Funk: The AI Bubble will end in financial catastrophe
Veteran technologist and author of Unicorns, Hype and Bubbles, reveals the truth about tech bubbles and the financial losses caused by the current AI bubble.
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 01/09/2025
Jeremy Levesley: AI has no intelligence! It needs people and maths to exist Lesley Fox Prize-winning mathematician Prof. Jeremy Levesley discusses AI's role in society, the meaning of intelligence and why we must change education.
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Jeremy Levesley: AI has no intelligence! It needs people and maths to exist
Lesley Fox Prize-winning mathematician Prof. Jeremy Levesley discusses AI's role in society, the meaning of intelligence and why we must change education.
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 25/08/2025
Ben Byford: Ethical AI is the only way to save humanity Let's have a serious discussion about digital ethics and ethical AI with Ben Byford, without the hyperbolic doom and gloom fantasy.
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Ben Byford: Ethical AI is the only way to save humanity
Let's have a serious discussion about digital ethics and ethical AI with Ben Byford, without the hyperbolic doom and gloom fantasy.
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 18/08/2025
Pat de Brún: Big tech is harming our human rights and safety An important discussion with Amnesty International's Head of Big Tech Accountability, revealing big tech's beahviours against our human rights and safety.
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Pat de Brún: Big tech is harming our human rights and safety
An important discussion with Amnesty International's Head of Big Tech Accountability, revealing big tech's beahviours against our human rights and safety.
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 11/08/2025
Emma Monk: Migration stats are all wrong! We expose the truth behind immigration statistics and misinformation, revealing how certain politicians and media outlets manipulated the data to the extreme.
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Emma Monk: Migration stats are all wrong!
We expose the truth behind immigration statistics and misinformation, revealing how certain politicians and media outlets manipulated the data to the extreme.
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 05/08/2025
How my dyslexia broke LinkedIn algorithms and blew up my following! How to grow your LinkedIn audience using your true, authentic self and true identity, not through fake authenticity powered by AI.
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How my dyslexia broke LinkedIn algorithms and blew up my following!
How to grow your LinkedIn audience using your true, authentic self and true identity, not through fake authenticity powered by AI.
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 24/07/2025
Google is killing web search with its AI summary, while also causing brainrot Study shows Google users who encounter an AI summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than users who do not encounter an AI summary.
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Google is killing web search with its AI summary, while also causing brainrot
Study shows Google users who encounter an AI summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than users who do not encounter an AI summary.
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 21/07/2025
Isvari Maranwe: Discrimination is the root cause of global problems A deep discussion with an award-winning cyber and national security attorney and former particle physics and supernova cosmology researcher at CERN.
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Isvari Maranwe: Discrimination is the root cause of global problems
A deep discussion with an award-winning cyber and national security attorney and former particle physics and supernova cosmology researcher at CERN.
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 14/07/2025
Pia Lauritzen: Asking the right questions can transform your life From childhood curiosity to becoming a renowned philosopher dedicated to the art of questions, Pia challenges societal barriers that stifle our natural curiosity.
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Pia Lauritzen: Asking the right questions can transform your life
From childhood curiosity to becoming a renowned philosopher dedicated to the art of questions, Pia challenges societal barriers that stifle our natural curiosity.
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 07/07/2025
Can Finland’s approach to deeptech ethics end AI’s societal damage? In this short episode, I'm sharing my frustration over the lack of action in digital ethics and AI innovation over the years. But, it is also a big announcement!
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Can Finland’s approach to deeptech ethics end AI’s societal damage?
In this short episode, I'm sharing my frustration over the lack of action in digital ethics and AI innovation over the years. But, it is also a big announcement!
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 30/06/2025
Emma Monk: Misinformation broke our societies for power Tim sits with Emma Monk, a molecular biologist turned anti-misinformation campaigner, who has spent over a decade debunking falsehoods in the media.
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Emma Monk: Misinformation broke our societies for power
Tim sits with Emma Monk, a molecular biologist turned anti-misinformation campaigner, who has spent over a decade debunking falsehoods in the media.
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 24/06/2025
AI chatbot safeguards fail to prevent the spread of health disinformation A peer-reviewed study assessed the effectiveness of safeguards in foundational LLMs to protect against malicious instruction that could turn them into tools for spreading disinformation, or the deliberate creation and…
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AI chatbot safeguards fail to prevent the spread of health disinformation
A peer-reviewed study assessed the effectiveness of safeguards in foundational LLMs to protect against malicious instruction that could turn them into tools for spreading disinformation, or the deliberate creation and dissemination of false information with the intent to harm.
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 23/06/2025
Lee Chambers: Men are trapped in the patriarchy and are not the problem A thought-provoking discussion on allyship, gender equality, and breaking barriers with the leading UK campaigner, Lee Chambers. A must listen!
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Lee Chambers: Men are trapped in the patriarchy and are not the problem
A thought-provoking discussion on allyship, gender equality, and breaking barriers with the leading UK campaigner, Lee Chambers. A must listen!
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 16/06/2025
Zsike Peter: The Vampire Agency and Secrets to Authentic Branding Growing up in a dictatorship and kidnapped by her mother to save her life and the lives of her siblings, Zsike Peter is the founder of Vampire Digital and a rising LinkedIn influencer with bold and thought-provoking content. If you…
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Zsike Peter: The Vampire Agency and Secrets to Authentic Branding
Growing up in a dictatorship and kidnapped by her mother to save her life and the lives of her siblings, Zsike Peter is the founder of Vampire Digital and a rising LinkedIn influencer with bold and thought-provoking content. If you thought you understood authenticity, think again!
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 17/02/2025
They’re Killing AI and The Internet 🙄 The biggest irony in tech today — the very companies who are pushing AI on you are the ones killing it, while also killing the Internet in the process. What’s next? 🤷 #ceo #ai #AISlop #entrepreneur #tech #internet
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 11/02/2025
Image source and more reporting: www.pressdemocrat.com/article/tren...
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JD Vance rails against 'excessive regulation' of AI at Paris summit
U_S_ Vice President JD Vance has told a Paris summit on artificial intelligence that the Trump administration will “ensure that AI systems developed in America are free from ideological bias,” and tha...
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 11/02/2025
‼️ WRONG ‼️ — US Vice President JD Vance told Paris AI summit that the Trump administration will “ensure that AI systems developed in America are free from ideological bias,” and that the US would “never restrict our citizens’ right to free speech.” Yes, that’s more data grab and AI-generated slop.
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 10/02/2025
‼️ NASA to Purge All Mentions of Women and Indigenous People from Websites 🙄‼️👇🏽 Pushing for brainless, bigoted, narrow-minded policies will achieve one thing — failure! 📌 Original Report: www.404media.co/nasa-dei-dro... Image source and additional reporting: futurism.com/the-byte/tru...
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 09/02/2025
‼️ I Asked ChatGPT for “its opinion” About Donald Trump and Elon Musk — WOW 🤣‼️👇🏽 I’ve seen posts suggesting that #ChatGPT, and others, are somewhat reserved if you were to ask them anything negative about Trump or Musk. Wrong! I had a go and below is the screenshots of what it came up with. Ouch 😬
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 03/02/2025
‼️ Tech and AI Ignore Children’s Rights 😡‼️ This is so infuriating A must-listen episode for parents and particularly politicians who seem to have inadvertently forgotten that children have rights and have been ignored for many years by the tech sector: ceoretort.com/podcast/gues... #ceo #ai #tech
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 31/01/2025
‼️ Time to Roast DeepSeek ‼️ — They’re *Not* the saviours and should be scrutinised like all others 👇🏽 You *must* scrutinise Deepseek as you would any other AI model. It does not mean they’re “less safe” than OpenAI, et al, nor that they’re the saviours. They’re all rushed! #ceo #ai #deepseek #tech
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 23/01/2025
The full report (there are many others online): www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Elon Musk trashes Trump’s $500 billion AI plan shortly after he announces it
Musk publicly broke from the Trump administration’s latest initiative on artificial intelligence
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 23/01/2025
‼️ Elon Musk TRASHES Trump’s $500 billion AI “Stargate” plan ‼️ — For once, I agree 🤯👇🏽 This “AI plan” announced by Trump and the tech “titans” — states the usual nonsense: 1) come up with a big number; 2) give it some Hollywood name; 3) make the usual promises that it will cure cancer, blah blah
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 19/01/2025
‼️ The Shortest AI News Story EVER 😂 ‼️👇🏽 What a year we had so far, eh? I’m sure we all need some light relief. This one hit the right spot for me 😂 #ceo #ai #news #fun #EmojisNews
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 18/01/2025
Why 2025 Is The Era of Internet of Sh*t (IoS) I discuss the uncertainty surrounding the economy and technology markets, which makes it difficult to feel confident, especially when so much remains unknown in light of the rapid pace of politically driven changes in tech and AI. youtu.be/Lq4g4K6CgOw
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Why 2025 Is The Era of Internet of S**t (IoS) — We need ethics and intelligent business
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 02/01/2025
Will 2025 be the year of failed promises and anger — on everything? 😳👇🏽 Even though this was a horror story of a possible terror attack, the image you see below went viral for a totally different reason. For many, it represents the year to come. Do you agree?
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 28/12/2024
‼️ YES ‼️ Apparently tech bros believe that Large Language Models ( #LLMs ) are “No longer Stochastic Parrots” — I Agree — because Parrots are Smarter! 😬 Time to push for AI that actually adds value to society and business in 2025, and stop peddling the AGI nonsense.
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 27/12/2024
📌 Original Report (sorry it’s behind a paywall): www.theinformation.com/articles/mic...
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Microsoft and OpenAI’s Secret AGI Definition
Finally, a verifiable, numbers-based description of artificial general intelligence has arrived!Whether AGI has or hasn’t been “achieved” by AI developers has been a hotly debated topic due to its fuz...
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 27/12/2024
What do you all think? Should this leaked report change the market’s direction and priorities? In my opinion, it should certainly push for more serious scrutiny, not to mention their aggressive data grab to train these models in a somewhat rushed and reckless fashion. #ceo #ai #ethics #agi #tech
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 27/12/2024
Don’t forget, the AGI concept has been around for a long time and I cannot tell you how many times I heard promises that it will be available in “5-10 years” — I’ve been waiting for 25 years, and I’m still waiting!
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 27/12/2024
You get the picture! So the fact that these leaked documents do not provide any clear scientific metrics that would allow OpenAI to define “AGI” should be an eye opener. Certainly, I would argue, the promise of $100 billion *IN PROFIT* is what attracted the investment, not AGI.
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 27/12/2024
We have seen with Theranos — a fake blood test company that was the darling of the media and investors alike. Why do you think social media startups pitched on the basis of huge vanity metrics (ie huge user sign-ups and engagements etc) which turned out to include millions of fake users?
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 27/12/2024
So it seems that, unless you build a deeptech company that makes scientifically suspicious, out of this world promises that turn out to be fraudulent, you don’t stand a chance of getting the funds that you deserve.
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 27/12/2024
I shared how DeepMind was on the verge of death if it weren’t for Google’s acquisition. Yes, they could not raise more investment. Yet, their CEO has just won the Nobel prize!
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 27/12/2024
I called this out on an episode of The CEO Retort – Podcast & Journal highlighting a real problem of how investors are not prioritising deeptech: ceoretort.com/podcast/solo...
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Can DeepMind’s Nobel-Prize Boost DeepTech Businesses?
We discuss the 2024 Nobel laureates involved in AI, including DeepMind’s cofounder, highlighting the urgent need for DeepTech funding.
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 27/12/2024
For example developing a new drug, building a new cybersecurity system, or building AI models on ethical standards from the ground up without using copyrighted material (as is the case with my company Nebuli), etc. Such clear targets are not sexy enough for many investors, apparently.
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 27/12/2024
Sadly, far too many tech startups use this typical trick of offering investors obscure “targets” to get investors excited while also allowing startups to move the goal posts. Why do you think deeptech startups don’t get the same level of investments? Becasue most deeptechs have clear targets.
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 27/12/2024
I don’t know about you, but both definitions seem somewhat different to me <sarcasm> Let me tell you a secret as a tech entrepreneur of over two decades:
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The CEO Retort @ceoretort.com · 27/12/2024
So, if I am to prove to you that I’m an intelligent person, all I have to do is demonstrate to you that I am generating $100 billion *in profits* — really? As a quick FYI — OpenAI’s website states that AGI refers to “AI systems that are smarter than humans”. 🤔
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