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What if the biggest barrier to AI transformation isn’t the technology — but convincing people that AI will improve their work, not replace them?
In this episode of Notable Perspectives, Christina Pasanen sits down with Kate Barney, Chief People Officer at Smartly — the AI-powered advertising platform that manages over $6 billion in ad spend for 800+ brands including Samsung, Spotify, and Uber. Before Smartly, Kate scaled TikTok's Global Business Solutions workforce from 35 to 8,000 employees in just three years. She's seen what it takes to build at hyperspeed — and now she's rethinking the entire people function for the AI era, from replacing HR ops with an AI agent to running company-wide AI Fridays and Tiger Teams.
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The Tiger Team Playbook: How Smartly built a cross-functional AI strike force that runs Shark Tanks, trains the company, and builds internal tools — without hiring a single external consultant.
HR Product, Not HR Ops: Why Smartly replaced a traditional HR operations leader with a product thinker tasked with building an HR agent — and what that means for every people team.
The Five-Year-Old Rule: Why cutting entry-level hiring to save money today creates a talent crisis tomorrow — and why new grads might be your best AI hires.
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What does it take to build a company culture where AI doesn't replace human connection — it deepens it?
In this episode of Notable Perspectives, Jen Holmstrom and Christina Pasanen sit down with Steven Wang, founder and CEO of Dub — the first regulated copy-trading platform in the U.S., on a mission to make investing more accessible by letting users learn from and follow real, proven portfolios. With over 1.5 million downloads, Dub is reshaping how everyday investors engage with the markets through transparency and alignment.
Steven dropped out of Harvard at 19 after selling a VR company and working at Apple to start Dub. Now backed by $47 million from Notable Capital, Neo, and investors including Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi and Robinhood co-founder Nathan Rodland, he’s building a team where AI adoption isn’t a perk — it’s the baseline.
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The 80/20 Flip: Why AI has eliminated 80% of the grunt work — and how every new hire at Dub is now evaluated entirely on the 20% that's uniquely human.
Expect First, Inspect After: How a first-time founder went from micromanaging like a tiger parent to building a trust-first culture — and why it changed everything.
The Extraction Playbook: From banning AI in interviews to taking candidates out for drinks, the unconventional hiring process behind one of fintech's fastest-growing teams.
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If you're thinking about the counteroffer only after you've made the offer, you've already lost.
In this episode of Notable Perspectives, Jen Holmstrom and Christina Pasanen sit down with Matt Jahansouz, Chief People Officer of Quince. Quince has crossed $1 billion in revenue and a $10.1 billion valuation by rethinking the end-to-end consumer and e-commerce model — selling $50 cashmere sweaters and premium bedding by cutting out middlemen entirely. Matt brings the people leadership playbook behind that growth: how to close elite talent in a bidding war, why workforce planning past 90 days is largely wasted time, and what it actually means to build a team for an AI-driven world.
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Building an AI-first culture: How Quince has woven AI practice into its weekly all-hands — and why the earliest movers will have a compounding advantage.
The closing playbook: Why getting someone to accept an offer is only the beginning, and how to get ahead of the counteroffer before you've even made the original one.
Lean team advantage: Why top performers actually seek out leaner organizations — and how leaders can make that a recruiting asset rather than a liability.
Workforce planning in flux: Why 90-day forecasting horizons have replaced three-year plans, and how ruthless prioritization is the only thing that makes it work.
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What happens when we start talking to machines like we talk to each other?
In this episode of Notable Perspectives, Chelcie Taylor sits down with Kwindla Hultman Kramer, CEO and co-founder of Daily. A decade-long bet on real-time audio and video infrastructure, Daily quietly built the plumbing that powers telehealth, education, and enterprise communication. Then GPT-4 arrived — and Daily’s infrastructure became the backbone of the voice AI revolution. Their open-source framework Pipecat is now the most widely used toolkit for building production voice agents, from customer support bots to robotics systems. Backed by $60M+ in funding from investors including Renegade Partners and Lachy Groom, Daily sits at the exact intersection of real-time infrastructure and the AI agent explosion.
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The Lightbulb Moment: How GPT-4 turned a video infrastructure company into the backbone of the voice AI revolution — and why Kwindla saw it before everyone else.
Healthcare’s Surprise Adoption: Why the most regulated industry in the world became the fastest adopter of voice AI — and what that signals about every other vertical.
Agents Are Just Loops: The engineering reality behind the AI agent hype — and why the hard problems in voice taught Daily lessons the rest of the industry is just now learning.
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How do we secure and manage a rapidly multiplying swarm of AI agents in an enterprise world?
In this episode of Notable Perspectives, Glenn Solomon and Oren Yunger sit down with Slavik Markovich and Rishi Bhargava, co-founders of Descope. Former security innovators behind DeMisto (acquired by Palo Alto Networks), Slavik and Rishi are now tackling one of the most pressing challenges in modern tech: identity, access, and trust in a world where AI agents act autonomously and unpredictably.
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The Chaos Problem: How AI agents multiply risk across enterprise systems, creating backdoors, misconfigurations, and new attack surfaces.
Trust at Scale: Building infrastructure and granular controls to keep AI behavior predictable — and keeping enterprises safe in the process.
The Identity Revolution: Why managing agent identities, permissions, and audit trails is now critical to surviving the AI explosion.
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