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Megashift - New Trends in Business

Megashift brings you interviews with the sharpest business leaders in the game. Here, they share the biggest changes and shifts happening in the business world, right now.How do today’s leaders leverage their skills to create value in a changing business world? Megashift brings you interviews with some of the most successful leaders in the industry with a series of strategic conversations featuring experts that will take a deep look into the evolving business climate. Expect educational interviews

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45:06

The Open Protocol for Developers Reshaping Social...

Megashift - New Trends in Business ·

2026/04/20

Megashift sits down with Jim Ray, developer relations lead at Blue Sky Social, to dig into what happens when social media is built on an open protocol instead of a closed platform. Jim breaks down the AT Protocol, how developers are already building everything from blogging tools to neighborhood apps on top of it, and why decentralization might be the antidote to a web increasingly shaped by AI and corporate consolidation. It's a conversation about the original promise of the internet: and whether

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31:49

The Agentic AI Push Bringing Food & Beverage Brands...

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2026/03/22

Megashift sits down with Sunny Israni, co-founder and CTO of Light Switch, to talk about one of the biggest untapped opportunities in AI: the consumer packaged goods industry. While many in the tech world obsess over full autonomy, lots of food and beverage brands are still running on clipboards and manual processes. Sunny is building the agentic software to change that, and shares why the real opportunity isn't replacing humans, it's building AI that works with them. Hosted on Acast. See

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38:02

Inside the Brand Partnerships that Drive Culture |...

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2026/03/21

Vicki Diez, Director of Brand Partnerships at Highsnobiety, joins Megashift to break down how brands earn real cultural relevance: not by chasing trends, but by investing in them. Vicki shares how Highsnobiety operates as a media publisher, brand, and agency all at once, and what it takes to help non-endemic brands like finance and tech companies show up authentically in culture. She also walks through her work with Apple Music at Miami Art Week: one of the standout brand partnership moments of the

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44:12

Building Safe Infrastructure for AI Agents | Brian...

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2026/03/02

Brian Douglas, co-founder of The Paper Compute Company and once GitHub's first developer advocate, joins Megashift to talk about the messy, exciting reality of AI agents in 2025.Brian breaks down what agents actually are (beyond the buzzwords), why giving them unchecked access to your systems is like handing a toddler a Sharpie, and what his team is building to make agents safer and more manageable. His products Tapes (open source telemetry for agents) and Stereos (an operating system for agents)

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44:12

Scaling DevRel Programs for Product Impact & Learning...

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2026/01/08

Our chat with Erica Hanson, a global developer relations and community leader who spent over 17 years at Google before leading DevRel at Flutter Flow. Erica shares how she grew Google's developer community programs to reach 3 million developers and students annually across 110+ countries.We discussed how to validate the demand for your product community using data, the feedback loop between community insights and product teams, and building cross-functional partnerships to drive real impact. Erica

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36:43

Rewiring Your Record Collection: Apps That Help Us...

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2026/01/07

Maybe you own hundreds of vinyl records but keep playing the same five. Streaming algorithms push new music. E-commerce nudges the next purchase. Everything is optimized for acquisition these days but what about the stuff we already have? Ash Ryan Arnwine thinks there's a shift happening: away from accumulation, toward appreciation. Tech that doesn't compete for your attention, but helps you go deeper with what you already own. Is this a tech-enabled walk down memory lane we actually need? Ash Ryan

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30:03

Inside Squarespace's Circle Program: Crafting Partner...

Megashift - New Trends in Business ·

2025/12/16

In this episode of Megashift, Rob Kleiman sits down with Sarah Greisdorf, who leads the community team at Squarespace representing its Circle program: a community of over 100,000 web designers, freelancers, and developers building Squarespace websites for clients.Sarah shares the origin story of the Circle program, which launched nearly 10 years ago around a shared passion for the Squarespace platform. From those humble beginnings, the community has evolved into a strategic growth engine for

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37:39

Turning B2B Slack Channels into Searchable Microsites...

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2025/12/03

For businesses using Slack to engage customers and ambassadors, Slack-based communities aren't just side channels anymore. Zach Hawtof, CEO & Co-founder of TightKnit.ai, explains how his platform creates searchable microsites synced with Slack and turns all those buried slack threads into accessible knowledge teams can actually act on.Rob Kleiman and Zach Hawtof discuss why AI-native companies like Clay, Gamma, Lindy, and Beehive are building community-first GTM motions, why legacy giants are

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41:56

Podcast Curation as a Service | The Art of Discovery...

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2025/11/21

In an era where algorithms decide what you might hear next, Arielle Nissenblatt built something different: a community-powered podcast recommendation engine rooted in taste AND data.Since 2017, she's run Earbuds.Audio—a weekly curated newsletter where real people pick real episodes around a theme. No machine learning. Just the network effect of good taste. Now at Pinwheel, she helps creators and brands use podcasts strategically to reach audiences and build sustainable businesses.Rob Kleiman sits

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38:16

Balancing Empathy and AI in People Ops with HR Leader...

Megashift - New Trends in Business ·

2025/11/08

Kevin Clancy, an HR industry leader shares insights on modernizing HR in tech: from AI-powered recruiting tools to creating empathetic employee experiences. He discusses navigating crucial conversations, avoiding AI over-reliance, and building learning programs that retain top talent. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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36:41

GTM in the AI Era: LLM Discovery & Distributed Teams...

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2025/10/28

Kristin Kovner, CEO and Founder of K-Squared Strategies, discusses how marketing creates markets and the major shifts happening as AI transforms product discovery. Kristin helped launch YouTube's video advertising business at Google & AOL and now has advised 100+ high-growth tech companies on their go-to-market strategies. She's watching a major shift unfold: people ask ChatGPT and Claude questions they used to ask Google, but there's no playbook yet for how brands show up in those AI

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40:41

SEO Shifts: Relevance Engineering & AI Search with...

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2025/10/16

"It's not just SEO anymore." Garrett Sussman explains why AI search requires a completely new strategy. Garrett Sussman, Director of Marketing at iPullRank, breaks down how ChatGPT, AI Overviews, and conversational search are fundamentally changing digital visibility—and what businesses must do to adapt.🔑 WHAT WE COVER:Relevance engineering: The 5-pillar framework replacing traditional SEOQuery fan-out: How AI turns 1 search into 20+ synthetic sub-queriesInput, channel, performance: The 3-tier

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40:16

Could AI based MCP Servers Unlock Infinite...

Megashift - New Trends in Business ·

2025/10/15

TREND ALERT: Keyboard is building an open-source universal MCP server that securely connects all your tools to any AI client—unlocking infinite productivity without sacrificing security.Rob Kleiman talks with Keyboard co-founders Stephen Roland (ex-Stripe) and Andrew Van Beek (ex-Okta) about the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how it's transforming AI from answering questions to actually doing work—creating docs, editing videos, managing tickets, all with zero-trust architecture.They share their

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28:11

Mario Camaj (Kormilo Consulting) on Quantum, AI and...

Megashift - New Trends in Business ·

2025/10/08

Mario Camaj of Kormilo Consulting discusses Quantum Computing Layers, AI and Enterprises of the Future with Megashift's Rob Kleiman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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31:56

Caroline Lewko on AI and the Impact on Developer...

Megashift - New Trends in Business ·

2024/04/19

We had the distinct pleasure of chatting with Developer Relations pioneer and Author Caroline Lewko of DevRel.Agency about her journey in the tech field and how Developer Relations remains central to the rapidly evolving field of AI. Caroline shared fascinating reflections from navigating the early mobile days and lessons learned that can be applied to the wild west of AI. Specifically, we discussed how AI is impacting DevRel strategies and what skills needed to succeed in the realm of supporting

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32:51

Ben Millstein @ Prolog NYC | Measuring Creativity &...

Megashift - New Trends in Business ·

2024/03/10

Learning how Prolog NYC helps develop creativity in people/teams via assessments that map to 5 strengths: novelty, efficacy, beauty, connectivity, completeness. In this episode we discuss the future of harnessing AI to build on creative competencies and a share understanding of definitions around what makes something or someone inherently creative. Learn more @ https://prolognyc.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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24:48

Ben Loeb of Compass - On Being the First Marketing...

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2021/05/20

Ben Loeb and I met at American University during undergrad. Since then, he spent 7 years cutting his teeth at Microsoft as a marketer. Now he is the FIRST MARKETING RESEARCH HIRE at Compass. And he’s sure to be doing some big things there. In this interview, we chat about his background in marketing research, product marketing, business consulting, and corporate strategy. We focus on some of the ways he’s collaborating with designers, engineers, and other marketers to bring make sure the customer's

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18:39

Isaac Linson of Tapuya Brands with Rob Kleiman

Megashift - New Trends in Business ·

2021/05/12

TREND ALERT: Tapuya Brands acquires native Amazon private label products and turns them into consumer-valued brands on and beyond Amazon. Iaasc Linson is leading the charge and building a business to seize the market opportunity. He has great enthusiasm for this new model and we chat about it here. Using proprietary technology, the company discovers and buys high revenue, above-average margin, and category moat businesses that are native to Amazon with low or zero off Amazon brand presence.Upon

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38:07

Areas of Distinction in the ANDYS with Enas Hassan -...

Megashift - New Trends in Business ·

2020/03/01

Together we learn about Enas Hassan's background as a multimedia artist. Her current role is Coordinator of the International ANDY Awards. In this series of videos we look at how her roots as an artist inform the work she does to curate and coordinate the global awards show. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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10:04

Venture Capital Empowers Next Generation of Students...

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2017/11/07

HBCU.vc is an organization connecting and equipping the next generation of students, innovators, and investors at historically black colleges and universities (HBCU's) with knowledge, exposure, coaching and hands-on experience learning about Venture Capital. Bie Aweh is a member of the founding team and focuses on talent and curriculum development. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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