The Hidden Leadership Gap

AI for Founders with Ryan Estes · Dec 16, 2025 · 53m · transcript

Welcome to AI for Founders, I'm Ryan Estes.

Every founder I know is sprinting to keep up with AI.

New tools. New models. New expectations.

But here’s the uncomfortable truth:

AI is making technical skill cheaper by the day — and exposing something most leaders never developed.

Their human edge.

Today’s guest, Uma, spent 20 years inside Microsoft, climbed the ladder, played the game, and then hit a breaking point that forced a hard question:

If everyone has access to the same technology, what actually makes a leader indispensable?

In this conversation, we unpack how influence, visibility…