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Serious People Podcast
Serious People Podcast: An Operator's Manual to AI is a podcast for business leaders and operators running complex, real-world businesses. The ones selling supplements, managing caregivers, or running service crews. Not software. Host Noah Levin brings nearly two decades of experience at Amazon, Whole Foods, and healthcare tech to weekly conversations about what AI outcomes work inside a business, and what doesn't. Equal parts practical and irreverent, but useful above all else.
Episodes
- Serious People Podcast
How to Let Non-Technical Teams Write Code Without Regretting It | April Lane (Chief Merchandising Officer, Thrive Market)
Earlier this year, Thrive Market gave all 300 of its corporate employees Claude with no usage limits and told them to experiment. A food safety lead used it to…
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How to Build an AI Writing System That Sounds Like You | Sally Slater (Cofounder, InnovAItion Partners)
Sally Slater keeps a list of more than 600 words and phrases that AI leans on too often. She considers that list the easy part. The harder problem is the…
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How to Build a Business with a Team of Agents | Scott Patterson (Core Fiber Founder & CEO)
Scott Patterson changed the price on his website by talking for a few minutes. The agent did the rest, then reported back on how the new price was performing…
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How to Automate the Busywork So You Can Actually Lead | Jon Harmeling (Chick-Fil-A Franchisee)
Jon Harmeling automated 13 of his restaurant's 15 onboarding steps and freed up ten hours a week doing it. He owns and operates a Chick-fil-A in Miami Shores…
Serious People PodcastChristina Johnson: How to Waste Less Money on Digital Marketing
Christina Johnson has been shown a 33x return on ad spend and kept a straight face. She has sat with a retail media network selling hundreds of millions of…
Serious People PodcastRebekah Stevens: Turning Elder Care Into a Math Problem
Rebekah Stevens once spent months competing against an algorithm named Octopus, running weekly throwdowns to see who could staff a home care market better…
Serious People PodcastNisha Balwani on Why AI Adoption Starts with the CEO
Nisha Balwani took over RCI Technologies, the government IT staffing and services firm her parents founded in the 1980s, and is now figuring out where AI…
Serious People PodcastWhen AI Answers Your Doctor's Phone
For the office manager at your doctor’s office, it’s not about having an "AI strategy." It’s about answering the phone during the 8am rush, or patients hanging…
Serious People PodcastMatt Van Horn: Never Read the Plan
Matt Van Horn got rid of his IDE. Then he got rid of his text editor. Now he doesn't even read the plan his AI agent writes; he just asks for the TL;DR (Too…
Serious People PodcastMichael Ducker: What Actually Makes You an Agent Builder
Michael Ducker and Noah Levin get into the practical mechanics of bringing AI into a real business. Michael shares the story behind his work building open…
Serious People PodcastSerious People: Real AI for Real Businesses
Most AI content is tech people talking to tech people. Serious People is different. This is for the operators actually running things — selling supplements…