ThinkData Podcast

Dataworks Group Limited

The Growth Playbook brings you inside the minds of the leaders shaping Data and AI. Each episode, we sit down with some of the most interesting voices in the industry, from startup founders to seasoned execs, to hear their stories, lessons learned, and the real strategies behind growing great businesses.

  1. 4 days ago

    S4 | E23 | Moving Fast Without Breaking Trust: The Reality of AI Governance with Rowan Stewart @ Transcend

    AI is moving faster than almost any technology we’ve seen before. But is governance keeping up? In this episode of the ThinkData Podcast, I sat down with Rowan Stewart, AI & Data Safety Product Leader at Transcend, and discussed what happens when organisations rush AI products to market without the right data, privacy and governance foundations in place. Before joining Transcend, Rowan spent around six years at BCG X, helping organisations build and launch new technology. Today, she works with companies including Robinhood, Brex and Groupon as they navigate the increasingly complex world of AI and data governance. We discussed why so many businesses are still treating AI governance as something to solve later, whether regulation really has to slow innovation, what responsible AI actually looks like in practice, and the consequences when businesses get it wrong. We also explored one of the biggest challenges facing startups today: how do you continue moving at startup speed while ensuring the AI products you build are trustworthy, compliant and capable of scaling? In this episodeRowan’s journey from BCG X to TranscendWhy companies are struggling with AI governanceWhy governance becomes harder when it is bolted on laterHow startups can move quickly without creating unnecessary riskWhat “responsible AI” actually means in practiceThe role data foundations play in trustworthy AIWhere responsibility for AI governance should sit inside an organisationThe commercial and reputational consequences of getting it wrongWhether regulation slows innovation or can actually enable itHow AI governance is likely to evolve as adoption accelerates

    S4 | E23 | Moving Fast Without Breaking Trust: The Reality of AI Governance with Rowan Stewart @ Transcend

  2. 6 Aug

    S4 | E22 | AI isn't replacing recruiters with Arsham Ghahramani - CEO & Co-Founder @ Ribbon AI

    AI is transforming every industry, but few are changing as quickly as recruitment. This week, I'm joined by Arsham Ghahramani, Co-Founder and CEO of Ribbon, an AI-powered hiring platform helping companies interview every applicant through conversational AI. Before founding Ribbon, Arsham led machine learning teams at Amazon and completed a PhD focused on AI bias and model stress-testing. Since launching Ribbon, the company has grown to more than 500 customers, raised $8 million in funding, and was recently named Fast Company's #1 AI recruiting platform. In this episode, we discuss: Building AI that recruiters and candidates can trustWhy AI should improve—not replace—the hiring processThe biggest misconceptions around AI recruitmentWhy bias remains one of the hardest problems to solveProduct-market fit and scaling an AI startupWhat hiring could look like in five years' time Whether you're a founder, recruiter, hiring manager, or simply interested in where AI is taking the future of work, this is a conversation you won't want to miss.

    S4 | E22 | AI isn't replacing recruiters with Arsham Ghahramani - CEO & Co-Founder @ Ribbon AI

  3. 4 Aug

    S4 | E21 | Building the AI Agents That Could Change the Internet | Abhishek Das, Co-founder @ Yutori

    What happens when AI can browse, understand, and interact with the web just like a human? This week on the ThinkData Podcast, I'm joined by Abhishek Das, Co-founder and Co-CEO of Yutori. Before founding Yutori, Abhishek was a research scientist at Meta, where he worked on AI agents long before the recent explosion in generative AI. Today, Yutori is building specialised AI models designed specifically for web agents—systems capable of navigating websites, completing tasks and operating autonomously in complex online environments. In this episode we discuss: • Why specialised AI models outperform general-purpose LLMs for web automation • The biggest technical challenges of building reliable AI agents • Why AI demonstrations often fail in production • Product-market fit in one of AI's fastest-moving markets • What founders consistently underestimate when building AI companies • How AI agents could fundamentally change the way businesses and consumers use the internet If you're interested in AI infrastructure, startups, product, engineering, or the future of autonomous software, this is an episode you won't want to miss.

    S4 | E21 | Building the AI Agents That Could Change the Internet | Abhishek Das, Co-founder @ Yutori

  4. 23 Jul

    S4 | E20 | Enterprise Data is Broken. Here's What's Next with Ethan Ding Co-Founder @ TextQL

    Enterprise data has never been more valuable, yet most companies still struggle to answer simple business questions. This week, I sat down with Ethan Ding, Co-Founder and CEO of TextQL, to discuss why traditional analytics tools weren't built for the age of AI, how autonomous agents are changing enterprise infrastructure, and what happens when AI starts generating thousands of queries where humans once generated dozens. We discuss: • Why today's BI tools are reaching their limits • The biggest technical challenges behind enterprise AI • How TextQL is rethinking the modern data warehouse • Why data analysts aren't disappearing—but their jobs are changing • Finding product-market fit in one of AI's most competitive markets • What enterprise software looks like over the next five years If you're building, investing in, or buying AI products, this is a conversation you won't want to miss.

    S4 | E20 | Enterprise Data is Broken. Here's What's Next with Ethan Ding Co-Founder @ TextQL

  5. 8 Jun

    S4 | E19 | The future of software engineering teams with Scott Breitenother – Co-Founder @ Kilo

    Agentic engineering is quickly becoming one of the most important shifts in software development. In this episode, I sit down with Scott Breitenother, Co-Founder & CEO of Kilo Code, to discuss why individual coding assistants won't drive the future of software development, but by autonomous AI agents capable of planning, building, testing, and shipping software. Scott shares the journey from building and selling Brooklyn Data Company to launching Kilo, an open-source agentic engineering platform designed to help developers become dramatically more productive in the AI era. We discussed product-market fit, engineering adoption, the realities of competing with Cursor, Copilot, and Claude Code, and what engineering leaders should be thinking about as AI fundamentally changes how software teams operate. If you're a founder, engineering leader, developer, or simply interested in the future of AI-powered software development, this is an episode you won't want to miss.

    S4 | E19 | The future of software engineering teams with Scott Breitenother – Co-Founder @ Kilo

  6. 2 Jun

    S4 | E18 | Rebuilding Post-Discharge Care With Clinician-Led AI & Dimer Health

    In this episode of the ThinkData Podcast, I welcome back Dimer Health Co-Founders Carrie Hodge, Sarig Reichert, alongside Chief Medical Officer Dr. David Feldman. Fresh off the announcement of their $13.5 million Series A, the team discusses why the 30 days following hospital discharge remain one of the most broken parts of healthcare, and how Dimer is using clinician-led AI to transform patient outcomes. The conversation covers scaling after fundraising, building culture during hypergrowth, the realities of operating at Series A, and what it takes to create a new layer of healthcare infrastructure.

    S4 | E18 | Rebuilding Post-Discharge Care With Clinician-Led AI & Dimer Health

  7. 18 May

    S4 | E17 | The Future of Finance Teams in an AI-Driven World with Deepak Bapat @ Tabs

    Today, we’re getting into where AI actually fits in the finance stack and why most teams are getting it wrong. I’m joined by Deepak Bapat, CTO and co-founder of Tabs, an AI-native platform automating contract-to-cash end-to-end. We cover: The difference between AI-native vs AI-layered productsWhy finance has near-zero tolerance for AI errorsThe technical challenge of automating contract-to-cash workflowsIntegrating AI into fragmented ERP ecosystemsWhat finance teams may look like in the next 3–5 years as AI agents take over operational workflows A really interesting conversation around where AI creates real operational leverage, and where the hype still outweighs the reality.

    S4 | E17 | The Future of Finance Teams in an AI-Driven World with Deepak Bapat @ Tabs

  8. 12 May

    S4 | E16 | The AI Trust Problem Nobody Is Talking About with Uri - Co-Founder - Nimble

    Most enterprise AI isn’t failing because of the models… It’s failing because no one trusts the output. In this episode of the ThinkData Podcast, we’re joined by Uri Knorovich, CEO of Nimble, to unpack the growing trust gap in enterprise AI and why bad, delayed, and fragmented data is becoming the biggest blocker to real AI adoption. We explore: • Why AI works in demos but breaks inside enterprises • The hidden risk of AI outputs without traceable data lineage • Why trusted, live data infrastructure matters more than model speed • The shift from “is the AI fast?” to “can we trust the decisions?” • Real-world examples where AI and live data are already driving value A great conversation on the future of enterprise AI, data infrastructure, and building systems companies can actually rely on.

    S4 | E16 | The AI Trust Problem Nobody Is Talking About with Uri - Co-Founder - Nimble
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The Growth Playbook brings you inside the minds of the leaders shaping Data and AI. Each episode, we sit down with some of the most interesting voices in the industry, from startup founders to seasoned execs, to hear their stories, lessons learned, and the real strategies behind growing great businesses.

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  • Creator
    Dataworks Group Limited
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    113
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