The Digital Executive

Coruzant Technologies
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Best 10-minute, daily tech podcast on emerging technologies, hundreds of Silicon Valley CEOs, Influencers and Celebrities. Hosted by technology executive and creator of Coruzant Technologies.

  1. 3d ago

    Shalima Bhalla: AI That Puts Customers First | Ep 1332

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas speaks with Shalima Bhalla, a global customer experience and AI executive, about how generative and agentic AI are transforming customer service. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience in technology and enterprise transformation, Shalima explains why successful AI strategies must start with customer needs rather than technology adoption or cost reduction. She explores how businesses can use AI to anticipate problems, resolve issues proactively, connect customer information across departments, and deliver more personalized service. Shalima also highlights the importance of human judgment, operational alignment, and customer trust in creating meaningful outcomes. Looking ahead, she envisions AI making personalized, high-quality service accessible to more customers while empowering employees to focus on complex decisions and human connection. If you liked what you heard today, please leave us a review - Apple or Spotify.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Shalima Bhalla: AI That Puts Customers First | Ep 1332

  2. 3d ago

    Mike Milan: Profitable on Paper, Broke in the Bank | Ep 1331

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas speaks with Mike Milan, founder of ClearPath to Cash, about why profitable businesses can still run out of money and how better cash flow management can prevent failure. Known as “Cash Flow Mike,” Mike shares how his own experience growing a successful business nearly broke him and inspired his mission to help business owners understand the difference between profit and cash flow. He explains how advisors can uncover hidden cash, build scalable advisory services, and use AI to identify financial patterns and guide better decisions. Mike also explores the future of accounting and financial advisory, emphasizing that AI can analyze the numbers, but human advisors remain essential for understanding clients’ biggest challenges, communicating insights, and holding them accountable for action. His approach combines human expertise with AI to turn financial data into meaningful business results. If you liked what you heard today, please leave us a review - Apple or Spotify.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Mike Milan: Profitable on Paper, Broke in the Bank | Ep 1331

  3. 4d ago

    Beau Correll: AI, Advocacy, and the Future of Law | Ep 1330

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Beau Correll, founder of Correll Law Firm, to explore his journey from a solo attorney in Winchester, Virginia, to leading a prominent personal injury practice. Beau shares how his experience as a prosecutor, criminal defense attorney, and personal injury lawyer shaped his approach to advocating for injured clients and holding insurance companies accountable. He also discusses the importance of client communication, building empathy into law firm operations, and adapting to AI-driven changes in the legal industry. Looking ahead, Beau predicts that AI will increasingly automate research, claims evaluation, and settlement negotiations, while courtroom advocacy, human judgment, and client trust will remain essential. His message to attorneys is clear: embrace AI responsibly, protect confidentiality, and strengthen the skills that technology cannot easily replace. If you liked what you heard today, please leave us a review - Apple or Spotify.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Beau Correll: AI, Advocacy, and the Future of Law | Ep 1330

  4. 5d ago

    Frank J. Russo: Florida First: People Over Profits | Ep 1329

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas speaks with Frank J. Russo, entrepreneur, insurance executive, real estate developer, and independent candidate for governor of Florida. Drawing on more than 40 years of business leadership, Frank shares his vision for putting people before profits, addressing Florida’s affordability and insurance crises, and holding government accountable. He outlines his proposed billionaire tax and public trust fund to support education, healthcare, seniors, and veterans. Frank also discusses modernizing data centers, embracing AI responsibly, protecting the environment, and creating opportunities for the next generation. His message is clear: humanity first, with leadership focused on families, communities, and Florida’s future. If you liked what you heard today, please leave us a review - Apple or Spotify.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Frank J. Russo: Florida First: People Over Profits | Ep 1329

  5. Sep 30

    David Cash: Web3 Beyond NFTs | Ep 1328

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with David Cash, founder of CASH Labs, to explore the rapid evolution of Web3, NFTs, the metaverse, and emerging technology. David shares how the pandemic led him from entertainment and media into the world of NFTs, where his viral master’s thesis became the foundation for a career helping brands understand and apply emerging technologies. He discusses how Web3 has evolved beyond the hype into practical applications such as digital product passports, blockchain-based certificates of authenticity, and tokenized real-world assets. David also reflects on curating the first Metaverse Fashion Week and working with global brands to create meaningful digital experiences. Looking ahead, he explains how his work sits at the intersection of culture and technology, helping organizations turn complex innovations like AI, AR, VR, XR, and Web3 into tangible experiences and strategies for a rapidly changing digital world. If you liked what you heard today, please leave us a review - Apple or Spotify.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    David Cash: Web3 Beyond NFTs | Ep 1328

  6. Sep 29

    Max Anderson: The Future of Creator Discovery | Ep 1327

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Max Anderson, owner and CEO of OnlyFinder, to pull back the curtain on the surprisingly sophisticated data and search infrastructure powering creator discovery in one of the internet's fastest-growing economies. Max opens with an origin story rooted in SEO mastery — years of spending venture capital money at Porch figuring out what works, followed by a portfolio of ranked sites, a webcam affiliate payment that mysteriously 10X'd during the pandemic, and a pivot into OnlyFans discovery when the search volume made the opportunity undeniable. He explains the structural gap his platform fills: OnlyFans has never had a search box or explore page, so 400 million fans have nowhere to go but Google to find new creators among five million options. OnlyFinder built the discovery layer that platform deliberately left open. The technical work behind that is considerable — assembling creator indexes from public like counts, image tagging for physical attributes, cross-referencing link bio trees to external social media profiles, tracking follower counts across TikTok and Instagram as proxies for popularity, and then training a click-through rate model on half a billion visits across hundreds of partner sites to learn which creators users actually click for which keywords. He closes with a candid assessment of where the business sits in the AI search era: the shopping-intent queries that drive his model are staying on Google even as LLMs take informational queries, but vibe coding tools have exploded the competition from a handful of rivals to thousands of new entrants per month — pushing him to focus hard on the scale economies and network effects that cannot be replicated in a weekend. If you liked what you heard today, please leave us a review - Apple or Spotify.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Max Anderson: The Future of Creator Discovery | Ep 1327

  7. Sep 29

    Vikul Gupta on AI Quality: The New Trust Gate | Ep 1326

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Vikul Gupta, CTO of Quality AI, to explore how AI is transforming quality engineering and why trust will be critical to moving AI from pilot projects into production. Vikul shares his journey from DevOps and engineering into AI-powered quality, explaining how AI can prevent defects, identify root causes, and uncover test coverage gaps through real customer journeys and production data. He also discusses the rise of AI-generated code, the growing need for AI assurance, and why quality engineering is evolving into a continuous discipline focused on monitoring hallucinations, bias, model drift, and performance. As AI accelerates software development, Vikul argues that quality will become the critical “trust gate” helping enterprises deploy AI with greater confidence. If you liked what you heard today, please leave us a review - Apple or Spotify.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Vikul Gupta on AI Quality: The New Trust Gate | Ep 1326

  8. Sep 23

    Jesse Tayler: He Invented the App Store. Now He's Reinventing Trust. | Ep 1325

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Jesse Tayler, the Silicon Valley pioneer who invented the world's first App Store and personally demoed it to Steve Jobs in 1993, to explore why the man who helped build the modern internet is now dedicating the final chapter of his career to fighting the dangers it created. Jesse opens with the remarkable story of that 1993 demo — a Hail Mary at a San Francisco software trade show, a cold approach to Jobs in a crowded booth, and an unglamorous but consequential nod of approval that validated an idea the world wasn't ready for. He is candid that it was largely a failure story at the time, with sales that were "crappy" and a developer friend who told him directly that trying to sell nothing would never work. What the App Wrapper ultimately proved, years before iTunes made it mainstream, was the concept of digital rights — establishing who has the right to do what in a purely digital transaction. Now, decades later, Jesse sees the same unresolved problem in a far more dangerous form. As civilization has moved online, it has gained extraordinary connectivity and lost one irreplaceable thing: trust. Fake profiles, AI-generated identities, and coercive data collection have eroded the foundation that makes civilization possible. His answer is TruAnon — a digital identity system built on the principle that true anonymity is just privacy turned all the way up, and that surrendering a photo of your driver's license to every platform you use is not verification, it is the exact data fraudsters steal and replicate infinitely in the digital universe. The App Store got rid of the physical box. TruAnon, he argues, needs to get rid of the physical ID — and replace it with a purely digital rights framework that protects people and platforms alike without forcing anyone to surrender their privacy just to participate in modern life. If you liked what you heard today, please leave us a review - Apple or Spotify.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Jesse Tayler: He Invented the App Store. Now He's Reinventing Trust. | Ep 1325
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Best 10-minute, daily tech podcast on emerging technologies, hundreds of Silicon Valley CEOs, Influencers and Celebrities. Hosted by technology executive and creator of Coruzant Technologies.

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    Coruzant Technologies
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    2020 - 2026
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