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Rapid Response is an interview podcast hosted by Bob Safian, produced by the team behind Masters of Scale, featuring conversations with business and tech leaders about how they're navigating fast-moving industry shifts.
No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.
David Allemann's account of On's growth runs through CloudTech, a Roland Garros post and a tennis movie. LightSpray, the robotic process billed as first of its kind, appears only in the host's introduction.
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The Axios CEO says the answer to AI's flood of options is a meeting about what to kill, and he is now planning in seven-week increments after Google Search fell from 30-40% of the site's traffic to 5-10%.
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Shopify's COO says agents reading its Catalog convert at twice the rate of agents scraping a storefront, and that is the number the company is spending tokens against while its agentic sales are still small.
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The figure is self-reported and blends work already moved back with work about to be. It is still the closest thing operators have to a benchmark for their own failed automations.
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The wildfire alerting nonprofit is generalizing to a second hazard while its own headcount and revenue double. Its CEO calls that growth a little too wild for comfort.
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