What Comes Next with Arun
Hosted by Arunansu Pattanayak
About this Show
Most conversations about AI are either too technical for business leaders or too generic to be useful. What Comes Next with Arun fills that gap. Each episode translates real-world data and AI strategy into the language of competitive advantage — drawing on Arun’s 20+ years inside the world’s most complex enterprises, six years as a Microsoft Data & AI Executive, and his experience building Tipsora into a platform serving more than 95,000 professionals worldwide. This is not a podcast about AI tools. It is a podcast about building the organizational intelligence that makes tools matter.
Latest Episodes
The Human Edge: Why AI Makes Team Building Matter More | David Lengyel
Send us Fan MailWhat happens to teams when everything around them gets automated?David Lengyel has spent more than 40 years answering a version of that question. As Managing Director of Venture Up, one of the first team building companies in the U.S., he and his team have worked with more than 8,...
The Game of Ten: Why High Performers Run on Outdated Code | Steve Barton
Send us Fan MailMost leaders don't have a strategy problem. They have a noise problem.Executive coach Steve Barton spent 30 years as a florist, grew his business from roughly $200K to $2M serving high-end destination weddings in Maine, and then had an experience 34 years ago that changed how...
The One-Man Accelerator: What Startups Actually Need to Scale | Christopher Hussain
Send us Fan MailAI has made it possible to build a product in six to eight months. So here's the uncomfortable question: if you can build it that fast, why can't your competitor?Christopher Hussain has spent more than 20 years answering versions of that question from the inside. He was ...
Fluent in the Tools, Illiterate in the Tradeoffs — Frank Bravo on AI's Real Risk
Send us Fan MailMost organizations aren't behind on AI. They're behind on the thinking required to use it. That's where this conversation with Frank Bravo starts — and it doesn't let up.Frank is a Bay Area technologist who spent more than three decades leading technology throu...
The Trust Layer for AI Agents — Ravi Bijlani, KYXStart.Ai
Send us Fan MailYour AI agent can book a flight, move money, and open accounts on your behalf. But it can't take a selfie or hold a driver's license — so how does anyone know it's really acting for you?Arun sits down with Ravi Bijlani, founder and CEO of KYXStart.Ai, who is buildin...
The AI Family Office: Financial Advice for High Earners — with Lord Munjal
Send us Fan MailHigh earners rarely lose money because they make bad decisions. They lose it in the gaps — between a financial advisor who only sees stocks and bonds, a CPA who shows up 60 days before the deadline, an insurance agent working a different angle, and an estate plan that's eithe...
Building an AI-Native Platform to Take On the Bloomberg Terminal — with Aidan McConnell
Send us Fan MailMost conversations about AI in finance stop at "we use AI." This one goes deeper.Aidan McConnell started as a data science intern at Sezzle in 2019, worked his way up to Head of AI/ML, then left to build QuantLink AI — a vertically integrated data and analytics platform ...
Competitive Intelligence Architecture: The Real Source of AI Advantage
Send us Fan MailIn the finale of this series, Arunansu Pattanayak brings together every framework from the show into a single worldview — one he argues is the most important strategic idea for any leader heading into the next decade.The claim is simple and uncomfortable: the winners won't be...
Why Your AI Strategy Is Already Obsolete
Send us Fan MailMost organizations aren't behind on AI. They're behind on the thinking required to use it.In this solo episode, Arunansu Pattanayak makes a prediction: if your AI strategy is built around specific tools, platforms, and vendors, most of that document will be obsolete with...
The Technology Was Never the Problem
Send us Fan MailMost organizations bought the AI. What they skipped was the thinking required to make it matter.In this solo episode, Arunansu Pattanayak sets aside the frameworks and tells one story — the moment, after 20+ years inside Merrill Lynch, Citibank, Credit Suisse, JP Morgan, TD Bank, ...
Future-Proofing Is a Myth. Build Change Fitness Instead
Send us Fan MailMost organizations aren't behind on AI. They're behind on the thinking required to use it.In this solo episode, Arunansu Pattanayak makes an uncomfortable argument for anyone who has ever built a five-year strategic plan: future-proofing, as most people define it, is a m...
More AI Won't Make You More Competitive — Here's What Will
Send us Fan MailMost organizations are not behind on AI. They are behind on the thinking required to use it.In this solo episode, Arunansu Pattanayak — ex-Microsoft Data and AI executive and CEO of Tipsora — makes an argument that might sound strange coming from someone who has spent his career i...
The 5 Layers Every AI-Ready Organization Needs (In Order)
Send us Fan MailMost organizations don't have an AI problem — they have a sequencing problem. They're building layer four before laying layer one.In this solo episode, Arunansu Pattanayak, ex-Microsoft Data & AI executive and CEO of Tipsora, draws on 20+ years across financial servi...
The Future of Work Is an Architecture Problem, Not a Threat
Send us Fan MailAI doesn't make humans less valuable. It makes the wrong humans — people doing the wrong work — less valuable, and the right humans dramatically more valuable. The question for every leader: are you designing an organization where your people are doing the right work?In this ...
How to Turn Your Data into a Product and a Revenue Stream
Send us Fan MailIf your organization burned to the ground tomorrow and you could save one thing, what would you save? The most strategic leaders always give the same answer: the data. Everything else can be rebuilt — the data is irreplaceable. So why do most organizations treat it like a filing c...