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Hargrave: AI tools drive under 1% of client website traffic
“So we track how much traffic for all of our clients is coming in, like what percentage of their traffic is coming from these AI tools. So on average, it's just under one percent. So one percent of traffic comes in from ChatGPT is always the number one. They ha…”
John Hargrave Mar 3, 2026 ▶ 12:39 Navigating the Shift to AI SEO with John Hargrave of Media Shower | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
Insight
Hargrave: First-party data is key to winning AI citations
“And I'll just say the one best practice I can recommend to everybody is if you have any kind of original data So that could be anything from like customer data to original research reports, any kind of unique source data that you can turn into good content for…”
John Hargrave Mar 3, 2026 ▶ 11:34 Navigating the Shift to AI SEO with John Hargrave of Media Shower | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2030
Thanos: Using ChatGPT for Essays Will Become as Common as Microsoft Word
“Saying using chat GPT is going to become as common as somebody using Microsoft Word to write an essay.”
Kim Thanos Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 35:53 Disrupting Higher Education and Embracing AI at Lumen Learning
Disclosure
Vijayavargiya: Augment generates company scouting reports in under two minutes using AI
“Every data tool that we use now has an agentic solution attached to it. So it's really no point, like, to force my analysts to go and do that. Like, we can get our scouting reports in, like, two minutes. Or two minutes is too much, actually. 30 seconds, maybe,…”
Sonali Vijayavargiya Jul 7, 2026 ▶ 22:36 Transforming the Real Sector with Decision Intelligence with Sonali Vijayavargiya of Augment Ventures | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
Opinion
Doronichev: Consumer AI models fall short for multi-million-dollar life science decisions
“Those are consumer grade AI systems that make a lot of our tasks easier, right? But when it comes to business and especially life sciences business applications, they often come short. Specifically there are special metrics in AI world, precision, recall hallu…”
Andrey Doronichev Apr 14, 2026 ▶ 1:37 Driving Efficiency in Biotech Research with Andrey Doronichev of BIOPTIC | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
Insight
Ambrose: Dumping raw emails into ChatGPT fails without structured enterprise context
“So you can take all your emails, you can dump that into chat TPT, and it's really not going to be very good at, Figuring out that information, right? But if you think about pairing that with your structured information of like, what's a transaction, right? Who…”
Jason Ambrose Mar 24, 2026 ▶ 3:34 Scaling Revenue Intelligence with Jason Ambrose of People.ai | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
Insight
Hargrave: AI Search Referrals Yield Higher Engagement and Lead Conversion
“People who click those links, who come to your website through the links on AI tools, Are very highly engaged users because think about this is somebody that's so interested in this topic. They've searched it in chat GPT. They got the answer. They click the li…”
John Hargrave Mar 3, 2026 ▶ 9:24 Navigating the Shift to AI SEO with John Hargrave of Media Shower | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
Disclosure
Vaidya: Dr. Vaidya's changes Ayurveda's wrapper, not formulations or science
“I'm not changing the formulation. I'm not changing the product. I'm not changing the science. I'm just changing the wrapper around it. I'm not building the LLM. I'm not building chat GPT. I'm building a wrapper around chat GPT. I'm building a wrapper around Ay…”
Arjun Vaidya Jul 4, 2025 ▶ 37:04 EP11: Reinventing Ayurveda for the Billion User era & D2C investments ft. Arjun Vaidya
Disclosure
Restive Ventures generates draft investment memos using ChatGPT and Claude
“When we do a deal, you can drop your, I mean, it's really easy, drop your notes and do it in, in, you know, chat GPT or Anthropic or Claude and have it generate an investment memo. I mean, we're still going to read the memo and edit, but you saved yourself a b…”
Ryan Falvey Jun 30, 2025 ▶ 29:37 Early-Stage FinTech Investing: Unpacking Speed, Technical DNA & AI’s Transformative Power
Assertion Supported
Thanos: Chegg Faced Market Correction as Students Chose ChatGPT Over Subscriptions
“I mean, Chegg definitely had a major market correction because it was so easy for students to say, I'm not going to pay a subscription to access information that I need for my course. I'm just going to go to ChatGPT.”
Kim Thanos Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 35:12 Disrupting Higher Education and Embracing AI at Lumen Learning
Insight
Evans: Building deep vertical AI is difficult due to public training data
“Building deep vertical solutions is still really difficult because if you think about the data that's been used to train chat GPT, it's largely data that's available on the internet.”
David Evans Jun 2, 2025 ▶ 1:57 Harnessing AI through Seed-Stage Investments: Insights from David Evans of Sentiero Ventures
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Olds: Early Generative AI Hype Did Not Translate into Real Workflow Adoption
“And what we ran headlong into was that in spite of all of the talk and hype around gender to the eye, people were just not adopting it. No doubt hundreds of millions of people logged into chat GPT or clot or something and created a, say a haiku about their bow…”
Shawn Olds Feb 6, 2025 ▶ 2:14 22 - From Nonprofit AI to BoodleBox with Founder Shawn Olds
Assertion Supported
Masson: Wokelo started building almost a year before ChatGPT launched
“We've been around, yeah, we've been around for two and a half years. We started almost a year before ChatGPT came out, so we definitely were building it much before the hype cycle started on Gen AI”
Sid Masson Sep 19, 2025 ▶ 5:36 Transforming Due Diligence with AI: Wokelo’s Automation of Private Market Research and Risk Analysis
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