Episodes
#606 AI Can Generate Code. It Still Can’t Replace Engineering Judgmen…
In this episode of The CTO Show with Mehmet, Mehmet sits down with Jason Li, CTO at Laurel. Jason brings experience from enterprise software, Salesforce, Ironclad, and AI-native product development. The conversation reframes ...
#605 AI Won’t Fix Broken Organizations. It Exposes Them | Jürgen Dauk
In this episode of The CTO Show with Mehmet, Mehmet sits down with Jürgen Dauck, advisor, consultant, and creator of the Leadership Operating System. AI is not the real bottleneck. Broken organizational design is. The convers...
#604 AI Can Generate Expertise. It Still Can’t Generate Judgment | Da…
In this episode of The CTO Show with Mehmet, Mehmet sits down with Dan Pratl, Founder and CEO of Quadron. Dan is building infrastructure around trust, credibility, reputation, and human judgment in a world where AI can genera...
#603 Startups Scale Too Early. The Basics Are Still Broken | Raphael …
In this episode of The CTO Show with Mehmet, Mehmet sits down with Raphael Peyret, Founder and Principal Advisor at SHA/RP. Raphael brings experience across product, cybersecurity, Google, and startup execution from MVP to ac...
#602 AI Can Set Meetings. It Still Can’t Build Trust | Alex Grant
In this episode of The CTO Show with Mehmet, Mehmet sits down with Alex Grant, SVP of Sales at North. Alex brings more than 16 years of experience building sales teams across fintech, payments technology, and SaaS. The conver...
#601 The AI Bottleneck Is No Longer GPUs. It’s Energy and Memory | Eu…
In this episode of The CTO Show with Mehmet, Mehmet sits down with Eugene Cheah, CEO of Featherless AI. The AI bottleneck is no longer just GPU access. Power, memory, inference cost, and model reliability are becoming the rea...
#600 AI Reliability Is a Business Risk. Not Just an Engineering Probl…
In this episode of The CTO Show with Mehmet, Mehmet sits down with Helen Gu, Founder and CEO of InsightFinder AI. Helen brings decades of research in distributed system reliability, anomaly detection, and AI-driven operations...
#599 AI Agents Are the New Attack Surface. Security Teams Are Already…
In this episode of The CTO Show with Mehmet, Mehmet sits down with Jason Remillard, Founder of Data443. Jason brings more than 30 years of cybersecurity, data security, infrastructure, and enterprise risk experience. The conv...
#598 AI Pilots Don’t Fail. Enterprise Systems Do | Omid Pakseresht, C…
In this episode of The CTO Show with Mehmet, Mehmet sits down with Omid Pakseresht, CEO of Goodfolio. Omid works on enterprise AI systems that move beyond pilots and into real business workflows. The conversation reframes ent...
#597 Dashboards Are Dead. AI Agents Replace the Forecast Call | Laura…
In this episode of The CTO Show with Mehmet, Mehmet sits down with Laura Fu, GTM Architect at DevRev. Laura brings a RevOps and sales enablement lens to a question many GTM leaders are now facing: AI does not fix sales by sit...
#596 AI Agents Need Managers. Not Prompts | Ross Barnes
In this episode of The CTO Show with Mehmet, Mehmet sits down with Ross Barnes, Founder of Galahad Group. Ross brings a rare operator view on AI adoption, shaped by his background as Global CTO at a WPP agency and his current...
#595 Engineers Optimize Code. They Mismanage Money | Stanley Leong, A…
In this episode of The CTO Show with Mehmet, Mehmet sits down with Stanley Leong, private wealth advisor and author of Engineering Your Finances . The core tension is simple: technical people often apply logic to money, but s...
AI Is Being Deployed Without Control. Security Is Playing Catch Up | …
In this episode of The CTO Show with Mehmet, Mehmet sits down with Tim Freestone, Chief Strategy Officer at Kiteworks. AI is already inside the enterprise, but control is not keeping pace. The conversation reframes AI securit...
#593 AI Agents Are Becoming the Workforce for Events | Ritesh Patel, …
In this episode of The CTO Show with Mehmet, Mehmet sits down with Ritesh Patel, CEO and Co-Founder of Ticket Fairy. He has built a full-stack operating system for the global events industry, spanning ticketing, payments, mar...
#592 Stop Treating AI Like Software. It Is Workforce Infrastructure |…
In this episode of The CTO Show with Mehmet, Mehmet sits down with Karl Simon, Co-Founder and CTO at Subatomic AI. Karl is building orchestration infrastructure for AI agents and enterprise workflows, focused on turning AI in...
#591 AI Can Scale Outreach. It Cannot Build Trust | Ari Galper, Creat…
In this episode of The CTO Show with Mehmet, Mehmet sits down with Ari Galper, creator of Trust-Based Selling. Ari has spent 25 years building a sales methodology around one argument: trust, not persuasion, determines whether...
#590 Mental Health Is Now a Portfolio Risk: Why 72% of Founders Are S…
In this episode of The CTO Show with Mehmet , Mehmet sits down with James Oliver, Jr. , founder of the Kabila Founder Mental Health Fund and author of Burn Bright, Not Out . This is not a theoretical conversation. It is a raw...
#589 Why AI Search Will Break Traditional SEO (And What Actually Work…
AI is reshaping how search works and most businesses are still playing by outdated SEO rules. In this episode, Joe Toscano joins Mehmet to break down what’s really happening behind AI search and why traditional keyword-driven...
#588 Don’t Use AI to Do More. Use It to Solve Bigger Problems with Ba…
AI is changing how engineering teams build, ship, and scale but the real shift isn’t in productivity. It’s in leadership. In this episode, Bala Muthiah, Director of Engineering in Silicon Valley, breaks down what actually cha...
#587 From $5M to $200M ARR: What Growth Investors Actually Look For w…
What actually separates companies that scale from $5M to $200M ARR… from those that plateau? In this episode, Mehmet sits down with Isabelle Tashima, Investor at Volition Capital, to unpack how growth equity firms evaluate co...
#586 The Battle for the Data Layer: AI, Quantum, and What Leaders Are…
AI is moving from tool to autonomous actor, and most organizations are still treating it like software. In this episode, Kathryn Wang, Principal Public Sector at SandboxAQ, breaks down what actually changes when AI systems mo...
#585 From Search Engines to Answer Engines: Aaron Burnett on How AI I…
AI is rapidly shifting digital marketing from traditional search engines to answer-driven experiences. In this episode, Aaron Burnett joins Mehmet to break down how AI is reshaping distribution, trust, and customer acquisitio...
#584 AI-Powered Prospecting: Rylan Folts on Data, Wealth, and the End…
In this episode of The CTO Show with Mehmet , Mehmet sits down with Rylan Folts, Co-Founder of WealthFeed, to explore how AI is reshaping prospecting in wealth management and beyond. The conversation goes beyond fintech. It d...
#583 Continuous Compliance Is Coming: Richa Kaul on AI Agents, Data R…
In this episode, Mehmet sits down with Richa Kaul, Founder and CEO of Complyance, to explore how AI is fundamentally reshaping governance, risk, and compliance (GRC). What was once seen as a cost center is now becoming a stra...