The AI Collective Podcast with AJ & Catherine: Wednesday, Oct 21
The AI Collective Podcast is a live weekday show hosted by AJ Green and Catherine McMillan: the AI news that matters, what's happening inside The AI Collective, and lightning interviews with the people building the field.
📺 How to watch
Live at 9 AM PT on LinkedIn, YouTube, X and Instagram.
🗓 Run of show (PT)
9:00 Show opens: this week in AI + inside The AI Collective
9:15 Josh Constine
9:45 Jennifer Zhang
10:10 Rohit Jain
~10:30 Wrap
🎙 Today's guests
9:15 AM PT · Josh Constine
Venture Partner, Consumer, SignalFire
Venture Partner for consumer at SignalFire, an early-stage VC fund. Formerly TechCrunch Editor-at-Large for eight years (3,000+ posts), he has led 190+ talks in 18 countries.
Topic: Fundraising dynamics and which business models are working
9:45 AM PT · Jennifer Zhang
Co-founder (Strategy, GTM & Capital), AchieveGo.AI
AchieveGo.AI runs human evaluation for AI agents, pairing calibrated human review of real production calls with automated scores to show where agents that look correct still fail the user. She previously co-founded WIZ.AI as CEO and is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader (Class of 2026).
Topic: Where AI agents break in the real world, and how calibrated human evaluation catches the failures automated scores miss
10:10 AM PT · Rohit Jain
Vice President IT, Applications and Analytics (CIO Responsibility), iRhythm Technologies
Operating CIO at iRhythm Technologies (Nasdaq: IRTC), leading enterprise AI strategy and governance; his team's GenAI support assistant deflects 35% of Tier 1 tickets and saves $5M a year. Previously helped scale Upwork's tech org through its 2018 IPO and was Associate CIO at Stanford.
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