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Send us Fan MailIn this episode of The Wealth Vibe Show, Vinki Loomba sits down with Saul Cohen, founder of The Expert Eye, to unpack the critical shift from operator to investor. From his early days at PwC to building and scaling his own advisory firm, Saul shares how entrepreneurs can break free from being trapped inside their businesses and start building true, scalable wealth through acquisitions, financial strategy, and investor-level thinking. Key Takeaways:Why many entrepreneurs unknowingly build “high-paying jobs” instead of wealth-generating assetsThe mindset shift from operator thinking to investor thinking and why identity drives financial outcomesHow stop–measure–review systems prevent “20 years of the same year” and unlock compounding growthWhy understanding business value drivers matters more than focusing only on revenue and profit (P&L vs valuation thinking)The difference between lifestyle businesses vs performance businesses—and why most founders confuse the twoEpisode Timestamps:00:00 – Introduction: Are you building wealth or just building a job?03:47 – Early signs founders are stuck in operator mode09:18 – Saul's journey: PwC, entrepreneurship, and lessons in execution15:51 – Corporate vs entrepreneurship and the identity shift20:13 – Stop–measure–review system and the role of coaching24:25 – Lifestyle vs performance businesses and wealth creation models27:26 – Moving into acquisitions and SME investing strategies34:04 – Book insight: Finding Gold and the SCORE framework38:05 – Rapid-fire insights and closing thoughts
Poľsko a Ukrajina sú už niekoľko dní v diplomatickom konflikte. Ide o názov vojenskej jednotky, ktorá však Poliakom pripomenula banderovcov. A tak sa cez ukrajinsko-poľskú hranicu odoberajú a poštou posielajú späť štátne vyznamenania. Zahraničnopolitická analytička JANA KOBZOVÁ v podcaste Dobré ráno analyzuje s moderátorkou Janou Krescanko Dibákovou situáciu, ktorá vznikla po pomenovaní ukrajinskej jednotky po kontroverznej Ukrajinskej povstaleckej armáde. Poľský prezident Karol Nawrocki následne odobral ukrajinskému prezidentovi Volodymyrovi Zelenskému najvyššie štátne vyznamenanie - Rad bielej orlice. Ukrajinského prezidenta nasledovali jeho predchodcovia Leonid Kučma, Viktor Juščenko a Petro Porošensko. Zdroje zvukov: TV JOJ, Facebook/EU debates, Youtube/Volodymyr Zelenskyj Odporúčanie: Je zase z domácej dielne, my obdivovatelia pamiatok sa tešíme. Špeciálny magazín s tipmi na výlety po Českej republike nájdete už dnes v denníkoch SME a Korzár. Chcete vidieť moravský Excalibur, legendárny Tatraplan, sokolovský poklad či prejsť sa po pivnom chodníku? Kde teda nájdete najkrajšie hrady, zámky, turistické trasy a vyhliadky? Zopakujem, v dnešných novinách. – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Vražda učiteľky z Gelnice odhaľuje čoraz viac problémov. Muž skončil vo väzení, lebo škrtil svoju ženu. Dostal však len osem mesiacov a za dobré správanie ho po štyroch pustili. Jeho manželka žiadala súd o zákaz priblíženia, no súd jej nevyhovel. Podľa odborníčky by taký zákaz pomohol, ak by bol kontrolovaný monitorovacím náramkom.Aký veľký problém je na Slovensku násilie na ženách? Sme na tom horšie ako iné krajiny? Aká je v takomto prípade prevencia? A aký vplyv na spoločenskú toleranciu násilia majú toxickí influenceri? Aj na tieto otázky odpovie odborníčka na rodovo podmienené násilie, Barbora Burajová z Koordinačno-metodického centra Inštitútu pre výskum práce a rodiny.Nahrával Peter Hanák.
Spojené štáty zakázali niektoré najpokročilejšie modely umelej inteligencie mimo USA, dokonca k nim mali stratiť prístup niektorí developeri, ktorí na AI pracovali. Zároveň sa na burzu dostala spoločnosť SpaceX... ale vlastne nie ako súkromná vesmírna firma, ale najmä ako spoločnosť na umelú inteligenciu. A Musk sa tak stal prvým bilionárom. Čo sa teda deje vo svete AI, či už prebieha zbrojenie a či to celé nie je iba bublina? Tomáš Prokopčák sa v podcaste Dobré ráno pýtal Ondreja Podstupku, moderátora podcastu Klik. Zdroje zvukov: Youtube/Bloomberg Television, Youtube/CBS News, Youtube/Allen Bagby Odporúčanie: A dnes odporúčam, primerane k téme, aby ste sa porozprávali s nejakým skutočným človekom. – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
For brokers looking to expand beyond residential lending, SME finance can offer significant opportunities. But making the transition successfully requires more than simply adding new products to your toolkit. That transition was the focus of this week's Finance Specialist, where Liam Garman and Trent Carter explored what it takes to build a successful foundation in SME finance, from choosing a niche and developing technical expertise to building referral networks and understanding the needs of business owners. The pair discuss why new SME brokers should resist the temptation to do everything at once, how existing client relationships can create new commercial opportunities, and why asking the right questions is often more valuable than having all the answers. From finding your first deal to building long-term credibility, this episode explores the practical steps brokers can take to establish a strong foundation in SME finance.
Petržalka, nemocnica na Kramároch či dnes už neexistujúci Istropolis patria medzi stavby, ktoré sú už desaťročia predmetom verejných sporov. Často bývajú označované za symboly architektonických zlyhaní socializmu alebo za zdroje krízy vizuálnej identity Bratislavy. Na druhej strane máme stavby, najmä z medzivojnového obdobia, ako napríklad Avion, ktoré široká verejnosť naopak prijíma. Prečo je to tak? Na prvú by sme mohli povedať, že je to celkom prirodzene tým, že zatiaľ čo Avion pripomína obdobie našej prvej demokracie, naopak Kramáre či Petržalka sú spomienkou na totalitu. V aktuálnej epizóde podcastu toto tvrdenie sproblematizujeme: budeme diskutovať o tom, či môžu tieto stavby za režimy, v ktorých vznikli. Pozrieme sa na to, aké boli pôvodné ambície autoriek a autorov týchto projektov a ako podobu týchto stavieb ovplyvnili politické zásahy, ekonomické limity či zmeny režimov. Tento podcast je záznamom z diskusie na tému Kríza mestskej identity v minulosti a dnes, ktorá sa uskutočnila 13. júna 2026 na festivale Sútok, multižánrovom festivale, každoročne organizovanom Múzeom mesta Bratislava. Historička Agáta Šústová Drelová sa rozprávala s historičkou a architektkou Laurou Krištekovou a kunsthistoričkou Katarínou Haberlandovou z oddelenia dejín architektúry na Historickom ústave SAV, kde sa venujú výskumu histórie, teórie a plánovania architektúry 20. a 21. storočia a aktívne pôsobia aj na poli ochrany moderného architektonického dedičstva. Tento podcast vzniká vďaka podpore JUDr. Daga Vaškora, zberateľa, fanúšika histórie, fanúšika nášho podcastu. Ďakujeme za podporu. Na výrobe tejto relácie spolupracovali Tomáš Rybár a Michal Jurík. – Ak máte pre nás spätnú väzbu, odkaz alebo nápad, napíšte nám na jaroslav.valent@petitpress.sk – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcastySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Poznáte jeho texty – teraz ich budete môcť aj počuť. Každú nedeľu vo svojej podcastovej aplikácii nájdete trochu iný formát Dobrého rána – Roth číta Marca. Eseje a komentáre publicistu Sama Marca v podaní herca Roberta Rotha. Načítaný text: https://www.sme.sk/komentare/c/elon-musk-potrebuje-laskanie-a-opateru-pise-samo-marec – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Homília z Kaplnky 14.06.2026 | Svedkovia nádejeZdá sa, že náš Pán nepovažuje naše túžby za príliš silné, ale za príliš slabé. Sme len polovičaté stvorenia, ktoré sa zahrávajú s alkoholom, sexom a ambíciami, zatiaľ čo sa nám ponúka nekonečná radosť. Podobáme sa nevedomému dieťaťu v chudobnej štvrti, ktoré chce silou-mocou pokračovať v rátaní koláčov z blata, pretože si nedokáže ani len predstaviť, čo znamená ponuka stráviť dovolenku pri mori. Uspokojíme sa s málom až príliš ľahko.– C. S. LewisSlovo: Pavol JurčoČítanie z Biblie: Martina ŠottNahrávka: Dávid Laco
In this episode of The Ultimate FD Podcast, I look at something I am seeing more and more behind the scenes of UK businesses: companies with strong top-line revenue that are not making any real money. I call them zombie businesses. Not dead, not thriving, just bumbling along and draining the life out of the people who run them. The timing matters. Employer National Insurance is now 15%, the national living wage has risen, corporation tax sits at up to 25%, and around 62.6% of SME invoices are being paid late. Nearly 24,000 businesses went insolvent last year, and the ones still operating are often in worse shape than the headline figures suggest. This episode examines six mistakes I see entrepreneurs make, all of which push a profitable-looking business into zombie territory. Two of the most damaging are swimming upstream (building in declining or crowded markets instead of finding a niche with room to grow) and sacrificing gross margin to win sales. Chasing top-line revenue while quietly eroding your margins is one of the fastest ways to build a business that looks impressive but pays you nothing. I also cover the psychology behind over-recruiting, the trap of spending freely when trading is good, and what happens when you take on debt without a clear repayment plan. These are not theoretical warnings. They come directly from the company finances I review every week. If your business is generating revenue but leaving you stressed about payroll, short on cash, or working excessive hours to sustain it, this episode is worth your time. I share the five financial rules every business needs to protect its margins, and set up a new methodology I will be covering over the coming weeks for taking a zombie business and turning it into a genuinely profitable one.
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Vládu vyškolil Ústavný súd. Povedal, že bezodkladne požiadať o dôveru znamená okamžite, hneď a nie kreatívne nežiadať dlhé mesiace. Krajský súd v Bratislave vyhovel odvolaniu ministra vnútra Matúša Šutaja Eštoka a zrušil kontumačný rozsudok v kauze čurillovcov. Do sveta vyšleme nových veľvyslancov - prezident Peter Pellegrini vymenoval Miroslava Radačovského a Petra Kmeca, a novinári do detailov rozobrali, kam tečú stranícke peniaze Smeru - spomína sa firma poslanca Jána Mažgúta či Kallan Legal, ktorej spoločníkom je Robert Kaliňák. Dobrým ránom sobota vás sprevádzajú Zuzana Kovačič Hanzelová s Jakubom Filom. Zdroj zvukov: STVR, TASR, TA3 – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Ukrajina sa usiluje o členstvo v Európskej únii už naozaj dlho. Isto si spomínate na Oranžovú revolúciu alebo Euromaidan, ktoré v jej snahe o integráciu svietia ako najznámejšie míľniky. Otvorenie najnovších rokovaní je podľa Volodymyra Zelenského pre ukrajinský národ „významná politická a morálna podpora“. Cesta pred našimi východnými susedmi je však ešte dlhá a predovšetkým ťažká. O rozširovaní Európskej únie, nielen Ukrajinou, sa Nikola Šuliková Bajánová rozpráva s vydavateľom euBriefu Radovanom Geistom. Zdroje zvukov: YouTube/Reuters, euronews Odporúčanie: Ponorte sa do veľmi hlbokého mora s veľmi vzácnymi druhmi veľrýb, vyzýva New York Times vo svojom multimediálnom príspevku o tom, ako ťažba a ťažobný prieskum a doprava v Mexickom zálive narúšajú komunikáciu týchto ohrozených cicavcov. Do toho, čo sa deje pod hladinou oceánu, sa môžete započúvať na tomto linku. – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Robert Fico chráni predovšetkým svojich ľudí. Tých totiž dôrazne obhajuje, keď sa začali vyťahovať prepojenia medzi Smerom, firmami a rôznym príbuzenstvom. Sám Fico pritom celé toto odštartoval útokom na Šimečku cez jeho rodinu. Či spravil politickú chybu a či má opozícia novú tému, ale aj aké budú politické dôsledky? Tomáš Prokopčák sa v podcaste Dobré ráno pýta komentátora denníka SME Petra Tkačenka. Zdroje zvukov: Markíza, Startitup, 360tka, YouTube/SMER-SD, Progresívne Slovensko Odporúčanie: A dnes odporúčam novú knihu Sama Marca Sociálne siete musia byť zničené. Keď už pre nič iné, tak preto, že sociálne siete skrátka musia byť zničené. – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Stephen Grootes speaks to Bulelani Balabala, Business Speaker, Media Contributor and Township Entrepreneur TEA about why small businesses in South Africa should treat marketing as an essential investment, and how they can boost visibility and grow sales without big budgets. The Money Show is a podcast hosted by well-known journalist and radio presenter, Stephen Grootes. He explores the latest economic trends, business developments, investment opportunities, and personal finance strategies. Each episode features engaging conversations with top newsmakers, industry experts, financial advisors, entrepreneurs, and politicians, offering you thought-provoking insights to navigate the ever-changing financial landscape. Thank you for listening to a podcast from The Money Show Listen live Primedia+ weekdays from 18:00 and 20:00 (SA Time) to The Money Show with Stephen Grootes broadcast on 702 https://buff.ly/gk3y0Kj and CapeTalk https://buff.ly/NnFM3Nk For more from the show, go to https://buff.ly/7QpH0jY or find all the catch-up podcasts here https://buff.ly/PlhvUVe Subscribe to The Money Show Daily Newsletter and the Weekly Business Wrap here https://buff.ly/v5mfetc The Money Show is brought to you by Absa Follow us on social media 702 on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TalkRadio702 702 on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@talkradio702 702 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talkradio702/ 702 on X: https://x.com/CapeTalk 702 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@radio702 CapeTalk on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@capetalk CapeTalk on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ CapeTalk on X: https://x.com/Radio702 CapeTalk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CapeTalk567 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ako sa do hory volá, tak sa z hory ozýva. Alebo Progresívne Slovensko dáva premiérovi ochutnať jeho vlastnú medicínu. Ale aby sme odišli od frazeologizmov, po tom, ako Robert Fico dlhé mesiace útočil na Michala Šimečku či už cez jeho matku a jej Projekt Fórum, alebo jeho partnerku, progresívci začali vo veľkom upozorňovať na nemalý počet blízkych osôb premiéra a ich napojenie na štátnu kasu. Od syna cez brata až po premiérové priateľky, pričom tam sa zoznam smeráckych prijímateľov výplat nekončí. Takže, kto je tu príživnícka rodina? Nielen o tom sa Nikola Šuliková Bajánová rozpráva s Michalom Katuškom, reportérom denníka SME. Zdroje zvukov: Markíza, Startitup, 360tka, YouTube/SMER-SD, Progresívne Slovensko – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Môže sa celá Zem vplyvom fyziky zrazu prevrátiť dolu hlavou? Prečo tornáda a hurikány takmer nikdy neprekročia zemský rovník? Dokáže pochodujúce vojsko iba vlastným rytmom rozkmitať a zničiť most? A prečo cyklistov pod vysokým napätím občas nepríjemne kope bicykel? O tom všetkom diskutujú Jozef a Samuel. Podcast vzniká v spolupráci so SME. Živé nahrávanie v NASHA KERAMIKA: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vedatorsky-podcast-live-mimozemska-sprava-tickets-1991919999339 Bonusové epizódy a extra obsah k podcastom nájdete na https://herohero.co/vedator Samuelova nová kniha už je v predaji https://www.martinus.sk/3600333-limity-poznania/kniha Otázky nám môžete nahrávať tu https://www.speakpipe.com/vedator Podcastové hrnčeky a ponožky nájdete na stránke https://vedator.space/vedastore/ Všetko ostatné nájdete tu https://linktr.ee/vedatorsk Vedátorský newsletter http://eepurl.com/gIm1y5
Z Blízkeho východu hlásia okamžitý a trvalý koniec vojny. Spojené štáty a Irán sa dohodli na zastavení vojenských operácií na všetkých frontoch vrátane Libanonu. Už tento piatok by vo Švajčiarsku mali slávnostne podpísať mierovú dohodu, ktorá bude pokračovať rokovaniami o iránskom jadrovom programe a sankciách. Zatiaľ čo sa viacerí z vývoja tešia, Izrael dohodu odsúdil a vyhlásil, že preň záväzná nie je. O dianí v regióne a o tom, či stojí teraz všetko na rokovaniach o uráne, sa Nikola Šuliková Bajánová rozpráva s českým politológom, publicistom a vysokoškolským pedagógom z Masarykovej univerzity v Brne Josefom Krausom. Odporúčanie Mojim dnešným odporúčaním je web https://tinyfingers.net/, ktorý mi pomáha, ak má moje dieťa potrebu zapojiť sa do práce na počítači. Stláčať a búchať môže do nemoty a moje projekty ostávajú v bezpečí. – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Pripomína to ohromný cintorín alebo nekropolu a najstaršie pozostatky majú viac ako päť miliónov rokov. Vedci totiž objavili veľrybie miesto plné zdochlín, a to hlboko pod hladinou mora. Tento týždeň sa v podcaste Zoom vyberieme do veľrybej nekropole a dozvieme sa o vakcíne navrhnutej umelou inteligenciou, ktorú úspešne otestovali na ľuďoch. – Všetky podcasty denníka SME si môžete vypočuť na jednom mieste na podcasty.sme.sk. – Ak máte pre nás spätnú väzbu, odkaz alebo nápad, napíšte nám na podcasty@sme.sk – Odoberajte aj (Ne)vedecký newsletter Tomáša Prokopčáka na sme.sk/nevedecky – Ďakujeme, že počúvate podcast Zoom.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Are accounting firms doing enough to support SME clients beyond tax compliance? In this episode, Peter Towers explores why accountants, bookkeepers, and business advisors need to embrace advisory services, predictive accounting, business planning, cash flow forecasting, KPI monitoring, and capital raising support. Discover how firms can strengthen client relationships, create new revenue opportunities, retain talented team members, and help SMEs survive and thrive in challenging economic conditions. You can also access our podcast on:
Prezident Peter Pellegrini je v úrade presne dva roky. Od samého začiatku je v centre pozornosti najmä to, akú protiváhu dokáže tvoriť voči vládnej koalícii a takisto – či sa mu podarí vymaniť spod vplyvu svojich dlhoročných politických kolegov a mentorov. Pravdou je, že došlo aj na konflikty a vetovanie zákonov. Je to však dosť na to, aby sme videli riadne emancipovaného nadstraníckeho prezidenta? To a ešte oveľa viac sa Nikola Šuliková Bajánová pýta šéfky domácej redakcie denníka SME Michaely Terenzani a reportéra denníka SME Michala Katušku. Zdroje zvukov: Youtube/Denník N, RTVS, Youtube/Peter Pellegrini Odporúčanie: Nedávno som videla časť rozhovoru s americkou herečkou Oliviou Munnovou, v ktorom hovorila okrem iného o tom, ako by pri druhej šanci na život zahodila telefón do oceánu a získaný čas venovala svojmu synovi. So závislosťou od sociálnych sietí máme problém viacerí, aj ja sama, preto stále hľadám cesty, ako sa jej zbaviť. Jeden návod – opäť – ponúka denník The Guardian. – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This is the AHRMM Updates Podcast with Mike Schiller and hosted by Justin Poulin. Tune in every month as we highlight trends, strategies and solutions from the field to advance the healthcare supply chain. And now, Mike and Justin… June ‘26 Update: - National/High Level Work (SCRC) * Situational Alert on expediting same day courier service (American expediting) - Conference Updates * Book Hotel Rooms * Exhibiter update and appreciation * Supply Chain awards - On The Fringe – Where can they learn more (upcoming SME podcast) * BD Spinal tray on recall
Many leaders have years of experience and very little self-knowledge to show for it because they've never stopped to process their experiences. In this episode, James Rule makes the case for journaling as a serious leadership discipline. The practice that builds self-awareness, sharpens decision-making, and gives leaders the one thing they almost never create, space to think.KEY TAKEAWAYSWhy experience without reflection is just repetitionThe specific loneliness of senior leadership and why honest self-examination becomes harder the higher you goJames's personal story. What collapsing with pneumonia taught him about the cost of not reflectingThree things journaling actually does for leaders at a senior levelMarcus Aurelius, Ray Dalio, and why the most effective leaders in history all did the inner workThree questions, five minutes the entry point that removes every excuseRELATED EPISODES FROM THE ARCHIVEEpisode 15 covers the practical mechanics of journaling, how to start, what formats work, and how to build the habit. This episode is the deeper argument for why it matters at a senior level: self-awareness, decision quality, and managing the weight that comes with leading at the top. The two episodes are complementary. If you haven't heard Episode 15, it's worth going back to it after this one on the link below.Episode 15 - The Power of Utilising a Journal (practical mechanics and habit building)Episode 93 - Inside The Lonely Leader: My story, my philosophy my purpose Episode 110 - My enough is enough moment and how it changed me as a leader ENJOYED THE EPISODE?James works with senior leaders, CEOs, and founders who want to perform at the highest level without losing what matters most in the process. If this conversation has prompted something for you professionally or personally James would genuinely love to hear from you.You can reach him directly via LinkedIn or through the website below. Everything shared is in complete confidence.If this resonated, the single most valuable thing you can do is share it with one person who needs to hear it, a leader you know who is carrying this quietly, a colleague who is building something significant and paying a price at home they haven't fully examined yet.A five-star review on your podcast app also makes an enormous difference in helping this podcast reach the leaders who need it most. It takes thirty seconds and it matters more than you know.ABOUT THE HOST James is an experienced mentor, coach and thought leader who works with a range of clients from FTSE 100 companies, SME´s the NHS and wider public and not for profit sectors.His twenty year career in elite sport initially as a professional rugby player but predominantly as a chief executive has given him an invaluable insight in managing the success, failures and pressures associated with leadership at the highest level.As a high performance coach James specialises in enhancing resilience and leadership development. He is a passionate advocate of the notion that to find lasting fulfilment we need to take a holistic view of high performance. CONNECT & CONTACT www.thelonelyleader.co.ukThe Lonely Leader's LinkedIn James' LinkedInInstagramhello@thelonelyleader.co.uk THIS SHOW WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY LONELY LEADER MEDIA NEWSLETTERSign Up to The Leadership Accelerator Newsletter for advice, inspiration and ideas, you'll also receive James' Top 10 Tips for Combating Your Fear of Public Speaking. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
FNB is aangewys as Afrika se beste SME-bank vir 2026 deur Global Finance Awards, wat erkenning gee aan sy rol in die ondersteuning van klein en mediumgrootte ondernemings reg oor die vasteland. Nesdha De Jongh, FNB Namibia se hoof van SME-bankdienste, sê die toekenning beklemtoon die bank se pogings om toegang tot bankdienste, digitale oplossings en befondsingsgeleenthede uit te brei vir entrepreneurs wat werkskepping, innovasie en ekonomiese groei aandryf.
Subscribe to our Newsletter:https://theultimatepartner.com/ebook-subscribe/ Check Out UPX:https://theultimatepartner.com/experience/ https://youtu.be/j0TuosYDQe4?si=7mzUwBe4PrQ-eB2E In this insightful session from the Ultimate Partner Live event in Bellevue, Washington, Vince Menzione sits down with Stephen Boyle, Corporate Vice President for Enterprise Partners at Microsoft, to pull back the curtain on the tectonic shifts redefining the tech ecosystem. Boyle details Microsoft's massive organizational pivot into enterprise and SME/channel divisions , explaining how artificial intelligence acts as the foundational thread unifying systems integrators, software vendors, and digital natives. Moving past market noise surrounding competing foundational models , he highlights Microsoft's strategy to become the ultimate “platform of platforms” by prioritizing user choice, security, and trust. Emphasizing a shift away from infrastructure technicalities and toward practical business outcomes , Boyle delivers an urgent mandate for partners to scale technical talent, eliminate traditional operational silos, and brace for the incoming consumption-driven, agent-based future of enterprise computing. Key Takeaways Microsoft has restructured its global sales divisions into distinct Enterprise and SME/Channel organizations to better target its massive total addressable markets. Artificial intelligence is fundamentally altering the partner ecosystem by dismantling traditional software and systems integrator silos to build interconnected, multi-party solutions. Rather than forcing alignment to a singular model, Microsoft aims to be the definitive platform of platforms by offering extensive choice across over 1,100 language models. The enterprise landscape is rapidly moving past experimental AI pilot phases and entering production setups completely focused on transforming core business outcomes. Tomorrow's service organizations are aggressively evolving into software-minded operations that deploy repeatable, highly specialized internal autonomous agents. Managing tokens and monitoring usage metrics represents the emerging operational baseline for balancing efficiency against the scaling expenses of large language models. If you're ready to lead through change, elevate your business, and achieve extraordinary outcomes through the power of partnership—this is your community. At Ultimate Partner® we want leaders like you to join us in the Ultimate Partner Experience – where transformation begins. Key Tags AI frontier, platform of platforms, enterprise partners, global systems integrators, digital natives, language models, token consumption, agent sprawl, citizen developers, shadow IT, business outcomes, technical enablement, marketplace growth, hyper-scalers, processing fluency, sovereign AI, industry ecosystems, data governance. Transcript [00:00:00] Stephen Boyle: This is the biggest, most transformative, iterative change in technology we’ve ever seen, where, if you wanna call it a paradigm shift or whatever word comes after paradigm shift. [00:00:12] Vince Menzione: We just came back from Ultimate Partner live in Bellevue, Washington, where we hosted incredible leaders for two amazing days. Come join us for this next session where we explore the tectonic shifts we’ve all been seeing. Uh, I am thrilled to invite our next guest up on stage. I’ve known this gentleman for several years back in my days at Microsoft, and, um, we’ve been friends, actually Microsoft, and then we both went and did different things, came he’s come back to Microsoft in a big way. [00:00:46] Vince Menzione: Uh, Steven Boyle, for those of you don’t know, is recently a named the C. We will talk about it in a second, but I, I need to announce you properly. Is the corporate vice president, which by the way in Microsoft is a big deal for enterprise partners. He and Nicole De and I would say are the two Microsoft leaders in the organization. [00:01:06] Vince Menzione: Nicole is the channel chief. Steven has a, a big remit and we’ll talk about that up on stage. But I’m just so delightful for his support and for making the time in a very busy week at Microsoft ’cause this is CEO summit this week to make some time to come with us and be on stage with me. Please welcome my good friend Steven Boyle. [00:01:29] Vince Menzione: Good to see you, sir. To see. So I’m gonna put you on this side. [00:01:33] Stephen Boyle: Okay. [00:01:35] Vince Menzione: The hot seat. So I’m gonna, I, I didn’t do a justice and I, I wanted you to explain your role. I, I think I know, but I think for the, for the people in the room, uh, talk to us what Enterprise Partners means at Microsoft and what that role remit and remit looks like. [00:01:50] Stephen Boyle: Um, CVPs may or may not be important, but one thing they don’t do is get invites to the CEO summit. So I’m super pleased to be here with you guys. No, no, it’s totally cool. It’s totally cool if that phone rings. No, I’m kidding. Doesn’t. So what does it mean? So I’d like quickly, um. January last year, uh, we split the sales organization into enterprise and small to medium enterprise and channel. [00:02:15] Stephen Boyle: You guys probably familiar with that? Nicole is the, uh, chief partner officer lives in the SMA and C world and drives the channel, um, drives our marketplace business and, and a lot of other things. Um, for that 60 billion, um, you know, total addressable market that we have. Down there in SME and C. Um, at the same time, we established enterprise partner as part of Nick Parker’s overall organization. [00:02:40] Stephen Boyle: Um, but for most of 2025 we ran it as global systems integrators and advisories, ISVs and digital natives. So three separate footprints all focused entirely on, on, on enterprise. Um, in December, January, we talked about establishing an enterprise partner leader that would. You know, aggregate all of this stuff. [00:03:00] Stephen Boyle: Um, I was fortunate to come through, um, some frankly, pretty hairy, uh, experiences, I bet with some of our senior leaders. Um, I, I’ve loved to [00:03:08] Vince Menzione: been in the room for that [00:03:09] Stephen Boyle: questions like, why Steven Boyle and things like that, right? And really have to dig deep to, uh, to justify. Anyway, uh, I’m blessed and honored, uh, to run that entire portfolio of partners, uh, for the entirety of the enterprise partner world, which now from a chief revenue officer perspective, belongs to Deb. [00:03:25] Stephen Boyle: Deb Co. So Deb is the enterprise leader for all of our sales that we do into that space. Awesome. Um, I have three regional leaders, Nina Harding here in the United States, Ehab Ra in in Europe, and Heather Gordon in Asia that mirror and replicate and flow down the things that we decide to do from a strategy perspective for the, uh, for the core. [00:03:45] Vince Menzione: And we love Nina. She’s been, she was at our last event, [00:03:47] Stephen Boyle: super, super lady. And, uh, you know, the US is still 50% of our overall business. [00:03:53] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:03:53] Stephen Boyle: Too big to fabric. Every time I talk to Nina, I’m like, Nina, you’re too big to fail. We can’t cover you anywhere else. So you know, you’ve gotta be successful here in the Americas. [00:04:01] Vince Menzione: So I think just for breaking it up, I, ’cause I do want to like, it’ll lead to the next question, right? So you have the global systems integrators, all these systems integrators. Essentially you have all of the software companies we used to call ISVs, we now call SDCs or software development corporations. [00:04:17] Vince Menzione: And then you also have the AI stack, I’ll call it. Right? So under Jason Grafe. Yeah. Many, many might know. Jason’s been a guest on the podcast and was Satya’s chief of staff at one time, eight years. Eight years. Wow. I didn’t realize there was that many. [00:04:31] Stephen Boyle: Carry carried a lot of bags for Satya over the years. [00:04:34] Vince Menzione: Unbelievable. Well, let’s, I mean, so AI is an important component, right? And you saw Jay’s, Jay talking, just talking about AI and all these things. I would love to start here, right? Because, uh, you’re, you’re, I wanna get your perspective as Microsoft, your perspective as Microsoft on the biggest shifts you’re seeing in defining this we’ll call AI Frontier. [00:04:54] Vince Menzione: We’re seeing right now, how should partners translate that into how they position and go to market externally? How, how do we need to think about this time? [00:05:02] Stephen Boyle: Yeah, that is, uh, that is a huge question and I’m not sure we’ve got enough time to go into the, into all of the detail. Um, so let me sort of up level it a little bit for you. [00:05:10] Stephen Boyle: And I think, look, the move that we meet at made a couple of months ago and pulling together those three aspects. Nicole had already done it in SME and C. Right. One partner organization across the world with a very common set of goals. We were working closely together, Sandy Gupta, on ISV, Jason on ai, and myself on on si. [00:05:29] Stephen Boyle: But we were still working closely together across silos. So the opportunity for me, 60 days into this role is AI just allows you to wire the partner ecosystem together differently. Right? And even if you look at how we’re going to market an AI today, um. You know, with, with, with chat GPT, with Claude, with Anthropic, um, I think there’s something like 1100 different, you know, language models on Microsoft today. [00:05:55] Stephen Boyle: So the way I think about AI is we are absolutely gonna be the ultimate platform of platforms. Yeah, choice is incredibly important. Um. It’s, it’s, you know, turn the clock back 12 months, everybody was chat gpt five point x, you know, and then six months ago it was Gemini and now it seems to be clawed. And honestly I don’t know what it’s gonna be next quarter. [00:06:15] Stephen Boyle: So the only thing I can do is offer you choice. [00:06:18] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:06:18] Stephen Boyle: And from a partner perspective, I think that minimizes or reduces the risk that you have betting on the Microsoft platform because you can go in a multitude of different directions. I know we’re not in Europe, but if you were in Europe and you were worried about G-G-D-P-R and Jay mentioned sovereignty, you’d probably be like lining up really closely to Misra. [00:06:37] Stephen Boyle: Yeah. And a bunch of other Europe, European partners. So wherever you are in the globe, I wanna be that platform choice. Um, and we will lead with our own first party solutions. I hope they’re not coming for me. Um. I parked safely in the hotel. It can’t be me. Um, but you weren’t vibe coding in the room. Um, but you know, wherever you are in the world, in whichever industry you are in, um, it is our intent to, to offer that platform of platforms and to give the broadest set of partners the opportunity to engage with us. [00:07:07] Vince Menzione: I think that’s really important because I, I have found, especially in the last month or two, people are, it’s almost like a knee jerk. Don’t you feel like people don’t know what to do? There’s been so much noise in the press and the media and, and the markets around open AI and anthropic especially. Where do I go? [00:07:26] Vince Menzione: Seems to be like when I, when I sit, I watch everybody in the room here. I think they’re, they’ve all been thinking that as well. So you can, [00:07:31] Stephen Boyle: there’s a, a little bit of a deer in the headlights moment. Yes. And even I like, I get that. Yeah. Um, you know, I saw, uh, Jay slides. Jay, love the presentation. Love the slides, man. [00:07:40] Stephen Boyle: I’m gonna steal several of them. Um, we’ll talk about that later. We, we [00:07:43] Vince Menzione: have the deck, [00:07:45] Stephen Boyle: but, but in all seriousness, you know, this, this is like. It’s a new paradigm. I will date myself a little bit. Some of you might heard me say this. I sold many computers in the 1980s. Mini computers. Some of you in the room are going, what’s a mini computer? [00:07:59] Stephen Boyle: Um, I sold client server for Sun Microsystems in the nineties. I sold an awful lot of Oracle databases in the Auts, I think they’re called, and I’ve done two stints with Microsoft. This is the biggest, most transformative. Iterative change in technology we’ve ever seen. What, if you wanna call it a paradigm shift or whatever word comes after paradigm shift. [00:08:18] Stephen Boyle: Um, and we are building intelligent systems at scale faster than we’ve ever seen. Scalable, mission critical solutions being implemented today inside of Microsoft and with our most important customers. So, and we can’t do it without partners, right? There is absolutely nothing we can do in this industry. I will, I will put the, you know, the elephant in the room out there. [00:08:40] Stephen Boyle: Our ISD organization has between five and 7,000 people. Our forward deployed engineering organization is about a thousand people. [00:08:47] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:08:48] Stephen Boyle: So when you look at the scale of the total addressable market that Jay just talked about. We are gonna service directly like this much [00:08:55] Vince Menzione: used to be 5%. Was it even, is it even that high? [00:08:58] Stephen Boyle: I doubt it’s, I doubt it’s even that. And the billions of dollars that we spend every year helping our customers transform to what we’re now calling frontier firms is gonna be, have to be driven with every single person in this room in some way, shape, or form. Judson is not asking Marla to significantly increase ISD. [00:09:15] Stephen Boyle: Not asking John to significantly increase FDE, although we probably will hire in that area just because of the, the newness and the, you know, bright shiny object that everybody’s like, oh, FDE, I’ve gotta have those. We’ve got a thousand already today that have been around in John’s organization for 10 plus years doing the things that we are doing today. [00:09:32] Stephen Boyle: But we are gonna build out that muscle. But the real way we’re gonna build out that muscle is with all of you in this room. That’s like categorical. That is my like, probably number one goal for the next one to three years is make sure that, that story that Jay just told about Microsoft not being involved in AstraZeneca. [00:09:48] Stephen Boyle: I probably won’t tell Judson that Jay, but I love the story. Um, like if you could all do that for me, like win, um, that is so, you know, from our worldwide learning, through our skilling enablement through our cloud solution architects that I personally own. We are pivoting aggressively towards making sure that the partners understand our platforms better than any other job, number one for me right now, if you don’t understand what I’m selling, like I’m kind of dead in the water obviously. [00:10:15] Stephen Boyle: Well, [00:10:15] Vince Menzione: I was gonna ask you why now? Why Microsoft? Why now? Right? Because there is a lot of noise. You know, Google just announced, you all announced your results on the same day, which was astounding. That was freaky, wasn’t it? It was. It was the first time. And the, the total commitment, customer commitment is over a trillion dollars now, I think 1.2 trillion is what I counted up. [00:10:33] Stephen Boyle: Yeah. [00:10:34] Vince Menzione: But it’s saying a lot about like, what do I do now, like as these partners in the room. Um, how, I think you kind of already, and you’ve talked about this, about differentiating where Microsoft is, I think J Slide does a lot of justice there. It says how, uh, Microsoft Partners came into the room, surrounded the customer. [00:10:52] Vince Menzione: It feels like Microsoft has always leaned in big time on partners. Uh, more so I would say than any other organization out there. What would [00:10:59] Stephen Boyle: you say Joe Roses, my chief of staff, business manager and so many other things was telling me last night that, you know, we used to say 500,000 partners. [00:11:05] Vince Menzione: Yeah, [00:11:06] Stephen Boyle: it’s a, it’s a significantly higher number than that as well. [00:11:09] Stephen Boyle: So there’s an element of, you know, back to the deer in the headlights, which partners are, are more important. One of my other phrases that I say on a regular basis, the winners and losers are yet to be decided in this next wave. Like, I want all of us to on the right side of that argument. Right? But, but it’s gonna be a challenge and, and companies are going through shifts. [00:11:28] Stephen Boyle: You know, Accenture, maybe, possibly doesn’t need 750,000 employees in the not too distant future. Maybe TCS at 600,000 doesn’t need 600,000 human employees. So we’re going through this dramatic shift of, you know, what’s the right balance going forward. What I would say about Microsoft is notwithstanding the fact that we’ve figured this out for 51 years, which is a little bit mind blowing, um, that you know, all the way back in the seventies we’ve gone through so many iterative changes. [00:11:56] Stephen Boyle: People have questioned just like they’ve questions. A lot of other technology companies, are you gonna be around for the long haul? I think we’ve proven time and time again, and I love Jay’s story. I’ve used that myself about how many companies disappear on a, on a decade to decade, you know, business. 10 years ago I had the opportunity to listen to Craig Clayton Christensen, who’s sadly no longer with us. [00:12:15] Stephen Boyle: Yeah. But you know, the books that he wrote and the story that he told to Microsoft 2014, we were nowhere in cloud. [00:12:21] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:12:22] Stephen Boyle: AWS was so far ahead of us, it was crazy. And he came in and he’s like. You know what? You guys need to be successful. You need to figure out how to cross this chasm again, and we’ve done it time and time again. [00:12:32] Stephen Boyle: You can go back. You know, Microsoft used to be known as a fast follower in ai. I don’t think we’re a fast follower. I think we’re right up there. We’re right at the front, but that race is still being run and the winners are losers are yet to be decided. [00:12:44] Vince Menzione: I was in that room with Clayton Christensen with you, by the way. [00:12:46] Vince Menzione: I remember, I remember that. That was at a Prism conference. [00:12:49] Stephen Boyle: Yeah. Yeah. [00:12:50] Vince Menzione: You men, you touched on this with the GSIs a little bit. How do you see the roles evolving? You know, we, we, we bucketed all, we’ve always been. Fantastic about bucketing ISVs or SDCs and sis and digital natives. Yeah. How does it, how does that all come together? [00:13:06] Vince Menzione: Does it come together any differently in this new AI platform era, or is it the same? [00:13:11] Stephen Boyle: I look, I, I’ve said this for a long time, like if you go into AstraZeneca, the six plus, you know, frontline partners, there’s probably a whole board of second, third tier that, that we don’t know about doing, you know, things across the AstraZeneca group. [00:13:25] Stephen Boyle: It takes several villages and sometimes a small town, especially in my world, in the enterprise world, strategic five hundreds. Yeah. Um, you know, we, we ran some reports a few years ago and it is shocking how many global systems integrators have a footprint in Shell or Exxon or, you know, bank of America or whatever else. [00:13:44] Stephen Boyle: So I’ve always believed that partner to partner is critical. Yeah. I think it became even more critical in the, in the AI world, and I’ll take my new friends at Anthropic. So I went to the first Anthropic partner Summit. Some of you might have been down there in, in San Diego, um, just a couple of months ago. [00:13:59] Stephen Boyle: Same partners, same people from the same partners. In the room, you know, talking about what they’re gonna do together with Anthropic. Um, and I’m looking out across this audience going, okay, well I know him and I know her and I know those guys, and like, I need to figure out how I’m gonna weave this together. [00:14:14] Stephen Boyle: So it’s not just an Accenture and Anthropic or an NTT data and anthropic, but it’s an NTT data plus anthropic plus Microsoft. Story going forward. And then who’s best at delivering those services capabilities? So it’s it at every juncture that I see in the, in the partner community, and this is the, the reason why I argued vehemently with Nick, that it has to be one organization I’m gonna create maybe given a little bit away. [00:14:40] Stephen Boyle: So if you’re recording, stop now. Um, I’m gonna create an enablement organization that is partner agnostic. I don’t necessarily care. I do care about the digital natives, but I don’t care about how I train them. Right. What I’m more important of is how do I train the digital natives in what the sis are doing, and how do I train the sis and what the ISVs Plus digital Natives are doing. [00:15:01] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:15:01] Stephen Boyle: That is my, that’s my game plan. If I fail there, then I think we fail to raise the bar and be differentiated in an AI world, and I’m not set up like that today. [00:15:12] Vince Menzione: I wanna, I wanna ask you, uh, uh, because I was looking at Jay’s slide and the, the managed piece is. And we have a lot of managed service providers in this room today. [00:15:20] Vince Menzione: A lot of them, by the way, come from the old school of managed services. The managed piece seems to be like, if I’m doing something today with ai, we’re gonna talk about security next, uh, up on stage here. It seems like there’s a new set of skills or a different approach to the customer, don’t you? Don’t you agree? [00:15:37] Stephen Boyle: I I [00:15:37] Vince Menzione: think you need to keep your hands on the steering wheel at all [00:15:39] Stephen Boyle: times. I think what it boils down to is you can’t do AI unless you do certain other things. [00:15:44] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:15:44] Stephen Boyle: Right. You could be a modern work specialist and you could make a lot of money being a modern work specialist, or you could be a, a dynamic specialist. [00:15:52] Stephen Boyle: We just held our, uh, inner A in a circle conference last last week, which I was disappointed to miss for the first time in a few years. Those, those days are, are, are fast becoming over. [00:16:03] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:16:04] Stephen Boyle: Um, why? Because everything that I’ve just said is tied together by ai. Yes. And in order to do good ai, you need good data. [00:16:12] Stephen Boyle: And in order to trust everything that you’re getting, as Judson talks about trust and intelligence, you need to wrap that in a really secure [00:16:19] Vince Menzione: Yes. [00:16:19] Stephen Boyle: You know, en en environment. Now we will do our best to provide levels of security into how we deliver ai. But that’s not the end of the game, right? You have to take it all, all the way to the edge. [00:16:30] Stephen Boyle: So that’s why a siloed partner or a singular commercial solution area partner in Microsoft’s terms, has got to transform its business. ’cause if you’re gonna do ai, you’ve gotta do those other things as well. [00:16:41] Vince Menzione: Agreed. I must see the model changing, and in fact, I see like bigger organizations becoming managed service providers in many respects. [00:16:48] Stephen Boyle: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, look, there’s still, there’s still a role for all the old terminology you mentioned is SV to sdc. Yeah. I’m like, I’m been around long enough. Look, it’s ANB still anv, it’s still an isv. Thank you. Independent software vendor. Um, and it’s, you know, where, where AI is allowing software to be, you know, frankly developed in a number of different places. [00:17:07] Stephen Boyle: We are all citizen developers. Um, you know, I was on a call with our internal leadership yesterday, um, and you guys might have heard this story ’cause I think it came out at Ignite. When we turn the agent 365, around and on ourselves. We found 130,000 agents running across Microsoft that had been developed and deployed internally with, I mean, you could call it shadow it. [00:17:28] Stephen Boyle: I guess that would be one phrase that you would use for it, but the reality is if you, if you haven’t got something to do your job today, you have the tools. To build it really, really fast. Um, and that, you know, that’s, that’s a great opportunity for people to be able to do their work, you know, in a better and in a different way. [00:17:45] Stephen Boyle: But it’s also a huge opportunity to make sure that data governance and security and all the other things that we need to deliver are there out of, out of the gate and out of the platform that we deliver. So security’s absolutely critical. Not saying that managed services won’t grow, um, at, at some level as well, but only if they transform into this multifaceted way. [00:18:04] Stephen Boyle: Yeah. Thinking [00:18:05] Vince Menzione: about, well, that’s what I was, I was gonna lead to here with innovating. It’s happening across, I mean, we’re talking about chips, we’re talking about foundational models, LLMs, we’re talking about applications, we’re talking about agents. How should we think about where to play and how to differentiate as partners in this room? [00:18:22] Stephen Boyle: I think. [00:18:25] Stephen Boyle: So look, I mean, one, one of the ways that Judson talks about it is I think silicon’s gonna change over time. Yes. NVIDIA’s definitely the 800 pound gorilla, maybe the 8,000 pound gorilla. Yeah. Uh, but you know, if you read the press, there’s, there’s things happening in, in different places as first party silicon, which we clearly are, are developing, um, in a quantum direction for sure. [00:18:45] Stephen Boyle: Um, there’s lots of different language models that haven’t even been launched on, on, on the marketplace yet, so. You know, Judson’s trying to uplevel our conversations. You’ll hear us talking about conversations more and more as we go into FY 27, um, that obviate all of those layers. Just like even when I was selling Sun Microsystems, it was about the business outcome and the business solution that we were solving for not necessarily the fastest piece of hardware or the best client service solution on, on the market. [00:19:17] Stephen Boyle: So I think what’s gonna happen over the next 12 to 24 months is we’ll have so many different models to choose from. We’ll have more silicon to choose from, but those won’t be the real buying decisions. The real buying decisions of what? How am I trying to transform my finance organization, my HR organization, and my supply chain? [00:19:36] Stephen Boyle: Because the underlying technology, Judson says commodity I, I guess I can go with that. It will be commoditized and we’ll really start to focus back on what the important things are. We’re moving a lot from pilot to production. You guys have probably seen that. The numbers that Jay just showed about how many. [00:19:52] Stephen Boyle: Projects are failing, is getting less and less because we’re getting smarter and smarter about what it takes to actually drive the business outcome. And I need all of us to be talking that same language. Yeah. Having conversations with head of HR about how we’re gonna transform human capital management in the, in the age of agents, if you like, like the underlying platform. [00:20:14] Stephen Boyle: It’s not, don’t worry about it. You wanna be on a secure platform. Don’t get me wrong. But at the same time, I don’t think we, we spent too much time worrying about that. [00:20:21] Vince Menzione: Yeah. We’re not, what you’re saying is we’re not spending enough time on outcomes. On the business outcomes. Right. And that’s where we need to focus. [00:20:27] Vince Menzione: We’re, we’re focusing on, I, I feel like we’re, it’s a signal to, to noise ratio that we’re living through right now. There’s too much noise. [00:20:33] Stephen Boyle: Yeah. [00:20:34] Vince Menzione: And we’re not focusing on the signal. I think that’s what you’re saying. [00:20:36] Stephen Boyle: I, it’s got to be, I mean, to be honest with you, it’s always been, you know, even when I sold what I would perceive, you know, sun in the nineties was a rockman ship to the stars and, you know, kind of sad what happened to that company. [00:20:47] Stephen Boyle: Um, but we, we were, we were fixated on, we had the best client server. But, but nobody was buying, you know, a piece of Sun hardware as a room heater, which is all it did, you know, like for the longest. But if you had SAP, if you had Cybase, if you had Bond, remember Bond, I mean all of those applications that drove the business outcomes, we’ve gotta get back to that kind of mentality. [00:21:09] Stephen Boyle: Yes. And worrying a little bit less about the underlying architecture. Yeah. It needs to be, it needs to be part of the conversation. ’cause it needs to deliver trust and security and intelligence and everything else. Then you need to rapidly move to what are you trying to achieve and how can we ensure the, the, the success of, of your business outcome. [00:21:27] Stephen Boyle: And look, I mean, Palantir pri you know, sort of came out and said, well, the way we do that is through forward deployed engineering. Um, and they stole the show. And, and, you know, they’re, they’re doing very well as a result of doing that. Uh, but if you go and talk to, um, Tom Siebel’s organization at C3 ai. [00:21:43] Stephen Boyle: They’ve had FDS for quite a while. You know, I told you about John Chuchu 10 years ago. John Chu, Chuck’s job was to go and get all the applications that we needed on the Microsoft phone. Remember that? [00:21:54] Vince Menzione: Yes. Um, [00:21:55] Stephen Boyle: you know, so we’ve pivoted John o over the years to doing what he’s doing now, which is to go sometimes in partnership with, with partners into the customer and say, what is it you’re trying to achieve? [00:22:05] Stephen Boyle: Let me show you how I can build that for you in three weeks or three months. That might have taken you three years. We literally just did a hackathon with one partner last, last, last week with, uh, with our ISE organization, the, the, the forward deployed, uh, group that John runs. Um, and one of the big customers said, I’ve just done in three days what would’ve taken me three months. [00:22:26] Stephen Boyle: Now he hasn’t productized it and rolled it out and blah, blah, blah. But the reality is that is how fast things are changing. And this was not a small company. This was a very, very large oil company, and they were like blown away by how much we can achieve. We’ve gotta do that at scale. [00:22:41] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:22:42] Stephen Boyle: You know, we, we have a commitment to scale our FDE community through partnerships to touch all of the S 500 in a very personalized way. [00:22:51] Stephen Boyle: And then, you know, at a slightly, you know, lower ratios down through the, through the majors and into, into Nicole’s SME and C world as well. [00:22:59] Vince Menzione: Jay talks about the decade of the ecosystem. He coined that term back, back on a podcast way back in nine, in, uh, in 2020. Microsoft has been at the, for, we used to call partner to partner back, back in the day. [00:23:10] Vince Menzione: Mm-hmm. Do you remember those days? How do you think about this ecosystem evolving and what steps are you taking to help bring these organizations together? Because I, I, again, we look at the seven seats or 6.3 seats at the table. The customer has the power now that they didn’t have before. ’cause they have the commitment with like with Microsoft and they can buy off of the marketplace and pull together multiple organizations to go, go do that. [00:23:34] Vince Menzione: How do you think about helping to orchestrate that as the leader of the enterprise partner business? [00:23:39] Stephen Boyle: So I’ll start with a really big example, and I’ll try and sort of scale it down a little bit. But my friends at Accenture, with the Accenture, Microsoft Business Group, we spend an awful lot of time, you know, in, in each other’s pockets, in each other’s deals. [00:23:51] Stephen Boyle: We know everything that’s going on in the Accenture, Microsoft Business Group. And a couple of weeks, or maybe a month or so ago, I was told that the Microsoft Business Group is now larger than the SAP Business group. It probably flip flops. [00:24:03] Vince Menzione: Yeah, [00:24:04] Stephen Boyle: it won’t be too long before the Anthropic Business Group is bigger than both of those. [00:24:08] Stephen Boyle: So what I need my Microsoft team to do is to not spend all of their lives in the. A MBG, the Azure, the Accenture, Microsoft Business group, but to go make friends in the Anthropic Accenture Business group and frankly still to make friends in the SAP business group and maybe in the Oracle Business Group and the list goes on. [00:24:27] Stephen Boyle: So at a macro 11, in the very largest accounts where we haven multiple practices, where we haven’t spent time before, I’m gonna. Push my people into uncomfortable zones and I’m gonna push them to go into those other areas and I’m gonna load them up with technical talent and cloud solution architects and ai, you know, forward deployed engineers. [00:24:45] Stephen Boyle: And I’m gonna force different people to talk together that haven’t talked together. So I can do that in TCS. I can do that, Capgemini, I can do that. Um, you know, in Europe with Capgemini and Misra is a classic example. Um, with the, with the Indian sis, Indian based sis, they’re all big enough where I know all the practices exist. [00:25:04] Stephen Boyle: I just need to do a better job of, of talking to them. Now, when you downsize that into, you know, into a, a company that doesn’t have all of that scale, this the same truth still holds. I need to talk to people who aren’t necessarily motivated every single day to do something with Microsoft. I need to talk to people who are motivated to do something with an AI partner or even a traditional SaaS partner. [00:25:27] Stephen Boyle: I noticed yesterday, actually no, this morning I got a notification that we just passed, um, a billion dollars in revenue on the marketplace with ServiceNow. [00:25:35] Vince Menzione: Nice. [00:25:36] Stephen Boyle: Um, and I think AWS announced the same thing, by the way this month as well. Um, so thank you to the ServiceNow people. Yeah. Um, you know, that is that there’s a tremendous demonstration of how far we’ve come in marketplace. [00:25:48] Stephen Boyle: ’cause that’s another one where we trailed AWS quite significantly. But with the right partnerships. And driving the right motions, we can, you know, we can definitely catch up and we will continue to pass, uh, some of, some of the other hyperscalers in, in, in that way. So really the bottom line to your question is partner to partner is still real. [00:26:08] Vince Menzione: Yeah, [00:26:08] Stephen Boyle: how we do it and what we use to tie things together. And I know that compensation drives behavior and we’re not gonna get into a compensation about like how we get compensated and everything else, but the reality is I’ve gotta break down those barriers and those silos and I’ve gotta deliver real meaningful enablement and practice development so that, so that the people who sit in the Anthropic business group and the people who sit in the Microsoft Business Group are spending as much time together as they are with me. [00:26:34] Stephen Boyle: That makes sense. Simply put, that’s what I, I need to achieve at scale rapidly. [00:26:40] Vince Menzione: So to, we’re getting close to time here, but as you look forward, what would define the most successful partnerships in this ecosystem? Is it, is it what you described, the opening up the aperture or for the, for the leaders in the room here today, what should they go do better and differently? [00:26:58] Stephen Boyle: Um, so obviously we’re closing out this fiscal, we’ve got Microsoft start and Microsoft start for partners coming up in July. Um, I mentioned the fact that we’re, we’re driving. Cu customer engagement through the lens of conversations and how do we achieve business outcomes? I would encourage you to, to gravitate, if you like, above the commercial solution areas where you might have understood, this is how I interact with Microsoft today. [00:27:23] Stephen Boyle: Um, and abstract it up to that AI layer. You know, think about trust, think about intelligence, think about business outcomes, and how do I potentially weave together a story? If I’m in the dynamic space, how do I get better in data? If I’m in the data space, how do I get better in. In that modern work environment, but really use AI as the overlay to, to help tie that together. [00:27:44] Stephen Boyle: That’s one thing. The second thing is if we’re not training you in the right direction, it’s stevenBoyle@microsoft.com. Let me know. Awesome. Um, we’ve got programmatic stuff, um, you know, and we’ve got high touch stuff as well. So I think this is, this is another time where Microsoft is gonna over pivot on all of the training and enablement that we need to do to make sure that you’re, you know, you’re grounded in our platform. [00:28:07] Stephen Boyle: Um, I think there’s a huge opportunity with this agenda future to become more of a software partner. You know, even the deepest services organizations are going to need agents, and the more successful ones will be the ones that can turn on those agents in a repeatable way. So. Our agents, the new SaaS. I’m not exactly saying that, but I think that the agen future is one where even the more services oriented companies will, will have teams of agents that they’re deploying. [00:28:35] Stephen Boyle: In fact, I had a very, very large systems integrator, um, in, in the EBC just about a month ago, three weeks ago. Um, and I was sat next to their head of consulting and he showed me what he called his God dashboard. Uh, and right in the middle of his God dashboard there are like 450 accounts. All of whom I recognized, ’cause they were all in the enterprise, right in the middle of his dashboard was, how many tokens am I spending? [00:29:00] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:29:01] Stephen Boyle: Like, not like what’s my daily runway? You know, not am I making a profit on that account or anything else like that is like, how many tokens have I consumed? Yeah. Because there is an awful lot of, that is the new juice, if you like. That’s, that’s driving the success. You can have the smartest people on the planet, but you’ve got to still arm them with all the best tools that are available out there. [00:29:22] Stephen Boyle: So it’s fascinating to listen to him, how he had gone through that thing of, you know, agent sprawl, how many are really working, how many are not working? How can we prove that? You can prove it through, you know, managing your tokens. There’s a new version of. Finops for tokens, for want of a better phrase, that’s gonna be critical for us all to understand. [00:29:40] Stephen Boyle: ’cause they’re not cheap, they’re not free, that’s for sure. And, and they might not be cheap if you’re not, if you’re not managing them and using them effectively. Yeah. So that’s the other thing that I would really get on top of. And, you know, we’re gonna make some announcements in the not too distant future about the consumption driven future. [00:29:56] Stephen Boyle: Um, that, that we will, that we will deliver with our first party and third party platforms going forward. So that’s another. Another critical thing [00:30:03] Vince Menzione: sounds like some exciting announcements. Pretty soon. [00:30:06] Stephen Boyle: Yeah, could look close. Quarter four, help me close. Quarter four. Yes. That’s priority number one, two, and three right now. [00:30:12] Stephen Boyle: Uh, but get ready for some, you know, for some new announcements in July. Um, look, the future is incredibly bright with Microsoft. It’s incredibly bright in the industry as a whole, right? I mean, let, let’s be honest, the, the growth targets that we will have for ne next year are astronomical, and we will not make them without the partner community that we have, without training and enabling the partner community that we need for tomorrow. [00:30:34] Stephen Boyle: So like, stay close, you know, stay engaged. Talk to your partner development managers, talk to the talk to field reps, talk to the accounts that that, that you are in, and stay as close as you possibly can to our emerging strategy. And, um, you know, look, I, I think if I had fivefold or tenfold the people I have today, I still wouldn’t be able to touch everybody that I would like to touch in the partner community. [00:30:58] Stephen Boyle: So I’ll apologize in advance. Um, but we’re gonna have some, you know, some really cool ways of learning. Um, and we’re gonna make sure that they’re available to the widest possible audience. [00:31:07] Vince Menzione: Well, we bring the practitioners and the experts in the room to help with that as well. Right? Yeah. Because you can’t always have a partner development manager tied to everybody in the room. [00:31:14] Stephen Boyle: I, I would do hackathons on AI every week with every partner and every part of the world, but I can’t. [00:31:19] Vince Menzione: Yeah, exactly. Well, so good to have you today. Thank you. So good to see you again. I don’t know what your schedule is like. I, we didn’t, we don’t have enough time for questions. [00:31:28] Stephen Boyle: That’s cool. [00:31:28] Vince Menzione: From the audience. [00:31:29] Stephen Boyle: I’m gonna stay around for a little [00:31:30] Vince Menzione: while this [00:31:30] Stephen Boyle: morning and I’m coming back [00:31:31] Vince Menzione: for cocktails. Alright, terrific. So. Stephen Boyle will be here for cocktail hour. Thank you. Four 30 and uh, I wanna thank you, sir. So good to have you. Thank you. Good to see you. Absolutely. [00:31:42] Stephen Boyle: So much. Absolutely. Hey, thanks everybody. [00:31:43] Stephen Boyle: Thanks for what you do today, and hopefully thank you for what you do tomorrow as well. [00:31:46] Vince Menzione: Thank you. An incredible leader. 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Ray White speaks to tech expert, Siphumelele Zondi, about the rapid rise of AI-powered shopping in South Africa, where nearly eight in ten consumers are now using these tools, and how this digital shift is reshaping retail strategies—from TFG’s strong growth in Bash to Sixty60’s plans to expand its network of dark stores across Gauteng to meet rising on-demand demand. The Money Show is a podcast hosted by well-known journalist and radio presenter, Stephen Grootes. He explores the latest economic trends, business developments, investment opportunities, and personal finance strategies. Each episode features engaging conversations with top newsmakers, industry experts, financial advisors, entrepreneurs, and politicians, offering you thought-provoking insights to navigate the ever-changing financial landscape. Thank you for listening to a podcast from The Money Show Listen live Primedia+ weekdays from 18:00 and 20:00 (SA Time) to The Money Show with Stephen Grootes broadcast on 702 https://buff.ly/gk3y0Kj and CapeTalk https://buff.ly/NnFM3Nk For more from the show, go to https://buff.ly/7QpH0jY or find all the catch-up podcasts here https://buff.ly/PlhvUVe Subscribe to The Money Show Daily Newsletter and the Weekly Business Wrap here https://buff.ly/v5mfetc The Money Show is brought to you by Absa Follow us on social media 702 on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TalkRadio702 702 on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@talkradio702 702 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talkradio702/ 702 on X: https://x.com/CapeTalk 702 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@radio702 CapeTalk on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@capetalk CapeTalk on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ CapeTalk on X: https://x.com/Radio702 CapeTalk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CapeTalk567 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Najnovšie informácie hovoria o tom, že Ukrajina získala späť tento rok 600 štvorcových kilometrov svojho územia. Posúva sa front? Ukrajina posiela drony na ruské územia, vojnu už pociťujú aj obyčajní Rusi. Nielen pre drony, ale niekde aj cez benzín - ktorý je na prídel. A najmä ju cítia ruskí podnikatelia. Volodymyr Zelenskyj posiela Vladimirovi Putinovi list s výzvou na prímerie, no to je zatiaľ stále v nedohľadne. Zdroje zvukov: CT24, TA3, STVR, Sky news Odporúčanie: A drobné umelecké odporúčanie na záver. Od piatka do nedele bude v Pezinku moja najobľúbenejšia akcia. Keramické trhy. Všelijaké šálky, umelecké predmety, nádhernosti do záhrady. Áno, od každého remeselníka som si už za celé roky kúpila aspoň jednu vec. Ak máte chuť, príďte a podporte ľudí, ktorí sa živia svojím talentom. – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Je náš vesmír len jedným z nekonečnej série opakujúcich sa eónov? Dá sa z rotujúcej čiernej diery vyťažiť takmer tretina jej energie? Zanechali minulé vesmíry stopy v žiarení, ktoré nás dnes obklopuje? Prečo z pohľadu svetla prestanú v nekonečne starom vesmíre existovať vzdialenosti? O tom všetkom diskutujú Jozef a Samuel. Podcast vzniká v spolupráci so SME. https://www.finax.eu/affiliate/vedator/register Každý, kto si otvorí účet vo Finaxe cez link v popise získa správu vkladov do 2000 Eur na 3 roky bez poplatkov. Platí do 30. 6. 2026 S investovaním je spojené riziko. Bonusové epizódy a extra obsah k podcastom nájdete na https://herohero.co/vedator Samuelova nová kniha už je v predaji https://www.martinus.sk/3600333-limity-poznania/kniha Otázky nám môžete nahrávať tu https://www.speakpipe.com/vedator Podcastové hrnčeky a ponožky nájdete na stránke https://vedator.space/vedastore/ Všetko ostatné nájdete tu https://linktr.ee/vedatorsk Vedátorský newsletter http://eepurl.com/gIm1y5
Jeden po druhom sa na Špecializovaný trestný súd v Banskej Bystrici trúsili obžalovaní ako Norbert Bödör, Tibor Gašpar či bývalí nižšie i vyššie postavení policajní funkcionári. Prišli aj Dušan Kováčik, Bernard Slobodník či Ľudovít Makó. Na Špecializovanom trestom súde sa po štyri a pol roku od podania obžaloby čítal jej obsah. Z vedenia polície sa mala stať zločinecká skupina, ktorá si podľa obžaloby políciu privlastnila – a zneužívala. Čo tento štart procesu prináša, analyzoval v podcaste Dobré ráno s moderátorkou Janou Krescanko Dibákovou bývalý riaditeľ NAKA a právnika Nadácie Zastavme korupciu ĽUBOMÍR DAŇKO. Zdroje zvukov: JOJ, TA3, 360tka, SME Odporúčanie: Futbalová bodka na záver - na majstrovstvách sveta vo futbale bude hrať rekordný počet krajín. Získa titul opäť Argentína alebo vyhrá niekto z európskych gigantov? Špeciálna príloha k futbalovému šampionátu spolu s prehľadným hracím plánom. Už dnes v denníkoch SME a Korzár. – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Spojené štáty čochvíľa oslavujú 250 rokov od deklarácie svojej nezávislosti. Lenže keďže sú to dnešné Spojené štáty, v ktorých je prezidentom Donald Trump aj so svojou perepúťou, oslavy sa postupne zmenili na zbierku bizarných výstrelkov, nápadov a udalostí. Čo teda pre USA znamenajú nadchádzajúce oslavy, ako ich vnímajú Američania a aké nápady do toho celého vniesol súčasný americký prezident? Tomáš Prokopčák sa v podcaste Dobré ráno pýta spolupracovníka SME Branislava Ondrášika. Zdroj zvukov: YouTube/DRM News, Reuters, TODAY, ČT Odporúčanie: Dnes odporúčam hru Marathon, špeciálne keď sa po tieto dni dá hrať zadarmo. Viem, veľa negatívneho sa okolo nakričalo, tá hrá je ťažká, frustrujúca a v niektorých aspektoch neprehľadná... ale je to Bungie, takže je aj ohromne zábavná. Tak skúste. – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
“Encyklika hovorí o integrálnom, teda celostnom rozvoji človeka. Umelá inteligencia vytvára modlu výkonu a účinnosti. Ľudia, ktorí nespĺňajú kritériá efektivity, môžu byť považovaní len za štatistickú chybu, ktorú treba eliminovať”, hovorí teológ Juraj Vittek. “Technológia sa tak nestáva pomocníkom, ale diktátorom. Otázka nestojí tak, či technológiu chceme alebo nie. Otázka je, či bude technológia slúžiť rozvoju ľudskosti, alebo po nej bude šliapať”, dodáva.Po priemyselnej revolúcii a dôstojnosti robotníkov a ich práce prichádza reakcia na revolúciu, ktorú prináša umelá inteligencia. Na mušku si ju zobral pápež Lev XIV. vo svojej novej encyklike. Ak tá prvá z konca 19. storočia reagovala na svet parných strojov, tovární a položenia robotníckych más, tá aktuálna spred pár dní reflektuje svet algoritmov, dát a umelej inteligencie.Ak sa Lev XIII. pred 135 rokmi postavil na stranu človeka a jeho dôstojnosti vo svete tovární a kapitálu, jeho menovec Lev XIV. analyzuje dopady raketového nástupu AI, ktorá mení spôsoby, ako pracujeme, komunikujeme a ovplyvňuje aj rozhodovanie človeka.„Diktát rýchlosti“ ako nové otroctvo či ľudské limity ako obyčajná softvérová chyba, ktorú treba odstrániť.Sme ešte pánmi technológií či súčiastkami v rukách neviditeľných algoritmov v rukách ich tvorcov a správcov? Kde v tom má miesto „civilizácia lásky“, o ktorej hovorí pápež Lev?Téma pre teológa a publicistu Juraja Vitteka.Pripravil Jaroslav Barborák.
VYPLŇTE NÁŠ PODCASTOVÝ PRIESKUM: http://www.zabavavpodcastoch.sk/prieskum „Človek je pre mňa mierou všetkých vecí.“ Toto sú slová Vincenta Hložníka, maliara, grafika, ilustrátora a pedagóga, ktorému sa budeme venovať v ďalšej časti série Ikony výtvarného umenia na Slovensku, v rámci ktorej vám každý mesiac prinášame príbehy diel a kontext tvorby významných maliarov a maliarok. Tvorba Vincenta Hložníka nevznikala v bezpečnom závetrí, ďaleko od veľkých dejín. Naopak – vyrastala a bola intímne spätá s pohnutými dejinami 20. storočia. Kým staršia generácia slovenských maliarov, reprezentovaná napríklad Martinom Benkom, hľadala obraz národa, krajiny a kultúrnej identity, Hložník sa sústredil predovšetkým na človeka. Človeka zraneného, ohrozeného a zápasiaceho uprostred víru veľkých dejín. Aké umelecké vplyvy, svetové, európske či regionálne formovali mladého Vincenta Hložníka? Ako jeho tvorbu poznačila druhá svetová vojna? Ako fungoval počas komunistického režimu, Pražskej jari a následnej normalizácie? Aké miesto mala v jeho tvorbe náboženská viera? A napokon patrí Vincent Hložník medzi tých slovenských umelcov, ktorých medzinárodnú kariéru obmedzili skôr dejiny než nedostatok talentu? Tento podcast je 6. v sérii „Ikony výtvarného umenia na Slovensku“, a obrazy, o ktorých budeme dnes hovoriť, nájdete aj na mojom instagrame a tiež na účte Podcasty SME. Historička Agáta Šústová Drelová sa rozprávala s Ninou Gažovičovou, kunsthistoričkou, konateľkou a licitátorkou aukčnej spoločnosti SOGA. Spolu s Júliusom Barczim tiež tvorí najpopulárnejší a najpočúvanejší podcast o umení na Slovensku „Predané.“ Tento podcast vzniká vďaka podpore JUDr. Daga Vaškora, zberateľa, fanúšika histórie a fanúšika nášho podcastu. Ďakujeme za podporu. Na výrobe tejto relácie spolupracovali Tomáš Rybár a Michal Jurík. – Ak máte pre nás spätnú väzbu, odkaz alebo nápad, napíšte nám na jaroslav.valent@petitpress.sk – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcastySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Poznáte jeho texty – teraz ich budete môcť aj počuť. Každú nedeľu vo svojej podcastovej aplikácii nájdete trochu iný formát Dobrého rána – Roth číta Marca. Eseje a komentáre publicistu Sama Marca v podaní herca Roberta Rotha. Načítaný text: https://www.sme.sk/komentare/c/ale-kvicia-deti-hamburgerov-pise-samo-marec – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Migaľ chce škandalózne minúť 93 miliónov na Slovensko.sk bez súťaže a časť zmlúv chce utajiť. Z prorastového balíčka zákonov, ktoré majú pomôcť ekonomike, je niekoľko bezzubých zákonov, ktoré odbúravajú byrokraciu, a v parlamente sa stále rieši funkcia obžalovaného podpredsedu parlamentu Tibora Gašpara. Smer sa najnovšie vyhráža, že ak ho bude opozícia odvolávať, odvolá koalícia Martina Dubéciho z Progresívneho Slovenska. Dobrým ránom sobota vás sprevádza Zuzana Kovačič Hanzelová s hosťom Miroslavom Beblavým. Zdroj zvukov: SME, TASR, TA3, JOJ24, STVR, Denník N, YouTube/SMER SD, Tomáš Drucker – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Tibor Gašpar hovorí o opozičnom divadle, Robert Fico sa chce rovno mstiť. Progresívne Slovensko chce totiž odvolávať pre kauzu Očistec Gašpara z pozície podpredsedu parlamentu, a tak, keďže toto je Slovensko, podpredsedom Národnej rady možno nakoniec nebude opozičný Martin Dubéci. Tomáš Prokopčák sa v podcaste Dobré ráno na celú situáciu pozrie s komentátorom denníka SME Petrom Tkačenkom. Zdroje zvukov: Youtube/TASRTV, Youtube/SMER - Sociálna Demokracia, Youtube/JOJ24, Youtube/HNtelevízia Odporúčanie: Ak ešte nemáte s rodinou plány na sobotu, dnešné odporúčanie bude pre vás: choďte sa pozrieť na Formulu GJH – 1st Grand Prix 2026. Odohrávať sa bude na dvore Gymnázia Jura Hronca v Bratislave a vstup je zadarmo. Formula GJH totiž vznikla pôvodne ako menšia sympatická študentská súťaž, no postupne sa rozrástla na väčší event, ktorý prepája techniku, vedu a program pre širokú verejnosť. Návštevníkov čakajú podcasty a diskusie s hosťami zo sveta vedy a techniky, interaktívne aktivity pre deti aj dospelých, vedomostné kvízy, tanečné vystúpenia, oddychové zóny, občerstvenie a množstvo ďalšieho programu. Začína sa od dvanástej na Novohradskej 3 v Ružinove. – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifing See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
V areáli, ktorý sa nachádza neďaleko Zvolena a patrí súkromnej spoločnosti Robus z Krupiny, nájdete najmä vyradenú vojenskú techniku. Parkujú tam však aj dve plné batérie protivzdušného systému 2K12 Kub. Predseda Demokratov Jaroslav Naď tvrdí, že ide o funkčné stroje a z dostupných zmlúv usudzuje, že mohli byť predané ako šrot a pod svoju cenu. Ide pritom preňho o citlivú tému, keďže od Roberta Kaliňáka aj premiéra stále počúva, ako práve on nechal Slovensko neozbrojené po tom, čo poslal techniku na Ukrajinu. Teraz sa Kaliňák bráni, že to práve za Naďa vznikla dohoda o kuboch. Čo, kto, komu predal, aký problém vznikol a aké sa ponúkajú vysvetlenia? O To sa pýta Nikola Šuliková Bajánová reportéra denníka SME Michala Katušku. Zdroje zvukov: JOJ24, YouTube/Demokrati Odporúčanie Včera som odporúčala dva filmy, jedným z nich bol horor The Backrooms. Najviac sa mi na ňom páčila atmosféra, kulisy a soundtrack. V tom na záver zaznela skladba The Word Becomes Flesh. Ide o track z nového albumu dvojice Boards of Canada, prvého po trinástich rokoch. Pomenovali ho Inferno a dnes je mojím odporúčaním. – Všetky podcasty denníka SME nájdete na sme.sk/podcasty – Odoberajte aj audio verziu denného newslettra SME.sk s najdôležitejšími správami na sme.sk/brifing See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Abdullah Mutawi, Partner & Head of Corporate MENA at Taylor Wessing, and Kushal Shah, Private Markets Investor, join Loulou for a conversation (episode 103) on where opportunity really sits in the GCC today. They unpack angel investing, founder red flags, why many startups fail despite strong products, and the lessons that come from writing early-stage checks. The discussion also explores cash-generating businesses versus venture-backed startups, SME rollups, the impact of AI on investing, and why the region continues to attract founders, capital, and talent from around the world. Chapters 00:00 Three investors. One question: Where do you put your money? 03:24 Why angel investing is the highest-risk type of investing 06:23 The expensive lesson from a failed startup investment 09:41 What to look for in a founder before you write the cheque 20:15 Groupthink, red flags and why solo investors get burned 22:59 The pivot: why Kushal quit VC for SME roll-ups 30:30 1.2 million UAE SMEs: the opportunity hiding in plain sight 34:52 SaaS is dead. What's actually worth backing? 40:04 Angels: preference stacks, secondaries and knowing when to exit 57:28 AI, source of truth and the risk of outsourcing your thinking Follow Loulou Khazen Instagram: /louloukhazen LinkedIn: /louloukhazen X (Twitter): /louloukhazen Follow the guests Abdullah Mutawi Partner & Head of Corporate MENA, Taylor Wessing LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mutawi/ Kushal Shah Private Markets Investor LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kushyahvi/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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