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Breakthrough AI Operators

Roland Siebelink

Breakthrough AI Operators is a podcast about how the best startup founders are reinventing how their companies work. Not AI hype. Not vendor pitches. Real operators who've rebuilt significant parts of their business around AI — and can talk honestly about what worked and what didn't.

Hosted by Roland Siebelink and Doug Miller, co-founders of Midstage Accelerator (7 unicorns built between them, 10... more

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The most advanced AI operating model in this episode wasn't built from a strategy deck. It was built from desperation — and that turns out to be the best design constraint available.

Miloš Djurdjevic is co-CEO and co-founder of heyData, a Berlin-bas... more

Most AI adoption failures at growing startups aren't technology problems. They're a founder who is moving fast, surrounded by a team that isn't — and a growing gap between the two that no new tool subscription will close.

Roland Siebelink is co-foun... more

Most PE investors see a 25-year-old automation business in 2026 and calculate the half-life. Ali Evans saw the one thing AI can't replicate overnight: trust earned over decades of client relationships. The conventional move would have been to exit be... more

Open source AI models are now just 3-5% behind the best closed source models on benchmarks — about six months of lag time, not five years. If you're building an AI infrastructure company on the assumption that OpenAI or Anthropic will maintain a perm... more

Every cap table company in Silicon Valley is burning venture capital chasing growth. Tom Milar built one that makes money instead — and he did it without ever raising a pre-seed round, despite managing $300 billion in client assets for companies incl... more

Most founders who return to a company they once built come back to fix operations. Daniel Hanemann came back to WunderTax to find a company with 25 people, a plateauing market, and a unicorn competitor with 100x the marketing budget — and decided the... more

Most fintech companies build products for people who already have access. Kikoff was built by someone who didn't. The question this episode forces a founder to sit with isn't about market sizing or product-market fit — it's about whether you actually... more

Most fintech infrastructure is built to sell.

Features designed for pitch decks. Prices set for markets. Products shipped fast.

The result? Platforms everyone tolerates — but nobody loves.

In the latest episode of Scaling Without Breaking, host Ro... more

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