Web3 CMO Stories
Web3 CMO Stories is the podcast for marketing leaders and founders building in the next web, where blockchain, AI and immersive technology meet.
Every week, host Joeri Billast sits down with founders, CMOs and thought leaders to unpack how brands grow visibility and trust when technology rewrites the rules. No hype and no jargon: clear, strategic conversations in a language business leaders outside the tech bubble understand.
With more than 300 episodes since 2022, the show ranks in the top 5% of podcasts globally according to Listen Notes. Guests include Gary Vaynerchuk, Chris Do, Mark Schaefer, Joe Pulizzi and Ben Goertzel of SingularityNET.
Joeri is a Fractional CMO, AI Visibility Strategist, TEDx speaker and author of The Future CMO, endorsed by Philip Kotler.
Sponsored by CoinDesk (2024), RYO (2025-2026) and Metricool (2026). Featured in Cryptopolitan.
"One of the sharpest marketing shows running right now." Matt Wilkinson, Founder of Strivenn
Articles and transcripts: The Future CMO Library, webdrie.net
About Joeri: joeribillast.com
Web3 CMO Stories
S1 E28 Why an AI Pioneer from Silicon Valley Wrote his Childhood Memoir – with Babak Hodjat
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Today's guest is Babak Hodjat. He is a serial entrepreneur behind several Silicon Valley companies as main inventor and technologist, and currently serves as CTO - AI at Cognizant. Babak is the former co-founder and CEO of Sentient, responsible for the core technology behind the world’s largest distributed artificial intelligence system, and he was also the founder of the world's first AI-driven hedge-fund, Sentient Investment Management. Babak is widely credited as the main inventor of the natural language technology used in Apple’s Siri.
This episode was recorded through a StreamYard call on June 23, 2022.
You find the show notes here: https://webdrie.net/why-an-ai-pioneer-from-silicon-valley-wrote-his-childhood-memoir-with-babak-hodjat/
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