Anthony Moisant is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Indeed, the world’s leading job site with over 610 million job seeker profiles. He joined Indeed nearly five years ago after serving in a similar role at sister company Glassdoor for eight years. As CIO, he leads the teams responsible for the internal technology that supports employees and drives the business. As CSO, he oversees the security team focused on protecting the data of job seekers, customers, and employees. Anthony is also a graduate of the U.S. Navy Nuclear Submarine School.

In this conversation, we discuss:

• Indeed’s goal to cut time-to-hire by 50% by removing friction across systems and workflows.
• Solving the hiring “black hole” so every application gets seen and answered, using AI to improve matching and follow-ups.
• Why skills (not degrees) will define the future of hiring, and how job seekers can prepare for a skill-first economy
• How to double team productivity with AI while keeping trust high and addressing fears about automation.
• A values-driven approach to AI ethics: transparency, fairness testing, red-teaming models, and an “AI constitution” agent.
• The lessons Anthony brought from the U.S. Navy and how they continue to shape his leadership approach in high-pressure environments

Resources:

• Subscribe to the AI & The Future of Work Newsletter
• Connect with Anthony on LinkedIn
• AI fun fact article
• On How to Invest and Advise Early Stage Tech Companies

A few days ago, Nick Mehta announced his transition from CEO to Board Director and Special Advisor at Gainsight. As CEO, he spent more than a decade transforming the company into a global leader in customer success, serving over 20,000 customers and surpassing $100 million in ARR. Before Gainsight, he led LiveOffice through its acquisition by Symantec and co-founded Chipshot in the 90s. Nick serves on the boards of F5 and PubMatic and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and a Master’s degree in Computer Science, both from Harvard. Known for leading with heart, humor, and humility, he’s also the voice behind the blog Mehtaphysical Musings, a rapper, and a YouTube creator with over 50 parody videos.

In this conversation, we discuss:

• How Nick Mehta balances vulnerability and optimism as a leader navigating uncertainty
• Why Gainsight’s values like “childlike joy” matter more in an AI-driven world
• What happens to identity and purpose in a post-work economy shaped by automation
• The growing divide between capital and labor, and why Marxist ideas are resurfacing in the AI era
• Why we shouldn’t assume past tech cycles will repeat and how to question AI's impact on jobs
• What Gainsight’s AI initiative “Atlas” reveals about the rise of agentic tech in customer success

Resources:

• Subscribe to the AI & The Future of Work Newsletter
• Connect with Nick on LinkedIn
• Past Episode with Nick [Season 5, #298]: On Building A Human-First AI Culture
• Watch this for a laugh: “I promise that you’ll never find a CEO like Nick”
• Recommended by Nick:
  • Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
  • Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut

Dr. Jad Tarifi is the co-founder of Integral AI, a company he launched in 2021 after holding senior AI roles at Google. He earned his PhD in Computer Science and AI from the University of Florida and completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Waterloo. A returning guest to the podcast, Jad is a leading thinker on world models in AI and often shares insights on the science of longevity and the future of intelligence.

In this conversation, we discuss:

• Why Jad believes the goal of AGI isn't intelligence but freedom, and how that redefinition reframes both ethics and alignment
• The role of world models in achieving AGI, and why video prediction alone isn't enough for robust, reliable reasoning
• What it means to design AI that can autonomously learn new skills with minimal energy and data, matching or exceeding human learning efficiency
• How Integral AI is building AGI-capable models by focusing on unsupervised abstraction and embodied, open-ended agents
• How Jad defines superintelligence and what it reveals about the evolving relationship between humans and machines
• A glimpse into Integral’s long-term roadmap, including recursive superfactories and post-AGI economies

Resources:

• Subscribe to the AI & The Future of Work Newsletter
• Connect with Jad on LinkedIn
• AI fun fact article
• On How To Pick The Right Business Problem to Solve with AI
• Jad Tarifi’s past episode on how to train AI to reason like humans