Samir Khadepaun and Puja Bharwani explore the future of work, AI, and knowledge sharing. Samir, a serial entrepreneur, shares how his previous startup transformed the F&B industry by engaging over 27 million diners and how his current venture, Wizly, aims to decentralize knowledge using AI. Puja, a communications and content expert with years of experience leading storytelling in tech, offers her insights on how organizations and individuals can leverage AI to enhance productivity and make knowledge more accessible. Together, Samir and Puja discuss how traditional roles are evolving and how "knowledge owners" are becoming the new key players in scaling businesses efficiently.

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What You’ll Learn:

• The importance of decentralizing knowledge and attributing it to the original source
• How AI is streamlining the way people find, verify, and access expertise
• Why Samir believes the future of work lies in small, nimble teams empowered by knowledge owners
• The challenges of building AI-driven platforms from scratch and why persistence is key

Highlights:

• [01:06] Samir’s journey as a serial entrepreneur
• [05:13] How the right knowledge at the right time changed Samir’s business
• [10:18] The role of AI in reshaping the future of work
• [26:02] Overcoming startup challenges and how ideas evolve
• [38:07] Why the future of work is driven by knowledge, not freelancers

The Wize Ones podcast features leading operators, subject matter experts, VCs, and founders interviewing each other to reveal insights into how they built and scaled their products, software, and ideas. We speak to the top 5% of people in the world of GTM to get first-hand insights, case-studies and real-life examples of what worked, and what blew up.

This podcast is produced by Wizly and powered by its global community of professionals. Wizly is an AI-powered platform that helps experts organize, scale, and monetize their knowledge.