Disrupting Youth Sports: Why the $19B Industry Forgot the Parents with Alex Hocevar

Youth sports is a $19 billion industry built around athletes and coaches that has completely overlooked the most consistent adult in every young athlete's life: the parent. Alex Hocevar, co-founder of Supporter, spent 25 years in digital transformation before his own experience navigating the NCAA …

Disrupting the Senior Care Crisis: Why the System is Failing, and AI is the Only Way Out with Aparna Pujar

Aparna Pujar, CEO and founder of Zemplee, joins host KJ to share how a personal experience as a remote caregiver for her aging parents in India sparked the creation of a passive, AI-powered senior care platform. She breaks down why the senior care industry is broken, why episodic care is no longer …

Disrupting Venture Capital: Why the 10-Year Lockup Is Dead with Rafe Furst

Rafe Furst is a World Series poker champion, five-time founder, and author of the number one bestselling book on venture capital. He joins host KJ to challenge the VC status quo. Rafe breaks down why the 10-year lockup model is broken, how misaligned incentives are quietly killing early-stage innov…

Disrupting Talent: Why AI is Creating the Generalist Team, with Cassiano Surek

Cassiano Surek, CTO at Beyond, joins host KJ to explore how artificial intelligence is fundamentally reshaping the workforce, enterprise structure, and even how we shop. Cassiano argues that the era of hyper-specialized talent is giving way to competent generalists who can orchestrate AI tools acro…

Disrupting Digital Gaslighting: Vaclav Vincalek on Reclaiming Truth in the AI Era

In this episode of Disruption/Interruption, host KJ sits down with Vaclav Vincalek, serial entrepreneur and founder of HISWAI (Human Intelligence Supported with Artificial Intelligence). Vaclav makes a compelling case that we've been living in an era of digital manipulation — where search engines l…

Disrupting the Inheritance Gap: Why "Waiting to Inherit" is a Financial Failure with Bryan Walley

Bryan Walley, co-founder and CEO of Forward Inheritance, joins host KJ to challenge the broken status quo of wealth transfer in America. Bryan shares how a personal reckoning with his own father's estate planning — or lack thereof — sparked a fintech solution designed to help families organize, com…

Disrupting the Wall Street Game: AI vs. the Rigged System, with David Trainer

In this episode of Disruption/Interruption, host KJ sits down with David Trainer, CEO of New Constructs, a financial technology firm using machine learning and natural language processing to expose the accounting distortions buried in corporate filings. David pulls back the curtain on decades of Wa…

Disrupting the Hi-tech Narrative: Why Data Without Empathy is Just High-Tech Noise with Adipat Virdi

Immersive experience designer and strategist Adipat Virdi joins host KJ to challenge the tech-first mindset that's dominated industries from entertainment to healthcare. Drawing on his work with Meta, the BBC, NASA, and Charlotte Tilbury, Adipat introduces his Empathy Engine Framework, a set of pri…

Disrupting Pharma’s Paperwork Pandemic: The AI Built for Real Science with Ome Ogbru

In this episode of Disruption/Interruption, host KJ sits down with Ome Ogbru, PharmD, CEO and founder of AINGENS, to tackle a decades-old problem hiding in plain sight: life sciences runs on groundbreaking science, but is buried in broken processes. After 20+ years as a clinician, professor, and ph…

Disrupting Agri-Finance: Turning “Too Risky” Farmers into Prime Investments with FLO FUND’s Suvankar Mishra and Stefan Jacob

In this episode of Disruption/Interruption, host KJ sits down with Suvankar Mishra and Stefan Jacob, co-founders of FLO FUND, a fintech platform on a mission to close the $170 billion financing gap facing smallholder farmers in the Global South. The conversation unpacks why traditional banks have f…