Disrupting Health Insurance: Exposing the Black Box and Taking Back Control with Larry Hightower

Larry Hightower, founder and CEO of VXTRA HEALTH, joins Disruption/Interruption to expose how the corporate health insurance industry transformed into a banking operation that controls the money flowing between self-insured employers, physicians, and patients. He traces his path from witnessing pio…

Disrupting the Banking Promise: Why Businesses Need Full-Reserve Banking with Scott Shay

Scott Shay, founder of N3XT, joins Disruption/Interruption to explain how traditional fractional reserve banking puts depositors' money at risk by lending it out while telling customers their funds are safe and available. He traces the systemic failures of this model from the 2008 financial crisis …

Disrupting Government’s Inbox: How AI Is Helping Public Officials Hear Constituents Again with Jon Kokot

In this episode of Disruption/Interruption, host KJ speaks with Jon Kokot, co-founder and CEO of Civic, an AI-native gov-tech company tackling the massive backlog of constituent communications flooding government offices. Jon shares how Congress received 80 million pieces of correspondence in 2024 …

Disrupting Freight Payments: How Blockchain Is Killing the Silent Tax on Supply Chains with Todd Ziegler

Todd Ziegler, CEO of TCS Blockchain, joins Disruption/Interruption to expose the hidden financial drain crushing the trucking industry: invoice factoring. He explains how 95% of trucking companies are five trucks or fewer and routinely wait 30 to 180 days to get paid, forcing them into factoring de…

Disrupting the Future of Work: How Open Innovation and Global Talent Are Rewriting Problem-Solving with Steve Rader

Steve Rader spent decades at NASA leading open innovation and crowdsourcing efforts, connecting the agency's toughest technical challenges to global talent networks. In this episode he explains why understanding a problem matters more than rushing to solve it, and why the old model of hiring full-t…

Disrupting the Quantum Scaling Trap: Turning Quantum Computers into Modular Systems with Poolad Imany

This episode of Disruption/Interruption features Poolad Imany, founder and CEO of Icarus Quantum, a company spun out of NIST that is building modular, room-temperature quantum links. Rather than chasing ever-larger monolithic quantum computers, Icarus is tackling the industry's cryogenics bottlenec…

Disrupting the AI Power Bottleneck: Turning Data Centers into Energy Transition Heroes with Joe Helfrich

AI's explosive growth is running into a hard physical limit: power. In this episode, Joe Helfrich, managing partner and co-founder of NosTerra Venture Capital, explains why data centers are outpacing the energy grid's capacity and why that crisis is actually a rare opening for innovation. He walks …

Disrupting the Cash Flow Trap: Turning Hard-to-Finance Deals into Usable Capital with Shalom Ben Or

In this episode Dealsynchq.com founder Shalom Ben Or joins the show to unpack why $1.5 trillion in asset-based lending and roughly $250 billion in B2B trapped capital still moves through emails, PDFs, and meetings. He explains how CFOs are stuck reacting to cash flow problems instead of controlling…

Disrupting the $35 Billion Escrow Industry: The Missing Infrastructure for Modern Finance, with Lopsii Olagoke

In this episode of Disruption/Interruption, Lopsii Olgoke, CEO and co-founder of Nezz, explains why high-value B2B settlements still move too slowly and cost too much. He breaks down how escrow yield gets pocketed by third parties instead of the people whose money is sitting idle, and how a 900% sp…

Disrupting the Tech Monopolies: Investing in the Attention Economy with Tahnoon Murtza

Tahnoon Murtza, founding partner of [Grey Sheep Ventures], joins host KJ to challenge the assumptions holding traditional venture capital back. At 22, Tahnoon is one of the youngest emerging fund managers in the game, and he argues that the old VC playbook, built on proprietary tech and institution…