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Brian Gracely

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Work: @RedHat Hobby: Host @TheEntAIShow ☁️🎙️ Misc: @WakeBaseball alum 🎩⚾️ Also now on @bgracely.bsky.social

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Joined February 2008
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Confidence or Con? The Psychology of Tech’s Boldest Leaders theenterpriseaishow.com/epis… Why do some of tech’s most celebrated leaders project absolute confidence in claims that later prove false?
Confidence or Con? The Psychology of Tech’s Boldest Leaders

Confidence or Con? The Psychology of Tech’s Boldest Leaders

Brian and Brandon take a detour from the usual tech news to ask a question every enterprise buyer of AI should be asking: why do some of tech’s most celebrated leaders project absolute confidence in c

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Never Do the Same Work Twice: Rethinking CI for the Agent Era theenterpriseaishow.com/epis… Dan Manges, Co-Founder/CEO of RWX, on why continuous integration is the bottleneck for engineering teams working with coding agents.
Never Do the Same Work Twice: Rethinking CI for the Agent Era with Dan Manges

Never Do the Same Work Twice: Rethinking CI for the Agent Era with Dan Manges

Brandon interviews Dan Manges, co-founder and CEO of RWX, about why continuous integration is the bottleneck for engineering teams working with coding agents. Manges, previously CTO at Braintree and R

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AI News - Mid-October 2026 theenterpriseaishow.com/epis… We dig into Jev, CoreWeave, Anthropic and OpenAI pre-IPO revenues revealed, Bending Spoons and why Meta is going after the Enterprise.
AI News - Mid-October 2026

AI News - Mid-October 2026

Brian and Brandon open mid-October’s AI news of the month by asking whether a yes-or-no answer engine like Jev could have saved the Commanders from a clock-management meltdown, and why a binary classi

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A Cloud Nobody Owns: Sovereign Infrastructure for the Agentic Era theenterpriseaishow.com/epis… Brandon interviews Dominic Williams, founder of the DFINITY Foundation, about the Internet Computer and why he set out to build a new back-end compute stack.
A Cloud Nobody Owns: Sovereign Infrastructure for the Agent Era with Dominic Williams

A Cloud Nobody Owns: Sovereign Infrastructure for the Agent Era with Dominic Williams

Brandon interviews Dominic Williams, founder, president, and chief scientist of the DFINITY Foundation, about the Internet Computer and why he set out to build a new back-end compute stack. Williams t

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The New, New Kingmakers theenterpriseaishow.com/epis… Agents, Developers, and the Future of Software with Stephen O'Grady
The New, New Kingmakers: Agents, Developers, and the Future of Software with Stephen O'Grady

The New, New Kingmakers: Agents, Developers, and the Future of Software with Stephen O'Grady

Brandon interviews Stephen O'Grady, principal analyst and co-founder of RedMonk, about his 2013 book *The New Kingmakers* and his recent follow-up, "Agents: The new, New Kingmakers." O'Grady

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AI News for End of September 2026 theenterpriseaishow.com/epis… Brian(@bgracely) and Brandon(@bwhicard) discuss the biggest AI news stories from the second half of September 2026.
AI News for End of September 2026

AI News for End of September 2026

Brian (@bgracely) and Brandon (@bwhichard) discuss the biggest AI news stories from the second half of September 2026. Oracle sent a force majeure notice on a major data center build, which Brandon re

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The OpenAI IPO? theenterpriseaishow.com/epis… We review the potential OpenAI IPO in the context of revenue trajectory, expense trajectory and planned commitments, past and future funding rounds, future expanse commitments to large datacenter projects, and the strengths and weaknesses.
The OpenAI IPO?

The OpenAI IPO?

We review the potential OpenAI IPO, in the context of revenue trajectory, expense trajectory and planned commitments, past and future funding rounds, future expanse commitments to large datacenter pro

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How Do Regulated Enterprises Deploy Private, Secure AI? theenterpriseaishow.com/epis… Ivan Lee, founder and CEO of Datasaur, about what it takes to build private, secure AI for regulated enterprises.
How Do Regulated Enterprises Deploy Private, Secure AI?

How Do Regulated Enterprises Deploy Private, Secure AI?

Aaron interviews Ivan Lee, founder and CEO of Datasaur, about what it takes to build private, secure AI for regulated enterprises. Lee traces the shift away from third-party model reliance to complian

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AI News for Mid-September 2026 theenterpriseaishow.com/epis… Aaron and Brandon cover what the week's AI news means for enterprise buyers.
AI News for Mid-September 2026

AI News for Mid-September 2026

Aaron and Brandon cover what the week's news means for enterprise buyers. They question whether Oracle's reported $664 billion backlog is durable demand or overlapping commitments, and Brand

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Securing AI Agents in the Enterprise: NanoClaw, Zero Trust Guardrails, and Governance at Scale theenterpriseaishow.com/epis… Gavriel Cohen, CEO of NanoCo and creator of the open-source agent framework NanoClaw, about securing AI agents in enterprise environments.
Securing AI Agents in the Enterprise: NanoClaw, Zero Trust Guardrails, and Governance at Scale

Securing AI Agents in the Enterprise: NanoClaw, Zero Trust Guardrails, and Governance at Scale

Brian and Aaron interview Gavriel Cohen , co-founder and CEO of Nanoco and creator of the open-source agent framework NanoClaw, about securing AI agents in enterprise environments. Cohen shares how he

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How Open-Source is Reshaping the AI Infrastructure Stack theenterpriseaishow.com/epis… “AI-native” enterprise architecture, the role of open-source harnesses to add deterministic controls, and growing edge/distributed compute needs driven by governance, compliance, hybrid deployments.
How Open-Source is Reshaping the AI Infrastructure Stack

How Open-Source is Reshaping the AI Infrastructure Stack

Aaron interviews David Aronchick , CEO @ Expanso (former PM lead for Kubernetes, Kubeflow co-founder, and open-source ML leader at Azure) about how open source is reshaping the AI infrastructure stack

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@bwhichard joins @bgracely and @aarondelp on @TheEntAIShow to ask: is AI a vitamin or a painkiller? Why transformation needs a burning-platform moment, and why personal AI gains aren't scaling org-wide. theenterpriseaishow.com/epis…
Vitamins vs. Pain Killers vs. Whippets - The Enterprise AI Adoption Problem

Vitamins vs. Pain Killers vs. Whippets - The Enterprise AI Adoption Problem

Brian, Brandon, and Aaron discuss enterprise AI adoption using the sales analogy of whether AI is a “vitamin” or a “painkiller,” arguing that successful transformation still requires a burning-plat

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Vitamins vs. Pain Killers vs. Whippets - The Enterprise AI Adoption Problem theenterpriseaishow.com/epis… Brian, Brandon, and Aaron discuss enterprise AI adoption, arguing that AI’s promise is personal productivity, but note a lack of enterprise collaboration and shared-memory tools.
Vitamins vs. Pain Killers vs. Whippets - The Enterprise AI Adoption Problem

Vitamins vs. Pain Killers vs. Whippets - The Enterprise AI Adoption Problem

Brian, Brandon, and Aaron discuss enterprise AI adoption using the sales analogy of whether AI is a “vitamin” or a “painkiller,” arguing that successful transformation still requires a burning-plat

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AI News of the Month - August 2026 theenterpriseaishow.com/epis… All the major AI news from: - NVIDIA earnings and forecasts, and HuggingFace - Stripe acquiring OpenRouter - OpenAI agent-gate post mortem - Jalapeno hardware - Claudeforce and the death of the SFDC admin
AI News of the Month - August 2026

AI News of the Month - August 2026

Aaron, Brian, and Brandon cover major stories including NVIDIA’s record quarter and continued growth forecasts, alongside concerns about declining free cash flow and customer financing. They discuss N

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@bwhichard joins @bgracely and @aarondelp on @TheEntAIShow to cover NVIDIA's record quarter, its Hugging Face acquisition, Stripe's OpenRouter deal, unsettling OpenAI agent tests, and Salesforce's Claudeforce. theenterpriseaishow.com/epis…
AI News of the Month - August 2026

AI News of the Month - August 2026

Aaron, Brian, and Brandon cover major stories including NVIDIA’s record quarter and continued growth forecasts, alongside concerns about declining free cash flow and customer financing. They discuss N

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AI Watermarking: Compliance Theater or Real Provenance Tool? theenterpriseaishow.com/epis… AI watermarking, driven largely by EU transparency requirements, and a discussion on how approaches like token-selection patterns can be detected.
AI Watermarking: Compliance Theater or Real Provenance Tool

AI Watermarking: Compliance Theater or Real Provenance Tool

SUMMARY: Brian, Brandon, and Aaron focus on AI watermarking, driven largely by EU transparency requirements, and discuss how approaches like token-selection patterns can be detected but were reportedl

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@bwhichard joins @bgracely and @aarondelp on @TheEntAIShow to break down AI watermarking — why it exists, why it got cracked fast, and what it means for school bans and "no AI" contract clauses. theenterpriseaishow.com/epis…
Your AI Project Doesn't Need More Agents

Your AI Project Doesn't Need More Agents

SUMMARY: Brandon speaks with Rich Ziade, co-founder and CEO of Aboard, about why enterprise AI projects fail without real discovery, why "agents" have been oversold as a headcount play, and why organi

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Your AI Project Doesn't Need More Agents theenterpriseaishow.com/epis… Brandon speaks with Rich Ziade, co-founder and CEO of Aboard, about why enterprise AI projects fail without real discovery, why "agents" have been oversold as a headcount play.
Your AI Project Doesn't Need More Agents

Your AI Project Doesn't Need More Agents

SUMMARY: Brandon speaks with Rich Ziade, co-founder and CEO of Aboard, about why enterprise AI projects fail without real discovery, why "agents" have been oversold as a headcount play, and why organi

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NVIDIA's Pivot from Chipmaker to Financier theenterpriseaishow.com/epis… We discuss NVIDIA's recent shift from innovation-focused to financing-focused as we move into the market phase of GPU-as-an-asset-class.
NVIDIA's Pivot from Chipmaker to Financier

NVIDIA's Pivot from Chipmaker to Financier

SUMMARY: Brian, Brandon, and Aaron discuss news about Nvidia’s reported $105B backing of OpenAI’s Ohio data center and what it implies for GPUs as an “asset class” and enterprise AI. Brian argues Jens

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This week on IT Ops Query, @bgracely and I discuss: 💡 Industry debate about open-weight #AI models 💡 #AgenticAI's effect on open source's "tragedy of the commons" 💡 @IBM /@RedHat Lightwell's approach to #OSS security And more! Check it out here: youtu.be/iLsOzdVqQVA?si=KDyU…
IT Ops Query: Red Hat's Lightwell Reflects New Agentic AI Security...

IT Ops Query: Red Hat's Lightwell Reflects New Agentic AI Security...

Red Hat and its parent company, IBM, have been among the most vocal...

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