Episode #568: AI Is Making Everything More Efficient. What Happens Next?
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Episode #568: AI Is Making Everything More Efficient. What Happens Next?

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 17, 202659 min
  • Interview
  • Technology

Stewart Alsop sits down with Juan Verhook, founder of Tender Market, for a second conversation that ranges from the mechanics of European public tenders to the future of how we organize digital information. They cover how Tender Market helps smaller companies work around barriers like SOC 2 and ISO certification requirements, the surprising scale of public procurement (roughly 20% of GDP), and how AI and machine learning are reshaping the bidding process. From there the conversation opens up into bigger territory: the changing tolerance for being wrong in an AI-saturated information landscape, how language and culture shape perception, the reverse Turing test...

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Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom podcast. This podcast is for you if you have an insane drive to find the truth of things. It's not the good answers that we seek, but the good questions. I interview a range of different guests from many different fields, all with the intention to uncover the simple truths that are hidden in plain sight. Most people don't want to go there. I go there. My guests go there and you benefit.

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Please let me know if you enjoy these episodes and as always subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you listen to the podcast. Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom podcast. I've got Juan Verhuk here for a second interview and he is the founder of Tender Market. Welcome back to the show. Thanks, Stuart. It's great to be back.

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So we talked last time a lot about AI, a lot about Europe, a lot about bureaucracy. What have you learned since then? Well, so something interesting things is finding synergies between the pain points that we're trying to solve, how we can help clients and being able to be flexible enough at an early stage to understand

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