Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)

Most career advice gets one thing wrong: it always tells you to follow your passion.

In this episode of Technoventure, Bill Gurley, recent Author of Runnin’ Down a Dream, General Partner at Benchmark and investor in companies like Uber and Zillow shares a more actionable framework: follow your fascination. Drawing from decades in venture capital and insights from his new book, Gurley explains how curiosity, not convention, drives long-term success.

Key insights include:

Why fascination is a stronger signal than passion

How over-structured career paths lead to disengagement

The role of peer networks in accelerating growth

Why non-linear careers produce better outcomes

How AI is reshaping opportunity and speculation cycles

What if claims processing could be 10x faster without sacrificing accuracy?

In this episode of Technovation, Pravina Ladva, Group Chief Digital and Technology Officer at Swiss Re, shares how one of the world’s leading reinsurers is using AI to transform claims processing, unlock insights, and redefine how work gets done across the enterprise.

Key highlights include:

How AI is reducing claims processing time from ~40 days to 4–5 days

Why data ingestion is the biggest unlock for AI in insurance

The importance of building “AI-ready” data foundations

How Swiss Re achieved ~60% enterprise AI adoption

Why AI transformation is more about people and process than technology

Apple’s greatest successes were built on failure.

In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with David Pogue, an Emmy-winning journalist, former New York Times technology columnist, CBS News correspondent and author of Apple: The First 50 Years, about how Apple transformed early product missteps into category-defining innovation.

Drawing on 150 interviews and decades of coverage, Pogue unpacks the hidden lessons behind Apple’s most famous failures—and how they shaped the company’s future.

Key insights include:

Why the Apple III and Lisa failed—and what they enabled

How constraints in the early Mac informed later breakthroughs

The role of leadership in reframing failure as progress

Apple’s near-collapse and improbable turnaround

What today’s executives can learn from Apple’s innovation model

The modern workplace wasn’t designed for today’s leaders, and it’s starting to break under the pressure.

In this episode of Technovation, board director, author and former CIO Lisa Davis joins Peter High to examine why the workplace system, built decades ago, no longer supports the realities of modern careers. Drawing from her leadership experience across government, academia, and the private sector, Davis outlines what must change, and what leaders must do now.

Key insights include:

Why the current workplace model is structurally outdated

How power dynamics shape leadership advancement

The hidden cost of talent loss and system misalignment

Why AI leadership lacks critical representation

What executives must do to redesign work for the future

China is competing on control. In this episode, Ram Charan explains the “90% Model,” a strategy designed to dominate global manufacturing through scale, pricing power, and long-term positioning.

Drawing on decades advising CEOs and global leaders, Charan breaks down how this model is reshaping industries—and what it means for business leaders navigating a fragmented, multi-polar world.

Key insights include:

Why China is willing to lose money to gain global dominance

How “asset-light” strategies weakened Western manufacturing

What CEOs must do to redesign supply chains for resilience

Why AI should be treated as a tool—not a strategy

How leadership must evolve in an era of unprecedented scale and speed