Jim Kaskade

Serial Entrepreneur, Global Enterprise Executive

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Conversica Executive “Dos and Don’ts” Playbook

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  • May 31, 2025
  • Artificial Intelligence
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An AI Startup CEO’s Reflection

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  • April 18, 2025
  • Artificial Intelligence

End of 2024: Notable AI Events in AI and Emerging LLM Developments

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  • December 31, 2024
  • Artificial Intelligence

End of 2023: Notable AI Events in AI and Emerging LLM Developers

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  • December 31, 2023
  • Artificial Intelligence

End of 2022: Notable AI Events and Emerging LLM Developers

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  • December 31, 2022
  • Artificial Intelligence

End of 2021: Notable Events in AI and LLM Development

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  • December 31, 2021
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Transparency Leads to Change

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  • February 5, 2021
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Black History Month

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  • February 2, 2021
  • Artificial Intelligence

End of 2020: Milestones and Momentum in AI

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  • December 29, 2020
Stop Selling Direct to SMB – A CEO’s COVID Story (Pillar #2)
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Stop Selling Direct to SMB – A CEO’s COVID Story (Pillar #2)

What? Stop selling directly to SMB? Wait a minute. Conversica was founded based on a

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  • May 17, 2020
Pillars of Change – A CEO’s COVID Story (Pillar #1)
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Pillars of Change – A CEO’s COVID Story (Pillar #1)

It was a week after the pandemic was acknowledged, and only 3 days away from

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  • May 5, 2020
Accelerating our Painted Picture
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Accelerating our Painted Picture

“What is our 2024 Painted Picture?” Yes, “getting to cashflow breakeven” was the goal that

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  • April 12, 2020
Radically accelerating to the future state
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Radically accelerating to the future state

I was catching up with one of the companies I advise from time to time

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  • April 12, 2020
The Dawn of a Transformative AI Journey
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The Dawn of a Transformative AI Journey

“Attention Is All You Need” is what I wrote down, shortly after my hike with

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  • October 24, 2019
Culture = Competitive Advantage
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Culture = Competitive Advantage

I came across this picture from a “corporate culture” article written by MIT Sloan Management

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  • October 10, 2019
10Xers – Leadership that thrives in Chaos
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10Xers – Leadership that thrives in Chaos

I was recently rereading one of my favorite Jim Collins’ books, Great by Choice, as

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  • September 7, 2019
Humility + Will = Level 5
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Humility + Will = Level 5

Level 5 leaders are fanatically driven, infected with an incurable need to produce results. They

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  • August 31, 2019
iNSYNQ’s FAQ: “How did this happen?”
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iNSYNQ’s FAQ: “How did this happen?”

Question: “How did this happen?” Answer: “…these kinds of things are now inevitable”. I have

  • Jim Kaskade
  • July 20, 2019
The Executive Chairman Starter Kit
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The Executive Chairman Starter Kit

You’re the CEO and Chairman at your company, OR you’ve been invited to sit on

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  • June 5, 2019

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CEO for 20 years. Focused on AI, Security, Identity, IoT, Big Data, Social, Mobile, & Cloud. Decade in data warehousing, business intelligence, data mining.

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doodlestein Jeffrey Emanuel @doodlestein ·
26 Feb 2024

@GuillaumeLample Keep up the good work embarrassing Google with a team of like 5 devs!

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guillaumelample Guillaume Lample @ NeurIPS 2024 @guillaumelample ·
26 Feb 2024

Today, we are releasing Mistral Large, our latest model. Mistral Large is vastly superior to Mistral Medium, handles 32k tokens of context, and is natively fluent in English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian.

We have also updated Mistral Small on our API to a model that is…

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11 Feb 2024

Looking for a California Roots Music and Arts Festival 2024 tickets (2) https://tixel.com/u/7645855

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