Economics of identity
In this episode of High Agency, we sit down with Carol Anne Hilton, founder of the Indigenomics Institute, and the mind behind a movement that’s reshaping economic narratives through an Indigenous lens. Carol Anne takes us from a single tweet to a national economic agenda, unpacking how a hashtag sparked a framework for redefining value, ownership, and power in Indigenous economies. We dive into the concept of “Indian Act economics,” challenge Canada’s sanitized self-image, and explore how tech can either deepen bias or become a tool for Indigenous economic intelligence. We explore how Carol Anne is building data architecture for a $100 billion Indigenous economy, and why true reconciliation must be measurable, not metaphorical. This isn’t just about history, it’s about the financial future of a country still reckoning with its foundations.
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Finding your voice
In this episode of High Agency, we’re live from Web Summit with Mohan Gulati, Co-founder and CEO of Thinkrr.AI, a startup transforming how businesses use voice AI to enhance customer experiences. Mohan shares his journey from running Fortune 100 portfolios to founding a voice tech company focused on speed, connection, and radical candour. We dig into what it means to bring life back to the website, why voice AI isn’t replacing people but creating space for them, and how leadership in startups differs when every decision lands on your desk.
In this episode of High Agency, we’re live from Web Summit with Mohan Gulati, Co-founder and CEO of Thinkrr.AI, a startup transforming how businesses use voice AI to enhance customer experiences. Mohan shares his journey from running Fortune 100 portfolios to founding a voice tech company focused on speed, connection, and radical candour. We dig into what it means to bring life back to the website, why voice AI isn’t replacing people but creating space for them, and how leadership in startups differs when every decision lands on your desk.
Testing the impossible
In this episode of High Agency, we’re live from Web Summit with Will Wilson, CEO of Antithesis. Will shares the origin story behind building a platform that tests the “impossible”, from selling FoundationDB to Apple, to assembling a stealth-mode engineering team in DC that’s redefining how we build and trust software. We discuss how Antithesis creates testing environments that act like an oracle for your code, catching unknown bugs before they surface. Will talks about what it really takes to build deep tech, why they stayed in stealth for five years, and what happens when a team truly cares about the work and each other. If you’ve ever written code and wondered, “Is this really going to work?”, this episode will shift your thinking on what’s possible.
In this episode of High Agency, we’re live from Web Summit with Will Wilson, CEO of Antithesis. Will shares the origin story behind building a platform that tests the “impossible”, from selling FoundationDB to Apple, to assembling a stealth-mode engineering team in DC that’s redefining how we build and trust software. We discuss how Antithesis creates testing environments that act like an oracle for your code, catching unknown bugs before they surface. Will talks about what it really takes to build deep tech, why they stayed in stealth for five years, and what happens when a team truly cares about the work and each other. If you’ve ever written code and wondered, “Is this really going to work?”, this episode will shift your thinking on what’s possible.
Politics of technology
In this episode of High Agency, we sit down with Paddy Cosgrave, CEO and Co-Founder of Web Summit, for a raw and wide-ranging conversation about power, platforms, and personal growth. From relocating one of the world’s biggest tech conferences to Canada due to geopolitics, to unpacking why humility might be the antidote to success, Paddy shares unfiltered insights on the future of AI, China’s tech dominance, and the broken incentives in Western capitalism. We also explore how platform thinking shapes our economy, why most conferences are boring by design, and what getting destroyed by teenagers on the tennis court teaches you about ego and resilience.
In this episode of High Agency, we sit down with Paddy Cosgrave, CEO and Co-Founder of Web Summit, for a raw and wide-ranging conversation about power, platforms, and personal growth. From relocating one of the world’s biggest tech conferences to Canada due to geopolitics, to unpacking why humility might be the antidote to success, Paddy shares unfiltered insights on the future of AI, China’s tech dominance, and the broken incentives in Western capitalism. We also explore how platform thinking shapes our economy, why most conferences are boring by design, and what getting destroyed by teenagers on the tennis court teaches you about ego and resilience.
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