Nick Howard helped companies raise $150M+ and built a podcast to 1.8M downloads. His take on AI? Most companies skip straight to the tools without understanding what actually needs fixing in the business. Nick joins Mike for a candid conversation about why companies across beauty, CPG, and tech keep chasing new tools without a strategy for using them. He breaks down a three-part framework for where AI actually delivers results: efficiency, reach, and new capabilities. And he explains why the most exciting AI developments aren't the public-facing tools. They're what's happening on the enterprise back end. He walks through what separates startups that attract capital from those that don't (it happens in the middle of the pitch, not at the end), how he built a bilingual Mandarin-English podcast that fueled a consulting business with Fortune 10 directors reaching out, and why Sierra AI's fully automated shoe return is technically impressive but humanly incomplete. The conversation lands...