# #535 Mike Ryan: Can AI Save Investors 80% of Their Time?

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Podcast: [21st Century Entrepreneurship](https://stenobird.com/podcast/21st-century-entrepreneurship-6829325)
Published: 2026-07-31T19:00:00+00:00
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Mike Ryan, BPN CEO, is a former Goldman Sachs analyst who later ran its global equity business and managed Harvard’s $18 billion endowment, and we spoke about why powerful AI still fails investors when its answers cannot be trusted. After repeatedly receiving polished but incorrect information from generic tools, he decided to develop a more reliable approach. As he puts it, “AI wouldn’t pass a first-round job interview at most firms because it’s not trustworthy.” Ryan explains that AI has a ...

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