{"podcast":{"title":"Next Biz Thing: Unveiling Tomorrow's Business","slug":"next-biz-thing-unveiling-tomorrow-s-business-6794632","podcast_index_feed_id":6794632,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-next-biz-thing","website_url":"https://nextbizthing.transistor.fm/","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/26zmLj8xzgQoESxDpol-JGjhNGe_THsLu1AeQ6NWrNo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQ5NzEzLzE3MDc4/NDQ0NzAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.jpg","author":"Markus J. Diplama","episode_count":428,"summary":"The Next Biz Thing is a podcast that delves deeper into the next businesses that will disrupt the way industries function. We showcase the face of the future in each and every episode. It is the innovators and the disruptors from across the globe, as well as the exclusive insights into what they went through and the solutions that they came up with. Next Biz Thing is a podcast where we dive deeper than the surface level to discuss the next wave of businesses that will revolutionize the way a particular industry functions. We bring you the face of the future in every single podcast, which represents the entrepreneurs, disruptors, and innovators across the world. What we aim to do is feature such companies and make them known to the public, and give entrepreneurs an audience to share their vision, achievements, and experiences. We also reveal strategies that such companies are utilizing in their bid to gain rapid growth and influence. Those who will be listening will be not only updated with the latest trends in business innovations but also emotionally influenced through the stories of the Entrepreneurs' spirit, creativity, and Leadership which form the path to the business giants…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-24T20:19:13.823415+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/next-biz-thing-unveiling-tomorrow-s-business-6794632"},"episode":{"title":"Next Biz Thing #419 thecognitive.io","slug":"next-biz-thing-419-thecognitive-io","published_at":"2026-09-13T12:40:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/next-biz-thing-unveiling-tomorrow-s-business-6794632/next-biz-thing-419-thecognitive-io","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/next-biz-thing-unveiling-tomorrow-s-business-6794632","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/0b15a837","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/0b15a837/0f2749e7.mp3","summary":"The Cognitive https://thecognitive.io/ Markus J. Diplama looks at The Cognitive, a Toronto based artificial intelligence recruiting platform founded by Sparsh Goyal. The episode walks through how its sourcing agent finds candidates from a plain language brief, how its live two way AI interviewer holds a real twenty minute conversation instead of a one way recording, and how every rating on its evidence scorecards traces back to a quote and a timestamp. It also covers the claim that time to hire drops from sixty days to roughly ten, and why recruiters still approve every stage. Worth a listen for anyone building a team right now. Here is a number that should bother anyone who has ever tried to build a team. Sixty days. That is roughly how long it takes, on average, to move a serious role from the moment someone says we need to hire to the moment a signed offer lands in an inbox. Sixty days of scheduling, of chasing, of resumes that all start to look the same, of good candidates quietly accepting something else while you are still waiting on a calendar invite. We have automated almost every other part of running a company, and yet the single decision that determines what a company actually becomes, who joins it, is still mostly held together by spreadsheets, inbox threads, and hope. Welcome back to The Next Biz Thing. I am Markus J. Diplama, and this is the show where I go looking for the companies that are quietly rebuilding the parts of business everyone else has learned to tolerate. Not the loudest companies. The useful ones. The ones solving a problem so familiar that most of us stopped noticing it was a problem at all. Today's is a good example of exactly that, because it takes aim at hiring, and it does it in a way I did not expect. The company is called The Cognit…","meta_description":"The Cognitive https://thecognitive.io/ Markus J. 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