Unscripted with Jeff Pedowitz is a series of honest, long-form conversations with remarkable people from very different worlds: security and science, business and medicine, technology and the arts. The subject is artificial intelligence and where it's taking us, but every episode gets past the headlines to what these people actually think, have built, and have gotten wrong. AI is the focus for now. The bigger thread is the ideas, decisions, and people shaping what comes next.
Russ Reeder has led nine PE-backed companies across six continents and built Rightsline, the rights-management software behind Netflix, Hulu and Sony. In this episode, he joins Jeff to talk about his upcoming book, Heroes Don’t Scale, and why the indispensable employee is often the person holding a company back. They also cover what private equity gets right and wrong, the streaming business Russ built before Netflix that one shareholder killed, how AI is reshaping SaaS, and why curiosity is the best answer to AI anxiety.
13 Oct 2026
Season 1. Episode 24. Unscripted with Erik Britton
Erik Britton spent his early career at the Bank of England, helped lead Oxford Economics, and now runs Fathom Consulting. He tells Jeff Pedowitz the AI investment cycle is either the biggest transformation in human history or a bubble, explains why he takes the bubble side, and gives direct guidance for leaders planning 2027.
25 Sept 2026
Unscripted with Terry Virts
Terry Virts flew 40 combat missions, piloted the Space Shuttle, commanded the International Space Station for 200 days, directed a documentary, wrote two books, lectures at Harvard and USC, and ran for both Senate and Congress in Texas in 2026. In this episode he draws a direct line from the Challenger and Columbia disasters to the AI moment we’re in now — engineers were warning us then, they’re warning us now, and the managers had the same trillion-dollar carrot. He also goes deep on political corruption, the Daily Swamp project, and what it took to watch Russian cosmonauts vote for Putin from orbit.
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