Web3 Unfiltered

About Web3 Unfiltered

Conversations with tech founders, builders, and analysts — cutting through hype to explain what actually works in crypto, blockchain, and decentralised technology.

Publisher

Collins Victory Odabi

Category

technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Jan 2026

Latest episode

1 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

46 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Oct 2026

   Why the M Ate the R: Relationship Building in the Age of AI and Automated CRM | Jon Ferrara

   Businesses hold more customer data than ever, with CRMs, analytics, social automation and AI to help them reach people. Yet many relationships have become less personal, and automation may make real human connection more valuable. Jon Ferrara is a pioneer of the CRM industry. He co-founded GoldMine, then built Nimble after spotting a gap in the market for small businesses. In this episode, Collins Victory Odabi sits down with Jon to explore how CRM evolved, why relationships remain fundamental, and what happens to human connection as technology increasingly sits between businesses and their customers. What You'll Learn Management ate the relationship. Jon argues that CRM drifted from helping people manage relationships to helping management track data and salespeople. A CRM should be the system of record for relationships across the whole business, not only sales. Sales used to be a service. Jon describes the village shopkeeper who knew each customer, and notes that people can hold only 100 to 200 relationships in their heads. Early CRM tools extended memory, and Jon says sales lost its relationships as it scaled. A CRM should work where you work and build itself. Jon built Nimble to pull in contacts from email and social media and to work inside the inbox and LinkedIn. Contact data decays quickly, and follow-up and follow-through are where most salespeople fail. AI should do the rote work so people can be more human. Jon sees AI preparing meeting dossiers and capturing follow-ups, freeing people to look someone in the eye and listen. His view is that service is the new sales. Your brand and network are your net worth. Jon's five Es of social selling are educate, enchant, engage, embrace and empower. He expects being human to become the way brands stand out from bots, and urges companies to empower team members to build personal brands. About Jon Ferrara CEO and founder of Nimble and co-founder of GoldMine, one of the early CRM platforms for small businesses. He is a pioneer of the CRM industry and speaks widely on relationship building and social selling. 🌐 nimble.com (https://nimble.com )(use code JON40 for 40% off the first three months) Timestamps [0:04] Introduction [2:36] Why real relationships matter more as technology advances [3:27] How CRM evolved and lost the relationship [9:36] Why Jon built Nimble for small businesses [16:55] Personal branding and relationships as a competitive advantage [21:41] The ideal relationship between AI, CRM and human interaction [26:47] Final thoughts Connect with Collins LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/collins-odabi-266620380/ (https://https://www.linkedin.com/in/collins-odabi-266620380/) Guest enquiries: podmatch.com/member/onyourmic (https://podmatch.com/member/onyourmic) Until next time, stay sharp, and keep showing up.

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   3 Sept 2026

   Why AI Won't Fix Your Company's Problems — It Will Amplify Them | Rob Broadhead

   Good architecture rarely makes headlines, but bad architecture eventually becomes impossible to ignore. Behind every app and dashboard sits a set of decisions about infrastructure, data flow, and scalability — and when those decisions are made poorly, organizations spend years fixing problems built into the foundation. Rob Broadhead is a veteran software architect, entrepreneur, and founder of RB Consulting. Over 30 years, he has designed enterprise systems, advised businesses on technology strategy, and helped organizations avoid costly mistakes from poorly planned technology decisions. He also hosts the Devpreneur Podcast. In this episode, Collins Victory Odabi sits down with Rob to explore the most common architectural mistakes companies make, how to turn technology from a cost center into a genuine growth driver, and why AI amplifies whatever problems already exist in a company rather than solving them. In This Episode, We Discuss The most common architectural mistake is building only for today, not for growth. Rob describes companies painting themselves into a corner with systems that work perfectly at launch but require costly rebuilds once growth arrives faster than expected — the fix is asking "what happens if this grows 10x" at the design stage, not after. Pressure-testing assumptions matters more than accepting the first answer. Rob's example: asking a client if only one user will ever access the system, getting a confident "yes," then finding out six months later that families or organizations need multiple logins — a gap that better upfront questioning would have caught. Modernizing legacy systems means more than a straight lift-and-shift. Rob argues that migrating an old system into a modern stack without also adopting new capabilities — mobile access, modern interfaces — wastes the investment; if you're already spending the time and money, take full advantage of what modern technology actually offers. Fundamentals matter more than specific programming languages for developers building long-term careers. Rob has shifted his mentoring advice toward architecture, software development lifecycle, and problem definition, since knowing a particular language is becoming less valuable as AI increasingly handles implementation itself. AI codes like a junior developer — technically capable, but incapable of system-level thinking. Rob argues that without strong guardrails, clear requirements, and human code review, AI-assisted development produces working code littered with redundancy and technical debt, since AI stops at the first brute-force solution rather than generalizing and refining it. About Rob BroadheadRob Broadhead is a veteran software architect, entrepreneur, and founder of RB Consulting, and host of the Devpreneur Podcast (Building Better Developers).🌐 rb-sns.com (https://rb-sns.com) | 📧 rob@sns.com🎙️ develpreneur.com (https://develpreneur.com) Key Timestamps / Chapter Markers[0:04] Introduction and episode framing[2:03] From coding in grade school to founding RB Consulting in 2001[6:32] The most common architectural mistakes organizations make[8:53] Aligning technology decisions with long-term business objectives[13:35] Turning technology from a cost center into a growth driver[15:54] Where to start when modernizing legacy technology infrastructure[19:14] What separates developers who thrive long-term from those who struggle[26:50] Why system design matters even more in the age of AI-assisted coding[30:47] The principle behind building systems meant to last for years Connect with CollinsLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/collins-odabi-266620380 (https://linkedin.com/in/collins-odabi-266620380)Guest enquiries: podmatch.com/member/web3unfiltered (https://podmatch.com/member/web3unfiltered) Until next time, stay sharp, stay curious, and keep building.

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   3 Sept 2026

   Why Traditional Software Development Was Always Obsolete | Nessim Btesh

   For all the progress in technology, internal systems are still broken. Teams rely on spreadsheets, disconnected tools, and manual workflows never designed to scale — and despite years of software investment, the problem persists because the issue isn't the tools, it's how systems are built in the first place. Nessim Btesh is the founder and CEO of AgentUI, an AI-first platform that turns messy processes, spreadsheets, and ideas into fully functional internal tools through simple interaction with AI, instead of writing code or stitching together multiple platforms. In this episode, Collins Victory Odabi sits down with Nessim to explore why so many digital transformation efforts fail despite heavy investment, why he believes traditional software development cycles were always obsolete for most companies, and what treating AI as operational infrastructure actually looks like in practice. In This Episode, We Discuss Most companies don't realize how much technical debt they're carrying until the one developer holding it all together leaves. Nessim describes disconnected tools and siloed databases that never talk to each other as the default state for most organizations, creating operations that quietly become slower and more fragile over time. Digitizing even a single manual process can produce outsized efficiency gains. Nessim recounts joining his family business in 2019, where fully manual operations were digitized from scratch — the resulting growth came simply from collecting data correctly in one place rather than scattering it across systems. AgentUI's core value is standardization plus a security layer, not just AI-generated code. Nessim explains that every project built on the platform follows the same technical documentation and guardrails, meaning a company isn't left stranded if the person who built a system leaves — the AI, not an individual, becomes the consistent builder. Traditional software development cycles were built for regulated industries like banks, not startups, and never should have been applied universally. Nessim argues these rigid workflows slowed down smaller companies for years, and AI is now making that mismatch obvious by compressing weeks of work into hours. Nessim's guiding principle is "build a tool that builds a tool, never build the tool itself." Rather than building an AI that does customer support directly, his team builds an AI that builds the AI that does support — a meta-approach he credits with keeping AgentUI adaptable as needs evolve. About Nessim BteshNessim Btesh is the founder and CEO of AgentUI, an AI-first platform turning manual processes and spreadsheets into standardized, secure internal tools without traditional coding.📱 Instagram: @therealnassim Key Timestamps / Chapter Markers[0:04] Introduction and episode framing[2:09] Programming since age 11 and building AgentUI[3:54] Why digital transformation efforts fail to improve operations[7:53] Treating AI as operational infrastructure, not just a productivity tool[11:33] Why traditional software development cycles were always obsolete[19:23] Why Web3 teams struggle with internal tooling despite technical skill[21:49] What a truly adaptive, self-healing internal system looks like[23:39] The one principle founders should adopt in the AI era Connect with CollinsLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/collins-odabi-266620380 (https://linkedin.com/in/collins-odabi-266620380)Guest enquiries: podmatch.com/member/web3unfiltered (https://podmatch.com/member/web3unfiltered) Until next time, stay sharp, stay curious, and keep building.

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