
Welcome to The Forge 🔥 of Unicorns — the podcast where digital evolution meets elite performance. 🚀
I’m Michele Brissoni (Mike) — Tech Advisor, Fractional CTO, and Board-Level Strategist.
Over the past two decades, I’ve invented models and frameworks that have reshaped how organizations evolve in the software era:
BOKaRy 📈 — our latest innovation, a Behavioral-OKR governance framework bridgin... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 81 | Founded | 2 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | Business NewsNewsTechnology | |||

AI Readiness Gap: Why 70-90% AI adoption with 30-50% readiness is costing billions. The Last Mile framework for CTOs to complete AI coding tool investments.
The data is clear: companies are pouring millions into GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, ... more
97% of enterprise developers use AI coding tools. Trust crashed from 40% to 29% in one year. METR found experienced developers 19% slower while believing they were 20% faster. The 39-point perception gap exposes why your AI investment isn't deliverin... more
In this episode, Michele (Mike) Brissoni explores the challenges and realities of software development in the age of AI. He discusses the historical context of coding productivity, the impact of Agile and DevOps methodologies, and the effects of remo... more
Your $10M AI investment produces garbage code because you hired mediocre, trained badly, and blamed developers when production burned. Not their fault. Yours. This episode explores how leadership and organizational behavior shape software engineering... more
Three years after ChatGPT's release, $2.5 trillion wasted in 2024 alone. Forecast for 2027? $4 trillion. Meanwhile, 38% burnout rate, 77% disengaged workforce, and 90% failure rate on digital transformations.
After 77 episodes analyzing 130 people w... more
Licensing beats equity 10x. Fabio Lettieri (Founder, Artivium | Partner, TLN) reveals how €2M turns into €100M in 24 months through royalty-based partnerships instead of ownership dilution, why Europe's 10x better engineers stay underfunded, and the ... more
Philosophy shapes AI future through karmapreneurship and soft skills revealed by Craig Weiss (Patent Attorney turned Unicorn CEO turned Managing Partner Flagstaff Venture) on execution curiosity mentorship and AI human gap.
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Spitch.AI beats tech giants through customer-centric collaborative AI and cultural readiness. Pier Giorgio Vittori (CEO US division) reveals gradual adoption framework, employee satisfaction foundation, and ethical business practices that turn David ... more
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