Is AI a Performance-Enhancing Drug for Entrepreneurs?

Host Jason Michael Perry sits down with Chris Wink, co-founder and CEO of Technical.ly, to explore whether AI is becoming a performance-enhancing drug for founders and what that means for workers, entrepreneurs, and the cities trying to build ecosystems around both.

Recorded in Philadelphia during Philly Tech Week at the WHYY studios, the conversation digs into Chris’s framework for cutting through the AI noise, the gap between what AI could do at work and what people are actually using it for, why the most exposed workers may not be who you expect, and what the bar is now to be taken seriously as a founder in 2026.

Podcast Notes & Links:

• Technical.ly — Finding the Signal in AI’s Noise
• Anthropic — Labor Market Impacts of AI: A New Measure and Early Evidence
• YouTube — Humans Need Not Apply by CGP Grey
• Amazon — Philly ABCs and Jawns by Christopher Wink
• MacRumors — Searching for ‘Disregard’ Breaks Google

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Credits

Special thanks to the team at WHYY and our on-site audio engineer, Diana Martinez. Our producer, Shanya Mapson, at WYPR, and Myrna Martinez, Head of Operations and Marketing at PerryLabs.