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Particle Accelerator: A Particle41 Podcast

Particle Accelerator: A Particle41 Podcast

Particle41 115 Episodes Jul 20, 2026

Particle Accelerator is a business and technology podcast presented by Particle41 and hosted by Ben Johnson, a serial entrepreneur. Each episode features conversations with forward-thinking business leaders on accelerating business growth, building high-performing teams, and exploring new technological advancements. The show is aimed at CEOs, entrepreneurs, and professionals seeking to stay ahead in the competitive tech landscape by discovering emerging technologies and making impactful connections.

Episodes

Your AI Shouldn't Know Everyone. It Should Know You. | Robert LoCascio
Your AI Shouldn't Know Everyone. It Should Know You. | Robert LoCascio Jul 20, 2026 3426 In 1995, Rob LoCascio looked at the early internet and asked a simple question: where are the people? His answer became live chat, a piece of software now running on billions of websites. He built that into LivePerson, took it public, and ran it for almost three decades.Now he's building something that argues against the entire direction of the AI industry. Instead of one giant model trained
The "Dumbest Idea" That Built a $100M Fuel Empire | Eliot Vancil
The "Dumbest Idea" That Built a $100M Fuel Empire | Eliot Vancil Jul 11, 2026 3410 Eliot Vancil grew up the son of a house painter in Oakliffe, mowing yards for spending money. Twenty-five years later, he's built, scaled, and sold multiple companies, a Texas IT business he ran for 20 years, a telecom company he sold without an earnout, and then turned his attention to one of the most archaic, paper-driven industries in the country: fuel delivery.The result is Fuel Logic, wh
Growth doesn't break companies. Founder dependency does.| Brooke M Dukes
Growth doesn't break companies. Founder dependency does.| Brooke M Dukes Jul 10, 2026 3002 Growth doesn't break companies. Founder dependency does. In this episode of The Particle Accelerator, Benjamin Johnson sits down with Brooke Dukes - co-founder of a 17-year consulting firm, author of international bestseller Burn On, Not Out, and founder of BMD - to unpack the pattern that silently stalls scaling companies, the founder who becomes the system. Brooke has worked with companies
Innovation Isn't an Idea Problem, It's a Leadership Problem | Robyn M. Bolton
Innovation Isn't an Idea Problem, It's a Leadership Problem | Robyn M. Bolton Jul 9, 2026 2739 What's the real reason innovation dies inside organizations?In this episode of The Particle Accelerator, Benjamin Johnson sits down with Robyn Bolton, founder of MileZero, former P&G brand manager on the Swiffer launch team, BCG and InnoSight advisor, author of Unlock Innovation, and 2026 Thinkers50 Radar honoree, for an unflinching look at the human side of corporate innovation.Robyn has
The gap between demo and reliable ROI | Pratik Verma
The gap between demo and reliable ROI | Pratik Verma Jul 8, 2026 2976 Your AI agent nailed the demo. But two weeks after going live, you're staring at support tickets you can't reproduce, cloud bills you can't explain, and behavior nobody predicted.In this episode of Particle Accelerator, our host Benjamin Johnson sits down with Pratik Verma, Founder and CEO of Okahu AI, to unpack exactly why AI agents break in production and what it takes to actually
Leadership after rupture | Dr. Kimberly Bonniksen
Leadership after rupture | Dr. Kimberly Bonniksen Jul 7, 2026 3146 In this episode of the Particle Accelerator, host Benjamin Johnson sits down with Dr. Kimberly Bonniksen, founder of Legends Research and creator of Kairos AI. A researcher, Dr. Kimberly brings three decades of experience studying how leaders carry responsibility, sustain trust, and create meaning that endures. From her early work scaling the University of Phoenix online division to her groundbrea
The Question Jay Abraham Asks Every Founder
The Question Jay Abraham Asks Every Founder Jul 6, 2026 4248 If you've ever used the phrase "unique selling proposition" in a meeting - you've used Jay Abraham's work. Same with strategy of preeminence, risk reversal, power partnering, and relational capital. These are frameworks the business world now runs on, often without knowing where they came from.In this episode, Particle41 CEO Benjamin Johnson sits down with Jay Abraham  - f
How One Founder Built the "Google Street View" for HOAs | Wesley Hunt
How One Founder Built the "Google Street View" for HOAs | Wesley Hunt Jul 5, 2026 3854 Wesley Hunt co-founded Optic Systems after nearly a decade inside the property management industry - and the company he built looks nothing like what you'd expect.It started with a simple observation that property managers are expected to respond to homeowners instantly while also physically driving to every community they manage. You can't do both. Something always breaks down.The solut
Building in the Dark | Robbie Abed
Building in the Dark | Robbie Abed Jul 4, 2026 5332 Robbie Abed is not a developer. He's a writer who once penned a resignation letter so good that the CEO of Deloitte Consulting forwarded it to the entire firm. He's an Inc. columnist with millions of views. He took 250 coffee meetings in 400 days. He wrote a book - Fire Me I Beg You - and James Altucher wrote the foreword.Then he disappeared into his basement for six months and built a S
How Anderson Business Advisors Scaled Without Adding Headcount | Aaron Videtto
How Anderson Business Advisors Scaled Without Adding Headcount | Aaron Videtto Jul 3, 2026 3061 What does it actually look like when a growing company's technology can no longer keep up with its growth?In the first episode of The Particle Accelerator, Ben Johnson (CEO of Particle41) sits down with Aaron Videtto, Head of Product & Client Experience at Anderson Business Advisors, for a conversation that is anything but theoretical.Anderson is a one-stop shop for private real estate in
What's Actually Working in Marketing Right Now | Jon Tsourakis
What's Actually Working in Marketing Right Now | Jon Tsourakis Jul 2, 2026 3374 Jon Tsourakis is President and Chief Revenue Officer at Oyova,  a full-service digital agency serving clients from $3M startups to billion-dollar enterprises. He's been in digital marketing and web development for over two decades, built and scaled his own agency (Revital), and merged it into Oyova in 2019.In this episode, Jon and I go deep on everything that actually matters if you're t
AI Without Humans Is Just Noise | Tori Begg
AI Without Humans Is Just Noise | Tori Begg Jul 1, 2026 3212 What does it actually take to embed AI into the DNA of a national marketing agency, and bring 400 employees along for the ride?In this episode of The Particle Accelerator, host Benjamin Johnson sits down with Tori Begg, Head of AI Programs at Voice Media Group (parent company of V Digital Services and the Dallas Observer). Tori owns the strategy, build, and enablement of a proprietary LLM and mult

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