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Vault Unlocked is for founders who don't want to learn the hard way. If you're building something real and you care about growing revenue faster, cleaner, and with fewer blind spots, this podcast is your unfair advantage. Hosted by Kayvon Kay, Vault Unlocked brings elite founders and operators into conversations they normally keep private. Not the public story. The real one. The fumbles that cost them millions. The decision they almost didn't make. The strategy they only understood after it finally worked. Every episode is built around one question founders actually care about: "What do you know now that would have saved you time, money, and pain if you learned it earlier?" Kayvon goes deep on purpose. The guests don't hide. Because surface-level answers don't grow companies. This is where you learn what not to do, what actually moved the needle, and how the best founders think when things are on the line. No motivation. No recycled playbooks. Just inside access to hard-earned lessons.
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- Today35 min
Why Building With AI Got Easy and Maintaining It Got Brutal with Fathom CEO Richard White
Building software has never been easier. Keeping it alive has never been harder. Most founders adopting AI right now have only priced in the first half of that sentence. Richard White is the founder and CEO of Fathom, the top rated AI note taker on G2. He started the company just before 2020 on two bets almost nobody agreed with: transcription costs would fall to zero, and AI would get good enough to do something useful with what it heard. Both were right. He breaks down what actually changed, what didn't, and why the maintenance cycle is the part nobody warns you about. A new frontier model lands every three to six months. The other side of that coin is that a model gets deprecated every three to six months too. Build on one version and you have about six months before you rebuild on the next. Richard explains why Fathom is moving workloads off frontier models and onto open source, not to save money, but because the upgrade cycle is unsustainable for anything you intend to maintain. He walks through why a purpose-built pipeline running five or six models still beats a single general purpose call, what happens to accuracy when you're searching for something that appears in one percent of your meetings, and why the GPT-5 release that landed flat commercially mattered enormously to anyone solving retrieval problems. Then he flips it. Fathom operates like a Formula One team because it competes at the frontier and throws away the engine after every race. A normal business isn't in that race. Move your build from one model version to the next and it'll be slightly worse and close enough that you won't care. The maintenance cost is real. It is not a reason to wait. This is for founders and operators making real decisions about AI inside a business that already generates revenue, and for domain experts sitting on knowledge they've never been able to productize. Software markets that were never worth raising against are now buildable in a weekend by the person who already understands the customer. Questions Answered Why has building with AI become easier while maintaining it has become harder? Why is Fathom moving from frontier models to open source? How should a business owner adopt AI without it becoming a full time job? What replaces the meeting when AI captures and routes the information for you? Why doesn't dumping all your transcripts into a chatbot work? What does managing AI agents have in common with managing people? How does model capability map to what you can safely delegate? Can a domain expert now build profitable software without funding or a team? Is headcount still a useful proxy for company size? Looking to dive deeper into these conversations and connect with our host and guest? Follow Richard White: LinkedIn X Learn more about Fathom Follow Kayvon: Instagram Facebook LinkedIn TikTok Want to go deeper with Kayvon? Subscribe to the newsletter Book a discovery call Get your Revenue Engine Scorecard™️ Hire the right salespeople
- 1 weeks agoconversational46 min5-min read
How Real Brands Build Trust and Consistency (Most Companies Miss This Entirely)
Branding is not what a company says about itself, but what people think when they hear its name. Howard Lim, a branding expert who has rebranded companies sold for $750 million and taken brands public, breaks down the critical distinction between branding and marketing, emphasizing that true branding is about long-term positioning, consistency, and trust — not messaging or tactics.
- 2 weeks agonarrative41 min6-min read
Why Talented People Fail and Tenacious People Don't (The U2 Roadie Who Proved It)
This episode tells the story of Scott Scovill, a man who overcame an extreme fear of failure — so severe that a psychologist said it would be easier for him to grab a red-hot stove than to try — and transformed his life through sheer tenacity, ultimately working with music legends and writing a book that reveals the true key to success: not talent, but relentless perseverance.
- 3 weeks agointerview30 min6-min read
How to Get Your Business Recommended by ChatGPT, Claude and Other AI Search Tools
Anya Cheng, former product leader at Meta and eBay, built Taylor.ai, an AI-powered men’s fashion rental service that’s gained 10 million impressions from ChatGPT without paid ads by mastering AI-era SEO. Her key insight: people now ask AI for advice instead of Googling, and brands must optimize for sentiment, context, and proprietary data to become the answer.
- 4 weeks agoconversational42 min5-min read
Why Presence Beats Performance in Leadership (Most Founders Get This Backwards)
In a world increasingly powered by AI, human connection is at risk of being lost. Renée Marino, a former Broadway performer and author of Becoming a Master Communicator, joins host Kayvon to discuss how to preserve authentic connection in business, family, and life. The conversation centers on practical tools to slow down, reconnect with ourselves, and use technology as an enhancer—not a replacement—for human presence.
- Jun 24, 2026conversational41 min5-min read
Why You Can't Outgrow Your Own Identity (The Real Reason Your Business Results Are Stuck)
Most founders believe their business struggles stem from strategy, but the real bottleneck is identity: the subconscious beliefs about who they are and what they’re capable of. Daniel Linares joins to unpack how identity shapes vision, and how vision directly determines results. The conversation reveals that true growth happens not by chasing outcomes, but by becoming the person who can naturally achieve them.
- Jun 15, 2026interview45 min6-min read
Why Most Startups Fail to Scale (The Buyer Psychology Behind FOMO, Viral Growth, and Outrageous Startup Growth)
The startups that succeed aren't just smarter or better funded—they win because they understand the hidden psychology behind user behavior. Colin Hodge, a 20-year entrepreneur and newly minted USA Today bestselling author, reveals how FOMO, decision engineering, and magic moments drive product adoption and retention, using real-world examples like Clubhouse and Slack to show how these principles are already shaping our choices.
- Jun 10, 20261h 2m
Health Optimization for Business Owners: Why Biohacking Doesn't Work (And What Does)
Most people optimizing their health are spending the most and changing the least. They have the drawers full of nootropics, the cold plunge, the red light panel, the vagus nerve device that stopped working two weeks in. They have the data. They have the gadgets. And they still wake up feeling like garbage. This episode explains why. Kayvon sits down with John Goldman, founder and CEO of Rebel Health Alliance, who spent decades as an athlete and entrepreneur and still woke up at 46 prediabetic, with high blood pressure, fatty liver disease, and inflammation through the roof. He had no idea. The diagnostics put it in black and white, and what he did next became the basis for a company built on a single uncomfortable idea: the entire health optimization industry is selling people the wrong 5 percent. John breaks down where health optimization actually came from, why the traditional healthcare system was never built to make you healthy, and how a 1930s policy decision quietly split the treatment of disease from the generation of health. He explains why high agency operators keep buying more tests, more wearables, and more supplements while missing the boring fundamentals that drive 95 percent of the result. Then he names the one role almost nobody in your health actually plays: the fiduciary who has no product to sell you. This is also a conversation about money. The hundreds of billions spent treating preventable disease. The insurance math that has quietly changed underneath everyone. And why the new class of metabolic drugs is about to become the most widely used pharmaceutical in American history. This episode is for founders, operators, and executives who already know their business is only as optimized as they are. If you run hard, carry the weight, and have started to feel the ceiling in your own body, this is the diagnostic you have been avoiding. If you are looking for another supplement stack to buy, this is not for you. The conversation moves through what health optimization really means for people running businesses under pressure, why cardio respiratory fitness outranks nearly every other intervention for long term performance, how resistance training and sleep quietly outperform the expensive trends, and what it actually takes to build a system around your health instead of a shelf full of abandoned devices. It is a clear look at energy, longevity, and the link between physical condition and the capacity to lead, scale, and make sharp decisions. Topics covered: Why your business is only as optimized as you are The diagnostics most doctors never order, and why The Flexner Report and the system that splits health from treatment The "health fiduciary" and why no one in your current setup plays that role The boring fundamentals that drive 95 percent of results Where red light, cold plunge, peptides, and nootropics actually fit VO2 max, fat free mass index, and the metrics that predict longevity The metabolic drug wave and what it means for the economy and the country Looking to dive deeper into these conversations and connect with our host and guest? Follow John Goldman: Instagram LinkedIn X Learn more about Rebel Health Alliance Follow Kayvon: Instagram Facebook LinkedIn TikTok Want to go deeper with Kayvon? Subscribe to the newsletter Book a discovery call Get your Revenue Engine Scorecard™️ Hire the right s
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Vault Unlocked is for founders who don't want to learn the hard way. If you're building something real and you care about growing revenue faster, cleaner, and with fewer blind spots, this podcast is your unfair advantage. Hosted by Kayvon Kay, Vault Unlocked brings elite founders and operators into conversations they normally keep private. Not the public story. The real one. The fumbles that cost them millions. The decision they almost didn't make. The strategy they only understood after it finally worked. Every episode is built around one question founders actually care about: "What do you know now that would have saved you time, money, and pain if you learned it earlier?" Kayvon goes deep on purpose. The guests don't hide. Because surface-level answers don't grow companies. This is where you learn what not to do, what actually moved the needle, and how the best founders think when things are on the line. No motivation. No recycled playbooks. Just inside access to hard-earned lessons.
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