The Qualified Answer

Send a text message to the show! Imagine spending millions of dollars and months of preparation on a revolutionary e-commerce platform, only to launch to absolute crickets. In the inaugural episode of The Qualified Answer, host Simon Elisha takes us back to the dot-com boom to dissect a spectacular B2B reverse auction failure—and explains why the hard lessons learned then are repeating themselves in today's AI gold rush. From navigating the "irrational exuberance" of tech bubbles to making ca...

Send a text message to the show! Every honest answer in technology comes with conditions. The Qualified Answer is a decisions podcast for senior technology leaders - the ones who own the call, and the ones who execute it. Each episode is either a decision case - a senior leader walks you through one real call they had to make, what they chose, what they traded away, and what they wish they'd known - or a solo deep dive into the mental models, frameworks, and patterns behind how consequentia...