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Blaine Mathieu
Blaine Mathieu is a multi-time tech CEO (Pratexo, VANTIQ, GoodData) and founder of The River Group, author of "The River Doesn't Wait," a guide to navigating agentic AI.
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Sep 15, 2026
Retrofit or Reimagine: Blaine Mathieu on Surviving the Agentic AI Surge
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Eric ChemiHOST
Who is the person? Is it the risk officer? Is it, you know, the data officer? Like where should the ownership of this be? Or is having one person be the owner, is that the problem?
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16:11Blaine MathieuGUEST
Well, obviously to deal with rapid and massive change, which is what we're, these organizations are, I was gonna say in the middle of, but really just at the beginning of, you know, to, to be frank, does require the attention and sponsha- sponsorship of the CEO and the executive team.
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16:29Blaine MathieuGUEST
But the people and the teams that actually need to do something are the ones that are leading their organizations, right? Whether, if your organization is finance or marketing or you're the product team or wh- whatever the case is, it's your organization and the processes and operations that are...
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16:48Blaine MathieuGUEST
need to be potentially reimagined, at least retrofitted, maybe reimagined with these systems.
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16:54Blaine MathieuGUEST
And so you need to take the leader, the VP of product management, the head of fi- the ch- you know, chief financial officer, the CMO, for reimagining or rethinking your own operations, right? And then you use the CIO and the CTO and the others to help you figure out how to do it.
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Blaine Mathieu, My Journey with Lucid Motors & a 2025 Lucid Air Grand Touring EV-Encore
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19:11Blaine MathieuGUEST
But to answer your question, so things like the electronic systems overall and, and the sound system now that they did the update, I give them, you know, they're, they're top class equivalent to, you know, six-figure luxury cars that you would get from, you know, from mainstream manufacturers.
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19:28Blaine MathieuGUEST
The, the one that the, the issue that I have the biggest concern about, I put under the category of driving automation.
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19:35Blaine MathieuGUEST
Okay? So, you know, everybody says to me, "Oh, Lucid, does, does it drive itself?" And I'm like, "Not only does it not drive itself, it doesn't even drive as good as my 2017, you know, Toyota Prius did in terms of staying in the lane, not, not shimmering back and forth if there's an entry or an exit." And, and I was really shocked about that, especially given that Lucid has something like, you know, 18 radars, a LIDAR, cameras everywhere.
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20:05Blaine MathieuGUEST
Like, there's no car in the world, including Tesla, that has this mu- this many sensors [laughs] around it.
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