Ryan Steelberg – CEO of Veritone on Harnessing AI to Transform Media and Business
The Casey Adams Show
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4.8 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Today on The Casey Adams Show, Casey sits down with Ryan Steelberg, CEO and co-founder of Veritone, for an in-depth conversation about entrepreneurship, innovation, and the evolution of artificial intelligence. Ryan has spent more than two decades building and scaling technology companies, raising over $180 million in capital and creating more than $3 billion in shareholder value.
He shares his journey from co-founding AdForce and 2CAN Media in the early days of digital advertising, to selling dMarc Broadcasting to Google for $1.2 billion, and now leading Veritone as one of the most influential AI technology companies in the world. Ryan breaks down how AI is transforming media, data management, and the public sector, and why adaptability, optimism, and strategic partnerships are essential to long-term success.
This episode dives deep into the business of AI, leadership at scale, and what it truly takes to build companies that define entire industries. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, investor, or builder in the tech space, Ryan’s story is a masterclass in vision, execution, and resilience.
Learn more about Veritone: https://www.veritone.com/
Connect with Ryan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryansteelberg/
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| 0:00.0 | All right, welcome back to the Casey Adams Show. Today, we are joined by Ryan Stilberg, the co-founder |
| 0:06.9 | and CEO of Veritone. Ryan, thank you so much for coming to show today. Casey, great to be here. |
| 0:11.3 | Thank you. Absolutely. So, you know, your journey as an entrepreneur has been quite the journey |
| 0:16.9 | from building and scaling and selling multiple companies and now building verito and i |
| 0:21.2 | believe since 2014 and you know you all are at the precipice of this AI movement and i'm just so |
| 0:28.8 | blown away by the some of the technologies that you guys have launched and you know to just jump right into |
| 0:33.5 | it i would love to start by saying where do you spend your time today? 2025? You know, |
| 0:39.0 | AI is this not only fundamental technology that has transformed the landscape, but you guys have |
| 0:44.5 | launched so many unique products. And I'm curious to know, what's catching your time and attention |
| 0:48.7 | today, given the advancements you and the team have made over the years in AI? |
| 0:53.0 | I think primarily it fits into two categories. |
| 0:56.8 | Public sector, you know, how we're now applying a lot of our technologies that we really |
| 1:02.4 | cut our teeth on leveraging AI in commercial, really meeting entertainment, including |
| 1:07.7 | podcast companies like IHeartMedia, and how we've sort of been able to |
| 1:11.6 | migrate those technologies to assist and empower state local law enforcement, the Department |
| 1:18.2 | of Defense and the Department of Justice. |
| 1:20.1 | I'd say that's one. |
| 1:21.8 | And then two is really helping, since we've been now ingestingesting, indexing, and archiving tens of millions |
| 1:29.9 | of hours of premium audio and video, right, and indexing, leveraging our AI technologies, |
| 1:35.5 | we're now working with some of the largest hyperscalers and, I'll say, foundational model |
| 1:41.3 | developers, the big names that you know, and helping them actually train their next generation models. |
| 1:47.8 | So, when we go through this discussion, |
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