What happens when the technology you built your career around starts changing underneath you?

Ramon Tramontini has faced that question more than once.

In this episode of Ted Listens, Ted Novak sits down with Ramon, President of International Operations at OGI, to talk about his path from writing software as a teenager in Brazil to building technology companies, navigating failure, moving to Chicago, and leading international growth.

Ramon shares why he believes the biggest mistake companies make with AI is trying to automate before understanding the process itself. As he puts it, AI won’t automatically fix a messy organization... it can simply accelerate the mess.

Ted and Ramon also discuss:

• Starting and losing an early software business
• Taking a career step backward to learn a new technology stack
• Building a business in the U.S. after moving from Brazil
• The cultural differences between Brazilian and American business
• Why systems thinking is central to solving business problems
• Hidden bottlenecks inside organizations
• Why the problem a client asks you to solve may not be the real problem
• The shift from large IT projects to shorter, outcome-focused work
• Ramon’s return to school to study AI and machine learning
• What the next decade of technology may look like

It’s a conversation about reinvention, entrepreneurship, technology, and staying focused on the problem instead of the tool.

More on Ramon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramontramontini/

More on Ted:https://cliquestudios.com/authors/ted-novak