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Podcast: Lykken on Lending
Episode: Weekly AI Update with Pavan Agarwal: Why Mortgage Lenders Keep Failing at AI—and What the Winners Understand
Description: Why Mortgage Lenders Keep Failing at AI—and What the Winners Understand explores a hard truth facing the mortgage industry: most AI initiatives fail not because of lack of ambition, but because leaders misunderstand what AI actually requires to succeed. In this episode, David Lykken sits down with mortgage technologist Pavan Agarwal to unpack why short-term thinking, investor pressure, and “plug-and-play” AI promises are leading lenders down costly dead ends. Drawing on decades of real-world experience building mortgage technology the right way, they explain why patient capital, deep technical understanding, and a long-game mindset separate true innovators from expensive experi...