Episode 12

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Published on:

23rd Apr 2026

Eric Porres wants to make you chief of staff

How does a 45-year-old hardware company like Logitech go all-in on AI? Eric Porres, Chief AI Officer at Logitech, has been inside that transformation from the start. After his company was acquired, he personally trained over 800 employees and built the playbook that's now scaling across a 7,000-person global organization.

Greg and Eric go deep on what it actually takes to move a large incumbent from AI-curious to AI-fluent: why AI labs and centers of excellence are a trap, why you can't outsource transformation to consultants, and how AI champions — not headcount — are the real force multiplier.

Eric says the most valuable employees will build the best team of AI primes to work for them. Hear how he approaches codifying your mental models and deploying them as agents.

Links:

Eric's Website

Eric's LinkedIn

Logitech

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About the Podcast

Supercompanies with Greg Shove
The smartest companies building the future
Every two weeks, Supercompanies brings you unfiltered conversations with the founders and CEOs actually building AI-native companies right now, no theory, no hype, just what's working and what's failing inside real organizations.

Hosted by Greg Shove, CEO of Section and a tech executive since before the Y2K scare, having founded seven companies including his time at AOL. Guests have included Zapier's Wade Foster, Fanvue's Joel Morris, and Logitech's Eric Porres.

Video versions of every episode, along with clips and highlights, are available on YouTube at @SupercompaniesPod.