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Ryan Steelberg

President, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of the Board, Veritone

Search every verified Ryan Steelberg interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Ryan Steelberg, president and chief executive officer of Veritone, discussed the company's second-quarter 2026 financial results during an earnings call on August 13, 2026. He stated that despite organizational changes and cost-cutting initiatives, Veritone grew revenues year-over-year and sequentially from the prior quarter. Steelberg also noted that the company had reduced its operating cost structure and was in active discussions regarding its remaining convertible debt. Steelberg highlighted the scale of Veritone's opportunity, saying that a single incremental order from a signed hyperscaler or foundational model developer could represent millions of dollars in margin per quarter. He also mentioned that the company's migration to Oracle was on schedule, with initial storage payloads expected to begin moving within a month. Additionally, he referenced new contracts with entities such as CHP and the UK Department of Work and Pensions, describing them as real and significant agreements.

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“We are now working with those large LLM and hyperscalers who are building these foundational models and we are packaging, labeling and licensing that audio and video to these same groups to improve their models. And we do a revenue share back to the primary IP owner.”

“We sold that business ... for around $100 million, right about $83 million in net cash and we were able to jettison that business ... and use a lot of those proceeds to pay off debt.”

“We're now working with state and local law enforcement agencies and the Department of Defense and the Department of Justice.”

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