“Instead of my post-graduate education being in law, it was in startups and scaling,” Josh Miramant said on The Failure Gap in March 2026, describing how a startup job pulled him away from politics and law school (The Failure Gap). He is the founder and chief executive of Blue Orange Digital, a data and AI consulting firm in New York.
From Campaigns to Startups
He grew up in Maine and worked on political campaigns through school. A fundraiser he met on a campaign recruited him as the first employee of a technology company, and he watched it grow from two people in a Georgetown row house to about 250, working on both the technology and the fundraising (The Failure Gap).
Starting Blue Orange
He then moved to San Francisco and started a company in HR and talent analytics. When that company was sold, he turned its services work into the professional services firm that is now Blue Orange (The Failure Gap), which works mainly for private equity firms and their portfolio companies (Blue Orange). When Oliver Wyman took a minority stake in April 2022, he said, “Oliver Wyman is a leader in the consulting world and we are proud to partner with them and help deliver data science solutions to their clients” (PR Newswire).
Four Bottlenecks for AI
On the podcast he described what becomes scarce once AI makes producing work cheap, using the acronym CARD: clarity about where a model fits a task, ambition to try many versions instead of one, relationships inside and outside the company, and distribution, the channels that get work in front of people (The Failure Gap).