Immad Akhund on Building Mercury, AI Agents & Taking On Big Banks
Mercury CEO Immad Akhund on the AI startup funding frenzy, agents that spend money, and the future of banking. Immad joins Eric Newcomer to...
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A podcast about Silicon Valley, hosted by newsletter writer Eric Newcomer and Tom Dotan, with Katie Benner as a regular special guest.
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Alex Kantrowitz on OpenAI, Nvidia & What Could Derail the AI Boom
OpenAI’s revenue confusion, Apple’s AI missteps, and Nvidia’s investments raise a bigger question: how much depends on the AI boom continuin...
Reid Hoffman on ChatGPT, Data Centers & Why America Needs AI
Reid Hoffman on ChatGPT, the future of jobs, and why he believes the AI boom is keeping America out of a recession. The LinkedIn co-founder...
Josh Elman on Apple, AI Agents & Why Startups Can Still Win
Why did Josh Elman leave Apple, and where can AI startups still win against OpenAI? The former Siri and Apple Intelligence team member expla...
Former SEC Official on FTX, Crypto & Silicon Valley’s Fraud Problem
Renee Jones on how billion-dollar startups escaped public scrutiny, why founders became more powerful than their boards, and what happens wh...
Zavain Dar on Hugging Face, NVIDIA & Why Silicon Valley Should Pay Attention to China
What does NVIDIA really get from Hugging Face—and what is Silicon Valley missing about China? Zavain Dar, co-founder of Dimension and an ear...
Sam Parr on The Hustle, Hampton & Why the OpenAI-TBPN Deal Was a Mistake
Sam Parr on getting fired by Airbnb the day before he started, selling The Hustle, and why $10 million in revenue changes everything. Sam Pa...
This AI Was Trained on a Billion Video Game Clips. Now It Controls Robots.
How can billions of video game clips train AI to control robots? General Intuition CEO Pim de Witte explains why gaming data may be the miss...
John Coogan on Selling TBPN to OpenAI, Sam Altman & the Future of Tech Media
John Coogan, co-founder of TBPN, joins Eric Newcomer to talk about the acquisition that shocked the tech media world. John breaks down how T...
Taylor Lorenz Unfiltered on Social Media, Free Speech & the Surveillance State
Taylor Lorenz on why the social media panic is overblown and who's actually driving it. Taylor Lorenz, journalist and author of Extremely On...
The Goldman Sachs Exec on AI, Wall Street & the Firm That Went Bankrupt in 40 Minutes
The Goldman Sachs exec who automated Wall Street on what AI agents actually do to jobs, companies, and the future of enterprise software. Ma...
Ben Smith on Trump, Anthropic & the Collision of Government and Big Tech
Semafor's editor-in-chief on why Washington has decided Anthropic needs to pick a side. Ben Smith, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Semafor...
Aidan Gomez Unfiltered on AGI, China & AI's Biggest Risk
Aidan Gomez on AGI, China, and the Biggest Risk Facing AI. Cohere co-founder and Transformer co-author Aidan Gomez joins Eric Newcomer to di...
Christina Cacioppo Unfiltered on Fake Compliance, AI Security & Building a $4B Company
The CEO of a $4 billion compliance company on how her biggest competitor was faking it, and what that means for AI startup culture. Christin...
Ed Zitron Unfiltered on OpenAI, Anthropic & Why the Whole Thing Is a Con
Ed Zitron is back, and he's making his strongest case yet that OpenAI and Anthropic are running a deliberate con on the public. In his secon...
How Tech's San Francisco Values Gave Way to the Right
How San Francisco's tech culture went from countercultural idealism to right-wing power, and what it means for the rest of us. Jonathan Webe...
WIRED's Editor on Elon, Trump & Silicon Valley's War on the Press
WIRED's global editorial director on why Silicon Valley wants to control the press and what she's doing about it. Katie Drummond, global edi...
The Man Who Helped Destroy Gawker Is Coming Back For The Rest of Media
The man who helped bring down Gawker is back, and this time he’s coming for the media industry. Eric sits down with Aron Ping D’Souza, the O...
Vinod Khosla on the End of Jobs and the Future of Capitalism
Vinod Khosla on Why AI Could End Human Labor and Change Capitalism Forever Vinod Khosla joins Newcomer to discuss AI, capitalism, freedom, e...
Katie Jacobs Stanton on Elon, Trump & Why Silicon Valley Won’t Speak Up
Silicon Valley has more power than ever, so why won't it speak up? Katie Jacobs Stanton, former Twitter executive, Obama White House alum, a...