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2025-10-07
"This feels like 1996": Why a16z's Martin Casado believes the AI boom still has years to run (General Partner)
"This feels like 1996": Why a16z's Martin Casado believes the AI boom still has years to run (General Partner)
Listen now | a16z's infrastructure leader unpacks why today's AI boom is fundamentally different from 2021's tech bubble, how he identifies market…
2025-10-02
Palantir’s Weirdest Book Recommendation
Palantir’s Weirdest Book Recommendation
Lessons from Impro: Status, spontaneity, and the art of unlearning.
2025-09-30
How to be Agentic in the Age of AI | Cate Hall (CEO of Astera)
How to be Agentic in the Age of AI | Cate Hall (CEO of Astera)
Astera’s CEO and ex-No. 1 female poker player on the "soft takeover" of AI and how humans can preserve meaning and agency in an increasingly automated…
2025-09-23
Maintaining Human Intelligence in the AI Era | David Krakauer (President of the Santa Fe Institute)
Maintaining Human Intelligence in the AI Era | David Krakauer (President of the Santa Fe Institute)
A complexity scientist's assessment of AI's threat to human cognition, what Cormac McCarthy taught him about creativity, and why we need complementary…
2025-09-16
Building Beautiful Homes with Robots: The Future of Construction | Salar al Khafaji (CEO and Founder of Monumental)
Building Beautiful Homes with Robots: The Future of Construction | Salar al Khafaji (CEO and Founder of Monumental)
A founder’s journey to make construction faster, more affordable, and more beautiful using autonomous bricklaying robots.
2025-09-09
What Makes Something Alive? Assembly Theory and the Origins of Life | Sara Walker (Theoretical Physicist)
What Makes Something Alive? Assembly Theory and the Origins of Life | Sara Walker (Theoretical Physicist)
A theoretical physicist's provocative framework for understanding life across the cosmos—from methane lakes on Titan to AI systems on Earth.
2025-08-19
Reviving Forgotten Technologies: How Airships, Supersonic Flight, and Geothermal Energy Could Transform Our World | Eli Dourado (Head of…
Reviving Forgotten Technologies: How Airships, Supersonic Flight, and Geothermal Energy Could Transform Our World | Eli Dourado (Head of…
Listen now | From supersonic flight to massive airships: how one "regulatory hacker" is reviving forgotten technologies that could transform…
2025-08-12
Inside General Catalyst’s $1B+ Bet on Fixing Healthcare | Hemant Taneja (CEO and Managing Partner)
Inside General Catalyst’s $1B+ Bet on Fixing Healthcare | Hemant Taneja (CEO and Managing Partner)
Listen now | General Catalyst's transformation: How Hemant Taneja is building a new kind of "strategic conglomerate."
2025-08-05
The Future of Crypto: Stablecoins, AI Integration, and the Path to Mass Adoption | Jesse Walden (Founder and Managing Partner at Variant)
The Future of Crypto: Stablecoins, AI Integration, and the Path to Mass Adoption | Jesse Walden (Founder and Managing Partner at Variant)
Listen now | A crypto VC's playbook for understanding the current cycle: stablecoin productization, regulatory clarity, AI integrations, and more.
2025-07-29
The Evolution of AI Agents: Navigating the “Fog of AI” in Rapidly Changing Foundations | Stanislas Polu and Harrison Chase
The Evolution of AI Agents: Navigating the “Fog of AI” in Rapidly Changing Foundations | Stanislas Polu and Harrison Chase
Listen now | Stan Polu and Harrison Chase unpack agents, reliability hurdles, and staying defensible in the age of AI.
2025-07-22
The Decade of Data with Tomasz Tunguz
The Decade of Data with Tomasz Tunguz
Listen now | Inside Theory Ventures: Tomasz Tunguz shares how tokenized IPOs, AI agents, and the “decade of data” are rewriting the VC playbook.
2025-07-15
Why the Real Computer Revolution Never Happened | Alan Kay & Anjan Katta
Why the Real Computer Revolution Never Happened | Alan Kay & Anjan Katta
The father of personal computing, Alan Kay, and Daylight founder, Anjan Katta, on building a future where technology enhances human wisdom, rather than…
2025-06-24
Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity: Lessons from AI, Pandemics, and Nuclear Threats | Toby Ord (Author of "The Precipice")
Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity: Lessons from AI, Pandemics, and Nuclear Threats | Toby Ord (Author of "The Precipice")
Toby Ord on the 1-in-6 odds of extinction, four key types of AI threats, and the policies we need now to safeguard future generations.
2025-06-17
Are We Alone In The Universe? Sara Seager on Exoplanets, Venus, and the Hunt for Alien Life (Astrophysicist and Planetary Scientist at MIT)
Are We Alone In The Universe? Sara Seager on Exoplanets, Venus, and the Hunt for Alien Life (Astrophysicist and Planetary Scientist at MIT)
MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager unpacks the tech and intuition needed to crack the age-old question: Are we alone in the universe?
2025-06-10
Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading | Nadia Asparouhova (Writer and Researcher)
Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading | Nadia Asparouhova (Writer and Researcher)
Why some ideas vanish while others go viral, and what this says about our minds, memories, and the modern internet.
2025-06-03
Creating Stars in a Bottle: The Race to Commercialize Fusion Energy | Vinod Khosla & Bob Mumgaard
Creating Stars in a Bottle: The Race to Commercialize Fusion Energy | Vinod Khosla & Bob Mumgaard
Abundant energy changes everything: hear how CFS aims to power the grid, further propel AI, and rewrite geopolitics with carbon-free fusion energy.
2025-05-27
The Semiconductor Century with Chris Miller (Author of “Chip War”)
The Semiconductor Century with Chris Miller (Author of “Chip War”)
The real AI moats: chips, energy, and geopolitics. Chris Miller on where the power lies and how nations are fighting to win.
2025-05-20
How Anduril Is Reimagining the Defense Industry: Faster Tech, Ethical AI, and a New Kind of Deterrence | Trae Stephens (Co-Founder …
How Anduril Is Reimagining the Defense Industry: Faster Tech, Ethical AI, and a New Kind of Deterrence | Trae Stephens (Co-Founder …
Inside Anduril’s mission to bring Silicon Valley speed, AI, and ethics to national defense.