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In this episode, Sabrina Halper sits down with DAOuda Leonard, Grimes' manager and founder of music tech studio CreateSafe, which just launched its generative AI-powered platform Triniti. Triniti enables artists to create an AI voice clone, generate text-to-audio samples, ask a chatbot music industry-related questions, monetize creations and manage music IP. Subscribe to stay up to date on all the best clips and upcoming episodes! Socials

In this episode, Sabrina Halper sits down with Eric Jang. Eric is the VP of AI at 1X Technologies, a humanoid robot company built to benefit society, with investment led by OpenAI. He also published AI is Good for You, a book about the last 10 Years and the next 10 Years of Artificial Intelligence (link to buy attached below). Previously, Eric was a senior research scientist at Google on their robotics team. Timestamps: (0:00) - Highlights (2:53) - Intro (3:32) - The outdated political system & AI's applications for campaigns7:55 - Debating ideas with AI "champions" (9:20) - How Meta's VR Quest headset could be a humanoid robot, data engines for AI (13:20) - Building genuine AI companionship (18:26) - AI chatbots as sparring partners and improving peoples' social capabilities (20:45) - Can we achieve AGI through online, text-only data? Or do we need a data engine such as VR, robots, or cars? (24:20) - How to acquire and label "truth" for LLMs?30:00 - How far are we from AGI? How do you define AGI? (32:20) - Should we be modeling AI systems after biology and replicating nature-inspired architectures?36:00 - Confronting workforce disruption of humanoid robots, 1X's approach39:00 - Lump of labor fallacy, 10X-ing workforces (40:10) - Security risks of humanoid robots, high leverage technology = risk (42:35) - Engineering hardware to mimic the human body, lack of robotics parts (46:04) - Why is now the right time to invest and build in general purpose robots? (48:25) - Visualizing a post-AGI future of abundance & utopia situation (52:27) - What will our relationship to robots look like and which hierarchies will exist? How to engineer an equality dynamic (55:50) - The academia vs start-up landscape in AI and why some researches are going back to academia (59:54) - Criticisms of the effective altruist and AI safety communities (1:04:20) - Good policies and models for regulation, issues with regulation today Please subscribe to stay up to date on all the best clips and upcoming episodes! Follow Eric on Twitter Purchase Eric's book here. Connect with Sabrina on Twitter Engage with HOF on Twitter or learn more and visit HOF's website.

In this episode, Sabrina Halper sits down with renowned entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky. Martin has founded five unicorn companies across industries. He discusses his cutting edge work in the fertility space and how technology will revolutionize our biology. Timestamps: (0:00) - Intro (1:30) - Catalyst for building in fertility (3:00) - Reasons for increased infertility in society (7:00) - Climate change and overpopulation narrative (10:00) - Reasons for declining birth rates & how to design a society that combats this (16:40) - Europe vs America on abortion, surrogacy, and the anti-science movements (22:00) - How to decrease the cost of fertility treatments by an order of magnitude (27:15) - Embryo selection vs CRISPR (32:34) - Mapping out IQ to a gene, editing for intelligence (34:00) - How regulation of CRISPR will vary between China and the west (36:00) - The potential disparity between humans, and the context of AI (37:20) - Why evolution doesn't work anymore (39:40) - Why humans may speciate and evolve into multiple species (41:59) - Is CRISPR happening today? 45:30 - In-vitro gametogenesis (IVG) (47:00) - What having a baby will look like in the future (49:05) - Male birth control, longevity, gene therapy (52:00) - Martin's philosophy around company building (54:15) - Having clear views around where the future is going (58:00) - Fast-paced popcorn questions: space, Einstein, quantum physics (1:00:30) - Outro Follow Tomorrow Talk to stay up to date on all the best clips and upcoming episodes! Follow Martin on Twitter Connect with Sabrina on Twitter Engage with HOF on Twitter or visit our website

Delian Asparouhov is the co-founder of Varda Space, the startup that is manufacturing products in space to benefit life on Earth. He is also a partner at Founders Fund. The first 30 minutes of this episode cover all things space: Varda, investing and building in Space, Elon's role in pushing the industry forward, working in highly-regulated industries, inception of ideas. The second 30 minutes go deep into Delian's personal path into venture, lessons from his first company, what personal characteristics define the best founders, lessons he learned from his mentors, which investment sectors he sees as being the next wave, and some fun fast facts. Follow https://twitter.com/TomorrowTalk_ to stay up to date on all the best clips and upcoming episodes! Follow Delian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/zebulgar. Connect with Sabrina on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SabrinaHalper. Engage with HOF on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HOFCapital or visit https://hofcapital.com/. Reach out to Shalper@hofcapital.com with any feedback, requests for guests, or if you're building something to bring the future closer.

Maddie Hall is the co-founder and CEO of Living Carbon, a plant bio-tech company growing genetically modified poplars and pines capable of absorbing much more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than regular trees. Previously, she worked on special projects at Y Combinator and OpenAI. Follow https://twitter.com/TomorrowTalk_ to stay up to date on all the best clips and upcoming episodes! Follow Maddie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/maddiehalla?s=20 Connect with Sabrina on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SabrinaHalper. Engage with HOF on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HOFCapital or visit https://hofcapital.com/. Reach out to Shalper@hofcapital.com with any feedback, requests for guests, or if you're building something to bring the future closer.

Tye Sheridan, the lead actor in films such as Ready Player One, X-Men, and Mud, and Nikola Todorovic, award-winning filmmaker and visual effects supervisor, met on a set in 2016. They quickly became best friends, and eventually cofounders of Wonder Dynamics, a company building AI software that makes VFX special effects affordable and accessible on a browser, ultimately empowering a whole new generation of people to create new types of content that were previously reserved for big-budget studios. Today, they are about to launch to the public after compiling hundreds of thousands of users on their waitlist, and an advisory board that includes the likes of Steven Spielberg. We discuss how AI will empower filmmakers, Hollywood's history with innovation, how content will change, their personal journey's, and much more. ---------------------------------------- Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRFhoFf-rNAHZLvPa7TbJrA Follow Tomorrow Talk on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TomorrowTalk_ Follow Sabrina Halper on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SabrinaHalper Follow Wonder Dynamics on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WonderDynamics Follow HOF Capital on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HOFCapital Visit our Website: https://hofcapital.com/ ------------------------------------------ Reach out to Shalper@hofcapital.com with any feedback, requests for guests, or if you're building something to bring the future closer. HOF Capital is a global multistage VC firm with $1 billion in AUM that partners with ambitious entrepreneurs from idea to IPO.

Bryan Johnson sits down with HOF investor Sabrina Halper for an in-depth conversation that spans philosophy, biology, and technology. Bryan Johnson is the world's most measured human. He is investing millions to slow and reverse his aging. In 2021, he set a world record by reducing his epigenetic age by 5.1 years in 7 months. In this conversation, Bryan confronts many of the criticisms around his pursuit and presents his vision for the future of humanity. Previously, Johnson sold his company Braintree Venmo to PayPal for $800M in 2013. Johnson is also the founder of Kernel, creator of the world's first non-invasive neuroimaging system, and OS fund, where he invested $100M in the predictable engineering of atoms, molecules, and organisms into companies now collectively valued over $6B. Follow Bryan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bryan_johnson or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bryanjohnson_/?hl=en. Connect with Sabrina on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SabrinaHalper. Engage with HOF on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HOFCapital or visit https://hofcapital.com/. Reach out to Shalper@hofcapital.com with any feedback, requests for guests, or if you're building something to bring the future closer.

In this episode, Elad sits down with Sabrina Halper for a candid conversation about all things technology. You'll hear his thoughts on: 1.How to develop a long-term career in technology: -The power of peer groups and cohorts -Which jobs to pursue -Re-inventing yourself -Living in the physical hubs 2.Advice for founders of startups and growth-stage companies: -Why large companies stagnate and how to avoid it as you scale -How to think about startup moats and defensibility -The power of picking the right market -What led to Twitter's lack of iteration pre-Elon 3.Artificial Intelligence: -How to pick the winners -How things might shake up between OpenAI, Google, and Meta/ opensource -Amazon's play -Incentives around regulation -The need for thoughtful cost-benefit analysis -The best and worst case scenarios of AGI 4.Personal advice on: -Being a dynamic individual -Resilience -Time management Who is Elad Gil? Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to companies such as AirBnB, Airtable, Brex, Coinbase, Deel, Figma, Gusto, Instacart, Notion, Pinterest, Rippling, Square, Stripe and others. Elad has invested in 40+ companies worth $1B or more, 30+ of them at the seed or series A. Elad was early to the AI space, running AI-centric products at Twitter (search), Google (ads targeting) and has invested in generative AI companies like Perplexity, Harvey.AI, Character. Elad is a Co-Founder of Color Health, a digital population healthcare delivery company. Elad also founded Mixer Labs, which was acquired by Twitter, and was VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter. Elad received a Ph.D. from MIT and BS and BA in Math from UCSD. He is the author of the bestselling book High Growth Handbook. Follow Elad on Twitter or check out his website. Engage with HOF on Twitter & read our March to Utopia. Connect with Sabrina on Twitter.

In this episode, Sabrina Halper sits down with Sahil Lavingia for an in-depth conversation that goes far and wide. They discuss: -his journey dropping out of USC to join Pinterest as the 2nd employee -founding and scaling Gumroad to $100M -his advice for others looking to build profitable products and companies -the current AI wave: which companies excite him, what he's been building, how the competitive ecosystem might play out -AGI and what our future society may look like -Balaji's Bitcoin bet -whether TikTok should be banned Please like & subscribe! Reach out to Shalper@hofcapital.com with any feedback, requests for guests, or if you're building something to bring the future closer.    Follow Sahil on Twitter or check out his website. Engage with HOF on Twitter or read our March to Utopia. Connect with Sabrina on Twitter. Please follow this show and download episodes to stay up to date on Tomorrow Talk's latest! We have an exciting month ahead.

In this episode, Sabrina sits down with Ben Lamm, CEO & Founder of the biotechnology and genetic engineering company Colossal. Ben is a serial entrepreneur who has started several moonshot companies, including AI company Hypergiant. Ben co-founded Colossal alongside renowned geneticist George Church. Together they are working to genetically resurrect key species, such as the wooly mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger, and the dodo to mitigate climate change and protect against the loss of biodiversity. Colossal has raised over $225M in funding. They're currently building cutting-edge technologies such as artificial wombs, multiplex editing, and in vitro gametogenesis. You'll learn about how genetic engineering may allow us to protect our coral reefs, bring back extinct animals, and potentially create radiation-resistant humans. You'll also get Ben's advice on fundraising, attracting the best talent, and his framework on moonshot thinking. Please like & subscribe! Reach out to Shalper@hofcapital.com with any feedback, requests for guests, or if you're building something to bring the future closer.       Follow Ben's work on Twitter and Instagram Engage with HOF on Twitter and read our March to Utopia Connect with Sabrina on Twitter

In this episode, host Sabrina Halper sits down with Felix Hartmann (Hartmann Capital), Jonathan Ovadia (founder, AEXLABS), and Dr Doom (founder, LIV). The seasoned guests discuss the biggest limitations to the VR industry to date, Meta's re-brand and $36B investment, how Apple might enter the space, generative AI's role in increasing productivity and building games more efficiently, how augmented reality will integrate into our lives, and the biggest opportunities for founders to build in the space. Please like & subscribe! Reach out to Shalper@hofcapital.com with any feedback, requests for guests, or if you're building something to bring the future closer. Engage with HOF on Twitter: @HOFCapital and at HOFCapital.com. Connect with Sabrina: @SabrinaHalper. Follow Felix and his podcast: @FelixOHartmann. Follow Dr.Doom's work: @LIV. Follow Jonathan's work at @aexlabinc & @playvailvr.

In this episode, special guest host Roon sits down with Matt Krisiloff, the founder of Conception and SciFounders. The pair discuss Conception's work with in vitro gametogenesis: turning stem cells into human eggs, which could potentially allow for same sex couples or older women to have biological children. They also discuss the fertility crisis, artificial wombs and genetic selection, his early days as a founding team member of OpenAI and Director of Y Combinator Research, the lessons he learned from Sam Altman, and how the rapid advancements in AI are affecting biotech. Please like & subscribe! Reach out to Shalper@hofcapital.com with any feedback, requests for guests, or if you're building something to bring the future closer. Engage with HOF on Twitter: @HOFCapital and at HOFCapital.com. Follow Matt's work: @mattkrisiloff. Follow Roon's journey: @Tszzl. Connect with Sabrina: @SabrinaHalper.

Roon is the Twitter pseudonym we all love. You've likely come across @Tszzl on Twitter, where he has grown over 56k followers under his pseudonymous name "roon" for his smart and edgy takes. He's an AI expert, engineer, an SF stan, and overall techno-optimist. On this episode you'll hear about his thoughts on Elon Musk, Twitter, generative AI, which new AI companies will find success, China's AI progress, his prankster friends (Rahul Ligma & Daniel Johnson), the common personality traits he's noticed amongst his most successful and impactful friends like Vitalik, and basically everything else that's on our mind these days. You'll also learn that he doesn't take anything too seriously. Please like & subscribe! Reach out to Shalper@hofcapital.com with any feedback, requests for guests, or if you're building something to bring the future closer. Engage with HOF on Twitter: @HOFCapital and at HOFCapital.com. Follow Roon's journey: @Tszzl. Connect with Sabrina: @SabrinaHalper.

Tarek Mansour is the 25 year old co-founder and CEO of Kalshi, America's first federally regulated exchange where you can trade on events, just like you would a stock or a commodity. During his time at Goldman Sachs, Tarek was set to help clients hedge their investments during Brexit, but there was no direct way to do it. In 2018, he started Kalshi with fellow MIT classmate Luana Lopes Lara. After three years of work, they got approved by the CFTC and made history. Kalshi's list of investors include Y Combinator, Alfred Lin at Sequoia, Charles Schwab, Ali Partovi of Neo, and Co-founder of KKR Henry Kravis. In this episode, Tarek talks to host Sabrina Halper about his experience working to change US legislation to legalize future markets, how different founders in his circle approach fundraising, his advice for other entrepreneurs building in highly regulated areas, and his views on all types of things, including manifesting, receiving advice, and which technological innovations are most exciting. Please like & subscribe! Reach out to Shalper@hofcapital.com with any feedback, requests for guests, or if you're building something to shape the future ❤️ . Engage with HOF on Twitter: @HOFCapital and at HOFCapital.com. Follow Tarek's journey: @mansourtarek_. Connect with Sabrina: @SabrinaHalper. Timecodes: 0:00 - Intro 0:50 - Early life, MIT, learning CS, working in finance 3:45 - Inception story of Kalshi 6:00 - Pitching YC hackathon & winning 7:58 - What Kalshi does and who its built for 10:00 - Why Kalshi ISN'T a gambling website 10:30 - History of grain futures 11:47 - The events that Kalshi CAN'T put on the platform 12:27 - How to prevent people from manipulating events 14:30 - Why Tarek believes the markets predict better than experts 16:10 - Kalshi's approach to building in a highly regulated industry 19:11 - Advice for other companies building in highly regulated spaces, working with SEC and CFTC 21:42 - Tarek's view into how crypto will be regulated 23:00 - Fundraising from YC, Ali Partovi, Justin Mateen before receiving regulatory approval 25:40 - Competition 27:24 - Putting midterm elections on Kalshi 30:14 - Misconception of being a young founder 32:50 - Best advice Tarek has been given 35:20 - What Tarek would be doing if he wasn't building Kalshi 36:05 - Most surprising thing about Tarek 36:40 - What's most exciting about the future: longevity, nuclear fusion, carbon transformation 39:46 - Who would Tarek like to see on Tomorrow Talk next: Alex from Deel, Tony from DoorDash

Today's guest is Joshua Browder, the co-founder and CEO of DoNotPay, the world's first robot lawyer. He has helped consumers win back over $100M in parking tickets, subscriptions, and more. His mission is to use technology to empower consumers to represent themselves and protect their rights. In this episode, Joshua speaks to host Sabrina Halper about his childhood during his father Bill Browder's fight against Russia's human rights violations, teaching himself how to code, moving across the world to attend Stanford, the inception story of DoNotPay, joining the Thiel Fellowship, living in the house that Facebook was built in, helping customers of Celsius, angel investing, the issues with the modern day legal practice, and his insights into the flaws of American bureaucracy. Please follow, subscribe, and let us know what you think! Please like and subscribe! Connect with Josh on Twitter: @JBrowder1 & Instagram: @JoshuaBrowder12 to follow his journey. Engage with HOF on Twitter to hear our latest investments & thesis: @HOFCapital & https://hofcapital.com/. Get to know me, your host, Sabrina on Twitter: @SabrinaHalper & Instagram: @sabloves. Reach out at Shalper@hofcapital.com with any feedback, requests for guests, or if you're building something to shape the future ❤️ . Timecodes: 0:00 - Intro 1:00 - Early life & biggest lessons from his father Bill Browder 3:05 - What he expected to do with his life 3:50 - Experience at Stanford 4:55 - Thiel Fellowship 5:50 - Experience interfacing with Peter Thiel 6:25 - Biggest takeaway from Thiel Fellowship 7:22 - Inception story of DoNotPay 10:30 - Viral Growth 11:10 - Early days of building the company / Living in the house Facebook was built in 12:25 - Helping consumers sue Celsius 14:15 - Will celsius consumers get their money back 14:37 - The protectionism and inaccessibility of modern day legal practice in the US 16:25 - Using software to empower consumers to represent themselves 16:50 - Future of robot lawyers and which issues will never be autonomous 17:50 - The issues with American bureaucracy today & effects of covid on legal system 19:05 - DoNotPay's new products to combat institutional racism 21:30 - How to adapt and think about changing market conditions and tech cycles 23:40 - Ultimate vision for DoNotPay 24:55 - Do you feel empathy for the business owners? 26:09 - His unique approach to angel investing 28:16 - Current conflict in Ukraine and views on where it will go + Putin 29:35 - What makes him optimistic about the future - Vertical farming & nuclear fission 30:32 - What modern behaviors or practices will be outdated and optimized out of? 31:25 - Views on crypto 32:25 - Outro

Oguzhan Atay is the founder & CEO of BillionToOne, a molecular diagnostics company that is redefining cancer care and pre-natal genetic testing. Oguzhan developed a liquid biopsy tool to test DNA through blood, rather than tissue samples. His approach is way less invasive and way more accurate. The company has raised over $210M. In this episode, Oguzhan speaks to Host Sabrina Halper and Co-host & partner at HOF Victor Wang about the ways this technology will save millions of lives and billions in healthcare spending. He also goes deep into the issues with America's healthcare and insurance system, and opens up about his own philosophy around relentless learning and curiosity. Q&A with Oghuzan: One book you'd recommend? I read many, many books (both fiction & non-fiction), so this is a difficult question for me. Zero to One, Disciplined Entrepreneurship, Hot Seat, and Martian are appropriate for seed-stage & problem solving; Hard Thing about Hard Things is appropriate for downturns, recessions, and dealing with difficult situations; Amp It Up is good for setting the right culture of high performance; The Great CEO Within is a great guide for concise, actionable, tactical improvements. If I have to select one book, and also choose it based on our company's current stage and how we want to build a generational, category-defining company, it would be "Great by Choice" by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen. A question you always ask during an interview? What is the one thing in your past that you are most proud of achieving, either because it is truly impactful or rarely achieved outcome, or because you had to overcome significant challenges in attaining it? The reason I like this question is that it identifies superstars & overachievers in a way that does not discriminate against people who have not had the same opportunities as everyone. Email me at Shalper@hofcapital.com with any feedback, requests for guests, or if you're building something to shape the future. This episode covers: - What BillionToOne is developing with their liquid biopsy technology - How Gene therapies are innovating to reverse genetic disorders 06:08 - How Gene therapies are re-defining cancer diagnostic and mitigation 09:00 - CRISPR - How to measure the success of BillionToOne's molecular diagnostic tool - Health and economic impact of superior diagnostics - Issues with insurance companies and reimbursement in the healthcare system + the opportunity for disruption - Missteps of early days of COVID - Transition from being an academic to a founder - Keys to Oghuzan's personal & professional success - How innovation is accelerating

Autograph's Co-founder Tom Brady is widely known. The other co-founder, and CEO, is Dillon Rosenblatt, a 24 year old, second time founder. Dillon first began his entrepreneurial journey when he started Tutors, a company to connect tutors and students, at age 15. After attending USC's Iovine and Young Academy for entrepreneurship, he explored the idea of starting a crypto hedge fund which began a deep dive exploration into the space that eventually led him to build Autograph. In this episode, host Sabrina Halper and Dillon Rosenblatt discuss Inception of Autograph: -What first drew Dillon into the NFT space -How he got Tom Brady and DraftKings on board -Who he sees as the consumer & user of Autograph Differentiated Approach: -Dillon's plans to expand -Why he wouldn't bring Autograph into the NFT-tooling space -Dillon's approach to building out collections that would keep users engaged with the product and brand -How he thinks about virality and shareability within the collections Putting the Autograph board together: -Dillon's reflections on building a board of moguls and earning the support of industry leaders (crypto: Sam Bankman-Fried, Katie Haun, etc.) (Sports: Tiger Woods, Tony Hawk, Simone Biles etc.) (Entertainment; The Weeknd, Head of Lionsgate, COO of Spotify) -When to ask for advice vs when to trust your gut Future of NFTs: -Web2 vs Web3 -Autograph's plan to enter the metaverse and offer crypto-native products -His views on what role “passion” NFTs will play in the future ecosystem -Dillon responds to: “Are NFT's a bubble?” and “Will people spend money on NFTs during a recession?” -Dillon's opinion on Ethereum as a long term base for NFTs Personal reflections: -His reflections on how to learn quickly and act as a young CEO -Why he's optimistic about the future If you have an idea to pitch HOF on or feedback on the pod, tweet at us at @HOFCapital and @SabrinaHalper!

In this debut episode, host Sabrina Halper sits down with Henrique Dubugras, the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Brex, a credit card and financial toolkit for startups, valued at $12.3B. As a 16 year old living in the middle of Brazil, Henrique founded Pagar.me, which did over $1.5B in sales. He then went on to attend Stanford University for 6 months, until dropping out to join Y Combinator and start Brex with his co-founder Pedro Franceschi. At 26 years old, he's a second time founder who runs one of the most prominent fintech companies in Silicon Valley. In this conversation, he discusses his personal motivations, his views on crypto, and why he's extremely optimistic about the future.