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The Great Talent Redistribution: Where is Talent Actually Going in 2026 and beyond?  Is the start-up compensation model broken? How about big Big Tech? How about non-tech small & medium businesses? What is happening to talent, going forward? This and many other topics in this episode of Tech Deciphered. Navigation: Intro The Broken Contract? The Great Unbundling The Three (?) Destinations Alternative Cap Tables, Alternative Compensation Models Investor Landscape Fragmentation Operator Playbook and Predictions Conclusion Our co-hosts: Bertrand Schmitt, Entrepreneur in Residence at Red River West, co-founder of App Annie / Data.ai, business angel, advisor to startups and VC funds, @bschmitt Nuno Goncalves Pedro, Investor, Managing Partner, Founder at Chamaeleon, @ngpedro Our show: Tech DECIPHERED brings you the Entrepreneur and Investor views on Big Tech, VC and Start-up news, opinion pieces and research. We decipher their meaning, and add inside knowledge and context. Being nerds, we also discuss the latest gadgets and pop culture news Subscribe To Our Podcast Nuno Goncalves Pedro Introduction Welcome to episode 77 of Tech Deciphered. This episode will focus on the great talent redistribution. Where’s talent actually going in 2026 and beyond? The Silicon Valley deal of the last 30 years, very low salary, stock options, you will either sell for a ton of money or IPO, and everyone gets rich, is seemingly broken. Or is it really? The dominant narrative says the tech middle class is dying. We disagree. There is obviously a lot of stuff going on whereby big tech is partially barbelling. There’s a superstar concentration on the top. There’s a bit of a seemingly allowing of the belly. We’ll come back to that. We don’t quite believe that is totally true. There’s a collapse at entry level. The belly is migrating into three, potentially even more, very different destinations: AI native startups, human-verified premium businesses, and the read the industrialized middle of the S&P 500 and SMB world. Each has its own cap table, each will have its own compensation model, and each will have its own investor profile. In some ways, this is the third episode in our Reset trilogy. We started with episode 75 on the SaaS-apocalypse. We talked about the great private capital reset in episode 76, and now we talk about talent redistributions. Bertrand, exciting times, not always positive times.   Bertrand Schmitt Yeah, it’s exciting times because it’s a time of change. Of course, we have the doomsayers. If you listen to Dario Amodei of Anthropic, every white-collar job on Earth is going to disappear. I think I strongly disagree, and I suppose you too as well, we strongly disagree. It’s going to be more of a redistribution. If you look at the history of technology, this is what always happened. We forget how many jobs have disappeared over the past 150 years. We move from a time of 150 years ago. People were mostly in agriculture. Then you had a lot of weird jobs that disappeared from people transporting water to people bringing ice from the pools to people doing the job of computers. People forget that computer was a title given to human beings. We’re doing calculations. Then, of course, secretory jobs in the ’80s, ’90s, where suddenly anyone can type using a word processor, the rise of Excel, that sort of stuff. Many things have changed. Some jobs have indeed disappeared. Some jobs have totally transformed. Where you do these jobs have changed. I think we are at a similar stage where, thanks to AI, and I would say for now, or at least the rise of AI coding, there is a dramatic change happening. I don’t think it means that people will be without a job. It just means, from my perspective, that jobs are changing. You are not just doing a lowly coding level task that actually indeed could be replaced, but you are going to have more of builder type of mindset, a product manager type of mindset going forward. We also expect that the distribution of jobs, depending on the type of business, will be quite different.   Nuno Goncalves Pedro The Broken Contract? Maybe let’s reset a little bit to the broken contract, or if it’s really a broken contract. There’s been this image in technology and tech that basically you get paid very little to work in tech. You get a bunch of stock options. The earlier you are in the company, the higher the level of stock option grants you get. Then you make a ton of money at some point because the company will either sell or IPO, and that’s heard of it. Obviously, there’s a lot of movements happening right now that are changing how these dynamics work. The first part is obviously AI, and in some ways, AI is shrinking companies. It’s not unheard of that companies with as little as four or five people reach 50 million in ARR. There’s companies with one person that have gotten bought for hundreds of millions of dollars or billion of dollars. Obviously, things are moving very, very fast, and therefore, there isn’t a large employee cap table. How would you share the upside? Would you actually give a couple of percentage points to an early employee rather than your 0.2-0.5% kind of thing for early employees? The second part is a little bit the other side of the table, which is the IPO market is seemingly in a drought. There’s not much happening in IPOs. Maybe 2026, at some point, there will be an unlock, but right now, it’s seemingly difficult to get your upside. Even if you’re an employee, you have to wait a long time. The median time of IPO has climbed over 10, 11 years, the longest in over a decade. Basically, not only you have to wait a long time as if there is an IPO drought, like we might be going through right now, when do I actually get my cash back? Unless the company gets bought, maybe there are secondary transactions along the way, maybe there’s something else. But obviously there’s a little bit of a reduction and lowering of the upside seemingly for this contract and for this place. The easy conclusion that I think many are taking is, because of all of this and all the layoffs that are happening, even in big tech, that serve the tech middle class is dying, that basically AI screwing the workers, et cetera, there’s also a lot of discussion that even it might be affecting the entry-level jobs as well. Everyone coming out of undergrad right now can’t get a job, et cetera. There’s this doomsday scenario that you’re alluding to that everything is changing. We have a slightly different perspective. We think there’s a realignment of market. In layoffs, there was a lot of layoffs that were warranted. Big tech, in particular, had actually hoarded a lot of engineering capacity over the last decade or so. There’s a little bit of a realignment that needed to happen in any case. When everyone’s saying, “Well, AI is compressing everything,” well, it’s compressing right now, but we don’t think actually it’s going to compress over time. You’ll still need engineering and science talent to come on board for you to be able to scale up. It’s not like AI is going to take care of everything and teams are going to be five people for companies that are worth a trillion dollars. That’s not happening. Today’s thesis, I think a little bit of this doomsday scenario needs to be seen with a more nuanced lens. I think that’s how we’re framing today’s episode, that there’s a bit of a nuance, there are some extremes happening. We’re going to talk about those extremes, but ultimately, it’s not quite as simple as saying that the tech middle class is disappearing in early jobs are going to be a thing of the past.   Bertrand Schmitt At the same time, what you started with is true. I mean, that 50 million ARR company, just five people. At a bigger scale, that’s exactly the matrix for Anthropic. They have reached a stage where they are at a range of 12 million ARR per staff per employee. It’s metrics that are definitely never seen before. I don’t think any company raised to this level. Best in class, best run companies, one, two million per employees. I mean, that was your target if you can make it. We are definitely in a different game. But I think what matters at the end of the day, and that’s what we’re arguing, is that you have to see the big pictures. Yes, some positions might disappear inside some companies, but some other positions will be created in other companies. Usually, what people do is keep talking about the jobs who disappear and not looking at the bigger picture of jobs that are being created as well. What is true, and I think you alluded to that, is that the big tech the past 10, 15 years had some strategy of hoarding talent in a war where having the best talented people will make the difference in numbers, will make the difference between winning or losing. The Google of the world, the Microsoft of the world, the Amazon of the world, they were hoarding talent. They would try to make sure that they might not have such needs in talented number of people. But if they have the talent, it means their competitors didn’t have the talent. It means that the startup trying to reach scale couldn’t pay the giant salaries that the Google of the world were paying. There was definitely some hoarding. But it went so far in the 2020, 2021, that I think since then there has been a coming back to normal. There is also now in 2026, the recognition that it’s not true anymore. Yes, talent can be very valuable, but there is now a bigger and bigger gap between the extremely talented versus the rest that are merely talented because of AI. AI is able to replace at scale your software engineers, your software managers. I would say it’s quite new. I don’t think it was true a year ago. We’re really talking about a recent dramatic change in what can be achieved thanks to AI. We can see most of the big AI companies are moving to coding. It was started by Anthropic as a trend, OpenAI has followed through. Obviously, the Cursor of the world existed before, but they were not as successful. All the Chinese open-source models are moving very fast to coding optimization the past few weeks. It’s quite an incredible change. I think there is that dramatic change, recognition that coding can be done differently. As a result, we are going to see change in the distribution of jobs. I think it will start from the top because we see the news of the big Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and others who used to hold talented software developers to a change in realization that no, we actually need to invest in AI. We need to invest in compute because compute is going to do the job of most of these people. Therefore, we can’t pay for both at the same time, even us with all our money, we cannot. Wall Street is not going to let us do that. They start by removing a lot of position. I think we see that accelerating, quite frankly. We have only seen the beginning, but in the next 2 years, we see a dramatic shift. But I think my position, I guess yours, and you know as well, is that there will be a lot more opportunities created as well, probably by also entities.   Nuno Goncalves Pedro The Great Unbundling Yeah, there will be more opportunities created. The hoarding is just taken also a little bit of a different view. To your point, there’s hoarding of resources, compute, et cetera. But there’s also hoarding of top talent. We are seeing people getting paid, packages all in that could run up to 100 million, in some cases even over 100 million over several years. This is unheard of. I mean, an officer of Meta would make, I don’t know, maybe 20, 25 million a year. It’s like now there are people that are on the top end of AI researchers that are getting paid around that amount just to join some of these companies. There’s a little bit of a different hoarding. It’s very selective hoarding of certain talent. We’ve seen some acqui-hires. We’ve talked about it in previous episodes that are just literally about getting one or two people specifically to come on board. Alexander Wang, again, going to Meta to lead their intelligence labs there. I feel, I don’t know what you feel, but I feel this is a transition moment where there is overpaying for certain talent on the top of the market. At some point, this will stabilize. You can’t keep paying people 100 million over 4 years or something like that across the board. To your point, a lot of this is actually going to scale up quickly also on the AI side. There’s a little bit of a different hoarding happening on the top end, not just the resources, but also of people, which seems to give further this notion of barbell, that there’s two extremes, the haves and have-nots, the super-duper talented people that get paid a ton of money, tens of millions of dollars a year at the very least. Then the emptying of the middle where there’s a ton of tech layoffs going on in some ways, the belly, as they would call it, is being expelled. The middle market, the managers are being fired because there’s nothing to manage. There’s a lot of positions going away. In some cases, you might keep some of the more junior talent, but with a little bit of experience. But even the talent coming out of colleges is not getting hired either. It’s a little bit of a weird thing where there’s hoarding at the top, there’s an emptying of the belly, the middle, and then the early, early, early is also not getting recruited. It’s like what gives? How is this going to look in the future? I agree fully with you, Bertrand, that there’s a migration of this talent, not only to other companies, but also to other jobs. There will be new jobs that will emerge out of this. The DevOps, dev tools market didn’t exist until maybe 20 years ago at scale, and it got created. In some ways, we’re seeing there will be new markets, there will be new roles and new jobs that will be created around engineering teams going forward. We can’t anticipate all of them. But basically, the emptying of the belly is true as it’s happening right now. The low hiring on the early and the top end, getting tons of money. We think this is a transition to something else. There’s the hoarding of engineering in general is coming to an end at momentum. Now it’s time to rightsize teams, to get the right at the table, et cetera, and start figuring out what works and what doesn’t work. We’ve already had some horror stories coming out even from Amazon where they were breaking systems with their use of AI tools, and I’m sure it’s happening across the board. I’m on a board of a company and been tremendously affected by Meta and its algorithms, where basically because of advertising, there have been people served with ads for this specific company where the ad doesn’t match the company, so basic stuff like that. It’s been actually very, very difficult because in some ways, the company goes back to Meta. It’s like, “Hey, dudes, you guys are serving ads that are not even our ads with our copyright and stuff. How does this work?” They’re like, “Oh, it’s AI.” It’s like, “Well, it’s AI but can you give me my money back?” They’re like, “No, we won’t give you money back.” This creates huge issues for companies, for example, that are very dependent on advertising, which obviously there’s a lot of industries that are. They’re actually in production systems at scale. Meta is, I think now, the largest digital advertising in the world. I think they outgrew Google in one of the last quarters. Basically, this has a tremendous effect that systems that are in production at scale are getting inputs and changes driven by AI tooling, and somehow nobody can say what the hell is happening. Again, there will be a reckoning, there will be a redistribution, there will be a rightsizing of teams and an adequacy of teams going forward. I personally think this is a transition period.   Bertrand Schmitt I think we are moving from hoarding or software engineering to hoarding the top of the top scientists in AI and hoarding of GPUs, GPUs/data center. For me, it was quite interesting to see the deal of Cursor with xAI, where basically they couldn’t get access to computing resources to run their model. But xAI had, I forgot the exact numbers, but close to half a million GPUs that no one, I mean, “no one was using” because their services are not so successful yet in terms of AI chatbot and the like. Basically, suddenly they are like, “You know what? We control access to resource.” But the new resource is, again, a mix of extremely talented AI engineering or AI scientists versus GPUs/data center. There is this race of controlling boss and everything else is going to be collateral damage. Some examples, I think, are quite interesting. You talk about some example of Amazon, even some production issues. I remember reading a quick post-mortem of one of the issues, and the conclusion was it was AI, definitely part of the issue. But the other part of the issue was AI used by junior engineers. For me, it’s interesting. It shows that actually junior plus AI is actually a danger zone. That’s why many companies are going to be way more careful. “Why do we need the junior people if they are just playing with fire?” I think we go back to that situation of barbell, as you call it. The top talents are extremely valuable because they know how a production system works. They are here to develop better AI systems. But the junior guys playing with fires, yeah, maybe it’s cute in startups, but in a big time production environment, a different story.   Nuno Goncalves Pedro There will be a barbell with top-end talent super-mega paid and then mid-level talent that is individual contributors still doing a lot of great work, et cetera. Along the way, a lot of emptying of entry, a lot of emptying of the middle. Where does the talent go? The Three (?) Destinations I think we could say there’s three destinations for this talent. Maybe there’s four, maybe there’s more. Three that we can immediately identify. One is the AI native startup piece, where we have smaller teams that potentially get to a lot of revenue or top line over time, and where the Series Seed is the primary round, where we’re seeing Series Seed being raised of tens of millions of dollars, actually even hundreds of millions of dollars in Series Seed. In some ways, the stars there can get incredible compensations in terms of stock. They will stay for private and selling in secondaries later down the road because there’s so much capital at the table. Actually, in some ways, salaries are very high as well in some of these companies. It’s not like you’re trading off anything. You can get paid a lot of money. If your company at Series Seed for 10 or 15 employees has raised 50-$100 million, you can pay great salaries. In some ways, this is the extreme destination. The AI native startups that can make it is the extreme destination. Now, there aren’t a ton of AI native startups that can raise 50-100 million to 400 million in Series Seed, just to be clear. There’s a handful of hot deals in that space, but that’s one clear destination for top-end talent going through that. In that market, I think that’s one of the destinations. The second one is more what we would call the human-verified premium. It’s more of a play of companies that has still the need of human in the loop, either in terms of development, also in terms of activity, either because go-to markets are very intensive, and so therefore you need to have sales forces, partnership teams, et cetera. Or on the engineering side, it needs to have a lot of customization, integration. Companies are not just going to the, “Oh, you can come in and just apply your AI tooling and somehow magically the systems all work.” there needs to be quite a lot of and work and high touch work in getting stuff done. A significant part of that market, I’m not sure, is super VC investible. Maybe it’s a hybrid of private equity in VC, more PE style in many cases. It’s a PE-hold, sell to someone else market. As we’ve discussed in a previous episode on the SaaS-apocalypse, that hasn’t quite worked out for PEs. Question marks on how that human-verified premium market is going to evolve. But obviously, there’s a lot of work still to be done there, even on the engineering and science side. That’s the second potential destination. Then the third more aggressive destination is the reindustrialized middle companies that have a lot of specificity in going after small and medium businesses, local or regional affectations like ERPs or CRMs for specific markets, et cetera. Those are the three natural destinations. I would add the fourth, which is big tech. I mean, big tech doesn’t magically disappear, and I don’t think it fits neatly into any of these three markets. In some ways, big tech is now looking at the extreme for top talent a little bit like the AI native startup because they can pay. They can pay the 100 million every four years, et cetera. I do think it will typify taxonomically into a fourth type emerging, where, as we discussed, you’ll have top-end individual contributor talent. You’ll have the absolute top-end of the market because they can get paid. Then you’ll start having the emergence of earlier talent that is highly capable, et cetera. That will go back to a bit of a normal distribution in terms of talent on big tech. For me, those are the four destinations that I would put at the table.   Bertrand Schmitt For me, big tech moving to big tech, I’m not sure if it’s really a destination. I mean, yes, in some ways it’s a reshuffle between the big tech companies. They are definitely all fighting in some ways for some of the same people. I can see that dramatic shift where big tech has to remove a lot of positions in order to replace by AI. Again, I think at this stage, it’s mostly driven by AI coding. We are still at the beginning because this is brand-new phenomenon that AI coding is so successful at its task. I don’t think it was true even 6 months ago. Some companies, take Anthropic, take OpenAI, are definitely there or close to be there in terms of no more writing of a single line of code by a human, zero. This is, again, 6, 12 months ago. Not true. But now it’s true in a few top companies. Take OpenClaw as well, most successful GitHub project of all time, not a single line written by its author. It would have been impossible. We’re talking about hundreds of thousands of line of code in a few months. It’s impossible to achieve that manually. If you look at the other big tech companies, the Google of the world, the Meta of the world, the Microsoft of the world, they are absolutely not there yet. They are going to be there because they have no choice. It’s you either go fast there or you die. You are not going to be able to survive competitors that are shipping 10, 50, 100 times faster than you are shipping. It’s a life and death situation. All the big tech companies are going to move, and mark my word, in the next 2 years from 10, 20% of AI-written code to 100%. During that transition, the next 2 years max, if you don’t do it in 2 years, you are going to die. Your stock price is going to crash. Then, of course, you will have to make changes. You will have to invest more in GPUs. You will have to invest less in your standard typical software engineer employees. Like you, I’m very optimistic that there are new buckets. AI-native startups definitely will be there. It will be transformational. Human-verified premium, very interesting category. In a way, it will be businesses that are inevitably less scalable through AI, and there is definitely a spot from there. I think the biggest would be the reindustrialized middle SMBs. Most of S&P 500 type of business are going to dramatically offer new software opportunities, new opportunity story to talented software employees because they will need to implement AI in everything they do. They will do it. They will need people who have software engineering knowledge in order to implement these systems. For them, what’s changing dramatically really is that thanks to much cheaper cost as thanks to AI coding, a lot of software projects that they couldn’t afford to do, that they couldn’t imagine doing by themselves, they are able to do it. They will invest in a lot more software capabilities than ever before. That will be a big game changer. And software, very tuned to their business model. There might be less buying of your traditional off-the-shelf SAF software and a lot more investment in a highly custom software by their own team, assisted with AI. I think that would be the part that is most transformed by all of this in a positive way.   Nuno Goncalves Pedro Alternative Cap Tables, Alternative Compensation Models This will lead to a very fundamental shift, right back to the broken contract. What does the new contract look like? It looks like alternative cap tables depending on which bucket are you transitioning into. If you’re going into your AI-native bucket, and you’re a top-end talent, you’re like, “Dude, I’m worth 100 million over 4 years, so just compensate me accordingly with a mix of options in the company plus my salary.” If you’re top 1%, you can probably get away with salaries that you’d get anyway at mid-level from 300K, 400K and above, and you can get actually a lot of options already in the company. A lot of this is happening right now. There’s a premium for AI, we know that. There’s a premium for AI at the top end of AI researching, in particular on companies that are doing hardcore research on staff AI engineers, so companies that require actual AI engineering. There is a premium that is significant. It could be as high as 18% over non-AI peers, and it widens actually with seniority, shockingly enough. This is more of an average than anything else. Now, for me, and it’s for debate, but the perspective is this extreme comp will need to compress at some point. There will still be the haves and have-nots paid much better than the have-nots, so to speak, but there will be a compression. The variance can’t be the variance we’re seeing today for absolute top-end talent. That said, there will be variants. We know that big tech for over a decade, decade and a half, for example, in the Bay Area, has been paying a lot of money for director and above levels that used to be the VPs, so a million, a million and a half a year, all in compensations. It’s not unheard of that this will actually increase after this stage. That said, I do think that the compensation extreme that we’re in will get diluted down the middle. It will actually come down at some point. It’s part of where we are today. As we know, it is still a bubble.   Bertrand Schmitt Yeah, it’s an interesting point. I think it’s possible. At the same time, that compression coming 2, 3, 5 years. At the same time, we have examples where there is no such compression. Take the top sports players in the world, golfing, basketball, NBA players. There has not really been any compression at all. For me, it’s interesting. If you look at the big tech companies, each being one of this top NBA team, why would such compression happen? As long as they are competing against each other and generating plenty of cash, I think there will be some fair question. We will see. I don’t have a strong opinion, but for me, it’s not a total given.   Nuno Goncalves Pedro For me, the shocking thing is the faster AI becomes better, the more that compression will happen, because at some point, it’s like, why do you need the top talent as well? I don’t know. It feels like you’re trying to evolve a system that’s there to replace you. It’s like, “Okay, I’m getting paid 100 million over the next 4 years”, and then you develop something that’s so good that replaces you. Thank you. That’s cool.   Bertrand Schmitt That’s a total possibility, yes, because we are in that very unusual market where the game is to only replace yourself and people like yourself. At some point, it is a possibility, I guess this one. Right now, we’re talking about replacing your “average software talent”. In 2 years, could we absolutely replace the absolute best top experts in the world? Probably. I think it’s just that at some point we’ll be reaching the stage where we strictly have no control anymore on our AI systems because no human is able to challenge and understand what’s produced. It’s not just a question of scale anymore. We’re talking about a gap in IQ, basically.   Nuno Goncalves Pedro Exactly. It will happen at some point in history. We don’t know exactly when. For the second bucket, the human-verified premium bucket, it’s difficult to see how an HVAC company or an HVAC roll-up of scale or a regional health care platform or high touch go-to-market, B2B, SaaS play, et cetera, for a vertical will compete. At the same end, they have to compete and they will compete. There will be more and more jobs, we believe, for engineering talent in these companies. They’ll have to be more and more AI-enabled themselves. The cash salaries will have to be competitive within the local markets, not necessarily with Silicon Valley. There will be potentially profit sharing and revenue sharing and actual dividends played at the table. The model there on the cap table needs to change a little bit, needs to be probably propped up more on salary and on some way of doing profit sharing or actually having dividends paid to employees and figuring out employee to equity in a more aggressive manner. This is the market that probably was already very attacked, so to speak, or let’s say, occupied by private equity firms. There are still obviously part of that model that would work well. There needs to be a fundamental shift, certainly on the quantum of salary compensation, dividend compensation, profit sharing, and all of that. Then last but not the least, obviously, we had the bucket around basically the reindustrialization of the middle, so everything else, which will take most of the belly that we were talking about. This is probably a poor analogy, the belly fat. It’s not belly fat, it’s people that were doing their jobs that now are getting disrupted. In some ways, that bucket will absorb a lot of that belly, will absorb a lot of talent. The small and medium businesses that Bertrand was saying will need to crucially become more AI, software-enabled by themselves, even with some core stuff and underpinnings that actually might not even require AI in terms of infrastructure platforms. There, you need to get properly paid. Again, how many people do you need in your engineering team if you’re a small business? Probably not a lot. It’s maybe you need one or two people and that’s it. They’ll need to be very nicely paid because they’re running the stuff in the rails. This is probably a market that over time, as AI gets more and more competent, will also be disrupted, but let’s not talk about the disruption to the disruption because otherwise, we’ll stay here the whole day, but certainly a market that has a lot of potential to shift and to absorb a lot of the moments that we’re seeing in terms of layoffs happening in the US in particular.   Bertrand Schmitt This category was a category that historically could not compete with Silicon Valley salaries, could not attract the most talented engineers. It’s not a category that didn’t want to bring these people on board. It’s a category that just couldn’t afford to bring this talent on board, typically. I think it would be a dramatic shift for them when suddenly there are opportunities to hire these people. There is an opportunity to hire them at maybe more reasonable prices from this company’s perspective. You talk about small companies, the great thing is that there are millions of small companies at some point. I think things could be truly transformational. Of course, some of these engineers, software engineers, might decide to become entrepreneurs on their own. Solo entrepreneurs, small businesses, build their own, easier to build their own product to market so to serve other companies. I think there will be quite dramatic changes because not all companies will be disrupted by AI as much, but not every company will benefit from improving processes, improving software through AI. At least early on, you will need this human touch to make it work inside a business. Interestingly enough, I was hearing that some companies like IBM were hiring more younger people to do the work of going to the client, understand their needs, propose implementation plans. That forward deployed engineer, those positions, I think there will be more and more available.   Nuno Goncalves Pedro Investor Landscape Fragmentation What happens to investor into the landscape? We already had an episode, the previous one, Episode 76, where we talked quite a lot about the big capital reset on the private equity and private reset, including venture capital. Just maybe to summarize, how does it align with the buckets that we’ve just been discussing? I think the AI-native bucket clearly is going to be the key bucket. There, we’re going to see two movements. One movement, which is the mega funds, as we discussed in the last episode, are no longer just VC funds. They’re really mostly multi-asset private equity funds, maybe even private equity hedge funds in some cases. Those funds will be all over the high-growth AI-native companies and will be pouring money into companies that are scaling really, really quickly. The early stage, so to speak, VCs, the actual VCs that will stay in the market will be the guys probably identifying the next big wave of AI-native companies. We’ve discussed that as well in the last episode, some research that we did at Chamaeleon that I shared in episode 76. We’ll see that as emerging. What happens to the second bucket, the bucket around human premium, human in the loop? Likely we’ll have more and more private equity capital going into it and the large-scale VC guys, the Thrives of the world, they’ve just announced Thrive Holdings, and others going after those markets as well. It’s trying to converge into the private equity market, which aligns with the point we made in the previous episode that the VC mega funds are no longer VC, that they are private equity, multi-asset class. They’re going after a bunch of things. There’s a conversion happening from VC into private equity. It was going to happen anyway because the private equity guys were coming into VC as well and the hedge funds were coming to VC as well. There’s a convergence in the middle of very, very large funds and large assets under management happening to go after some of these opportunities, certainly in Bucket B. Then this Bucket C, so to speak, the bucket of reindustrialization, as Bertrand was saying, very well, likely will be self-funded for a significant period of time. Will self-fund with their own cash flow. Doesn’t need to have a ton of capital intensity. Maybe you need one or two engineers to do stuff, but that’s it. You don’t need tons of capital. You didn’t need in the past, you won’t need it today. Not sure there’s going to be a fundamental shift to that market.   Bertrand Schmitt Yes, I certainly, overall, agree with you. That last pocket, probably little change to the capital and capital structure. Again, I see that as the biggest opportunity for a lot of people who might be less needed by big tech and also top tech companies. What is sure for the first category, the high native startups? I would say more overall in the VC ecosystem, there is no space left for SaaS anymore. I think SaaS, as we used to know it, is dead in some ways in the sense that new pure SaaS software startup are definitely out. Existing ones that are critical to run your infrastructure, the Salesforce of the world, I think they’re in a decent spot. Actually, interestingly, they changed their pricing model to now sell to AI agents, not just per seat. There is a change in pricing there. But this day and age of funding a pure SaaS software startup through VC money, no way. VC money going to AI-native startups, AI-focused startups, to biotech, to deep tech, to defense tech, yes. SaaS as a fundable category early on, I think it’s over.   Nuno Goncalves Pedro I’m a bit more nuanced as we shared in The SaaS Apocalypse episode. We can call it whatever we call. It’s applied AI is the new SaaS thing. Horizontal applied AI is the new horizontal SaaS or vertical applied AI is the new vertical SaaS. I agree in common with your point that very specific point solutions around SaaS will be disrupted by nature with all the easy stuff you can do today with AI. It will take a while. This is not something that’s going to happen this year. It’s going to happen over the next years. Maybe interesting to also talk about the exit markets. I think the IPO market, as we’ve also discussed in the past, there is, in my view, going to be a reopening of the IPO market, I think this year, probably later in the year, third or fourth quarter. The median time to IPO actually is going to be really weird because there’s going to be potentially some companies in the current landscape, bubble or no bubble, that are going to IPO, the OpenAIs of the world, Anthropics of the world, et cetera. There will be more and more aggression, I think, on M&A. Big tech has already shown it, that they want to buy into markets. Large non-tech companies have also started doing acquisitions in space. To prop up their IT teams, their engineering teams with this world that we’ve also discussed in previous episodes that I’m going to own my own engineering stack for now. As we see, that normally doesn’t withstand the test of time. At some point it will get unbundled and served by someone else. Then finally, the secondary market is very hot right now. Obviously, there’s heavy discounting on some areas, high premiums on others. The exit market, strangely enough, is going to be propped up, in my opinion, over the next year to 2 years, dramatically. Then we’ll see if there’s a big reckoning around the bubble that we are clearly in or not, if it’s a soft landing or hard landing. Definitely, there’s going to be a lot of exit paths over the next year to 2 years.   Bertrand Schmitt Concerning the “bubble”, I have two perspectives on this. One is it’s a bubble in the sense that money is going to a lot of players and some players are going to blow it up. There will be a concentration of players at the end, like it usually happens. If you look at, for instance, long time ago, the railway revolution, there was that intense influx of capital. At the end of the day, there was a dramatic change in transportation in the US and a complete railway system put in place. Yes, some investors lost money, some companies went bankrupt, but the transformation was fully real. There were a lot of top leaders at the end of this revolution. The change after that only happened, we guess, post-World War II, with the construction of the highway system and the rise of airlines and plane transportation overall. Here I feel it’s similar in the sense that, yes, there is a lot of money going in. Some players are going to blow it. They will misuse the money in different ways, but that’s part of dynamic allocation of capital. Of course, you make mistakes. That’s what happens. At the same time, I feel it’s a similar level in the sense of this is a dramatic change in the US infrastructure. This buildup of AI data centers filled with GPUs, integrated at scale with some of the best software in the world and running it, supported by a dramatic shift in energy infrastructure. This is for me similar to the Railroad Revolution. Some players might not own the data center they build because they didn’t manage well their debt, they didn’t manage to run proper software. You know what? They will get acquired by somebody else. I think we are at this level of fundamental transformation. The fact that in a matter of maybe 2 years, the move from 0% of code written by AI to 100 % written by AI is an insane dramatic shift. Just to be clear, when you move from manually coded to AI coded, we’re talking about a 100X difference in terms of speed at similar, if not better level of quality. The shift is dramatic, and on top of it, you don’t pay salaries anymore to achieve that. You pay CapEx, and with GPUs and OpEx with electricity. It’s a very big shift, positive shift in business model. New unions, no management over it, AI working 24/7. Personally, I think for me, bubble has a bad connotation in the sense of it was all for a waste. I don’t think it’s all for a waste. I think we are witnessing a dramatic revolution of our lifetimes, quite frankly, bigger than SaaS, bigger than mobile. From my perspective, it’s exciting times.   Nuno Goncalves Pedro Operator Playbook and Predictions Let’s move to if you are this person, what would you do in the future? Let’s start with two extremes and go from there. One is you’re non-tech, so you’re not an engineer, et cetera. You’re trying to figure out, how do I scale my activity? Maybe physical labor is where I want to go. It’s not, “Go west” anymore. Definitely not necessarily go west. You should go to, I guess, the states that have no sales tax with very cheap energy because that’s where the data centers are being built if you want to be in that market. Obviously, there’s a lot of stuff that needs to be done: HVAC, electricity work, et cetera. Don’t go west. Go low sales taxes, low cost of energy. That’s likely where the data centers are being built. You probably can just follow. There’s, I’m sure, some way for you to follow where the data centers are being built, but that’s next, I think on that extreme of the table. The other extreme of the table, let’s say you are super ambitious, maybe you’re no longer an engineer, but you’re a product manager in your prompt engineering. You could do prompt engineering all day long. You’re 28, 29-year-old superstar. What do you go and do? Likely either you start your own thing, start your own company because you’re so good at prompt engineering, you probably can do a lot of the code yourself, particularly if you have an engineering background, or you go and join very early an AI-native startup that you think has the chance of going through the roof, and you take a pretty good salary early on, a ton of upside on the company because guess what? Companies like that need product managers. They need people to figure out UX, UI. It’s not going to be, at least for now, yet AI figuring that out for you. Those are two extremes, just to give two of the extremes, like engineering, product management persona, and physical labor at the other extreme, non-tech, et cetera.   Bertrand Schmitt In some ways, every software engineering job is going to become the equivalent of a software engineering manager or a product manager, because suddenly you don’t have to do the coding anymore. You’re managing AI that is coding for you. Either you start to have some manager hat, but we saw the humans, so it’s a very different type of manager, obviously, or you are going to be really an empowered product manager. You’re skipping the middleman. You’re skipping the traditional engineering organization because your engineering organization is AI running and doing the work for you. I still believe that it requires some serious skills. I don’t believe in the vibe coder type of value proposition. I don’t believe in the prompt engineer becoming suddenly super incredible, able to manage that. I still think it requires some serious chops to do the best from all of this and to do it in a safe and sane way. It’s very easy to have poor taste, make mistakes. I don’t know you, but keep reading these stories on the heads of companies who lost everything because of the AI agents. That deleted stuff in production, and they had no backups or the backups weren’t deleted as well. Crazy situation. You cannot run companies like this if you let your agents running wild. You could argue it’s the early days. I would argue it that that issues would be there for a while. You need to have some engineering discipline at core in the company running the business to make sure things don’t go sideways because it would be easy for things to go sideways.   Nuno Goncalves Pedro I totally agree. If you’re thinking, Oh, should my kid go into science and engineering and computer science, et cetera? Absolutely, still, because of everything that Bertrand just said. You need to understand actually what code does and what technology does and what all of that does. That’s still a skill of the future. It’s not a skill of the past. In some ways, it’s still a skill of the future very much. Maybe let’s try two more extremes. Around the same level, the person that decided to do an AI native company bootstrapped initially, having difficulty raising a mega round, but could probably get away with raising a 2-3 million seed round, et cetera. Is that still viable? The answer is yes. There’s tremendous capital efficiency right now happening in the market still, 10 plus higher than if you were doing a SaaS company, and you were a founder in 2019 or something like that. That capital efficiency is going to reverberate. You can run a tighter team, smaller team. Actually, you don’t need that many salaries. If you’re a decent engineer as a founder or if you understand enough as a product manager to just generate that code, you can do a lot of stuff yourself, can bring in maybe one or two technical elements to the team early on as you would have done if you were bootstrapped anyway. There’s obviously a path for that. The other extreme is you’re in big tech, you’re level five, individual contributor, making a ton of money, or you were a manager, and you’re now out of a job, where do you go? You can go to a big company that is non-tech, S&P 500 company that’s non-tech, something like that. You join the company, you’ll probably get paid pretty well, maybe not as high as you were paid in big tech. There’s some stock at the table, but guess what? You’ll have probably more work-life balance than you ever did. That’s the trade-off. You’ll have a better job. On the upside, you can transform the company. You can help and be part of transforming a company from non-AI to AI-first or AI-enabled in the future, whatever BS that will look like in terms of the argumentation to the board. You can actually create tremendous productivity enhancements in a big non-tech company if you come with that background. Again, you’ll have certainly a better work-life balance, so not a bad deal, to be honest.   Bertrand Schmitt Also, to be clear, I talk a lot about AI coding because it’s truly transformational. You could argue that it’s going to be self-improving. We are in the situation of a self-improving AI that keeps improving itself thanks to automated coding. It’s a dramatic, virtuous loop. Obviously, AI is also going to improve everything else. It’s going to improve your marketing, it’s going to improve your search process, it’s going to improve your DNA. Improvements will be everywhere. It’s just that right now we are at a point in the quote-unquote revolution where there is one clear piece of the puzzle that is moving faster than the rest.   Nuno Goncalves Pedro Bertrand, the senior executives at non-tech don’t know anything about that. It could be just a great prompt engineer. That’s the only job you do. “I’m the chief marketing officer. I have someone below me that’s doing the whole work.” Nobody knows. Nobody’s the wiser, I guess. I’m being facetious, but not fully.   Bertrand Schmitt Yeah. There would be a transition period where what you described happen. I want to say, going back to AI coding, I think that the part of AI that as of today has reached a stage of limited AGI. We have reached, from my perspective, a limited type of AGI for coding. If you take coding as a discipline today, I think we reach AGI. If you go beyond coding, that’s true. If we are talking about coding, leveraging the latest LLMs: OPUS 4.7, ChatGPT 5.5, combined with Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode for harness, I think we’ve reached AGI in the context of coding. I’m not sure everyone fully realize that and the consequence of that. I think the rest is going to come as well. We are going to see that category by category, usually categories that are more scientific in nature, where you can replicate, where you can test easily, where you can create clear success. Metrics will be the “easiest” to follow in that direction of self-improvement. I just want to highlight that this part is truly transformational, the root cause of everything we’re talking about today. At the same time, it’s coming beyond coding.   Nuno Goncalves Pedro I think it is true. There are a couple of markets where that might not hold true, which is maybe the final path. If you’re thinking of starting your own business in plumbing and in HVAC maintenance and installation, this is a pretty good time for the reasons we already said before. There’s a lot of buildup of data centers and all that stuff, but also for other reasons, because it’s an activity that won’t be disrupted by AI yet. You need them embodied AI. You need physicality to AI to do stuff like actually fixing pipes.   Bertrand Schmitt Until Optimus replace you.   Nuno Goncalves Pedro Yeah, but if we’re 3, 4 years out in terms of a lot of these optimizations that we’re talking about at the software layer, we’re 10 years plus out on embodied AI, right?   Bertrand Schmitt Oh, yeah, it’s 10 years.   Nuno Goncalves Pedro We’ll probably be optimistic as we speak. That’s a nice business. I’m thinking of starting to go into that market. If you guys are interested in listening to this, just reach out to me. What’s the angle? I think there’s a lot of stuff you can do in the buildup of some of these businesses, plumbing, HVAC, all sorts of maintenance. There are markets that are just totally messed up. Handyman market in the US is totally messed up. There’s a bunch of companies out there that try to go after it with marketplaces and stuff. I honestly just start something from scratch, a small business, and go from there.   Bertrand Schmitt Yes. They’re an interesting middle. Think about accounting firms, consulting firms. I think they are not as easy to replace, but at the same time, there is no way on what they do is not going to be dramatically changed with AI. I don’t know if it’s 50, 80, 90% of the job, but this is changing quite dramatically, would be my expectation in the coming few years. Conclusion Thanks for listening episode 77 of Tech Deciphered about that great talent redistribution. As you heard it from us, we believe there is a dramatic change in play, enabled by AI coding, and that ultimately a lot of the big tech companies are changing their employee distribution, way more focused on the top talents and bringing more GPUs. As a result, we will see a change in their staffing. Some of this change will benefit AI-focused startups, but probably more likely will benefit the bigger SMBs, the S&P 500 companies of the world that will finally be able to bring inside and afford some of the talent that were in some ways trapped by the top 5, 10, 20 software companies of the world. Thank you, Nuno.   Nuno Goncalves Pedro Thank you, Bertrand

Arrancamos con la noticia más absurda y a la vez más reveladora del momento: Allbirds, la famosa marca de zapatillas sustentables que era el calzado favorito de los VCs de San Francisco, anunció que vende toda su línea de calzado y se convierte en una empresa de infraestructura de AI con GPU as a Service. La bolsa lo celebró con una suba de 500% en un solo día. No importa si tiene sentido. Importa que dice AI.Después Cristóbal nos trae su experiencia del LatAm Tech Week en Silicon Valley, organizado junto a Colombia Tech Week y True Hora. El gran takeaway: los fondos americanos no tienen una tesis Latam, no necesitan llenar ningún cajón regional, pero sí están convencidos de que hay founders excepcionales en la región. Invierten en personas, no en geografías.De ahí saltamos a dos historias de founders que vuelan bajo el radar pero mueven cifras increíbles. Primero, Víctor Cárdenas, venezolano que dejó Stanford en el tercer semestre para fundar Slash.com, un neobanco por verticales que hoy vale 1.6 billones de dólares. Segundo, Jeffrey Yan y Hyperliquid: un exchange descentralizado de cripto, fundado en 2023, con 11 empleados, que en los últimos 12 meses generó 900 millones de dólares de profit neto. No revenue. Ganancia.Luego viene uno de los temas más fascinantes del episodio: la mafia de los campeones de matemáticas olímpicas. Scott Wu, Johnny Ho, Alexander Wang, Jesse Zhang y varios más tienen dos cosas en común: ganaron medallas de oro en olimpiadas de matemáticas de adolescentes y todos pasaron por el fondo de high frequency trading HRT. Hoy lideran algunas de las compañías más importantes del AI y el cripto, incluyendo Perplexity, Scale AI, Cognition y Hyperliquid. La venganza de los nerds llegó y es total.También hablamos del próximo IPO de Vercel, liderado por el argentino Guillermo Rauch, que podría catapultarlo al top 5 de los argentinos más ricos. Y del nuevo modelo de Anthropic que la propia compañía considera tan peligroso que no quiere lanzar todavía. ¿Marketing o realidad?Cerramos con dos reflexiones que van a cambiar cómo ves el mundo tech. Primera: ¿puede alguien sin conocimientos de programación crear un SaaS viable usando Claude Code? La respuesta es sí, y el gran diferencial ya no es el código sino la distribución. Segunda y más importante: la era del SaaS está terminando. Los agentes que cobran por uso de tokens van a reemplazar el modelo de suscripción mensual por empleado que dominó los últimos 20 años. Las compañías SaaS en bolsa ya lo están sintiendo, muchas cayeron más del 50% desde sus máximos históricos.

Meta just spent fourteen point three billion dollars rebuilding their entire AI stack from scratch. Alexander Wang from Scale AI led the rebuild. Nine months. Thousands of engineers. They came out in fourth place. Behind Google, behind OpenAI, behind Anthropic. Four companies spending more money than most nations generate in a year trying to beat each other in a game that reinvents itself every six months. Zuckerberg is burning $135 billion annually on AI. Meanwhile we are sitting here building an entire daily show, deploying voice agents for local businesses, running real operations on the same underlying technology for a fraction of the cost. The revolution is not happening in their boardroom. It is happening in our kitchen. A guy in his home office in Santa Clarita with a laptop is outperforming billion dollar budgets on the one metric that actually matters. Did it help a real person today? Goldman Sachs dropped numbers this week that should concern everyone. AI eliminates 25,000 jobs per month. Creates 9,000 back. Net loss: 16,000 positions gone every single month. Goldman's own data shows displaced workers earn 10% less for a full decade after losing their position. Data entry, customer service, legal support, building management. The destruction arrives now this month. The replacement jobs take years. Marc Benioff said Salesforce will never hire another engineer, customer service agent, or lawyer because of AI tools. Then he gives keynote speeches about the future of work. Whose future? Not the 22-year-old with student debt sitting on Indeed at 11pm trying to figure out what happened to her career before it started. That is who we build for. The person who picks up the tool is the person who stays employed. The person who ignores it is the person the tool replaces. In February, Anthropic released plugins for contract review and legal triage. Thomson Reuters dropped 16%. LegalZoom dropped 20%. $285 billion in market value erased in one trading day. Wall Street called it the SaaSocalypse. That same platform costs us $200 a month. The Milbank Quarterly confirmed ultra-processed food uses the identical industry playbook as cigarettes. Same sensory additives. Same dopamine hijacking. Same lobbying. The bliss point. Engineered to maximize biological reinforcement. Health insurance will not cover food addiction because the money flows the other direction. You are the recurring revenue. Autophagy gene expression jumped 4.2x in four weeks. Your body knows how to fix itself. California rates at 6.37%. Active listings up 23 months. Your commission is a confession. $17,000 fixed. Same energy. Every cliYoutube Channels:Conner with Honor - real estateHome Muscle - fat torchingFrom first responder to real estate expert, Connor with Honor brings honesty and integrity to your Santa Clarita home buying or selling journey. Subscribe to my YouTube channel for valuable tips, local market trends, and a glimpse into the Santa Clarita lifestyle.Dive into Real Estate with Connor with Honor:Santa Clarita's Trusted Realtor & Fitness EnthusiastReal Estate:Buying or selling in Santa Clarita? Connor with Honor, your local expert with over 2 decades of experience, guides you seamlessly through the process. Subscribe to his YouTube channel for insider market updates, expert advice, and a peek into the vibrant Santa Clarita lifestyle.Fitness:Ready to unlock your fitness potential? Join Connor's YouTube journey for inspiring workouts, healthy recipes, and motivational tips. Remember, a strong body fuels a strong mind and a successful life!Podcast:Dig deeper with Connor's podcast! Hear insightful interviews with industry experts, inspiring success stories, and targeted real estate advice specific to Santa Clarita.

00:00 Introducción 00:15 Mujeres son 50% del gaming en México, pero aún están lejos del “nivel experto” El crecimiento femenino en videojuegos es innegable, sin embargo, persisten barreras tecnológicas y culturales que limitan su avance en otras plataformas. 01:31 El 54% de las pymes usan IA, pero la clave del negocio es la conexión humana Aunque la Inteligencia Artificial cada vez es más relevante en los procesos de las pequeñas y medianas empresas, el vínculo emocional sigue siendo el rey. 02:48 Muse Spark, la nueva IA de Meta costó más de 14,000 mdd a Zuckerberg Este nuevo modelo materializa las inversiones que hizo la empresa desde el año pasado en las contrataciones de Alexander Wang y más talento proveniente de otras empresas de IA.

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La tertulia empieza con una conversación ligera de “vuelta al año” hablando del frío en Barcelona y de viajes recientes (Suiza y la Riviera francesa), con alguna anécdota sobre Mónaco/Montecarlo y su aura de lujo y rarezas. Desde ahí pasamos a temas más actuales de internet, criticando el uso masivo y bastante desagradable de la IA en X/Twitter para pedir ediciones de fotos, y comentando cómo el propio formato y algoritmo de la red está empujando contenido y debates cada vez más tóxicos. Luego aterrizan en IA “de empresa”: la idea de que el valor no está solo en el modelo, sino en los datos, la distribución y en saber desplegar agentes y automatizaciones de verdad, hasta el punto de que empiezan a aparecer perfiles internos dedicados a construir workflows con agentes.En paralelo abrimos el debate más de industria sobre si el enfoque actual de LLMs está tocando techo, mencionan el choque de visiones en el mundillo (LeCun vs Alexander Wang) y la apuesta por “modelos del mundo” como siguiente salto. Cierran mezclando inversión y hardware (la carrera por la inferencia, el dinero alrededor de xAI/X), con un cierre claro: el gran límite de todo esto puede ser la energía, y por eso les parece clave cualquier avance serio en baterías de estado sólido.

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:14:00 +0000 https://feed.neuezwanziger.de/link/21941/17249510/da94c66e-9b4c-419b-8a64-4a5c4af2ec5a b9a554de333a9c3ffbb6ee6605b70a9e Stefan und Wolfgang treffen sich vorm Salon Alles hören Komm' in den Salon. Es gibt ihn via Webplayer & RSS-Feed (zum Hören im Podcatcher deiner Wahl, auch bei Apple Podcasts und Spotify). Wenn du Salon-Stürmer bist, lade weitere Hörer von der [Gästeliste] Diskutiert mit uns hier 00:00:00 – Vor dem Salon Der Salon beginnt mit einem Blick auf die aktuelle Nachrichtenlage, angefangen bei den Haftungsfragen des Gelsenkirchener Tresorraum-Einbruchs bis hin zur politischen Aufarbeitung des Berliner Stromausfalls und der Kritik an Kai Wegners Freizeitgestaltung während der Krise. Die Gastgeber analysieren zudem die neue geopolitische Ehrlichkeit der USA unter Trump, die unverhohlen ökonomische Interessen in Venezuela artikuliert, und demaskieren den Schaukampf zwischen Jake Paul und Mike Tyson als Symptom einer durchinszenierten Leistungsgesellschaft. Schließlich wird der Bogen zu den transhumanistischen Fantasien der Tech-Elite gespannt, exemplifiziert an Alexander Wangs Wunsch nach Hirn-Computer-Schnittstellen zur Sicherung kognitiver Dominanz. 00:52:39 – Salon für Dezember 2025 Wolfgang und Stefan leiten zum Hauptteil des Salons über und geben einen kurzen Ausblick auf die Themenvielfalt der Episode. Zudem stellen sie die neue Diskurs-Plattform des Podcasts vor, die eine unabhängigere Hörerkommunikation ermöglichen soll. 00:54:57 – Salon-Hinweis für März Wolfgang kündigt einen gemeinsamen Konzertbesuch mit der Community für März 2026 in der Alten Oper Frankfurt an. Geplant ist der Besuch eines Auftritts des Isidore String Quartets, das Werke von Haydn und Dvořák spielen wird. 00:55:56 – Daniel Markovits, The Meritocracy Trap, 2019 Im Zentrum der Diskussion steht Daniel Markovits' These, dass die Meritokratie zu einem Mechanismus mutiert ist, der Reichtum und Chancen innerhalb einer neuen, super-ordinären Arbeiterklasse konzentriert und eine Kastenbildung durch exzessive Bildungsinvestitionen vorantreibt. Die Gastgeber analysieren, wie diese neue Elite, anders als frühere Aristokratien, ihre Privilegien durch extreme Selbstausbeutung legitimiert, was zu einer toxischen Dynamik aus Burnout bei den Gewinnern und systematischem Ausschluss der Mittelschicht führt. Dieser strukturelle Verschluss wird als wesentlicher Treiber für den modernen Populismus identifiziert, da die Aufstiegsversprechen der Leistungsgesellschaft für die breite Masse zur Illusion verkommen sind. Erwähnungen: Branko Milanović, Michael Sandel, Francis Fukuyama, Alexander Wang, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Thorstein Veblen, Pierre Bourdieu, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Julia Friedrichs, Christoph Butterwegge, Oliver Stone, Michael Douglas, Gordon Gekko. 02:57:21 – Die meritokratische Falle in 1 Minute Wolfgang fasst die Kernbotschaft des Buches prägnant zusammen: Die Meritokratie ist eine Falle, die echte Gleichheit durch einen gnadenlosen Wettbewerb ersetzt, der letztlich sowohl die erschöpften Gewinner als auch die abgehängten Verlierer beschädigt. 02:59:24 – Ben Shattuck, Die Geschichte des Klangs, 2024 Wolfgang rezensiert Ben Shattucks Erzählung, die zwei Liebesgeschichten über Jahrzehnte hinweg verwebt, verbunden durch das Motiv des Sammelns von Volksliedern und die Frage, ob Liebe besser als flüchtige, intensive Erinnerung oder als gelebte Realität bewahrt wird. Die Novelle kontrastiert die melancholische Schönheit festgehaltener Momente auf Wachswalzen mit der Tristesse eines angepassten Lebens und wirft die Frage auf, was von einem Leben bleibt, wenn man sich gegen die Leidenschaft entscheidet. Erwähnungen: Paul Mescal, Josh O'Connor, Thomas Edison, Jane Austen, Édouard Manet. 03:10:49 – C.J. Chivers, In Ukraine, a New Arsenal of Killer A.I. Drones Is Being Born, 2025 Stefan stellt eine investigative Reportage über die rasante Evolution der semi-autonomen Drohnenkriegsführung in der Ukraine vor, in der westliche Tech-Größen wie Eric Schmidt das Konfliktgebiet als Labor für KI-gesteuerte Waffensysteme nutzen. Diskutiert wird der technologische Sprung zu visuellen Positionierungssystemen, die herkömmliche Störsender nutzlos machen und konventionelle Militärinfrastruktur obsolet werden lassen könnten. Die Gastgeber debattieren das "Gatling-Paradoxon" – die trügerische Hoffnung, dass tödlichere Technologie zu mehr Abschreckung führt – und die Verwischung der Grenzen zwischen Silicon Valley, Hollywood-Ästhetik und automatisiertem Töten. Erwähnungen: Eric Schmidt, Nazar Bigun, Brian Streem, Daniel Suarez, Paul Virilio, Steven Spielberg, Richard Gatling. 03:24:36 – Uwe Volkmann, Die unpolitische Gewalt, 2025 Wolfgang diskutiert Uwe Volkmanns Kritik am Bundesverfassungsgericht, dem vorgeworfen wird, sich durch juristischen Formalismus – etwa bei der Triage-Gesetzgebung oder der Schuldenbremse – der politischen Verantwortung zu entziehen. Es wird debattiert, ob der strikte Rechtspositivismus eine notwendige Demokratiesicherung darstellt oder ob er zu einer Dysfunktionalität führt, bei der existenzielle Fragen in Zuständigkeitsdebatten zerrieben werden, anstatt materielle Gerechtigkeit zu schaffen. Erwähnungen: Paul Laband, Gustav Radbruch, Christian Lindner. 03:50:45 – ungleichheit.info Stefan empfiehlt eine Webseite zur Datenvisualisierung, die die extreme Diskrepanz der Vermögensverteilung eindrücklich darstellt und aufzeigt, wie systematisch Großparteien das Thema Ungleichheit in ihren Wahlprogrammen ignorieren. Dies dient als Aufhänger für ein Plädoyer zur Renaissance der unabhängigen Blogosphäre und persönlicher Webseiten, um der Dominanz zentralisierter Plattformen etwas entgegenzusetzen. Erwähnungen: Martina Liel, Reese Witherspoon, Dua Lipa. 03:57:20 – Hito Steyerl, Medium Hot. Bilder in Zeiten der Hitze, 2024 Wolfgang bespricht Hito Steyerls Essaysammlung zur Ästhetik und Politik von KI-Bildern, insbesondere das Phänomen des "Haxenpornos" – verzerrte, nicht-explizite Nacktheit als Resultat prüder Content-Filter. Die Diskussion beleuchtet, wie KI-Modelle "gemeine Bilder" (mean images) erzeugen, die einen statistischen Durchschnitt abbilden und dabei gesellschaftliche Normen und koloniale Strukturen reproduzieren. Erwähnungen: James Bridle, Édouard Manet, Yann LeCun. 04:05:47 – Benjamin Riley, Large Language Mistake, 2024 Stefan führt eine Kritik an Large Language Models ein, die die Gleichsetzung von sprachlicher Kompetenz mit echter Intelligenz infrage stellt und argumentiert, dass Sprache primär ein Kommunikationswerkzeug und nicht der Gedanke selbst ist. Der Text postuliert, dass LLMs als "Maschinen toter Metaphern" lediglich vorhandene kulturelle Skripte recyceln, ohne die für echte Innovation notwendige kognitive Tiefe zu besitzen. Erwähnungen: Dario Amodei, Mark Zuckerberg. 04:11:21 – Vauhini Vara, What If Readers Like A.I.-Generated Fiction?, 2024 Das Segment beleuchtet ein Experiment, bei dem eine KI beauftragt wurde, einen Text von Han Kang stilistisch zu imitieren, wobei Testleser die geglättete KI-Version oft dem emotional roheren Original vorzogen. Die Gastgeber diskutieren die Implikationen für die Literatur und hinterfragen, ob die "Authentizität" eines Autors für den Lesegenuss notwendig ist oder ob KI-Assistenz die literarische Varianz legitim erweitern könnte. Erwähnungen: Han Kang, Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, Ernest Hemingway, Gwyneth Paltrow. 04:26:58 – Nils Schniederjann, Nicht besser als die EKD: Die Kriegsrhetorik der deutschen Katholiken, 2024 Wolfgang analysiert einen Artikel, der die Deutsche Bischofskonferenz für ihre kriegsbefürwortende Haltung kritisiert, die eher Regierungslinien folgt als der diplomatischen Friedanstradition des Vatikans. Diskutiert wird der Riss zwischen den deutschen Bischöfen und dem universalistischen, pazifistischeren Ansatz von Papst Franziskus sowie die Frage nach der Relevanz der Kirche, wenn sie lediglich säkulare Sicherheitsstrategien theologisch verbrämt. Erwähnungen: Papst Leo XIII., Papst Johannes XXIII., Papst Franziskus, Wladimir Putin. 04:34:22 – Musik: Quatuor Arod spielt Haydn Wolfgang empfiehlt die Einspielung von Joseph Haydns Streichquartetten Op. 76 durch das Quatuor Arod und lobt deren dynamischen, transparenten Klang, der durch die Verwendung historischer Bögen erzielt wird. Die Rezension hebt hervor, wie das Ensemble den Gesprächscharakter der Gattung und die Balance zwischen kontemplativer Tiefe und tänzerischer Derbheit meistert. Erwähnungen: Joseph Haydn, André Rieu. 04:38:09 – Ankündigung: Patrick Kaczmarczyk Stefan und Wolfgang kündigen die Lektüre für den nächsten Salon an: Patrick Kaczmarczyks Analyse zum Zerfall der westlichen Weltordnung und dem Aufstieg des globalen Südens. Literaturliste Daniel Markovits: The Meritocracy Trap penguin.co.uk Ben Shattuck: Die Geschichte des Klangs hanser-literaturverlage.de C.J. Chivers: In Ukraine, a New Arsenal of Killer A.I. Drones Is Being Born nytimes.com Uwe Volkmann: Die unpolitische Gewalt faz.net Ungleichheit.info ungleichheit.info Hito Steyerl: Medium Hot. Bilder in Zeiten der Hitze diaphanes.net Benjamin Riley: Large Language Mistake theverge.com Vauhini Vara: What If Readers Like A.I.-Generated Fiction? newyorker.com Nils Schniederjann: Nicht besser als die EKD: Die Kriegsrhetorik der deutschen Katholiken freitag.de Musik: Quatuor Arod spielt Haydn warnerclassics.com Ankündigung: Patrick Kaczmarczyk – Zerfall der Weltordnung: Die Ignoranz des Westens und der Aufstand des globalen Südens westendverlag.de full Stefan und Wolfgang treffen sich vorm Salon no Stefan Schulz und Wolfgang M. Schmitt 3298

Wir starten ins neue Jahr mit Glöcklers Predictions für 2026 – von Thesen zu OpenAI und Sam Altmans Zukunft über die KI-Strategien von Microsoft und Google bis hin zu überraschenden M&A-Deals mit Meta, Whatnot oder LVMH. Wer wird Top-Performer der Magnificent Seven, was passiert mit SaaS? Außerdem sprechen wir über Brookfields Einstieg ins Cloud-Business, OpenAIs geplante Werbemonetarisierung, Metas systematische Manipulation der Ad Library zur Verschleierung von Scam-Anzeigen und Elon Musks unrealistische GDP-Wachstumsprognosen. Dazu: Neuralink-Pläne, die Normalisierung von Drogen im Silicon Valley und warum Alexander Wang keine Kinder haben will, bevor Brain-Computer-Interfaces Mainstream sind. Zum Abschluss warnt Pip eindringlich vor einer neuen Generation von CEO-Scams. Unterstütze unseren Podcast und entdecke die Angebote unserer Werbepartner auf ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠doppelgaenger.io/werbung⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Vielen Dank!  Philipp Glöckler und Philipp Klöckner sprechen heute über: (00:00:00) Intro & Silvester (00:05:37) Brookfield baut Cloud-Business (00:10:47) OpenAI plant Werbung (00:15:27) Meta manipuliert Ad Library (00:22:35) Neuralink Massenproduktion? (00:27:57) Drogen-Normalisierung im Valley (00:29:50) Nikotin-Pouches für Produktivität (00:31:25) Elon verspricht 3-stelliges Wachstum (00:37:54) Sam Altman verlässt OpenAI (00:40:24) Microsoft & Google gewinnen KI (00:46:58) Amazon Top 2 der Mag7 (00:57:13) SaaS-Winter kommt (00:58:47) Meta kauft Whatnot (00:59:36) LVMH kauft On Running (01:02:52) Apple Brille kommt 2026 (01:03:43) BaFin Neo-Broker (01:08:06) Racket Sports Jahr (01:09:27) Community Predictions (01:14:19) Notebook LM (01:16:48) CEO Scam 2.0 Shownotes Community Predictions - ⁠linkedin.com⁠ Glöcklers Predictions - linkedin.com Founder Mode Podcast - ⁠youtube.com Gemini's Predictions - google.com  Brookfield startet Cloud-Geschäft mit kostengünstiger KI - theinformation.comOpenAI ChatGPT gesponserte Anzeigen - futurism.comMeta-Strategie gegen Betrüger-Druck abwehren - reuters.comTrump-Firma plant Kryptowährung für Aktionäre - bloomberg.com Neuralink plant Ausbau der Produktion bis 2026 - businessinsider.comSchwierigkeiten bei der Umsetzung neuer Datenschutzrichtlinien - timesofindia.indiatimes.comTech-Startups verteilen Gratis-Nikotinbeutel zur Produktivitätssteigerung - wsj.comElon Musk prognostiziert zweistellige Zuwächse - finance.yahoo.comPost von Elon Musk - x.com

This week we unpack a growing split inside the AI world, centred on Yann LeCun — Meta’s AI pioneer who thinks LLMs are a dead end. Reports suggest he’s preparing to walk, after being quietly sidelined under Meta’s “superintelligence” push and made subordinate to a 28-year-old ex-data-labelling kingpin, Alexander Wang. His alternative is the “world model” approach: systems grounded in physics and perception rather than predictive text. LET'S GOOOOOOOO.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's time for another dip into fashion hot topics and picking up with Project Runway Season 21 (on Patreon). Some of the recent happenings we cover are the Wisdom Kaye Miu Miu debate, 72 Magazine thoughts, Alexander Wang comeback?, and the new editor of Vogue and what that means.---Get BONUS episodes on 90s TV and culture (Freaks & Geeks, My So Called Life, Buffy, 90s culture documentaries, and more...) and to support the show join the  Patreon! Hosts: Lauren @lauren_melanie & Jai @jai_stylefactoryind more Fashion Grunge onLinktreeJoin me on Substack:  The Lo Down: a Fashion Grunge blog/newsletter☕️ Support Fashion Grunge on Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/fashiongrunge

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ChatGPT Agents are here.U.S. President Trump has big plans for AI.And Google is slapping more AI on traditional search than a commercial pitchman slapping Flex Seal on a leaky boat.AI is changing how we all work. And there's way too much happening to keep track. So, that's why you should spend Mondays with us as we bring you the AI News that Matters.Try Gemini 2.5 Flash! Sign up at  AIStudio.google.com to get started. Newsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletterMore on this Episode: Episode PageJoin the discussion: Thoughts on this? Join the convo and connect with other AI leaders on LinkedIn.Upcoming Episodes: Check out the upcoming Everyday AI Livestream lineupWebsite: YourEverydayAI.comEmail The Show: info@youreverydayai.comConnect with Jordan on LinkedInTopics Covered in This Episode:Meta Considers Shift to Closed-Source AITrump Unveils National AI Policy Plan$2 Billion Seed Funding: Thinking Machines LabsGemini 2.5 Pro Launches in Google SearchGoogle AI Enables Automated Local Business CallsDeep Search Feature with Gemini 2.5 ProOpenAI ChatGPT Agents Power Multi-step AutomationChatGPT to Charge Commissions on E-commerceNew Student Study Tools: OpenAI, Google, AnthropicAnthropic Debuts Domain-Specific Financial AINvidia H20 AI Chip Exports to China ControversyTimestamps:00:00 Meta Considers Closing AI Models04:15 "Meta's AI Strategy and Open Source"08:15 Diverse Regulation Needs for AI Innovation09:42 AI Startup Surpasses $12B Valuation13:37 Google and OpenAI's AI Expansion18:41 AI Companies Target Student Demographic21:59 "Rise of Domain-Specific Models"23:47 2026 AI Model Revolution26:36 AI Export Controls and US-China Tech Race30:36 OpenAI Unveils ChatGPT Agent33:05 "Watch Mode for ChatGPT Pro"Keywords:Google AI, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Gemini AI mode, Deep search, AI-powered local calling, agentic AI capabilities, ChatGPT agents, ChatGPT agent, OpenAI, ChatGPT Pro, reasoning model, automated phone calls, local business AI calls, US AI policy, President Trump AI strategy, deregulation in AI, AI regulation, closed source AI model, Meta AI, open source vs closed source AI, superintelligence lab, Alexander Wang, Scale AI, Nvidia GPU drama, Nvidia H20 chips, AI chips export, US-China AI arms race, artificial general intelligence, AGI, ASI, Anthropic, Claude, domain specific models, financial analyst AI, financial data AI solutions, Monte Carlo simulation AI, risk modeling AI, Amazon Bedrock Agent, Microsoft Copilot Vision, multi-step task automation, virtual terminal AI, multimodal reasoning, e-commerce AI, ChatGPT shopping, AI optimization, AIO, affiliate revenue AI, education AI tools, AI study assistants, Study Together ChatGPT, Study Projects Claude, Guided Learning Gemini, enterprise AI soluSend Everyday AI and Jordan a text message. (We can't reply back unless you leave contact info)

What if your next wave of growth isn't about chasing new logos—but mining gold from the clients you already have? In this cepisode, CMO Courtney Baker challenges the traditional growth mindset with Knownwell's CEO David DeWolf and Chief Product and Technology Officer Mohan Rao. Together, they break down why net revenue retention (NRR) is the real growth lever, especially for professional services firms. They explore the inefficiencies of over-investing in new sales and reveal how failing to rigorously manage and measure existing relationships is holding companies back from true scalability and predictable growth. Meanwhile, Pete Buer dives into the latest AI in the Wild: Meta's audacious push toward artificial general intelligence, led by Scale AI's Alexander Wang. Is this the next paradigm shift or just Metaverse 2.0? And back by popular demand—it's the return of the AI Snake Draft! Courtney, David, and Mohan face off with their must-have AI tools for 2025. Which apps have become indispensable? Which tools are heading to the D-League? Find out who steals the draft with surprises, strategy, and a little smack talk. Plus, download the new Knownwell playbook for AI-powered strategies to scale your professional services firm: www.knownwell.com/scalingwhitepaper  Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/N8b_AtMIM2E 

Imagine turning down $100 million salaries. That's apparently what's happening at OpenAI. And that's just the tip of the newsworthy AI iceberg for the week. ↳ Meta reportedly failed to acquire Perplexity. Could Apple try next? ↳ Why is Microsoft cutting so many jobs? ↳ Why are AI systems blackmailing at will? ↳ Will too much AI use lead to brain rot?Let's talk AI news shorties. Newsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletterMore on this Episode: Episode PageJoin the discussion: Thoughts on this? Join the convo.Upcoming Episodes: Check out the upcoming Everyday AI Livestream lineupWebsite: YourEverydayAI.comEmail The Show: info@youreverydayai.comConnect with Jordan on LinkedInTopics Covered in This Episode:$100M AI Salaries Being DeclinedMeta's AI Talent War EffortsMeta's Unsuccessful Acquisitions OverviewBrain Rot Concerns with AI UseOpenAI's $200M DoD ContractGoogle's Voice AI Search RolloutGoogle Gemini 2.5 in ProductionSoftBank's $1T Robotics InvestmentAnthropic's AI Model Risks ExposedMicrosoft and Amazon AI Job CutsTimestamps:00:00 Weekly AI News and Insights04:17 Meta's Major AI Acquisitions08:50 AI Impact on Student Writing Skills12:53 OpenAI Expands Government AI Program15:31 Google Launches Voice AI Search19:32 Google AI Models' Stability Feature22:55 "Project Crystal Land Initiative"27:17 AI Acquisition Talks Intensify29:43 "Apple Eyes Perplexity Acquisition"31:54 Apple's Potential Market Decline36:57 AI Ethics and Safety Concerns40:44 Amazon Warns of AI-Driven Layoffs42:44 AI's Impact on Job Market45:24 "Canvas Tips for Business Intelligence"Keywords:$100 million salaries, AI talent war, Meta, OpenAI, AI signing bonuses, Andrew Bosworth, Scale AI acquisition, Alexander Wang, Safe Superintelligence, Daniel Gross, Nat Friedman, Perplexity AI, Brain rot from AI, chat GBT and brain, MIT study on AI, SAT style essays using AI, AI neural activity, AI and cognitive effort, AI in government, $200 million contract with Department of Defense, OpenAI in security, ChatGPTgov, Federal AI initiatives, Google Gemini 2.5, AI mission-critical business, Gemini 2.5 flashlight, AI model stability, SoftBank $1 trillion investment, Project Crystal Land, Arizona robotics hub, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Embodied AI, AI job cuts, Microsoft layoffs, Amazon AI workforce, Anthropic study on AI ethics, AI blackmail, Google voice-based AI search, AI search live, New AI apps, Apple acquisition interest in Perplexity, AI-powered search engine, Siri integration, AI-driven efficiencies, GenSend Everyday AI and Jordan a text message. (We can't reply back unless you leave contact info) Try Google Veo 3 today! Sign up at gemini.google to get started. Try Google Veo 3 today! Sign up at gemini.google to get started.

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A variety of announcements at WWDC, and why Apple's lack of jaw-dropping news or boundary pushing plans was the most sensible approach available this year. Then: Questions about Meta's AI execution, as the company reportedly invests $14.8 billion in Scale AI and its CEO Alexander Wang.

Mark and Kenny conclude the Season of the Bitch by twerking their way through this maximalist third single from Rebel Heart. Topic include Diplo, finales, taking the day, the return of Nicki Minaj, colorful pop art synths, boundaries, plantar fasciitis, pale ale beers, the Standard Hotel, Wicked Part 2, pools in Westchester, neighbors Barry and Fran, Lil B, Charli xcx, celebrity cameos (Beyonce! Chris Rock! Alexander Wang!), Rocco's man bun, David Banda's coming out on the dance floor, sock puppets, roughing up the cops, and partying on Madonna's terms. London's premiere drag pop star BABY/FACE picks up the phone for a ribald conversation about the brilliant and much-missed electro-pop pioneer (and song collaborator) SOPHIE and her impact on BABY/FACE's fabulous EP “Harpy”. Plus, the danger of sitting during a Madonna television performance, Kenny sends poetic voice memos at 5AM, and Mark dances naked on a table in Greece! Who do you think YOU are? “Bitch I'm Madonna” video, directed by Jonas Åkerlund (2015)“Bitch I'm Madonna” live on The Tonight Show (2015)BABY/FACE's Artist Page on Spotify - LISTEN TO IT ALL!

Are we truly on the brink of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)? Or are we underestimating how unprepared we are for what's coming?In this episode of Leveraging AI, we dive into the latest AI breakthroughs, the geopolitical arms race for AI supremacy, and the government's struggle to keep up. With insights from top AI policy advisors and newly released research from Eric Schmidt, Dan Hendricks, and Alexander Wang, we break down what's at stake and why business leaders must pay attention now.Key Takeaways from This Episode:The government knows AGI is coming—but is it doing enough to prepare?China vs. the U.S.: The high-stakes battle for AI dominance and what it means for global power.Superintelligence strategy: How AI safety experts see the future (and why it sounds like a sci-fi thriller).AI's impact on business & jobs: Will automation lead to mass displacement or massive opportunities?AI agents, humanoid robots & the changing internet: Why businesses need to rethink their digital strategies NOW.Links & Resources Mentioned: 

On season 7, Episode 3 of The Art Career Podcast, Emily sits down with fashion photograher and director Brianna Capozzi in her Brooklyn, NY apartment.First published in 2014, Brianna Capozzi has been working for over a decade to make distinctive images that have contributed to a movement of contemporary female-led fashion photography. Capozzi's work places less emphasis on an ideal and instead uplifts the raw, fierce and playful that exists innately and uniquely in each subject. Her work demonstrates a fervent interest in the power, versatility, and inherent creative force of the female form.Advertising: Adidas, Agent Provocateur, Alexander Wang, Bally, Bottega Veneta, Burberry, Calvin Klein, Carolina Herrera, Cartier, Chloe, Chopard, Deisel, DKNY, Eckhaus Latta, Fenty, Frankie's Bikinis, GAP, Gucci, Jonathan Simkhai, Khaite, Marc Jacobs, Maryam Nassir Zadeh, Nike, Nordstrom, Pinko, Puma, Rare Beauty, Stella McCartney, Victoria's Secret, Skims, Zara.Editorial: All In, American Vogue, British Vogue, Beauty Papers, Blau, D Republica, Dazed & Confused, Double, Interview, M Le Monde, Marfa, Myth, Pop, Re-Edition, Vogue Italia.Published: Well Behaved Women (Idea Book, 2018), Sisters (Idea Book, 2024)Free Resource for Artists!Want expert guidance on building your art career? Download Navigating the Art World: A Comprehensive Guide for Artists—a free resource covering essential industry insights, practical tips, and more. Get it here:⁠⁠ Download Now⁠⁠Links:https://www.instagram.com/briannalcapozzi/?hl=enhttps://rep-ltd.com/artists/brianna-capozzi ⁠⁠theartcareer.com⁠⁠ Follow us: ⁠⁠@theartcareer⁠⁠ Host: ⁠⁠@emilymcelwreath_art⁠⁠ Production + Creative Direction ⁠⁠@soniaruscoe⁠⁠ Editing: ⁠⁠@benjamin.galloway⁠⁠ Join our community for exclusive updates, artist resources, and behind-the-scenes content! Sign up at ⁠⁠theartcareer.com⁠⁠ Never miss an episode! Subscribe & leave us a review on ⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠Spotify⁠

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. New year, new us? This week, Jimmy and Larry are tweaking over a variety of angles concerning the LA wildfires, an extensive deep dive into Lawrence's new pursuit of health and wellness in 2025 complete with expert advice from James, are you supposed to work out while on vacation, alcohol apparently causes cancer now, dancing your ass off to Jamie xx while avoiding Alexander Wang, celebrating your grandmother's 100th birthday by finding out your dad was on a FBI watchlist when he was child, Ralph Lauren receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Gervonta Davis and Offset escalate the Chrome wars and where we go from here, Liangelo Ball signs to Def Jam, the Ball family's generational relevancy and much more.

Tony Rosenthal is the Senior Vice President of Documentaries at The Kennedy/Marshall Company, and serves as Executive Producer for the company's documentary slate with an unwavering passion for creating compelling content.In his role, Tony manages the day-to-day operations of the company's documentary division, collaborates with creative partners, and oversees the execution of all production initiatives, ensuring that each project aligns with the company's creative vision while fostering an environment that encourages creativity and innovation throughout all stages of production. Recent projects include THE BEACH BOYS (Disney+) RATHER (Netflix), THE SPACE RACE (NatGeo).Prior to joining the Kennedy/Marshall team, Tony was part of the producing teams responsible for Emmy-nominated documentaries LUCY & DESI (Amazon) and THE BEE GEES: HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART (HBO). Tony started his career producing commercials for brands such as Alexander Wang, Adidas, Instacart, music videos for P!nk, Jay-Z, and Finneas, and managing the production of QUARTER LIFE POETRY (FX) season 1.Beyond his professional achievement, Tony is committed to fostering inclusivity and diversity in the entertainment industry. He actively supports initiatives that promote underrepresented voices and advocates for equitable opportunities.Connect with Tony:➡️ Instagram: @tonerorohttps://kennedymarshall.comAbout The Lot1 Podcast ✨The Lot1 Podcast is designed for anyone who is interested in or working in filmmaking. Whether you're just starting out or a seasoned veteran, we hope you gain the knowledge you need to improve your craft, achieve your filmmaking goals, or simply get an understanding and appreciation for the roles and duties of your peers and colleagues.✅ Become a VIP subscriber to get early access to our episodes, exclusive access to The Lot1 Podcast After Show, and much more!www.patreon.com/thelot1podcast☕Tourist Hat Coffee Companyhttps://touristhatcoffeecompany.com/

Interview with anthology author Angelique Velez contributing the chapter titled "For The Love of Beauty" to Volume II Deserts to Mountaintops: Choosing Our Healing Through Radical Self-Acceptance.Angelique Velez, can quite literally say "love raised me, lipstick saved me". Makeup artist and founder of Breakups to Makeup, Velez used her own personal journey with heartbreak to fuel the creation of Breakups to Makeup (B2M), which is now the one of the country's most sought after high-quality accessory and apparel brands for makeup enthusiasts. Sold online and in retail stores including Sephora, QVC, Walmart, Urban Outfitters, Ricky's and NYLON Shop.Born and raised in New York from Puerto Rican and Cuban descent Velez launched B2M in June 2013 to spread the message that makeup is more than just a simple product, but also an art form. As a makeup artist for more than a decade, Angelique recognized the importance of this creative outlet and wanted a way to educate and inspire others while turning heartbreak into moments of self- celebration.Under her leadership, unmatched creativity and massive passion for adding a touch of wit and glam to Breakups to Makeup, her infamous clutches "Love Raised Me Lipstick Saved Me" to "I Would Cry But My Mascara is Designer," have been seen in the hands of legends such as Cher to being featured in national media outlets such Refinery29, Marie Claire, Allure and Latina, to name a few. Prior to embracing entrepreneurship and dedicating herself full time to her passion project, Velez was, and still is, a professional makeup artist. Velez has had the opportunity to be a part of fashion shows for Michael Kors, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Project Runway, Alexander Wang and Tommy Hilfiger. She has also worked notable televised events multiple times including the MTV Video Music Awards and Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. She is also a proud member of the IATSE Local 798 Union.Velez currently resides in New York, but enjoys traveling, while also being a full-time mom. She has a podcast, called Hey Glowfriend, that encompasses her entire journey, which is available on all podcast platforms. Learn more at www.breakupstomakeup.com or on instagram  @theangeliquetechnique and @breakupstomakeup.See more about Deserts to Mountaintops Anthologies: desertstomountaintops.comSee more from Soul Speak Press: soulspeakpress.comFind out more about Jessica Buchanan: Website

Tech companies are pushing for merit over DEI initiatives, and the media is FUMING. In particular, TechCrunch cannot stand that Alexandr Wang of Scale AI is proposing MEI (Merit, Excellence, and Intelligence) and that other tech moguls like Elon Musk think it's a great idea. How very dare they! ➡️ Tip Jar and Fan Support: http://ClownfishSupport.com ➡️ Official Merch Store: http://ShopClownfish.com ➡️ Official Website: http://ClownfishTV.com ➡️ Audio Edition: https://open.spotify.com/show/6qJc5C6OkQkaZnGCeuVOD1 The tech industry is shifting its focus from diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) to meritocracy and individual excellence (MEI), leading to concerns about unfair assumptions and lack of diversity in hiring. 00:00 Silicon Valley is shifting from DEI to MEI and meritocracy, causing shock and concern in HR and media due to layoffs and hiring changes in the tech and video game industries. 01:18 Return to meritocracy in tech as DEI can lead to unfair assumptions, with companies prioritizing excellence and intelligence in hiring. 03:26 Tech companies shifting from DEI to meritocracy, emphasizing individual skills over demographic factors, facing criticism from DEI experts. 05:38 Tech industry pushing for MEI and meritocracy over DEI, arguing biases still exist in hiring and diversity initiatives causing division. 08:59 Tech pushes for MEI and meritocracy over diversity checkboxes, with criticism of offensive content and Alexander Wang's comments. 10:55 Tech industry pushing for meritocracy and MEI over DEI, implying diverse individuals are not qualified, while also arguing that requiring ID for voting is not racist. 13:35 Tech insiders advocate for a shift from DEI to MEI and meritocracy, citing entitlement and skill deficiencies as detrimental to corporate profitability. E 15:15 Tech companies are shifting from DEI to MEI, prioritizing meritocracy and qualifications over diversity initiatives in hiring. Expand About Us: Clownfish TV is an independent, opinionated news and commentary channel that covers Entertainment and Tech from a consumer's point of view. We talk about Gaming, Comics, Anime, TV, Movies, Animation and more. Hosted by Kneon and Geeky Sparkles. Disclaimer: This series is produced by Clownfish Studios and WebReef Media, and is part of ClownfishTV.com. Opinions expressed by our contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of our guests, affiliates, sponsors, or advertisers. ClownfishTV.com is an unofficial news source and has no connection to any company that we may cover. This channel and website and the content made available through this site are for educational, entertainment and informational purposes only. These so-called “fair uses” are permitted even if the use of the work would otherwise be infringing. #Tech #News #Commentary #Reaction #Podcast #Comedy #Entertainment #Hollywood #PopCulture #Tech

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I live for an opportunity to talk about fashion and connect with new people. I've followed Hunter @highendhomo on Twitter and been obsessed with his takes on pop culture and fashion so I knew that it would be great to see things from his perspective. Getting another view from someone who is a bit more plugged in than I am makes for such a great back and forth convo. We get into the "cancel culture" aftermath of certain designers, how consumption has changed, the industry when it comes to personal style, celebrities,  and our own entry by way of either music or muses. There is talk of current magazines, the revolving door of creative directors, and of course we had to touch on the recent hot topics and whiplash of all the names we've heard thrown around for the next head of Chanel.off-topic rants: current movie and tv faves and the new guard in music ---Get BONUS episodes on 90s TV and culture (Freaks & Geeks, My So Called Life, Buffy, 90s culture documentaries, and more...) and to support the show join the  Patreon! GIVE US A 5 STAR RATING & SUBSCRIBE!Guest: Hunter Shires @highendhomo  Twitter Runway Radio PodcastHost: Lauren @lauren_melanieFollow Fashion Grunge PodcastSubstack The Lo Down: a Fashion Grunge blog/newsletterInstagram @fashiongrungepodTwitter @fgrungepodLetterboxd Fashion Grunge PodcastTikTok @fashiongrungepod 

timestamps:  happy friday! (0:29) the rhyme of the day! (0:54) weekend plans (1:32) something traumatic happened (1:58) whom amongst us isn't afraid of spiders? (5:46) kb's mouse (7:34) Bravo's summer house reunion episode 1 recap (8:24) 3 big convos (9:52) Paige DeSorbo tore into Danielle Oliviera (12:00) Ciara Miller and West (14:54) Group text on summer house (17:22) Vanna White's Wheel says bye to Pat! (21:15) KB's cackles (22:56) Pat Sajak and Rhianna Fenty retire in same week (23:41) Jennifer and Ben's martial home pops up on Zillow (25:28) ZILLOW is so regular degular (26:07) Gwyneth Paltrow's $30M mansion goes on sale! (28:29) Kim Kardashian blasted wearing repeating outfits (29:24) does Janet Jackson give a damn? (30:58) Sean Kingston and his mother are in the press! (32:08) Celine Dion IS music (34:21) Hoda KTB (35:59) HOTA KOTB AND JENNA (36:28) KOTB is not your local hometown radio station (37:13) Alexander Wang's horrible new add (37:52) Alexander Wang's Kyle Jenner is 3 yrs too late (38:57) This Taylor Swift impersonator looks like a… (39:07) Who's working with you in the future? (40:01) Freak of the week! (41:10) cuddle up with kb & tanner as they yap about, fri-yays!, traumas, and wtf is happening this weekend! they recap the first ep. of summer house reunion, contend with kb's cackles, fight for women's rights, and correct themselves live on the pod! tune in for laughs, insights, and celebrity gossip galore! THANK U FOR FOLLOWING/RATING & REVIEWING!! make sure to follow us on instagram & tiktok and don't forget to follow our youtube channel where we go live weekdays!  _________________________________________________

This week on the pod we are talking about a brand new beef - Scarlett Johannson vs Open AI's Sam Altman! What a pairing.  ChatGPT just went through a brand new spring upgrade where GPT-4o added a voice function a la "Her" which sounds suspiciously like ScarJo. Did they use her voice without her permission? Is she going to sue them? We discuss! We also talk about the world of dating and the possible launch of AI profiles which can chat with possible matches AI profiles and get an idea if your pheremones would match. AI d*ck pics anyone? It's a brave new world! We finish up with a controversial Alexander Wang ad that features IRL celebrity lookalikes for a random bag.  Follow us @risquebusinessnews @laurasogar @mae_planert and write us a kind review for a good old fashioned in the mail gift! https://forms.gle/gRZ1j9vEwoGYhWQR9 #scarlettjohansson  #openai #openaichatgpt #chatgpt #dating #onlinedating #businessnews #samaltman #her #comedy #standupcomedy #podcast #comedypodcast

Happy Pride, gay! T. Kyle and Brad discuss Pride Month, “it's giving charcuterie,” Jennifer Lopez's tour getting scrapped, new additions to the Ladyland Festival lineup, METTE opening for Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter's BBC lyrics, Paris Hilton announcing her second album, Lindsay Lohan rumors around ‘Knives Out 3,' High Fashion Editorial! featuring Countess LuAnn, Kandi Burruss, Jackie Cox and more for Paper's theater series, Alexander Wang's flop campaign with lookalikes, Aliexpress Dua Lipa, Britney interviewing Tate McRae for ‘Gen V,' TikTok Talk featuring Addison Rae's taste in music, NSFW viral TikTok Pride anthems, new music from Rita Ora, Charli XCX, Robyn, Lali, Bonnie McKee, Becky Hill, Galantis and Disclosure. Right in the butt? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chris Martin from Coldplay told a fan that he's newly single and Lori shares a Vintage Scandal about American women who were duped into thinking they were dating Prince Harry for a reality show.Plus, Grant's Dirt Alert includes Alexander Wang releasing an advertisement that uses celebrity lookalikes and Britney Spears enjoying a Las Vegas spa with her brother Bryan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Chris Martin from Coldplay told a fan that he's newly single and Lori shares a Vintage Scandal about American women who were duped into thinking they were dating Prince Harry for a reality show. Plus, Grant's Dirt Alert includes Alexander Wang releasing an advertisement that uses celebrity lookalikes and Britney Spears enjoying a Las Vegas spa with her brother Bryan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Martin from Coldplay told a fan that he's newly single and Lori shares a Vintage Scandal about American women who were duped into thinking they were dating Prince Harry for a reality show.Plus, Grant's Dirt Alert includes Alexander Wang releasing an advertisement that uses celebrity lookalikes and Britney Spears enjoying a Las Vegas spa with her brother Bryan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Cara Stricker is an Australian born director, writer, musician and artist. Stricker first started making films, photographs and installations as a young teenager, stemming from her background as a dancer and musician. She is known for her work that combines filmmaking with her creative direction, choreography, and expressive narratives. Her unique blend of feminism, nature and performance creates work that is both subversive and otherworldly. Her work is screened, exhibited, printed, and performed around the world. Stricker's major commissions include: creating a techno-surrealist land-based prayer prompt short film with the Miccosukee, Seminole and Black Carribean community's of Miami within the Everglades, Allapattah, and installations by James Turrell, Es Devlin and teamLab for Superblue; Bvglari global campaigns for 23' and 24' featuring Zendaya and Anne Hathaway; a four part polyptych instillation and music video for Alicia Keys; visual sonic film about the late Aaliyah's legacy; and album films for Chloe and Halle, Blood Orange, Kelsey Lu, Amber Mark, Tei Shi and Kadhja Bonet. She has collaborated with global brands such as Gucci, MAC Makeup, Chanel, Alexander Wang, Missoni, musicians such as SZA and Perfume Genius, and photographed for titles such as Vogue, Dazed, I-D Magazine, Fader, Interview Magazine and Oyster. Her work has been awarded and screened internationally including at Cannes Lions, Tribeca Film Festival, Camerimage, Cannes Short Film Festival, Raindance Film Festival, Berlin Music Video Awards, Toronto Shorts Film Festival, Shots awards, HollyShort Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, Rooftop Film Festival New York, London Short Film Festival, Palm Springs International Shortfest, Sugar Mountain festival and Vivid Sydney. Her short narrative ‘Maverick', starring Abbey Lee and Rhys Coiro, which she wrote and directed, premiered at FFFest, and her commercial film short, “Carlos,” that explores how micro-mobility is transforming the lives of its users, was shortlisted for both best non-fiction short at Cannes Lions and Best Branded Content at the Tribeca X Award. Most recent solo exhibitions include two mixed media shows at The Hole NYC. Her latest albums include collaboration with musician John Kirby (Solange Knowles, Frank Ocean, Blood Orange, Sebastian Tellier) to direct, perform and produce music for their audio visual album, ‘Drool', and her solo ambient album and short film ‘Formless', both released on Terrible Records, with screenings and performances across Australia, LA and New York City. She lives in Los Angeles.

We're talking about the Hermès Birkin lawsuit, Kim K's $40k bag on the ground at a Lakers game, the Alexander Wang boots Beatrice just had to have (and then Rosemary had to copy and, er, also have), and H&M and the stranglehold its sequined goods seem to have on Beatrice every. Single. Season. Plus! Who, exactly, is allowed to buy a Rolex? Is taking Hermès to court the kind of classless action that shows you don't deserve a Birkin to begin with? And why don't Hermès employees earn commission on Birkins????? (We can't answer that last question but if you can, we're all ears!)If you have questions, queries, comments, critiques, email them to us! Get us at notwithoutmysis@gmail.com. And while you're at it, leave us a five-star review! We love those (and those who post them).The best time to join our Patreon was yesterday. BUT THE SECOND BEST TIME IS TODAY! patreon.com/notwithoutmysister – patrons get bonus content, ad-free listening and more.Email us notwithoutmysis@gmail.com or DM us on Instagram @notwithoutmysister. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Craig and Lee discuss Oakridge Park's transformation into a luxury retail hub, as revealed in their latest podcast. The announcement includes a mix of luxury and upper contemporary brands, such as Christian Louboutin, Miu Miu, Alexander Wang, Maison Margiela, and Versace, marking a significant upscale shift for the shopping center. With about 20% of its retail space dedicated to luxury brands, Oakridge is set to become an exclusive mall attracting wealthy clientele. Craig shares insights from Crystal Burns of Quad Real, emphasizing the strategic positioning of Oakridge Park in Vancouver's retail scene. The podcast delves into the unusual strategy of announcing retailers in batches, a rare occurrence in Canada according to Craig's experience. He compares Oakridge's approach to Royal Mount in Montreal, noting the significance of such announcements in today's retail market. The discussion extends to the introduction of new-to-market brands and the implications for Vancouver's luxury retail landscape, highlighting the city's capacity to support this influx of high-end retailers. Craig and Lee further explore the presence of existing brands in downtown Vancouver and their expansion to Oakridge, including Louis Vuitton, Prada, and others. They ponder the future of luxury retail in Vancouver, considering the potential for market share shifts between downtown and Oakridge. With excitement, Craig anticipates future announcements and the development's impact, drawing parallels with Royal Mount in Montreal. The conversation concludes with optimism for Oakridge Park's contribution to Vancouver's status as a luxury retail destination, eagerly awaiting the project's completion and the arrival of new retailers. Discussed this episode:Oakridge Park in Vancouver Announces First Confirmed Luxury Retail Tenants Ahead of 2025 Grand Opening [Feature] This podcast is the audio version of the The Interview Series video podcasts by Retail Insider Canada are available through our Retail Insider YouTube Channel where you can subscribe and be notified when new video episodes are available. Subscribe, Rate, and Review our Retail Insider Podcast! Follow Craig:LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/CraigPattersonTorontoInstagram: @craig_patterson_torontoTwitter: @RI_EICFollow Retail Insider:LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/Retail-InsiderFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/RetailInsider/Twitter: @RetailInsider_Instagram: @Retail_Insider_CanadaListen & Subscribe:Apple PodcastsSpotifyOvercastStitcherShare your thoughts!Drop us a line at Craig@Retail-Insider.com. You can also rate us in Apple Podcasts or recommend us in Overcast to help more people discover the show!Background Music Credit: Hard Boiled Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

You know a brand is on the rise when you open your Instagram and see almost every creator you love wearing their designs. From Sofia Richie Grainge to Tinx, this was the case for Tae Park, a Brooklyn-based brand that specializes in vintage-inspired pieces with a modern flair. From growing up in Southeast Asia, to interning for the likes of Alexander Wang and Proenza Schouler, to now running her own business, Tae Park and I sit down to talk about what it takes to be an emerging designer in the industry today. We also talk about which business models are successfully working for her, what influences her viral pieces, and how to balance being a creative with running your own business. Shop Tae Park here https://www.tae-park.com/Love the show? Follow us and leave a review! And for more behind-the-scenes, follow Liv on Instagram, @LivvPerez. Produced by Dear MediaThis episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct, or indirect financial interest in products, or services referred to in this episode.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This episode has MANY Phone A Friend FIRSTS! Our FIRST Real Housewife Jessel Taank tells Jessi why she would never trash Jenna Lyons, why she refused to have sex after childbirth and why she is not “The Villain” (even if you think she is). Then she gives Jessi a Housewives Tagline, FINALLY! Plus, for the first time in Jessi's lifetime… she talks about football. (As it relates to Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift, obvs).And it's a TV spectacular! Jessi watched ‘The Golden Bachelor' and she might be in love, she watched ‘Naked Attraction' and she's definitely a prude, and she watched Heidi and Spencer in their Meryl Streep Era. All that plus Selling The OC, Britney dancing with knives, Cardi B saying #MeBoo and MORE- do NOT pair your Alexander Wang with your Balenciaga but DO enjoy this episode!As always, leave Jessi a VOICEMAIL about ANYTHING: 323-448-0068 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We talk with the fantastically talented, warm-hearted Jeanette Hayes about commonalities for women in history, looking at stuff, where Bratz intersects with Picasso, and the fact that sometimes hard drives just die. Jeanette Hayes (b. 1988) is a painter/multimedia artist based in New York. Originally from Chicago, Hayes moved to NYC and received a BFA from Pratt Institute. Her work addresses the traditional preservation of non-traditional technological and pop imagery through painting, video, digital manipulation, and Internet collages. Hayes' interests include cultural phenomena and the confrontation of conventionality and subject matter. Her fascination with the imagery we each navigate through everyday and their correlations to civilization and ownership. With international solo shows in Italy, France and Belgium, Hayes has also been included in an exhibition at the Spirit Museum in Stockholm and shown at various galleries in New York and Los Angeles including: Half Gallery, M+B Gallery, Allouche Gallery, The Hole, The National Arts Club and more. In 2019, Hayes was curated by the Culture Corps to create a public art installation at the Hudson Yards in New York, which was on view for one year. Jeanette Hayes has made animated GIFs and videos for Proenza Schouler, CHANEL, Alexander Wang, Cynthia Rowley, Vogue and Opening Ceremony. She has won artist sponsorships from BlackBerry and Blick Art and was chosen by Purple magazine to create their artist book in 2016, which she titled "five". Hayes has been featured in the New York Times, Vogue Japan, i-D, Complex Magazine, Interview Magazine, Dazed, Purple Magazine, Paper Magazine, Playboy and TimeOut New York chose Hayes as one of the “5 most important new artists in New York City.” Jeanette Hayes lives and works in New York City.

Over the course of her career, Felita Harris has held senior executive roles at some of the most esteemed fashion houses including Donna Karan Collection and Alexander Wang. Today, she utilizes her breadth of experience to give back, both as a Chief Strategy and Revenue Consultant at her company Felita Harris Consultancy, and as a founding board member at RAISEfashion, a nonprofit dedicated to uplifting BIPOC designers and advancing equity in the fashion world. In this interview, we discuss Felita's entry into the fashion industry, how she's navigated confidence boosts and busts alike, and how she's shifted in her career from seeking position to seeking purpose. Don't miss this episode where we talk about:How living abroad in Italy for three years as a teenager taught Felita to explore and helped her find her voiceThe moment she decided to transfer schools and start a career in fashionTrusting the process, how to navigate career wins and pivot points, and how the people you meet along the way will push you to where you need to beFelita's experiences working for major fashion houses including Donna Karan Collection, Alexander Wang, and Lela RoseThe work Felita is doing now through her consultancy agency and RAISEfashion, and her mission to lead with philanthropy Find Felita Harris:www.felitaharris.comIG: @msfelitaharrisLinkedIn: Felita HarrisFollow Lydia:www.lydiafenet.comIG: @lydiafenetLinkedIn: Lydia Fenet

Over the course of her career, Felita Harris has held senior executive roles at some of the most esteemed fashion houses including Donna Karan Collection and Alexander Wang. Today, she utilizes her breadth of experience to give back, both as a Chief Strategy and Revenue Consultant at her company Felita Harris Consultancy, and as a founding board member at RAISEfashion, a nonprofit dedicated to uplifting BIPOC designers and advancing equity in the fashion world. In this interview, we discuss Felita's entry into the fashion industry, how she's navigated confidence boosts and busts alike, and how she's shifted in her career from seeking position to seeking purpose. Don't miss this episode where we talk about: How living abroad in Italy for three years as a teenager taught Felita to explore and helped her find her voice The moment she decided to transfer schools and start a career in fashion Trusting the process, how to navigate career wins and pivot points, and how the people you meet along the way will push you to where you need to be Felita's experiences working for major fashion houses including Donna Karan Collection, Alexander Wang, and Lela Rose The work Felita is doing now through her consultancy agency and RAISEfashion, and her mission to lead with philanthropy  Find Felita Harris: www.felitaharris.com IG: @msfelitaharris LinkedIn: Felita Harris Follow Lydia: www.lydiafenet.com IG: @lydiafenet LinkedIn: Lydia Fenet Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: https://bit.ly/ClaimYourConfidencePodcast If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: https://bit.ly/ClaimYourConfidencePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, we sit down with Kylie Vonnahme, Founder of Undo The Booze, Model, and Co-Host of The Not So Simple Life. Kylie moved to NYC at age 17 to study at Pace University and launch her modeling career, where she debuted with Alexander Wang, Versace, and Chanel, and has landed on the covers of Vogue Mexico and Harper's BAZAAR. Hear how Kylie progressed in her modeling career, how her entrepreneurial spirit led to Undo The Booze, how it works like magic at weddings and bachelorette parties, her favorite podcast episodes, and how to hint to your significant other you're ready for them to pop the question.   Learn more about Kylie: UndoSupplements.com (use code: Loverly for 10% off) The Not So Simple Life Instagram @KylieVonnahme @UndoTheBooze @TheNotSoSimpleLifePodcast   Planning a wedding? It's time to plan smarter with Loverly's free wedding planning platform. From a comprehensive wedding checklists to guest list management and vendor manager, we've got everything you need to make your special day unforgettable. Need a wedding website? We got a special promotion with our friends at Minted! Get a free upgrade with promo code: LOVERLYPREMWW Let's be friends follow us on IG --> @Loverly We're on TikTok --> @Loverly

Talia Shuvalov is an accomplished Creative Director in the fashion industry and the co-founder of EREDE Official, a fine jewelry line launching in July 2023. Talia was most recently the SVP of Design and Creative at Alexander Wang overseeing all product design for the company. Talia has specialized in knitwear throughout her career, and is well known for her integral role in the growth of this category at companies such as Alexander Mcqueen, Narciso Rodriguez, Opening Ceremony, Theory, Dion Lee & Area NYC to name a few. She is renowned for her ability to achieve innovative design that exemplifies commercial viability.  On this episode, Talia talks with Karen Ruenitz about how spending time as a kid on the floor of her grandparents' factory led her to pursue a career in knitwear.

Comedian Corinne Fisher is back talking the problematic Karl Lagerfeld homages at the Met Gala, another "family friend" who murdered his teenage neighbors, Nazis masking up like little babies at a protest, a trans runner whose victory may not be as shocking as the news is making it out to be, and so much more!Original Air Date: 5/2/23Support Our Sponsors!Yo Delta - https://yodelta.com/ - Use promo code GAS for 25% off your order!You can watch Without A Country LIVE for FREE every Tuesday at 7:00pm at GaSDigitalNetwork.com/live. Once you're there, sign up for GaSDigitalNetwork.com with promo code WAC to receive a 7 Day FREE TRIAL with access to our entire catalog of archived episodes! On top of that, you'll also have the same access to ALL the other shows that GaS Digital Network has to offer!**PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, RATE & REVIEW ON iTUNES & SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL**WHERE YOU CAN ANNOY US:Corinne Fisher:Twitter: https://twitter.com/PhilanthropyGalInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/philanthropygal/Executive Producer: Mike HarringtonInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/themharrington/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheMHarringtonEngineer: JorgeEditor: Rebecca KaplanInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rebeccatkaplan/Special Thanks: GaS DigitalInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/gasdigital/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gasdigitalEnemy of the State: Karl LagerfeldFrom The Guardian:The late creative director of Chanel, who died in 2019, was a behemoth in the fashion world. Yet his list of accomplishments was almost as long as his list of controversies. He said he was “fed up” with the #MeToo movement and questioned the claims of victims who came forward during that time. “What shocks me most in all of this are the starlets who have taken 20 years to remember what happened,” Lagerfeld told Numero Magazine. “Not to mention the fact there are no prosecution witnesses.”“One cannot – even if there are decades between them – kill millions of Jews so you can bring millions of their worst enemies in their place,” Lagerfeld, who was German, said in 2017. He had apparently taken issue with then German chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to allow Syrian refugees into Germany at the time. “I know someone in Germany who took a young Syrian and after four days said: ‘The greatest thing Germany invented was the Holocaust,'” he added.As Rachel Tashjian notes in the Washington Post, Wintour has gone out of her way to champion designers who have been embroiled in the worst of scandals. That list includes John Galliano, Balenciaga designer Demna and Alexander Wang, who was accused in late 2020 of drugging and sexually assaulting several victims. Wang has denied the allegations made against him. Wintour dutifully sat in the front row of his comeback show.Some thoughts: https://fashionmagazine.com/style/celebrity-style/karl-lagerfeld-controversy-met-gala-2023/MET GALAhttps://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/met-gala-history-how-it-turned-from-fundraiser-to-fashions-biggest-night-1235167840/Bodies, Bodies, Bodieshttps://www.cnn.com/2023/05/02/us/henryetta-oklahoma-seven-bodies-found-tuesday/index.htmlNazis in Columbus, Ohiohttps://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/neo-nazi-group-protests-columbus-223840382.htmlCongress Pay Scamhttps://nypost.com/2023/04/30/congress-unconstitutional-pay-scam-gets-members-34k-raises/Lois Frankelhttps://www.newsweek.com/democrat-sold-first-republic-stock-bought-jp-morgan-before-collapse-1797676Trans RunnerRIGHThttps://www.foxnews.com/sports/transgender-female-runner-beat-14000-women-london-marathon-offers-give-medal-backLEFThttps://www.advocate.com/media/transgender-woman-runner-london-marathonSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

With a career spanning numerous top companies including The New York Times, Vogue, Alexander Wang, and now Google, Stephanie Horton is a master of adapting to – and excelling in – every role she takes on. In this interview, we discuss how Stephanie found her path in business school and her first job in marketing, her views on the importance of partnerships and networking, and how she finds the confidence to continually expand her career and learn new things. Don't miss this episode where we talk about:The importance of establishing, growing, and protecting your network, and how Stephanie's network has supported her throughout her careerHer experiences finding her passion at her first job, and the moment when she first realized how partnerships can expand your reach How knowing what you're good and what you bring to the table is key in having the confidence needed to push yourself out of your comfort zone and take on a new role or positionThe countless projects, such as Vogue 100, that she's established and grown, the knowledge she gained from them, and how oftentimes finding connections within her network helped her projects succeedHer time at Gotham, The New York Times, Vogue, ShopBop, FarFetch, Alexander Wang, and now Google – and how she's bringing her love of giving back to her community to her current positionFind Stephanie Horton LinkedIn: Stephanie HortonIG: @shorton007Twitter: @shorton007Follow Lydia:www.lydiafenet.comIG: @lydiafenetLinkedIn: Lydia FenetDon't forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: https://bit.ly/ClaimYourConfidencePodcastIf you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: https://bit.ly/ClaimYourConfidencePodcastLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With a career spanning numerous top companies including The New York Times, Vogue, Alexander Wang, and now Google, Stephanie Horton is a master of adapting to – and excelling in – every role she takes on. In this interview, we discuss how Stephanie found her path in business school and her first job in marketing, her views on the importance of partnerships and networking, and how she finds the confidence to continually expand her career and learn new things. Don't miss this episode where we talk about: The importance of establishing, growing, and protecting your network, and how Stephanie's network has supported her throughout her career Her experiences finding her passion at her first job, and the moment when she first realized how partnerships can expand your reach  How knowing what you're good and what you bring to the table is key in having the confidence needed to push yourself out of your comfort zone and take on a new role or position The countless projects, such as Vogue 100, that she's established and grown, the knowledge she gained from them, and how oftentimes finding connections within her network helped her projects succeed Her time at Gotham, The New York Times, Vogue, ShopBop, FarFetch, Alexander Wang, and now Google – and how she's bringing her love of giving back to her community to her current position Find Stephanie Horton  LinkedIn: Stephanie Horton IG: @shorton007 Twitter: @shorton007 Follow Lydia: www.lydiafenet.com IG: @lydiafenet LinkedIn: Lydia Fenet Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: https://bit.ly/ClaimYourConfidencePodcast If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: https://bit.ly/ClaimYourConfidencePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What happens when you don't take a no for an answer and look at it with a win-win mindset? Answer: Great partnerships. Felita Harris is a forward-thinking executive with extensive experience driving sustainable revenue growth, formulating business strategies, and cultivating collaborative partnerships. During her career, Felita has served in senior positions, including those of Chief Strategy and Revenue Officer at Harlem's Fashion Row (HFR)/ICON360, Executive Vice President of Alexander Wang, and Senior Vice President of Donna Karan Collection (LVMH), where we worked together side by side for over a decade. She has a track record of increasing revenue, identifying innovative business opportunities, and cultivating partnerships with brands such as LVMH, Tapestry Group, Amazon, Nordstrom, and Pinterest. In this episode, Felita discusses her journey in fashion and her experience as a Black woman who was supported early on for her talent and potential. Felita credits the leaders who provided her with mentorship, networking opportunities, and a sense of inclusion. From this experience, she believes that if black and brown individuals are given the same tools and opportunities, they too can feel and experience the same sense of belonging and success she has felt throughout her career. In addition, we learn how Felita expertly taps her network and connects with one person to get to the next and next to get the introductions needed to make her projects happen. Felita also shares the difficult decisions she has made and why it's imperative NOT to get paralyzed in the now and to make any decision to see another tomorrow. Felita is passionate about professional development and building a pipeline for marginalized and underrepresented businesses in a constantly evolving industry. In 2020, she earned a certificate from Cornell University in Diversity and Inclusion. Felita is a founding member of RAISEfashion, a nonprofit network of fashion industry leaders that provide pro-bono consultation to Black-owned businesses and individuals. Additionally, she is a thought leader for Open to All®, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the principle that everyone should be welcomed regardless of race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, immigration status, religion, or disability. She advises brands in wholesale strategy, pipeline programs, merchandising, and diversity & inclusion. Among her business achievement awards are Fashion Group International Hilldun Business Innovation, Luxury Daily Women to Watch, Accessories Council Design Excellence Awards for Tech Innovation, BRAG, and Girl Scouts of Greater New York Women of Distinction.

Even Julia Fox's biggest stans are done with her after she walked in the Alexander Wang show at fashion week, Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Fox seem to be on the outs, a Taylor Swift lookalike is asking people to sign a petition to end bullying, Trisha Paytas cosplayed as a KFC worker, Joe Rogan's bizarre funeral wishes, and the disappearance of Nicola Bulley. We have merch! LINKS!! Megan Fox deletes all pics of her & MGK, plus Beyonce lyrics before deactivating her IG @exposingrich on Twitter made a thread of all the possible abuse red flags Breakdown from @drugproblem, formally @cocainecross Alexander Wang branded a 'stain on New York' Julia Fox stan Twitter account quits after she stands by Wang The Stan Accounts joining forces Patreon bonus about Ashley Leechin/Grammy's with Nora McInerny Swiftes are slamming ‘delusional' Taylor Swift lookalike for thinking she was invited to the Grammys. They believe she's stalking her and are encouraging TS to get a restraining order “It's Just Ashley” aka Ashley Leechin made a change.org petition to clear herself of these accusations  Teacher chimes in on why editing Ashley's petition is problematic  Trisha Paytas goes viral for KFC cosplay Nicola Bulley timeline of events The TikTok Sleuths terrorizing a small village  Old clip of Joe Rogan's wishes for his funeral arrangements Follow us on TikTok, Instagram and Twitter

Danielle Sherman is the founder of the fine jewelry line Sherman Field, known for dreamy hand-linked chains, textured-gold photo lockets, and one-of-a-kind stone earrings and rings. But in addition to her reputation as one of the premier fine jewelers within the fashion industry, Sherman has a wild fashion résumé, which includes co-founding The Row with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, working as the head designer at Alexander Wang, and serving as the creative director for Edun. She's here to talk about it all, from how she got her start in the industry at just 16 to what to look for when investing in your own fine jewelry.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Danielle Sherman is the founder of the fine jewelry line Sherman Field, known for dreamy hand-linked chains, textured-gold photo lockets, and one-of-a-kind stone earrings and rings. But in addition to her reputation as one of the premier fine jewelers within the fashion industry, Sherman has a wild fashion résumé, which includes co-founding The Row with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, working as the head designer at Alexander Wang, and serving as the creative director for Edun. She's here to talk about it all, from how she got her start in the industry at just 16 to what to look for when investing in your own fine jewelry.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.