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From the start, the greatest fear for those developing artificial intelligence was that their creations would go rogue to act in unauthorized and dangerous ways. Some researchers now say it has happened. Kevin Roose, a technology columnist for The New York Times, explains what this means for his own dwindling sense of techno-optimism. Guest: Kevin Roose, a technology columnist for The New York Times and a host of the Times tech podcast, “Hard Fork.” Background reading: Anatomy of an autonomous attack: five alarming A.I. capabilities. A previous episode of “The Daily” looked at the debate in Silicon Valley over the right way to build artificial intelligence. Photo: Lucas Foglia for The New York Times For more information on today's episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Scott Galloway speaks with journalist and author Josh Tyrangiel about how AI is already saving lives, modernizing government, and transforming warfare – and why its most important applications look nothing like the revolution Silicon Valley promised. They also discuss China's strategy to undercut American AI companies, the coming disruption to white-collar work, and whether relying on AI could hollow out the next generation's ability to think for themselves. His latest book, AI for Good: How Real People Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Things That Matter, is out now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A rancher outside Kansas City put collars on 30 cows and went from moving them every two days to every four or five days on the same ground, at the same cow condition. That is double the carrying capacity overnight, and we spent most of this episode on how virtual fencing works and what it costs. The collar runs $280 plus a subscription. Users report getting back 8 to 10 hours a week. The GPS is accurate to about 4 or 5 feet, which is roughly one fat cow in any direction. One challenger cow averaged 800 sound warnings a day for three weeks, about one every 30 seconds she was awake, while other cows in the same group got one a week. When a cow does get out, she is back inside 80 percent of the time within 5 to 10 minutes, because her friends are still there. There are around 6,000 of these collars in North America and they only started selling here in June. Then we put the skeptic hat on. What happens to your herd if the company runs out of money. Who owns the data. Why he tells customers to never trust a virtual fence alone along a highway, because the liability is too big. And what happens to cattlemen when Silicon Valley decides cattle are a robotics problem. Also in this one: an engineer who quit a VP title in Norway, visa on Monday and a plane on Friday, a farmhouse built in 1318 and the man who will not give it up, why so many farmers keep a town job for the insurance, and what a Norwegian thinks of American water, groceries, and youth sports. Low profit is the one problem every farmer in every country has in common. The other is that not one of them thinks he owns the land. What do you want us to dig into next week? Drop it in the comments and we read them. JOIN THE BARN TALK NEWSLETTER & GET LIVE EVENT ACCESS: We're on a mission to get 10,000 subscribers, and once we do, we're hosting a live event at the barn! Sign up to get exclusive access to tickets and details.
Paris' new book Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech's Data Empires is coming out on October 20. To celebrate, we're revisiting the series that planted the seeds for his deep dive into hyperscale data centers, the communities they're affecting, and the future Silicon Valley is trying to build. This is episode 1 of Data Vampires, a special four-part series from Tech Won't Save Us.The show is hosted by Paris Marx. Original production on Data Vampires was by Eric Wickham. Current production is by Kyla Hewson. Support the show on Patreon.Also mentioned in this episode:Preorder Hyperscale to support Paris at hyperscalebook.com.Senior cloud consultant Dwayne Monroe and Associate Professor in Economics Cecilia Rikap were interviewed for this episode.If you missed it, check out Cecilia Rikap's latest chat with Paris here and grab her book The Rulers.Interviews with Jeff Bezos and The Oregonian journalist Mike Rogoway were cited.Support the show
In this episode, you'll learn from Fredrik Härén, "The Creativity Explorer," a Swedish creativity expert who has spent 25 years traveling to 75 countries interviewing people to learn as much as he can about human creativity. Fredrik is the author of ten books, including "The Idea Book," which was included in "The 100 Best Business Books of All Time," and he has been invited to speak more than 2000 times in 75 countries on six continents. As The Creativity Explorer, he aims to discover more about creativity, be it from innovators in Silicon Valley or nomads in the desert of Mongolia. His latest book is called "The World of Creativity" – a journey across 37 countries to discover the secret of creative minds. You'll also discover how a mispronunciation from his young son led to his signature nickname, and why he believes "explorer" captures the creative mindset better than "expert" ever could. Along the way, you'll pick up the etymological roots of curiosity across English, Icelandic, and Bulgarian, and understand why questioning, rather than answering, may be the real engine behind creative thinking. Finally, you'll come away with an unconventional philosophy on timing and opportunity, including the surprising nautical origin of the word "opportunity" itself. The conversation closes with a preview of his new book, The World of Creativity, and his core piece of advice for women navigating midlife.
We explore the new ideological divide between Silicon Valley's techno-optimists and institutional economists like Daron Acemoglu. Will AI drive shared prosperity or concentrate wealth among a new technocratic elite? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Today, a look at markets pausing to take a breath after the recent brutal rise in bond yields. The biggest mover Wednesday and Thursday was the Japanese yen on an apparent fresh round of intervention, although some interesting dynamics are at play in the Japanese government bond market as well. Elsewhere, a look at extreme bifurcation in AI stories for single names after earnings reports. A big focus on macro and FX and much more on today's pod, which is hosted by Saxo Global Head of Macro Strategy John J. Hardy. Links Breathlessly enthusiastic Silicon Valley types talk up the most optimistic outlook for AI I have heard anywhere. Who am I to say they won't be right, but it was a bit nauseating listening, nonetheless with interesting details here and there. Gil Duran wrote the ingeniously titled Nerd Reich, a book charging that a tech oligarchy is undermining our democratic institutions and trying to establish a techno-authoritarian state. He traces the intellectual backdrop of its adherents like Peter Thiel, etc. A long form youtube video of the author himself talking about the book. An exchange on X about China's huge debt load and its implications depending on how it is unwound - Japanese-style or otherwise. The deepest of dives on "what really happened at Jackson Hole" - not the ramblings of Fed Chair Warsh, but rather on the actual theme of Jackson Hole this year, which was Financial Innovation: Implications for Payments and Policy. Read daily in-depth market updates from the Saxo Market Call and the Saxo Strategy Team here. Please reach out to us at marketcall@saxobank.com for feedback and questions. Click here to open an account with Saxo. Intro music by AShamaluevMusic DISCLAIMER This content is marketing material. Trading financial instruments carries risks. Always ensure that you understand these risks before trading. This material does not contain investment advice or an encouragement to invest in a particular manner. Historic performance is not a guarantee of future results. The instrument(s) referenced in this content may be issued by a partner, from whom Saxo Bank A/S receives promotional fees, payment or retrocessions. While Saxo may receive compensation from these partnerships, all content is created with the aim of providing clients with valuable information and options.
In this episode, we sit down with Zeus Kajita to explore the intersection of entrepreneurship, business development, international markets, and personal performance. Zeus shares his journey as an entrepreneur and business builder, including the lessons he has learned developing partnerships and creating opportunities across different industries and cultures. We discuss what separates exceptional business developers from those who struggle to gain traction—and whether relationships and referrals can truly fuel a company's growth or eventually need to be supported by a more systematic sales and marketing engine. The conversation also examines the difficult transition from employee to entrepreneur. For professionals building businesses on the side, when is it time to make the leap and go all-in? Can a company realistically be built while maintaining a full-time career, and what mistakes should aspiring founders avoid? With experience spanning multiple markets, Zeus discusses how entrepreneurs can identify opportunities by looking beyond their home market. We explore how ideas and business models can travel between countries, why studying other cultures can uncover opportunities that others overlook, and how international perspectives can influence innovation. A major focus of the conversation is the relationship between Silicon Valley and Japan. What should Silicon Valley founders understand before entering the Japanese market? What cultural differences can create unexpected challenges? And what aspects of Japanese business culture—such as relationship-building, patience, trust, and long-term thinking—could make Silicon Valley startups stronger? We also turn the question around: what can Japan learn from Silicon Valley's approach to innovation, risk-taking, and entrepreneurship? Looking ahead, Zeus shares his perspective on where investors and founders should be watching for opportunities in Japan over the next five to ten years. Finally, we discuss an often-overlooked component of entrepreneurial performance: health and well-being. Zeus shares how hydration, physical health, and daily habits can influence productivity, decision-making, and long-term leadership performance. This episode is a conversation about building businesses—but also about building the relationships, perspective, and personal foundation required to sustain them. Connect with Zeus Kajita LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/azkajita/ #SiliconValley #Entrepreneurship #BusinessDevelopment #Japan #InternationalBusiness #Startups #Founders #MergersAndAcquisitions #VentureCapital #Leadership Disclaimer: The views expressed in this podcast are for informational purposes only. They do not constitute financial or legal advice, nor do they necessarily reflect the views of Finalis Inc. or Finalis Securities LLC, Member FINRA/SIPC.
Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
AI transformation should start with business value, not technology. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Derrick Pledger, Chief Digital and Information Officer of Maximus, about how he is reimagining work for an AI-driven enterprise. Derrick explains why Maximus defines ROI before launching AI pilots, how the company evaluates whether legacy processes can survive in an agentic world, and why every employee receives AI training. He also discusses building a failure-friendly innovation culture, bringing Silicon Valley capabilities into government environments, and using technology to improve citizen and mission outcomes. For CIOs navigating pressure to turn AI investment into measurable results, Derrick offers a clear mandate: start with the value you intend to create. This episode is presented by ElevenLabs — Bringing technology to life. Learn more at elevenlabs.io This episode is also presented by Retool — Build internal software better, with AI. Learn more at retool.com
La société sous influence, le pouvoir, la surveillance, et ceux qui l'assument - Partie 2Qui gouverne ?En 2010, Peter Thiel expliquait qu'on pouvait changer le monde sans avoir à convaincre personne, grâce à la technologie. En 2025, Joe Biden prévenait qu'une oligarchie était en train de s'installer aux États-Unis.Pour comprendre ce qui se joue entre les deux, cet épisode plonge dans l'histoire du pouvoir. Avec quels outils on domine des gens, de l'Europe médiévale à la Silicon Valley en passant par la Chine ? Quelles sont les mécaniques et les principes du pouvoir ? Quelles sont les idées de cette nouvelle classe d'entrepreneurs de la tech, héritiers des libertariens ? Et surtout, qu'est-ce que l'IA change ?Ce qui nous a protégés jusqu'ici, c'est que les puissants avaient besoin de nous. Ce besoin est peut-être en train de disparaître.L'épisode le plus politique de la série.Enregistré le 03/09/2026Au programme dans cette série : La machine qui parle, comment cette technologie a basculé dans nos vies.Qu'appelle-t-on IA ? Ce que c'est, et ce que ce n'est pas.AGI, le rêve et la peur, cette super-intelligence qu'on nous promet.La course et ses bâtisseurs, l'argent, le récit, ceux qui tiennent la barre.La mégamachine, le corps physique de l'IA, ce qu'elle consomme, ce qu'elle rejette.L'humain sous assistance, ce que ça nous fait, à nous, individuellement.Le monde commun, ce que l'IA fait à la vérité partagée et au lien entre nous.La société sous influence, le pouvoir, la surveillance, et ceux qui l'assument.Qu'est-ce que l'intelligence ? Le pas de côté philosophique.Que peut-on encore choisir ? Ce qui reste possible.Une série pour les curieux, les inquiets, les enthousiastes lucides, et tous ceux qui sentent que cette histoire les concerne, sans toujours savoir par où la prendre.---Retrouvez tous les épisodes et les résumés sur www.sismique.frSismique est un podcast indépendant créé et animé par Julien Devaureix.
La société sous influence, le pouvoir, la surveillance, et ceux qui l'assument - Partie 1Qui gouverne ?En 2010, Peter Thiel expliquait qu'on pouvait changer le monde sans avoir à convaincre personne, grâce à la technologie. En 2025, Joe Biden prévenait qu'une oligarchie était en train de s'installer aux États-Unis.Pour comprendre ce qui se joue entre les deux, cet épisode plonge dans l'histoire du pouvoir. Avec quels outils on domine des gens, de l'Europe médiévale à la Silicon Valley en passant par la Chine ? Quelles sont les mécaniques et les principes du pouvoir ? Quelles sont les idées de cette nouvelle classe d'entrepreneurs de la tech, héritiers des libertariens ? Et surtout, qu'est-ce que l'IA change ?Ce qui nous a protégés jusqu'ici, c'est que les puissants avaient besoin de nous. Ce besoin est peut-être en train de disparaître.L'épisode le plus politique de la série.Enregistré le 03/09/2026Au programme dans cette série : La machine qui parle, comment cette technologie a basculé dans nos vies.Qu'appelle-t-on IA ? Ce que c'est, et ce que ce n'est pas.AGI, le rêve et la peur, cette super-intelligence qu'on nous promet.La course et ses bâtisseurs, l'argent, le récit, ceux qui tiennent la barre.La mégamachine, le corps physique de l'IA, ce qu'elle consomme, ce qu'elle rejette.L'humain sous assistance, ce que ça nous fait, à nous, individuellement.Le monde commun, ce que l'IA fait à la vérité partagée et au lien entre nous.La société sous influence, le pouvoir, la surveillance, et ceux qui l'assument.Qu'est-ce que l'intelligence ? Le pas de côté philosophique.Que peut-on encore choisir ? Ce qui reste possible.Une série pour les curieux, les inquiets, les enthousiastes lucides, et tous ceux qui sentent que cette histoire les concerne, sans toujours savoir par où la prendre.---Retrouvez tous les épisodes et les résumés sur www.sismique.frSismique est un podcast indépendant créé et animé par Julien Devaureix.
What actually happens when the internet stops working? Not the brief flicker-of-wifi kind, but a real digital pandemic - solar storms, satellite collisions, and heat waves taking out the servers holding your bank account, your health records and your group chats hostage. That's the world ITU Deputy Secretary-General Tomas Lamanauskas has been mapping in the International Telecommunication Union's new Digital Risk Report, and it turns out digital resilience is now squarely a trade and infrastructure story, not just an IT problem. Ardian and Rob talk to Lamanauskas about why the ITU is borrowing pandemic language to describe outages, the mechanics of Kessler Syndrome (yes, the Gravity/Armageddon scenario), why submarine cables need their own 42-expert international advisory board, and why "analog skills" - like knowing how to function without WhatsApp for an afternoon - are suddenly a policy conversation. Before the interview, Ardian and Rob run through this month's "What Went Wrong": why the FT thinks Swiss manufacturing faces a harder question than tariffs alone - namely, what "Swiss made" actually means once companies like Bernina start moving production to Thailand while keeping the engineering at home. They also cover Switzerland's newly upgraded free trade agreement with China, which pushes Swiss duty-free access to the Chinese market from roughly 50% to 99.8%, and the US-Canada trade collapse that the Wall Street Journal has dubbed "the stupidest trade war ever" - 50% tariffs on Canadian goods and cars, retaliatory tariffs starting September 8th, and China's opportunistic pitch to Ottawa as the more predictable trading partner. Plus: listener feedback on sustainable aviation fuel and greenwashing, Silicon Valley's new favorite recession indicator (limited-edition AI-branded Tudor watches), and a bridge in France that gives oversized vehicles a very unwanted haircut. Listen to episode 92 of Trade Splaining wherever you get your podcasts, and let us know what you think at tradesplaining@gmail.com.
In this episode of Run the Numbers, CJ sits down with leadership coach and former Akamai executive Andy Ellis. They break down why being indispensable can actually hurt your career, why managers shouldn't automatically replace someone who leaves, how hero-villain thinking leads to bad decisions, and what great delegation and leadership actually look like.—SPONSORS:Rillet is an AI-native ERP built for modern finance teams that want to replace NetSuite and close faster. With revenue recognition, close management, multi-entity support, and native Stripe and Salesforce integrations, Rillet helps scaling companies run their finance stack in one place. Hundreds of teams, including Windsurf and Mercor, use Rillet to make the zero-day close real. Book a demo at https://www.rillet.com/cjMaximor is an autonomous finance platform that runs order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, the close, cash management, and reporting on self-learning agents instead of a dozen disconnected tools. One PE-backed customer posts 98% of transactions directly to its ERP, with the remaining 2% routed to a human for review. You pay for outcomes, not seats. See it at https://www.maximor.ai/Brex is an intelligent finance platform with AI-powered workflows that enforce expense policies at the point of sale, match receipts automatically, and reduce month-end close from weeks to hours. Thousands of companies, including Anthropic, Coinbase, and DoorDash, already run on Brex. Stop asking A-level finance talent to do B-level admin work. Learn more at https://www.brex.com/metricsAnrok is the sales tax platform that watches your exposure everywhere, automates compliance, and flags risk before it turns into a surprise back-tax letter from a state you've never set foot in. Companies like Anthropic, Notion, and Vanta already trust Anrok to stay ahead of rules that move faster than any spreadsheet can. Talk to a sales tax expert for a personalized exposure estimate at https://www.anrok.com/rtnRightRev is a revenue recognition platform built for the AI economy, helping finance support usage-based pricing, credits, hybrid contracts, seats plus consumption, and whatever commercial model comes next. It gives product teams the freedom to keep innovating without outdated revenue systems slowing them down. Learn how RightRev can help at https://rightrev.com/cjPulley is an equity management platform that lets you issue options, model dilution, and complete 409As without your cap table turning into a spreadsheet disaster. Founders raising, hiring, and scaling use Pulley to keep equity clean and stay focused on building. Learn more or request a demo at https://pulley.com/mostlymetricsEY has been part of Silicon Valley since it was just a valley, helping the most successful names in tech go from startup to exit to megacap. With teams across strategy, tax, audit, and transactions, EY helps you get your financials right early, long before your investors start asking for it. You build the next big thing, and EY will help you build it right. Learn more at https://www.ey.com/techstartups—LINKS: Mostly Talent: https://mostlymetrics.typeform.com/to/cLTxtAsNGuest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/csoandy/Company: https://www.csoandy.com/CJ: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cj-gustafson-13140948/Mostly metrics: https://www.mostlymetrics.com—TIMESTAMPS:0:00 Jero and Villain Stories1:43 Welcome to Run the Numbers2:53 Andy's Book: 1% Leadership7:44 Rule 1: Don't Replace People Immediately14:04 Rule 2: Don't Become Indispensable16:02 How Andy Learned to Speak Finance22:35 Rule 3: Don't Tell Yourself Hero/Villain Stories26:59 The 5K Race Mindset Shift31:01 Rule 4: Don't Overspecify Delegation35:59 Rule 5: Don't Obsess Over Your Strengths38:23 The Six Leadership Disciplines43:45 The Vendor Rebuff Email47:45 Why Leaders Avoid Saying No50:28 Story: The Guinness Bartender Promotion53:52 When Metrics Get Gamed54:11 Asking Better Questions Segment59:07 Where to Get the Book
What kind of company do you need to become when intelligence itself is no longer scarce? In this episode of the Balancing Act podcast, Andy speaks with Brian Solis, head of global innovation at ServiceNow and co-author of Infinite: How Visionary Leaders Transform Today's Businesses into AI-Forward Companies. A digital anthropologist and nine-time bestselling author, Brian has spent three decades in Silicon Valley mapping each major wave of technological change — and his warning here is that AI is quietly repeating the central failure of digital transformation. Companies digitized without ever transforming. Now they are automating without reimagining, and the gap between those two choices is going to decide which of them still matters in ten years. Tune in to episode 261 to hear why the org chart is giving way to what Brian calls a work chart, what an AI-native company already looks like in Silicon Valley today, the name he gives to what happens to your thinking when you hand it to a machine, and his answer for the capable, experienced leader who is quietly afraid of becoming obsolete. AndrewTemte.com
Ryan Nece runs Next Legacy, a $4 billion fund of funds that connects athletes and philanthropists with the top venture capital firms in the world.Ryan is the only player in NFL history to win a Super Bowl as a rookie and go 0-16 in his final season. His dad, Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott, started one of the first athlete-backed venture funds with Joe Montana in the late '90s.Ryan rebuilt that playbook a generation later, so almost nobody is better positioned to explain the similarities between pro athletes and the top founders / investors, how athletes actually break into Silicon Valley, the biggest mistakes they usually make, .Thanks to this episodes sponsors!Numeral: Sales tax on autopilot https://www.numeral.comFlex: Premium banking, 60-day credit, 0% APR https://home.flex.one/referral/bananacapitalAmplitude: AI analytics https://www.amplitude.comMerge: Every model, one API https://www.merge.dev/turnerMonaco: The revenue engine for startups https://www.monaco.com/Timestamps:(0:00) How a football family broke into Silicon Valley(4:33) A Super Bowl rookie year with four Hall of Famers(8:09) What separates the top 0.1% of athletes?(12:18) The mistake of having "a guy"(18:41) Vetting who to trust(20:18) The dumbest investments athletes make(22:45) How athletes can help founders(29:44) VC Power Law is just like sports(34:24) How to break in without connections(38:05) Building Next Legacy to $4B AUM(40:44) Why they give away all the profits(43:20) Early firm building mistakes(48:19) Learning to pitch institutional LP's(53:03) The emerging-manager barbell(55:45) “Your starting five tells me who you are”(57:47) The other AI: Authentic Interaction(59:55) Getting LP attention with the rule of three(1:03:40) Working the whisper network(1:06:03) Pick the kid who gets picked last(1:12:26) The Lions 0-16 season(1:14:43) The “Next Play” mindset(1:19:28) Mental toughness(1:21:32) What it's like commentating an NFL game(1:27:14) Getting cussed out by Warren Sapp(1:31:13) His favorite athlete: Jerry Rice(1:35:15) Abe Lincoln and his grandfather's restaurantsReferencedNext Legacy: https://www.nextlegacy.com/Give and Take: https://www.amazon.com/Give-Take-Helping-Others-Success/dp/0143124986Three Feet From from Gold: https://www.amazon.com/Three-Feet-Gold-Obstacles-Opportunities/dp/1402784791Team of Rivals: https://www.amazon.com/Team-Rivals-Political-Abraham-Lincoln/dp/0743270754Follow RyanTwitter: https://x.com/ryanneceLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-nece-abb07b8Follow TurnerTwitter: https://twitter.com/TurnerNovakLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/turnernovakSubscribe to my newsletter to get every episode + the transcript in your inbox every week: https://www.thespl.it/
Imagine a small town in rural Tennessee — a town square, a yellow brick courthouse, a family-owned restaurant, a café, and beautiful sunrises and sunsets across the Appalachian foothills.Now, imagine a group of far-right real estate developers — backed by Silicon Valley venture capital and with powerful ties to Washington — move into town. They have a vision to build a new kind of community and turn it into a haven for like-minded white Christians.That's what's happening in Gainesboro, Tennessee. And it's part of a growing movement by some far-right Christian nationalists to relocate to red states and turn small towns into white enclaves. Locals in Gainesboro are alarmed. They call it a “takeover.” And they are pushing back. That's the story of “Our Town,” a new Bloomberg investigative podcast series. We sit down with its hosts to talk about this takeover in Tennessee.Find more of our programs online. Listen to 1A sponsor-free by signing up for 1A+ at plus.npr.org/the1a.See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy
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What happens when language reaches beyond what we think we can say? David Whyte—poet, philosopher, and performer—joins Guy Kawasaki for a wide-ranging conversation about poetry, vulnerability, creativity, and the words that shape our lives. Whyte traces his unlikely journey from marine zoology in the Galápagos back to the poetry he began writing as a child, and explains why good poetry isn't something to understand so much as an experience to enter. He also shares the stories behind his poems and the provocative ideas in his new book, Consolations II. Along the way, he offers a powerful reminder that what we struggle to articulate may be exactly where our deepest insight begins.--Guy Kawasaki is on a mission to make you remarkable. His Remarkable People podcast features interviews with remarkable people such as Jane Goodall, Marc Benioff, Woz, Kristi Yamaguchi, and Bob Cialdini. Every episode will make you more remarkable.With his decades of experience in Silicon Valley as a Venture Capitalist and advisor to the top entrepreneurs in the world, Guy's questions come from a place of curiosity and passion for technology, start-ups, entrepreneurship, and marketing. If you love society and culture, documentaries, and business podcasts, take a second to follow Remarkable People.Listeners of the Remarkable People podcast will learn from some of the most successful people in the world with practical tips and inspiring stories that will help you be more remarkable.Episodes of Remarkable People organized by topic: https://bit.ly/rptopologyListen to Remarkable People here: **https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/guy-kawasakis-remarkable-people/id1483081827**Produced by Madisun Nuismer and Jeff Sieh. Research provided by Tessa Nuismer
What if the smartest deal of your career was the buyout you refused to close? That is the call Brad Kugler made when a Silicon Valley firm tried to acquire his marketing platform. The original offer valued his company at roughly 19 times profit, but when the buyer cut it 20 percent late in the process, Brad ended the deal, and thirty months later he has no regrets. Brad is the CEO of Direct Mail 2.0, Who's Mailing What, and DM20.ai, and a serial entrepreneur with more than 35 years of building businesses through constant change. Brad grew a VHS distribution company from a million dollars to 25 million before streaming rode it back to zero, an experience he says taught him more on the way down than on the way up. He carried that hard-won judgment into every deal that followed, including a full acquisition process with Symphony Technology Group that he ended when the buyer used a churn recalculation to cut the offer 20 percent. For Brad, the freedom to run his own company outweighed the cash, the culture mismatch, and three years under a private equity group. But Brad is far from deal-shy. He acquired Who's Mailing What, a direct mail intelligence platform running since 1984, for 20 percent below asking price, grew its revenue by 50 percent, and used its four-decade database as the foundation for DM20.ai. That tool runs three frontier AI models against each other to predict how a direct mail campaign will perform, all for about 50 dollars. With his core market shrinking, a printer list that fell from more than 11,000 names to 3,600 in nine years, Brad now grows by acquisition and joint venture rather than fighting for share in a capped market. For any entrepreneur weighing an exit, an acquisition, or a raise, this conversation offers a grounded look at how self-awareness shapes better deal decisions at every stage of a career. FOR MORE ON BRAD KUGLER: Website: https://www.dm20.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradkugler/ FOR MORE ON COREY KUPFER: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreykupfer/ https://www.coreykupfer.com/ Corey Kupfer is an expert strategist, negotiator, and dealmaker. He has more than 35 years of professional deal-making and negotiating experience. Corey is a successful entrepreneur, attorney, consultant, author, and professional speaker. He is deeply passionate about deal-driven growth. He is also the creator and host of the DealQuest Podcast. Get deal-ready with the DealQuest Podcast with Corey Kupfer, where like-minded entrepreneurs and business leaders converge, share insights and challenges, and success stories. Equip yourself with the tools, resources, and support necessary to navigate the complex yet rewarding world of dealmaking. Dive into the world of deal-driven growth today! Episode Highlights with Timestamps [00:03] - Introduction[03:54] - A VHS business from a million to 25 million to zero [11:24] - The 19x offer and the culture red flags [13:14] - Why he walked away [17:10] - A friend's exit and what money cannot buy [27:08] - Acquiring Who's Mailing What [38:16] - Growing by acquisition in a shrinking market [47:44] - What freedom means to Brad Guest Bio Brad Kugler is the CEO of Direct Mail 2.0, Who's Mailing What, and DM20.ai, three brands under one company dedicated to helping marketers and commercial printers get better results from direct mail. A lifelong entrepreneur and innovator with more than 35 years in business, Brad combines data, technology, and market intelligence to help businesses make smarter marketing decisions and uncover new growth opportunities. He grew a VHS distribution company from a million dollars to 25 million earlier in his career, and today he is focused on inorganic growth through acquisitions and joint ventures while building AI-driven tools for the direct mail industry.Keywords/Tags direct mail marketing, marketing technology, walking away from a deal, buy versus build, strategic acquisition, proprietary data, AI in marketing, DM20.ai, Who's Mailing What, growth by acquisition, joint ventures, shrinking market strategy, later-stage entrepreneur, exit strategy, self-awareness in business, deal-driven growth, Brad Kugler, DealQuest, Corey Kupfer
Overtime teaser ... Paul's military tech bona fides ... What we (should) have learned from the Iran war ... Ukraine as frontline for the drone revolution ... Are the robot wars near? ... America's drone deficit ... Does the Pentagon have a Silicon Valley problem? ... Will AI really make war less bloody? ... Heading to Overtime ...
¿Qué pasa cuando todo te ha salido bien y empiezas a creer que eres invencible? En este episodio de Dimes y Billetes hablamos con Startupedro, inversionista de capital de riesgo. Platicamos sobre el "síndrome del Rey Midas" que lo llevó a poner todos sus negocios —restaurantes, una marca de mezcal, coworking— en la misma canasta del capital de riesgo, justo antes de que la pandemia los golpeara a todos al mismo tiempo. Platicamos sobre las 4 etapas por las que pasa toda empresa cómo elegir un socio evaluando competencia y confianza, las 4 capas de valor que usan marcas como Apple y Five Guys para cobrar más sin competir solo en precio, y los 5 elementos que evalúa antes de invertir en una startup.Prueba café el Capitalhttps://cafeelcapital.com/s/08a4840:00 – Reflexiones sobre riesgo, fracaso y el futuro con la IA 1:53 – Su trayectoria invirtiendo en capital de riesgo y qué significa "ponerse la cachucha de inversionista" 3:54 – El mito de emprender sin estudios: lo que decía Elon Musk sobre ir "de 0 a 100" vs. "de 100 a 150" 5:08 – Las 4 etapas de una empresa: descubrimiento, validación, eficiencia y escalabilidad 6:12 – El error de levantar capital antes de validar el producto 8:09 – Su historia: cuando "todo le salía bien" y el sesgo de sobreconfianza 9:16 – Poner todos los huevos en la misma canasta: negocios de interacción personal golpeados por la pandemia 10:00 – El "síndrome del Rey Midas" y por qué tardó en detenerse a tiempo 14:39 – La reflexión sobre la mortalidad que cambió su forma de arriesgarse 16:55 – El error de subsidiar negocios perdedores con las utilidades de uno bueno 20:21 – La idea vs. la ejecución: por qué las personas son la clave de un negocio 22:52 – El mito del multitasking al dirigir varios negocios a la vez 24:29 – Cómo elegir socios: competencia y confianza 28:19 – El reto de encontrar cofundadores adecuados 29:48 – Cómo evaluar a un socio por su lado humano, no solo profesional 32:03 – La pregunta clave antes de dar equity a alguien: "¿lo podría contratar?" 36:37 – El emprendimiento en México: seguir tendencias vs. atender negocios "aburridos" pero necesarios 39:17 – Las 4 capas del valor: económico, funcional, experiencia e impacto 40:28 – El ejemplo de Apple: cómo construye valor más allá de las especificaciones técnicas 42:22 – El ejemplo de Five Guys: valor funcional e impacto sin depender de una gran experiencia 50:32 – Cómo evalúa oportunidades de inversión hoy en día 51:18 – El primer indicador financiero que revisa: la tendencia de crecimiento en ventas 51:54 – Por qué el margen bruto importa más que otros márgenes en etapa temprana 56:52 – Los 5 elementos para evaluar una startup: mercado, competencia, modelo de negocio, equipo y financieros 1:03:39 – Su rol actual: presidente del club de Venture Capital de una universidad en Phoenix 1:04:59 – Los 5 actores clave de un ecosistema de emprendimiento 1:06:10 – Qué le falta al ecosistema mexicano desde la desaparición del INADEM 1:08:05 – Por qué el mindset de Silicon Valley no se puede copiar sin cambiar el sistema 1:10:31 – La cultura del fracaso en México: por qué se castiga tanto fracasar 1:14:26 – Un ejercicio revelador: las empresas más grandes de México vs. Estados Unidos 1:15:56 – La brecha de movilidad social entre México y Estados Unidos 1:19:10 – Por qué el "hate" en redes sociales es tan fuerte en México 1:20:40 – "Emprender en México es ultra difícil": las barreras estructurales 1:21:30 – El dato que revela la desigualdad de oportunidades en México 1:22:24 – ¿Vale la pena estudiar una carrera en la era de la IA? 1:23:58 – El debate de "no seas empleado": por qué no es tan simple 1:26:06 – Su cálculo de riesgo-rendimiento: por qué ser empleado puede ser la mejor apuesta 1:28:14 – Por qué las nuevas generaciones son menos pacientes con la incertidumbre 1:31:12 – El dato que nadie quiere escuchar: cuánto hay que ganar para comprar una casa promedio en México
When Silicon Valley says it is “moving fast and breaking things,” the world interprets the chaos as a necessary cost of innovation. In his new book, The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy, Gil Durán argues that something far more sinister is at work: a decades-long campaign to replace elected governments with corporate rule.Durán chronicles what he calls the “tech-authoritarian movement” from its early days in San Francisco politics to its current moment on the international stage, exploring the wild and dystopian ambition of the technocrats at its center, and offering his road map to resistance.Drawing on insider political experience and new investigations, he traces this ideology from its philosophical roots in The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg. He introduces its modern apostles—Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Balaji Srinivasan and Elon Musk—and argues that the promise of technological liberation has transformed into a global movement for digital feudalism, powered by cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, and the algorithmic propaganda of social media.Durán explains the origins, strategies and ambitions of Silicon Valley's “war on democracy.” Join us as Durán will be in conversation with acclaimed author and former Daily Beast columnist Wajahat Ali, editor of the “Left Hook” Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Regan Caruthers is an author, inner life coach, and 500-hour yoga teacher whose life's work is helping people discover the presence of God within themselves. Her spiritual journey began at the age of three, attending a school where meditation, contemplative prayer, and the cultivation of inner awareness were part of everyday life. That early foundation shaped a lifelong devotion to the inner life.Regan's path has taken her from the early days of HeartMath and a successful career in Silicon Valley leadership to founding ASET Yoga Center in Missouri. Following a life-threatening heart condition that transformed the course of her life, she now shares a message of hope, resilience, and unconditional love. As the author of Tragic Magic, she bridges the wisdom of Jesus, the yoga tradition, and modern science, inviting others to experience the divine presence within and live with greater peace, purpose, and love.Website - http://www.regancaruthers.com or IG @ReganCaruthersMore about Liz-Work- https://www.raisethevibewithliz.com/Radio Show- https://www.voiceofvashon.org/raise-the-vibePodcast- https://www.buzzsprout.com/958816Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/raisethevibewithlizInstagram- https://www.instagram.com/raisethevibewithliz/*** Support the show! https://www.buzzsprout.com/958816/supporthttps://paypal.me/LisbethPeterson?country.x=US&locale.x=en_USJoin The Community!
How does a nurse, a teacher, a software engineer end up participating in mass death? Shannon walks Cathy through the clinical pathway that turns ordinary people into killers using Heaven's Gate, the Zizians, and Jonestown to prove the same mechanism runs every single time.⚠️ Trigger warning: This episode includes discussions of mass suicide, murder, death by poisoning including the deaths of children, cult coercion and coercive control. Listener discretion is advised.Season 9 opens with the question that sits underneath every cult story ever told: how does a group turn ordinary people into killers?Not people who were always dangerous. A nurse. A teacher. A college student. A software engineer. Someone whose neighbors would describe them as quiet and kind.Shannon takes the lead on this one, and the argument is deliberately uncomfortable; the pathway from ordinary person to cult member to participant in mass death is not about weakness, mental illness, or stupidity. It's about psychology. And it runs the same way every single time, whether you're looking at a California mansion in 1997, a Silicon Valley rationalist community in 2025, or a settlement in the Guyanese jungle in 1978.Same process. Different costume.Three cases, deliberately chosen because they have nothing in common but the mechanism. Heaven's Gate believed human bodies were containers for extraterrestrial souls. The Zizians organized around AI existential risk and analytic philosophy. Peoples Temple organized around socialism and racial justice. Cosmic, rationalist, political; three completely incompatible belief systems, one identical psychological structure underneath.That structure is what Shannon and Cathy spend the episode taking apart. Robert Jay Lifton's eight criteria of thought reform. Margaret Singer's self-dissolution process. Erich Fromm on why freedom is psychologically expensive enough that people will trade it away. Jung's Mana Personality, which explains why a leader's word can override what you can see with your own eyes. And running through all of it, Albert Bandura's moral disengagement — the four specific mechanisms by which a person with an intact conscience does something monstrous and does not experience themselves as monstrous while doing it.The core argument, and where the episode lands:The most dangerous thing about a cult isn't the leader. It's the moment when the group becomes more real to you than your own perception. That isn't weakness. That's how human psychology works. And knowing that is the only protection.Heaven's Gate · Marshall Applewhite · Bonnie Nettles · Rancho Santa Fe, California · March 26, 1997 · 39 dead · the Next Level · "the Demonstration"The Zizians · Ziz LaSota · rationalist and effective altruism communities · AI existential risk · "undead" and "p-zombie" ideology · six deaths, 2025–2026Peoples Temple · Jim Jones · Jonestown, Guyana · November 18, 1978 · 918 dead, 304 of them children · White Night rehearsals · the largest mass death of American civilians before 9/11Clinical terms: thought reform · coercive control · moral disengagement · self-dissolution · cognitive dissonance · milieu control · dehumanization · DDD syndrome · the Mana Personality · the ShadowThis is Part 1 of a three-part Cults series. Part 2 goes into ritual violence. Part 3 goes deeper into contemporary casesUntil then... sleep safe.
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What if the AI arms race has no finish line?In this episode of Your AI Injection, Deep Dhillon sits down with Rob May, CEO of Neurometric, to challenge one of Silicon Valley's favorite assumptions, that whoever builds super-intelligence first gets to keep it. Drawing on over a decade of AI investing and two prior startups, Rob lays out a public prediction he's willing to stand behind. He believes that once any lab crosses the threshold into true super-intelligence, open source versions will follow within months, not years. The two also get into the "jagged frontier" of AI capability, the strange reality that today's most powerful models can be brilliant at one task and shockingly bad at the next, and what that means for how companies actually deploy AI. There's also a simpler question underneath it all. If AI keeps getting cheaper and easier to use, will we just find more excuses to use it, whether we need it or not?Learn more about Rob May here: https://www.lin kedin.com/in/robmay/ and Neurometric here: https://www.neurometric.ai/Check out some of our related content here: 90% of AI's Power for 10% of the Cost. Is the AI Arms Race a Giant Waste of Money? With Bruce Yang of AgnesAIExploring Artificial General Intelligence: Intent, Intellect, and Innovation with Lucas Hendrich of the Forte GroupIs This the End of Traditional Coding? How AI Orchestration Might Render Developers Obsolete with Laly Bar-Ilan of Bit
“On my headstone, it would say: I was always right. I never lied, and no one paid any attention to me.” — Paulina Borsook A quarter of a century ago, the tech journalist Paulina Borsook published Cyberselfish, one of the earliest critiques of Silicon Valley's libertarian culture. While the heretical book got widely reviewed, it not only didn't sell but cursed her writing career, Borsook claiming she couldn't get published again on any subject. Used copies of Cyberselfish could be had for a few dollars and she became just another forgotten tech dissenter. Then, last year, Borsook was magically resurrected. The New York Times (re)discovered her as “the writer who dared criticize Silicon Valley” and the price of secondhand copies of Cyberselfish jumped to over a thousand dollars. The world caught up with her tech scepticism. Like an AI startup, Borsook is now hot. So hot, in fact, that the original Cyberselfish is now being republished not only in the US and UK, but also in France. So hot, that we now have a new word: “Borsookian,” to describe Silicon Valley libertarianism. The funny thing is that nothing much has changed over the last quarter century since Borsook's original book came out. Not tech's libertarian hostility to government. Not the Silicon Valley boys-only club. And certainly not Paulina Borsook, who retains what the Grateful Dead lyricist and digital utopian John Perry Barlow half-lovingly called her “dyspeptic” manner. “On my headstone, it would say: I was always right,” Paulina Borsook confides with dyspeptic glee. “I never lied, and no one paid any attention to me.” How delicious to be so fully resurrected. What fun for the heretic to help transform the original orthodoxy into the new heresy. Five Takeaways • Back from the Dead. The resurrection required no publicist: used copies of Cyberselfish drifted from $4 toward $1,000; graduate students begged her for copies she couldn't supply; a stranger she's never met posted on LinkedIn that she'd gotten everything right and been forgotten — and it went viral. That led to Gil Duran, whose furious Bluesky post (after a Wired mea-culpa writer interviewed him about her for forty-five minutes and cited neither of them) alerted The New York Times, whose November feature — “The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley” — brought her agent's immortal email: “we always knew you were right.” Tin House is reissuing the book on September 15 with a Duran foreword and her new afterword, changing not a word. Younger readers, she's told, like that it doesn't read like a TED Talk. Her headstone joke covers the whole arc: always right, never lied, no one paid attention.• Why Are They So Mad? The book's core observation remains undefeated: “no sector of society has benefited more and suffered less from the government than people in Silicon Valley. So why are they acting like this, and why are they so mad?” “Libertarian” was simply her shorthand for a subculture violently anti-government, totally anti-regulation, and drunk on Ayn Rand — or, in the book's reframe, the mind-set of adolescents craving total rampaging autonomy while someone else does the laundry. She wrote it from inside: a Wired freelancer under Louis Rossetto (who handed new writers The New Journalism), perpetually paired point-counterpoint against John Perry Barlow, whose Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace made her snort and whose “dyspeptic” label she wears as a compliment. Kevin Kelly, she insists, is not Sam Altman — they almost never agreed, but she doesn't demonize — “except that they have a belief in everything that tech wants to do is fine.” The book, she says now, is a Guide for the Perplexed: the metaphors and framing to decode everything the current crop is spewing.• That Damn Book. She calls it TDB — That Damn Book — because it wrecked her. A strong media arc and worldwide reviews, then no sales and a career that “came to a crashing halt”: for twenty-five years she could not get published again, on tech or anything else; a finalist for four fellowships, winner of none; no one — blacklist theorists, gender theorists — could ever explain it. “I have PTSD from twenty-five years of never being able to be published again.” The lost years: seven of nasty elder care, an eviction that put everything she owned in storage, six years as an Airbnb superhost in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and the art project My Life as a Ghost — about the traumatic brain injury she's carried since a friend accidentally shot her with a Colt 45 at fourteen. She resists the redemptive reading that the TBI explains her outsider eye (“I'm a package deal”), and values tech precisely as the utility — word processing, BBSs for the housebound — that made a writing life possible. Using is not worshiping.• AI Is the Inevitable Result of Cyberselfishness. “Was anybody asking for this? Not really.” AI, on her reading, is the financial play the culture was always building toward — there's little real innovation left, “except for surveillance capitalism” and, in her Shakespearean phrase, the current crop “borrowing the robes of the tech culture of another era.” Her oldest fascination has become the newest: since ELIZA in the sixties, people have preferred confessing to machines over talking to humans — AI boyfriends included — and “it gets so much stuff wrong that people wanna rely on this” bewilders her still. Andrew's question about Anthropic's calls for regulation drew the hour's driest line: “isn't that just sort of the lipstick on a pig issue? I'll believe it when I see it” — nobody, she notes, will do anything that touches the stock price. Her counter-example is the late Peter Neumann, the computer scientist who gave $4 million to the San Francisco Symphony's chorus: “we will not see his like again.”• The Blue of Tahoe. Asked what freedom means, she calls the word too abused to define — a card-carrying ACLU member since high school who believes just as firmly in regulation, and whose answer to Sergey Brin's California-as-Soviet-Union hissy fit is the episode's keeper: “what do you think keeps the water of Tahoe so very blue except for government regulation and environmental scientists? Who do you think regulates the use of the term organic?” The regulation-freedom dynamic, she argues, is healthy — it's the worship that isn't. Her San Francisco test: The Crucible, the beloved East Bay institution that taught Burning Man its metalwork, gets nothing from the boom, while art nonprofits die weekly and the winners insist they owe nothing because they pay taxes — “which they try very much not to do.” Burning Man itself she reads via Brave New World: the violent passion surrogate, a scheduled space for disorder before returning to lives spent “creating nonsense and ruining a lot of things that we hold dear.” A California writer to the end — and, per Glengarry Glen Ross, always be closing. About the Guest Paulina Borsook has worked in and around Northern California tech culture since the early 1980s. Formerly on the masthead of Wired, she has written for Mother Jones, Salon, and countless tech and non-tech publications, and is a contributing editor at InFormation (“every day computers are making people easier to use”), the revived tech-skeptic magazine of past guest Davi...
Six-time Silicon Valley CEO Mike Grossman joins host and producer Dr. Tom Dutta on The Quiet Warrior Show, ranked #2 on Feedspot's Top 30 Canada CEO Podcasts, for a conversation about what running a company in Silicon Valley actually feels like when the cameras are not rolling. Mike has led six venture-funded technology companies over thirty years, and all six were acquired: the largest for $400 million, the smallest in a $250,000 fire sale. He is the author of Failure Is an Option: Reflections of a Silicon Valley CEO (Ideapress, June 2026), forty-four candid, self-contained stories about luck, timing, loneliness, and the truth the glossy founder myth leaves out. In this episode: Why effort and talent do not guarantee success, and where luck and timing really rule The counteroffer he still calls his deepest professional regret, twenty-five years later The hardest layoff of his life, and what it taught him about carrying responsibility for people and their families Why he focuses on inputs over outcomes, and how that steadies a leader in a crisis What thirty years in the Valley taught him about loneliness, honesty, and holding it together Learn more about Mike and the book: failureisanoption.com Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Pandora, Audible, Pocket Casts, Castbox, Overcast, and wherever you listen to podcasts.
Is technology killing democracy and destroying communities?Yes, argues acclaimed historian Jill Lepore in her new book, “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State.” She writes that the artificial state is “the rule of humans by machines manufactured by corporations.” It is the fantasy of tech billionaires. And its goal is the end of liberal democracy.The artificial state is a “replacement of the liberal nation state, a constitutional democracy in which we are governed by our own consent, with a government by machine, in which many of the functions of democratic governments are automated, in which humans are replaced by bots as the predominant participant in public life,” she told me.When the titans of Silicon Valley sat behind President Donald Trump at his inauguration in January 2025, it marked “the coming out of the tech right,” said Lepore.Lepore is one of the country's most acclaimed historians. She is a professor of American history at Harvard University, a professor of law at Harvard Law School and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her many books include the bestsellers “These Truths: A History of the United States,” which Time magazine named one of the top 10 nonfiction books of the 2010s, and “We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution,” which won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in history. She hosts the podcast “The Last Archive.” She lives part-time in Brattleboro, which is where she spoke to me.Lepore said that efforts by the Trump administration to sanitize American history are “a form of McCarthyism.” She said that skewed versions of history have evolved that have deepened social divisions. These range from the “far-right version of American history in which everything is a march of freedom and progress and prosperity and America has never done anything wrong at home or abroad” to the “far-left account in which American history is a litany of atrocities, in which the United States has never done anything good at home or abroad.”“There was nothing that recognized there was plenty of truth in both of those accounts, and there was also unbelievable distortion in those accounts.” Lepore said history affirms that “the power of ordinary citizens working together has managed to defeat” forces like the artificial state and its techno-authoritarianism. “But the idea that we can sit in our living rooms and browse the news on our smartphones and post a few thoughts on social media, and that constitutes meeting our obligations as citizens is a false one.”
Silicon Valley was once viewed as a center-left stronghold where tech founders partnered with Democrats to push clean energy and digital innovation. But today, the world's most powerful tech titans in many cases are bankrolling right-wing authoritarianism, promoting anti-democratic ideologies. Gil Durán is the author of “The Nerd Reich Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” He joins WITHpod to discuss the radicalization of tech oligarchs, why he says they're attempting to dismantle American democratic values and more. Sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts to listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads. You'll also get exclusive bonus content from this and other shows. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Brad Onishi and Matthew D. Taylor break down two major stories reshaping the Trump-era right: the sudden deportation of Milo Yiannopoulos and the escalating chaos inside Pete Hegseth's Pentagon.They dig into how Milo's fast-tracked removal reveals the internal power struggles of MAGA world — including his feud with Nick Fuentes and Laura Loomer's growing influence over immigration enforcement — and what it signals about who gets protected and who gets purged within the movement. Then they turn to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, examining reports of mass firings among top generals, a rudderless U.S. Army, unsustainable war spending in Iran, and the Pentagon's controversial move to put paid influencers like "Data Republican" on the payroll to push pro-Hegseth messaging while shutting out the traditional press.Along the way: Christian nationalism's role in reshaping MAGA identity, the military's meritocracy under threat, Silicon Valley's growing alignment with authoritarian politics, and whether Hegseth's rumored presidential ambitions have any real chance.SUPPORT US:www.axismundi.uswww.irmce.org - our supporting nonprofitBooks mentioned:
For the first time public opinion is moving in favor of all-day cell phone bans in schools. But do these bans actually make a difference in students' lives? Family and Tech columnist Julie Jargon explains what the latest research says. Plus, Hawaii state officials are looking to the tech industry to help revive its economy as tourism stalls. Past attempts to turn the islands into the next Silicon Valley have fallen flat. But the WSJ's Owen Tucker-Smith says this time the state has a new strategy. Imani Moise hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Silicon Valley didn't suddenly fall in love with podcasts because everyone discovered the joys of long-form conversation. They figured out something much more valuable: if you control the pipe, you can shape the narrative. In Episode 351, Chris traces that playbook from Hearst and Murdoch to Rogan, Musk, a16z, OpenAI and TBPN—and asks the uncomfortable question behind the new media boom: are you watching an independent show, or a very expensive communications strategy with better lighting? The money can buy reach, access and influence. What it still can't buy is trust.
Steven Walchek is originally from the Bay Area in California, but lives in Denver now. He's been there for 8 years with his family. He comes from a family of risk takers and entrepreneurs - for example, his Dad was a tech guy who did his thing and had success in Silicon Valley. Outside of tech he is a family man, married with kids. He enjoys doing anything he can with them, as they are his "why". He plays hockey, coaches hockey, and rides dirt bikes and mountain bikes. Steven and his team built an application security platform, and ended up hitting every branch on the way down from the startup tree. When they sat down to figure out what they needed to do next, they combined their deep security tooling with a multi-modal platform, to enable complete AI governance in one central hub for regulated companies. This is the creation story of Liminal. SponsorsTiger DataProtected HarborRenderLinkshttps://www.liminal.ai/https://www.linkedin.com/in/swalchek/Checkout our episode stacks on Stacklist! https://stacks.codestory.co/ Hosted by Noah Labhart | Technical Founder & Startup Mentor.Our Sponsors:* Check out Perplexity and use my code CODESTORY for a great deal: https://www.perplexity.aiAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Big Tech's owners see themselves as visionaries — as singularly capable of understanding and shaping the future — in contrast to the rest of us. Adrian Daub explores the worldview of Silicon Valley's owners. Adrian Daub, What Tech Calls Governing Stanford University Press, 2026 Photo by Igor Shalyminov on Unsplash The post Big Tech's Worldview appeared first on KPFA.
[REBROADCAST FROM July 28, 2026] The new play "Disruption" follows a Silicon Valley engineer who presents his three best friends with a new AI algorithm that he claims can make all of their life decisions for them. But at what cost? Playwright Andrew Stein discusses the play, alongside actors John David Washington and Conrad Ricamora. "Disruption" is running at Pershing Square Signature Center through Sept. 27th. Photo by Emilio Madrid: Irene Sofia Lucio, John David Washington, and Jason Ralph in the 2026 production of DISRUPTION Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Nir Eyal is the author of Hooked, which became Silicon Valley's playbook for building habit-forming products, Indistractable, on taking your attention back, and the new book Beyond Belief. He taught at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and is one of the sharpest thinkers on what to do with technology.In this episode of Summation, Nir and Auren discuss:Why to-do lists set you up to feel like a failure and what to do insteadWhy 90% of the time you check your phone, it's an uncomfortable emotion, not a notificationWhy beliefs are tools, not truths, and how swapping one can end your sufferingWhy this is the safest generation of kids in history and still gets a moral panicYou can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Nir Eyal on X at @nireyal
NOUVELLE SAISON !!Mistral AI était censé être le ChatGPT français. Il héberge désormais un modèle chinois sur ses propres serveurs. Ce n'est pas une anecdote : c'est le symbole d'un effacement discret mais définitif d'une promesse de souveraineté.Mistral AI se réinvente en gestionnaire de cloud européen. Est-ce l'abandon d'une souveraineté numérique ou simplement une rationalité économique nécessaire face à la concurrence mondiale ? On en parle ce soir dans Silicon Carne !Abonnez-vous pour ne pas rater nos analyses quotidiennes sur le secteur tech, et dites-nous en commentaire : validez-vous cette intégration des modèles chinois chez notre champion national ?===================⏱️ DANS CET ÉPISODE :===================00:00 — Intro00:54 — Présentation des invités03:09 — Mistral héberge GLM 5.2 : Trahison ou pivot stratégique ? 07:32 — Mistral survivra-t-il à une alternance politique en France ?11:09 — Le LLM devient une commodité : qui capte la valeur ?13:09 — Europe vs Chine : l'écart que personne n'ose dire15:21 — [Sponsor] : Qonto, ouvrez votre compte pro et facturez facilement !16:39 — Les clients réclament du chinois, pas du Mistral23:25 — OVH veut des modèles, Mistral veut des datacenters25:10 — L'infrastructure colossale de Mistral : qui va financer ?33:43 — Pronostic final : que va devenir Mistral ?37:27 — Une valorisation hors sol : Mistral peut-il tenir ?==================
In this episode, we sit down with Nirav Tolia, co-founder and CEO of Nextdoor and a longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur who previously co-founded Epinions, which became Shopping.com.We discuss the lonely reality of being a CEO, building and rebuilding companies through failure, why Nirav returned to Nextdoor after years away, navigating fear and self-doubt as a leader, and how established technology companies can adapt in the age of AI. We also get into his time on Shark Tank, working alongside Mark Cuban and Kevin O'Leary, and what stepping away from Silicon Valley taught him about business and life.If you're interested in entrepreneurship, startups, leadership, Silicon Valley, AI, Shark Tank, building companies, or understanding what it's really like to lead a business through its hardest moments, this episode is for you.This episode is supported by Sydecar, HEX, Wispr Flow, Granola, Beehiiv, KalshiSydecar: https://sydecar.io/partners/trailblazersbeehiiv: https://www.beehiiv.com/splash?utm_campaign=trailblazers-2026-Partnership&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=trailblazers&utm_term=podcast-14&stripe_campaign_code=TRAILBLAZERS30 (or use code “trailblazers30” for 30% OFF)Granola: http://granola.ai/trailblazers *Granola is the official notetaker of Trailblazers! Check out the episode show notes here: https://notes.granola.ai/t/55838edb-522f-4468-a139-fad215bab7ca-00b881l8Kalshi: http://Kalshi.com/r/trailblazersWispr Flow: https://ref.wisprflow.ai/trailblazersHEX: http://hex.ai/trailblazers
What happens when a Google exec trades Silicon Valley hustle for a Roman passeggiata? Katy Mogal did it and found that giving herself permission to slow down was the real unlock.In this episode, Katy Mogal, a 20-year Silicon Valley veteran (Google,Fitbit) turned certified Designing Your Life facilitator, joins us to talkabout moving her family to Rome, the surprising legal differences between US and Italian layoffs, and how a workshop in Matera set her on an entirely new path. We cover what it actually takes to uproot a family for Italy, why Italy's labor laws protect senior workers in ways the US doesn't, and the Saturday afternoon that taught her to stop hustling.
In this episode, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Dr. John Martinis reveals how his breakthrough in superconducting qubits made quantum physics real at macroscopic scale and what it means for the future of technology. The former lead of Google's Quantum AI lab explains why quantum computing is so fragile, why a lot of hype has a low chance to work, and why his fabless company Qolab could be the Nvidia of quantum computingIn this conversation, Dr. Martinis joins Tech Surge to explain the science behind macroscopicquantum coherence, the engineering challenges of scaling quantum computers, and how hybrid quantum-classical computing will shape the future of technology.The conversation covers:✅ How the superconducting qubit breakthrough won the Nobel Prize in Physics✅ Why Nature wants to destroy quantum coherence and why quantum is fragile✅ From academic physics to building Google's quantum computer✅ The engineering challenge of scaling quantum computing beyond the lab✅ Why a lot of quantum computing hype has a low chance to work✅ How Qolab's fabless model could scale quantum hardwareGuest Links:John Martinis: 2025 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics, superconducting-qubit pioneer, formerGoogle quantum-hardware researcher, and founder and CTO of Qolab.Nobel Prize profile: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2025/martinis/Qolab: https://qolab.ai/Further Reading and ResourcesGoogle Sycamore Quantum Processor - Google's 2019 experiment used a 53-qubitsuperconducting processor to perform a specific random-circuit-sampling task substantiallyfaster than the then-known classical approach.Nature research paper:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1666-5Google Research explanation:https://research.google/blog/quantum-supremacy-using-a-programmable-superconducting-processor/Artificial Intelligence and Transformers – The Transformer architecture discussed in thepodcast was introduced in the paper “Attention Is All You Need.”Original paper:https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762AlphaFold and Protein Structure Prediction – AlphaFold demonstrated how classical AI canpredict protein structures with high accuracy, illustrating the distinction between present-day AIand potential future quantum applications.Nature paper:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03819-2Google DeepMind – AlphaFold:https://deepmind.google/science/alphafold/Quantum Computing Hardware Approaches – The podcast compares superconductingqubits, semiconductor spin qubits, neutral atoms, trapped ions and photonic systems.Google Quantum AI:https://quantumai.google/Intel Quantum Computing:https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/research/quantum-computing.htmlQuEra – Neutral-atom quantum computing:https://www.quera.com/Atom Computing:https://atom-computing.com/Quantum Manufacturing and Scaling – Qolab is focused on improving the fabrication, wiring and scalability of superconducting quantum processors through industrial partnerships.Qolab:https://qolab.ai/Qolab and Applied Materials collaboration:https://thequantuminsider.com/2025/03/18/qolab-secures-investment-from-applied-ventures-and-announces-collaboration-to-advance-quantum-computing-manufacturing/Applied Materials:https://www.appliedmaterials.com/Quantum–Optical Networking – The podcast discusses the challenge of convertingmicrowave signals used by superconducting qubits into optical signals suitable for fiber-optic communication.Microwave-to-optical conversion research:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-019-0650-1Chapters:00:00 – The Quantum Computing Hype: Physics vs Engineering04:06 – Introducing Nobel Prize Winner John Martinis12:09 – Schrödinger's Cat Explained13:12 – Can Quantum Effects Exist at a Macroscopic Scale?17:45 – The Experiment That Changed Quantum Computing34:33 – The Biggest Challenge: Scaling Quantum Computers43:21 – John Martinis on Google's Quantum Supremacy45:51 – AI vs Quantum Computing01:01:45 – Can Quantum and Classical Computers Work Together?01:07:36 – The NVIDIA Model for Quantum ComputingAbout TechSurge:TechSurge Podcast shares the latest insights directly from legendary Silicon Valley leaders,daring new founders, and visionary technologists.Subscribe for weekly conversations into the intersection of technology advancement, market dynamics, and founder journeys.#quantumcomputing #quantumphysics #nobelprize #technology
But the billionaire brats of Silicon Valley won't ever get close to that goal. The horizons will close in and put a spell on them. That's where our freedom waits for us. The question "What is life?" destroys the aggressive capitalists.. The question is utterly unanswerable and more powerful than our stupid simulations and robots. Unbelievably, the billionaires are going back to the violent "My culture not yours" playbook. AI is guiding bombs killing innocent families in the mideast. Can we at some point recognize that our jealous clutching of the mysteries has always resulted in killing? Too much information makes war. Unlimited mystery, like the starry night sky, makes Peace.
More than 100 Americans are missing after catastrophic flooding in Nepal, Iceland rejects membership in the European Union, nine in ten Americans carry credit card debt, and workplace drug-test failures hit a 20-year high. Plus, the Message of the Day, the backlash against AI data centers is a populist revolt against Silicon Valley elites who treat American communities as obstacles. Two Kentucky women who rejected $26 million for their farm is proof that not everything can be bought. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Most of us think good decisions happen in the moment. Shane Parrish says they're already decided before you sit down. And most of them end up being bad, because you waited too long to make them good.Shane Parrish spent years inside Canadian intelligence, making real-time decisions where the stakes were other people's lives, long before he founded Farnam Street and The Knowledge Project podcast. He's the author of Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results, and has quietly become the person elite investors, athletes, and Silicon Valley leaders turn to when a single decision carries outsized weight.In this conversation, you'll explore:Why the position you're in before a decision matters more than the decision itself, and how Warren Buffett almost never finds himself in a bad oneThe four hidden "defaults" that hijack your thinking before you noticeThe three-word phrase Shane uses with his own kids to defuse an argument before it escalatesWhy "doing your best" almost never happens in the hour it counts, and what actually determines the outcomeA simple night-before, morning-after trick for spotting the blind spots in any decision you're about to makeWhatever season of life you're in, this conversation will change how you see the ordinary moments that quietly decide everything else.You can find Shane at: Website | Instagram | Episode TranscriptNext week, we're sitting down with Angela Duckworth to talk about why the advice to just make the best of your situation might be exactly backwards, and how the people and things within arm's reach are quietly shaping who you become before you ever get a say. Be sure to follow Good Life Project wherever you get your podcasts so you don't miss any upcoming episodes!Check out our sponsors and resources: Visit Our Sponsor Page Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Arthur Herman, Part Two: This segment spans the 20th and 21st centuries, examining how the bold "founder mindset" conflicts with cautious "manager" mentalities. Herman discusses Woodrow Wilson's failed, heavily bureaucratized WWI mobilization in contrast to FDR's highly successful private-sector approach during WWII, spearheaded by GM's Bill Knudsen. Post-war, Vannevar Bush's federal funding for basic research laid the groundwork for Silicon Valley, information theory, and the microchip. Lastly, the discussion touches on modern paradigm-shifting founders, including civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., SpaceX and Tesla pioneer Elon Musk, and developer turned president Donald Trump. (2)
In this month's edition of The Bay's news roundup, Ericka, The Bay's new producer Gabriela Glueck, and Carly Severn, KQED's senior editor of audience news discuss workplace safety fines against the Tahoe guiding company implicated in last year's avalanche deaths. Also, we discuss a growing movement of Silicon Valley parents against tech in classrooms, and a controversial swan hunt that appears to be helping protect California's shrinking marshlands. Links: KQED: Guiding Company Fined by California for Tahoe Avalanche Deaths KQED: ‘A Chromebook in the Hand of Every Child.' Did Schools Go Too Far? San Francisco Chronicle: Silicon Valley parents are leading a backlash against tech in the classroom CalMatters: Controversial swan hunt appears to work: California's mute swan population drops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We all have something we love to recommend. A great restaurant, a favorite show, a place we can't stop talking about. Good experiences naturally make us want to invite other people in.In John 1, we see that same pattern unfold as people encounter Jesus. John points Andrew toward Jesus. Andrew brings his brother Peter. Jesus calls Philip, and Philip invites Nathanael. One invitation leads to another, and these ordinary moments become the beginning of lives completely transformed by Jesus.For more updates, go to https://eden.church/fireGET CONNECTED + PRAYERNew to EDEN? We'd love to pray for you, too! Let us know at https://eden.church/connectLEARN ABOUT EDEN CHURCHEDEN is a startup church in Silicon Valley. Learn more at https://eden.churchFIND US ON SOCIAL MEDIAFB:https://www.facebook.com/edenthechurchIG:https://www.instagram.com/edenthechurch/GIVE TODAYhttps://eden.church/give
About the Show:“You don't need an idea to start a company. You need the scrappiness and grit and durability, and then the recognition of someone with a good idea... that makes it more possible for more people to start businesses together.” – Michael BaschThis episode is part of a special series supported by the Walton Family Foundation. Through their Home Region program, the foundation is investing in the people and ideas shaping Northwest Arkansas—across housing, entrepreneurship, transportation, and leadership.In this episode of I Am Northwest Arkansas®, host Randy Wilburn sits down with Michael Basch of Renaissance Philanthropy to dig into the next chapter for entrepreneurship in Northwest Arkansas. The conversation looks at how the region is growing when it comes to startups, access to capital, and why the newest path to business success may be smaller, focused, and driven by artificial intelligence.Michael shares stories from his coast-to-coast career, insider tips on what makes NWA special, and why the old rulebook for startups is being rewritten right here. The episode highlights the brand new Northwest Arkansas Innovation Fund and discusses how it's set up to support both high-growth tech companies and Main Street businesses. The conversation also explains how AI is shrinking teams and startup costs, unlocking new possibilities, and why success in NWA looks different than chasing Silicon Valley's unicorns. This episode will inspire anyone who thinks about starting a business or wants to better understand the local startup scene.Key Takeaways:• You Don't Have to Leave Home to Win: Northwest Arkansas has everything needed to launch strong businesses—capital, mentors, resources, and community spirit.• Rethinking Success: Small, profitable companies (not just billion-dollar unicorns) can be a big win for founders and the region.• Filling the Capital Gap: The new Northwest Arkansas Innovation Fund is targeting early-stage businesses that often fall between accelerator support and traditional venture capital.• AI Powers Small Teams: A team of 2-3 people with AI tools can now build and scale a company—no need for huge headcounts or sky-high funding.• Main Street Matters: Restaurants, camps, and local businesses can also find help from this fund, not just tech startups.• Paying It Forward: The region is getting close to a self-sustaining ecosystem, where local success stories help launch and fund the next wave of entrepreneurs.• Collaboration Is Key: Partnerships between NWA and Tulsa organizations have helped build momentum and connect founders with capital and ideas.• Focus on Problems: The best founders are deeply invested in solving problems they know inside and out.All this and more on this episode of the I Am Northwest Arkansas® podcast.Important Links and Mentions on the Show*Renaissance Philanthropy Website (Northwest Arkansas Innovation Fund info): renphil.org — find Launch 479 and Catalyze 479 details under “Funds”Michael Basch LinkedIn (contact): Michael Basch on LinkedInEmail for info: m.basch@renfrew.orgCompound FoundryAcreTraderOx (Pushkin, Simporter also referenced)Launch 479 (entrepreneurial fellowship, aiming to launch new companies in NWA)Catalyze 479 (early-stage investment fund)412 Angels NetworkStartup JunkieUpVenturesMain Street coffee shops: Onyx Coffee Lab, AirshipThis episode is sponsored by*The Walton Family FoundationThe Walton Family Foundation is, at its core, a family-led foundation. Three generations of the descendants of founders Sam and Helen Walton, and their spouses, work together to lead the foundation and create access to opportunity for people and communities. The foundation works in three areas: improving education, protecting rivers and oceans and the communities they support, and investing in the home region of Northwest Arkansas and the Arkansas–Mississippi Delta.Learn more at waltonfamilyfoundation.org*Note: some of the resources mentioned may be affiliate links. This means we get paid a commission (at no extra cost to you) if you use that link to make a purchase.Connect more with I am Northwest Arkansas:Grab our Newsletter Email Us at hello@iamnorthwestarkansas.comConnect With Our Facebook Page Connect With Us on Threads Connect With Our Instagram Connect With Our LinkedIn PageJoin The Facebook Group Connect with our Fearless Host, Randy Wilburn on LinkedInThank you for listening to this I Am Northwest Arkansas podcast episode. We showcase businesses, culture, entrepreneurship, and life in the Ozarks.
What happens when Silicon Valley's values start shaping the Catholic imagination?In this episode, I'm talking about optimization, branding, algorithms, prayer streaks, Catholic AI, “frictionless faith,” and the danger of treating holiness like something that can be measured on a dashboard.This isn't an anti-tech rant. It's a plea for a messier, more embodied, more human Church — one where people still have faces, names, wounds, and time for one another.I just want to see her face.
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