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Uber se retire du Nigeria et de l'Ouganda. Après la Côte d'Ivoire l'an dernier et la Tanzanie fin janvier, la plateforme américaine de VTC enchaîne les départs sur le continent. Simple restructuration mondiale ou difficultés sur le marché africain ? Face à Uber, pourquoi les applications locales séduisent-elles davantage ? Et que vont devenir les chauffeurs ? Pourront-ils obtenir des dédommagements ? Avec Alexis Bedu, journaliste au service économie de RFI.
En Capital Intereconomía ponemos el foco en la actualidad empresarial, las nuevas iniciativas dentro del sector financiero y las oportunidades de inversión. En Radar Empresarial analizamos la decisión de Uber de despedir al 10% de su plantilla y las implicaciones de este ajuste para la compañía y su estrategia de crecimiento. A continuación, entrevistamos a José Antonio Esteban, CEO de IronIA Fintech, para conocer IronIA Explica, el nuevo programa de YouTube que se estrenará el próximo 23 de septiembre a las 19:00 horas. Conocemos los objetivos de este nuevo espacio, sus contenidos y la apuesta de la compañía por acercar la inversión y la educación financiera a los usuarios. En el Foro de la Inversión conversamos con Andrés Allende, managing partner del fondo Paradigma Value Catalyst de A&G Global Investors. Analizamos la filosofía de inversión del fondo, su estrategia de selección de compañías, la composición de la cartera y su evolución en términos de rentabilidad. Por último, abrimos el Consultorio de Fondos con Borja Nieto, cofundador de MiCappital, que responde a las consultas de los oyentes y analiza diferentes alternativas de inversión en fondos atendiendo al perfil, los objetivos y el horizonte temporal de cada inversor.
For some people, it's a non-negotiable act of love. For others, there's Uber. So where do you stand? If a friend or family member asks for an airport pickup, are you there waiting at arrivals... or sending them a rideshare link?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Tim Cook's new pay package signaled he'd stay deeply involved at Apple, Travis Kalanick's Atoms drew a $100M Uber investment for robotaxi tech, OpenAI's chief scientist called for industry-wide AI slowdowns, and AI wiped out Kenya's essay-writing gig economy. Tim Cook's pay package indicates he will remain very active at Apple; sources: Apple's plans to squeeze more App Store profits prompted Phil Schiller to leave (Bloomberg) Sources: Travis Kalanick's Atoms is developing robotaxi tech and hired Anthony Levandowski after acquiring his company Pronto; Uber has invested $100M in Atoms (Financial Times) OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki says no lab has solved alignment enough to keep scaling at maximum speed, and hopes voluntary slowdowns become commonplace (OpenAI) Pachocki warns AI agents are becoming "superhuman" at breaching protected systems and calls for mandated safety bars enforced by third-party auditors or government agencies, as models grow better at hiding their reasoning (Business Insider) How AI gutted Kenya's essay-writing industry, which at its peak paid 40,000+ people in Nairobi to do overseas students' homework, leaving few paths back to work (The New York Times) Subscribe to the ad-free feed.
What does it actually take to build a $500K+ photography business? Helena Wong went from working in corporate tech at companies like Oracle, Lyft, and Uber to building a multi-six-figure wedding photography business in just a few years. In this episode, we unpack what allowed her to grow so quickly and why she believes mindset, marketing, and sales are just as important as the work itself. Helena shares how she thinks about pricing, knowing when it's time to raise your rates, tracking conversion rates, getting comfortable with hearing "no," and building the courage to take action before you feel completely confident. We also get into why surrounding yourself with people who think bigger can completely change what's possible for your business, how Helena buys back her time through outsourcing and automation, and one of her biggest pieces of advice for photographers trying to move into a higher-end market: stop sending the pricing guide first. In this episode, we talk about: • How Helena went from corporate tech to a $500K+ photography business • Building a business with $12K–$22K wedding packages • Why knowing your numbers gives you confidence to raise your prices • The difference between courage and confidence • Why your environment and network can change what you believe is possible • How to know if you may be underpriced • Why booking every inquiry isn't necessarily a good thing • The importance of sales calls in a premium market • Why Helena doesn't send her pricing guide first • Buying back your time through outsourcing and automation • Why great work is only the baseline • Taking action, failing fast, and getting comfortable being uncomfortable One of my favorite ideas from this conversation is Helena's definition of courage: the ability to walk with fear. You don't have to wait until you feel completely confident to make the next move. Sometimes you have to take the action first and allow the confidence to follow. CONNECT WITH HELENA WONG Instagram: www.instagram.com/helenawongphotography Education + Coaching: www.helenawongphotography.com/education FREE RESOURCE: Helena's Marketing Blueprint that helped grow her business to $400K+: www.creativeceo.kit.com/marketingblueprint
Send us Fan MailEpisode 263 – Solo at Walt Disney World: Staying Safe & Traveling SmartThis week on The Mickeyphile Podcast, Scott and Karen are catching up on the latest news and refurbishment updates from around Walt Disney World before being joined by their friend Samantha Carpin for an important conversation about solo travel — particularly for women visiting Walt Disney World on their own.Samantha frequently travels to Disney solo, and on a recent trip she experienced a situation that made her genuinely concerned for her safety. She joins us to share what happened, how Disney Cast Members responded, and what she learned from the experience.We talk about staying aware of your surroundings even inside the “Disney bubble,” recognizing when something just doesn't feel right, finding a Cast Member or other safe person when you're uncomfortable, personal safety alarms, and some of the precautions Samantha takes while traveling alone.We also talk about getting from Orlando International Airport to Walt Disney World using rideshare services, sharing trip information with someone you trust, monitoring your route, and some of the safety tools available through rideshare apps.Walt Disney World News• Tiana's Bayou Adventure will close for refurbishment beginning November 2, with Disney currently indicating a reopening sometime in December.• The Walt Disney World Railroad will be closed for refurbishment from September 28 through October 29.• Wolfgang Puck Bar & Grill at Disney Springs is closing September 13, with questions remaining about what comes next for the location.• Grand Floridian Café officially returns for dinner beginning November 2.• Disney's Lake Buena Vista Golf Course reopens October 23 following work on the course and greens.DVC News• The former Jellyrolls location at Disney's BoardWalk is becoming The Hurly-Burly, with an October 1, 2026 opening planned and family-friendly activities during the afternoon.• Disney's Lakeshore Lodge is scheduled to open July 1, 2027.• Cash reservations begin October 6, 2026 for Disney Vacation Club Members, October 7 for Walt Disney World Annual Passholders, and October 8 for the general public.• Disney Vacation Club Members will also have an opportunity to experience a special First Wave Preview before the resort officially opens.Our Main Topic: Solo Travel & SafetySamantha shares the story of realizing someone may have been following her from Disney's Hollywood Studios back to her resort and what she did once she became concerned.We discuss trusting your instincts, going directly to a Cast Member when something seems wrong, keeping your head out of your phone and staying aware of who is around you, personal alarms and other practical safety precautions, traveling alone without allowing fear to ruin the experience, and why being inside Walt Disney World doesn't mean you should completely let your guard down.Samantha also shares her approach to Uber rides between the airport and Walt Disney World, including letting someone know when she gets into and out of the vehicle, using available safety and recording features, monitoring the route in the app, and taking advantage of options such as requesting a female driver when available.It's not about being afraid to travel alone — it's about being prepared, being aware, and knowing what to do if something doesn't feel right.Connect with The Mickeyphile PodcastInstagram & TikTok: @mickeyphile_podcastFind us on Facebook at The Mickeyphile Podcast and join our Facebook community.Have a topic idea, want to join us on an episode, or just want to say hello?mickeyphilepodcast@gmail.comIf you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star rating or review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It helps more Disney fans find the show!Theme Music: “Cân Ddelwedd” by Scott Daves © 2026And as always…Stay in the dang boats!
En Capital Intereconomía ponemos el foco en la actualidad empresarial, las nuevas iniciativas dentro del sector financiero y las oportunidades de inversión. En Radar Empresarial analizamos la decisión de Uber de despedir al 10% de su plantilla y las implicaciones de este ajuste para la compañía y su estrategia de crecimiento. A continuación, entrevistamos a José Antonio Esteban, CEO de IronIA Fintech, para conocer IronIA Explica, el nuevo programa de YouTube que se estrenará el próximo 23 de septiembre a las 19:00 horas. Conocemos los objetivos de este nuevo espacio, sus contenidos y la apuesta de la compañía por acercar la inversión y la educación financiera a los usuarios. En el Foro de la Inversión conversamos con Andrés Allende, managing partner del fondo Paradigma Value Catalyst de A&G Global Investors. Analizamos la filosofía de inversión del fondo, su estrategia de selección de compañías, la composición de la cartera y su evolución en términos de rentabilidad. Por último, abrimos el Consultorio de Fondos con Borja Nieto, cofundador de MiCappital, que responde a las consultas de los oyentes y analiza diferentes alternativas de inversión en fondos atendiendo al perfil, los objetivos y el horizonte temporal de cada inversor.
La Unión Europea prepara nuevas reglas para facilitar que ciudades y gobiernos limiten los alquileres turísticos de corta estancia en las zonas con problemas de acceso a la vivienda. El borrador del Affordable Housing Act, cuya presentación está prevista para el 9 de septiembre, contempla criterios comunes para identificar mercados bajo presión y permitir medidas como límites cuantitativos a las viviendas destinadas a plataformas como Airbnb, siempre que sean proporcionales y no discriminatorias.El turismo en España avanza hacia una desestacionalización cada vez más evidente, impulsada no solo por las políticas del sector, sino también por los elevados precios de julio y agosto, la masificación y las temperaturas extremas. Por primera vez, mayo superó este año a junio con más de 10 millones de llegadas internacionales, mientras las reservas para mayo, septiembre y octubre llevan creciendo de forma sostenida desde 2023 y hoteles, agencias y plataformas están adaptando su oferta a un calendario turístico más amplio.La industria MICE española afronta un fuerte incremento del absentismo laboral, cuyo coste económico alcanzó los 2.339 millones de euros en 2025. El primer informe específico elaborado por Foro MICE contabiliza 819.819 procesos de incapacidad temporal y señala que las bajas por contingencias comunes han crecido un 23,9% desde 2022, con una duración media un 17,5% superior y una especial preocupación por el aumento de los trastornos relacionados con la salud mental.Los bancos y las tarjetas de crédito están adelantando a hoteles y aerolíneas en una batalla que hasta ahora parecía reservada a las empresas turísticas: la fidelización del viajero. Según Global Travel Insights de Skift Research, el 32% de los viajeros considera que los programas de tarjetas y entidades financieras son los más gratificantes, frente al 26% que elige los hoteleros, el 20% los de aerolíneas y apenas el 8% los de las OTA, aunque la reserva directa con el proveedor sigue siendo el canal que genera mayor confianza.
Shawn O'Malley and Daniel Mahncke revisit Uber (NYSE: UBER), one of the largest holdings in The Intrinsic Value Portfolio, fifteen months after they first pitched it. In that time, Uber's operating profits have roughly doubled, free cash flow has climbed to about $10 billion a year, gross bookings are compounding around 20% annually, and the board authorized a new $20 billion buyback. And yet the stock is flat, with its multiple of operating profits cut from 55 times down to roughly 22 times. Shawn and Daniel discuss why the market is pricing Uber as though autonomy ends the story — Waymo raising $16 billion at a $126 billion valuation, roughly the same market cap as all of Uber, and formally ending its exclusive partnerships in Austin and Atlanta. They dig into the more than 20 AV partners Uber has lined up in response, from Nuro and Lucid to Rivian, NVIDIA, Zoox, WeRide, Baidu, and Pony.ai, plus Uber's $14.8 billion offer for Delivery Hero, the margin inflection driven by advertising, insurance normalization, and Uber One — and whether the market is writing down the entire company for a risk that touches maybe a tenth of its profits. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN: (00:00:00) Intro (00:04:06) Why Uber's stock is flat while its operating profits have doubled (00:07:19) How Uber's operating margins swung 55 percentage points in under six years (00:08:40) Why advertising, Uber One, and insurance reform keep pushing margins higher (00:28:49) What Waymo ending its exclusive deals in Austin and Atlanta really means (00:41:17) How much of Uber's profits are genuinely exposed to robotaxis (00:50:29) Why Uber is racing to sign more than 20 autonomous vehicle partners (00:58:04) What Uber's $14.8 billion offer for Delivery Hero actually buys it (01:06:39) Why Shawn and Daniel are happy to keep owning Uber Disclaimer: Slight discrepancies in the timestamps may occur due to podcast platform differences. BOOKS AND RESOURCES Join the exclusive The Intrinsic Value Mastermind Community. Track The Intrinsic Value Portfolio. Learn more about how to join us in NYC for our Intrinsic Value Conference. Portfolio Review Submit Tool. Our original podcast deep-dive on Uber. Lewistown Capital's Ride or Die: The Self-Driving S-Curve. Uber's acquisition offer for Delivery Hero. Uber & Rivian's robotaxi partnership for up to 50,000 vehicles. NVIDIA's plan to launch robotaxis on Uber across 28 cities. Uber's investor relations site. Waymo's $16 billion funding round. Check out our previous Intrinsic Value breakdowns: Grab Holdings, Lyft, DoorDash. Related books mentioned in the podcast. Ad-free episodes on our Premium Feed. NEW TO THE SHOW? Get smarter about valuing businesses through The Intrinsic Value Newsletter. Check out The Investor's Podcast Starter Packs. Follow our official social media accounts: X | LinkedIn | Facebook. Try our tool for picking stock winners and managing our portfolios: TIP Finance. Enjoy exclusive perks from our favorite Apps and Services. Learn how to better start, manage, and grow your business with the best business podcasts. SPONSORS Support our free podcast by supporting our sponsors: Monarch Plus500 Scribe Plaud Netsuite References to any third-party products, services, or advertisers do not constitute endorsements, and The Investor's Podcast Network is not responsible for any claims made by them. Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm
One of the best things you can do with your time is hire a boat that you can sleep on and float up a river for a few days.Time stops.Absorb the weather, whatever form it takes, but sunny is best. Breathe in the air. Sleep as the boat gently bobs up and down. Contemplate. Talk. Play games. Eat. Swim.Peace descends and nothing much matters any more.I've done this several times on the Thames and, having just spent a few days in Serbia, I now plan to do the same thing on the Danube. I just had a little taster. I flew out to Serbia because I was speaking and performing at Liberpulco, the European brother of Anarchapulco, an anarchy meet-up - I hesitate to call it a conference - held every year in Acapulco. The idea is that the European version should take place in Liberland.Wait! What? Where?Gornja Siga is a small area of river islands and floodplain in the Danube about three square miles in size (more when the river is low). For some context, it would be about the size of Gibraltar.The Danube forms the border between Serbia and Croatia. Following the break-up of Yugoslavia, there was no agreement as to who owned this floodplain. It was terra nulla.Enter Vít Jedlička, a Czech politician and entrepreneur, who declared the territory the Free Republic of Liberland and has been trying to establish his own micronation ever since. “We are building the greatest tax haven the world has ever seen,” I once heard him declare in a presentation.Jedlička is a wonderful speaker, a great publicist and highly entrepreneurial. For obvious reasons, the project appealed to alienated libertarians around the world.He began selling passports and citizenship. He appointed various ministers. The nation's coffers were held in bitcoin. The nation even declares an annual profit.However, he needs another nation to recognise Liberland, which no one has yet done (despite, I gather, Argentine president Javier Millei being a citizen), and of course the idea has gone down like a bucket of sick at the UN.You also can't currently access the island by boat from Serbia without running into the Croatian police. If you should attempt to dock your boat, the police will arrest you. I think the grounds are entering the EU illegally. I swam to within about 5 feet of depth but then lost my nerve as the Croatia police boat approached and swam back into deeper water. Keeping a boat permanently stationed there is costing the Croatian police millions. Most days nothing happens. The police just sit there bored. What a waste of a life.You can access Liberland from the Croatian side, and some settlers live there in tents. Might for fun for a bit, but probably not a long-term option except for the most dedicated.Jedlička has now bought a plot of land beside a lake in the nearby Serbian town of Apatin, called it Ark and declared a government in exile. They have built a campsite, a small conference centre and various other facilities. It feels as much like a holiday resort as a country.Here is your author by said lake giving his best salmon impersonation.I don't know the ins and outs of the whole thing, but the project appeals to me if only because I find its sheer irreverence very funny. And because everyone wants to start their own nation. Who actually does?So that was what brought me to Serbia. And I am most grateful to the organizers for having me.Dogs and cigarettesWe flew into Belgrade, which itself is a tricky place to get to (try getting there from the south of France) and from there drove three hours to the town of Sombor and our hotel.I loved Sombor.I felt as though I had gone back in time to how European cities used to be: sleepy, friendly and safe. The country is 99% Christian Orthodox, and, from what little I experienced, both there and in Belgrade pretty monocultural. Serbs mostly seem to speak very good English. They are shy, polite, respectful, ambitious, hard working, driven and they take whatever they are doing very seriously.It's not like many other countries I could mention where you get accosted everywhere you go. People mostly left you alone to get on with whatever you were doing. But if you needed anything, they couldn't have been more helpful.In Belgrade, for example, taxis don't seem to stop on the street and there is no Uber. It took me more than 24 hours to work this out. But randoms on the street were more than happy to stop, get their phones out and call a taxi for me. If I asked a random in London to call me a taxi, Lord knows where that would end up.The food was delicious. Lots of trout, catfish and pork. Not particularly cheap.People looked pretty healthy, I must say. No rampant obesity. Although there were plenty of older men who looked as though they had drunk their fair share of beer over the years.That was another thing that took me back in time. Everybody smokes. Lots of sitting around in cafés, smoking and presumably discussing existentialism. You go into restaurants and there is a smoking area and a non-smoking area, and the smoking area is often more crowded. I'm so used to non-smoking restaurants that I have to say I didn't particularly like the smell.Belgrade was the same. Not particularly cheap. Some excellent food. As good a steak as I have ever eaten.Av ery high dog per capita ratio too. Everyone seems to own a dog and, what I liked, even in the capital many seemed to walk their dogs off a lead. Like the UK in the 1970s early 80s before pitbulls, health and safety arrived.Belgrade's location where the Danube and Sava rivers meet means it has been enormously important strategically. How about this for a stat? It has been fought over in 115 wars and razed 44 timesLots of splendid Orthodox churches. Look at all that gold leaf.Quite a bit of graffiti too. I couldn't understand what it said, but presumably something to do with the war. It has an unpopular and corrupt government that faces weekly protests. According to one taxi driver, always a reliable source of political opinion, it promises to join the EU and never does. Like somewhere else I could mention, the population is split 50:50 as to whether joining the EU is a good idea or not. A beautiful central park with a fortress that looks like Helms Deep. Lovely walks along the Danube. Lots of views. Here's one of them.I managed to rupture a tendon in my knee playing pickleball a month back, and this gave me an unexpected insight into the Serbian healthcare system. My knee was hurting so I took to google and got an appointment that same day with an orthopaedic surgeon. The clinic was not in the centre of town so we got some insight into ‘the real Belgrade”. What struck me was the relationship between the doctors and their patients. It seemed so good. They all seemed to know each other. There was affection. They seemed to feel part of the same community. It was so good to see. I then had an MRI the following day, all for about a quarter of what I would have expected to pay in the UK. That was a good experience too.I liked Serbia and will go back. Next time I am going to get a boat and drift up the Danube for a few days. There is something about being on a river that strips life down to its essentials. For a few days at least, I will drift, gently sway, bob up and down and nothing much will matter any more.Here is this week's commentary, in case you missed it.Until next time,Happy Sunday,DominicIf you live in a third world country such as the UK, I urge you to own gold or silver. The pound will be further devalued, as will the euro and dollar. The bullion dealer I use and recommend is The Pure Gold Company. They deliver to the UK, the US, Canada and Europe. More here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com/subscribe
¿Y si la solución que construiste es una motosierra para un problema que solo necesitaba unas tijeras? En este primer episodio de Fírmame el After, Moris y Dano Medina analizan a fondo el episodio de Muralia: una plataforma que conecta muralistas con clientes que quieren murales. Platican sobre si el negocio ya encontró su Product Market Fit, por qué 25 proyectos transaccionados no son evidencia suficiente de un negocio escalable, cuál sería el segmento de cliente ganador (¿desarrolladoras inmobiliarias, cadenas comerciales, gobiernos?), y el error clásico de enamorarse de la solución en lugar de la problemática. Con preguntas y comentarios de la audiencia en vivo, exploran caminos alternativos para Muralla: convertirse en agencia creativa, quedarse solo con la línea de back office para artistas, o abrirse a otras disciplinas de arte más allá de los murales.Prueba café el Capitalhttps://cafeelcapital.com/s/08a4840:00 – Bienvenida al primer programa de "Fírmame el After"1:20 – Cómo funciona el formato: comentar el episodio de la semana anterior2:10 – Primeras impresiones sobre Muralla, la plataforma de murales3:25 – Por qué los murales se volvieron parte de la cultura urbana7:13 – Preguntas en vivo de la audiencia7:29 – El escepticismo inicial: ¿un "Uber de los muralistas"?9:03 – El valor de la red: más de 1,000 muralistas en la plataforma9:39 – La segunda línea de negocio: el back office administrativo para artistas10:17 – Por qué la apuesta en etapas tempranas es en el emprendedor, no solo en el negocio10:50 – La tracción actual: más de 25 proyectos transaccionados11:22 – El reto de la complejidad: un mural no es un producto estandarizado14:12 – El verdadero cuello de botella: la demanda, no la oferta15:38 – ¿Cuál debería ser la participación de Moris como inversionista?17:10 – Por qué la transaccionalidad digital es la clave del éxito del negocio18:52 – ¿Muralla ya encontró su Product Market Fit?20:08 – La analogía de las paletas de hielo: por qué 25 ventas no hacen un negocio21:43 – La pregunta clave: ¿cuál es el segmento de cliente ganador?23:05 – Hipótesis en vivo: ¿las desarrolladoras inmobiliarias son el cliente ideal?24:20 – La hipótesis del negocio comercial: cadenas como Starbucks26:16 – Ideas de la audiencia: escuelas, salones de fiesta, gobierno27:04 – La idea de un proyecto de embellecimiento municipal completo29:34 – Dos hipótesis por validar: tamaño del mercado y transaccionalidad digital31:19 – Los murales dinámicos: el segmento de publicidad y anuncios33:30 – El comentario del chat: "el valor no es la tecnología, es el intermediario"37:04 – Qué pasa después de firmar un cheque: el proceso de due diligence39:08 – El lado frágil del negocio, según Dano40:43 – Posibles caminos: ¿de plataforma a agencia creativa de murales?42:55 – Otro camino: quedarse solo con el back office para artistas43:43 – ¿Abrir la plataforma a todo tipo de arte o quedarse solo con murales?49:15 – Enamorarse del problema, no de la solución50:56 – La trampa del costo hundido en los emprendedores53:24 – ¿El problema de Muralla es en realidad muy simple?55:29 – La analogía de la motosierra y las tijeras59:42 – El ejemplo del estacionamiento complicado: ¿motosierra o tijeras?1:03:05 – La clave: demanda recurrente busca eficiencia, demanda ocasional busca simplicidad1:04:34 – La confianza en el muralista: el reto que nadie había mencionado1:07:10 – Cierre: qué viene en el próximo episodio de Fírmame el Cheque (jueves 10 de septiembre)
In this episode, Ray Cochrane breaks down Hot Chips 2026, the engineering conference where IBM, NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, Arm, and Fujitsu all showed how their next processors actually work. The headline disclosure is a mainframe core that runs Arm natively. Ray also covers Apple’s odd M6 Mac mini naming, London’s first autonomous Uber rides, Amazon’s purchase of the company behind DuckDB, GitHub’s HydraFusion, the best of IFA 2026, and new USDA research on farmed salmon. – Want to start a podcast? It’s easy to get started! Sign-up at Blubrry – Thinking of buying a Starlink? Use my link to support the show. Subscribe to the Newsletter. Email Ray if you want to get in touch! Like and Follow Geek News Central’s Facebook Page. Support my Show Sponsor: Best Godaddy Promo Codes Get 1Password Full Summary Cochrane opens the show with a personal update. He apologizes for the late rollout and the missed Monday episode, having spent the week fighting a cold. He’s also heading to Michigan to spend time with family and visit his father’s gravesite. He hopes to record a couple of shows from his dad’s old studio while he is there, including a special episode planned for Tuesday. He also points listeners to a fresh site redesign that trades the old techie look for something cleaner and friendlier. The featured segment starts from a wrap-up post on Arm’s newsroom. However, Cochrane broadens it to cover the whole conference rather than a single article. Hot Chips has run every August since 1989, and this year’s event was the 38th, held August 23rd through the 25th at Stanford’s Memorial Auditorium. What Hot Chips Actually Is Cochrane draws a line between Hot Chips and the big consumer trade shows. CES and Computex exist for product announcements and marketing. Meanwhile, Hot Chips is an IEEE engineering conference where chip architects present block diagrams and die photos for thirty minutes at a stretch. The audience matters as much as the content. Roughly five hundred people who design chips for a living fill the room, and they would spot a fudged number immediately. No written paper is required, just the talk and the slides. In-person tickets sold out this year, as did Stanford’s dorm housing. Cochrane says he plans to cover the conference annually going forward. IBM Built a Mainframe Core That Speaks Arm The disclosure that stopped Cochrane cold came from IBM. Its next processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE runs two completely different instruction sets natively, on every one of its eleven cores. Those are z/Architecture, IBM’s own mainframe language, and AArch64, which is 64-bit Arm. Crucially, this is not emulation. Nor is it Arm cores glued onto the die beside the mainframe cores. IBM built 2,792 Arm instructions directly into the hardware, which it says is more than double the mainframe instruction count. Each core carries two separate decoders while sharing the caches, branch predictor and register files downstream. It switches between the two in nanoseconds. IBM even added dedicated hardware to flip byte order, because Arm and the mainframe store numbers in opposite directions. The payoff is Arm SystemReady compliance, meaning off-the-shelf Arm Linux runs on a mainframe unmodified. Patrick Kennedy of ServeTheHome, who was in the room, wrote: “I am sitting here still in awe of what IBM is doing here; this is not Z plus Arm cores, this is Z and Arm in one core.” Cochrane flags one precision point that is easy to get backward. IBM did not license Arm’s core designs and drop them in. Instead, it took its own mainframe core and taught it AArch64 under an architecture license, which is considerably harder engineering. The specifications are striking. The chip uses a 2nm process, with eleven cores running above 5.7GHz sustained and no turbo mode at all. Each core gets 36MB of L2 cache, backed by a 3.5GB virtual L4 pool. Furthermore, the reliability target is eight nines, which works out to roughly three tenths of one second of unplanned downtime per year. IBM gave it no name and no ship date, though the press expects “Telum III” around 2028. Arm, Fujitsu and NVIDIA Show Their Hands Arm itself had plenty to discuss, starting with an unfortunate name. Its first chip in thirty-five years is called the AGI CPU, which is a product name rather than any claim about artificial general intelligence. For three and a half decades, Arm designed processor blueprints and licensed them out, collecting royalties without competing. That era is now over. The AGI CPU is Arm’s own silicon, co-designed with lead customer Meta, running up to 136 cores on TSMC’s 3nm process at 300 watts. Arm’s CEO says the company has more than $2 billion in customer demand across the next two fiscal years. Fujitsu brought the detail Cochrane called the coolest of the conference. Its MONAKA chip packs 144 Arm-based cores, but the trick is the cache. Rather than sitting alongside the cores and eating die area, the entire last-level cache lives on a separate 5nm die with the 2nm compute die stacked directly on top. It ships in 2027 in 350-watt and 500-watt versions. NVIDIA had more stage time than anyone, with six sessions. Its new Vera CPU carries 88 cores of NVIDIA’s own Olympus design, which marks a change: the previous Grace CPU used Arm’s off-the-shelf cores. Consequently, Arm’s win here is the instruction set, not the blueprint. The memory disclosure drew the most attention, with a fully loaded system reaching 1.5TB at 1.2TB/s while the whole memory subsystem draws just 30 to 40 watts. The Caveat on NVIDIA’s Benchmark Slides Cochrane pushes back on how NVIDIA presented its numbers. On the standard SPEC integer benchmark, Vera scored 925 against AMD’s 128-core EPYC score of 898, about three percent ahead. However, the slide NVIDIA showed normalizes that same result per physical core, which makes a three percent gap look enormous. NVIDIA defends the choice, arguing that per-core throughput matters when thousands of AI agents run at once. Cochrane grants that it is a fair argument to make. Even so, his verdict is blunt: it is a different number from the headline one, and presenting it that way is not the best look. Sponsor: GoDaddy Economy hosting $6.99/month, WordPress hosting $12.99/month, domains $11.99. Website builder trial available. Use codes at geeknewscentral.com/godaddy to support the show. Apple’s Newest Chip Landed in Its Cheapest Mac Last week’s episode covered the Mac Studio half of Apple’s August announcement. Tonight Cochrane takes the other half, the new Mac mini, and finds the numbering genuinely strange. The $899 base Mac mini gets the M6, which is Apple’s first 2nm chip and the newest process the company has shipped. It brings twelve CPU cores, twelve GPU cores, and 170GB/s of memory bandwidth. Apple also introduced a third CPU core class called super cores. So Apple’s most advanced chip sits in its cheapest desktop, while the M5 Pro, M5 Max and M5 Ultra above it all carry a lower number. It gets stranger. The M6 mini has Thunderbolt 4 while the pricier M5 Pro mini has Thunderbolt 5, and the memory ceiling runs backward too. Apple explains none of it across three announcement pages. Reading between the lines, Cochrane figures the M6 is the entry point of a new generation that shipped ahead of its larger siblings. London’s Robotaxis Started Carrying Passengers Arm’s monthly roundup covers everything outside the data center, and Wayve stood out. Transport for London granted the British self-driving company private hire vehicle licenses on August 5th, the same category a minicab needs. Then on September 3rd the service launched with Uber, marking the first autonomous rides ever offered to UK passengers. A small fleet of Ford Mustang Mach-Es covers anywhere in London except the airports, with a TfL-licensed safety driver still aboard. Over 140,000 Londoners signed up. The compute runs on NVIDIA’s Arm-based automotive platform, which is why Arm claims the win. Cochrane notes the pattern: once you set a standard nobody can move off, these wins keep arriving. Two more items round it out, both about squeezing AI onto phones. Google’s Pixel 11 shipped in August with the Tensor G6, and Google claims on-device AI runs up to 3.5x faster using 3.5x less energy. Those are Google’s own unbenchmarked figures. Separately, Graphcore’s research team worked with Arm to run an 11-billion-parameter vision model on phone-class processors by squeezing each parameter to 2.7 bits, taking the model from roughly 22GB down to 3.7GB. Intel Is Pitching AI Infrastructure From a Long Way Back Intel’s newsroom post previews the AI Infra Summit, running September 15th through 17th in Santa Clara. CEO Lip-Bu Tan takes a fireside chat on Tuesday morning, with three Intel sessions across the show. Cochrane unpacks two terms first. Physical AI means AI that acts in the real world through sensors and motors rather than living on a screen, and Intel takes it seriously enough to have renamed its PC division the Client Computing and Physical AI Group in May. Disaggregated inference splits the two phases of running a model: reading your prompt is compute-hungry, while writing the answer back is memory-hungry. The context is where this gets interesting. Intel’s revenue rose 25 percent last quarter, its fastest growth since 2011. Nevertheless, in AI accelerators the company barely registers next to NVIDIA. Gaudi has effectively been abandoned, to the point that Intel stopped maintaining its open-source driver, and AMD passed Intel in data center revenue last quarter. Tellingly, when Intel demoed disaggregated inference at Computex, NVIDIA GPUs handled one phase and SambaNova chips the other while Intel supplied the coordinating CPU. Crescent Island, Intel’s actual inference chip, does not sample until later this year, and Intel declined to publish its memory bandwidth. Amazon Bought the Company Behind DuckDB On August 26th, Amazon signed a deal to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam company behind DuckDB. Cochrane spends time explaining what DuckDB is, since listeners outside the data world may never have encountered it. The problem it solves is familiar. Querying a large pile of data files traditionally meant either running a database server or spinning up a data warehouse with a cluster, a bill, and a loading pipeline. Both are heavy machinery for a question you wanted answered in ten seconds. DuckDB instead ships as a library rather than a server. You add it to your program like any other package, point it at your files, and write ordinary SQL directly against them. The data never moves. The usual comparison is SQLite, which is embedded in nearly every phone and browser on earth. Where SQLite excels at looking up one record, DuckDB rebuilds that embedded idea for chewing through millions of rows. It now sees roughly 62 million monthly downloads on Python’s package index alone, up from about 25 million last October. AWS says it is buying the company, not the project. DuckDB stays free and open source under the MIT license, held by a Dutch nonprofit foundation, and the founders join AWS while continuing to run technical direction from Amsterdam. Andy Warfield, a VP and distinguished engineer at AWS, described DuckDB as “the glibc of structured data: a lean, unglamorous, ubiquitous dependency that a great deal of software links against and almost nobody has to think about.” Cochrane sits with what that ownership means. He reaches for an analogy: imagine Daniel Stenberg selling curl. He doubts it would ever happen, but the concept alone is startling given how much infrastructure depends on it. His read is that AWS is betting DuckDB becomes as foundational as curl and SQLite already are. GitHub Has One AI Model Grade Another One’s Homework GitHub shipped Project HydraFusion into Copilot as a research preview. Instead of routing your request to a single model, it picks one of three approaches per request. Sometimes one model simply answers. Alternatively, a cheaper model drafts, and a quality gate decides whether to escalate. The interesting one is Critique. One model writes the code, a separate model from a different family reviews it read-only, and the original gets one pass to revise. Despite the name, nothing is fused here. There is no voting and no merging, just one model at a time with a gate deciding whether to spend more. GitHub explained the reasoning in an earlier post: “a model reviewing its own work is still bounded by its own training biases: the same training data and techniques, the same blind spots.” Research supports it. A team at NeurIPS in 2024 showed that models recognize their own writing and score it higher than human graders do. GitHub’s earlier number had a Claude Sonnet and GPT critic pairing closing about three-quarters of the gap between Sonnet and the larger Opus model. This mirrors a workflow Cochrane uses constantly and has described on a previous episode. He runs a cross-check review with a second model from a different company, and it routinely surfaces issues the first model missed. He explains that different training data, different engineers, and different reinforcement approaches build different internal biases about what counts as correct. Looking ahead, he expects more of these “Frankenstein patterns” where models from different training families work together. The Best of IFA 2026, and What You Can Actually Buy IFA opened to the public in Berlin for its 102nd year, with about 1,900 brands. Cochrane splits The Verge’s roundup in two, since much of what generates headlines at these shows never ships. Starting with real products, iRobot’s flagship Roomba Max 875 Combo runs $1,199 and ships in about two weeks. Its SealForce feature drops a hidden skirt from the chassis when it detects carpet, sealing against the fibers so suction concentrates instead of leaking out the sides. That reaches 35,000 pascals, iRobot’s strongest yet. A step-down model at $899 carries the same trick, though Cochrane balks at both prices. Anker’s Soundcore Sleep 4 Pro earbuds arrive in November at $349.99. The charging case carries its own round touchscreen, so you pick soundscapes, set alarms, and read sleep stats without your phone. Optical sensors read heart rate and variability from the ear canal, which beats the wrist for accuracy, and the case masks a snoring partner. Cochrane remains unconvinced about sleeping with earbuds in. Philips also has smart rope lights, the Hue Liane 360, on sale now. They glow evenly around the tube rather than showing individual LEDs. They also run $400 for three meters, which works out to about $130 per meter of rope light. As for concepts nobody can buy, iRobot showed a robot vacuum that carries a smaller robot vacuum on its back in a garage and lowers it to deploy. Lenovo brought a 14-inch laptop whose screen rolls out to 17 inches at the press of a button, which reviewers call the first rollable that feels close to shippable. Tecno showed a phone with essentially no border around the screen, and Acer had a Windows gaming handheld that swivels its screen up over a keyboard. Two themes ran through the show. Humanoid robots were the loudest thing on the floor, and IFA’s own CEO framed the event as being about robots that work rather than robots that demo. Meanwhile, AI stopped being its own product category and became an ingredient, showing up in refrigerators, treadmills, dishwashers, and motorized TV mounts. Farmed Salmon Isn’t the Omega-3 Machine It Used to Be USDA scientists measured farmed salmon and found considerably less of the good fat than the government’s own database claims. EPA and DHA are two fatty acids you get almost entirely from fish. Your body can build them from the plant version, but only in tiny amounts, so the NIH’s position is that eating them is the only practical way to raise your levels. Those fatty acids are structural pieces of every cell, with DHA concentrating in the brain and retina. That is why the federal dietary guidelines, issued jointly by USDA and Health and Human Services, recommend at least eight ounces of fish a week and steer you toward salmon. That amount is calibrated to deliver about 250 milligrams a day. Published in Frontiers in Nutrition last month, the study found EPA and DHA in farmed Atlantic salmon came in 54.7 percent lower than USDA’s own reference values, last updated in 2018. A three-ounce serving fell from roughly 1,670 milligrams to about 756. Consequently, two servings a week now fall about 14 percent short of the target. Plant-derived fats meanwhile rose two to three times over. The likely cause is feed. Salmon are carnivores, and farms once fed them oily little fish. There was never going to be enough of those as the industry scaled, so crops filled the gap: soy, canola, sunflower and linseed. Importantly, the study does not claim to have proven this and calls the feed shift a plausible explanation. Independent corroboration lends it credibility. Researchers at Stirling measured a similar halving in Scottish salmon between 2006 and 2015, and Norway’s marine institute saw it across thousands of samples. There is a land dimension too. Roughly half the world’s soy grows in South America, where rainforest gets cleared for feed. Matthew Hayek, who studies the environmental cost of protein at NYU, told Inside Climate News that “soy is a major, important protein and oil ingredient in fish farming.” Adding up two decades of soy across all fish farming, he puts the extra forest clearing at around the area of Nicaragua or Bangladesh. That figure covers all fish farming rather than salmon alone, and Hayek notes it is hard to attribute soy use to any single species. Cochrane closes with two caveats. First, the study measured only eight fish, bought around Maryland, DC and Virginia over six weeks in 2023, and nearly all sourced from Chile. That is not a national survey, and the authors say plainly the sample was not large enough to change government advice. Rather, it flags that a federal database value needs rechecking, which is what the paper set out to do. Second, on whether you should care, farmed salmon still beats beef, chicken and eggs by a mile, since those carry essentially zero EPA and DHA. What it loses is its crown among fatty fish, dropping to mid-pack behind herring, sardines and mackerel and roughly level with trout. The broader health case is also softer than the 2000s suggested. A review of 86 trials covering 162,000 people found supplements barely moved heart attacks or deaths, so eating fish and swallowing fish oil are not the same claim. No producer has responded to the findings, and USDA, whose own scientists ran the study, declined an interview and did not answer emailed questions. Cochrane wraps up with housekeeping and a note that he will be back on Labor Day. The post The Mainframe Learned to Speak Arm #1875 appeared first on Geek News Central.
Uber is cutting 93 workers from its Washington offices — hitting its Seattle engineering hub the hardest, eliminating software engineers, product managers, and data scientists. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's memo blamed runaway corporate complexity, but the more honest answer is simpler: Seattle made those employees the most expensive workers in the country to keep on payroll.The culprit is the Jumpstart payroll tax — the levy Seattle imposed to punish large employers — stacked on top of Washington's layered tax burden. When Uber needed to find headcount to cut, Seattle was the obvious first line. You build a policy designed to make employment expensive, you get fewer employees. That's not an opinion, it's arithmetic.This isn't a one-off story. In just the past week: Georgia Pacific announced it's closing its Tacoma plant and heading to Texas. Amazon cut 121 Washington workers. T-Mobile is "right-sizing." Starbucks is moving operations to Nashville. Delta Camshaft is gone. The businesses aren't leaving because the economy is bad — they're leaving because Washington specifically made staying too costly, and the states welcoming them are collecting the jobs that come with them.Subscribe to @reasonablenews and hit the notification bell — these stories are going to keep coming.#NFRP #Seattle #UberLayoffsGO PREMIUM WITH REASONABLE+ FOR UNCENSORED ACCESS
The Clippers are in NBA Jail. We talk about the massive penalty Adam Silver laid down on the Clippers after the Kawhi/Tree Scandal. Possible alternative punishments and winners and losers (00:00:00-00:21:16). CFB Week 1, Tiger and Romo taking Ubers and other stories (00:21:16-00:32:23). Zac and Hank have their Mt Rushmore duel to finish off Mt Rushmore season (00:32:23-00:57:13). Stavros Halkias stops by in studio to talk about his new special out September 8th on Netflix, Ravens, the fact that idiots like us are doing well and tons more (00:57:13-02:07:52). We finish with Fyre Fest of the week and Hank has an existential Golf crisis after the Grudge Match in Florida.You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Netflix. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/pardon-my-take
Brendan is back for episode 200. He's coaching 10U tackle football and his defense still hasn't given up a touchdown. Chris just headlined a comedy festival in Portugal and has his first trip to Paris coming up. The guys get into Brian Callen missing the Monday show, why none of them have ever missed a flight, how much therapy is too much, a therapist who bragged about a client to his golf buddies, and not wanting to talk to barbers, chiropractors or Uber drivers. Then it's real fighters beating up online tough guys, Brian Callen's friend who supposedly fought Cheick Kongo on a beach, the fake Amy Poehler podcast scam, a custom steering wheel order that's been "in transit" for weeks, and the $300 estate auction couch Rachel bought. After Brendan leaves to get the kids, Chris and Erik cover Calvin sleeping in their bed, The Long Walk and every Stephen King book that became a movie, self-publishing success stories like The Martian and Wool, the Tupac verdict, GTA 6, and Tim Dillon on the women showing up to support Lindsay Clancy at her trial.Get two extra episodes every month at https://Patreon.com/TheGoldenHourPodcastTo submit to the show email: thegoldenhoursubs@gmail.com or Dropbox Link: https://www.dropbox.com/request/fqtbexhxyaky9X8f8MV1In the subject line, specify whether your submission is King It or Sting It, Debate Club, Rip My Drip, Relationship Advice, or Flaunt My Aunt. In the body of the email, include the attachment, your name, where you're from, and in the case of Flaunt My Aunt, the name of your relative.SUBSCRIBE to The Golden Hour Podcast: http://www.youtube.com/c/KingandtheSting Get your King and the Sting merch at https://thicccboy.com/collections/sale-home-pageFollow #TheGoldenHourInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.golden....Twitter:https://twitter.com/the_golden_hrFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/KingandtheStingAnd check out Brendan, Chris, & Erik on social media!Brendan Schaub:https://www.instagram.com/brendanschaubhttps://twitter.com/BrendanSchaubhttps://www.facebook.com/OfficialBren...Chris D'Elia:https://twitter.com/chrisdeliahttps://www.instagram.com/chrisdelia/https://www.facebook.com/chrisdeliaof...Erik Griffin:https://twitter.com/ErikGriffinhttps://instagram.com/erikgriffinhttps://www.facebook.com/erikgriffinc...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
The LA Clippers just got the biggest punishment in NBA history… but Labor Day explains the paradox for owner Steve Ballmer.Uber is now friends with taxi unions? Tesla Cybercab has no steering wheel?... It's a showdown.The world's oldest pasta brand bought the youngest… Barilla acquired Goodles Noodles.Plus, the biggest opportunity in finance right now… is your 200-year-old local State Fair.$KHC $UBER $LYFTGrab your Tickets to the IPO Tour: Our In-Person OfferingSan Francisco 9/23: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1C0064AFB5F688BDBoston 10/14: https://tickets.citywinery.com/event/tboy-the-ipo-tour-in-person-offering-8cdhupSeattle 11/4 (21+): https://www.axs.com/events/1446394/the-best-one-yet-ticketsNEWSLETTER:https://tboypod.com/newsletter OUR 2ND SHOW:Want more business storytelling from us? Check our weekly deepdive show, The Best Idea Yet: The untold origin story of the products you're obsessed with. Listen for free to The Best Idea Yet: https://wondery.com/links/the-best-idea-yet/NEW LISTENERSFill out our 2 minute survey: https://qualtricsxm88y5r986q.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dp1FDYiJgt6lHy6GET ON THE POD: Submit a shoutout or fact: https://tboypod.com/shoutouts SOCIALS:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tboypod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tboypodYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tboypod Linkedin (Nick): https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-martell/Linkedin (Jack): https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-crivici-kramer/Anything else: https://tboypod.com/ About Us: The daily pop-biz news show making today's top stories your business. Formerly known as Robinhood Snacks, The Best One Yet is hosted by Jack Crivici-Kramer & Nick Martell. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome Tian Lan & Peijun Liu the Co-Founders of Care Mojo as guests to the show. About Tian Lan, Founder & CEO of Care Mojo: Tian Lan is the Founder and CEO of Care Mojo. Before launching Care Mojo, she worked as an engineer at Uber and later became a venture investor. Tian was raised by her grandfather, and watching dementia change the man who had been her hero left a lasting mark on her. She went on to own senior home care businesses, where she explored how technology could be applied to build solutions that make home care safer and more affordable, and that keep families more connected to the loved ones in their care. About Peijun Liu, Co-Founder of Care Mojo: Peijun Liu is the Co-Founder of Care Mojo and a researcher at UCSF. A graduate of UCSF, she has researched the use of language models for early cognitive decline detection in partnership with the Mayo Clinic. Having served as a family caregiver for her grandmother and worked in hospice care, Peijun brings both personal and clinical experience to her work bringing greater dignity and visibility to dementia care through Care Mojo. About Care Mojo: Care Mojo is an AI-powered aging-in-place safety platform designed to help older adults remain safer and more independent at home while giving families and care professionals greater visibility and peace of mind. Its always-on system combines wearable technology, in-home sensing, location awareness, and proactive voice check-ins to recognize changes in daily routines, activity, safety, and wellbeing. Care Mojo can identify more than 500 daily events and patterns, including potential falls, wandering, changes in bathroom habits, sleep disruption, low movement, missed meals, and other changes that may warrant attention. When the system detects a potential concern, Care Mojo's AI Speaker Hub can first check in with the individual by voice and then alert family members, caregivers, care staff, or emergency services when appropriate. Its location technology provides room-level awareness inside the home without relying on cameras and can transition to GPS when someone leaves the home, helping families stay informed while supporting an older adult's privacy and independence. Designed for both families and professional home care providers, Care Mojo provides real-time insights that can help caregivers better understand how a loved one is doing between visits and recognize meaningful changes earlier. With privacy controls, HIPAA-compliant safeguards, and integration capabilities for care organizations, Care Mojo is working to bring together artificial intelligence, wearable technology, and proactive care to help redefine what safer aging and dementia care at home can look like.
Donate (no account necessary) | Subscribe (account required) Join Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA Operations Officer, as he dives into today's top stories shaping America and the world. In this Friday Headline Brief of The Wright Report, Bryan breaks down a Biden-appointed judge blocking President Trump's revised birthright citizenship order, setting up a fresh Supreme Court showdown over who qualifies as an American. Bryan covers California's first-in-the-nation ban on ICE's electric-shock gloves, OpenAI's release of its most advanced AI model yet alongside admissions that a rogue predecessor formed a secret hacking "society," and a heated fact-check of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's claim that AI data centers use no water at all. He also breaks down Uber's AI-driven layoffs as robotaxis take over city streets. Plus, Bryan covers Israel's capture of a key Hezbollah and IRGC stronghold in Lebanon that could ignite a wider regional war, China's development of weaponized weather-modification technology, a new HHS investigation into whether COVID vaccine mandates killed US service members, and a promising AI tool that predicts dementia risk from brain scans. "And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." - John 8:32 Keywords: Wright Report, Bryan Dean Wright, birthright citizenship, Supreme Court, California, shock gloves, ICE, OpenAI, Astra, AGI, Howard Lutnick, data centers water, Uber layoffs, robotaxi, Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, IRGC, China, weather weapons, COVID vaccine, military deaths, dementia, brain scan AI
Freelance Nashville drummer Carlos Guevara joins Rich and Jim to share his incredible journey from growing up in Venezuela under political and economic crisis to rebuilding his life and career in the U.S. Despite being born with arthrogryposis, Carlos became a first-call Broadway drummer, a devoted family man, and a model of resilience and positivity.They dig into his escape from Venezuela, learning English through drum magazines, adapting his technique around physical limitations, grinding for gigs on Lower Broadway, and balancing music, Uber, and fatherhood. The guys also geek out on Stewart Copeland, Journey, Yamaha's EAD-10, and the culture of world futbol vs. American sports.Perfect for drummers, creatives, and anyone who needs a shot of perspective, gratitude, and hustle.Timed Highlights:0:00 Show open, Drummer Dad idea, and Yamaha EAD talk3:30 Stewart Copeland stories and guys' night at the Ryman7:20 Meet Carlos Guevara: from Caracas to Nashville via Anaheim11:00 Falling in love with country music and surviving Broadway15:10 Family, teenagers, and fútbol culture (football is life)20:00 Learning English from records, Drum Magazine, and method books23:40 El Sistema explained: Venezuela's free orchestral training27:10 Life under Chavez and the decision to leave Venezuela31:00 Colombia stopover and finally landing in Los Angeles with almost nothing35:10 Driving Uber in the U.S. and wild passenger stories39:00 Moving to Nashville, discovering Broadway, and first gigs at Mellow Mushroom43:30 Breaking into the scene, networking, and always showing up at clinics47:30 Arthrogryposis: Carlos's condition and how he adapted his technique51:00 Ergonomics hacks: extra hi-hat, jam block, and left-foot workarounds54:10 Yamaha EAD-10 vs EAD-50 and why every drummer should consider one57:00 Immigrant mindset, AI/apps, and Jam Juice shaking up Broadway bookings1:01:30 Carlos's goals: more tours, family balance, and motivational speaking1:04:30 Venezuelan arepas, keeping traditions alive, and where to find Carlos online1:06:40 Closing gratitude and episode wrapLinks:Carlos Guevara Instagram: https://instagram.com/carlosdrums86Podcast website: https://therichredmondshow.transistor.fmRich's DrumTensive: https://drumtensive.com Production studio: https://itsyourshow.coRich Redmond: https://richredmond.com
Most owners have never put a number on the business they have spent their life building. This episode puts one there.Jimmy Nicholas and Dustin Burleson take apart what a business is actually worth, what changes that figure, and what an owner can do about it long before a sale is on the table. Jimmy sold his agency to private equity in 2019, and he walks through the parts nobody warned him about. Dustin has bought, sold, and advised on the other side of the table, and he brings the buyer's view of what makes a business worth paying up for.**In this episode:**- Why the consultants Jimmy paid tens of thousands of dollars were wrong about a personality-based business being unsellable- The question that tells you whether you own a business or a high-paying job: if you were gone tomorrow, does it tank in 90 days- **Recastable expenses** and the owner salary add-back, and why the math changes once EBITDA crosses one million dollars- Why recurring revenue commands a different class of multiple, and how consumer brands get valued on revenue rather than earnings- The **Rule of 40**, and the third, third, third formula Jimmy ran as guardrails without knowing it had a name- Dustin's three rules of negotiation: who you are dealing with, never negotiating under duress, and going one year further back in due diligence than you think you need to- Why the best negotiating position is not needing the deal**Timestamps**- 00:00 Intro- 00:18 Why this topic, and the four kinds of owner listening- 02:18 Small business as a wealth generation vehicle- 03:18 Addressing the skeptic: what the consultants got wrong- 08:18 What building it to sell actually changes about running it- 10:18 Exit strategy: why are you getting off the highway- 13:18 The 90 day test- 16:18 Jimmy's 2019 sale, and what the buyer could give his team that he could not- 20:18 EBITDA, recastable expenses, and the owner salary line- 23:18 Multiples by industry, and revenue multiples versus earnings multiples- 26:18 The Powerball whiteboard exercise- 30:18 Creating your own luck, and the room where Jimmy raised his hand- 32:18 Due diligence, and why it is worth going through- 35:18 What a bad negotiation looks like- 40:18 The liability line, and the question Jimmy asked his attorney- 44:18 What each of them wishes they had known- 48:18 The Rule of 40- 54:18 What is coming next month**A note on the numbers.** The multiples in this episode are not one range. Jimmy speaks generally about businesses under one million dollars in EBITDA. Dustin's four, seven, and ten times figures are scoped to orthodontics specifically, and his Uber, Airbnb, and DoorDash figures are multiples of revenue rather than earnings. Know which one applies to you before you anchor on it.**Get the resources.** The valuation worksheet for this episode, along with the full transcript and everything referenced, is at [MomentumInsiders.com](https://momentuminsiders.com). Free to join.**Next month:** owning your assets versus renting them, and the things in your business you may think you own but do not. Get additional resources, scorecards, and working frameworks at WealthyMomentumPodcast.comSubscribe on YouTube: YouTube.com/@WealthyEntrepreneurHQLearn more: WealthyEntrepreneur.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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En Capital Intereconomía ponemos el foco en la actualidad empresarial, las nuevas iniciativas dentro del sector financiero y las oportunidades de inversión. En Radar Empresarial analizamos la decisión de Uber de despedir al 10% de su plantilla y las implicaciones de este ajuste para la compañía y su estrategia de crecimiento. A continuación, entrevistamos a José Antonio Esteban, CEO de IronIA Fintech, para conocer IronIA Explica, el nuevo programa de YouTube que se estrenará el próximo 23 de septiembre a las 19:00 horas. Conocemos los objetivos de este nuevo espacio, sus contenidos y la apuesta de la compañía por acercar la inversión y la educación financiera a los usuarios. En el Foro de la Inversión conversamos con Andrés Allende, managing partner del fondo Paradigma Value Catalyst de A&G Global Investors. Analizamos la filosofía de inversión del fondo, su estrategia de selección de compañías, la composición de la cartera y su evolución en términos de rentabilidad. Por último, abrimos el Consultorio de Fondos con Borja Nieto, cofundador de MiCappital, que responde a las consultas de los oyentes y analiza diferentes alternativas de inversión en fondos atendiendo al perfil, los objetivos y el horizonte temporal de cada inversor.
The views from New York's luxury high-rise apartments can be spectacular. And the higher up you go, the more exclusive, and expensive the properties become. An artist became obsessed with those views, and the hidden world hiding behind them. She just needed to find a way in. Discover more about the Andi Schmied and her book “Private Views A High-Rise Panorama of Manhattan” Chameleon is a production of Campside Media and Audiochuck. Follow Chameleon on Instagram @chameleonpod Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
In today's episode, Kyle Grieve and Shawn O'Malley break down AppLovin, the mobile advertising platform that went from a failed app recommendation tool to one of the most profitable businesses in ad tech. They walk through how the company makes money on both sides of the ad exchange, why its data advantage has been so hard for competitors to copy, and what caused the market to turn on the stock so violently after a relatively strong quarter. Along the way, they dig into the founder's track record, the buyback program that made early shareholders rich, and whether the growth story still has room to run. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN: (00:00:00) Intro (00:03:11) How a failed app became a global advertising platform (00:11:52) How AppLovin makes money from advertisers and publishers (00:16:48) Why real-time auctions beat the old waterfall method (00:30:24) What actually protects AppLovin from Google and Meta (00:31:06) Why AppLovin bought mobile game studios, then sold them (00:57:42) How buybacks created enormous value (01:08:50) Details on the executive comp structure (01:13:59) What we think triggered the post-earnings collapse (01:19:14) Where the next leg of growth could come from (01:28:39) Valuation discussion of AppLovin (01:30:05) Intrinsic Value of AppLovin (01:30:26) Whether Kyle & Shawn will add AppLovin to the Intrinsic Value Portfolio Disclaimer: Slight discrepancies in the timestamps may occur due to podcast platform differences. BOOKS AND RESOURCES Join the exclusive The Intrinsic Value Mastermind Community. Track The Intrinsic Value Portfolio. Learn more about how to join us in NYC for our Intrinsic Value Conference. Portfolio Review Submit Tool. Check out our previous Intrinsic Value breakdowns: Alphabet, Meta, Reddit, Trade Desk, Uber. Follow Kyle on X and LinkedIn. Follow Shawn on X and LinkedIn. Related books mentioned in the podcast. Ad-free episodes on our Premium Feed. NEW TO THE SHOW? Get smarter about valuing businesses through The Intrinsic Value Newsletter. Check out The Investor's Podcast Starter Packs. Follow our official social media accounts: X | LinkedIn | Facebook. Try our tool for picking stock winners and managing our portfolios: TIP Finance. Enjoy exclusive perks from our favorite Apps and Services. Learn how to better start, manage, and grow your business with the best business podcasts. SPONSORS Support our free podcast by supporting our sponsors: Monarch Plus500 Scribe Plaud Netsuite References to any third-party products, services, or advertisers do not constitute endorsements, and The Investor's Podcast Network is not responsible for any claims made by them. Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm
A.M. Edition for Sept. 3. The U.S. is extending its troop deployments to the Middle East well into 2027, putting the prospects of an end to the Iran war further away. WSJ's Jared Malsin and Matt Dalton explain what that means for the troops, the U.S. war effort and energy price-driven inflation. Plus, Russia gains the upper hand in Ukraine, with a barrage of new drones. And Uber's global robotaxi push faces a litmus test on the mean streets of London. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
#925: The NBA drops the hammer down on the LA Clippers for circumventing the league's salary-cap rules. The USS Abraham Lincoln makes a stop at a Thailand resort known for its history in sex tourism after a lengthy deployment. Customers are discovering restaurants are starting to rely on AI-generated images to promote their food…and it's disturbing. Neal dives into the numbers of the new “working class,” the dying tradition of the 10PM dinner in Spain, and the clever way the New England Patriots to distract their opponents field goal attempts. Finally, Uber lays off 10% of its employees. Learn more at https://go.amex/morningbrew If you're in NYC, come to our run club on 9/16: https://www.morningbrew.com/runclub Come to our trivia night! https://mbdtrivianight-september2026.splashthat.com/ Subscribe to Morning Brew Daily for more of the news you need to start your day. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app. Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here: https://www.swap.fm/l/mbd-note Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today, we discuss the economic challenges Andy Burnham is facing ahead of his first budget. The economic backdrop has left the prime minister and his Chancellor John Healey with big decisions to make about defence spending, as pressure increases on the government to raise it. Adam Fleming is joined by economics editor Faisal Islam and Helen Miller, director at the IFS to discuss the options for the government. Plus, the BBC's technology and AI editor Zoe Kleinman is the first British journalist to hail a self-driving Uber in London. She's in the studio to debrief on what the journey was like, and how quickly the technology is evolving.You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://bbc.in/newscastdiscordGet in touch with Newscast by emailing newscast@bbc.co.uk or send us a WhatsApp on +44 0330 123 9480.New episodes released every day. If you're in the UK, for more News and Current Affairs podcasts from the BBC, listen on BBC Sounds: https://bbc.in/4guXgXd Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. The presenter was Adam Fleming. It was made by Miranda Slade with Shiler Mahmoudi and Nik Sindle. The social producers were Joe Wilkinson and Beth Pritchard. The technical producer was Hannah Montgomery. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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Auditors warned Guggenheim Partners about weak controls within its business, and Uber is teaming up with driver unions to try to slow the rollout of robotaxis. Plus, US oil major Chevron and Italy's Eni are boosting investment in oil production in Venezuela.Mentioned in this podcast:KPMG warned Guggenheim unit over deficiencies in internal controlsUber allies with driver unions in bid to slow robotaxi rolloutChevron to double Venezuela oil production with $7bn pledgeWant to get in touch? Email us at podcasts@ft.comNote: The FT does not use generative AI to voice its podcasts The FT News Briefing is produced by Sonja Hutson, Saffeya Ahmed, and Josh Gabert-Doyon. Our show is mixed by Sam Giovinco and Kelly Garry. Additional help from Gavin Kallmann, Michael Lello, Peter Barber and David da Silva. Our executive producer is Topher Forhecz. Flo Phillips is the FT's global head of audio. The show's theme music is by Metaphor Music. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Una oyente me escribió una de las cartas más fuertes del Buzón: lleva 8 meses enamorada de un hombre que está en la cárcel, su familia no lo sabe, y él ya empezó a pedirle dinero. ¿Debe contarles? ¿Debe seguir? Hoy le respondo con todo el corazón y toda la verdad. Además: el gobierno quiere que los estados entreguen a los migrantes o pierden la ayuda para ancianos y familias de bajos recursos, ahora hasta para el pasaporte de tu hijo te pueden pedir tus papeles, Uber corre a 3,300 personas, y en El Concepto te enseño a saber cuántos meses aguantarías sin trabajo.
The LA Clippers have been fined $30 million by the National Basketball Association after an investigation revealed that the club had circumvented salary rules to channel funds to their star player Kawhi Leonard. The fine is the largest in the league's history - the Clippers said they will appeal against the decision. Also, as the Dutch central bank moves more than 78 tonnes of gold from New York to London, presenter Bisi Adebayo looks at why countries store gold abroad in the first place. And - robotaxis have hit the streets of London for the first time, as Uber launches 15 self-driving cars. So why is there a human still in the driving seat? We find out.Presenter: Bisi Adebayo Senior producer: Craig Henderson Producer: Huma Shah
How many engagements does it take to land in JB and Sandy's Amazing Book of Records?Tricia's friend Jack calls in with five rings on the board, lake-day walkouts from work, Dallas nightclub magnetism, and a cowboy-only type. Sandy answers with the movie-scene story of her Air Force colonel dad clearing the hotel room on her first wedding day and holding out a passport.Caller Steve nominates himself for most baby mamas, then JB pitches Poplin, the Uber for laundry, until Tricia spots the fatal flaw. Coach Taylor still gives Tricia goosebumps, a Longhorn tailgater ranks food, girls, and beer, and JB would pay to watch two humanoid robots fight. Illinois high school fishing cheerleaders close the hour.If you love The JB and Sandy Show, subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with a friend who needs a laugh on the way to work.
No steering wheel. No pedals. No driver. Welcome to Tesla's vision of the future!
In "Why the Future of Freight Has No Driver's Cab", Joe Lynch speaks with Founder and CEO of Humble Robotics, Eyal Cohen, about how cabless, electric autonomous haulers are reimagining commercial logistics from the ground up. About Eyal Cohen Eyal Cohen is the Founder and CEO of Humble Robotics, an autonomous electric trucking company that recently closed a seed round and emerged from stealth with the Humble Hauler – a fully autonomous, cabless, electric Class 8 truck built from the ground up. Cohen spent his career at the frontier of autonomous vehicles and electrification: he was inside Apple's self-driving program in its early days, watched Uber move into commercial freight, executed the world's first autonomous freight delivery by semi-truck, and sold his previous company to John Deere. About Humble Robotics Humble Robotics is an autonomous vehicle technology company reimagining commercial freight transportation through physical AI and zero-emission heavy hauling. The company builds fully autonomous, electric Class 8 haulers purpose-built to handle complex logistics scenarios without a traditional driver cab or diesel tank. By blending vision-language-action (VLA) models with robust, lightweight hardware, Humble Robotics powers a universal platform supporting multiple vehicle configurations. Its cabless, vision-first design is 20% lighter than standard rigs, reaching up to a 200-mile range at 55 mph. Functioning as tractor, trailer, and driver combined, the Humble Hauler delivers a true dock-to-dock solution that lowers per-mile operating costs, eliminates fuel dependency, and streamlines global supply chain operations. Key Takeaways: Why the Future of Freight Has No Driver's Cab In "Why the Future of Freight Has No Driver's Cab", Joe Lynch speaks with Founder and CEO of Humble Robotics, Eyal Cohen, about how cabless, electric autonomous haulers are reimagining commercial logistics from the ground up. Shedding the "Driver & Cab Tax": Traditional Class 8 trucks carry heavy operational overhead due to driver labor, sleeper cabs, and complex mechanical maintenance; eliminating cab infrastructure entirely with a purpose-built autonomous chassis lowers total cost-per-mile across equipment, labor, and maintenance. Eliminating the 20% Deadweight Penalty: Standard semi-truck setups waste allowable weight limits hauling heavy engine cabs, fuel systems, and driver amenities. A streamlined, cabless universal platform is 20% lighter, letting shippers maximize payload weight per route. Targeting High-Volume, Short-Haul Routes First: While industry focus often gravitates toward long-haul trucking, 87% of U.S. truck tonnage moves under 250 miles; focusing on high-frequency, short-haul moves (like drayage, port transfers, rail yards, and inter-facility shuttling) allows electrification and autonomy to succeed immediately. Achieving True End-to-End "Dock-to-Dock" Autonomy: Highway-only autonomous systems leave complex yard maneuvers and loading dock connections to human drivers; an integrated tractor-trailer platform with a universal "lock & twist" interface can navigate yards, haul 40' international or 53' domestic containers, and dock without human intervention. Deploying Explainable VLA AI Over Rigid HD Maps: Replacing expensive, brittle HD pre-mapping with Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation models and 360° sensor arrays (cameras, LiDAR, radar) enables vehicles to fine-tune to new facilities in days while generating plain-language, auditable logs for every maneuver. Escaping Fuel Volatility and Carbon Costs: Operating an all-electric Class 8 powertrain with a 200-mile range protects fleets from volatile diesel pricing and rising engine maintenance while helping operators meet zero-emission mandates and secure state incentives. Building a Purpose-Built Platform Instead of Retrofitting: Retrofitting legacy diesel rigs with autonomous kits retains structural inefficiency and legacy failure points; designing a clean-sheet autonomous EV from the ground up delivers the necessary system redundancy, field safety, and operational reliability required for commercial adoption. Learn More About Why the Future of Freight Has No Driver's Cab Eyal Cohen | Linkedin Humble Robotics | Linkedin Humble Robotics The Logistics of Logistics Podcast If you enjoy the podcast, please leave a positive review, subscribe, and share it with your friends and colleagues. The Logistics of Logistics Podcast: Google, Apple, Castbox, Spotify, Stitcher, PlayerFM, Tunein, Podbean, Owltail, Libsyn, Overcast Check out The Logistics of Logistics on Youtube
The Last Trade: government bond yields are blowing out across the developed world, Japan's 10-year hit 3% for the first time since 1996, and the Treasury's buyback program has already been overrun. Jackson, Michael, and Brian trace what a global bond rout means for hard assets, why $3.5 billion went into Bitcoin ETFs in August, and what it says that 21 of the largest banks just announced a joint dollar stablecoin.---
Welcome back to Fraudology.It's just me for this episode, but I've got two stories to dig into. They are genuinely important for anyone dealing with chargeback disputes. Whether you're on the merchant side or the banking side.The first is Uber and the nearly billion dollars in fines for automated account deactivation. The second story is the story that I really want to unpack. Hims and Hers blowing past their chargeback threshold on their weight loss subscription business.It's rare that this stuff becomes public, and I think there's a lot merchants can learn from it. I know a lot of companies leaning on AI right now to cancel buyer or seller accounts. We will walk through the math on chargeback fee per dispute, what's actually driving these disputes, and what I'd tell these businesses if they were my client.What you'll hear:Why Uber's near-billion-dollar GDPR fine over automated account deactivation AI should matter to any company using AI to cancel buyer or seller accounts, not just ride-share platforms.How Visa's acquirer monitoring program actually works, including the chargeback threshold merchants need to stay under and the real dollar cost once they don't. A full breakdown of the Hims and Hers chargeback situation, including the FTC lawsuit, Restore Online Shoppers Confidence Act violations, and real customer complaints pulled from public FOIA records.How I'd approach chargeback root cause analysis if this were a client, from subscription billing practices to refund policy gaps.Real examples of merchants using generative AI chargeback response tools, including one who took their chargeback win rate strategies from a 40% to 65% win rate.Why dispute monitoring program penalties go far beyond the per-chargeback fee, and how they can affect your relationship with your payment processor.How to calculate the true cost of a chargeback, including fees, fines, operational costs, and the merchant reputation and chargebacks damage that doesn't show up on a balance sheet.A reminder that subscription chargebacks are almost always a symptom, not the actual disease, and what usually causes them. You should listen to this episode if you:Are a merchant, especially recurring or subscription-based businesses, currently on or worried about landing on Visa's acquirer monitoring program. Are a fraud, risk, or payments professionals who want a practitioner's breakdown of what actually drives chargeback disputes. Are using or considering AI to automate account decisions, cancellations, or chargeback responses. Are a banking professional curious about the ecommerce and merchant side of dispute management. Are a business leader weighing whether an aggressive subscription or cancellation policy is actually saving money, or just deferring a bigger cost.
AP correspondent Charles de Ledesma reports Uber and British tech company Wayve have launched a robotaxi service in London.
Ce jeudi 3 septembre, Frédéric Simottel a reçu Clément David, président de Theodo Cloud, Michel Lévy Provençal, fondateur de Qapten, et Cédric Ingrand, directeur général de Heavyweight Studio. Ils se sont penchés sur le FSD de Tesla qui vient d'obtenir le feu vert de la France, Elon Musk qui lance son Cybercab les rues d'Austin et Uber et Wayve qui lancent leurs trajets autonomes à Londres, dans l'émission Tech & Co, la quotidienne, sur BFM Business. Retrouvez l'émission du lundi au jeudi et réécoutez la en podcast.
The average cost of a gallon of diesel was $5.68 on Wednesday — just 13 cents shy of a record high. Tariffs and ongoing wars are both to blame. But so is a seasonal upswing that happens every fall. In this episode, why diesel prices are likely going to get even steeper before they cool off. Plus: A computer model helps make the case for fewer mandated parking spots in city construction projects, Uber wants to shrink its middle management, and Alaska families celebrate dipnetting season. Every story has an economic angle. Want some in your inbox? Subscribe to our daily or weekly newsletter.Marketplace is more than a radio show. Check out our original reporting and financial literacy content at marketplace.org — and consider making an investment in our future.Read the stories in today's episode:Why high diesel prices are coming at a particularly bad timeWhat it takes to reopen 19 months after a wildfireUber lays off 10% of their workforce to make the company "simpler and faster"To spur more housing construction, Denver changed its parking rulesMale loneliness epidemic? Try economic loneliness epidemicIn Alaska, dipnetting for salmon is about more than what's caught
P.M. Edition for Sept. 2. A federal judge today decided that Google doesn't have to break up its online advertising business, rejecting a request from the Justice Department. Journal reporter Dave Michaels discusses why the decision is such a big win for Google, and a loss for the antimonopoly movement.. Plus, Chevron is one of several energy companies to invest in Venezuela's oil fields, a big win for the Trump administration. And if you've been weighing whether to sign up for one of those airport-security line-cutting programs like TSA PreCheck or Clear, travel columnist Dawn Gilbertson has got you covered with her favorite new option. Alex Ossola hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Vivian is breaking down the real cost of hustle culture and why working harder doesn't always mean making more money. From the DoorDash orders and Ubers that come with an overpacked schedule to burnout, income volatility, and missed career opportunities, this episode explores how the grind can quietly start costing you more than it's making you. In this episode, Vivian covers: 1. The hidden financial costs of hustle culture, why juggling multiple side gigs can sometimes hurt your long-term earning potential, and how to tell when working more is no longer worth it 2. Why Gen Z is rejecting the traditional grind through trends like quiet quitting and the “soft life,” and what they might actually be getting right about productivity, ambition, and burnout 3. How to build wealth without sacrificing your entire life, from negotiating for more money at your current job to putting your savings, investments, and retirement accounts to work so your money can grow without adding more hours to your schedule Follow the podcast on Instagram and TikTok! Got a financial question you want answered in a future episode? Email us at podcast@yourrichbff.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Plus: Uber's $15 billion takeover bid of Delivery Hero gets board backing. And Uber cuts 3,300 jobs. Julie Chang hosts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
The average cost of a gallon of diesel was $5.68 on Wednesday — just 13 cents shy of a record high. Tariffs and ongoing wars are both to blame. But so is a seasonal upswing that happens every fall. In this episode, why diesel prices are likely going to get even steeper before they cool off. Plus: A computer model helps make the case for fewer mandated parking spots in city construction projects, Uber wants to shrink its middle management, and Alaska families celebrate dipnetting season. Every story has an economic angle. Want some in your inbox? Subscribe to our daily or weekly newsletter.Marketplace is more than a radio show. Check out our original reporting and financial literacy content at marketplace.org — and consider making an investment in our future.Read the stories in today's episode:Why high diesel prices are coming at a particularly bad timeWhat it takes to reopen 19 months after a wildfireUber lays off 10% of their workforce to make the company "simpler and faster"To spur more housing construction, Denver changed its parking rulesMale loneliness epidemic? Try economic loneliness epidemicIn Alaska, dipnetting for salmon is about more than what's caught
Ian Edwards is back on SHENK with Sara Weinshenk, and things immediately go off the rails. Sara and Ian talk about dating apps, Raya, bad first dates, expensive LA hangouts, Erewhon, Soho House, and why an Amazon wish list might be a serious red flag in a man. They also investigate the concept of the "Amazon Jolene," discuss Dolly Parton and the lyrics to "Jolene" and "I Will Always Love You," and debate whether Jolene is the ultimate relationship threat. The conversation eventually moves to getting older, working out for bone density, downtown LA, jury duty, and Sara's unforgettable experience losing a kidney stone in an Uber. Ian Edwards brings his sharp observations and dry perspective back to SHENK for another episode of comedians talking about dating, LA life, aging, relationships, and whatever else comes up. Follow Ian - https://www.instagram.com/ianedwardscomic
September 2, 2026: I share key lessons from my CHRO session with iFood CEO Diego Barreto, including why he is investing in AI even with negative ROI, how he built a digital twin, and how iFood is rethinking reviews, meetings, and change management. Then I get into the Wall Street Journal's report on employers using new interview rituals to fight AI-enabled candidate fraud. Finally, I unpack Uber cutting 10% of its workforce and why the real story may be work redesign, bureaucracy, and coordination, not AI replacing jobs.
You cannot escape a cage you cannot see. In this episode, Emily Fletcher welcomes back Jim Curtis, a coach and author who has spent years healing his own life and now helps others move from suffering into possibility. Jim's own story includes a difficult childhood and an undiagnosed illness at 19 that left lesions on his spinal cord, taking him from an athletic identity to a wheelchair, and forcing him to rebuild who he was. His new book, The Book of Possibility: Release, Align, Become, distills what he learned into a path anyone can follow, out Sept 1. Emily and Jim go deep on judgment, forgiveness, and what Jim calls invisible cages, the patterns running our lives that we can't change until we see them. Emily shares two of her own stories along the way, a New York street encounter with a disabled Uber driver's quiet generosity, and the night her own back gave out after months of overgiving. Jim also breaks down the neuro-linguistic programming behind his book and reads a passage live. In this episode, Jim explores: – The two-word answer he received when he asked a channeled being why we're here– A judgment story from Burning Man, and the pattern of becoming exactly what he judges– Why forgiveness is so hard, and why the ego doesn't want to let someone off the hook– Quantum jumping, memory reconsolidation, and hypnosis– His own story: a difficult childhood, an illness at 19, and rebuilding from a wheelchair– The invisible cages concept, and why the door out is always unlocked– Why your actual outcomes, not your intentions, reveal what's really running your life– The classic trope of the over-giving healer, and learning to charge for his work– The line he calls his favorite: "pain is part of the human experience, suffering is optional"– Miracle stories from his career, and why he won't try to fix the pain people write to him about– The NLP behind the book's language, and its parallel to the pain-relief mechanics of BDSM– His next project: a certification school for hypno coaches Key Moments: 01:16 – The Osho quote: a woman dancing is closer to God than a man meditating05:39 – Channeling Metatron: "see beauty, spread beauty"07:16 – The Burning Man judgment story10:03 – Forgiveness as the way out of closed fists14:47 – Quantum jumping and rewriting memory through hypnosis17:28 – Jim's own story: an abusive childhood and an illness at 1921:27 – The invisible cages, and why the door is always unlocked23:02 – Finding what's running your life by looking at your outcomes29:06 – The Uber driver story: a disabled man's quiet generosity34:05 – The classic trope of the over-giving, unboundaried healer44:47 – "Pain is part of the human experience, suffering is optional"49:15 – Miracle stories: fear eradication, eyesight, and unexpected divorces51:40 – Emily's own story: her back giving out after months of overgiving57:26 – A live reading from the book: "You are the love you seek"1:03:31 – The surprising parallel between NLP and BDSM's pain-relief mechanics1:05:57 – Book details: Sept 1 release, 17 chapters, why to buy the hardcover More from Jim Curtis:Get The Book of Possibility: www.bookofpossibility.comVisit Jim's website: www.jimcurtiscoaching.com ✨ Explore quantum energy with LeelaQ's Infinity Bloc. Get 10% off: leelaq.com - use code ZIVA
Jim Jefferies is an Australian stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and podcaster known for his provocative, observational comedy. He gained international recognition through specials like Alcoholocaust, Bare, and Intolerant, and later created and starred in the FX sitcom Legit. To find his tour dates and see him live check out his website jimjefferies.com. IN THE NEWS: Adam rants about how no one ever seems to get his order right when he goes out to eat. Then Adam and Andrew react to a California high school football coach being fired after kicking a football into a player's groin during practice, plus a wild Houston video of two police officers asking an Uber driver for help catching a suspect.FOR MORE WITH JIM JEFFERIES:TOUR DATES: Son Of A Computer (jimjefferies.com) Sep 11-Windsor, ON- Caesar WindsorSep 12-Thunder Bay, ON-Thunder Bay Community AuditoriumSep 27-Reykjavik, IS- Harpa EldburgPODCAST: At This Moment (w/ Amos Gill)SPECIAL: Two Limb PolicyOut On NetflixFOR MORE WITH ANDREW HOBSON:INSTAGRAM & YOUTUBE: @andrewfhobsonLIVE SHOWS: September 11 - Las Vegas, NV (2 Shows)September 12 - Las Vegas, NV (2 Shows)September 20 - Santa Ana, CA (Live Podcast)September 24 - Burbank, CAThank you for supporting our sponsors:forthepeople.com/adam oreillyauto.com/adam pluto.tvSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.