Long-form interviews and conversations with tech, AI, and finance leaders (30min+)
Economist David Woo warns markets face a 'deadly combination' of slowing growth and higher rates, while the AI trade crumbles as investors punish capex increases and Trump stimulus hopes collide with Fed independence and Congressional constraints.
Jeff Dean explains Google's strategy of 'owning the Pareto frontier' by developing both frontier-capable AI models (Pro/Ultra) and highly efficient variants (Flash) through distillation, enabling massive-scale deployment across Google's products while pushing boundaries in long context and multimodality.
The PBD Podcast hosts analyze newly released documents revealing the FBI destroyed the master copy of Jeffrey Epstein's prison surveillance footage in 2024, debating whether this represents systemic incompetence or deliberate cover-up, while also discussing economic volatility and faith-based resilience.
Wharton professor Ethan Mollick argues that while AI CEOs catastrophize about future existential risks to justify funding, the immediate disruption is already here—half of American workers secretly use AI for 3x productivity gains, particularly in coding and writing, yet companies fail to capture this value because they haven't redesigned workflows to handle the output.
Evan Hafer and Joe Rogan explore the discipline required for elite archery, the technical evolution of coffee culture through four distinct waves, and the unique challenges of hunting Hawaiian axis deer.
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Cloudflare processes over 20% of global web traffic by operating as a unified reverse proxy that combines security, speed, and content delivery into a single network. The company differentiated itself from legacy vendors through a product-led growth strategy targeting the long tail of websites, while leveraging commodity hardware and strategic ISP peering relationships to build a highly defensible, scalable infrastructure.
Mike Cannon-Brookes argues that AI won't kill software but will redistribute enterprise budgets, with product and engineering tools thriving while support software declines, requiring massive TAM expansion to justify Anthropic's $150B ARR projections.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei envisions AI creating a "country of geniuses" that could cure cancer and generate 10-15% GDP growth within a decade, but warns the disruption will happen so fast that society may struggle to adapt, particularly in software engineering and entry-level white-collar jobs.
The Trump administration is moving to repeal the 2009 "endangerment finding," the legal foundation for all federal climate regulations, following a years-long covert campaign by conservative lawyers who secured funding and drafted the executive orders now being implemented.
Mike Novogratz joins Anthony Pompliano at Bitcoin Investor Week to discuss why veteran macro investors face their toughest decade ahead, why Bitcoin has consolidated after its $100k milestone exhaustion, and how AI-driven productivity may allow the Fed to keep rates low despite a fraying dollar reserve system.
The post-WWII global order was designed to contain the USSR through a security-for-trade bargain, but it became structurally obsolete after the Cold War ended; now, irreversible demographic decline is collapsing the economic foundations of globalism, with Trump merely officiating the inevitable break rather than causing it.
OpenAI's head of engineering Sherwin Wu reveals that AI now writes nearly all code at OpenAI, transforming engineers from line-by-line coders into 'sorcerers' managing fleets of agents, while warning that current AI capabilities represent the worst these models will ever be as we approach an era of one-person billion-dollar startups.