Long-form interviews and conversations with tech, AI, and finance leaders (30min+)
Economic collapse triggers emotional reasoning and tribal conformity that historically enables populist authoritarianism and mass atrocities committed by ordinary people, but understanding these psychological vulnerabilities offers a path to prevent democratic collapse.
Consumer tech prices are skyrocketing as AI companies compete aggressively for limited RAM and storage components, reversing decades of affordability trends and making budget laptops and devices increasingly scarce for average buyers.
The historic $86 billion SpaceX IPO marked a turning point in financial markets as Chinese investors were explicitly banned from participating, reflecting a broader bilateral decoupling where both Washington and Beijing are restricting cross-border capital flows to protect strategic tech interests and redirect investment toward domestic priorities.
Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist DJ Patil warns that healthcare systems are dangerously unprepared for AI-enabled cyberattacks from nation states, while simultaneously seeing rapid democratization of medical knowledge through tools like Open Evidence that are fundamentally reshaping the doctor-patient relationship.
Trader Todd Horwitz warns that despite markets rallying on the Iran deal resolution, underlying economic deterioration and Federal Reserve rate hike expectations create a dangerous setup where investors should take profits and prepare for significant downside in stocks and oil.
Sam Altman explains how AI has fundamentally altered startup economics, enabling small teams to achieve unprecedented scale, while sharing OpenAI's journey from research lab to product company and arguing that pushing systems beyond conventional scaling limits often reveals emergent properties that consensus thinking misses.
Fund manager Adrian Day argues that robust headline jobs data masks underlying labor market weakness, while oil price shocks from geopolitical tensions threaten to trigger global recession and force central banks to maintain restrictive monetary policies despite economic fragility.
Jordan Peterson argues that genuine character development requires confronting our capacity for evil, abandoning intellectual arrogance, and committing to radical truth-telling by eliminating speech that creates internal weakness.
Media correspondent Sara Fischer joins Scott Galloway to examine the collapse of trust at 60 Minutes under new ownership, the dangers of extreme media consolidation among politically connected billionaires, and how independent audio formats and reader-funded models are creating a sustainable alternative to traditional broadcast journalism.
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas argues his company forced Google's strategic pivot to AI mode while asserting that sustainable AI value lies not in frontier models but in orchestration interfaces that maximize token value per watt for high-spending power users running autonomous agents.
Retired Navy SEAL Andy Stumpf explains the "Influence vs. Concern" exercise to separate controllable actions from anxiety-inducing distractions, while revealing how even elite performers struggle with social media addiction and revert to unhealthy patterns despite temporary success.
Legendary investor Rick Rule explains why market crashes benefit value investors who view markets as buying facilities rather than information sources, warns that geopolitical conflicts have already inflicted lasting economic damage through deficit expansion and energy costs, and highlights historic pessimism in gold miners despite record gold prices while criticizing Canada's self-inflicted recession.