Long-form interviews and conversations with tech, AI, and finance leaders (30min+)
Jordan Peterson warns that victimhood narratives historically precede genocide and societal collapse, using the Soviet deculacization as a cautionary tale, while arguing that personal resentment corrupts even simple work and that free speech is essential because discovering truth requires the freedom to be wrong.
Lawrence Lepard argues the U.S. is at 'Defcon 2' financially, with debt growing faster than GDP making a massive monetary expansion ('The Big Print') mathematically inevitable within 1-2 years, likely forcing the Fed into emergency measures despite current hawkish posturing.
Tony Fadell shares lessons from building the iPod and iPhone, arguing that creating category-defining products requires resisting AI-driven cognitive surrender, embracing opinion-based decision-making for 1.0 versions, and micromanaging critical details while maintaining ruthless focus on customer pain points and storytelling.
Spotify Co-CEO Gustav Söderström details the company's unique three-year leadership transition and their shift from 'divide and conquer' to a 'synchronized swimming' model, where 14 senior leaders meet weekly to prevent organizational silos from fragmenting Spotify's unified super app experience.
Grab transformed from a cash-burning ride-hailing startup into Southeast Asia's dominant super-app by defeating Uber through hyper-local adaptation—including cash payments, tuk-tuks, and custom mapping—while building a profitable fintech ecosystem serving over 600 million people across eight diverse countries.
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman and Planet Labs CEO Will Marshall reveal the administrative realities of going public versus the operational status quo, while outlining transformative infrastructure shifts—moving data centers to space as launch costs plummet, and rebuilding silicon architectures for the AI era—that signal a record IPO wave ahead.
Legora CTO Jacob Lorettson explains how AI tooling has fundamentally shifted engineering bottlenecks from code writing to systems architecture and review, while emphasizing that "taste" and edge-case handling remain critical differentiators as competitors can now replicate surface-level features instantly via "vibe coding."
Despite Bitcoin crashing 50% from all-time highs, Jordy Visser views this correction as a healthy decoupling from traditional markets and a generational buying opportunity, positioning Bitcoin as the essential infrastructure for an AI agent-dominated future while warning that artificial intelligence will disrupt the S&P 500's safety beyond 2030.
Frontier AI labs are converging on recursive self-improvement as their core strategy, with OpenAI targeting 2028 for autonomous AI researchers capable of matching human R&D performance, while privately acknowledging their safety monitoring plans remain inadequate and openly discussing the need for potential coordinated industry slowdowns.
Ahmad Awais reveals how CommandCode.ai fixed DeepSeek v4's 'tool confusion' through deterministic repair logic, enabling the open-source model to outperform Claude Opus 4.7 by eliminating repetitive schema errors that previously caused an average of 56 failed tool calls per session.
Portfolio manager Lance Roberts confirms the market correction has technically begun after nine consecutive weeks of gains, but suggests it may manifest as sector rotation from overvalued tech and semiconductors into quality value stocks rather than a broad market collapse, even as strong earnings revisions and economic data continue supporting the bull case.
The speaker challenges the game industry's outdated assumption that players primarily seek competition, presenting 2024 data showing only 18% of gamers are motivated by competition while 50% seek stress relief and 40% want community. They introduce a framework of nine motivators divided into classic (Fun, Mastery, Competition, Immersion, Meditation, Comfort) and modern (Self-expression, Companionship, Education), arguing that successful games must layer social and creative motivators onto traditional designs to serve contemporary player needs.