🎙️ Podcasts

Impact Theory

Federal Reserve data confirms zero net private sector job growth as AI fundamentally restructures employment, eliminating entry-level positions while enabling single-person billion-dollar companies and threatening to hollow out the middle class into a barbell economy of high performers and the 'unproductive class.'

Stripe

ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski explains how modern voice AI models predict phonemes with contextual awareness rather than using hard-coded parameters, enabling emergent properties like accents and emotions, while discussing the company's platform strategy and the deployment gap between capable models and consumer applications.

The Knowledge Project (Shane Parrish)

Mario Harik, CEO of XPO, shares how applying engineering problem-solving frameworks to business strategy—while rejecting perfectionism in favor of human-centered leadership—drives execution at a $25B trucking company.

The Prof G Pod (Scott Galloway)

China finds itself caught between mediating Middle East tensions and facing renewed US scrutiny over potential military aid to Iran, while simultaneously engaging Taiwan's opposition party to undermine US-Taiwan relations ahead of 2028 elections.

Acquired

Ferrari has constructed the world's most valuable automotive company by mass-producing cultural dreams while manufacturing only 14,000 cars annually, achieving a higher market capitalization than Ford despite producing 160 times fewer vehicles through radical scarcity and brand mystique.

The David Lin Report

Despite heightened geopolitical tensions including a US naval blockade of Iran, markets have shown remarkable resilience with Ed Yardeni maintaining his S&P 500 target of 7,700 and lowering recession odds to 20%, arguing the modern economy can absorb oil prices up to $125 per barrel without significant damage.

NVIDIA AI Podcast

UT Austin researchers demonstrate a real-time tsunami forecasting system using physics-based digital twins and Bayesian inversion, winning the Gordon Bell Prize by reducing computational time for billion-parameter inverse problems from decades to milliseconds through novel GPU-accelerated algorithms.

Latent Space

The Stay SaaSy crew explains how AI consumption-based pricing is forcing companies to manage individual employee token budgets like departmental budgets, creating complex ROI calculations and flipping traditional build-vs-buy economics as engineering costs shift from headcount to compute.

The David Lin Report

Economist Justin Wolfers argues that the Iran conflict has inflicted permanent economic damage through irreversible defense spending commitments, eroded US global credibility, and accelerated geopolitical realignment, with costs potentially reaching trillions regardless of whether the war ends quickly.

a16z Podcast

Former YC founder Jesse Genet explains how AI agents enable her to homeschool four children under five while simultaneously building technical projects, reversing her resignation to a five-year career pause and demonstrating how voice-first automation creates a new infrastructure for caregiving.

New York Times Podcasts

U.S.-Iran negotiations collapsed after a 21-hour marathon session in Islamabad, as Israel's refusal to halt strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon—despite a announced ceasefire—creates a strategic rift with Washington and gives Tehran leverage to demand linked regional concessions.

Huberman Lab

Dr. Natalie Crawford explains that fertility serves as a critical biomarker for overall metabolic and cellular health, advocating for AMH testing, cycle tracking, and proactive hormone augmentation therapy to optimize long-term health outcomes beyond reproductive years.