🎙️ Podcasts

a16z Podcast

Former SpaceX and Tesla engineers Chandler Lugjitsa and Turner Caldwell reveal how Elon Musk's hardcore culture translates into repeatable systems—flat information hierarchies, high-velocity decision-making, and obsessive critical path management—that they are deploying to disrupt legacy industries from missile propulsion to critical mineral supply chains.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

Mark Dubowitz, CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, argues the US is decisively winning its three-week military campaign against Iran by degrading missile, naval and nuclear capabilities, but warns that the closure of the Strait of Hormuz represents an inevitable confrontation that must be resolved now—while Iran is weakened—rather than postponed to a future where a cash-rich, nuclear-armed Iran could dominate the Gulf.

The Prof G Pod (Scott Galloway)

Legendary venture capitalist Bill Gurley explains how AI will create a stark divide between high-agency curious workers who accelerate their careers and ambivalent employees facing replacement, while detailing how venture capital's shift toward mega-funds and massive private rounds has fundamentally altered Silicon Valley and locked retail investors out of early growth opportunities.

In Good Company (Nicolai Tangen)

Sports psychology professor Anne Marte Pensgaard explains Norway's Olympic dominance as the result of a 30-year cultural shift prioritizing youth enjoyment over early competition, systematic mental training, and tight-knit cross-sport collaboration established after the medal-less 1988 Calgary Games.

This Week in Startups (Jason Calacanis)

Jensen Huang explains that AI progress is now driven by four simultaneous scaling laws (pre-training, post-training, test-time, and agentic), with synthetic data eliminating previous data scarcity concerns and making compute the sole limiting factor for intelligence growth.

How I Built This (NPR)

The Trump administration is deploying thousands of US troops to the Middle East despite earlier denials, with military planners eyeing Car Island's oil facilities as a potential target, while experts warn that reopening the Strait of Hormuz would require a month-long complex operation involving minesweepers and air patrols that allies have not agreed to join.

The David Lin Report

Gold has crashed over 20% from its January highs near $5,600 to around $4,100 due to a perfect storm of Fed hawkishness, profit-taking, and the Iran war shutting down Dubai's physical gold trade, yet institutional investors remain bullish on long-term fundamentals.

TED

The TED Idea Search in Chicago follows diverse speakers as they rehearse and deliver six-minute talks vying for a single spot on the main TED stage in Vancouver, revealing the rigorous coaching and vulnerable preparation required to transform personal passion into global impact.

The Prof G Pod (Scott Galloway)

Senator Cory Booker proposes the Keep Your Pay Act to make the first $75,000 of household income tax-free, funded by closing loopholes for the wealthy and raising corporate taxes, arguing this will restore faith in capitalism while requiring military spending cuts and immigration reform to address the deficit.

Jordan Peterson

Jordan Peterson argues that human behavior is deeply shaped by biological imperatives to avoid dominance hierarchy bottoms and disease, proposing that psychological health requires rooting oneself in traditional archetypal structures rather than modern fragmented ideologies.

My First Million

Derek Thompson explores how AI investment has created a 'two economies' phenomenon—where AI drives 70-80% of equity growth while the broader labor market stagnates—while warning that economists cannot yet isolate AI's true impact on employment, creating profound uncertainty about whether we face transformative innovation or a historic bubble.

Joe Rogan Experience

Dave Smith and Joe Rogan examine Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's alleged financial conflicts regarding tariff trading and Epstein connections, while discussing systemic government corruption, AI governance, and video game addiction.