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Technology's daily show. Hosted by @johncoogan and @jordihays. Streaming live 11AM-2PM PT every weekday and available on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube.
Joined September 2024
From the archive: We asked @jesslivingston (Co-Founder, @ycombinator) about product–market fit. Early YC saw how easy false signals can be (e.g., selling $1 for $0.90 isn’t PMF). The goal is durability. “It’s better to make a small group of people love you than a whole bunch
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Is Jerome Powell AGI-pilled?. We asked @TheStalwart if AI was showing up at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium. @fchollet has argued it’s not in the productivity numbers and that tension was visible at Jackson Hole. Joe said: “I don’t know what year Chairman Powell has for
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.@jesslivingston (Co-Founder @YCombinator) on “Get Your Bag” culture among Gen Z founders:. “I don’t think it’s sustainable if you’re just after the money… It’s a long haul. You have to be ready to devote the next decade of your life to this.”. She drew a line between genuine
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.@zacbookman (Co-founder & CEO, OpenGov) on a contrarian view of government:. “We love to bash the government, but we don’t realize we are the government… The people running our state and local governments aren’t all wasteful or crooked. Many are hard-working professionals who
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.@jesslivingston on the roots of @ycombinator's success:. “YC’s original brilliant insight was that talented new grads couldn’t just walk into Sandhill Road and raise money. We saw the risk worth taking on younger, earlier-stage founders.”. “We always said to benefit from YC, you
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.@kimbal (Co-Founder & CEO @NovaSkyStories) on lessons he’s carrying from Tesla into his new company:. “Full self-driving at Tesla isn’t LLM; it’s spatial AI. It’s very similar to moving drones in the air.”. At Nova Sky Stories, that translates directly into the choreography of
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The co-founder of DreamWorks and former chairman of Disney Studios Jeffrey Katzenberg says @NovaSkyStories is the "Pixar moment for drones.". @Kimbal started Nova to use drones to transform the night sky into a canvas for live, story-driven light shows, called "Sky Stories."
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RT @TheStalwart: Miraculously I had 15 minutes of working WiFi in Wyoming to chat with @jordihays and @johncoogan on @tbpn. Here I talked a….
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“Yeah, there’s just a lot riding on the stock market.”'. @thestalwart (Odd Lots Podcast) on economic anxiety and growth:. “If you keep getting rewarded in the stock market for more AI activity, that fuels a potentially snowball effect… But there’s just a lot of dollars being
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Morning. On today’s show:. – Powell hints at rate cuts.– @thestalwart (Odd Lots).– Jeffrey Katzenberg (WndrCo).– @kimbal (Nova Sky Stories).– @jesslivingston (Y Combinator).– @zacbookman (OpenGov). See you all on the stream.
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Polymarket odds of Fed rate cut pop nearly 15% after Powell’s comments at Jackson Hole this morning.
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.@ChaseLochmiller (CEO, Crusoe) on the future of AI infrastructure:. "As performance gains increase, the utility of this infrastructure will go up and demand will go up with it. So it has this reflexivity that can actually grow the impact of what we're doing way larger.". "I see
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We asked Gabe Whaley (CEO @MSCHF) if they wait for briefs or pitch ideas themselves. “I’m going outbound. Outbound right now.”. As in: “This is a message for Gabe Newell from Valve. We want to design your submarine.”. “Or for extraterrestrial space research orgs – we want to
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