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Samo Burja on Growth, Energy, and AI
Theo Jaffee speaks with Samo Burja, founder of Bismarck Analysis, about AI, industrial capacity, economic growth, and the institutions that shape civilization. The conversation explores how AI’s demand for compute, energy, and infrastructure could trigger a new wave of industrial ... Show More
27m 51s
Apr 28
John and Patrick Collison on Stripe's Growth, Agent Commerce, and the Future of Software
This interview with Stripe cofounders John and Patrick Collison originally aired on TBPN. They discuss Stripe's 34% growth and new employee tender offer, how agent commerce and stablecoins may require high-throughput blockchains built for millions of transactions per second, and ... Show More
20m 2s
Apr 6
Peter Yang on Small Teams, Coding Agents, and Why Human Ambition Has No Ceiling
Anish Acharya speaks with Peter Yang, creator and product lead at Roblox, about how personal AI agents are replacing the apps we open every day, why coding agents feel like slot machines, and what happens when the cost of building software drops to near zero. They discuss why fut ... Show More
28m 37s
Oct 2024
Jon Michaels and David Noll, "Vigilante Nation: How State-Sponsored Terror Threatens Our Democracy" (Atria/One Signal, 2024)
Law professors Jon Michaels and David Noll use their expertise to expose how state-supported forms of vigilantism are being deployed by MAGA Republicans and Christian nationalists to roll back civil, political, and privacy rights and subvert American democracy. Beyond identifying ... Show More
1h 19m
Jan 2025
515. Ethics, Power, and Progress: Shaping AI for a Better Tomorrow | Marc Andreessen
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with entrepreneur and software pioneer, Marc Andreessen. They discuss the timeline of the woke institutional takeover, the ruinous effects it has had on Western ideology and business, the ways in which AI will shape society, and the immense respon ... Show More
1h 47m
Who gets to decide what, for whom? Governance is one of the trickiest challenges people have faced, from ancient city-states to AI startups. Experts Noah Feldman, constitutional law scholar at Harvard who architected the Meta oversight board and has written multiple books, and Andrew Hall, professor of political science at Stanford and consultant to a16z cry ... Show More
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 130%;">In this episode, Shruti speaks with Nitin Pai about storytelling through the lens of his book, "</span><a href= "https://penguin.co.in/book/the-nitopadesha/"><span style= "mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0p ... Show More
<p dir="ltr">Thursday, August 10th, 2023</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Skye Perryman is the President and CEO of Democracy Forward, an organization that uses the law to build collective power and advance a bold, vibrant democracy. We discuss successful legal action t ... Show More
