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March 16, 2026 · Podcast · 1h 18min

Gokul Rajaram's Eight Moats: A Framework for What Survives AI

Gokul Rajaram lays out an eight-moat framework for evaluating software durability in the AI era, argues markets are overreacting to the 'SaaS Apocalypse,' and reveals why his biggest miss was dismissing Shopify's TAM.

#SaaS Crisis#AI Product Strategy#Venture Capital#Startup Moats#Investment Framework
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March 15, 2026 · Podcast · 1h 3min

ChatGPT's Next Act: From Chatbot to Super Assistant

OpenAI's Nick Turley reveals ChatGPT was meant to shut down after a month, explains why long-term retention beats growth metrics, and maps out the path from chatbot to proactive super assistant.

#Consumer AI#AI Product Strategy#ChatGPT#AI Agents#OpenAI
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March 10, 2026 · Article

AI Is a 5-Layer Cake

Jensen Huang frames AI as a five-layer infrastructure stack from energy to applications, arguing this is the largest buildout in human history.

#AI Infrastructure#NVIDIA#Energy#AI Factory#Open Source AI
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March 9, 2026 · Interview · 53min

Max Hodak: The Future of Brain-Computer Interfaces

Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak's company Science has restored sight to 40+ blind patients with a retinal chip, and is building biohybrid brain interfaces that grow biological connections.

#Brain-Computer Interface#Neuroscience#Longevity#Neuralink#Neural Engineering
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March 6, 2026 · Podcast · 37min

Common Mistakes With Vibe Coded Websites

YC's design review dissects six AI-coded startup sites, revealing a pattern: purple gradients, pointless hover effects, and scroll-jacking that LLMs default to because they're easy, not because they're good.

#Vibe Coding#Design#Startup Landing Pages#AI Design Tools#UX
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February 28, 2026 · Podcast · 1h 0min

The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives and Who Dies

Insight Partners co-founder Jerry Murdock argues Cursor is already obsolete, autonomous agents are the real tsunami, and the best time to start a new fund is right now because 'humans are no longer going to be the decision makers about software.'

#SaaS Crisis#Autonomous Agents#Growth Equity#AI and Employment#ASIC Chips
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February 28, 2026 · Podcast · 1h 21min

Software Stocks Implode: From 'When' to 'If' on SaaS Survival

Chamath frames the SaaS selloff as a shift from 'when will cash flows be disrupted' to 'if they'll survive at all,' while Calacanis reports his team built more internal software in 30 days with AI agents than in 10 years of buying SaaS.

#SaaS Crisis#AI Disruption#Data Center Policy#Tariffs#Yamanaka Factors
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February 26, 2026 · Podcast · 1h 27min

Jeetu Patel: AI Is Critical for Humanity's Survival

Cisco's president argues AI is a survival necessity (not just productivity), reveals he couldn't have done his job without it, and flips 'praise in public, criticize in private' for 30,000 people.

#Enterprise AI Transformation#AI Infrastructure#Leadership#Company Building
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February 24, 2026 · Podcast · 1h 8min

The AI Tsunami Is Here and Society Isn't Ready

Amodei reveals Anthropic withheld Claude before ChatGPT existed, suspects AI models will become conscious, and tells Indian entrepreneurs that coding is a dying skill while critical thinking is humanity's last edge.

#Anthropic#AI Safety#AI Consciousness#India Market#Biotech
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February 23, 2026 · Podcast · 1h 6min

Lucas Swisher: The 20 Companies That Own the Future

Coatue's Lucas Swisher reveals that 20 private platform companies generate 80% of enterprise value, argues valuation should come last in exponential-growth investing, and explains why Anthropic's multi-chip strategy is its most underappreciated edge.

#Venture Capital#AI Investment#SaaS Crisis#Platform Companies#Growth Investing
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February 22, 2026 · Podcast · 54min

Olive Song — How MiniMax Trains Frontier Open Models with RL and Developer Feedback

MiniMax researcher Olive Song reveals how interleaved thinking, systematic environment perturbation, and switching RL training to FP32 precision helped M-series models top the Open Router leaderboard, while candidly admitting open models still trail Claude in cross-environment adaptability.

#Reinforcement Learning#Open Source Models#AI Agents#Model Training#MiniMax
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February 21, 2026 · Podcast · 1h 3min

OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It Is Over

Codex's product lead says code generation is 'basically trivial now,' the real bottleneck is code review, and the market will converge to a few super-assistant products like how Slack became the center of gravity.

#AI Coding#OpenAI Codex#AI Agents#Software Engineering#SaaS Disruption
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February 21, 2026 · Podcast · 23min

The AI Agent Economy Is Here

YC partners argue agents are becoming real economic actors, choosing tools, booking restaurants, and forming swarm intelligence, fundamentally reshaping how dev tools go to market.

#AI Agents#AI Agent Economy#Developer Tools#Vibe Coding#Swarm Intelligence
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February 19, 2026 · Podcast · 41min

The AI Code Slop: Risk or Opportunity?

Elad Gil and Sarah Guo argue the SaaS apocalypse narrative misses the real story: AI labs reached $1B-to-$10B revenue in one year, token costs dropped 88x in 11 months, and tech could reach 30% of GDP by 2035.

#SaaS Crisis#AI Revenue Growth#Startup Strategy#Platform Companies#Venture Capital
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February 16, 2026 · Speech · 56min

Blaise Agüera y Arcas: What If Intelligence Was There From the Start?

Self-replicating programs emerge spontaneously from random noise with zero mutation. Agüera y Arcas argues symbiogenesis, not mutation, is the primary engine of evolutionary novelty, and that life was computational and intelligent from the very beginning.

#Artificial Life#Symbiogenesis#Origin of Life#Embodied Computation#Evolutionary Theory
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February 15, 2026 · Podcast · 1h 14min

How to Be a CEO When AI Breaks All the Old Playbooks

Sequoia's CEO coach Brian Halligan shares his LOCKS framework for evaluating founders, why 'spicy' hires beat consensus picks, and why enterprise sales may be the last white-collar job AI replaces.

#CEO Coaching#Hiring#Enterprise Sales#AI Go-to-Market#SaaS
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February 13, 2026 · Podcast · 2h 22min

Dario Amodei — We Are Near the End of the Exponential

Amodei argues we're 2-3 years from 'a country of geniuses in a data center,' reveals why frontier AI labs face a structural profitability paradox, and calls compute-based regulation dangerously backwards.

#AGI Timeline#AI Business Model#Anthropic#US-China Chip War#AI Governance
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February 9, 2026 · Podcast · 57min

Dan Awrey: Why Good Payments Are Creating Bad Money

Cornell law professor Dan Awrey argues that stablecoins and non-bank payment platforms offer great payments but terrible money, and the Genius Act fails to fix either problem.

#Stablecoins#Payments Infrastructure#Financial Regulation#Monetary Policy#Fintech
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February 9, 2026 · Podcast · 26min

The Thinking Behind Ads in ChatGPT

OpenAI's ad lead Asad Awan explains why ChatGPT is introducing ads: fund the free tier without degrading it, with a strict rubric ranking user trust above user value above advertiser value above revenue.

#AI Business Model#OpenAI#AI Democratization#Advertising#User Trust
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February 8, 2026 · Speech · 24min

Sam Altman on the Biggest Capability Overhang in AI History

Altman declares the AI capability overhang is now larger than pre-ChatGPT, predicts a subjective 10x improvement by end of 2026, and says companies slow to adopt AI co-workers will face 'huge disadvantage.'

#AI Agents#Enterprise AI Adoption#OpenAI#AI Infrastructure#AI Business Model
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February 6, 2026 · Podcast · 45min

We're All Addicted to Claude Code

Calvin French-Owen (Segment co-founder, ex-OpenAI Codex) joins YC's Lightcone to dissect why CLI-based coding agents beat IDEs, why context engineering is the real moat, and why the manager-maker boundary is dissolving.

#Claude Code#AI Coding#Context Engineering#Developer Tools#Future of Work
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February 5, 2026 · Podcast · 1h 52min

Amjad Masad: The AI Job Collapse Starts This Year

Masad argues AI fear is a coordinated power grab, reveals Replit replaced 5 employees with 1 using AI, and makes the case that democratized software creation will spawn a new builder class rather than mass unemployment.

#Job Displacement#AI Entrepreneurship#Vibe Coding#AI Safety Debate#Replit
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February 4, 2026 · Podcast · 1h 58min

Infinite Code Context: AI Coding at Enterprise Scale

Blitzy's founders reveal how they ingest 100M-line codebases to let AI autonomously complete 80%+ of enterprise projects, with a dynamic agent architecture where agents generate agents.

#AI Agents#Enterprise AI Adoption#AI Coding#Context Engineering#Developer Tools
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February 4, 2026 · Interview · 26min

Demis Hassabis Thinks Ads in Chatbots Are a Bad Idea

Hassabis questions OpenAI's early move to ads, argues trusted assistants need unbiased recommendations, and outlines a 5-10 year AGI timeline requiring multiple transformer-level breakthroughs.

#Personal AI Assistant#AI Bubble#AGI Timeline#Google DeepMind#Robotics
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February 2, 2026 · Podcast · 1h 15min

Oren Zeev: 50% of Funds Will Go Out of Business

Solo capitalist Oren Zeev on why half of VC funds will slowly die, why he takes zero management fees, and why most 'AI disruption of incumbents' narratives are wrong.

#Venture Capital#Solo GP#AI Investment#LP-GP Alignment#Fund Strategy
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January 29, 2026 · Speech · 1h 1min

Geoffrey Hinton: Living with Alien Beings

Hinton argues digital intelligence is fundamentally superior to biological intelligence because of weight sharing, proposes the 'maternal AI' framework for alignment, and makes a case that multimodal chatbots already have subjective experience.

#Neural Networks#AI Safety#AI Consciousness#Superintelligence#AI Alignment
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January 29, 2026 · Podcast · 1h 3min

Jerry Tworek on Why Static Models Will Never Be AGI

Ex-OpenAI VP of Research who built o1/o3 argues that without continual learning, models hit walls and become 'hopeless,' and that a static model can never truly be AGI.

#AGI Timeline#Reinforcement Learning#Continual Learning#OpenAI#Research Culture
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January 29, 2026 · Podcast · 1h 44min

Marc Andreessen: The Real AI Boom Hasn't Even Started Yet

Andreessen argues AI's timing is miraculous, arriving precisely as demographic collapse threatens productivity, and that the real transformation will create premium human workers, not replace them.

#Future of Work#AI and Jobs#Venture Capital#AI Education#Career Strategy
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January 28, 2026 · Podcast · 1h 54min

Peter Steinberger: 'I Ship Code I Don't Read'

Steinberger explains why shipping unread AI-generated code works when you close the loop with tests, and why code reviews may already be obsolete.

#AI Coding Workflow#Agentic Engineering#Vibe Coding#Software Engineering Shift#Open Source
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January 27, 2026 · Speech · 59min

OpenAI Town Hall with Sam Altman

Altman predicts 100x cost reduction by 2027, warns companies will be outcompeted by fully-AI rivals if they don't adopt aggressively, and admits he gave Codex unsupervised access within two hours.

#AI Entrepreneurship#Software Engineering Shift#AI Safety#OpenAI#Vibe Coding
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January 27, 2026 · Podcast · 48min

Zach Lloyd: The Terminal Is Becoming AI's Cockpit

Warp's founder argues coding will be 'solved' in a few years, making human expression of intent the real bottleneck, and bets on the terminal as the orchestration hub for cloud agents.

#Developer Tools#AI Agents#AI Coding#Terminal#Future of Work
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January 25, 2026 · Interview · 1h 11min

Yoshua Bengio: The Catastrophe Scenario That's Coming with AI

Bengio lays out three concrete AI risk categories, argues current safety research is insufficient against superintelligence, and makes the case for European AI sovereignty as insurance policy.

#AI Existential Risk#AI Safety#AI Governance#Superintelligence#Europe AI Strategy
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January 23, 2026 · Podcast · 54min

The Brain Isn't a Computer, and That Matters More Than You Think

Philosopher Mazviita Chirimuuta argues that mapping brain activity to computation doesn't make brains computers, and that stripping away embodiment may strip away the very thing we're trying to explain.

#Philosophy of Mind#Computational Neuroscience#Embodied Cognition#AI Consciousness#Scientific Abstraction
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January 23, 2026 · Podcast · 34min

Demis Hassabis: One or Two Breakthroughs Away from AGI

Hassabis pushes back on claims we've 'whooshed past AGI,' argues continual learning and world models are the missing pieces, and reveals Google's AI glasses could ship by summer.

#AGI Definition#Continual Learning#World Models#Google#AI Bubble#Personal AI Assistant
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January 22, 2026 · Podcast · 1h 16min

Jerry Tworek: Why One of OpenAI's Top Researchers Walked Away

Jerry Tworek, a key architect behind OpenAI's reasoning models, explains why he left after seven years: the entire AI industry is converging on the same ideas, and the next breakthroughs require radical departures that big labs can't easily pursue.

#AGI Timeline#AI Safety#Reinforcement Learning#OpenAI#Research Culture
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January 22, 2026 · Podcast · 36min

CJ Desai: Why the SaaS Bear Thesis Is Overblown

MongoDB CEO CJ Desai argues platforms outlast products, only single-digit companies exceed $10B in software revenue, and the SaaS bear thesis fundamentally misreads where enterprise value accrues.

#Enterprise SaaS#AI Platform Strategy#Software Disruption#Database Market#MongoDB
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January 20, 2026 · Interview · 25min

Dario Amodei on the Exponential That's About to Zoom Past Us

Amodei argues AI intelligence doubles every 4-12 months and models may surpass humans at almost everything within 1-2 years, while warning of unprecedented simultaneous GDP growth and mass unemployment.

#AGI Timeline#US-China Chip War#AI Economic Impact#AI Safety#Anthropic
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January 20, 2026 · Interview · 26min

Hassabis on an AI Shift Bigger Than the Industrial Age

Hassabis sees AGI 50% likely by 2030 but warns we're still missing key capabilities, calls for CERN-like international collaboration, and predicts AI disruption 100x the Industrial Revolution.

#AGI Timeline#Google DeepMind#Physical Intelligence#China AI#AI Governance
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January 19, 2026 · Podcast · 1h 9min

The AI Opportunity That Goes Beyond Models

a16z's Apps team lays out why AI applications, not models, are where lasting value accrues, with three investment theses and real portfolio case studies.

#AI Applications#Venture Capital#Enterprise AI Adoption#AI Investment#Platform Shifts
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January 18, 2026 · Podcast · 42min

Why Every Brain Metaphor in History Has Been Wrong

From hydraulic pumps to computers, each era's cutting-edge technology becomes the metaphor for how brains work — and each time, we forget it's a metaphor.

#Philosophy of Science#Neuroscience#Scientific Simplification#Free Energy Principle#Cognitive Science
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January 15, 2026 · Podcast · 54min

Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger

Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz explain why traditional market sizing is broken: supply-side breakthroughs unlock 10-100x larger markets than anyone models at the time of investment.

#Venture Capital#Supply-Driven Markets#a16z#Media Ecosystem#Zoomer Founders
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January 15, 2026 · Podcast · 1h 26min

Jensen Huang: The Personal Side of NVIDIA's Architect

Jensen Huang reveals the personal operating system behind NVIDIA: why an empty chair beats a bad hire, how suffering forges corporate character, and why computers programming themselves will close the technology divide.

#NVIDIA#Leadership Philosophy#Accelerated Computing#AI Infrastructure#Vibe Coding
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January 14, 2026 · Podcast · 51min

Why AI Will Dwarf Every Tech Revolution Before It

McKinsey's 25-squared strategy reveals the new enterprise math: grow client-facing staff 25% while cutting back-office 25%, as 25,000 AI agents approach parity with 40,000 humans.

#Future of Work#AI Agents#Manufacturing#Robotics#Enterprise AI
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January 10, 2026 · Interview · 23min

How Anthropic Turned Safety into a Business Advantage

Anthropic's revenue grew 10x annually for three straight years by betting on enterprise safety, while OpenAI chased consumers. Daniela Amodei explains why caution can scale.

#Anthropic#AI Safety#Enterprise AI#AI Business Model#AI Infrastructure
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January 8, 2026 · Speech · 1h 3min

Geoffrey Hinton: AI and Our Future

Hinton argues LLMs genuinely understand language the same way humans do, then lays out why superintelligence will arrive within 20 years and why our best survival model is the mother-baby relationship.

#Neural Networks#AI Safety#Superintelligence#AI Understanding#Job Displacement
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