Former SEC Official on FTX, Crypto & Silicon Valley’s Fraud Problem
Newcomer PodSeptember 17, 202600:58:5553.96 MB

Former SEC Official on FTX, Crypto & Silicon Valley’s Fraud Problem

Renee Jones on how billion-dollar startups escaped public scrutiny, why founders became more powerful than their boards, and what happens when private markets operate in secrecy. Renee Jones, Boston College Law School professor, former SEC official, and author of Untamed Unicorns, joins Eric Newcome...

Zavain Dar on Hugging Face, NVIDIA & Why Silicon Valley Should Pay Attention to China
Newcomer PodSeptember 10, 202600:49:1945.16 MB

Zavain Dar on Hugging Face, NVIDIA & Why Silicon Valley Should Pay Attention to China

What does NVIDIA really get from Hugging Face—and what is Silicon Valley missing about China? Zavain Dar, co-founder of Dimension and an early Hugging Face investor during his time at Lux Capital, joins Eric Newcomer to unpack NVIDIA’s open source strategy, the competition with OpenAI and Anthropic,...

Sam Parr on The Hustle, Hampton & Why the OpenAI-TBPN Deal Was a Mistake
Newcomer PodAugust 26, 202600:56:4351.93 MB

Sam Parr on The Hustle, Hampton & Why the OpenAI-TBPN Deal Was a Mistake

Sam Parr on getting fired by Airbnb the day before he started, selling The Hustle, and why $10 million in revenue changes everything. Sam Parr, founder of The Hustle and Hampton and co-host of My First Million, joins Eric Newcomer to talk about how he went from an Airbnb firing to an eight-figure me...

This AI Was Trained on a Billion Video Game Clips. Now It Controls Robots.
Newcomer PodAugust 03, 202600:58:3253.59 MB

This AI Was Trained on a Billion Video Game Clips. Now It Controls Robots.

How can billions of video game clips train AI to control robots? General Intuition CEO Pim de Witte explains why gaming data may be the missing ingredient for the next generation of robotics and AI agents. Pim de Witte built the world's largest RuneScape private server as a teenager before found...

John Coogan on Selling TBPN to OpenAI, Sam Altman & the Future of Tech Media
Newcomer PodJuly 28, 202601:01:5056.61 MB

John Coogan on Selling TBPN to OpenAI, Sam Altman & the Future of Tech Media

John Coogan, co-founder of TBPN, joins Eric Newcomer to talk about the acquisition that shocked the tech media world. John breaks down how TBPN went from two guys in suits to one of the most-watched live tech shows on the internet, why OpenAI came calling, what an editorial independence clause actua...

Taylor Lorenz Unfiltered on Social Media, Free Speech & the Surveillance State
Newcomer PodJuly 10, 202601:06:1060.58 MB

Taylor Lorenz Unfiltered on Social Media, Free Speech & the Surveillance State

Taylor Lorenz on why the social media panic is overblown and who's actually driving it. Taylor Lorenz, journalist and author of Extremely Online, joins Eric Newcomer to push back on the moral panic around phones, social media, and screen time. Taylor argues there is no such thing as social media...

The Goldman Sachs Exec on AI, Wall Street & the Firm That Went Bankrupt in 40 Minutes
Newcomer PodJuly 06, 202600:25:4323.55 MB

The Goldman Sachs Exec on AI, Wall Street & the Firm That Went Bankrupt in 40 Minutes

The Goldman Sachs exec who automated Wall Street on what AI agents actually do to jobs, companies, and the future of enterprise software. Marty Chavez got his AI PhD in 1991 when there were exactly zero AI jobs. So he went to Goldman Sachs and spent decades building the machines that took over Wall ...

Ben Smith on Trump, Anthropic & the Collision of Government and Big Tech
Newcomer PodJune 29, 202600:55:0650.45 MB

Ben Smith on Trump, Anthropic & the Collision of Government and Big Tech

Semafor's editor-in-chief on why Washington has decided Anthropic needs to pick a side. Ben Smith, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Semafor, joins Eric Newcomer to break down the collision between the Trump administration and Anthropic, and what it reveals about the new relationship between Was...

Aidan Gomez Unfiltered on AGI, China & AI's Biggest Risk
Newcomer PodJune 26, 202600:21:3319.74 MB

Aidan Gomez Unfiltered on AGI, China & AI's Biggest Risk

Aidan Gomez on AGI, China, and the Biggest Risk Facing AI. Cohere co-founder and Transformer co-author Aidan Gomez joins Eric Newcomer to discuss whether we've already reached AGI, why Chinese AI models are being underestimated, the future of enterprise AI, sovereign AI, and why relying on a han...