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Revisited: How Specificity in Vertical AI Rewrites Industries | Nick Tippmann, TipTop VC
Episode 178
Updated re-release. A year ago we left one question unresolved. Where do foundational AI models end and where do the applications begin? Nick Tippman…
3 hours ago
What Building in Austin Actually Feels Like Right Now | Will Johnson & Alex Cohen
Episode 177
This was not the episode we planned. Will Johnson, founder and CEO of Gyde, and Alex Cohen, founder and CEO of Hello Patient, came on to talk about i…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
The First Thing Built on the Moon Will Come from Austin | Jason Ballard & Will Hurd, ICON
Episode 176
ICON has been telling the same story since 2018. Humanity has a construction problem that solving for regulations and supply-demand incentives alone …
4 weeks ago
Reinventing School Is Accelerating Austin's Talent Flywheel | Joe Liemandt, Alpha School
Episode 175
Joe Liemandt built Trilogy, recruited 2,000 Ivy League graduates to Austin, and is now running what he considers the higher-leverage version of the s…
1 month ago
We're Living Through the Cyberpunk Era of War | Jim Rebesco, CEO, Striveworks
Episode 174
Directed energy weapons, autonomous drones, and combat AI agents are not just real. They are deployed.
Jim Rebesco, cofounder and CEO of Striveworks, …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Innovation Ecosystems Are Inherited | Nait Jones
Episode 173
The hype that landed on Austin in 2021 was correct and at the same time ahead of the curve. Nait Jones, serial founder and former a16z partner who ar…
2 months ago
The Western Canon in the Age of Vibe Coding | Carlos Carvalho, President, University of Austin
Episode 172
American universities stopped optimizing for students a long time ago. The University of Austin was built as a direct counter to that failure. Carlos…
2 months, 1 week ago
Bootstrap vs. VC: Speed Costs Control | Rob Taylor, Silverton Partners
Episode 171
The decision to bootstrap a business or raise venture capital is not just financial. It is physics. You are choosing which system to operate within, …
3 months ago
Patient Capital in the Age of the $10B Seed | Brian Smith, S3 Ventures
Episode 170
The current venture market is defined by a dangerous decoupling of capital from reality. While the industry chases $10B seed valuations and trillion-…
4 months ago
The Semiconductor Moment for the Mind
Episode 169
The market is mispricing the human brain. Some Investors view Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) and other neurotech as the next iteration of the medica…
4 months ago