Episode Details

This week, we discuss the effectiveness of reorgs, Meta’s new AI team, and the Google antitrust ruling. Plus, some strong thoughts on cold brew and bathtubs.

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Runner-up Titles

• Buy once, cry once
• Annual Recurring Regrets
• The Bathtub Problem
• Bathtime is My Time
• Your Daily Stoic
• No one cares about open source cold brew
• Once you have it pick up the phone and call someone, the dream of the Internet is dead.
• The Chrome ecoverse.

Rundown

• The VC who married Paris Hilton uses his cryochamber twice a day and launches an AI agent before bed
• OpenAI starts building out its app team
• OpenAI shuffles executive roles, acquires Statsig for $1.1 billion
• Reorganizations
  • Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave
  • No Amount of Money Can Make People Want to Work for Zuck
  • Inside Amazon's 'hardcore' culture reset
• New Research Debunks Open Source Business Model Myths
• Google gets to keep Chrome but is barred from exclusive search deals, judge rules

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