Podcast Episodes

Wondering about generative AI

Season 3 Episode 21

Generative AI looks like second wave of ML hat might be as big a deal as the Imagenet wave from 2013 or so. What questions can we ask?

3 years, 4 months ago

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Figma, unbundling and $20bn of antitrust

Season 3 Episode 20

What does Adobe's purchase of Figma tell us about the ways that software is changing, and the kinds of tools that people build and use? And, how long…

3 years, 5 months ago

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TV after software

Season 3 Episode 19

‘Software eats the world’, and now it’s eating TV, but then what? Pretty soon software seems to stop mattering, and all the questions become TV quest…

3 years, 5 months ago

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A new wave of company creation

Season 3 Episode 18

Adam Neumann's latest venture shines a light on some of the interesting questions that arise, such as: What is this, what could it be, and can it wor…

3 years, 6 months ago

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Lighting and tech diffusion

Season 3 Episode 17

What does a light on a restaurant table say about the failure of smart home startups? Or Shein?

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3 years, 6 months ago

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The FTC's antitrust thesis

Season 3 Episode 16

The US is fundamentally rethinking its approach to competition, and M&A, and tech, and big tech buying startups. The FTC trying  to block Meta from b…

3 years, 7 months ago

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When the point of leverage changes

Season 3 Episode 15

What does 'focus' mean for a trillion dollar company? Amazon is buying doctors and Apple might be a bank - should we change our assumptions for what …

3 years, 7 months ago

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Remember AI?

Season 3 Episode 14

Five years ago AI was everything, but attention moved on (Metaverse! Crypto!) and ‘Applied AI’ became useful but boring. Now things like DALL-E look …

3 years, 7 months ago

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What's next for advertising?

Season 3 Episode 13

Advertising is $700bn - after IDFA and the cookie apocalypse, what else is breaking apart and where do things land?

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3 years, 8 months ago

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Three ways to say no

Season 3 Episode 12

The more that governments, regulators, policy-makers and activists demand that tech works differently, the more argument there is, and the more that …

3 years, 9 months ago

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