Podcast Episodes

Amazon’s Hardware Event

All the headline’s from Amazon’s fall hardware event. Daniel Ek is stepping back from Spotify. A new Claude model. ChatGPT gets into the shopping biz. And OpenAI is likely launching it’s own TikTok c…

Published on 3 months ago

EA Taken Private

The biggest sign yet of the state of the gaming industry, EA is being taken private. DeepSeek’s new model might start a new AI price war. OpenAI announces their parental controls for teen users. And,…

Published on 3 months ago

(BNS) You're Not Killing It. Nobody Is Killing It. VC Legend Jerry Colonna

One of the very first VCs of the Internet Era, and especially the NYC tech ecosystem, Jerry Colonna reflects on his journey from growing up in New York to becoming a successful journalist and venture…

Published on 3 months ago

Is TikTok US Only Worth $14B?

Maybe… the TikTok thing has finally reached a resolution. Again. Maybe Amazon owes us all some money. Maybe that Neon app from yesterday was a bad idea. OpenAI and Meta make some super interesting st…

Published on 3 months ago

Get Paid To Train AI On Your Phone Calls?

Another lawsuit against OpenAI, this time from xAI. Intel approached Apple about bailing them out. What if crypto was reversable so you could recover fraud. Drama in open source land. And would you l…

Published on 3 months ago

The AI Incentives Game

Stargate gets off the ground, or at least, announces it is. What if OpenAI leases the chips from Nvidia instead of buying them. I go a bit deep in this episode in terms of the incentives behind all t…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Ouroboros All The Way Down?

Nvidia is investing $100B in OpenAI, and there are a billion angles to that fact, so get ready to dive into it. Why were there giant sim farms popping up around NYC? The new AI to help you with Candy…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

TikTok Deals? Visa Rules?

Once again, I THINK a TikTok deal is happening, so updates on that. Why lots of folk in the tech industry are worried about new H-1B visa rules. Might those annoying cookie consent checkboxes be goin…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

(BNS) Datadog Founder Olivier Pomel

Today I’m joined by Olivier Pomel, cofounder/CEO of Datadog. We trace his path from French open-source tinkerer to NYC founder, the dev-vs-ops friction that sparked Datadog, finding product-market fi…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

(CORRECT) OpenAI’s Hardware Plans Worry Apple

(Sorry about the editing error earlier)

Nvidia is investing in self-driving AI tech. Google has given up the ghost and is making Chrome a full AI tool. Would you tolerate advertisements on the screen…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago