Podcast Episodes

War on Reality: AI Voice and Video

In this second installment of the Cerebral Valley podcast series, co-hosts James Wilsterman and Max Child of Volley join Eric Newcomer for a thought-provoking conversation about the future of AI-gene…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Cerebral Valley: AI Agents Are Already Here

The Cerebral Valley AI Summit is right around the corner! To help you navigate the fast-evolving AI landscape ahead of the event, Newcomer Podcast is launching a special four-part series — co-hosted …

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

VC Haves and Have Nots (with Kate Clark)

We're welcoming Bloomberg's Kate Clark to the show this week and diving into her reporting on the rough fundraising environment for any VC that isn't an a16z or GC-style megafund. The only emerging f…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

The Great Financial Services Debate

In this special episode, we feature two interviews recorded live during Newcomer’s Breaking the Bank Summit, a financial technology summit held this week in San Francisco.

We’re including two of the m…

Published on 3 months ago

A Very Stable “Coin” GENIUS

Eric relays his dispatch from Dimension Capital’s biotech summit in Park City, where the crowd was much more academic than the conferences we usually attend. Biotech stocks aren’t doing great, meanwh…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Marc Benioff on AI Eating SaaS, San Francisco’s New Mayor & CEO Trump Pandering

How does the AI gold rush look from the helm of a $40-billion software giant? Salesforce co-founder, chair, and CEO Marc Benioff joins Eric Newcomer and Tom Dotan for a tour of the next tech boom cyc…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Josh Wolfe on America’s Next War and Why It Isn’t Taiwan

This week, we kick off by discussing Ben Smith’s bombshell post ”The group chats that changed America,” that exposed the private chats that nudged Silicon Valley’s money crowd into Trump’s orbit. 

The…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

The TRUTH about VC Media

We’re back to opining on the state of tech media! A16z has aqui-hired Erik Torenberg and his newsletter Turpentine, while the Technology Brothers with ties to Founders Fund have created a podcasting …

Published on 4 months ago

AGI, Seriously + Foundation Model Polyamory (With Kyle Harrison)

This week, Tom breaks down his scoops on how the big foundation model providers are doing.and much to the chagrin of our resident skeptic, they’re earning lots of real revenue! OpenAI is on track to …

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Walter Bloomberg at the Wheel for the Whole Stock Market

We're welcoming special guest Tom Dotan of Dead Cat fame to the show this week — just in time for the tariff market meltdown. To Silicon Valley's Trump supporters, we hate to say we told you so, but …

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago