Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRobinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner
Episode 975
Vlad Tenev built Robinhood by breaking every rule Wall Street wrote: zero commissions when competitors charged $10, mobile-first when "serious" inves…
7 months ago
Can Community Banks Survive the Next SVB? | ModernFi CEO Paolo Bertolotti and Former Comptroller Gene Ludwig
Episode 974
The former bank regulator who invented deposit networks just revealed why SVB's collapse was inevitable—and why the solution that could have saved th…
7 months ago
Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We’re Fixing It)
Episode 973
Palmer Luckey got fired from Meta for backing the wrong candidate—now he's the hero saving American defense, and that shift tells you everything abou…
7 months ago
Emmett Shear on Building AI That Actually Cares: Beyond Control and Steering
Episode 972
Emmett Shear, founder of Twitch and former OpenAI interim CEO, challenges the fundamental assumptions driving AGI development. In this conversation w…
7 months ago
Can America Win The AI Biotech Race Against China? | Lada Nuzhna & Elliot Hershberg
Episode 970
Two venture capitalists dissect why biotech burns billions while China runs trials in weeks—and why the next Genentech won't look anything like the l…
7 months, 1 week ago
The Frontier of Spatial Intelligence with Fei-Fei Li
Episode 969
Fei-Fei Li and Justin Johnson are pioneers in AI. While the world has only recently witnessed a surge in consumer AI, they have long been laying the …
7 months, 1 week ago
Rocket Companies CEO: Here’s How to Fix the Housing Crisis
Episode 968
The Empire State Building took 110 days to build—today, changing a window would take two years.
Alex Rampell (a16z) and Varun Krishna (Rocket CEO) ex…
7 months, 1 week ago
Grant Lee: Building Gamma’s AI Presentation Company to 100 Million Users
Episode 967
Grant Lee was told Gamma was "the worst idea ever heard" by an investor who hung up mid-Zoom—yet he built it to 100 million users and $100M ARR witho…
7 months, 1 week ago
Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
Episode 966
When four MIT grads decided to build a code editor while everyone else was building AI agents, they created the fastest-growing developer tool ever b…
7 months, 1 week ago
a16z's State of Crypto: The $4 Trillion Milestone and What's Next'
Episode 965
The regulatory environment has completely inverted. Stablecoins are now a top 20 holder of US treasuries. Every major bank wants in. In a16z Crypto's…
7 months, 1 week ago