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AI and Accelerationism with Marc Andreessen
Episode 909
Marc Andreessen, cofounder Andreessen Horowitz, joins the Hermitix podcast for a conversation on AI, accelerationism, energy, and the future.
From the…
8 months, 1 week ago
Can AI Fix Housing and Healthcare Affordability?
Episode 908
Housing and healthcare make up nearly half of household spending, yet both sectors are riddled with inefficiency and rising costs.
In this episode, Er…
8 months, 1 week ago
Oren Cass & Noah Smith Debate the True Impact of Tariffs
Episode 907
Do tariffs help rebuild American manufacturing or hold it back?
In this episode, American Compass founder and chief economist Oren Cass sits down wit…
8 months, 1 week ago
Dylan Patel: GPT-5, NVIDIA, Intel, Meta, Apple
Episode 906
The AI hardware race is heating up, and NVIDIA is still far ahead. What will it take to close the gap?
In this episode, Dylan Patel (Founder & CEO, Se…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Google DeepMind Lead Researchers on Genie 3 & the Future of World-Building
Episode 905
Genie 3 can generate fully interactive, persistent worlds from just text, in real time.
In this episode, Google DeepMind’s Jack Parker-Holder (Researc…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
The State of American AI Policy: From ‘Pause AI’ to ‘Build’
Episode 904
a16z General Partners Martin Casado and Anjney Midha join Erik Torenberg to unpack one of the most dramatic shifts in tech policy in recent memory: t…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
H20s to China + 15% with Chris Miller and Lennart Heim
Episode 903
We’re sharing an episode from ChinaTalk that dives into one of the biggest recent reversals in U.S. tech policy.
The U.S. banned Nvidia’s H20 AI chips…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Grok, Genie 3, GPT-5 & the Rise of Vibe Coding
Episode 902
a16z partners Olivia and Justine Moore unpack the latest in consumer AI including:
- Grok’s “Imagine” and its instant, social-first creative tools
- G…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Alex Danco on Speechwriting, Blogging, and Giving Founders Power
Episode 901
Fresh off the announcement of his move from Shopify to a16z, Alex Danco joins TBPN to talk about the “trade deal” that brought him here and his missi…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of AI, Tech, & the Global World Order
Episode 900
There’s been a wave of M&A deals lately - Meta and Scale, Windsurf and Google - and a lot of it points to something bigger: how regulation, capital, …
8 months, 3 weeks ago