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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…
10 months, 1 week 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…
10 months, 1 week 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…
10 months, 1 week 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…
10 months, 1 week 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, …
10 months, 1 week ago
Marc Andreessen: Why Perfect Products Become Obsolete
Episode 899
In this episode, Marc Andreessen joins TBPN for an unfiltered conversation spanning everything from ads in LLMs to why Apple’s AI strategy may be ris…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
GPT-5 and Agents Breakdown – w/ OpenAI Researchers Isa Fulford & Christina Kim
Episode 898
ChatGPT-5 just launched, marking a major milestone for OpenAI and the entire AI ecosystem.
Fresh off the live stream, Erik Torenberg was joined in the…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
How to Build a Successful Company in an Era of Disruption
Episode 897
What happens when a startup becomes a giant—and then has to reinvent itself all over again?
In this episode, Martin Casado sits down with Raghu Raghur…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Dwarkesh and Noah Smith on AGI and the Economy
Episode 896
In this episode, Erik Torenberg is joined in the studio by Dwarkesh Patel and Noah Smith to explore one of the biggest questions in tech: what exactl…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Balaji on How Tech Truly Wins Media
Episode 895
What really caused the breakdown between tech and media—and what comes next?
Erik Torenberg sits down with Balaji Srinivasan (entrepreneur, investor, …
10 months, 3 weeks ago