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The Talented Mr. Altman
Sam Altman has used his power and influence to become a multi-billionaire with stakes in hundreds of startups, but behind the curtain, he's never run…
2 years, 3 months ago
The Rot-Com Bust
In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through what happens when tech's growth-at-all-costs epoch begins to collapse, and how the only way to save Sili…
2 years, 3 months ago
The Rot-Com Bubble
Tech's hyper-growth era is ending, with online 100 million new people getting online between 2022 and 2023, and almost every major web platform seein…
2 years, 3 months ago
AI Is Breaking Google
On May 14th 2024, Google introduced their Search Generative Experience, a service that uses hallucination-prone artificial intelligence to generate a…
2 years, 3 months ago
We're Watching Facebook Die
For three years, Facebook's monthly active users have been declining dramatically, with Facebook.com losing 397 million unique monthly visitors since…
2 years, 3 months ago
How Mark Zuckerberg Deliberately Made Facebook Worse
In the last decade, Mark Zuckerberg and his internal growth team have repeatedly and intentionally made Facebook and Instagram harder and more danger…
2 years, 3 months ago
OpenAI's Video Generating AI Is Dead On Arrival
Earlier in the year, OpenAI debuted Sora, an AI that can generate videos that almost look realistic. In this episode, Ed walks through why generating…
2 years, 4 months ago
Enron Musk Ft. Ed Niedermeyer
On April 26 2024, the NHTSA, the government body responsible for keeping roads safe, found Tesla's Autopilot and Full-Self-Driving software created a…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Cult of Failing Upwards
Ed Zitron walks you through how career manager Adam Mosseri pushed out Instagram's original founders, turning it into an ultra-profitable app that ba…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Man That Destroyed Google Search
In this episode, Ed Zitron tells you the disgraceful story of how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads - led a coup so that he could run G…
2 years, 4 months ago