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Cognition CEO Scott Wu on acquiring Windsurf, AI replacing engineers, and the Moneyball-ification of everything
Episode 8
Scott Wu joins John Collison to talk about Cognition’s AI software engineer, the Moneyball-ification of everything, math competitions with Alexandr Wang in 6th grade, acquiring Windsurf over a weeken…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on bitcoin going to $1 million, electing a pro-crypto Congress, and Jamie Dimon
Episode 7
Brian Armstrong joins John Collison to talk about what’s happening behind the scenes at Coinbase: battling North Korean hackers, war stories from early scaling, confronting people who won’t use AI to…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on tokenizing private companies, changing the SEC, and Frank Slootman
Episode 6
Vlad Tenev joins John Collison to discuss Bulgarian hyperinflation, Robinhood Banking, details from the GameStop saga—including advice from Marc Benioff, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk, payment for o…
Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on designing AGI-pilled products, model economics, and 19th-century vitalism
Episode 5
Dario Amodei joins John Collison to talk about Anthropic's growth to ~$5 billion in ARR, how AI models show capitalistic impulses, predictions for an agentic future, the economics of model businesses…
Published on 3 months ago
Serial entrepreneur Pieter Levels on building in public and living as a digital nomad
Episode 4
Pieter Levels joins John Collison to discuss building successful online businesses as a digital nomad, thoughts on European accelerationism, and Pieter’s unconventional methods and philosophy as a bo…
Published on 4 months ago
The Bot Company founder and CEO Kyle Vogt on home robots and why he’ll never sell another company
Episode 3
The Bot Company founder and CEO Kyle Vogt—who also cofounded Twitch and Cruise—joins John Collison to talk about applying AI to home robots, the similarities between robotics and self-driving, and wh…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Meta CFO Susan Li on headcount vs. GPU allocation, “free cash flow” hats, and almost becoming a PM
Episode 2
Susan Li of Meta—the youngest chief financial officer of a Fortune 100 company—joins John Collison to talk about capital allocation, managing investors, and how Mark Zuckerberg has changed over the 1…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman on the scaling hypothesis and refactoring as a killer AI use case
Episode 1
Greg Brockman—OpenAI cofounder and Stripe's first engineer—joins John Collison to talk about research-driven product development, an early moment he thought OpenAI was doomed, S curves in AI advancem…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Cheeky Pint hosted by Stripe cofounder John Collison
John sits down with founders and builders over a pint—Greg Brockman (cofounder of OpenAI), Susan Li (chief financial officer at Meta), Kyle Vogt (founder of The Bot Company and cofounder of Twitch an…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago