Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Sidewalk Gambit: Why Leaving Scooters Out Actually Works
Season 1 Episode 138
They left $900M sitting on sidewalks with almost no security, and it worked. Lime generated $686M in revenue last year using a security philosophy th…
3 months, 1 week ago
Zurich: Six Thousand Years of Hitting Save
Season 1 Episode 137
This episode takes us to Zurich, the city that's been humanity's save point for 6,000 years. From Roman tax booths and medieval abbeys run by powerfu…
3 months, 1 week ago
Dark Bonfires: Where Submarine Cables Touch Land
Season 1 Episode 136
You learned in Episode 116 that 99% of global internet data travels through hair-thin fiber optics on the ocean floor. But every cable must eventuall…
3 months, 1 week ago
Between the Lakes: The Renaming Spell That Built Interlaken
Season 1 Episode 135
A forgettable Swiss mill town called Rainly had one thing going for it: a medieval monastery with a magical name. In 1891, locals channeled Ursula K.…
3 months, 1 week ago
When the Witchers Unionized
Season 1 Episode 134
The Witchers of enterprise AI (remember Episode 59?) just got guilds. SAP consolidated its entire cloud platform into the Business AI platform with 2…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Mirror Match: Volleyball's Mount Rushmore
Season 1 Episode 133
Volleyball has its own legends, and every single one of them mirrors a mainstream sports icon. We start with the most mind-bending comparison: Phil D…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Breaking Babel: How AI Translation Rewrites the Rules
Season 1 Episode 132
We finally built the Babelfish. Google and DeepAI just rolled out real-time voice-to-voice translation through your earbuds, and we're exploring what…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
The 50-Year Hack: Why Developers Decorate Their Terminals
Season 1 Episode 131
Developers treat their terminals like sacred spaces—obsessively customizing dotfiles, themes, and keybindings until their configuration files have mo…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Always On The Line: What Phone Calls Reveal About Home
Season 1 Episode 130
You've definitely noticed it: your Uber driver, the cashier, the person in the stall next door—always on a phone call. Americans often assume it's ru…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Open Bridges: What Happens When AI Removes All the Gates
Season 1 Episode 129
Remember when streaming deleted gatekeepers in music and Latin artists finally reached number one? AI is doing that to the entire tech industry right…
3 months, 2 weeks ago