That Was The Week
148 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago -Published weekly as a supplement to the 'That Was The Week' newsletter, this podcast features Keith Teare and Andrew Keen discussing the events in tech that will shape the future of startups, venture and angel investing. https://thatwastheweek.com
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No Runway
December 10, 2023 22:51 - 33 minutes - 31 MBContents Editorial: Essays of the Week The modern data stack was never big enough Revisiting The Death of a Venture Fund Calpers’ $4.5 Billion Venture Bet Global Venture Funding In November Slows At Early Stage The Fintech Sector Trotted The Most New Unicorns Onto Our Board In November From Unicorns to Zombies: Tech Start-Ups Run Out of Time and Money Video of the Week The Where, When, and How of AI AI of the Week Learn more about Gemini, our most capable AI model Google’s Gemi...
A Tale of Two Weeks
November 24, 2023 22:10 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBIt’s Thanksgiving here in Palo Alto, and I should thank all the writers and producers whose work I read each week for the stimulation and provocation they provide. In case you do not all realize it, you are appreciated. I always try to call out the creators of the content I curate at the top of That Was The Week, and I will continue to do so. Many appear every week. Let us start with Brian Chesky, of AirBnB fame, this week. His X post is apt and to the point. I called this week’s newslett...
The OpenAI Debacle - e /acc versus e /a
November 24, 2023 22:08 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBIt’s a day late for That Was The Week. In mitigation, what a day it was, with the firing of Sam Altman at OpenAI, and the demotion, then resignation of Greg Brockman, Jakub Pachocki, the company’s director of research; Aleksander Madry, head of a team evaluating potential risks from AI, and Szymon Sidor, a seven-year researcher at the startup. The dust is beginning to settle, and my best interpretation of the events comes from these x posts by Kara Swisher and Elad Gil, focused on effective...
Changing The World
November 24, 2023 22:05 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBIt's Thursday evening, and I have had a busy day in a busy week, and I am not feeling the urge for grandiosity. But OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman did announce some world-changing technologies this week. The article by Ben Thompson from Stratechery below lists them. Still, a list does not do justice to how much thinking decision-making, and execution OpenAI has accomplished in a short period. The heart of the announcements is a newly scalable architecture that allows anybody to have their ow...
Guilty
November 24, 2023 21:54 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBEthics matter. And using them in times of stress matters, too. SBF lost the plot in his defense this week, seeking to blame his lack of attention to detail and his colleagues for the failings at FTX and Alameida. There was a lack of ethics in his decisions and a further lack of ethics in his trial strategy. I have no idea how contrived the entire set of episodes was at FTX, but blaming colleagues seems both a low shot and a long shot simultaneously. It would have been better to tell the tr...
Capitulation?
November 24, 2023 21:51 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBCharles Hudson and Manu Kumar are two of the best early-stage investors in the world. This week, they both penned meaningful essays declaring that the fundamentals of early-stage investing have changed, possibly permanently. Charles states: For the past 18 months, the Series A market has been very quiet. Outside of AI-related investments, it feels like deal volume is off 75%. The Series A investors I know don’t feel any pressure to make investments and don’t really seem that excited or int...
Optimism, Technology and Progress
November 24, 2023 21:49 - 38 minutes - 35 MBMarc Andreessen, Sam Altman and Geoffrey Hinton To quote Oscar Wilde: A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias. Now, I have said that the community by means of organisation of machinery will supply the useful things, and that the beautiful things will be made ...
Can We Stop A More Brutal World?
November 24, 2023 21:47 - 36 minutes - 33 MBThis was a week when it was almost impossible to escape politics, particularly world politics. The barbaric, medieval images coming out of Israel on Shabbat Saturday morning, at the start of the Jewish New Year, were both sickening and, at the same time, sadly, not surprising. This was in a week where my media consumption included the interview Graham Alison did at the All In Summit and a similar couple with Ray Dalio and Larry Summers. All three focus on the current and future world order....
AI or Bust
November 24, 2023 21:45 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBAnother week when there are many talking points. The Q3 Venture Capital data is out, and both Gene Teare at Crunchbase and Peter Walker at Carta have significant insights this week. In an essay of the week, Kyle Harrison takes a stand back and examines the entire venture value chain - as we have discussed a lot in prior weeks. It is a great effort by Kyle and a very good read, Also, Sam Bankman Fried is not in front of a Jury. Only two days in, the prosecution is mounting a strong effort t...
The Bankman Fried's Trial by Media
November 24, 2023 21:43 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBI had promised there would be no That Was The Week this week, and Andrew decided we needed to record a show. Topics focus on the Bankman Fried trial, Amazon being accused of anti-trust, the Google trial, and developments with OpenAI --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thatwastheweek/message
Billions: The Venture Asset Class
September 24, 2023 23:16 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBContents Editorial: Billions: The Venture Asset Class Essays of the Week Innovation Searching for a Breakup The Trouble With Walter: In His Elon Musk Tome, the Writer Shows Us the Perils of Access Journalism AI Regulation Venture Capitalists Will Overpay For Seed Rounds But For Reasons You Likely Haven’t Considered Venture returns vs. public markets : What the data says Unicorn Market Cap 2023: Rise of AI Video of the Week Bill Gurley on Regulation, the State and Tech AI of the W...
Why Think Global? China, Chips, Trains and Airplanes
September 18, 2023 00:59 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBContents Editorial: Why Think Global? China, Chips and Airplanes Essays of the Week The next phase of globalization is going to be awesome It's Never Been More Important to Understand Your Capital Provider's Business Model Apple’s $60 iCloud Service Is the Future of Apple Huawei’s Breakthrough: The Strategic Implications A Look at the IPO Market As Investors Hope for Strong Instacart, Arm & Klaviyo Offerings Arm and a Leg: Arm's Quest To Extract Their True Value The Top 10 Mistakes ...
Searching For Money
September 10, 2023 19:28 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MBContents Editorial: Essays of the Week Least Bad (De-Dollarization?) Only About 10% of VCs Make Money Searching for Unicorn Funds - A Look at Fund DPI Venture Firms Hang the ‘For Sale’ Sign on Portfolios How to Win in Venture Capital: Focus on the Fat Tails What Makes a Good SaaS Company? The Best Founders are over 50 Years Old Meet the YC Summer 2023 Batch Garry Tan AI and the New Digital Cold War Video of the Week Andrew Keen and Ludwig Ensthaler on AI Fareed Zakharia on AI...
Hit Job
September 10, 2023 19:19 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBContents Editorial: Hit Job Essays of the Week VC Returns - The Power Law Down Rounds Are a Nothing Burger? VCs are just middlemen. Realizing Non-Winners Early Drives IRRs Secrecy Harms Startups Fund of funds: why to invest and, more importantly, why not As Venture Market Slows, Fewer Early-Round Unicorns Being Minted Rest - The case for sabbaticals Why Do Investors Care So Much About LTV:CAC? AI of the Week Generative AI applications: an investing framework Early days of AI (a...
Venture is Good
September 10, 2023 17:11 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBContents Editorial: Essays of the Week Institutionalized Belief In The Greater Fool New Unicorn Creation Has Dwindled From 2 Per Day To 2 Per Month Even a Down Round is Hard to Get Tech Valuations Q2’23 Report Advice to Venture Fund Investors State of pre-seed fundraising: Q2 2023 Venture capital funds are mostly just wasting their time and your money Video of the Week Dave Winer and Andrew Keen on Blogging, Podcasting and More AI of the Week The AI Power Paradox What if Gener...
Dry Powder?
August 11, 2023 18:55 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBContents Editorial: Dry Powder? Essays of the Week Dry Powder is not About to be Invested Down Rounds Should Be Led by Entrepreneurs Why Bill Gurley & Josh Wolfe Think VCs Won't Deploy All Their Dry Powder Anytime Soon ‘Tidal Wave’ of Down Rounds Hits Startups Global Venture Funding In July Was Second-Lowest This Year As Seed Startups Are Hit Hard VC Optimism Returning But More Pain Ahead In Their Portfolios AI of the Week OpenAI Shoots To No. 1 Spot On Private Cloud Startup Rank...
Bonfire of the Unicorns
August 11, 2023 18:48 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBContents Editorial: Bonfire of the Unicorns Essays of the Week Historical Futurism Venture Capital and the Retail Investor Raising a fund in a downturn Fundraising in Confusing Times Fundraising is Hard - Fund of Fund Fundraising is Harder Unicorns Hobbled Amid VC Pullbacks The Unicorn Fire Sales Ahead Hopin, the struggling virtual conference unicorn, sells events and engagement units to RingCentral Reset & Rethink – Assessing Venture Capital with Gené Teare of Crunchbase Video o...
Never Waste a Good (Venture) Crisis
August 11, 2023 18:42 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MBContents Editorial: Essays of the Week Venture Capital — We’re Still Not Normal - @CoatsDavid Seed investing can’t turn back on - @lessin The Broken Venture Value Chain - @fintechjunkie Here Are The Venture Capital Firms That Are Investing Much Less - @ericnewcomer Indexing Venture and Other Fool's Errands - @jordsnel Manager Selection in Venture Capital - @scotthartley The meeting that showed me the truth about VCs - @tomerdean All-In Podcast on the venture business - @jason, @ch...
Data-First Venture is Coming
July 28, 2023 16:39 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBContents Editorial: Data-First Venture is Coming Essays of the Week The Future of Venture Capital? Insights Into Data-Driven VCs Has persistence persisted in private equity? Evidence from buyout and venture capital funds Why more is less in investing Symposium: The unique uselessness of business advice VCs make mistakes too. And LPs need to be aware of them. How This Ends (Part Three) Video of the Week Producing Charts with AI - Tomasz Tunguz AI of the Week ChatGPT update allows ...
Khan and Gensler Should Be Fired
July 21, 2023 22:37 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBContents Editorial: Khan and Gensler Should Be Fired Essays of the Week Threads won’t kill Twitter if it’s boring Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard FTC appeals its loss to Microsoft in Activision Blizzard case XRP Sold on Exchange Declared Not an Investment Contract Ripple’s XRP Token Surges 96% After Court Rules XRP Sales Aren’t Investment Contracts FTC opens investigation into ChatGPT creator OpenAI Video of the Week Y Combinator - Will OpenAI Kill Startups? AI...
Data-First Venture Investing is Coming
July 21, 2023 22:02 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBContents Editorial: Data-First Venture is Coming Essays of the Week The Future of Venture Capital? Insights Into Data-Driven VCs Has persistence persisted in private equity? Evidence from buyout and venture capital funds Why more is less in investing Symposium: The unique uselessness of business advice VCs make mistakes too. And LPs need to be aware of them. How This Ends (Part Three) Video of the Week Producing Charts with AI - Tomasz Tunguz AI of the Week ChatGPT update allows...
Do You Like My Threads
July 08, 2023 02:40 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MBContents Editorial: Essays of the Week How to Do Great Work Paul Graham How Analytics Wins - Ergest Xheblati The Modern Data Stack - Muji Twitter and Threads Twitter's Final Boss: Zuckerberg Wages War You can’t post ass, Threads is doomed Meta’s New Threads App Reaches 30 Million Users in Less Than a Day Twitter threatens to sue Meta over its new Threads app Video of the Week Vinod Khosla - The Trillion $ AI Opportunity AI of the Week AI and the automation of work - Benedict E...
Let's Talk About the Venture Wreckage
July 01, 2023 01:56 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBContent this week from @gideonrachman, @Tabby_Kinder, @KateClarkTweets, @askhalid, @DanKuhn13, @mvpeers, @maskedmanmarc, @BitcoinSVTrain, @IanBremmer, @IKrietzberg, @a16Z, @JagmeetS13, @EllenYChang, @Dexerto, @elonmusk, @finkd Editorial: The Venture Wreckage Essays of the Week Europe has fallen behind America and the gap is growing Silicon Valley VCs rush into defence technology start-ups Antitrust Threat to Figma-Adobe Deal Thwarts Hopes for VC Rebound Spotify’s podcast plan is going ...
Phew, That Was A Week
July 01, 2023 01:54 - 30 minutes - 28 MBContent this week from @Om, @Isabellesarraf, @pmarca, @elonmusk, @lexfridman, @jessicalessin, @ajkeen, @nickgrossman, @krishnanrohit, @kyle_l_wiggers, @demishassabis, @levie, @databricks, @@madewithmosaic, @mustafasuleymn, @inflectionAI Contents Editorial: Phew, That Was A Week Essays of the Week Why Apple’s Vision Pro Will Change Movie-Watching Spotify’s Video-Podcast Surge Linda Yaccarino’s vision for Twitter 2.0 emerges ‘Pressures Remain’: Coatue Prepares Tech Founders for the Road...
The Year of the Mask
June 06, 2023 00:16 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBEditorial - The Year of the Mask (again)? Essays of the Week The Gospel of ARK Invest Twitter’s value down two-thirds since Musk takeover, says investor Elon Musk reclaims title of world’s richest person Twitter is Approving Far More Government Censorship Requests Under Elon Musk Video of the Week The Cure @Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, 2023.05.27 AI of the Week Improving mathematical reasoning with process supervision - OpenAI Is The AI Hype For Real? $20B In Investments...
Robots and Humans
May 06, 2023 01:47 - 39 minutes - 36 MBContents Editorial Essays of the Week State of Private Markets: Q1 2023 Fund Size Is Still Strategy - The Growing Disconnect Between Founders and VCs 'ZIRP' No More: A Founder Playbook for the Market Downturn Series D Hits Lowest Point In Years. What Does That Mean? Nearly Half of YouTube’s U.S. Viewership Is Now on TVs, Helping Drive Ad Shift The Unified Content Business Model Video of the Week Greg Brockman at TED Yejin Choi at TED AI of the Week Google "We Have No Moat, And ...
Shrinking
April 29, 2023 20:41 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBContents Editorial: Shrinking Essays of the Week These 4 Charts Show That, Slowly But Surely, Startup Funding Deal Sizes Are Shrinking The Fintech Funding Crunch In 4 Charts M&A for venture-backed startups has fallen to the lowest quarterly level in a decade Elon Musk Is Transforming Twitter, Not Killing It The Mother of All Pivots Grimes invites people to use her voice in AI songs 2023 State of AI in 14 Charts The History of AI in 7 Experiments Michelle’s Approach to ChatGPT Has...
Gone: DVDs, Magazines and Buzzfeed News
April 21, 2023 22:21 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBContent this week from: @jonfingas, @harrymccracken, @TurnerNovak, @fredwilson, @kwharrison13, @ballmatthew, @ttunguz, @timoreilly, @davidcummings, @NeilThanedar Netflix will shut down its DVD rental business in September The End of Computer Magazines in America Shuttering of BuzzFeed News Signals Shift to Survival Mode Can Substack Save the Social Network? What Is A Protocol And Why Does It Matter? Building an Actual Unicorn 2023 Private SaaS Company Valuations Is Twitter finally dy...
Substack and Twitter: Launch of Notes is a significant move
April 15, 2023 02:53 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBEditorial: Product of the Week Now live for all: Substack Notes Notes questions answered Is Substack Notes a ‘Twitter clone’? We asked CEO Chris Best Essays of the Week ‘We have to move fast’: US looks to establish rules for artificial intelligence Prohibition of AI that ‘subverts state power’ in China may chill its nascent industry What the End of HBO Max—and the Rise of ‘Max’—Means for Streaming Crypto VC Funding Slows to a Crawl Here Comes the Startup Panic SignalRank Funding ...
Embrace AI Experimentation
April 01, 2023 20:47 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBContents Editorial: An Open Letter Essays of the Week Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter The Open Letter to Stop 'Dangerous' AI Race Is a Huge Mess Vinod Khosla on how AI will ‘free humanity from the need to work’ Thinking About AI A Short History of Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT Gets a Computer The Accidental Consumer Tech Company; ChatGPT, Meta, and Product-Market Fit; Aggregation and APIs Video of the Week Coldfusion - AI is Evolving Faster Than You Think [GPT-4 and b...
Are You a Communist? TikTok CEO Abused in Congress
March 24, 2023 18:38 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBContent this week from @stuwoo @mvpeers @JuliaAngwin @chloexiang @vice @neuwaves @jason_keobler @tayhatmaker @pkedrosky @blurcon @billgates @theo_wayt Editorial: Are You a Communist? Essays of the Week Who Is Shou Zi Chew, the TikTok CEO Trying to Reassure America? U.S. Tech Should Support TikTok at This Moment How to Fix the TikTok Problem Banning TikTok Is Unconstitutional, Ludicrous, and a National Embarrassment TikTok CEO says it wasn’t ‘spying’ when ByteDance employees surveilled...
As The Crisis Deepens
March 18, 2023 00:21 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBThat Was The Week 2023, #9 Content this week from @AlphaSignalAI, @kleinerperkins, @thegeneralistco, @theinformation, @htaneja, @om, @mslopatto, @geneteare, @reidhoffman @garrytan, @techcrunch, @wsj Contents Editorial Essays of the Week Venture Capitalists Made a Big Mess of SVB What happens to Silicon Valley without Silicon Valley Bank? Where the Venture Community Goes From Here A Tough Weekend The Silicon Valley Bank fallout is just beginning In Their Own Words: What Silicon Vall...
Silicon Valley Bank: Canary in the Coal Mine?
March 13, 2023 00:47 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBContents Editorial: Silicon Valley Bank. Canary in the Coal Mine? Essays of the Week Silicon Valley Bank CEO Tells VC Clients to ‘Stay Calm’ Silicon Valley Bank shoots self in foot A Great Thread by Genevieve Roch-Decter Another Good Thread, by Turner Novak Some SVB customers are struggling to wire funds out of the bank Silicon Valley Bank’s Stock Plunge Sends Jitters Through The Startup World Banks Lose Billions in Value After Tech Lender SVB Stumbles Generative AI And The Future ...
Venture Apocalypse?
March 04, 2023 00:02 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBThat Was The Week 2023, #7, with content from: @pmarca @chamath @eladgil @annimaniac @Cookie @hunterwalk @SignalRank --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thatwastheweek/message
Bubbles and AI
March 03, 2023 23:39 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBBubbles and AI, by @kteare That Was The Week 2023 #6 Content from @hunterwalk @altairvc @krishnanrohit @micsolana @johnbattelle @BessemerVP @stephen_wolfram @emollick @thecontentmines @tferriss @bgurley @Altimor --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thatwastheweek/message
"Here's Sydney"
February 18, 2023 01:47 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MBThat Was The Week 2023, #5 Contents Editorial: “Here’s Sydney” Essays of the Week The Ascent of ChatGPT - Open Data Science Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈’ - Kevin Roose (NYT) A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled - Kevin Roose (NYT) Inside the Heart of ChatGPT’s Darkness - Gary Marcus From Bing to Sydney - Ben Thompson, Stratechery We’ve Seen This Before: Investors Take To The Next Shiny Toy — AI - Chris Metinko Microsoft explains Bing's bizarre AI ...
AI Can't Be Stopped
February 10, 2023 15:41 - 22 minutes - 20.3 MBAI Can't Be Stopped. https://thatwastheweek.substack.com/p/ai-cant-be-stopped Content from @IndexVentures @a16z @azeem @GaryMarcus @Ljungman @krishnanrohit @bradleytusk @karanslala @pmarca @Samirkaji --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thatwastheweek/message
Born Again. Is Tech Back?
February 10, 2023 15:39 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBFacebook at 2 billion users a week, ChatGPT already at 100m. Meta stock up 100% in 3 months. Is Tech Born Again? thatwastheweek.substack.com/p/born-again-i… Content from @alexkantrowitz @alexeheath @kateclarktweets @om @davekarpf @BrentLeary @hamishmckenzie @JONATHANVANIAN @karissabe & @TwitterDev --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thatwastheweek/message
Unicorns are Dying
February 04, 2023 20:51 - 32 minutes - 30 MBContents Essays of the Week --AGI will not happen in your lifetime. Or will it? --Google vs. ChatGPT --Unicorn Valuations Are On The Chopping Block --Thinning The Herd --Netflix’s New Chapter --Why Now is a Great Time to Raise Seed Funding. Even If It’s Awful for Series A-E Rounds. --Japan to remove limit on overseas investment by startup funds News of the Week --Cowboy Ventures goes bigger with $260M across two new funds, including an opportunity fund --Lightspeed - Fintech Trend...
The Dawning of a New Era
January 19, 2023 20:45 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBContents Essays of the Week --24 Seriously Embarrassing Hours for AI --Is Microsoft about to get the deal of the century? Or is Sam Altman unloading OpenAI at just the right time? --Is ChatGPT Really a “Code Red” for Google Search? --ChatGPT Creator OpenAI Could Be Valued At $29B In Tender Offer --Infinite AI Interns for Everybody --Who Owns the Generative AI Platform? --Fireside Chat: Reid Hoffman, w/ Elad Gil (AI, Big Tech, & Startups) --New AngelList Data Shows Startup Fundraisin...
Can Bad AI be Good?
December 09, 2022 21:36 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBThis week we look at the fallout from the ChatGPT launch. How concerned should we be that ChatGPT is often wrong? Can we trust it? Should we use it? If so what for? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thatwastheweek/message
The Crazy Ones: In Defense of Risk-Takers
November 19, 2022 00:44 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBMasayoshi San, Cathy Woods, Elon Musk, and Sam Bankman-Fried have all been in the spotlight I want to take a step back, and a deep breath and ask. Would we be better without risk-takers? Even risk-takers that take too much risk and lose? Content from @elonmusk, @CathyDWood, @GSands, @masason, @SBF_FTX, @HarryStebbings, @mwseibel Contents Editorial In Defense of Risk-Takers The Crazy Ones Masayoshi Son owes $4.7bn to SoftBank following tech rout 20VC: ARK Invest’s Cathie Wood - Harry St...
Bank Man Fried
November 11, 2022 20:05 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBThis week saw FTX shrink from $32 billion of value to zero in less than 48 hours. @TheInformation is doing great reporting. It seems the ill-named founder @SBF_FTX - Sam Bankman-Fried - invested hundreds of millions into Sequoia and other funds. The @SECGov failure to provide a regulatory framework for Crypto seems even more silly. But @DavidKirkpatric and @LHSummers provide a thoughtful distraction from the noise. Contents Editorial: I Vote For Change Essays of the Week: The end of the I...
The Musk Edition
November 04, 2022 22:55 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBTwitter is complicated. And this week it has attracted intense and emotional attention from a wide spectrum of opinions. The standoff between @AOC and @ElonMusk on his intent to charge $8 a month for the Twitter blue tick is symbolic of a wider debate. @karaswisher, @waltmossberg and @davidsacks all weigh in. @HamishMckenzie of @Substack also has an angle. Contents Editorial: Elon Musk 1-0 Kara Swisher Twitter’s Rebirth Elon Musk Twitter is Good for Substack Hamish McKenzie Introducin...
A Tale of Two Platforms
October 28, 2022 22:47 - 29 minutes - 27.5 MBMeta lost 25% of its value in 24 hours. Twitter moved to close the deal with Elon Musk as its stock neared $54. Both founders have a vision. Whose will win? Discuss… Content from @elonmusk, @finkd, @noahpinion, @stratechery, @seedcamp, @ttunguz Contents Editorial A Tale of Two Platforms Meta Twitter Essays of the Week 9 Predictions for Data in 2023 Apple’s new App Store tax on ads is a direct shot at Meta Generative AI Startups Attract Business Customers, Investor Funding Chips an...
The End of Apps and the Rise of the Machines
October 21, 2022 23:33 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBThe rise of data, and the increasing scope for AI to mine it for useful outputs, leads some to predict the end of apps. Can we dream of just asking for what we want, and getting it? Lots to chew on this week. Enjoy. Contents Editorial The End of Apps? - A Discussion Essays of the Week The AT Protocol - The Bluesky Team AI 2022: The Explosion - The Coatue Venture Team AI: Startup Vs Incumbent Value - Elad Gil An AI Might Have Written This - Fadeke Adegbuyi Alien Truth - Paul Graham ...
Take a Walk on the Wild Side
October 07, 2022 01:43 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MBTwitter needs new leadership, and Elon Musk is the best chance of getting it. This week he renewed his bid to buy Twitter at the original price. But is he really going to pull the trigger? Or is it a ruse to blame bankers? Also @danrose999, @rabois, @Mazzeo @alex @elonmusk Contents Take a Walk on the Wild Side ‘Elon Musk Proposes to Buy Twitter for Original Price of $54.20 a Share’ Elon Musk's lawyers ask the judge to call off the Twitter trial Judge halts Elon Musk-Twitter litigation t...
Khan't Touch That - Regulation on the Rocks
September 23, 2022 23:03 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBWhen Lina Khan came into office. She was championed as a friend of the people facing up to Big Tech. Today her reputation is in tatters. We predicted she was not well prepared for success, and we were right. Also, great content from @a16z @openai, @conniechan, @elonmusk @stevecase, @floodgatefund and @annimaniac Content Regulators on the Rocks --Lina Khan’s ambitious FTC is facing ‘extremely difficult choices --A Call to the SEC to treat Crypto Assets is if Clients Matter Essays of the ...
Is TikTok Hatred Racist?
September 17, 2022 20:29 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBContents from this week’s newsletter This week a whistleblower demonstrated how poor Twitter’s internal data controls are, mirroring previous proof that TikTok is similarly challenged. And politicians focused on TikTok Contents Is TikTok Hatred Racist? Is TikTok’s Time Running Out? Meta Can Thank TikTok for its quiet day in Congress Essays of the Week Twitter Whistleblower Testifies (video) OpenAI - Sam Altman and Reid Hoffman in conversation - Podcast and Transcript What you Learn ...
The Queen
September 09, 2022 23:09 - 33 minutes - 30.2 MBHer full title reads Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith. She is no more. And much of what she stood for is also in decline --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thatwastheweek/message