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Ep 167: The Company That Evaluates the AI Labs — Vals AI CEO Rayan Krishnan on Measuring Frontier Models & the Race to Recursive…
Listen now (37 mins) | Rayan Krishnan is the co-founder and CEO of Vals AI, a leader in the independent evaluation of frontier AI models.
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Ep 166: Eric Glyman on Ramp's Meteoric Growth, Selling Outcomes vs Products, and the Future of White-Collar Work
Listen now (49 mins) | Eric Glyman is the co-founder and CEO of Ramp, the finance platform doing over two billion in annual revenue and growing over 100…
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Ep 165: OPM Director Scott Kupor on Shrinking Government, Bringing Merit Back, and Why America’s Best Minds Should Join the U.S. Tech Force
Listen now (33 mins) | Scott Kupor is the Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and has achieved some of the most important reforms in DC…
Oct 8
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Ep 164: Inside Anthropic with Sholto Douglas & Nicholas Marwell — AGI, Optimism vs Risks, Regulatory Capture, Open Source & More!
Listen now (58 mins) | Anthropic is one of the fastest-growing companies in history and sits at the forefront of the AI race.
Oct 2
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September 2026
Ep 163: John Jovanovic on Turning Around the U.S. Export-Import Bank, Trump’s $12B Critical Mineral Reserve, and "Revenge of the Physical…
Listen now (44 mins) | John Jovanovic is the President and Chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.
Sep 29
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Ep 162: Brian Chau Built an AI That Uncovers Fraud — It Just Found a $21 Billion Racial Wealth Transfer
Listen now (45 mins) | Brian Chau is an investigative journalist using AI to uncover widespread corruption and billions in fraud.
Sep 18
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Texas Should Shut Down the Education Cartel
The Texas Association of School Boards is a machine that fights for higher property tax, DEI, and “trans rights,” and fights against school choice — all…
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Ep 161: Generalist CEO Pete Florence on the Robot Revolution & Bringing General Intelligence to the Physical World
Listen now | Until recently, robots were constrained to narrow, specific tasks. Think assembly lines, medical devices, or household vacuum cleaners. But…
Aug 24
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July 2026
Ep 160: Box CEO Aaron Levie on Silicon Valley's AI Problem, Evidence for AI Job Creation & What Doomers and Accelerationists Get Wrong
Listen now | Aaron Levie has spent two decades building Box into a cloud storage leader — and he's never been more excited for the future.
Jul 30
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Ep 159: Aaron Cannon Is Building the Leading AI Customer Research Platform; It's About to Upend a $140B Industry
Listen now | Aaron Cannon is applying AI to solve one of the oldest and most important challenges in business: understanding exactly what customers want…
Jul 2
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June 2026
Ep 158: Nima Ghamsari on Blend's Comeback & the Power of AI Agents and Infinite Workforce
Listen now | Nima Ghamsari was a top talent at Palantir before founding Blend Labs to digitize the mortgage process.
Jun 18
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Dear New Philanthropists
Most 20th century institutions are unfit for 21st century problems. Will this generation’s winning innovators build new ones, or get hoodwinked by the…
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