Today’s show:

WHY DOES @SUBSTACKINC NEED $100M IN NEW FUNDING?HOW DO THEY PLAN TO STAY AHEAD OF @BEEHIIV?Jason and Alex are debating the future of indie publishing on an all-new TWiST, considering the future of these rival platforms, plus Patreon and more.PLUS they’re digging into Lovable’s latest raise and what it says about the current economics of vibecoding, surveying the automated driving landscape in light of Uber’s new agreement Lucid and Euro, explaining Jason’s “meme processing” theory of internet humor, AND looking ahead to Christopher Nolan’s IMAX epic “The Odyssey.”Join us for the longest-running and most in-depth podcast on Earth for startup founders.

Timestamps:

(0:00) Intro - Everyone is getting hyped for Nolan’s “The Odyssey”

(03:49) “Meme Processing,” the Astronomer saga, and giving people a little grace

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(18:49) Substack vs. Patreon vs. Beehive: Who ya got?!

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(37:58) Lovable, vibecoding, and how much AGI might one day be worth

(01:00:36) Uber’s Lucid/Nuro deal: Alex did the math

(01:08:03) Is autonomous driving about to change EVERYTHING? Jason says… YES.

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