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Artemis II Recap, Work vs Leisure, AI Backlash | Krste Asanović, Peter Diamandis, Balachandar Ramamurthy

Chad Janis: How I Sold Grüns to Unilever for $1.2B

Chad Janis from Grooms joins the podcast to discuss the company's recent acquisition by Unilever and its journey in the D2C gummy supplement market. Janis recounts the initial idea behind Grooms, which stemmed from a desire to create a more appealing and convenient way to consume supplements. He highlights novel innova...

SpaceX Financials, Does AI Increase Unemployment or Leisure, Chimp Civil War | Diet TBPN

The podcast covers a range of topics, starting with updates on space exploration, including the splashdown time for a NASA astronaut mission and SpaceX's financials, revealing a nearly $5 billion loss due to AI spending despite generating $18.5 billion in revenue. The discussion shifts to AI's potential impact on unemp...

SpaceX Financials, Chimpanzee Civil War, Ferrari's Brand Legend | Josh Reeves, Prof. Alex Young, Jason Kim, Chad Janis, Jordan Bramble, Andy Dunn

Andy Jassy’s Shareholder Letter, Meek Mill Joins the AI Race| Diet TBPN

Binance’s CZ: We’ll Never Know Satoshi, and That’s Good

CZ, the founder of Binance, discusses his new book, which aims to clarify misconceptions about crypto, Binance, and himself. He addresses the common belief that Bitcoin is primarily used for illicit activities, arguing that traditional finance has a higher percentage of illicit transactions. CZ also touches on the evol...

Jassy's Shareholder Letter, The Next AI Capability, 𝕏 Timeline Reactions | Saagar Enjeti, Joe Weisenthal, Kesava Kirupa Dinakaran, Brian Manning, Cobi Blumenfeld-Gantz, Changpeng Zhao, Tal Hoffman

AI infrastructure and the societal implications of rapid technological scaling dominate the current landscape. Amazon’s 2025 shareholder letter underscores the necessity of aggressive capital expenditure in data centers to meet surging AI demand, despite short-term impacts on free cash flow. This expansion faces signif...

Meta’s AI Comeback Moment, Claude Mythos | Diet TBPN

Meta Drops New Model, Mythos, RoboLamp | Luther Lowe, Dan Primack, Lior Susan, Feross Aboukhadijeh, Qasim Mithani, Jaleh Rezaei, Jeremy Philip Galen

Meta Tokenmaxxing, Intel Joins Terafab, Frontier AI vs. China | Diet TBPN

The podcast examines the trend of Meta employees competing for token usage, questioning its effectiveness and potential cost implications for Anthropic. It explores whether "token maxing" is a misguided metric, referencing Goodhart's Law and contrasting it with Meta's AI-driven successes in ad targeting. The conversati...

FULL INTERVIEW: Thomas Laffont’s Journey From Hollywood Assistant to Legendary Tech Investor

Thomas Laffont from Co2 discusses his career trajectory from a French language school in New York to Yale, then to the mailroom at CAA, and eventually into the world of venture capital. Laffont emphasizes the importance of building one's own models to truly understand an investment thesis, drawing parallels between pit...

Tokenmaxxing, SF Street Name Auction, Corporate Retreat Gone Wrong | Riley Walz, Aditya Bandi, Zach Shore, Hongwei Liu, Zak Kukoff, Thomas Laffont

The $1B One-Person Company, China’s Pork Crisis, America’s New Weapon | Diet TBPN

$1B GLP-1 Lessons, New AI Careers, China's 2030 Master Plan | Sam Broner, Jonathan Slotkin, Liz Hoffman, Bret Taylor, Ariyan Kabir, Atif Siddiqi

Open AI Acquires TBPN, Artemis II, The AI-Built $1.8B Company | Diet TBPN

OpenAI Acquires TBPN

Artemis II, Jamie Dimon’s “American Dream,” Snap’s Crucible Moment | Diet TBPN

FULL INTERVIEW: Apple Exec on How Apple Builds Products That Actually Win

Eddy Cue Joins for Apple's 50th, Artemis Launch, Jamie Dimon's Plan, Save Snap Now, SpaceX IPO | Aaron Terrazas, Pratap Ranade, Abhishek Das, Garry Tan, Brannin McBee, Sam Yagan

AI Is Coming for Your Memes, Crypto’s Quantum Clock, Axios Hack| Diet TBPN