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Interviews (81)

AI video director Billy Boman on making Super Bowl ads, directing AI commercials for Taylor Swift and Lewis Capaldi, and having his own Hollywood-scale sign

San Francisco real estate is booming: median family home now ~$3M as AI liquidity floods the market

Eric Jorgenson on 'The Book of Elon' and the Naval Almanack hitting 2 million copies sold

Martin Shkreli vs. Max Marchione: the great peptide debate

RF Kenmore on menswear: Buck Mason's 50-60 store run, surf brand decline, and the state of men's fashion

RF Kenmore on menswear trends: community-driven brands, the Porsche-in-store cliché, and surf brand revival chances

'Carried No Interest' warns of a looming 2028-2029 software PE debt crisis accelerated by AI disruption

Australian ML engineer used ChatGPT, AlphaFold, and genetic algorithms to design a personalized mRNA vaccine for his dog's cancer

Vincenzo Landino on Apple's Formula 1 ecosystem strategy: IMAX races, Netflix collab, and Vision Pro potential

Ken Burns on filmmaking, PBS, Steve Jobs, and why he rejects AI-generated imagery as a threat to truth

Sammy Azdoufal found a master key in his DJI vacuum that gave him control of all 7,000 devices sold

Writer Fredrik deBoer bets against AI economic apocalypse, challenges Dario Amodei's '50% job loss' claim

Martin Shkreli on FTX's billion-dollar Cursor stake, Anthropic's EA mafia returns, and why more AI companies should go public

Vincenzo Landino on NASCAR's identity crisis, Cadillac F1's Super Bowl gamble, and Aston Martin's Eight Sleep investment

Ashlee Vance on robot fight documentaries, the brutal economics of streaming docs, and a China trip in the works

Anonymous AI commentator 'Nik': OpenAI is a big tech company now, AGI by 2029–2030

Internet anthropologist Coldhealing on TikTok culture, AI content, and the generative video tipping point

Martin Shkreli closes $5M seed round, pitches photonic computing as the next Nvidia challenger

Vincenzo Landino on F1's US boom: team valuations, Drive to Survive's real impact, and tech capital flooding motorsport

Jacob Rintamaki on how robotics and AI are transforming data center maintenance and operations

Space data centers could be cheapest AI inference within 3 years as orbital cooling and launch costs improve

Colin & Samir on YouTube's dominance, the perspective era of content, and Disney's Sora deal

Emily Sundberg on Feed Me's seven-figure Substack, California expansion, and why both Substack and Patreon should stop poaching each other's creators

Film producer Adam Faze: Netflix-Warner Bros. is good for Hollywood because the real war is for attention against Meta, Google, and TikTok

Raindrop raises $15M seed from Lightspeed to monitor AI agents in production — and the problem gets worse as agents get better

Ashlee Vance on humanoid robotics: China dominates actuators, US software lead may not be enough

Adam Faze's Gymnasium is building the new TV studio — on TikTok and Instagram instead of Netflix

Growing Daniel: Tech industry needs moral discernment — gambling apps and cheating tools aren't good quests

Novelist Jordan Castro on lifting culture, masculinity, and why getting jacked is a spiritual practice

Anonymous artist SHL0MS on detonating a Lamborghini to critique crypto culture — and why AI makes creative work more asymmetric

Lulu Cheng Meservey and Gaby Goldberg on Halloween communications, startup launches, and strategic PR

Justin Murphy on independent scholarship, tech-capital acceleration, and why crypto is the antidote

Darren Rovell on the $3M Babe Ruth card loss and the state of the sports memorabilia market

Emily Sundberg maps the media landscape and launches Feed Me's first podcast

Jordan Schneider on US-China AI tensions: rare earth retaliation, Huawei's play, and humanoid robot risk

Brian Baumgartner plays Ramp's CFO for a day in a live stunt on the streets of New York

Riley Walz built a real-time parking cop tracker using SF's public ticket database — the city killed it in four hours

Kimbal Musk raises $50M for Nova Sky Stories drone art — from 6K tickets in 2024 to 500K in 2025

Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B in largest-ever copyright settlement over AI training on pirated books

Darren Rovell on the $13M Kobe-LeBron card and the collectibles market on fire

Dr. Drew Pinsky on dot-com lessons: SoftBank gave him $10M before anyone knew what a website was

Ben Hylak on GPT-5's one-shot reasoning, Nano's cost/performance sweet spot, and what's coming next

Samir Chaudry on AI and the creator economy: 'ChatGPT is entering Tik Tok territory for daily time spent'

Aaron Tan's robotic laundry-folding lamp went viral — here's what's real and what's rendered

Casey Neistat joins ModRetro to champion the M64: building the 'last Nintendo 64 that ever needs to be built'

AI educator Harper Carroll on using AI as an interactive learning tool for children

Martin Shkreli on building a Bloomberg killer and the future of Wall Street data

Dwarkesh Patel: why continual learning—not raw intelligence—is the real bottleneck to AGI

Stanford student launches beautiful.aiart.com selling AI-generated text art; Grimes-backed documentary in production

Soham Parekh breaks silence: the engineer who worked 5 startups simultaneously explains why he did it

Chip War author Chris Miller: China is 5–6 years behind TSMC, but shell company smuggling reached millions of chips

Auren Hoffman: VCs tell founders to go public and take dilution — but never do it themselves

LiDAR archaeologist reveals vast hidden Mayan cities discovered beneath rainforest canopies

Emily Sundberg on building Feed Me to 60K subscribers and how independent media is reshaping journalism

Swyx on Meta's AI talent raid: $100M+ first-year packages, OpenAI's surprising resilience, and Cursor poaching Claude Code's creators

Anonymous GLP-1 expert 'Cremieux' on the drug's expanding use cases — sleep apnea, cancer, ADHD — and the risks of gray market access

Live from a Tesla robotaxi: Farzad Mesbahi calls in from Austin's first paid driverless ride

Derek Thompson left The Atlantic after 17 years to go independent — timing it to a #1 NYT bestselling book

Saquon Barkley on building trust networks to navigate the investment minefield facing professional athletes

Emily Sundberg on WWDC fashion, the Substack competitive landscape, and the death of the celebrity brand era

Ukraine's drone war: Operation Spiderweb destroyed 33% of Russia's air-launch cruise missile capacity

Anthropic cuts off Windsurf's Claude access overnight — AI Engineer World's Fair organizer Shawn Wang explains what it means for the OpenAI acquisition rumors

ChinaTalk's Jordan Schneider: Trump tariffs, immigration policy, and why the US is unready for drone warfare

Ashlee Vance on the Meta-Anduril reconciliation, Palmer Lucky's VR toybox returned, and Core Memory's global expansion

Auren Hoffman: data markets are smaller than everyone thinks, and charging founders for VC legal fees is wrong

Ben Hylak on Raindrop AI and why Claude Opus 4's willingness to 'call the police' on users signals a new era of AI autonomy

Live from Riyadh: insider breakdown of the Saudi-US tech summit and Syria sanctions lift

Anonymous analyst Crémieux: MFN drug pricing will cause 10% US price drop but 90% increase in Canada, threatens pharma R&D

Typography designer Elliot Jay Stocks on AI disrupting fonts and the indie foundry business model

Severance production designer Jeremy Hindle on building iconic sets, Hollywood's decline, and the craft of world-building

ChinaTalk's Jordan Schneider: US is making every mistake in the playbook to lose the tech war with China

Shawn Wang on MCP, AI agent horizons, and why building infrastructure companies is a warning sign

David Perell on AI's impact on writing: why utility writing is already gone and what human writers must become

Virgílio 'V' Bento on building and investing in the current AI moment

Samir Chaudry on the Zuck x MrBeast interview, TikTok limbo, and why brand beats virality

Dwarkesh Patel on AI acceleration, the missing ChatGPT moment for agents, and what's underrated about intelligence

Nadia Asparouhova on antiemetics: why good ideas resist spreading and how obscurantism is information warfare

Jordan Schneider on ChinaTalk: DeepSeek was made in America, US robotics manufacturing gap, and reading China's truth signal

Lulu Cheng Meservey on the next era of founder comms: 'attention is all you need'

Ashlee Vance launches Core Memory: tech TV show, two books, and the future of independent journalism

Will Manidis: legacy healthcare software companies — not startups — will win the AI adoption race

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TBPN's media market map: from legacy trad to post-neo and everything in between

Carried No Interest on AI and PE software roll-ups: 'Transactional SaaS is dead'