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Why Trees Fell Over in Biosphere 2: How Wind, Stress Wood, and Thigmomorphogenesis Build Tree Strength and Human Resilience
In the early 1990s, scientists running one of the most ambitious ecological experiments ever attempted noticed something strange. Inside Biosphere 2, a giant sealed glass structure in the…
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Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston on Resilience at Y Combinator: Founder Mode, Cockroaches, Sticking to Your North Star, and Why AI and Climate Keep Them Up at Night
For the very first episode of Disaster Proof, the conversation goes to a garage in Palo Alto to sit down with Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston, the founders…
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Bill Ackman on Investment Strategy, What the Market Is Missing, and How AI Breaks Businesses
Bill Ackman, founder and CEO of Pershing Square, joined the All-In Podcast for a conversation about how his investment approach has shifted toward permanent, long-term ownership, why he…
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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on AI, Autonomous Vehicles, Robotaxis, Drones, and the Future of Transportation
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi sat down with Patrick O’Shaughnessy on the Invest Like the Best podcast for a long, candid conversation about the forces remaking transportation. There is…
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The AI Industrial Revolution: Naval, Guillermo Rauch, Blake Scholl, and Max Hodak on Software Factories, Vibe Coding Hardware, AI Regulation, Healthcare Economics, and What Humans Can Uniquely Do
This is the full episode of Naval Ravikant’s conversation with three frontier founders: Guillermo Rauch of Vercel, Blake Scholl of Boom Supersonic, and Max Hodak of Science. The…
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Tim Ferriss, Chris Williamson, and George Mack Go Down the Rabbit Hole: Japanese Immersion, Memory and Forgetting, Brain Stimulation, AI Interfaces, and the Search for Meaning
This is the third installment of the freewheeling “Rabbit Hole” roundtable from Chris Williamson’s Modern Wisdom, and the cast is stacked: Tim Ferriss, writer George Mack, and the…
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Benedict Evans on Why AI Is Stuck in 1997: The Task vs the Job, Commodity Models, and Why the Jobs Apocalypse Is Overhyped
Benedict Evans, the former Andreessen Horowitz partner and independent analyst behind the annual “AI Eating the World” presentation, sat down with Lenny’s Podcast for what the host calls…
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Vibe Coding Hardware: Naval, Guillermo Rauch, Blake Scholl, and Max Hodak on AI-Designed Jet Engines, Vertical Integration, China’s Open-Source Bet, and Why Humans Become Verifiers
This is part two of Naval Ravikant’s conversation with frontier founders Guillermo Rauch of Vercel, Blake Scholl of Boom Supersonic, and Max Hodak of Science. Where the first…
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Anthropic Raises $65 Billion Series H at $965 Billion Valuation to Fund AI Safety Research and Massive Compute Expansion
Anthropic has closed one of the largest private financing rounds in the history of technology, raising $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation.…
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Claude Opus 4.8 Released: Anthropic Bets on Honesty, Dynamic Workflows, Effort Control, and Cheaper Fast Mode
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8, the newest member of its flagship Opus class, available today across every surface and priced exactly like the model it replaces. The…
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Dan Loeb on Building Third Point’s $25 Billion Investment Empire: AI, Activism, Credit, and the FTX Mistake
Dan Loeb has spent three decades turning a $3 million fund into Third Point, a roughly $25 billion collection of hedge fund, credit, insurance, and venture businesses. In…
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Raoul Pal: Why the Crypto Bull Run Is Just Starting, the AI Economic Singularity, and Why You Should Never Sell Bitcoin
Macro investor and Real Vision co-founder Raoul Pal returned to the When Shift Happens podcast for episode 173 to argue that the recent crypto drawdown is a nasty…