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Explore "tech billionaires" with insightful episodes like "TikTok Lawsuit, Reddit's Debut Earnings, and the 4-Day Work Week", "New Dork City", "The Secretive Billionaires Building a Tech Utopia + Casey’s External Brain + HatGPT", "Are Silicon Valley Elite Building a Utopia? & China's Deal-Making Card Game" and "Myles Stubblefield" from podcasts like ""Pivot", "Today, Explained", "Hard Fork", "Morning Brew Daily" and "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!"" and more!
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New Dork City
The Secretive Billionaires Building a Tech Utopia + Casey’s External Brain + HatGPT
A group of tech titans is gobbling up land north of San Francisco with aspirations to alleviate the Bay Area’s housing crisis, promote innovation, and experiment with new forms of governance. It’s not the first time ultra-wealthy people have tried to build the place of their dreams. Will this time be any different?
Then, note-taking apps claim to make us smarter. Usually, they don’t. Casey Newton, a productivity cult member, on how A.I. could change that.
Plus, Kevin and Casey play HatGPT.
Additional Information:
- Tech billionaires want to build a new city. A political fight is coming.
- Casey takes a look at note-taking platforms and why they usually don’t live up to their promise.
- An Air Force program is embracing A.I. in aerial combat.
- The S.E.C. took action against a NFT project
- YouTube will waive content violation warnings if the creators in violation attend a class.
- Google Meet’s new A.I. program will take notes for users in real time.
- A smart contact lens can be charged with human tears.
Are Silicon Valley Elite Building a Utopia? & China's Deal-Making Card Game
Myles Stubblefield
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Peter Thiel departs FB board, John Foley steps down at Peloton, Should Amazon spin off AWS? + Startup of the Day: Island | E1381
Molly and Jason cover Peter Thiel stepping down from FB’s board and look back at the board's evolution over time (2:07). Next, we cover Joe Lonsdale’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, where he argues AWS should be split off from Amazon (27:41). We debate if valuations would increase if separated. Then, Peloton Founder & CEO John Foley is stepping down as the firm lays off 2800 people (40:30). We debate if they angling for an acquisition or making a turnaround attempt. To wrap, we discuss our startup of the day, Island, which is a browser for enterprise with a big valuation for a pre-product company (50:11).
00:00 Jason and Molly tee up today’s topics
02:07 Peter Thiel is stepping down from Meta’s board after almost 17 years of service
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13:12 Thiel maximizing political influence, Marc Andreessen’s shadow advice to Zuckerberg, other $FB board squabbles
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25:47 Reed Hastings testy email to Peter Thiel in 2016 (while they were both $FB board members)
27:41 Joe Lonsdale’s case for splitting AWS away from Amazon’s retail business
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40:30 Peloton CEO John Foley steps down as the company lays off ~2800 employees (20% of its corporate workforce)
50:11 Startup of the Day: Island.io — enterprise browsers in the cloud: valuation vs. traction, founder, market, and more
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Coinbase chases NFT billions + Peter Thiel “The Contrarian” with author Max Chafkin | E1305
Ricardo Aguilar | PBD Podcast | EP 77
In episode 77 of the PBD Podcast Patrick Bet-David, Adam Sosnick, Gerard Michaels, and Ricardo Aguilar talk about Jeff Bezos, life expectancy, Rand Paul vs. Fauci and much more!
Watch the full podcast: https://youtu.be/qAv3xHJbfNw
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pbdpodcast/supportBezos goes to space, Robinhood IPO, USDC attestation + Flock Safety’s Garrett Langley | E1249
Keith Rabois' OpenStore (47:11). Then for our Next Unicorns series, Jason interviews Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langely, about reducing crime in American cities and neighborhoods (50:18).