All Episodes

newcomer + solana

Is Venture Broken? With Beezer Clarkson

My Conversation with Substack Co-Founders Chris Best & Hamish McKenzie Fresh Off Their $100 Million Funding Round

My Conversation with Roy Bahat As Bloomberg Beta Announces New $75M Fund

Dishing on Investors' Favorite Enterprise Startups with Wing’s Peter Wagner

Venture Capital and the Private Markets in 2025

Waymo’s Next Challenge: Humanity

Is the Tech IPO Window Open?

Shake-ups at Silicon Valley's Biggest VC Firms

Has AI Hit a Wall? A Debate from the Cerebral Valley AI Summit

Listen to Anthropic's Dario Amodei from Cerebral Valley + Videos from on Stage

Fear-Mongering & Forecasting: Assessing AI's Predictions About AI

The AI Startup Fantasy Draft

Trump & AI Policy + Overrated/Underrated on the Cerebral Valley Podcast

Silicon Valley Can't Look Away from the Election

Newcomer Turns Four

Listen: Bullish on AI, Bullish on Self-Driving, But Apprehensive About OpenAI & Tesla (with Jon McNeill)

The Ongoing Startup Downturn & More PR People Than Reporters to Answer Their Emails

Listen: OpenAI's 'Great Man,' AI Regulation & Drugs

AI + Robots, YC Preview & Why the Cool Kids Keep Picking on Tech

Why Software Is Eating The Banks | Mercury CEO Immad Akhund, Then Lead Bank CEO Jackie Reses

Lessons Learned From a Bank Run (Peter Hébert & Laurence Tosi) + SVB's Marc Cadieux

Two Titans on the Future of AI (with Reid Hoffman & Vinod Khosla)

Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi & MosaicML Founder Naveen Rao Speak at Cerebral Valley

The Artificial Intelligence Startup Draft

Chip War (with Chris Miller)

The AI Personal Stack (with Joshua Browder)

Someday That NPC Could Be More Alive Than You Are (w/ Amy Wu & Keith Kawahata)

AI Kills Us All (with Daniel H. Wilson)

The Cerebral Valley Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Becomes Reality

Life Extension Innovations, Moonshots & Snake Oil (with Celine Halioua & James Peyer)

Fighting for Pro-Crypto Legislation in Sam Bankman-Fried's Shadow (with Chris Lehane)

He Helps Rich Tech Founders Part With Their Money (with Rey Flemings)

Hydrogen Space Balloon (with Jane Poynter & Ali Rohde)

Spaceman Explains to Earthman How Things Work (with Delian Asparouhov)

Scaling People (with Claire Hughes Johnson)

Staying Global (with Bejul Somaia)

Psychedelics, Micro Nuclear Reactors & Venture Turbulence (with Rebecca Kaden)

Talking Threads With the Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen

Musk & Zuck Go Head to Head, Vying to Rule Global Online Discussion (with Katie Notopoulos & Tom Dotan)

Techstars CEO Maëlle Gavet Talks Pre-Seed Deals, YC, SoftBank & `Zombie Mode' Funds

Not Exactly AR And Not Exactly VR (with Lauren Goode & Anand Agarawala)

Rug Salesman Turned Valley Insider Raises a $432 Million Seed Fund (with Pejman Nozad)

The Gossip Economy (with Kyle Harrison)

The State of Consumer Investing With Benchmark's Sarah Tavel

Substack's Index Fund of Culture (with Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie)

Traffic Jam (with Ben Smith)

The World After Capital (with Albert Wenger)

Amazon Bedrock & BabyAGI (with Jon Turow)

Open-Source AI: Replit's Amjad Masad & Hugging Face's Clem Delangue

Cerebral Valley Double Feature: Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque & General Catalyst's Deep Nishar

Venture Capital Gravitational Physics (with Ravi Mhatre)

Peering Over the Edge of Death (with Jon McNeill)

A Wall Street Veteran & Investor Explains Silicon Valley Bank's Unraveling (with Laurence Tosi)

This Kicked Off With a Dinner With Elon Musk Years Ago (with Reid Hoffman)

Newcomer, the Podcast

A New Dimension (w/Nan Li, Adam Goulburn, and Zavain Dar)

Another Shoe to Drop (w/Jeremy Levine)

'I Fell in Love With an Algorithm' (w/Cristóbal Valenzuela & Alexis Gay)

Business Tea, the Creator Economy Downturn, Twitter Drama & TikTok's Chinese Influence (w/Taylor Lorenz)

All Eyes Are on Apple's Augmented Reality Device As the Hunt for a Revolutionary Consumer Startup Continues (w/Max Child & James Wilsterman)

Does That Mean the Cat's Dead?

'This Monolithic Other That Is Acting in Some Dark Confederacy Against What Is True and Good in the World' (w/Antonio García Martínez)

The Musk Bubble in Tech Is Going to Pop (w/Alex Stamos)

Hollywood As Told By the Former NBC Entertainment Chairman (w/Paul Telegdy)

Going All-In on the Tech/Media War (w/Jason Calacanis)

Taylor Swift Tickets, FTX & Twitter

SBF in Shambles (w/Teddy Schleifer)

The End of Quiet Quitting (w/Aki Ito)

Blue Checks & Semi-Fascism (w/Tim Miller)

Roko's Basilisk (w/Nathan Benaich)

VC Twitter Ghostwriters (w/Logan Bartlett)

Cult of the Dead Cat (w/Joseph Menn)

I’d Jump on a Grande for You (w/Erin Griffith)

Take a Scooter to Your Local Court House

Dream of Semafornication (w/Reed Albergotti)

What Would Steve Do? (w/Kara Swisher)

Like, Comment, Subscribe (w/Mark Bergen)

Extremely Online (w/ Taylor Lorenz)

Dogfood Your Ideals (w/Ellen Huet)

Unreal BeReals

Do You Trust Amazon With Your Medical Records?

Freeloaders, Fat cats & Ne'er-do-wells (w/Alex Heath)

Travis Kalanick's Right-Hand Man Tells the Story of the Coup that Brought Them Down (w/Emil Michael)

This Episode Wasn't Sponsored By Techmeme

SBF Plays Crypto Savior (w/Teddy Schleifer & Jeff John Roberts)

A Long Drag on a Mango Juul Pod (w/ Lauren Etter)

Nothing More Than a Magic Trick (w/Gary Marcus)

Coming to You From a Soon To Be Chesa-Free San Francisco (w/Jonathan Weber)

Sheryl Sandberg Leans Out (w/Deepa Seetharaman)

State of Substack (w/Casey Newton)

How Tech is Defending the Right to an Abortion (w/Kiki Freedman)

The Rug Pull Really Tied the Room Together

We Saw This Movie. Everybody Died at the End (w/Rick Heitzmann)

Adderall on Demand (w/Rolfe Winkler)

Streaming in Crisis (w/Lucas Shaw)

Rooting for Elon

Imploding Fast (w/Kate Clark)

The Fictionalized Viral Uber Driver

Going Evergreen (w/Hunter Walk)