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Four Insights With Matthew Parker — 56 episodes

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Anthropic Is Suing the Pentagon. OpenAI and Google Are Backing Them.

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Databricks Overtook Snowflake. Here's Why They Should IPO Before SpaceX.

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AI Is Replacing AND Augmenting Workers. Here's the Data.

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$110 Billion for OpenAI, 4,000 Jobs Gone at Block, and the $1.7 Billion Medicaid Fraud That Business Identity Could Have Caught

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Nvidia's $68 Billion Quarter, the $109 Million AI Lobbying War, and the Fintech Infrastructure Company You've Never Heard Of

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Stripe Could Buy PayPal for Less Than a Quarter of Its Own Valuation

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The Through Line: Banking, AI Guardrails, and the Re-Plumbing of Payments

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Earnings Week, Agentic Commerce, and the 40,000-Acre Problem

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AI's Search Disruption, OpenAI's $150B Valuation, and Visa's Antitrust Battle

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8 Essential Strategies for Founders & The Media War Between Tech Titans

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Venture Capital is Back

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The Labor Day to Christmas Fundraising Sprint: Raise Millions in 90 Days

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Flounder Mode: A Critical Look at Paul Graham's Viral Essay

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SAFEs Dominate Pre-Seed, Twitter X's Secret Investors, and Job Market Shifts

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The Bolt Story: Lessons in Startup Resilience and Founder Tactics

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Surviving the Startup Shutdown Wave: 71 Failures, 3 Funding Lifelines, and My 10% Rule

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The Unspoken Truths: Tech Giants, Work Culture, and the Power of Words

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The Coaching Revolution and AI's Data Dilemma

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Honoring A Tech Titan, Basketball's Business Evolution, and The Cloud 100 Surges by 25%

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The $48B Fast Fashion King & YouTube's Creator Exodus

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The Creator Economy's Olympic Gold Rush, Real Estate, and More

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The End Of The Day Show: AI's New Kingmaker & YC's Bold Expansion Move

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The End Of The Day Show: OpenAI and The AI Downfall.

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The End of the Day Show: Google Snaps Up Character AI: A Win for Big Tech?

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The End of The Day Show: Fundraising Mastery: Lessons from a $7.5M Seed Round

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The End of The Day Show: Silicon Valley's Latest: Viral AI Launches and Tech Giant Earnings

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The End of The Day Show: Humane AI firesale, Big Tech Tumbles, Small Caps Surge, and the Millionaire Next Door

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The End of the Day Show: Earnings Preview, AI in Focus, Carvana Turnaround, Enterprise Sales, and Powder Raises $5M

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The End of the Day Show: Tech Beefs, Streaming Deals, and Another Security Unicorn

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The End of the Day Show: Billionaires, Political Donations, and Tech Drama

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The End of the Day Show: Quitting, AI Deals, and Legal Tech Disruption

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Episode 024: AI Licensing, Elon, and IPOs: Unraveling Silicon Valley's Biggest Moves

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Episode 023: Is OpenAI a Startup Killer? Shaun Maguire, AI Showdowns, and Top VC Podcasts

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Episode 022: The Private Market Boom, Ramp's AI Spending Report, and Mermaid Chart's Oversubscribed $7.5M Seed Round

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Episode 021: How to Build a Billion Dollar Analytics Company (Twice): Lessons from Repeat Founder Colin Zima

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Episode 020: Demo Perfection and the Pitfalls of Falling Out of Love With Your Company

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Episode 019: Building an AI Startup from Humble Beginnings: A Founder's Immigration Journey

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Bonus Pod: 48 Hour Fast: Insights and Challenges with Vidal Nelson

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Episode 018: Running for My Life (My SF Half Marathon Results), Bolt Goes Bust, Fundraising Framework For Founders

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Episode 017: Building a VC-Backed Telehealth Company with Dan Miller, CEO of Spora Health

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Episode 016: Not at Vegas Summer League: Urgency in July, Inspiration from Your Kids, and More

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Episode 015: Time Management and Building Relationships with Yoni Rubin (MRGN)

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Episode 014: Mistral AI's $130M seed round, importance of reference customers, and interview with PostHog founder James Hawkins.

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Episode 013: Tech Week Recaps (SF & LA)

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Episode 012: MoonPay Founders Sell Shares, Plaid's Data Collection, and New Business from Laundry with Scott Patterson.

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Episode 011: Finovate Insights, Plastic Bankruptcy, and Staying Fit as a Parent plus Clockwise Founder/CEO Matt Martin

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Episode 010: The Newchip Accelerator bankruptcy and Tanvi Surti of Luca.AI discussing E-commerce, AI, and YCombinator.

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Episode 009: Faking it in Silicon Valley, who paid DataDog $65M in one year, and talking wellness with friend and fitness influencer Vidal Nelson

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Episode 008: The Journey to Radical Optimism: Insights on Family, Personal Branding, and Future Technology with Kevin Kelly

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Episode 007: CEO Interview with Ben Lilienthal (Screen Meet) on Building Four Successful Enterprise Startups, Time Billionaire Parenting, Air Movie Recap, and Silicon Valley's Diversity Problem

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Episode 006: Preparing for a half-marathon at 35, Life After SVB, & Cody Barbo on raising over $40 million, moving to Texas and the perils of founder compensation

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Episode 005: Summarizing Dylan Field's $20B exit, Victory Lap's 5th anniversary, and Scott Britton's insights from an Ayahuasca retreat on reaching 15K Substack subscribers.

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Episode 004: The Church of Sam Altman & Three things founders can learn from Adam Neumann

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Episode 003: 3 Books I Read & My Fitness Check-in for January; The Stretch Four Business Results & Selim Benayat — Founder and CEO at Bento.me the first founder to participate Sequoia's Arc Program

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Episode 002: Breaking down Sequoia's New Arc Program, Childcare deep dive with tips for founders, Laduram Vishnoi talks raising $50 million in venture, and doing Y Combinator as a 2X founder

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Episode 001: The New Chip accelerator explained, sober January, Equinox, & protecting your inbox with Gated.com Founder and CEO Andy Mowat