All Episodes
"The Riff" with Byrne Hobart and Erik Torenberg — 71 episodes
E71: Risk Taking, Contrarianism, and Growth [Byrne on Interintellect]
E70: OpenAI’s Open Source Strategy, Volatility & Tariffs, and Automation’s Consequences w/ Byrne Hobart
E69: Good vs Bad Bubbles, Stagnation, and Bitcoin [Byrne on Bankless]
E68: Chinese Free Trade, AI Managers, and Why AI Art is Art
E67: Hidden X-Risk, Network Effects of Elon’s Empire, and American Hegemony
E66: The Politics of Alex Karp and Palantir, DOGE Breakdown, and AI vs Blogging
E65: Bill Gates’s Persona, Against Copying Berkshire Hathaway, and Making the Economy More Like Chipotle
E64: US vs China’s Strategies, Uber’s Growth Model, AI Supply Chains
E63: OpenAI Deep Research, Elon’s Potential Hostile Takeover, and AI Agent Companies
E62: Trump’s Tariffs, Open Source AI Models, and The Future of VR
E61: Markets React to DeepSeek, Threads vs X, and Stargate Announcement
E60: Trump Coin, US Industrial Policy, and TikTok Ban
E59: Zuck’s PR, The Loneliness Economy, and OpenAI Corporate Structure
E58: How Jensen Huang Outpaces Tech Giants w/ Tae Kim, author of THE NVIDIA WAY
E57: Pod Shops; Contrarian Vibe Checks; Scaling Laws Analysis
E56: AI Agents are Coming; China’s Internet; Google Wants to Win
E55: Futarchy, Elon, and Gut Decisions in Business
E54: How Bubbles Create The Future
E53: Election Analysis, Heresy, and Real Estate
E52: How Tech Journalism Works w/ Patrick McKenzie
E51: Venture Scale, Y Combinator, and Financial Bubbles
E50: Freemium Apps, Restaurants, and Search with Patrick McKenzie
E49: AI Art, Young Founders, and Disrupting Higher Education
E48: Facebook vs MySpace, Why Peter Thiel is Wrong About Competition, and OpenAI Corporate Structure
E47: Cult Stocks, Tech Media, and Technological Revolutions
E46: Degrowth, Private Equity, and the EU Tech Industry
E45: Efficient Market Hypothesis, Missing Billionaires, and Digital Currencies
E44: Founder Mode, Uber’s Self-Driving Strategy, and Big Tech Skepticism
E43: The Silicon Valley Canon, Smart Contracts, and the Yen Carry Trade
E42: Navigating Tech Antitrust and the Future of AI
E41: Meta’s Open Source Strategy, Amazon’s Culture Drift, and What’s Going on With Character.AI
E40: The Age of the AI Organization
E39: Mental Models and Financial Infrastructure with Patrick McKenzie
E38: Resurgence of Prediction Markets, AI Adoption and Complex Financial Systems
E37: 2024 Election Updates, Partisanship on Wikipedia, and Amazon’s Media Business
E36: Meritocracy, Modeling Globalization, and The Burden of Knowledge
E35: How to Be President, the Future of AI Celebrities, and Training Larger AI Models
E34: Chamath & Tinder, Threads API, and the Difficulties of Scaling AI Labs
E33: AI Therapy, 4chan, and Why Conferences Are Like Cities
E32: Populism, Elites, and Preparing for AGI
E31: Google API Documentation Leak, Apple's Plans for Siri, and Analyzing Texas Instruments
E30: xAI Fundraising, Vivek's BuzzFeed Investment, and Ad-Based AI Monetization
E29: Meme Stocks, Reserve Currencies, and the Case Against Home Ownership
E28: Amazon’s Potential for an Airline, Hidden Economic Gains, and the Nature of Equities
E27: Costco's Business Model, Martingale Strategies, and Usage-Based Lock-in for AI
E26: Stripe's Unbundling Strategy, What AI Means for Education, and 24-Hour Markets
E25: Lambda School Drama, Meta's Path to AI, and Why Hardware Constraints Protect Your Privacy
E24: Why Acquisitions Fail, How to Write a Great Memo, and The Fate of ChatGPT Wrappers
E23: Hard Tech Pivots, Potato Investing, and When to Enforce the Law
E22: Corporate Espionage, Algorithmic Collusion, and Transitioning through AI
E21: Austin Real Estate, Duolingo’s Bull Case, and Identifying Spurious Correlations
E20: Content Moderation, AI in Advertising, and the Future of Social Security
E19: Hedging Against Life, Outage Economics, and Open Source vs Proprietary AI
E18: Tiger Global, Selling Alpha, and Dating Apps
E17: How Quants See the World
E16: The Fertility Crisis
E15: Understanding Real Estate with Brad Hargreaves
E14: How to Build a Media Empire
E13: Corporate Mortality, Momentum Investing, and Learning From Extreme Events
E12: How Silicon Valley Became Financially Literate
E11: What Byrne Hobart Thinks about Nearly Everything (Part Two)
E10: Prediction markets are a trillion dollar opportunity. Why aren’t they working yet?
E9: What Byrne Hobart Thinks About Nearly Everything
E8: Antitrust, the Future of Competition, and Higher Education
E7: OpenAI updates, macro predictions, and why McDonald’s is a software company
E6: How Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett beat the market
E5: Hedge Funds, VC, and Finding Alpha
E4: A Closer Look at Demographics, Dating, and Globalization
E3: Sam Altman, the Microsoft Bull Case, OpenAI and AI Live Players
E2: OpenAI, Investing Bets, and Social Media Paradigms
E1: Psychoanalyzing SBF, Crypto Markets, and Byrne's Biggest Influences