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(00:00) - Astra Reactions

(00:00) - Jobs Report

(00:00) - The Dyson Debate

(00:00) - Cybercab Roll Out

(00:00) - Hunter Somerville discusses his role as co-head of venture and growth equity at StepStone Group, where he invests across funds, direct deals, and secondary transactions. He examines the difficult fundraising environment for emerging managers, inflated valuations and SPV fees, cap-table management, liquidity challenges, and opportunities in AI, deep tech, hard tech, energy, defense, and biotech.

(00:01) - Bar Winkler discusses Wonderful, the applied AI company he co-founded and leads as CEO, which operates across 33 markets and recently raised a $550 million Series C. He explains how its AI operating system helps large enterprises deploy agents and applications across customer support, back-office processes, coding, and legacy system replacement, with the long-term ambition of becoming foundational infrastructure comparable to Microsoft.

(00:01) - Carina Hong discusses her work as founder and CEO of Axiom Math, where she develops AI tools for mathematical discovery and formal verification. She highlights Axiom’s record-setting progress on major problems, its competition with leading AI labs, and the potential for verification technology to improve mathematics, software, and scientific research.

(00:02) - Bridgit Mendler, CEO and co-founder of space communications startup Northwood Space, discusses the company’s international ground-station network, compact antenna systems, and growing production capacity. She explains how Northwood aims to provide satellites with high-throughput, reliable connectivity while helping operators maximize valuable data amid rising demand and potential launch constraints.

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This is our full interview with Pablo Torre.
We discuss how he uncovered the alleged scheme to funnel $48 million to Kawhi Leonard, why Steve Ballmer risked circumventing the NBA salary cap, how money was routed through companies tied to the Clippers, why the NBA handed Ballmer a historic punishment, whether he could be forced to sell the team, what happens if he goes to war with the NBA, and more.
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(00:19) - Model Mayhem

(13:12) - Why NVIDIA Bought Hugging Face

(23:55) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions

(31:25) - Pablo Torre discusses his investigation into an alleged salary-cap circumvention scheme involving Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and Kawhi Leonard. The investigative journalist and host of Pablo Torre Finds Out explains the evidence, the NBA’s punishment, and why Ballmer’s threatened legal battle could further damage the team.

(55:06) - Mohit Aron is the founder of SaiFin and previously founded enterprise technology companies Cohesity and Nutanix. Aron discusses SaiFin’s mission to use AI to unify fragmented go-to-market context, support real-time decision-making, and serve companies of all sizes while keeping humans involved to ensure accuracy.

(01:01:09) - Akshay Narisetti, founder of Pocket, discusses building an AI-powered recording device that has sold 300,000 units by making professional note-taking more convenient and reliable than phone apps. He explains Pocket’s hardware, subscription model, privacy safeguards, specialized transcription technology, and plans for agents that turn conversations into reports, presentations, and other work products.

(01:18:12) - Hari Ravichandran, founder and CEO of consumer security company Aura, discusses the growing threat of AI-enabled scams, identity theft, and data breaches affecting families and businesses. He explains Aura’s personalized, family-centered approach to digital protection, its focus on streamlined onboarding, and its growth to approximately $340 million in annual recurring revenue.

(01:26:39) - GPT-6 Astra

(01:31:23) - Matt Caldwell, CEO of the Minnesota Timberwolves, discusses how the team is using Jump’s direct-to-consumer ticketing platform to simplify purchases, own fan data, and deepen engagement. He also highlights AI-driven ticket pricing and broader distribution across marketplaces to increase attendance and revenue. Jordy Leiser is the co-founder and CEO of Jump, a sports technology company building an all-in-one platform for teams to manage ticketing, commerce, and the fan experience. He previously co-founded StellaService/Stella Connect, which was acquired by Medallia, and began his career in investment banking at JPMorgan. Jump now works with teams across the NBA, WNBA, MLS, and NWSL.

(01:45:50) - Jeff Thornburg, a space-industry veteran and former SpaceX executive, discusses founding Portal Space Systems to build highly maneuverable spacecraft for defense and civil exploration. He highlights the company’s orbital testing progress, growing team, evolving government-industry partnerships, and the importance of tenacity and calm leadership in solving difficult engineering challenges.

(01:54:15) - Charlie O, head of AI model training, discusses the future of personalized open-source models, continual learning, and Base Labs’ mission to make AI more useful through open research. He argues that task-specific models can outperform general frontier models economically and emphasizes aggregating real-world data, developing open RL environments, and exploring new ways for models to continuously acquire knowledge and values.

(02:08:54) - Sridhar Ramaswamy discusses Snowflake’s strong growth, widespread adoption of its AI products, and strategy for competing in the rapidly evolving enterprise AI market. The Snowflake CEO highlights AI-driven productivity, small-team innovation, efficient token spending, internal communication, customer value, and acquisitions that strengthen the company’s data and AI platform.

(02:22:41) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions

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Described by The New York Times as “Silicon Valley’s newest obsession,” the show has recently featured Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Mark Cuban, and Satya Nadella.

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