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Biological Time Travel: How Cryopreservation Could Transform Medicine | Laura Deming (CEO & co-founder of Until)
Listen now | Laura Deming unpacks the science of reversible cryopreservation, the beauty of "falling in love" with scientific problems, and how pausing…
5 hrs ago
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Mario Gabriele
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"This feels like 1996": Why a16z's Martin Casado believes the AI boom still has years to run (General Partner)
Listen now | a16z's infrastructure leader unpacks why today's AI boom is fundamentally different from 2021's tech bubble, how he identifies market…
Oct 7
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Mario Gabriele
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1:24:44
Palantir’s Weirdest Book Recommendation
Lessons from Impro: Status, spontaneity, and the art of unlearning.
Oct 2
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Mario Gabriele
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September 2025
How to be Agentic in the Age of AI | Cate Hall (CEO of Astera)
Astera’s CEO and ex-No. 1 female poker player on the "soft takeover" of AI and how humans can preserve meaning and agency in an increasingly automated…
Sep 30
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Mario Gabriele
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1:11:27
Maintaining Human Intelligence in the AI Era | David Krakauer (President of the Santa Fe Institute)
A complexity scientist's assessment of AI's threat to human cognition, what Cormac McCarthy taught him about creativity, and why we need complementary…
Sep 23
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Mario Gabriele
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1:20:36
Leading Through a Crisis with Ryan Petersen
How Flexport's CEO Reclaimed His Company and Righted The Ship.
Sep 18
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Mario Gabriele
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Building Beautiful Homes with Robots: The Future of Construction | Salar al Khafaji (CEO and Founder of Monumental)
A founder’s journey to make construction faster, more affordable, and more beautiful using autonomous bricklaying robots.
Sep 16
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Mario Gabriele
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1:20:26
The Jensen Huang Playbook
How Nvidia’s CEO built the biggest company on Earth by ignoring customers, forgoing 1:1s, and picking unfashionable markets.
Sep 11
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Mario Gabriele
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What Makes Something Alive? Assembly Theory and the Origins of Life | Sara Walker (Theoretical Physicist)
A theoretical physicist's provocative framework for understanding life across the cosmos—from methane lakes on Titan to AI systems on Earth.
Sep 9
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Mario Gabriele
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1:17:04
August 2025
Reviving Forgotten Technologies: How Airships, Supersonic Flight, and Geothermal Energy Could Transform Our World | Eli Dourado (Head of…
Listen now | From supersonic flight to massive airships: how one "regulatory hacker" is reviving forgotten technologies that could transform…
Aug 19
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Mario Gabriele
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Lessons from Raising a Softbank Megaround
Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen on maintaining financial discipline, avoiding people with "chauffeur knowledge,” and the Convoy turnaround.
Aug 14
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Mario Gabriele
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Inside General Catalyst’s $1B+ Bet on Fixing Healthcare | Hemant Taneja (CEO and Managing Partner)
Listen now | General Catalyst's transformation: How Hemant Taneja is building a new kind of "strategic conglomerate."
Aug 12
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Mario Gabriele
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1:16:28
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