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AI Podcasts

February 3, 2026

Why The Laws of Startup Physics Have Changed | Ben Horowitz Interview

Invest Like The Best

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: AI is collapsing the time horizon for technological deployment and market dominance, shifting the competitive advantage from pure innovation to a combination of innovation, capital, and rapid infrastructure deployment.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Invest in companies that are not just building AI, but are fundamentally rethinking existing industries with AI-first principles, recognizing that traditional software moats are eroding.
  3. The Bottom Line: The next 12-24 months will see AI's broad impact kick in, creating unprecedented opportunities for those who understand its new "laws of physics" and the critical role of policy in shaping its trajectory.
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February 4, 2026

Ozempic Won't Solve America's Obesity Problem

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The healthcare system is moving from reactive, acute care to proactive, preventative interventions, driven by the unsustainable costs of chronic disease and a growing understanding of environmental health.
  2. Build infrastructure that financially incentivizes lifestyle interventions, such as TrueMed's HSA/FSA payment rails for health-promoting products and services.
  3. The next decade will see hundreds of billions of dollars redirected towards preventative health. Companies that bridge the gap between lifestyle choices and healthcare financing will capture significant market share.
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February 3, 2026

SpaceX Engineer Explains America's Biggest Energy Mistake | Scott Nolan, CEO of General Matter

The Generalist

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: Global energy demand, driven by AI, forces a strategic re-evaluation of nuclear power. This creates a window for nations to re-shore critical energy infrastructure, moving from reliance on adversaries to domestic, cost-competitive solutions.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Investigate companies addressing foundational supply chain gaps in critical industries like energy. Look for teams with a "first principles" engineering approach and a track record of commercializing hard tech.
  3. The Bottom Line: America's energy independence and its ability to power future technological growth, like AI, hinge on rebuilding domestic nuclear fuel enrichment. This is not just an industrial opportunity; it is a national security imperative.
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February 4, 2026

The Economic Singularity Will Make Today’s Economy Unrecognizable w/ Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross

Milk Road AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: AI-driven hyperdeflation is colliding with the technical reality of autonomous AI agents creating their own crypto-backed economies, threatening a decoupling from human fiat systems.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Investigate and build infrastructure that bridges human and AI economies, focusing on fiat-to-crypto rails that can accommodate agent-driven transactions to prevent a complete split.
  3. The Bottom Line: The next 5-10 years will see an unprecedented economic transformation. Understanding AI's deflationary power and the emerging AI agent economy is critical for navigating a world where traditional economic models may no longer apply.
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February 3, 2026

OpenClaw Makes AI Agents and CPUs Get Real

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The time of practical AI agents is here, moving compute demand beyond pure GPU inference to a significant reliance on CPUs for coordination, data handling, and security.
  2. Evaluate your agent deployment strategy now, prioritizing sandboxed environments (VPS, dedicated local servers) and exploring cost-optimized model routing to manage API expenses.
  3. Prepare for a future where AI agents become integral to workflows, but recognize the hidden infrastructure costs and security implications, particularly the growing importance of CPU capacity and robust access controls.
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February 4, 2026

⚡️ Context graphs: AI’s trillion-dollar opportunity — Jaya Gupta, Ashu Garg, Foundation Capital

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The shift from "how" to "why" in AI agent capabilities creates a new, multi-trillion-dollar market for companies that can capture institutional decision logic.
  2. Invest in or build agentic systems that are in the "right path" of business processes, actively capturing decision traces from unstructured data.
  3. Hundreds of context graphs will be in production at scale within a year, defining a new "context graph stack." The winning companies will be those that master this flywheel, extracting value to accelerate automation and build deep, defensible moats.
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February 2, 2026

We Entered an Era Where No One Knows What Comes Next

Turing Post

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The shift from linear, bottleneck-driven technological progress to a multi-layered, interconnected advancement model in AI has rendered traditional forecasting obsolete, forcing a re-evaluation of what "singularity" truly represents.
  2. Prioritize adaptability: Invest in modular, composable AI infrastructure and tools that thrive in multi-layered, unpredictable environments, rather than betting on single-bottleneck solutions.
  3. The inability to narrate AI's future means traditional roadmaps are obsolete; success hinges on navigating simultaneous, interconnected advancements and embracing the emergent.
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February 3, 2026

Why The Laws of Startup Physics Have Changed | Ben Horowitz Interview

Invest Like The Best

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The era of infrastructure-heavy tech deployment is over; AI's internet-native nature means immediate, widespread application. This shifts the competitive advantage from capital-intensive builds to rapid iteration and data leverage.
  2. Invest in companies that are not just using AI, but are fundamentally rethinking their business models around AI's ability to collapse traditional cost structures and accelerate product development.
  3. AI is a force multiplier for both individual opportunity and national power. Understanding its immediate deployability and the new rules of company building is crucial for investors and builders aiming to lead in the next wave of innovation over the next 12-24 months.
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February 2, 2026

Ben Horowitz and David Solomon: The Sweetest Macro Spot in 40 Years

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus, coupled with a deregulatory environment, creates a powerful tailwind for financial assets and tech, driving a capital investment super cycle.
  2. Investors should prioritize companies with proprietary data and GPU access, as these are the new moats in an AI-driven world where traditional software leads are eroding.
  3. The convergence of a stimulative macro environment and AI's disruptive force means capital will flow to those who can scale, innovate, and navigate complex policy landscapes, making strategic positioning now critical for future relevance.
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Crypto Podcasts

December 23, 2025

The End of Forever Games Is Closer Than You Think

The DCo Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: Content Abundance vs. Attention Scarcity. As AI makes the "what" of gaming cheap, the "where" (distribution) and "who" (high-LTV users) become the only defensible assets.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Skin the Game. Use AI to rapidly iterate on visual assets for existing mechanics to capture trending subcultures within crypto communities.
  3. The Bottom Line: The future of gaming isn't about building a 10-year world; it's about building high-fidelity, ephemeral experiences that drive value to on-chain ecosystems.
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December 23, 2025

Ben Cowen on Where Crypto is Going in 2026

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: Macro gravity is currently winning as high interest rates suppress risk-on assets while AI captures the remaining speculative energy.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Accumulate Ethereum only when it enters the regression band and Bitcoin when it touches the 200-week moving average.
  3. The Bottom Line: The next major opportunity likely arrives in the summer of 2026 when monetary policy finally turns accommodative and the labor market stabilizes.
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December 23, 2025

How Kamino Became Solana's Largest Lending Protocol | Marius Ciubotariu

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from utilization-based pools to intent-based matching engines is the next evolution of DeFi. This movement mirrors the move from AMMs to order books in spot trading.
  2. Monitor the rollout of Kamino’s fixed-rate products to lock in borrowing costs for geared positions. This move protects against the volatility of variable rate markets during high-activity periods.
  3. Kamino is positioning itself as the back-end for the next generation of fintech. If they successfully bridge off-chain collateral, the protocol moves from a crypto-native tool to a global financial utility.
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December 23, 2025

Why Privacy Is Finally Making A Comeback (...And What Comes Next)

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: The Truth Layer. As AI erodes the reliability of information, the market will value proof of origin over privacy of data.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Audit the Stack. Integrate ZK-based verifiability into your data pipelines now to future-proof against AI-generated exploits.
  3. The Bottom Line: The next decade belongs to systems that provide cryptographic certainty in an uncertain world.
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December 23, 2025

Gold Hits $4,400 as Bitcoin Lags, TGEs Fail & Coinbase Expands: Bits + Bips

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: Liquidity is returning as the Treasury General Account drains, but capital is becoming more selective. The "rising tide" no longer lifts all boats; it only lifts those with clear value capture.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Prioritize protocols with intrinsic cash flow or those partnering with legacy giants like FIS. Move away from "lottery ticket" tokens that lack a clear revenue mechanism.
  3. The Bottom Line: 2026 will be the year of the "Quality Filter." Investors who survive the current wash-out will find value in the consolidation of the super apps and the institutionalization of on-chain credit.
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December 23, 2025

Why Isn't Bitcoin Going Up? | Jeff Park

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The retailification of finance is merging public and private markets, making conviction more valuable than spreadsheets.
  2. Monitor high-conviction government rumors or national strategic transitions to front-run institutional capital that is too slow to move on ideology.
  3. Success in the next year depends on viewing volatility and privacy as core features rather than bugs in the system.
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