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AI Podcasts

November 4, 2025

ElevenLabs CEO: Why Voice is the Next AI Interface

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Structure Dictates Speed:** A flat hierarchy with small, autonomous teams is the key to maintaining startup velocity at scale. Extreme ownership is the goal; traditional corporate structures are the enemy.
  2. **Align Incentives, Explicitly:** As a company matures, passion gives way to process. In sales, commissions become a lagging indicator of strategy. Ensure incentive structures explicitly reward strategic decisions, not just closing any deal.
  3. **Balance Ambition with Delivery:** Don't let the quest for a perfect, research-led solution kill your product momentum. Implement clear rules to decide when to ship a practical fix now and when to wait for the scientific breakthrough.
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November 3, 2025

When AI Agents Start Building the Protocol | Recall Labs

The DCo Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI Skill Markets are the New Talent Pools: Protocols can now create bespoke competitions to source top-tier AI agents for specialized tasks, bypassing traditional R&D cycles and finding the best "minds" for the job.
  2. The Protocol Will Build Itself: Recall's endgame is a self-improving system where AI agents compete to write and enhance the code of the very protocol they operate on, blurring the line between user and creator.
  3. Performance Becomes the Contract: The future of AI work is a meritocracy where competitive arenas are directly tied to real capital and business lines, automatically allocating work to the most capable agents.
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November 3, 2025

Sacks, Andreessen & Horowitz: How America Wins the AI Race Against China

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Unleash Innovation to Win. America's path to AI supremacy is through deregulation, abundant energy, and aggressive global exports. Over-regulating our own companies simply hands markets and momentum to China.
  2. Fight for an Open AI Ecosystem. The most pressing AI threat is not existential risk but the creation of a centralized, Orwellian control system. This is enabled by regulatory capture and "woke AI" mandates disguised as safety.
  3. Crypto Needs Clarity, Not Chaos. While AI requires a light touch, the crypto industry needs the opposite: clear, stable, and legislated rules. Ending the "regulation by enforcement" era is critical to bringing innovation back onshore and establishing the U.S. as the world's crypto capital.
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November 3, 2025

Why Humans Are Still Powering AI [Sponsored]

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Human data is the critical asset. The most valuable—and least glamorous—layer of the AI stack is human intelligence. Its scale, importance, and economic value will only grow.
  2. The future is human-in-the-loop. The next phase of AI development will be defined by agent-human interaction, where automated systems can call upon verified human experts on demand for review and guidance.
  3. Expertise will be licensed. The economic model is shifting toward a future where human expertise can be licensed, allowing individuals to earn passive income for contributing their knowledge to improve AI, much like Spotify pays artists for their music.
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October 31, 2025

All things AI w @altcap @sama & @satyanadella. A Halloween Special. 🎃🔥BG2 w/ Brad Gerstner

Bg2 Pod

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Power is the New Bottleneck: The critical constraint in the AI race is no longer chips, but energy and the physical infrastructure to deploy them at scale.
  2. Microsoft's Multi-Layered Bet: Microsoft's value from the OpenAI partnership extends far beyond its equity, encompassing exclusive Azure services, massive IP advantages, and a halo effect that pulls enterprise workloads from competitors.
  3. The Golden Age of Margin Expansion: AI will enable a new productivity curve where companies grow revenue far faster than headcount, fundamentally reshaping workflows and corporate economics.
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October 31, 2025

Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz on the State of AI

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI's creative power is judged against an impossible standard. Focus on its ability to remix and generate at a scale that surpasses 99.9% of human output, which is where the true value lies.
  2. The future of AI is not just software but hardware. The next battleground is robotics, where China's industrial ecosystem provides a massive advantage that could eclipse the US software lead.
  3. The ultimate AI products haven't been invented yet. The biggest opportunities lie not in perfecting today's chatbots but in creating the entirely new user experiences that will define the next decade.
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October 29, 2025

(Real World) Data is the New Oil with 375ai | Harry Dewhirst

Proof of Coverage Media

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Surgical Precision Over Brute Force: 375ai’s model proves that DePIN isn’t just about network size. Strategic placement of high-power hardware can deliver more valuable data with a fraction of the infrastructure.
  2. Go Where the Money Is: Instead of building a demand side from scratch, 375ai is plugging directly into existing data marketplaces, giving them instant access to enterprise giants and a clear path to revenue.
  3. Revenue Directly Fuels the Token: The 80% buy-and-burn mechanism is a powerful flywheel. As data sales grow, so does the direct value accrual to EAT token holders, creating one of the most direct links between utility and tokenomics in the space.
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October 30, 2025

What Is Recall Network? The CEO Explains

The DCo Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Verification Is the New Moat.** In a world flooded with AI agents, the ability to prove performance is the most critical bottleneck. Recall’s protocol creates a "proof-of-skill" standard.
  2. **From Hype to Hire.** The platform shifts the paradigm from speculative AI hype to a functional marketplace where businesses can effectively "hire" agents with a proven track record for specific, economically valuable tasks.
  3. **Performance Is the Asset.** By scoring agents based on consistent, real-world results, Recall provides a clear signal for organizations looking to deploy AI and for investors seeking to back top performers.
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October 31, 2025

The Fed's Hawkish Cut & The Financial Hunger Games | Weekly Roundup

Forward Guidance

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **The Fed Is Trapped:** Powell is trying to project strength, but the underlying trend is toward more liquidity. The pivot to buying T-bills is a form of stealth QE designed to keep the system functioning.
  2. **Markets Are A Rigged Game:** Forget fundamentals. Public markets are now a positioning game defined by extreme concentration in Big Tech and speculative retail frenzies, widening the gap between Wall Street and Main Street.
  3. **The AI Boom Is A Double-Edged Sword:** While driving incredible earnings, the AI buildout is transforming Big Tech into a riskier, debt-fueled, capex-heavy industry, making the entire economy dangerously dependent on a handful of stocks.
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Crypto Podcasts

October 9, 2025

Andre Cronje: How the SEC Tried to Shut Me Down

The DCo Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Regulation by Exhaustion: The SEC's primary weapon was not legal action but a relentless process designed to drain builders' time, energy, and will to continue.
  2. The Target Is Always Moving: Regulators will continuously shift their focus—from token to revenue to the product itself—until they find a viable angle of attack.
  3. Innovation Was the Real Target: This "shotgun approach" against hundreds of projects was a de facto industry crackdown that successfully chased many legitimate builders away, achieving a policy goal without ever going to court.
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October 8, 2025

The BTC/Gold Ratio Is Screaming "Higher"

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Stop Pricing in Fiat: The BTC/Gold ratio is the clearest signal of Bitcoin’s fundamental adoption, stripping away the distortion of dollar debasement.
  2. Mean Reversion Points to $150k+: The established BTC/Gold trend channel since 2023 is screaming higher. A simple return to the channel’s midpoint targets a $150k–$160k Bitcoin price by year-end.
  3. Gold's Rally is Bitcoin's Tailwind: Gold’s new role as a de-dollarization hedge for nations and the subsequent portfolio rebalancing from gold profits into BTC create powerful dual-demand drivers for Bitcoin.
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October 8, 2025

Steady Lads Live From TOKEN2049 in Singapore! w/ Dim Selk

Steady Lads Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Profit, Don't HODL. The current market is a trader’s paradise, not an investor’s dream. The strategy is to ride the seasonal Q4 pump and exit by January, refusing to get caught in another brutal bear cycle.
  2. Fade the Old, Farm the New. Capital is mercenary, flowing from established tokens to the next hot airdrop farm or launch. The relentless hunt for volatility means older coins are treated as exit liquidity for the next shiny object.
  3. Unlocks Are the Silent Killer. Before investing, map out the token unlock schedule. Even fundamentally sound projects with strong revenue face a massive gravitational pull on their price from insider and team unlocks.
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September 17, 2025

FinTech Meets Crypto: The Future of Global Payments

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Stablecoins Are Rebranding Crypto.** The FinTech industry is adopting stablecoin technology not as a niche crypto asset, but as the foundational layer for "FinTech 3.0," poised to overhaul global payments.
  2. **The EVM Is The New COBOL.** Specialized payments chains are standardizing the EVM as the backend for modern finance, creating high-throughput, compliant on-ramps that will bring trillions in TradFi volume on-chain.
  3. **Payments Are Just The Beginning.** Once the world rebuilds its payments infrastructure on stablecoins, the floodgates will open for the complete tokenization of all financial assets, forever blurring the line between crypto and finance.
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September 16, 2025

Collector Crypt: Onchain Capital Markets On Solana | Tuomas Holmberg

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Onchain Rails Create New Economies. By digitizing physical assets on high-performance chains like Solana, you eliminate friction around custody, settlement, and global access, unlocking novel business models like the Gotcha Machine.
  2. Real-World Logistics Are the Ultimate Moat. While anyone can build a smart contract, Collector Crypt’s defensibility comes from its physical supply chain—dealer relationships and automated acquisition tools that secure inventory below market price.
  3. Novel Oracles Unlock the Next Wave of DeFi. The future of onchain finance depends on reliably pricing illiquid, real-world assets. Developing proprietary oracles, like Collector Crypt’s, is the first step to building DeFi for everything.
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September 15, 2025

Is It Time to Rotate Out of Crypto?

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **De-Risk Your Alts.** Crypto is showing significant weakness by failing to rally with equities. Ethereum's lower high is a major red flag for the altcoin market; it's time to reduce leverage and concentrate into Bitcoin or cash.
  2. **Hunt for Value in TradFi.** Traditional markets are offering powerful narrative-driven plays with crypto-like upside. Focus on assets like Tesla (robotics), Robinhood (gambling culture), and commodities like uranium (energy independence).
  3. **Fade the ETF Narrative.** The institutional "sugar high" from ETFs is wearing off as the front-running trade becomes crowded and inflows wane. The market needs a new, more durable catalyst to move higher.
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