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AI Podcasts

February 11, 2026

The Autonomous Driving Race Is Already Over w/ Kyle Reidhead

Milk Road AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI-driven automation is creating a new economic reality where vertically integrated AI companies will dominate core industries like transportation and labor, leading to massive deflationary pressures and a re-evaluation of asset value.
  2. Investors should recognize Tesla's FSD and robotics as its primary value drivers, not its EV sales. Focus on its unique data moat and the impending regulatory approvals for unsupervised FSD as key catalysts for a significant market repricing.
  3. Tesla is poised to become a multi-trillion-dollar company by owning the future of autonomous transportation and labor. Understanding this shift is crucial for positioning your portfolio for the next wave of AI-driven wealth creation over the next 6-12 months.
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February 11, 2026

The Autonomous Driving Race Is Already Over w/ Kyle Reidhead

Milk Road AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Tesla's core identity has shifted from an EV manufacturer to an AI and autonomous robotics company. This means its competitive advantage isn't in car sales, but in its proprietary neural network and data processing capabilities for self-driving.
  2. Tesla's upcoming robo-taxi network will compete directly with ride-sharing services, not traditional car manufacturers. This means a 10x cheaper service, potentially making car ownership obsolete for many.
  3. Elon Musk's early bet on neural networks over LiDAR for FSD gave Tesla a multi-year lead. This foresight allowed Tesla to build a data moat that competitors cannot replicate quickly.
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February 10, 2026

The future of financing AI infrastructure with Wayne Nelms, CTO of Ornn

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The AI infrastructure buildout is moving from speculative intuition to financially engineered certainty, driven by the need to de-risk massive capital investments in volatile hardware markets.
  2. Evaluate your compute procurement and data center buildout strategies through the lens of financial hedging instruments to secure predictable costs and unlock cheaper capital.
  3. Financial products for compute are not just a nice-to-have; they are becoming essential for sustainable growth in AI infrastructure, directly impacting profitability and investment viability over the next 6-12 months.
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February 10, 2026

The future of financing AI infrastructure with Wayne Nelms, CTO of Ornn

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The AI compute market is rapidly evolving from a speculative, opaque environment to a financially engineered commodity market, driven by the need for risk mitigation and capital efficiency.
  2. Integrate compute futures and residual value products into your financial planning to de-risk hardware investments and secure more favorable financing terms for AI infrastructure projects.
  3. Quantifying future compute demand and hardware value is no longer optional; it is the critical differentiator for profitable AI infrastructure investment and operation over the next 6-12 months.
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February 10, 2026

The future of financing AI infrastructure with Wayne Nelms, CTO of Ornn

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The AI compute market is transitioning from an opaque, intuition-driven capital sink to a financially engineered commodity market. This transition will enable more efficient capital allocation and accelerate infrastructure buildout.
  2. Explore compute futures and residual value products to de-risk your AI infrastructure investments or operational costs. Engage with platforms like Ornn to gain transparency and hedging capabilities for GPUs and memory.
  3. The financialization of compute is not just about trading; it's about providing the certainty and transparency needed to build, finance, and operate the AI data centers of tomorrow, making the entire ecosystem more robust and predictable over the next 6-12 months.
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February 10, 2026

The future of financing AI infrastructure with Wayne Nelms, CTO of Ornn

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The AI infrastructure buildout is transitioning from speculative capital to financially engineered, risk-managed investments, driven by predictable costs and asset values.
  2. Evaluate compute procurement and data center investment through a financial lens. Explore hedging instruments like Ornn's futures to lock in costs or secure future asset values.
  3. Financial tools for compute and memory are no longer optional; they are becoming foundational. Integrating these instruments will be critical for competitive advantage and sustainable growth.
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February 10, 2026

The future of financing AI infrastructure with Wayne Nelms, CTO of Ornn

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The AI compute market is transitioning from an opaque, intuition-driven capital expenditure model to a commoditized, transparent, and financially engineered asset class. This shift de-risks infrastructure investments and optimizes resource allocation.
  2. Data center operators and large compute buyers should explore futures markets for GPUs and memory to lock in costs or revenues. Investigate residual value products to secure future hardware liquidity and reduce financing costs.
  3. Financial engineering of AI compute unlocks capital. Investors gain new opportunities in de-risked infrastructure. Builders get cheaper capital, clearer profitability, and faster scaling.
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February 10, 2026

The future of financing AI infrastructure with Wayne Nelms, CTO of Ornn

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The AI infrastructure market is transitioning from speculative, intuition-driven investment to a financially engineered asset class, driven by the commodification of compute and memory.
  2. Evaluate your compute procurement and data center buildout strategies through a financial lens, leveraging futures and residual value products to hedge against price volatility and secure better financing terms.
  3. Quantifying future compute demand and hardware value is no longer a luxury; it is a necessity for sustainable growth and competitive advantage in the AI era.
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February 10, 2026

The future of financing AI infrastructure with Wayne Nelms, CTO of Ornn

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Explore Ornn's futures and residual value products to hedge against volatile compute costs or secure future hardware value.
  2. Financial engineering for AI compute is no longer optional.
  3. It is a core component for efficient capital deployment and risk management, directly impacting the viability and growth of AI infrastructure over the next 6-12 months.
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Crypto Podcasts

August 25, 2025

Can Rate Cuts Save Crypto’s Bull Market?

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Macro is your north star.** The crypto market's direction is dictated by Fed policy. Rate cuts are the narrative, and trillions are waiting on the sidelines to flood into risk assets.
  2. **Take profits aggressively.** We are in the "stupid" phase of the cycle. Systematically sell portions of your holdings at 20%, 50%, and 100% gains to de-risk before the music stops.
  3. **Scrutinize DAOs.** Many are exit liquidity schemes. Only consider those with strong guardrails, like mandatory fresh capital matching, that bring new money into the ecosystem.
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August 25, 2025

Commissioner Peirce On SEC’s Next Moves

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Frameworks, Not Fights: The SEC is shifting from broad prohibitions to creating specific, workable rules for token launches. The goal is to bring this crucial capital formation activity back to the U.S. under a clear and compliant regime.
  2. Decentralization Changes the Game: True decentralization isn't just a buzzword; it fundamentally challenges the existing regulatory model. For truly peer-to-peer protocols, the old playbook of licensing intermediaries may no longer apply.
  3. The Best Defense is Utility: The crypto industry's greatest protection against future regulatory hostility is to build things with real, lasting value. Use this period of clearer skies to create products and services that prove the technology's worth beyond speculation.
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August 24, 2025

Will LINK Flip XRP? with Zach Rynes

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Bet on the Ecosystem, Not the Silo: Chainlink’s value is tied to the growth of the entire blockchain space, making it a diversified bet on institutional adoption. XRP’s success is a narrow wager on its own ledger and asset gaining dominance.
  2. Follow the Proof, Not the Promises: Chainlink’s public partnerships with firms like Swift and JP Morgan provide concrete evidence of traction. This stands in sharp contrast to XRP's long-unfulfilled, NDA-shrouded narrative.
  3. Infrastructure is the Ultimate Power Play: By providing a comprehensive suite of essential services (data, cross-chain, compliance), Chainlink is building a defensible moat as the go-to infrastructure platform for Web3, with no direct all-in-one competitor in sight.
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August 23, 2025

Former Yahoo Music Executive on Crypto's Inevitable Centralization Points with Ian Rogers

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Value is a Function of Time:** Bitcoin's greatest asset is its 15-year track record. Lasting value isn't about technology alone; it's about a powerful story that withstands the test of time, creating an insulated brand.
  2. **Self-Custody is the Premise:** The entire value proposition of crypto hinges on eliminating counterparty risk. Compromising on self-custody and security for the sake of convenience is a recurring mistake that "always blows up."
  3. **Adoption Will Be Abstracted:** The future of crypto for the masses is one where the complexity is hidden. Centralized user experiences will run on decentralized rails, delivering the benefits of crypto (lower fees, faster settlement) without the unforgiving user experience.
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August 22, 2025

Making $5M in Unconventional Trades w/ 0xLaw

Taiki Maeda

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Stop Gambling, Start Engineering.** The biggest edge isn’t in predicting price but in finding and exploiting structural market inefficiencies. Focus on trades where you can control or heavily influence the outcome, like RFV plays or creating self-fulfilling prophecies in prediction markets.
  2. **Become the Casino.** The crypto market is filled with speculation. By providing liquidity, farming yields, and taking the other side of gamblers (e.g., selling Pendle PTs), you can generate consistent, lower-risk returns. Farmers, on average, outperform directional traders over the long term.
  3. **Alpha Lives in the Weeds.** The most significant opportunities aren’t on the front page of Twitter. They’re buried in obscure Discord servers, complex protocol mechanics (like Aerodrome’s bribes), and emerging platforms with low capital efficiency like Polymarket.
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August 22, 2025

Robinhood’s Vlad Tenev Claps Back: From Memecoins to Real Assets – The Chopping Block

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Private Markets Are the New Public: The real unlock for tokenization isn't just 24/7 stock trading—it's bringing high-growth private companies to retail investors, with or without the company's blessing.
  2. The Great Convergence Is Here: The line between a crypto exchange and a stock brokerage is disappearing. Robinhood and its competitors are converging on a single "financial super app" model where all assets live in one place.
  3. Regulation Has Created a Paradox: The current system allows unlimited speculation on assets with zero fundamental value (memecoins) but blocks access to premier private equity. Robinhood is betting this logic won't hold.
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