A $10B Hedge Fund’s AI Playbook (Best of the Pod)
Will England is the CEO of Walleye Capital, a hedge fund managing nearly $10 billion in assets. An engineer by training with a math background from Oxford, he has spent his career at the intersection ...
26 Aug 1h 7min
The AI Alien Companion App That's Bringing In $4M a Year (Best of the Pod)
LLMs are a new medium for storytelling.That’s according to the creators of Portola, the company behind Tolan: an embodied AI companion that lives on its own planet and chats to you with a distinct per...
19 Aug 1h 22min
Microsoft’s Vision for an Internet Made for Agents With CTO Kevin Scott (Best of the Pod)
In 2025, Kevin Scott bet that the agentic web would be the next big thing in AI.The Microsoft CTO argued that for agents to be genuinely useful, they'd need to be able to take action on our behalf—whi...
12 Aug 28min
Why the Next Hit AI Product Will Be Social Why the Next Hit AI Product Will Be Social (Best of the Pod)
Most consumer AI so far has been single-player: you and a chatbot, alone.Benchmark partner Sarah Tavel, one of Pinterest's first 30 employees, is betting that's about to change. She's looking for a pr...
5 Aug 48min
Best of the Pod: Wired's Kevin Kelly on Why AI Is a 50-year Overnight Success
Kevin Kelly has spent over 30 years experiencing the edge of new technology: from the earliest days of the internet to the first years of Burning Man. But he’s always treated the frontier as a place t...
29 Jul 53min
How Every's Team Used AI to Ship Its Biggest Launch Ever
Yash Poojary, a growth engineer at Every, dropped an idea for a campaign in Slack at 7 p.m. Instead of building it himself, Every’s head of growth Austin Tedesco took a screenshot of the Slack thread,...
22 Jul 46min
Building a School Where AI Models Learn About Humanity
If scaling laws hold—and Surge AI CEO Edwin Chen believes they do—we’re hurtling toward a future where there’s nothing humans can do that AI can’t do better. When OpenAI’s models disproved an open con...
24 Jun 43min
GitHub’s COO Explains Why AI Hasn’t Replaced Developers
Last year, there were 1 billion commits on GitHub. This year, Kyle Daigle expects that number to exceed 14 billion, a two-component explosion caused by more humans—and their agents—issuing pull reques...
17 Jun 28min
