The economics and trends of the restaurant industry, with Tony Xu of DoorDash
Tony Xu, cofounder and CEO of DoorDash, joins John for a pint to discuss how they won a crowded market by obsessing over retention and the reality of fighting fraud in the physical world. They cover t...
21 Apr 1h 20min
The world of voice AI, with Mati Staniszewski of ElevenLabs
Mati Staniszewski is the co-founder of ElevenLabs, the research company making audio accessible across languages and voices. He sits down with John to discuss the "voice Turing Test" and why AI has co...
14 Apr 1h
The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai
Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Google and Alphabet. He sits down with John and Elad Gil to discuss Google’s resurgence in the AI race, managing a massive $180 billion CapEx budget, and why 2026 is the ye...
7 Apr 1h 9min
Compliance at scale and why TAM is a distraction with Christina Cacioppo of Vanta
Christina Cacioppo, founder and CEO of Vanta, joins the pub to discuss building the future of agentic trust. She explains why compliance has a “vitamin vs painkiller” dynamic, the drama behind their f...
31 Mar 57min
The 20-year journey to fully autonomous cars with Dmitri Dolgov of Waymo
Waymo is now doing nearly 500,000 rides a week across 10 cities. Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov came to the pub to discuss how they moved from scientific research to massive global scaling. He gives a mastercla...
24 Mar 1h 2min
Creating prediction markets (and suing the CFTC) with Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara
Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara are the co-founders of Kalshi, the first federally regulated prediction market in the US. They sit down with John and Matt Huang to discuss growing their revenue 11x...
17 Mar 1h 16min
Bret Taylor of Sierra on AI agents, outcome-based pricing, and the OpenAI board
Bret Taylor, co-founder of Sierra and Chair of the OpenAI board, joins John for a pint to discuss the rapid shift toward an agentic future. In this episode, Bret explains why outcome-based pricing is ...
10 Mar 1h 41min
