Palantir co-founder on its mission and controversies
Palantir Technologies today went public at an initial valuation of over $21 billion, giving investors a chance to buy into one of Silicon Valley's most talked-about tech companies. Dan and Palantir co...
30 Sep 202013min
Cameo CEO on the business of fame
Cameo, a marketplace in which users pay for personalized video messages from celebrities, has gone from niche novelty to very big business. One celebrity just surpassed $1 million in earnings, and mor...
29 Sep 202014min
Digging into Trump's taxes with Francine McKenna
President Trump paid no federal income tax in 10 of the past 15 years, and just $750 in 2016 and 2017, according to a new report from The New York Times. He also is reported to have hundreds of millio...
28 Sep 202013min
Substack and the future of media
Traditional media models and most of the digital models are either straining under pressure or outright broken. Some journalists have responded by going out on their own, leveraging a new group of sta...
26 Sep 202011min
The child care tax on America's economic recovery
American child care is in crisis, which makes it much harder for the American economy to recover — as providers struggle to stay in business and parents struggle to work. Dan digs into the problems an...
24 Sep 202014min
Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus on the rise of Silicon Valley SPACs
Silicon Valley venture capitalists are no longer content with investing in startups and then eventually handing them off. Instead, many are now forming SPACs, or blank check acquisition companies, to ...
23 Sep 202013min
The big business of immigrant detention
Around 70% of all immigration detention centers are run by private companies, including the one at the heart of a new whistleblower complaint that alleges systemic medical neglect and malpractice. Dan...
22 Sep 202013min
RBG and the future of American health care
Before her death, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was preparing to hear a case that could determine the availability of affordable health insurance for roughly 20 million Americans. Dan is joined by Unive...
21 Sep 202014min
