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What Odd Lots Says About Technology
48 episodes about technology
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Key Insights on Technology
College graduates are booing AI mentions at commencement speeches, reflecting anxiety about job displacement from technology whose architects promise career destruction
- Meta laid off 8,000 employees (10% of staff) while installing screen tracking software allegedly for AI training, creating 'new lows' in company morale
- OpenAI's Sam Altman shifted messaging from doom to augmentation: 'way cooler to help software developers Pokemon evolve into superheroes than replace them'
- Dr. Christina Maher combines software engineering, finance, and neuroscience backgrounds to develop brain-computer interfaces for enhanced human communication
- "You have this innovation bazooka with these models. Why would you point it at rebuilding payroll or ERP or CRM?" - Anisha argues AI should target the other 90% of enterprise spend, not just the 8-12% on software
- "Weird wins" - startups can thrive building products touching disagreement, persuasion, and sexuality that big tech committees explicitly avoid due to brand risk
- Workday has 97% gross dollar retention but takes 6.5 minutes for a tech investor to find basic compensation information
- HR software serves as a bellwether for AI adoption reaching mass enterprise takeoff beyond coastal tech hubs
Episodes
How Substack Creators Are Covering This Strange Markets Era
Anthropic's Co-Founder and Top Economist on Doing Research at the AI Frontier
Anjney Midha's Plan to Radically Lower the Price of Compute
Why Tomatoes Are the Most Expensive They've Been in Four Decades
Why Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman Built The World's Largest Computer Chip
Why SocGen's Albert Edwards Sees Double-Digit Inflation Coming Back
Samanth Subramanian on the Undersea Cables That Keep the Internet Alive
Mariana Mazzucato Thinks We Need More Moonshots
How Baltimore's Mayor Is Fighting the City's Vacant Housing Crisis
Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils
BlackRock's Rob Goldstein on the Next Megatrends in Finance
What's Actually Going On With Private Credit
Presenting Foundering Season 6: The Killing of Bob Lee, Part 1
Understanding the Most Viral Chart in Artificial Intelligence
Google's Liz Reid on Who Will Own Search in a World of AI
Daniel Yergin Sees a 'Different World' Emerging After the Hormuz Crisis
Jack McClendon on Why It's So Hard to Create a New American Oil Boom
Presenting What Next TBD: Why Everyone is Freaking out About Private Credit
The Big Macro Force That's Been Driving Stocks Higher for Years
Thomas Peterffy on Interactive Brokers' Plan to Professionalize Prediction Markets
Search Engine Presents: Are you a good driver?
Scott Bok Explains What Investment Bankers Actually Do All Day
Why NASA Hired a Chief Economist
Goldman CIO Marco Argenti on the Warp-Speed Improvements in AI
Anthropic, the Pentagon, and the Future of Autonomous Weapons
Now There's a Helium Shortage and It Affects More Than Balloons
David Shor and Byrne Hobart on the Politics of a White-Collar Wipeout
What War in Iran Means for China's Teapot Oil Refineries
Legendary Hacker Matt Suiche on Cyberwar in the Age of AI
Henry Blodget on the Software Selloff Hysteria and the Problem for OpenAI
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