Newcomer Pod
by Eric Newcomer | newcomer.co
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Immad Akhund on Building Mercury, AI Agents & Taking On Big Banks
Immad Akhund on Building Mercury, AI Agents & Taking On Big Banks
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Hi, I'm Eric Newcomer. With this podcast, I dive straight into the heart of the tech industry, interviewing top investors and founders. I’m bringing my sensibility as someone who understands the inside story of Silicon Valley but who is happy to poke and prod as to why the tech world operates like it does.
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Episodes
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- Immad Akhund on Building Mercury, AI Agents & Taking On Big Banks · 52 minMercury CEO Immad Akhund on the AI startup funding frenzy, agents that spend money, and the future of banking. Immad joins Eric Newcomer to discuss building Mercury to $1 billion…
- Alex Kantrowitz on OpenAI, Nvidia & What Could Derail the AI Boom · 1 h 6 minOpenAI’s revenue confusion, Apple’s AI missteps, and Nvidia’s investments raise a bigger question: how much depends on the AI boom continuing?Big Technology founder Alex…
- Reid Hoffman on ChatGPT, Data Centers & Why America Needs AI · 53 minReid Hoffman on ChatGPT, the future of jobs, and why he believes the AI boom is keeping America out of a recession. The LinkedIn co-founder joins Eric Newcomer to explain why…
- Josh Elman on Apple, AI Agents & Why Startups Can Still Win · 51 minWhy did Josh Elman leave Apple, and where can AI startups still win against OpenAI? The former Siri and Apple Intelligence team member explains why he’s betting on a new wave of…
- Former SEC Official on FTX, Crypto & Silicon Valley’s Fraud Problem · 59 minRenee Jones on how billion-dollar startups escaped public scrutiny, why founders became more powerful than their boards, and what happens when private markets operate in secrecy…
- Zavain Dar on Hugging Face, NVIDIA & Why Silicon Valley Should Pay Attention to China · 49 minWhat does NVIDIA really get from Hugging Face—and what is Silicon Valley missing about China? Zavain Dar, co-founder of Dimension and an early Hugging Face investor during his…
- Sam Parr on The Hustle, Hampton & Why the OpenAI-TBPN Deal Was a Mistake · 57 minSam Parr on getting fired by Airbnb the day before he started, selling The Hustle, and why $10 million in revenue changes everything. Sam Parr, founder of The Hustle and Hampton…
- This AI Was Trained on a Billion Video Game Clips. Now It Controls Robots. · 59 minHow can billions of video game clips train AI to control robots? General Intuition CEO Pim de Witte explains why gaming data may be the missing ingredient for the next generation…
- John Coogan on Selling TBPN to OpenAI, Sam Altman & the Future of Tech Media · 1 h 1 minJohn Coogan, co-founder of TBPN, joins Eric Newcomer to talk about the acquisition that shocked the tech media world. John breaks down how TBPN went from two guys in suits to one…
- Taylor Lorenz Unfiltered on Social Media, Free Speech & the Surveillance State · 1 h 6 minTaylor Lorenz on why the social media panic is overblown and who's actually driving it. Taylor Lorenz, journalist and author of Extremely Online, joins Eric Newcomer to push back…
- The Goldman Sachs Exec on AI, Wall Street & the Firm That Went Bankrupt in 40 Minutes · 26 minThe Goldman Sachs exec who automated Wall Street on what AI agents actually do to jobs, companies, and the future of enterprise software. Marty Chavez got his AI PhD in 1991 when…
- Ben Smith on Trump, Anthropic & the Collision of Government and Big Tech · 55 minSemafor's editor-in-chief on why Washington has decided Anthropic needs to pick a side. Ben Smith, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Semafor, joins Eric Newcomer to break down…
- Aidan Gomez Unfiltered on AGI, China & AI's Biggest Risk · 22 minAidan Gomez on AGI, China, and the Biggest Risk Facing AI. Cohere co-founder and Transformer co-author Aidan Gomez joins Eric Newcomer to discuss whether we've already reached…
- Christina Cacioppo Unfiltered on Fake Compliance, AI Security & Building a $4B Company · 47 minThe CEO of a $4 billion compliance company on how her biggest competitor was faking it, and what that means for AI startup culture. Christina Cacioppo, co-founder and CEO of…
- Ed Zitron Unfiltered on OpenAI, Anthropic & Why the Whole Thing Is a Con · 58 minEd Zitron is back, and he's making his strongest case yet that OpenAI and Anthropic are running a deliberate con on the public. In his second appearance on the Newcomer Podcast…
- How Tech's San Francisco Values Gave Way to the Right · 1 h 6 minHow San Francisco's tech culture went from countercultural idealism to right-wing power, and what it means for the rest of us. Jonathan Weber, editor at large at The New Yorker…
- WIRED's Editor on Elon, Trump & Silicon Valley's War on the Press · 54 minWIRED's global editorial director on why Silicon Valley wants to control the press and what she's doing about it. Katie Drummond, global editorial director of WIRED, sits down…
- The Man Who Helped Destroy Gawker Is Coming Back For The Rest of Media · 1 h 10 minThe man who helped bring down Gawker is back, and this time he’s coming for the media industry. Eric sits down with Aron Ping D’Souza, the Oxford law student who first pitched…
- Vinod Khosla on the End of Jobs and the Future of Capitalism · 1 h 5 minVinod Khosla on Why AI Could End Human Labor and Change Capitalism Forever Vinod Khosla joins Newcomer to discuss AI, capitalism, freedom, education, religion, and why he…
- Katie Jacobs Stanton on Elon, Trump & Why Silicon Valley Won’t Speak Up · 56 minSilicon Valley has more power than ever, so why won't it speak up? Katie Jacobs Stanton, former Twitter executive, Obama White House alum, and founder of Moxxie Ventures, joins…
