Episodes

  • The Supply Chain of Talent
    Jul 1 2024
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    • (00:00) - The Supply Chain of Talent
    • (07:36) - Getting the Cycle Right
    • (08:55) - Regulatory Arbitrage in E-Commerce
    • (10:04) - Dry Powder and Meta-Stability
    • (11:11) - The Split Market
    • (12:00) - Transmission Mechanisms
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    14 mins
  • Fertilizer and Toxins
    Jun 24 2024
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    • (00:00) - Fertilizer and Toxins
    • (07:50) - Margins
    • (08:41) - A Better, Costlier Alexa
    • (09:30) - Elasticity
    • (11:08) - Counterparty Risk, Served Two Ways
    • (12:20) - The Universal Denominator
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    13 mins
  • "Nobody Knows Anything": Backtests are Hard
    Jun 17 2024
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    • (00:00) - "Nobody Knows Anything": Backtests are Hard
    • (06:59) - The Economics of Hacking
    • (07:43) - Lead Generation
    • (09:30) - Adverse Selection
    • (10:58) - Tip Economics
    • (12:36) - First and Last Resort
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    14 mins
  • The Bid/Ask View of Who Gets to Raise and What Gets Traded
    Jun 10 2024

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    • (00:00) - The Bid Ask View of Who Gets to Raise and What Gets Traded
    • (06:40) - A Word From Our Sponsors
    • (07:38) - Privacy and Insurance
    • (08:59) - AI Fragmentation
    • (09:40) - Too Central to Fail?
    • (10:45) - Meritocracy
    • (11:54) - Activism
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    13 mins
  • Details!
    Jun 3 2024
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    • (00:00) - Details!
    • (08:53) - A Word From Our Sponsors
    • (09:48) - The Google Feedback Loop
    • (10:42) - Fees on What?
    • (12:41) - The Micro Meta Turnaround
    • (14:34) - Yes, We're Doing the Meme Stock Thing Again
    • (15:39) - Diverisification
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    18 mins
  • Get Used to a More Hallucinatory Search Experience
    May 28 2024
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    • (00:00) - Get Used to a More Hallucinatory Search Experience
    • (09:19) - Cap Structure Arbitrage and Elon Musk
    • (10:51) - Active, Passive, and Risk
    • (12:57) - Convergent Evolution
    • (14:09) - Market Timing
    • (15:01) - It's All Ads!
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    16 mins
  • One Edge or Many? Reflections on Renaissance Technologies
    May 20 2024
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    • (00:00) - One Edge or Many? Reflections on Renaissance Technologies
    • (11:22) - Retention
    • (12:24) - Training Data
    • (13:20) - Social Networking Primitives and Local Maxima
    • (14:33) - Renting
    • (15:02) - Ads
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    16 mins
  • Invisible Efficiencies
    May 13 2024
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    • (00:00) - Invisible Efficiencies
    • (06:49) - Making a Market
    • (07:53) - Outsourcing
    • (09:35) - Multicloud
    • (10:53) - Can Frackers Collude?
    • (12:37) - Infrastructure
    • (13:25) - Area Man Tweets
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    14 mins