Episodes

  • The AI Revolution in Music: A Conversation with DAOuda Leonard, Manager of Grimes and Founder of CreateSafe
    Dec 21 2023

    In this episode, Sabrina Halper sits down with DAOuda Leonard, Grimes' manager and founder of music tech studio CreateSafe, which just launched its generative AI-powered platform Triniti. Triniti enables artists to create an AI voice clone, generate text-to-audio samples, ask a chatbot music industry-related questions, monetize creations and manage music IP.


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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Eric Jang on Humanoid Robots, Why AI is Good For You, and a Future of Abundance.
    Nov 29 2023

    In this episode, Sabrina Halper sits down with Eric Jang. Eric is the VP of AI at 1X Technologies, a humanoid robot company built to benefit society, with investment led by OpenAI. He also published AI is Good for You, a book about the last 10 Years and the next 10 Years of Artificial Intelligence (link to buy attached below). Previously, Eric was a senior research scientist at Google on their robotics team.


    Timestamps:

    (0:00) - Highlights

    (2:53) - Intro

    (3:32) - The outdated political system & AI's applications for campaigns7:55 - Debating ideas with AI "champions"

    (9:20) - How Meta's VR Quest headset could be a humanoid robot, data engines for AI

    (13:20) - Building genuine AI companionship

    (18:26) - AI chatbots as sparring partners and improving peoples' social capabilities

    (20:45) - Can we achieve AGI through online, text-only data? Or do we need a data engine such as VR, robots, or cars?

    (24:20) - How to acquire and label "truth" for LLMs?30:00 - How far are we from AGI? How do you define AGI?

    (32:20) - Should we be modeling AI systems after biology and replicating nature-inspired architectures?36:00 - Confronting workforce disruption of humanoid robots, 1X's approach39:00 - Lump of labor fallacy, 10X-ing workforces

    (40:10) - Security risks of humanoid robots, high leverage technology = risk

    (42:35) - Engineering hardware to mimic the human body, lack of robotics parts

    (46:04) - Why is now the right time to invest and build in general purpose robots?

    (48:25) - Visualizing a post-AGI future of abundance & utopia situation

    (52:27) - What will our relationship to robots look like and which hierarchies will exist? How to engineer an equality dynamic (55:50) - The academia vs start-up landscape in AI and why some researches are going back to academia

    (59:54) - Criticisms of the effective altruist and AI safety communities

    (1:04:20) - Good policies and models for regulation, issues with regulation today

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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Martin Varsavsky on fertility and birth rate decline, gene editing, modern evolution, and why humanity needs more babies.
    Oct 9 2023

    In this episode, Sabrina Halper sits down with renowned entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky. Martin has founded five unicorn companies across industries. He discusses his cutting edge work in the fertility space and how technology will revolutionize our biology.


    Timestamps:

    (0:00) - Intro

    (1:30) - Catalyst for building in fertility

    (3:00) - Reasons for increased infertility in society

    (7:00) - Climate change and overpopulation narrative

    (10:00) - Reasons for declining birth rates & how to design a society that combats this

    (16:40) - Europe vs America on abortion, surrogacy, and the anti-science movements

    (22:00) - How to decrease the cost of fertility treatments by an order of magnitude

    (27:15) - Embryo selection vs CRISPR

    (32:34) - Mapping out IQ to a gene, editing for intelligence

    (34:00) - How regulation of CRISPR will vary between China and the west

    (36:00) - The potential disparity between humans, and the context of AI

    (37:20) - Why evolution doesn't work anymore

    (39:40) - Why humans may speciate and evolve into multiple species

    (41:59) - Is CRISPR happening today? 45:30 - In-vitro gametogenesis (IVG)

    (47:00) - What having a baby will look like in the future

    (49:05) - Male birth control, longevity, gene therapy

    (52:00) - Martin's philosophy around company building

    (54:15) - Having clear views around where the future is going

    (58:00) - Fast-paced popcorn questions: space, Einstein, quantum physics

    (1:00:30) - Outro


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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Delian on Varda's space drugs, Founders Fund, and Silicon Valley's history of mentorship.
    Aug 30 2023

    Delian Asparouhov is the co-founder of Varda Space, the startup that is manufacturing products in space to benefit life on Earth. He is also a partner at Founders Fund.

    The first 30 minutes of this episode cover all things space: Varda, investing and building in Space, Elon's role in pushing the industry forward, working in highly-regulated industries, inception of ideas.

    The second 30 minutes go deep into Delian's personal path into venture, lessons from his first company, what personal characteristics define the best founders, lessons he learned from his mentors, which investment sectors he sees as being the next wave, and some fun fast facts.

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    1 hr
  • Living Carbon's Maddie Hall on bioengineering super trees to help fight climate change, synthetic bio's potential, carbon credits, lessons from Sam Altman & using LLMs to understand animals.
    Aug 7 2023

    Maddie Hall is the co-founder and CEO of Living Carbon, a plant bio-tech company growing genetically modified poplars and pines capable of absorbing much more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than regular trees. Previously, she worked on special projects at Y Combinator and OpenAI.


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    46 mins
  • Tye Sheridan and Nikola Todorovic on harnessing AI to revolutionize special effects, founding Wonder Dynamics, the future of content, and Hollywood’s tech roots.
    Jul 11 2023

    Tye Sheridan, the lead actor in films such as Ready Player One, X-Men, and Mud, and Nikola Todorovic, award-winning filmmaker and visual effects supervisor, met on a set in 2016. They quickly became best friends, and eventually cofounders of Wonder Dynamics, a company building AI software that makes VFX special effects affordable and accessible on a browser, ultimately empowering a whole new generation of people to create new types of content that were previously reserved for big-budget studios. Today, they are about to launch to the public after compiling hundreds of thousands of users on their waitlist, and an advisory board that includes the likes of Steven Spielberg. We discuss how AI will empower filmmakers, Hollywood’s history with innovation, how content will change, their personal journey's, and much more. ---------------------------------------- Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRFhoFf-rNAHZLvPa7TbJrA Follow Tomorrow Talk on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TomorrowTalk_ Follow Sabrina Halper on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SabrinaHalper Follow Wonder Dynamics on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WonderDynamics Follow HOF Capital on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HOFCapital Visit our Website: https://hofcapital.com/ ------------------------------------------ Reach out to Shalper@hofcapital.com with any feedback, requests for guests, or if you're building something to bring the future closer. HOF Capital is a global multistage VC firm with $1 billion in AUM that partners with ambitious entrepreneurs from idea to IPO.


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    42 mins
  • Bryan Johnson on reducing his biological age, longevity, human alignment, & negotiating with pain.
    Jun 12 2023

    Bryan Johnson sits down with HOF investor Sabrina Halper for an in-depth conversation that spans philosophy, biology, and technology. Bryan Johnson is the world's most measured human. He is investing millions to slow and reverse his aging. In 2021, he set a world record by reducing his epigenetic age by 5.1 years in 7 months. In this conversation, Bryan confronts many of the criticisms around his pursuit and presents his vision for the future of humanity. Previously, Johnson sold his company Braintree Venmo to PayPal for $800M in 2013. Johnson is also the founder of Kernel, creator of the world's first non-invasive neuroimaging system, and OS fund, where he invested $100M in the predictable engineering of atoms, molecules, and organisms into companies now collectively valued over $6B. Follow Bryan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bryan_johnson or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bryanjohnson_/?hl=en. Connect with Sabrina on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SabrinaHalper. Engage with HOF on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HOFCapital or visit https://hofcapital.com/. Reach out to Shalper@hofcapital.com with any feedback, requests for guests, or if you're building something to bring the future closer.


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    44 mins
  • Elad Gil on the power of peer groups, investing in 40+ unicorns, today's AI ecosystem, and staying dynamic.
    May 23 2023

    In this episode, Elad sits down with Sabrina Halper for a candid conversation about all things technology. You'll hear his thoughts on: 1.How to develop a long-term career in technology: -The power of peer groups and cohorts -Which jobs to pursue -Re-inventing yourself -Living in the physical hubs 2.Advice for founders of startups and growth-stage companies: -Why large companies stagnate and how to avoid it as you scale -How to think about startup moats and defensibility -The power of picking the right market -What led to Twitter's lack of iteration pre-Elon 3.Artificial Intelligence: -How to pick the winners -How things might shake up between OpenAI, Google, and Meta/ opensource -Amazon's play -Incentives around regulation -The need for thoughtful cost-benefit analysis -The best and worst case scenarios of AGI 4.Personal advice on: -Being a dynamic individual -Resilience -Time management

    Who is Elad Gil? Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to companies such as AirBnB, Airtable, Brex, Coinbase, Deel, Figma, Gusto, Instacart, Notion, Pinterest, Rippling, Square, Stripe and others. Elad has invested in 40+ companies worth $1B or more, 30+ of them at the seed or series A. Elad was early to the AI space, running AI-centric products at Twitter (search), Google (ads targeting) and has invested in generative AI companies like Perplexity, Harvey.AI, Character. Elad is a Co-Founder of Color Health, a digital population healthcare delivery company. Elad also founded Mixer Labs, which was acquired by Twitter, and was VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter. Elad received a Ph.D. from MIT and BS and BA in Math from UCSD. He is the author of the bestselling book High Growth Handbook. Follow Elad on Twitter or check out his website. Engage with HOF on Twitter & read our March to Utopia. Connect with Sabrina on Twitter.

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    50 mins