March 15, 2026
38% Can't Do Basic Math. They Still Graduate
A clip from our episode "The Western Canon in the Age of Vibe Coding | Carlos Carvalho, President, University of Austin"
March 12, 2026
He Is Building a University That Only Wants Lions
A clip from our episode "The Western Canon in the Age of Vibe Coding | Carlos Carvalho, President, University of Austin"
March 11, 2026
EP 172: The Western Canon in the Age of Vibe Coding | Carlos Carvalho, University of Austin
American universities stopped optimizing for students a long time ago. The University of Austin was built as a direct counter to that failure. Carlos Carvalho, its president, brings a statistician's precision to the diagnosis, tracing the causal chain from dropped standards to credential collapse while building an institution with no…
Feb. 23, 2026
You can just raise less
From our episode "Bootstrap vs. VC: Speed Costs Control | Rob Taylor, Silverton Partners"
Feb. 22, 2026
Where Does Control Lie in a VC Backed Company?
From our episode "Bootstrap vs. VC: Speed Costs Control | Rob Taylor, Silverton Partners"
Feb. 21, 2026
Why choose the VC path vs Bootstrapping
From our episode "Bootstrap vs. VC: Speed Costs Control | Rob Taylor, Silverton Partners"
Feb. 19, 2026
EP 171: Bootstrap vs. VC: Speed Costs Control | Rob Taylor, Silverton Partners
The decision to bootstrap a business or raise venture capital is not just financial. It is physics. You are choosing which system to operate within, which rules will govern your company, and whose incentives will shape your options at every inflection point. Rob Taylor has lived both realities. He spent…
Jan. 21, 2026
EP 170: Patient Capital in the Age of the $10B Seed | Brian Smith, S3 Ventures
The current venture market is defined by a dangerous decoupling of capital from reality. While the industry chases $10B seed valuations and trillion-dollar infrastructure bets, Brian Smith and S3 Ventures are executing a "Discipline Arbitrage." They argue that the real returns in AI will not come from the massive CapEx…
Jan. 14, 2026
Ep 169: The Semiconductor Moment for the Mind
The market is mispricing the human brain. Some Investors view Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) and other neurotech as the next iteration of the medical device, a slightly better stent or a more advanced catheter. This is a category error. As Matt Angle (Paradromics) and Connor Glass (Phantom Neuro) articulate its not…
Dec. 12, 2025
Robot Punching is Easy, Standing is Hard
A clip from our episode "Combat as the Minimum Viable Product | Cix Liv, REK" #robotics #RealSteel #UFC #FutureOfSports #MMA #Tech #AustinNext #CombatSports #HardTech
Dec. 11, 2025
Robot Sports Before Laundry and Soldiers
A clip from our episode "Combat as the Minimum Viable Product | Cix Liv, REK" #robotics #RealSteel #UFC #FutureOfSports #MMA #Tech #AustinNext #CombatSports #HardTech
Dec. 10, 2025
Robot Title Match: Little Girl vs Navy Seal
A clip from our episode "Combat as the Minimum Viable Product | Cix Liv, REK" #robotics #RealSteel #UFC #FutureOfSports #MMA #Tech #AustinNext #CombatSports #HardTech
Dec. 10, 2025
EP 168: Combat as the Minimum Viable Product | Cix Liv, REK
Cix Liv challenges the Silicon Valley consensus that humanoid robots belong in the warehouse or the battlefield. By explicitly rejecting the “Terminator” military arbitrage and the “Jetsons” domestic servant model, REK validates a new thesis: entertainment is the only sector where the reliability is acceptable and economically viable. The discussion…
