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…
From our episode "Bootstrap vs. VC: Speed Costs Control | Rob Taylor, Silverton Partners"
From our episode "Bootstrap vs. VC: Speed Costs Control | Rob Taylor, Silverton Partners"
From our episode "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…
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…
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…
A clip from our episode "Combat as the Minimum Viable Product | Cix Liv, REK" #robotics #RealSteel #UFC #FutureOfSports #MMA #Tech #AustinNext #CombatSports #HardTech
A clip from our episode "Combat as the Minimum Viable Product | Cix Liv, REK" #robotics #RealSteel #UFC #FutureOfSports #MMA #Tech #AustinNext #CombatSports #HardTech
A clip from our episode "Combat as the Minimum Viable Product | Cix Liv, REK" #robotics #RealSteel #UFC #FutureOfSports #MMA #Tech #AustinNext #CombatSports #HardTech
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…
The venture capital model of the last two decades, characterized by the "30-minute rule" and the race to a quick IPO, is obsolete. We are witnessing a fundamental decoupling of capital from geography and a restructuring of how liquidity is manufactured. In this episode, Andrew Romans of 7BC Venture Capital…
A clip from our episode "Zachary Levi | Can Austin Build an Ark for Human Creativity?" #zacharylevi #ai #aiart #aimovies
