Newcomer Pod

Sam Parr on The Hustle, Hampton & Why the OpenAI-TBPN Deal Was a Mistake

Sam 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

This AI Was Trained on a Billion Video Game Clips. Now It Controls Robots.

How 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 ge

John Coogan on Selling TBPN to OpenAI, Sam Altman & the Future of Tech Media

John 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 suit

Taylor Lorenz Unfiltered on Social Media, Free Speech & the Surveillance State

Taylor 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

The Goldman Sachs Exec on AI, Wall Street & the Firm That Went Bankrupt in 40 Minutes

The 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

Ben Smith on Trump, Anthropic & the Collision of Government and Big Tech

Semafor'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 brea

Aidan Gomez Unfiltered on AGI, China & AI's Biggest Risk

Aidan 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 r

Christina Cacioppo Unfiltered on Fake Compliance, AI Security & Building a $4B Company

The 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 CE

Ed Zitron Unfiltered on OpenAI, Anthropic & Why the Whole Thing Is a Con

Ed 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

How Tech's San Francisco Values Gave Way to the Right

How 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

WIRED's Editor on Elon, Trump & Silicon Valley's War on the Press

WIRED'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, sit

The Man Who Helped Destroy Gawker Is Coming Back For The Rest of Media

The 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 p

Vinod Khosla on the End of Jobs and the Future of Capitalism

Vinod 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 h

Katie Jacobs Stanton on Elon, Trump & Why Silicon Valley Won’t Speak Up

Silicon 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

Amanda Askell on AI Consciousness, Claude & Silicon Valley’s Biggest Fear

Amanda Askell, AI safety researcher at Anthropic, joins Eric Newcomer to break down one of the biggest and most uncomfortable questions in tech right now: could AI system

Kara Swisher — "I'd rather have Ted Cruz make decisions about AI"

Kara Swisher has spent decades as the most feared journalist in Silicon Valley. She predicted the January 6th insurrection in 2019. She called out Zuckerberg on hate spee

Jim Lanzone — "They Had a Chance to Sell for $44 Billion. They Didn't."

Jim Lanzone has spent his entire career betting on companies the internet forgot about and making them matter again. CEO of Ask.com, Tinder, and now Yahoo. Eric sat down

The Startup That Crashed Its Own Servers Because of Open Claw

VCs surveyed across the industry ranked their most exciting enterprise tech companies and the #1 early stage pick was a name almost nobody had heard of. Eric sits down wi

Matt Mahan — "California's Failure Is the Best Ammunition Trump Has Ever Had"

Matt Mahan is the Mayor of San Jose and a candidate for Governor of California. He is one of the only prominent Democrats in the state willing to say out loud that Califo

Shardul Shah — "I wired the money before knowing what they were building"

Shardul Shah, Partner at Index Ventures, was one of the first checks into Wiz — the Israeli cybersecurity company Google acquired for $32 billion. It wasn't luck. It was