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Sovereigns

Sovereigns

By: Ryan Cunningham + Lesley Gao
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Great powers run on watts and wafers.

Sovereigns traces the watt-to-bit value chain - energy, compute, and manufacturing - to reveal how industrial powers compete for technological supremacy, contextualized by the histories and cultures driving them.

Hosted by Ryan Cunningham and Lesley Gao, it’s an East-West dialogue on the arms race rewiring the global economy.

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  • Coming Soon: Sovereigns
    May 30 2025

    Welcome to Sovereigns, a new podcast about energy, AI, and great power competitions.

    Sovereigns traces the watt-to-bit value chain to reveal how nations and corporate powers compete for technological supremacy. Hosted by Ryan Cunningham and Lesley Gao, it’s an East-West dialogue on the arms race rewiring the global economy.

    Tune in for interviews with engineers, roboticists, investors, economists, all kinds of experts with on-the-ground experience building the new world order.

    New episodes coming soon on a biweekly drop.

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