Episodes

  • E255: Anthropic $30B revenue, 3x in 3 months!; Perplexity $500M ARR, 2x in 1 month; Revolut $9B in revenue; + more
    Apr 10 2026

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    00:00 - Intro
    00:51 - Anthropic Crosses $30B ARR as Revenue Triples in Three Months
    01:51 - Anthropic Launches $1B PE Consulting Venture to Monetize Enterprise Adoption
    02:47 - OpenAI and Anthropic: Massive Capital Burns, Racing to Break Even
    04:51 - Firmus Raises $505M for Next-Gen AI Data Centers Across Australia
    05:39 - Perplexity Hits $500M ARR as It Shifts from Search to Autonomous Agents
    06:14 - Canva Acquires Two AI Startups to Build End-to-End Marketing Platform
    07:14 - Stripe Launches Agentic Commerce Suite to Become the Payment Layer of the AI Era
    08:12 - Stripe Powers In-Chat Shopping Inside Microsoft Copilot
    09:03 - Databricks Lands Tata Power in Enterprise-Wide AI Platform Adoption
    09:58 - Revolut Eyes $9B Revenue and 100M Users as IPO Moves Closer
    10:50 - Revolut in Talks to Acquire Turkish Neobank FUPS
    11:37 - Anduril Tapped to Build Orbital Interceptors for $185B Golden Dome Program
    13:02 - Cursor 3 Launches with Parallel Agents and a Proprietary In-House Model
    14:20 - Anysphere Targets $50B-$60B Valuation as Cursor ARR Surpasses $2B
    15:15 - Neuralink Targets Hearing Restoration as Clinical Enrollment and Valuation Surge
    16:37 - Ramp and Visa Deploy AI Agents to Automate $100B+ in Annual Corporate Spend
    17:43 - OpenEvidence Embeds AI Directly into Epic EHR at Mount Sinai's 48,000-Person System
    18:48 - Harvey Study Exposes "Mobile AI Gap" as Legal Professionals Preview Mobile App

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    20 mins
  • E254: SpaceX IPO now at $2.0T; Tether larger vs JPM?!; Supabase 2x to $10B; + more
    Apr 4 2026

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    00:00 - Intro
    00:50 - SpaceX Is Targeting the Largest IPO in Stock Market History at $2 Trillion
    01:41 - Tether Is One of the Most Profitable Financial Companies Per Employee in the World and Almost Nobody Knows It
    02:23 - Supabase Just Doubled Its Valuation to $10 Billion in a Matter of Months
    03:03 - 103% Subscription Growth and $1.1B in Bookings: Whoop May Be Done Raising Private Capital
    03:49 - Saronic Has a $1.75 Billion Raise, a $392M Navy Contract, and Is Rethinking Warfare at Sea
    04:39 - Starcloud Went From Y Combinator to $1.1 Billion Unicorn in Just 17 Months by Putting Data Centers in Orbit
    05:39 - Rebellions Raised $650 Million in Six Months and South Korea's AI Chip Contender Is Heading for an IPO
    06:30 - Nuclear Power Is Back and Valar Atomics Just Raised $450 Million to Power the AI Industry
    07:33 - Medvi Generated $401 Million in Revenue in Its First Year With Two Full-Time Employees
    08:25 - Sarvam Is Chasing the Largest Indian AI Fundraise Ever With 22 Languages and 1.4 Billion People
    09:16 - OpenAI Is Now the Most Valuable Startup in History After Raising $122 Billion at $852 Billion
    10:15 - OpenAI Just Bought TBPN, a $30M Revenue Media Company, and It Is Only Getting Started
    10:59 - Anthropic Just Paid $400 Million for an 8-Month-Old Company With Fewer Than 10 People
    11:51 - Mistral Just Secured $830 Million From Seven Banks to Build Europe's Own AI Infrastructure
    12:51 - ElevenLabs Hit an $11 Billion Valuation and Is Now Taking Aim at Suno and Udio in AI Music

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    14 mins
  • E253: Reflection AI at $25B, +213%; Shield AI’s $12.7 valuation; Physical Intelligence at $11B in 4 months; + more
    Mar 28 2026

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    00:00 - Intro
    00:46 - Reflection AI Hits a $25B Price Tag in Nvidia’s Open Model Push
    01:42 - Shield AI Lands $1.5B as Valuation Jumps 140%
    02:31 - Physical Intelligence Nears $11B Just 4 Months After Its Last Round
    03:15 - Harvey Reaches $11B as Legal AI Keeps Scaling
    04:02 - Aetherflux Targets $2B as It Pivots to Space Data Centers
    04:46 - Granola Reprices to $1.5B as Meeting Notes Become Workflow Software
    05:37 - Anthropic Pushes Claude Further Into Computer Use
    06:35 - Anthropic Eyes a $60B+ IPO as Soon as Q4
    07:31 - Anthropic and Google Line Up a 500 MW Texas Data Center
    08:11 - Anthropic Mythos Emerges in a Leak of 3,000 Assets
    09:06 - OpenAI Pushes Its Fundraise Past $120B
    09:55 - OpenAI Ads Cross $100M ARR in Under 2 Months
    10:35 - Databricks Uses Its $5B Raise to Expand Security and M&A
    11:29 - Crusoe Signs a 12 GWh Battery Deal for AI Infrastructure
    12:18 - Sierra Rebuilds the Customer Service Stack Around Agents
    13:11 - Figure AI Brings a Humanoid Robot to the White House
    14:03 - Cohere Launches a 2B-Parameter Voice Model for Enterprise AI

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    15 mins
  • E252: Vast Data $30B valuation, +229%; Kalshi $22B valuation, +2x; Mastercard buys BVNK; Canva signals 2027 IPO; + more
    Mar 20 2026

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    00:00 - Intro
    00:49 - Vast Data rockets to $30B after a $1B raise and a +229.7% valuation jump
    01:51 - Kalshi hits $22B as revenue reaches $1.5B and monthly volume tops $10B
    02:53 - Fal races to $8B with revenue at $400M and growth hitting +100% in months
    03:43 - Yotta targets $4B valuation with a $1B capital plan and 30,000+ next-gen GPUs on deck
    04:41 - Mastercard acquires BVNK for $1.8B
    05:37 - Canva heads toward IPO territory at $47B with $4B revenue and 265M users
    06:48 - Unitree files to raise $610M after hitting $248M revenue and #1 humanoid shipments
    07:33 - Nvidia’s Huang likes their Lambda, Together AI, and Nscale investments
    08:38 - Gecko Robotics lands a $54M Navy award with a $71M ceiling and 18 ships to start
    09:31 - Mistral pushes deeper into enterprise with ‘Mistral Forge’ launch
    10:33 - OpenAI is folding 3 products into 1 superapp as IPO prep accelerates
    11:37 - OpenAI is reorganizing for a $665B compute buildout with a 6GW AMD chip deal
    12:48 - Atoms brings Travis Kalanick back with $100M from Uber
    13:30 - xAI offers forward deployed engineers as it chases enterprise growth with Shift4 win

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    14 mins
  • E251: Cursor $50B round, lower vs secondary market; Wiz $32B acquisition closes w/ Google; Moonshot $18B valuation; Nscale $14.6B valuation; + more
    Mar 15 2026

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    00:00 - Intro
    00:47 - Cursor’s $50B Round Would Cement AI Coding’s New Heavyweight
    01:43 - Wiz Closes $32B Deal with Google; Google’s Biggest Acquisition Ever
    02:32 - Moonshot AI’s $18B Ask Shows Chinese AI Valuations Are Repricing Fast
    03:34 - Nscale’s $14.6B Valuation Signals Europe’s AI Infra Race Is Scaling Up
    05:06 - Legora’s $5.55B Jump Marks a Breakout Moment for Legal AI
    06:08 - Alan’s Nears $1B ARR as Europe’s Digital Health Insurer Keeps Repricing Higher
    07:12 - Replit’s $9B Valuation Shows Vibe Coding Investors Still Want More
    08:01 - Nebius’s $2B Bet Extends Its Grip on AI Infrastructure
    08:52 - Gumloop’s $50M Raise Says No-Code AI Agents Are Becoming Enterprise Software
    09:52 - Wonderful Hits $2B in Just 13 Months as Global AI Support Rollouts Accelerate
    10:45 - Rox Reaches Unicorn Status on an $8M ARR Sales-AI Story
    11:36 - Sunday $1.15B Round Shows Embodied AI (Humanoids) Is Still Attracting Premium Capital
    12:24 - Thinking Machines Lands 1 GW Nvidia Deal
    13:24 - Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs Lands a Record-Scale $1.03B Seed
    14:11 - Forethought - AI Service Automation Platform - Acquired by Zendesk
    15:05 - Meta Acquires Viral AI-Agent Network Moltbook
    15:57 - Eridu $200M Series A Targets a Hidden Bottleneck in AI Infrastructure
    17:00 - Mind Robotics Raises $500M as Factory AI Becomes the Next Robotics Battleground
    18:03 - OpenAI Buys Promptfoo to Harden Enterprise AI Agents
    19:17 - Kraken Partners with Nasdaq to Push Tokenized Equities Closer to Market
    20:19 - Anthropic Turns Code Review Into a New Enterprise AI Revenue Lever
    21:25 - Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman Strike AI Consulting JV
    22:13 - Lovable Hits $400M ARR With Just 146 Employees
    23:02 - Anduril Acquires ExoAnalytics in Defense Space Push
    24:25 - Anduril Lands Potentially $20B Army Deal as Revenue Heads Toward $4B

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    25 mins
  • E250: SpaceX IPO at $1.75T; Anduril $4.3B 2026F revenue; Together $8.5B round; + more
    Mar 6 2026

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    00:00 - Intro
    00:47 - SpaceX Eyes the Biggest IPO Ever, $1.75T
    01:50 - SpaceX Moves to Wipe Out $17.5B of Debt
    02:23 - Anduril New Primary Round at $60B, Secondary Still Trading at $90B+
    03:20 - Anduril’s $4.3B 2026 Revenue Forecast
    04:05 - Together AI New Round at $8.5B Post-Money
    05:01 - Decagon Closes Employee Equity at $4.5B
    05:57 - Eight Sleep Lands at a $1.5B Valuation
    06:44 - Cursor $2B Feb 2026 Revenue Run Rate
    07:37 - Cursor Wants Agents Working Without Supervision
    08:15 - Stripe Wants to Monetize AI Usage
    09:15 - Anthropic Revenue Up 100% In Just Last Few Weeks, $20B
    09:44 - Arda Is Taking AI to the Factory Floor
    10:34 - Epic Forced Google to Cut the Toll
    11:30 - OpenAI Revenue at $25B
    12:22 - OpenAI New Model GPT-5.4 Pushes the Frontier Again
    13:15 - Kraken Gets Fedwire Access, First For Crypto Firm

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    14 mins
  • E249: TENDERS! Stripe ($159B), Anthropic ($350B), Plaid ($8B); Cerebras files IPO; OpenAI raises $110B; + more
    Feb 27 2026

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    00:00 - Intro
    00:51 - Stripe Initiates $159B Tender
    01:29 - Stripe Annual Letter Shows Scale and Faster Cohorts
    03:16 - Stripe PayPal Optionality Creates a Valuation Spread
    04:15 - Plaid Employee Liquidity Up-Round at $8B
    05:19 - Saronic Targets Mega-Round at $8.5B
    06:18 - Profound Hits $1B at 18-Month Pace
    07:35 - Cerebras Reopens IPO Window With $10B Compute Deal
    08:29 - Axelera AI Funds Edge Inference Buildout
    09:17 - Basis Crosses $1B With Accounting AI Penetration Metrics
    10:20 - Anthropic Claude Code Security Turns Reasoning Into AppSec
    11:18 - Anthropic Consumer Momentum Accelerates
    12:15 - Anthropic Tender Formalizes Late-Stage Liquidity
    13:02 - Anthropic Targets Mainframe Modernization With COBOL
    13:55 - OpenAI $110B Round at $840B Post-Money Sets New Bar
    15:04 - OpenAI Hardware Roadmap Points to 2027 and 2028
    16:12 - OpenAI Consultants Push Enterprise Adoption in 2026
    17:05 - AMD and Crusoe Use Credit to Accelerate Chip Pull-Through
    18:10 - Starlink Drops Prices To Accelerate Growth, Subscribers at 10M
    19:37 - Canva Buys Motion and Ad Optimization as Scale Compounds
    20:44 - Mistral and Accenture Signal Consultant-Led Distribution

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    21 mins
  • E248: OpenAI $280B in 2030 revenue! + “buys” OpenClaw; Grafana $9B valuation; World Labs $5B valuation; + more
    Feb 21 2026

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    00:00 - Intro
    00:02 - AG Dillon Funds closing on Mar 31, 2026
    00:51 - OpenAI Financials $280B revenue target meets $665B cost wall
    03:58 - OpenAI “buys” OpenClaw, Steinberger joins OpenAI
    04:42 - OpenAI Series C aims to shatter records at $850B post money
    05:41 - OpenAI and Tata bet on India with a 100 MW to 1 GW buildout path
    06:29 - Grafana’s $9B round talks ride a $400M ARR wave
    07:23 - World Labs lands Autodesk and targets a rumored $5B valuation
    08:18 - Temporal wants to be the load bearing layer for agent execution
    09:31 - Mesh Optical’s $50M Series A targets the chokepoint inside AI data centers
    10:43 - Render’s $1.5B valuation is a bet that AI apps need a new runtime
    11:40 - Stash acquired by Grab for $425M
    13:06 - Physical Superintelligence pitches a physics breakthrough factory with a 20 person team
    14:07 - Figma plugs Claude Code into design and risks losing the workflow
    15:00 - Anthropic ships Sonnet 4.6 just 12 days after Opus 4.6
    15:26 - Stripe’s Bridge wins OCC trust charter signal as stablecoin scrutiny rises
    16:37 - Cohere puts 70 plus languages on device with a 3.35B parameter model
    17:53 - ElevenLabs turns agent risk into an insurable product at $12.2B secondary
    19:05 - Mistral buys Koyeb and adds 16 engineers to harden its compute stack

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    20 mins