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Ballooning fund sizes are forcing venture partners to make bad deals or take on less uncertainty. History suggests it won’t end well.

Written by Jerry Neumann

Read by Scott Brick

Read ‘Venture is Dead (Again)’ here.

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Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

The fight to regulate AI and reform American science runs through a little-known White House office, and the Thiel-turned-Trump aide in charge of it

Written by Harry Lambert

Read by Scott Brick

Read ‘The Office of the Frontier' here.

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A love letter to a new kind of company.

Written by Brie Wolfson

Read by Suzanne Elise Freeman

Read ‘The Sane Asylum' here.

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Why the creator of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm is one of history’s purest founders.

Written by Blake J. Harris

Read by Scott Brick

Read ‘The Many Failures of Larry David’ here.

Selected material from this article appears in the book EMPEROR OF NOTHING: The Making of Larry David by Blake J. Harris. Copyright © 2026 by Blake J. Harris. To be published on October 20, 2026, by Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Excerpted by permission.

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Cognition

Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Written by Jerry Neumann

Read by Scott Brick

Read ‘AI Will Not Make You Rich’ here.

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Presented by Ramp

And by:

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WorkOS

Cognition

Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠