Weekly conversations on startups, founders, and the business behind the headlines. Each episode breaks down the week’s biggest founder and CEO stories in about fifteen minutes.
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Episode 5: The Week Nobody Told the Whole Story
23:22 · Watch on YouTube
A two-host deep dive into the week’s most uncomfortable business stories: the unexplained Bausch + Lomb CEO exit, the Phia cookie-stuffing scandal, Larry Fink’s data-center recession warning, and SimpleClosure’s shutdown data sales.
Episode 4: Golden Parachutes and AI Kill Switches
51:25 · Watch on YouTube
This week we cover Amazon’s reported $7B acquisition talks with Decart, the McKinsey glass cliff controversy, and Satya Nadella’s AI kill switch comments. Plus: Nicola Forrest’s $30M fund for women founders and David Zaslav’s $606M WBD payout.
Episode 3: The Week Founders Faced Hard Truths
21 min · Watch on YouTube
This week we cover Sara Blakely opening up about grief and depression after selling her Spanx stake, Bobby Kotick joining the Skydance board, DeepSeek’s proposed $12 billion raise, the Menlo Ventures, Factory, and Khosla dispute, and Mira Robinson leaving OpenAI over culture.
Episode 2: The Week CEOs Drew the Line
37:35
This week, OpenAI parted ways with safety researchers while Yann LeCun and Dario Amodei debated AI’s trajectory, and Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora described AI-driven layoffs as ‘fair game’. Plus: Nike’s third round of cuts, and Ryan Roslansky’s departure from LinkedIn over return-to-office.
Episode 1: Why Companies Blame AI for Layoffs
20 min
Are companies really laying off workers because of AI, or is AI just a convenient cover story? In our first episode: News UK bets on AI to catch errors with its ClearDraft deal, Sam Altman calls out AI-washing, MongoDB’s CEO jumps to Meta, and Flock Safety’s Senate showdown.