Pale Blue Nexus

Pale Blue Nexus

Making sense of the future, from right here. Pale Blue Nexus is a podcast about the technologies reshaping our world, and what they mean for us as humans. Sponsored by Aloomii, subscribe to the newsletter at palebluenexus.com

  1. 17 hrs ago

    Why This Veteran Engineer Says Better Models Don't Mean Better Software

    Chapters: 00:00 Meet Vadim, founder and CEO of Diffco 01:13 The 10x engineer myth and why the metric is an illusion 03:18 Cutting client costs by 4x, and the legacy codebase reality check 05:18 What he'd build today: the most unsexy, regulated industries 09:04 The three kinds of projects worth building 12:56 Wearing the advisor and investor hats 13:34 What he invests in: outsiders who challenge the status quo 16:42 The brutal truth about the founder journey 17:36 Careful founders don't win: energy over age 21:39 From coding assistants to full agentic development 24:59 We need architects, not coders 27:20 Approaching 100% AI-written code on new projects 29:16 The coming pricing crisis in software development 31:55 Where AI still falls short 34:30 Why better models don't equal better output 39:11 Two bold predictions for the next 12 to 18 months 42:13 Wrap up

  2. 1d ago

    Past Industrial Revolutions Took 100 Years. This One Takes 10. | Vitaly Golomb

    Chapters: 00:00 Meet Vitaly Golomb 01:32 Why job losses are inevitable this time 04:41 How close are autonomous trucks? 06:10 Manufacturing, China, and lights-out factories 07:30 The five robotics verticals his fund invests in 11:10 If capital doesn't need labor, who buys anything? 15:22 China's laws on replacing workers with robots 17:45 UBI, or why "negative income tax" might actually pass 20:27 Fixing US healthcare, one Medicare year at a time 22:40 US vs Canada healthcare 26:23 AI washing: which layoffs are real 30:00 The Displacement Machine and the grievance economy 36:38 America's unfair advantage: immigration 40:09 What he invests in and why 44:13 Why he's bearish on humanoid robots 47:48 Final thoughts

  3. 3d ago

    75% of VC Dollars Go to 3 Cities. She Left for Minnesota. | Mary Grove, Bread & Butter Ventures

    Chapters 00:00 Meet Mary Grove 00:22 Immigrant parents, an operating room nurse, and a clinic 02:25 From the IPO desk to building a global startup program 02:52 Why 75% of venture dollars still land in three cities 04:22 The capital efficiency case for building outside the coasts 05:40 Food tech, digital health, vertical SaaS, and why those three 07:31 Not trying to build the next Silicon Valley 08:31 Inside the Innovation Circle: 19 enterprise partners, 2,500 deals a year 11:21 Q-rounds and the deal a hospital partner handed back 13:57 Are we in an AI bubble? 16:27 Dot-com, 2008, and why post-crisis vintages perform 19:01 Encarta, Netscape, and the last time it felt this hyped 21:58 Human in the loop: where AI belongs in healthcare 22:42 Is AI bigger than the internet? 25:13 Building faster than the guardrails 27:27 Nostalgia, collectibles, and analog friction 29:32 85 companies in, and what she's most excited about 34:45 Women's health as the largest underserved market 36:45 Open office hours and how to reach the team

  4. Jul 15

    You Can Train Your Brain to Flow on Command | Steve Gullans

    My guest this week built a headset that turns your own brainwaves into a video game, and the point of that game is to teach your brain to drop into a flow state on demand, even under pressure. Steve Gullans spent 18 years as a scientist at Harvard Medical School, ran a venture fund, took a company public and rang the NASDAQ bell, then came out of retirement to bring this technology to market. His company, Thynk, is starting in public schools, where he says kids playing about an hour a week show calmer behavior and measurable gains, and it is moving next into elite sports. We get into why a big gaming company has not built this, what the data reveals about how distracted we have all become, what "neurodivergent" actually means, his take on peptides and GLP-1s, and the one piece of advice he gives every founder about the CEO's real job. Steve Gullans is the CEO of Thynk. He was previously a professor at Harvard Medical School, co-founded a venture fund with Juan Enriquez, and has been close to around 60 companies as a founder, investor, and operator. This conversation is for information and general interest. It is not medical advice. Subscribe for new episodes: Youtube link: [ https://www.youtube.com/@palebluenexus ] The Last 20, my newsletter: [NEWSLETTER LINK] The Aloomii Playbook eCourse: [aloomii.gumroad.com]

  5. Jul 7

    Why the S&P Buys More of a Company After Its Founder Dies

    Every index fund quietly does something strange. When a company's founder retires, sells, or passes away, the index buys more of that company, not less. Haren Bhakta thinks that is exactly backwards. On this episode of Pale Blue Nexus, the CEO and founder of Inside Ownership Index explains why he would rather own the leaders of a business than the logo, and why he went through roughly 20,000 proxy filings by hand to build the data that proves it. We get into the moment at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting that sparked the whole idea, the difference between a "zoo lion" CEO who gets fed whether or not the hunt succeeds and a "wild lion" owner-operator who feels the pain of every mistake, and a study of stocks that returned 100 times their money over 25 years, nearly all of which shared one trait before the run ever started. We also cover why the most dominant company in history faded once its owner stepped away from the board, and where disruption tends to come from once leadership no longer has real skin in the game. Guest: Haren Bhakta, CFA, CEO and founder of Inside Ownership Index. The ETF trades under the ticker OWN. Subscribe to Pale Blue Nexus so you never miss an episode, and drop a comment with the company you think owner alignment explains best. Learn more about the guest: insideownership.com (ticker: OWN) This conversation is for informational purposes only and is not investment advice.

  6. Jun 25

    The Logistics of Saving Food: Inside The Farmlink Project

    Eliza Blank built The Sill into one of the most recognizable houseplant brands in the country. Now she's CEO of The Farmlink Project, a national nonprofit moving 150 million pounds of surplus produce a year from farms to families facing food insecurity. In this conversation, she breaks down how a grassroots COVID-era effort by college students became one of the most efficient food recovery operations in North America, why relationships (not trucks or warehouses) are the real currency of food recovery, and what's actually going wrong for American farmers right now. Sponsored by Huckabuy & Aloomii

  7. Jun 8

    The AGI-Resistant Moat: Charles Cormier on What AI Can't Replace

    Founder and self-described "agentic power broker" Charles Cormier on why human relationships are the one moat AGI can't cross, how to use a podcast as your B2B funnel, and why comfort is death.

  8. May 26

    Inside a New $40M Fund Built to Fix Canada's Brain Drain | Nectarios Economakis

    What if the next frontier isn't a metaphor, it's a market? Venture capitalist Nectarios Economakis (Partner & Co-Founder, Amiral Ventures) just closed the first $40M of a new $75M fund built to keep Canada's best builders home. We start with the brain drain and end up at asteroid mining, and somehow it all connects. In this episode we get into why "San Francisco is just a wrapper on Waterloo," why Canada is great at inventing the future (two of the three godfathers of AI, the transformer, the smartphone) but bad at commercializing it, and what it actually takes to build a generational tech company north of the border. Then we go off-planet: collapsing launch costs, compute in orbit, solar cost down 99.7% since 1970, and why investing in space is really about helping things back here on this pale blue planet. ▶ WATCH & SUBSCRIBE:    / @palebluenexus   🎧 LISTEN (Apple Podcasts & more): https://palebluenexus.com 🌐 More from the show: https://palebluenexus.com — ABOUT THE GUEST — Nectarios Economakis is Partner & Co-Founder at Amiral Ventures, a founder-led Montréal VC firm backing the next generation of Canadian technology flagships. Previously co-founder of The PNR and the first business-development hire at Google Montréal. X: https://x.com/nectarios LinkedIn:   / nectareco   Amiral Ventures: https://amiral.vc — ABOUT PALE BLUE NEXUS — Pale Blue Nexus is a podcast about technology, AI, and what they mean for humans. New guest episodes regularly — subscribe so you don't miss the next one. 👉 Subscribe:    / @palebluenexus   💬 Drop a comment with your take on space, AI, or Canadian tech — we read them all. The Aloomii Playbook is the operator's manual for putting AI into relationship-driven businesses — not theory, not hype, just the system we use to run our own agent fleet (OpenClaw) and our clients'. Three editions for where you actually sit: Founder. Solopreneur. Operator Leader. → Get the Playbook on Gumroad — $179  https://www.aloomii.com/playbook/ https://aloomii.gumroad.com/

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Making sense of the future, from right here. Pale Blue Nexus is a podcast about the technologies reshaping our world, and what they mean for us as humans. Sponsored by Aloomii, subscribe to the newsletter at palebluenexus.com

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    Pale Blue Nexus
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    45
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