Sovereigns

Ryan Cunningham + Lesley Gao

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.

Episodes

  1. Coming Soon: Sovereigns

    05/30/2025

    Coming Soon: Sovereigns

    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.

    4 min

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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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  • Creator
    Ryan Cunningham + Lesley Gao
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    1
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © EDGERUNNER LLC 2025
  • Show Website
    Sovereigns