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Episodes

  1. 10/10/2025

    9. Shravan Nageswaran, Atman Labs

    Shravan Nageswaran is the founder of applied AI startup Atman Labs, attempting to create proactive AI capable of emulating human expertise, but using a contrasting approach to the modern standard of LLMs. He used to lead growth at Worldcoin, working alongside Sam Altman. Core topics covered: expanding awareness, the broken founder dilemma, learnings from Worldcoin and Sam Altman, the limits of LLMs and Chain-of-Thought, the Atman architecture. Chapters (00:00) Intro (02:50) The Conscious Flywheel (21:00) Finite or Infinite Energy (32:30) Parental Imprinting (37:50) Standup, Acting, and other energy sources (51:00) Reactive vs Proactive founders (01:07:00) Shrav's first projects (01:12:00) Worldcoin and Sam Altman (01:36:30) The issue with LLMs (01:42:15) the Atman Labs Architecture (02:20:20) Why Atman is called Atman

    2h 29m

  2. 10/02/2023

    8. Sasha Kaletsky, Creator Ventures

    Sasha Kaletsky is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Creator Ventures, $20m VC fund focused on consumer internet investing, founded with celebrity Youtuber (and cousin) Caspar Lee. Topics: Death and Rebirth of the creator economy Learnings from the failed Threads launch How AI-generated content will break social platforms Models of Influencer-led business and startups Investing in Beehiv and ElevenLabs AI content creation tools Links: - Subscribe on Youtube: https://youtu.be/S7m2b_PRCGY - Follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/michelangelo_mv - Follow the guest: https://x.com/sashakaletsky?s=21&t=8xtXp6H6lXtB21sRsK7qBg - Creator Ventures: https://www.creator.ventures/ - Partner of the show: https://twitter.com/0xTajigen

    1h 21m

  3. 07/12/2023

    7. Hyper-scalable simulations and MMOs (Rashid Mansoor, Founder of Metagravity)

    The next frontier of game engines, infinitely scalable persistent games, real-time hyper-scalable simulations, distributed cloud game engines, breaking the technical limits in MMOs infrastructure. Follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/michelangelo_mv Follow the guest: linkedin.com/in/rashidmansoor Metagravity: https://www.linkedin.com/company/metagravityltd/ https://techfundingnews.com/londons-metagravity-ropes-in-9-5m-to-build-interoperable-decentralised-compute-infrastructure-for-metaverse/ Partner of the show: https://twitter.com/0xTajigen Guest Bio: Rashid Mansoor, founder and CEO of Metagravity (https://techfundingnews.com/londons-metagravity-ropes-in-9-5m-to-build-interoperable-decentralised-compute-infrastructure-for-metaverse/) . From being a doctor of research in topology of complex and chaotic systems to founding Adbrain (https://www.thetradedesk.com/us/news/press-room/the-trade-desk-acquires-the-assets-of-adbrain-ltd) and Hadean (https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/23/distributed-computing-startup-hadean-nabs-30m-to-power-the-metaverse/). With Hedean, he broke world records (https://www.ccpgames.com/news/2019/ccp-games-and-hadean-go-for-world-record-with-eve-aether-wars-phase-iii-at) for largest concurrent gaming sessions at events such as GDC, Gamescom and G-Star. Today he is the founder and CEO of Metagravity where he’s building the distributed compute infrastructure for metaverse gaming and virtual world simulations.

    1h 46m

  4. 04/13/2023

    6. History and Future of Communication through AR (Janosch Amstutz, founder Beem)

    Augmented Reality, Holograms, History and Future of Communication, the status of the AR cycle, the broken gaming metaverse. - Subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@chaotica.michelangelo - Follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/michelangelo_mv - Follow the guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janosch-amstutz-98b71093/ - Startup Beem: https://www.beem.me/ - Partner of the show: https://twitter.com/0xTajigen Guest bio: Janosch grew up in Australia on a hippie community with counter culture parents. His startup Beem just raised around $4.5m by Ascension and 5Lion Ventures - and it enables users to communicate with others live or on-demand in augmented reality. If you're wearing AR glasses, it shoots a hologram of the person you're calling you directly into your field of view.

    1h 29m
  5. 5. From the Pirate Age to the Blockchain Era (JP Vergne, Blockchain Researcher)

    03/18/2023

    5. From the Pirate Age to the Blockchain Era (JP Vergne, Blockchain Researcher)

    Jean-Philippe Vergne is an Associate Researcher of strategy and blockchain at the UCL School of Management. His award-winning research on piracy and on the rise of blockchain-powered organizations has been published in leading academic journals. His latest work is focused on defining and measuring decentralisation. Are DAOs effective organisations or are we misunderstanding their purpose?Themes discussed: Decentralisation, DAOs, Piracy. Follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/michelangelo_mv Follow the guest: https://twitter.com/PirateOrg Follow the partners: https://twitter.com/0xTajigen

    2h 4m
  6. 4. Inspiring through Virtual Reality (Maxim Perumal, founder UNAI)

    12/09/2022

    4. Inspiring through Virtual Reality (Maxim Perumal, founder UNAI)

    Maxim bio: 21yo hardware philosopher Maxim Perumal. At 15, from his small room, he built the world's most popular open-source VR Headset that you could build yourself at home for $100 bucks. After meeting the Chief Oculus Architect, he turned down working for Meta at 15. Later on, he started Unai: whilst everyone is focusing on mass market and gaming VR,  he’s trying to achieve the iphone moment for VR by focusing solely on remote presence, and building the full stack himself, from hardware  to OS, to protocol to content. We backed his vision here at Stride, and other investors include La Famiglia, NFX, Lachy Groom and Naval and Steve Jobs’ trusted Chief of Communication, James Vincent. Themes discussed: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, metaverse, virtual worlds. Follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/michelangelo_mv Follow the guest: https://twitter.com/maxim_xyz Follow the partners: https://twitter.com/0xTajigen

    1h 51m
  7. 3. Defining the metaverse (Sam Huber, CEO LandVault)

    11/15/2022

    3. Defining the metaverse (Sam Huber, CEO LandVault)

    Guest bio: CEO of LandVault (previously Admix), the world's largest metaverse builder with over 120 builders. Raised $37M from Elefund, Notion Capital, Force over Mass, Speedinvest, DIP Capital, SVV, Rocket Capital. Sam is also owner of the community Good Morning Web3, with over 30k members. Themes discussed in the episode: metaverse, game engines and 3d rendering, future of brands, interoperability, new blockchain business models, virtual land. - Follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/michelangelo_mv - Follow the guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samhuber/ - Partner of the show: https://twitter.com/0xTajigen Tags: Unreal Engine, Unity, The Sandbox, Decentraland, Horizon Venues, future of brands, blockchain, Virtual Land

    1h 3m
  8. 2. Decentralising art curation (Jordan Topoleski, founder of Arkive)

    10/28/2022

    2. Decentralising art curation (Jordan Topoleski, founder of Arkive)

    Guest bio: Jordan Topoleski is 22 years old, dropped out of Harvard twice, and is now building Arkive, the world’s first decentralised museum. DAO members can vote on which artwork to add to the collection and where they get exhibited. It is testing the limits of collective intelligence and DAO engineering. Cofounded alongside Thomas McLeod and Aleksander Herforth Rendtslev, they just raised $9.7m from Offline Ventures, TGC Crypto, NFX, Not Boring Capital. Themes discussed: collective intelligence, optimal DAO structures, voting mechanisms, art and originality, Artificial Intelligence. - Follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/michelangelo_mv - Follow the guest: https://twitter.com/itsjordantop - Partner of the show: https://twitter.com/0xTajigen Tags: DAO, decentralised autonomous organisation, Decentralised Museum, Decentralised Art, ArkiveDAO, Arkive, Thomas McLeod, Jordan Topoleski, generative ai, generative art, dall-e 2, Eniac patent

    1h 58m
  9. 1. Digital Identity and Web3 Credentials (woj.eth, founder of Mazury)

    10/14/2022

    1. Digital Identity and Web3 Credentials (woj.eth, founder of Mazury)

    Interview with Woj.eth, founder of Mazury (https://mazury.xyz/) Mazury is a platform to hire using web3 credentials (POAPs, NFTs, Soulbound tokens, Buildspace 101, Sismo GitPOAP, Kudos). They aggregate data from all over the internet and blockchain to give employers verifiable and granular information about candidates. For instance, recruiters can now screen candidates twho have a POAP showing they participated at ETHGlobal Hackaton. In the episode we discuss: web3 credentials, future of work, people search engines, digital Identity, privacy concerns with the blockchain, anonymity, soulbound tokens, eth wallets and web3 authentication. Follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/michelangelo_mv Follow the guest: https://twitter.com/wojtekwtf Partner of the show: https://twitter.com/0xTajigen

    1h 37m
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Follow the signal. Hosted by Michelangelo.

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  • Creator
    Michelangelo Valtancoli
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2025
  • Episodes
    9
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Michelangelo Valtancoli
  • Show Website
    Chaotica