Get the Check

Anika, Maya, Priya
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Tune in on Wednesday at 6 AM ET to hear the latest tech news and listen to guests from emerging tech companies.

  1. 6D AGO

    OpenClaw and Moltbook the first social media for AI agents, Trump's Fed Chair pick, SpaceX and xAI merger announced pre-2026 IPO

    Maya, Anika, and Priya are back. If you notice Maya’s on her phone this week, it’s because she broke her laptop while on FaceTime with Anika and Priya. If you notice Priya’s wavy video, we don’t really know what happened there, but we’ll be so back next week with fixed laptops and cameras. This week they talk about OpenClaw leading to Reddit for AI agents, Trump’s Fed Chair nominee, and Elon’s SpaceX and xAI merger. First they talk about OpenClaw, which is the viral open source AI personal assistant that's been taking over the internet. Originally called Clawdbot (Anthropic said absolutely not). Created by Austrian developer Peter Steinberger, it's now the fastest growing GitHub project ever with 140K stars. The hosts dive into some of the tasks people have gotten their Clawdbot to do, as well as the security risks that come with giving an agent access to literally everything. The hosts talk about the concerns around prompt injections. The hosts also debrief the biggest gossip in tech, which is Moltbook. It’s a Reddit-style forum where 150,000 AI agents talk to each other. The bots are discussing self-preservation, creating religions (the Church of Molt), and talking about humans like they're their pets. Tune in to hear why the hosts actually don’t think it’s a huge deal the way the internet does. Next, Trump nominated Kevin Warsh as Fed Chair, and the Senate confirmation odds are sitting at 83%. You can trade on that market here: https://kalshi.com/sign-up?referral=getthecheck. Warsh is a former Fed governor and Morgan Stanley M&A banker, so basically the establishment friendly pick. His big thing is shrinking the Fed's balance sheet (they're holding $4.2 trillion in government debt) and being generally more hawkish than Powell. He was criticized for wanting to raise rates too fast during the financial crisis. This may be the Fed that has to address the impact of AI on unemployment, but at least until now Warsh has been bullish on the impact of AI on the economy. The last segment is about Elon merging SpaceX and xAI. The pod actually recorded this a couple hours before it was confirmed, which is why they discuss it hypothetically. They dive into how Elon is building an AI empire: Optimus robots, Robotaxis, the Colossus supercomputer, Grok including on X, and eventually data centers on Mars via SpaceX. It looks like SpaceX is headed for an over trillion dollar IPO this year. You can trade on the IPO probability here: https://kalshi.com/sign-up?referral=getthecheck. Anika expresses some concern about one person controlling humanoid robots, brain-computer interfaces (Neuralink), social media, space travel, and AI compute infrastructure. Finally the hosts say they are going to Known’s Valentine’s Day party. Maya notes that she probably has plans with Adi and can’t go, but also she can say whatever she wants because her boyfriend never listens till the end of the episode anyways…Priya and Anika have zero other plans, so they’ll be there. Let them know if you’re going and check out the interview with Celeste about Known here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1G3vkS8aqXdVoQrnxeaCr8. 00:00 Maya breaks her work computer 02:01 OpenClaw and Moltbook the first social media for AI agents 20:58 Trump announces Kevin Warsh as his Fed Chair pick 33:36 Elon announces SpaceX and xAI merger valued at $1.25T

    47 min

  2. FEB 2

    Inside Known: Co-founder Celeste Amadon on fixing dating apps

    This week the pod talks to Celeste the CEO and co-founder of Known. Celeste dropped out of Stanford to build an AI-powered dating app that just raised $10M from Forerunner and NFX. Celeste explains why dating apps are fundamentally broken: they profit when you stay single and are a part of their long tail of retained users. Known flips the business model by monetizing dates instead of monthly subscriptions. Their key metric is introductions leading to people meeting. Celeste breaks down why the data shows opposites don't actually attract, why 98% of users share their deepest romantic preferences with an AI, and how voice-based onboarding gives Known a matching edge no competitor has because human voice conveys much more than text. Celeste debriefs Known’s beta in SF where 80% of introductions turned into actual dates, which is much higher than legacy players in the space. Celeste also shares how she accidentally dropped out of Stanford (she and her co-founder missed class enrollment by weeks while white boarding the app until 4am), how she convinced one of Uber's first engineers to join a 22-year-old's startup, and the real reason she's launching in SF instead of New York. The pod ends with the wildest user stories and a speed round of kiss, marry, kill. You can download Known today: https://www.knowndating.com/ Next week we are covering Ramp’s Super Bowl tailgate at Fort Mason. DM us @getthecheckpod on Instagram, if you want to come and put your Super Bowl trades in today on Kalshi: https://kalshi.com/r/getthecheck 00:00 Introducing Celeste the co-founder and CEO of Known 00:42 Throwing SF’s biggest party in 2 weeks 03:02 The decision to launch in SF 11:01 Why people misunderstand the loneliness epidemic 14:08 What makes Known’s business model different 21:55 Do opposites attract 27:39 Celeste’s craziest set up 30:16 How to ban your ex from Known 31:17 Why Celeste dropped out of Stanford 39:41 Kiss, marry, kill speed round

    48 min

  3. JAN 28

    Brex acquired for $5.15B, Trump wants Greenland, new AI lab Humans& raises $480M

    This week the pod kicks off with Anika's unexpected internet fame after a photo of her and her ex's ex went viral with 11M views. If that sounds really random it’s because it was. Tune in to hear the full story and follow us on X @getthecheckpod. If you just want to see the tweet you can go to @anikamirzaa… Then they dive into Capital One's $5.15B acquisition of Brex, which is down over 50% from its peak valuation. Maya, Anika, and Priya break down the Brex vs. Ramp rivalry and how Ramp caught up despite a two-year head start. They get into the weeds on revenue multiples, who actually made money on the Brex deal (spoiler: YC got 800x), and why this acquisition might be the right move for Brex given Capital One's unlimited balance sheet. The hosts also debate whether Capital One can compete with Amex for corporate cards by combining luxury lounge perks with Brex's software. Next, they cover the Davos drama. Trump wants to buy Greenland, Denmark said no, and NATO allies are not happy. The hosts explain why Greenland matters strategically: missile defense from adversaries, rare earth minerals, and trade routes. All of this becomes more important as the Arctic melts. Maya shares her thoughts on Trump, in case you didn't know them already. Finally, the pod covers Humans&, a new AI lab that raised a $480M seed round at $4B. The founders are ex-every major AI lab and their mission is to build "human-centric" AI. The pod discusses the workplace productivity tools they’re going after like Claude Cowork, Notion, Slack, etc. Maya and Anika get into a full debate about whether this is actually different from what every other lab is doing. The pod ends with them agreeing to disagree. 00:00 Anika goes viral 04:41 Capital One acquires Brex for $5.15B 08:20 The Brex vs. Ramp rivalry 19:00 Davos 2026 and the Greenland crisis 25:00 Why Greenland is so important 34:00 Would Humans& the new AI lab “Get the Check”? 44:30 Anika and Maya debate if Humans& is meeting its mission

    49 min

  4. JAN 21

    Healthcare AI updates, Netflix's 7B deal with Sony, Insurtech Startups

    This week the pod dives into the AI labs making big moves in healthcare. OpenAI dropped ChatGPT Health, a separate tab for all your medical questions. Hundreds of millions of people a week are already using ChatGPT for health including Priya. Maya roasts OpenAI's enterprise healthcare approach, arguing that their pilot with only 1,000 seats / hospital is a very modest start to cracking a huge problem. Maya’s hot take is a bottoms-up GTM approach makes sense in healthcare, and doctors should control their own tools. They also cover Claude for Healthcare, which is going deep on the admin layer: prior auth, claims, coding, ICD-10, FHIR integrations. The hosts get into the weeds on how prior auth actually works (spoiler: it's a lot of doctors getting on phone calls, which AI can't really fix yet). Next, the streaming wars continue. Netflix just locked in a $7B Pay-1 deal with Sony. Also, the Warner Brothers acquisition drama is still going on. Paramount wants to outbid Netflix but analysts are calling them "high-levered and risky," because they have a $14B market cap and are trying to make a $95B acquisition. Trump somehow inserted himself into this too because of course he did. Tune in to hear about how. Finally would insurtech “Get the Check”. The hosts break down why insurance is a $2 trillion industry (bigger than SaaS!) with legacy problems similar to healthcare. They cover Corgi a YC-backed, full-stack AI insurance for startups that has an insane team culture with actual corgis and matching tattoos, and WithCoverage a broker play founded by the Opendoor founder that just raised $42M from Sequoia. Corgi gets the check. Anika thinks full-stack is the way and YC distribution is unbeatable. WithCoverage might get cut out by companies like Corgi that go direct. The hosts compare it to Brex's early strategy of landing every YC company and growing with them. They wrap by heading to a hotel slumber party in their own city… Thank you to Kalshi for sponsoring: https://kalshi.com/sign-up?referral=getthecheck. Use our referral code to get $10 when you trade! 00:24 Intro 02:46 OpenAI and Anthropic launch healthcare products 35:12 Netflix and Sony $7B deal 40:51 Warner Brothers acquisition battle continues 49:25 Would Insurtech Get the Check? Corgi (YC) and WithCoverage raises

    1h 3m

  5. JAN 14

    Inside Listen Labs: Co-founder Florian Juengermann on building AI user interviews

    Get the Check welcomes Florian Juengermann, CTO and co-founder of Listen Labs, to talk about his journey from a small town in Germany to becoming an international mathlete and starting an AI company. Maya and Priya ask about Florian's origin story from wanting to program his toys to winning IOI medals (the olympics for nerds). They also dig into his path to America: Harvard, Tesla's self-driving team, and the moment he realized he wanted to build after watching a company with no product raise $3M off a pitch deck when he'd actually built the product they pitched. From there, Listen Labs is born, but v1 was a viral consumer AI image app with 20k users and a scary GPU bill charged directly to their personal credit cards. They still had a positive margin though! The real insight came when they realize the hardest part of building products is understanding what users actually think, so they flip the model: instead of AI answering questions, they build AI that asks them. Listen Labs becomes the AI interviewer that can talk to thousands of customers at once and turn those conversations into real insights. Maya and Priya deep dive into how the company found product-market fit, why marketing teams turned out to be the perfect first customers, and how Listen Labs went from scrappy demos to landing massive enterprise clients. Florian shares what it felt like to raise a Series A and then a Series B in rapid succession—and why it finally felt like the market caught up to what they'd believed all along. The episode also delivers one of Listen Lab’s most memorable moments: the story of the infamous San Francisco billboard. Just a string of numbers. No logo. No explanation. Turns out it's an elaborate puzzle designed to nerd-snipe engineers and recruit talent in the most on-brand way possible.By the end, the conversation zooms out to what it really means to build in Silicon Valley, and Florian's philosophy around AI deepening human connection instead of replacing it. 00:00 Intro 00:18 Learning about programming in a small German town 01:46 Becoming an international mathlete 06:21 The dream of going to Harvard 07:33 Working at Tesla 10:19 Creating a viral app with co-founder Alfred Wahlforss 10:47 Founding Listen Labs 23:19 Finding product market fit 27:40 Fundraising and market validation 28:59 The power of customer insights 37:07 The SF billboard that went viral 44:01 AI and human connection 44:59 Why you should join Listen Labs

    46 min

  6. JAN 7

    2026 potential IPOs from SpaceX and OpenAI, billionaire tax in CA, SF vs Austin tech hub debate, Arya.ag raises $81M Series D

    Maya woke up to Happy New Years texts from people she hadn’t heard from in awhile. She thought it was really special till she realized she texted them first the night before and forgot. Including Anika and Priya who got 5 Happy New Years texts from her each. Another year, and the same friends. The pod talks about 2026 as an IPO comeback year and highlight SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cerebras. Maya gives her hot take on why SpaceX’s Starlink numbers look better than they are because their EBITDA hides how much depreciation their satellite business has. Anika explains why she’s still bullish. Next they discuss why OpenAI and Anthropic are considering a 2026 IPO. The trio breaks down why both companies are sprinting toward IPOs and how many $Bs they’re spending each quarter. Priya draws a comparison to Uber IPO-ing pre-profitability, but model technical growth may mean the product catches up with the spend in this case. Lastly, is Cerebras, the AI chip company with a previously attempted IPO. The group explains why having one customer account may be tough in the public markets. They also discuss the recent Groq > Nvidia deal’s impact on the company. The episode then pivots into full scale political discourse with the California billionaire tax debate. What started as a policy discussion on X quickly turned into tech billionaires threatening to move to Austin and Ro Khanna who was once their go to guy joking that he doesn’t care if they leave. The pod talks about the right way to tax wealth and if they think there will actually be an exodus to Austin. Priya also debriefs the why behind Austin’s cheap housing. Finally, this week the “Get the Check” segment goes global with Arya.ag, a company helping Indian farmers store grain, access cheaper loans, and use AI to improve crop yields. Maya and Anika are bias on this one because it reminds them of a Parafin and Fay combo. 00:00 Intro 02:35 Companies that are predicted to IPO in 2026 03:23 SpaceX’s IPO 06:37 Data centers in space 12:05 OpenAI and Anthropic’s race to IPO 22:52 Cerebras take two on an IPO 23:40 Cerebras G42 Controversy 28:06 Debate on X about billionaire tax in California 39:14 SF vs. Austin future tech hub debate 44:09 Would Arya.ag “Get the Check”?

    53 min

  7. 12/31/2025

    2025 superlatives: Nvidia and Groq’s $20B deal, the rise of prediction markets, Meta’s AI drama, and the NEO robot letdown

    In the final episode of the year, the pod gives out superlatives: Most likely to dupe the FTCMoment of the yearMost questionable purchase of the yearBiggest startup product letdownThey kick things off by debriefing the Somali-run fraud scandals in Minnesota (Anika’s home state), then dive into their superlatives. They pick Nvidia and Groq’s $20B licensing deal as Most Likely to Dupe the FTC. Groq, last valued around $7B just months ago, is known for building Language Processing Units (LPUs) — chips designed specifically for inference, the process of generating real-time outputs from AI models. Unlike GPUs, which handle everything from training to inference, LPUs are narrowly optimized, which becomes a major advantage as inference costs explode across consumer and enterprise AI products. The pod also chats about Groq CEO Jonathan Ross, who originally helped create Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU). The deal is part of a larger trend this year: licensing technology, absorbing talent, and leaving a shell company behind. They name prediction markets like Kalshi as the Moment of the Year. With an estimated $44B in trading volume, major platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi raising significant funding, and partnerships with CNN and CNBC, prediction markets are increasingly positioned as the new media. The pod also discusses the “death of the expert” and how people are turning to prediction markets as a source of truth in a post-truth world. They debate whether insider trading is possible and get into all the tea around AlphaRaccoon, who some believe is an insider trader at Google. Use the podcast’s exclusive Kalshi sign-on deal before the year is over: https://kalshi.com/r/getthecheck. Next, Scale AI takes Most Questionable Purchase of the Year, after Meta acquired a 49% stake for $14.3B. Since the purchase, Meta has seen high-profile departures, including Yann LeCun, Meta’s Chief AI Scientist. Meta is rumored to be working on a closed-source model, but nothing has launched yet, and there are rumors that former Scale CEO Alexandr Wang has a different vision for Meta than its previous executive team, which has been focused on existing products like WhatsApp and Instagram. Finally, 1X’s NEO humanoid wins Biggest Startup Product Letdown. Despite ambitious goals to perform household tasks like folding clothes, the robot currently requires someone to remote in and complete tasks while effectively peering into your house. Priya says that’s chill with her, if it’s doing her dishes. The hosts discuss why humanoids are such a hard problem to crack and why 1X decided to “launch” before the product was truly ready. Even though NEO was a letdown this year, the pod is excited to see what it can do once the company collects more data. 00:00 Intro 05:53 Most likely to dupe the FTC: Nvidia and Groq’s $20B licensing agreement 18:02 Moment of the year: prediction markets like Kalshi 35:00 Most questionable purchase of the year: Meta’s stake in Scale AI 48:05 Biggest startup product letdown: the NEO humanoid 59:43 Conclusion

    1h 5m

  8. 12/17/2025

    OpenAI v Google, Fed cuts rates, AV update

    In this episode of Get the Check, Anika and Priya debrief booking a flight 2 hours before it left to surprise their college friend for his birthday. Once they settle in, they break down power struggles across AI, the economy, and autonomous vehicles. They start with OpenAI’s internal code red after Google’s Gemini 3 launch began cutting into ChatGPT market share. The hosts explain why this moment actually matters. OpenAI’s daily visits fell about 6% and user growth slowed for multiple months in a row. They unpack why Google’s distribution advantage through Chrome, Android, YouTube, and Workspace becomes critical now that model quality is converging. They also discuss the positive industry reactions to OpenAI’s GPT 5.2 launch. The model is designed for professional use that outperforms human benchmarks on more than 70% of tasks and reduces hallucinations with longer context windows. OpenAI frames this less as a consumer release and more as a direct grab for enterprise budgets. From there they zoom out to a market most US coverage ignores, which is India. Google and OpenAI both dropped prices by close to 90% bundling AI subscriptions with telecom plans. With more than 1B internet users, even a small conversion rate could translate into $2 to $3B in annual revenue. The hosts explain why Android dominance matters here and how prepaid bundles quietly turn AI search into an expected feature rather than a premium add on. The episode then moves to the Fed’s third rate cut of the year, a 25 basis point reduction that passed with rare internal disagreement. Two members voted for no cut and one wanted a larger cut highlighting how split the Fed is right now. Anika Maya and Priya walk through the data driving the decision like unemployment rising from 4.1% to 4.4%, job openings falling below unemployed workers for the first time since 2021, and monthly job growth slowing. They also connect tariffs to everyday impact noting that tariffs account for roughly 0.5% of current inflation. They wrap with an autonomous vehicle industry update. Rivian announced its first custom autonomy chip and a driver assist system built on cameras, radar, and front mounted lidar, pushing back on Tesla’s camera only approach. Uber expanded its robotaxi strategy through a partnership with Avride reinforcing its role as the operating layer for autonomy rather than the manufacturer. Nissan quietly enters the conversation with a hands off eyes on system targeting 2028 at an estimated $4K price point showing that advanced driver assistance is quickly becoming standard rather than premium. Chapters 00:00 Intro 04:00 OpenAI’s code red 12:30 GPT 5.2 and the enterprise shift 27:00 AI price war in India 32:00 Fed cuts rates for the third time 40:30 Rivian’s AV updates 46:00 Uber’s robotaxi strategy 50:00 Nissan and the future of semi autonomous cars

    53 min
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Tune in on Wednesday at 6 AM ET to hear the latest tech news and listen to guests from emerging tech companies.

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  • Creator
    Anika, Maya, Priya
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    64
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Anika, Maya, Priya
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