Speed Dial

with Atlas Berry

The show for tech, at the speed of now.

Episodes

  1. 4d ago

    Anthropic Just Filed to Go Public, and The Numbers Are Insane

    Anthropic is committing $400B toward their compute. Jack Dorsey blows Voice Models out of the water. A former venture capitalist now sells peptides as the future of medicine. Thank you DeLonghi for sponsoring this episode: https://www.delonghi.com/ Episode 3 of Speed Dial with Atlas Berry. I break down the week's biggest stories in tech and AI, then call some of the smartest people I know to get to the bottom of them. This week: • Anthropic files their S-1, making their finances public, and going for a November IPO. • Jack Dorsey's Block unveils Dessa, a new voice AI that runs on a MacBook Pro • Palantir wants to replace college with a 4 month fellowship for high school grads. • Warhound raised $200 million to gene-edit military dogs.• Health and Human Services opened the door for compounding pharmacies to make six popular peptides for humans. 📞 Ryan Hoover, Founder of Weekend Fund and Product Hunt, on the future of products in the ever-changing marketplace, the difference in the big tech companies now vs. the incumbents of the past, and how he assesses companies. 📞 Matt Mazzeo, Co-Founder and CEO of NOHO Labs, and former GP of Coatue, discusses the future of peptides after the government's actions this week, as well as the qualities he looks for in picking talent and founders to invest in. 📞 Kush Bavaria, CEO of Ornn, discusses the compute market, how selling futures works in the compute space, and the current chip market and it's implications on the future. Find Noho Labs at https://noholabs.com/Use code ATLASVIP for a special deal for Atlas's listeners. Chapters 00:00 Intro & this week's rundown 01:17 Anthropic's IPO 03:16 Jack Dorsey's Dessa 06:25 Why Go to College? 08:44 Dogs are getting an upgrade 11:59 Call: Ryan Hoover 21:52 Call: Matt Mazzeo 33:21 Call: Kush Bavaria 40:25 What we learned Frontier Newsletter: https://frontier.m1c.vc/ Frontier Membership: https://frontiermembership.circle.so/checkout/frontier-membership IG: https://www.instagram.com/atlasberry008 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/atlasberry/ X: https://x.com/atlasberry008 TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@atlasberry008

  2. Oct 26

    The Elizabeth Holmes Doc Just Beat Sorkin's Zuckerberg Movie

    SpaceX now makes more renting out compute than from Starlink. A former Starlink engineer is building satellites that come home. Marlon Nichols says software isn't a moat anymore. Thank you DeLonghi for sponsoring this episode: https://www.delonghi.com/ Episode 2 of Speed Dial with Atlas Berry. I break down the week's biggest stories in tech and AI, then call some of the smartest people I know to get to the bottom of them. This week: • SpaceX's $14.6B quarter, where renting compute beat Starlink for the first time • Tesla and SpaceX merger talk • Blue Origin asks the FAA for 50 launches a year out of Florida • Zuckerberg's $200B superintelligence bet and "entrepreneurship on hard mode" • Hollywood bets on the tech backlash: The Social Reckoning flops, You Can See Everything breaks out 📞 Brian Taylor, founder and CEO of Lux Aeterna and an early Starlink engineer, on building the first reusable satellite, why reentry matters, and what more launch competition opens up for startups. 📞 Marlon Nichols, co-founder of MaC Venture Capital, on why software isn't a moat anymore, why startups shouldn't build their own frontier model, AI's energy problem, and why Hollywood needs a villain. Chapters 00:00 Intro & this week's rundown 00:44 SpaceX's $14.6B quarter 02:13 Tesla + SpaceX merger talk 03:23 Blue Origin goes for 50 launches a year 05:16 Zuckerberg's $200B bet 08:23 Hollywood bets on the tech backlash 11:43 Call: Brian Taylor 22:39 Call: Marlon Nichols 32:12 What we learned Frontier Newsletter: https://frontier.m1c.vc/   Frontier Membership: https://frontiermembership.circle.so/checkout/frontier-membership  IG: https://www.instagram.com/atlasberry008  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/atlasberry/  X: https://x.com/atlasberry008  TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@atlasberry008

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