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Episodes
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Best Of 5/7/2026 | AI Matchmaking, OpenAI Testimony and Hantavirus Risk
Best Of May 7, 2026: Musk v. Altman trial testimony, Hantavirus Outbreak, Anthropic's natural language auto-encoder research, Robin Hanson's cultural drift…
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Nico Laqua on Corgi, Raising $100M Pre-Revenue, and AI Coverage | MTS Live
Nico Laqua joins MTS to discuss building Corgi as a full-stack insurance carrier, raising capital to navigate heavy regulation, and launching coverage for AI…
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Anthropic Is So Desperate for Compute They Took Elon's GPUs
Gerrit De Vynck joins MTS to discuss Anthropic's compute constraints, Claude Code's rapid growth in usage and revenue, and the company's strategy for securing…
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Best Of 5/6/26 | Elon v. Altman Trial Revelations, DeepSeek Funding, and Insurance AI
The best moments from MTS on May 6: Gerrit De Vink on courtroom revelations from the Musk v. Altman trial including Greg Brockman's diary and Ilya's Tesla…
MTSWallStreetBets on GameStop's eBay Bid, Michael Burry, and Speculation | MTS Live
WallStreetBets joins MTS to discuss GameStop's eBay acquisition offer, Ryan Cohen's strategy, and market dynamics between AI growth and oil supply shocks…
MTSHarley Finkelstein on Shopify's Q1 Results, Sidekick AI, and Scaling GMV Past $100 Billion | Live on MTS
Harley Finkelstein joins MTS to discuss Shopify's strong Q1 performance, the company's hundred year vision, and how merchant solutions leverage economies of…
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Best Of 5/5/26 | White House AI Policy, Shopify Earnings, GameStop Bid for eBay
The best moments from MTS on May 5, 2026: Dean Ball on the Trump administration's shift toward reviewing frontier AI models before release and what a workable…
MTSVictor Cardenas on Slash's Latest Raise, AI Productivity Gains, and One Person Companies | Live on MTS
Victor Cardenas joins MTS to discuss how Slash uses AI agents to automate back office operations, the emergence of massive revenue companies with tiny…
MTSAlex Sammon on Florida's Orange Decline, Real Estate Growth, and Supply Chain Shifts | MTS Live
Alex Sammon joins MTS to discuss the collapse of Florida's orange industry, the shift of production to Brazil, and how Wall Street consolidation and real…
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Best Of 5/4/26 | Why Florida Oranges Are Dying, GameStop Buying eBay, and the Leanest Fintech in the World
The best moments from MTS on May 4, 2026: the collapse of Florida's orange industry, hyperfinancialization and the case for memory stocks, and how Slash built…
MTSBalaji Srinivasan and Taylor Lorenz on Creator Economy, Internet Freedom, and Decentralized Media | MTS Live
Balaji Srinivasan and Taylor Lorenz join MTS to discuss the rise of the creator economy, the importance of internet freedom in light of age verification laws…
MTSGary Leff on Spirit's Cost Structure, Consumer Preferences, and Ultra-Low-Cost Carriers | MTS Live
Gary Leff joins MTS to discuss Spirit Airlines' bankruptcy and the ultra low cost carrier model, how basic economy fares helped legacy airlines compete more…
MTSVlad Tenev on Robinhood's Wealth Transfer Strategy, Prediction Markets, and Agentic Trading | MTS Live
Vlad Tenev joins MTS to discuss Robinhood's expansion into prediction markets, the company's strategy for tokenizing private companies and real-world assets…
MTSHans Niemann on Building Endgame, Chess Streaming, and Tournament Structure | MTS Live
Hans Niemann joins MTS to discuss building Endgame with AI coaching features, the differences between blitz and classical chess, and how government support in…
MTSGreg Eisenberg on Codex, Agentic Engineering, and the Chief Clipping Officer | MTS Live
Greg Eisenberg joins MTS to discuss why Codex is becoming a super app, how companies should reverse engineer short form video for distribution, and why one…
MTSWill O'Brien on the Ocean Drone Gap, US vs China, and the Hamilton Society | MTS Live
Will O'Brien joins MTS to discuss why the ocean lost its cultural cachet as a frontier after the 1960s and how Ulysses is working to revive it, where the US…
MTSGeoffrey Woo on Attention Economy, Creator Durability, and Character Building | MTS Live
Geoffrey Woo joins MTS to discuss Anti Fund's investment strategy, the importance of attention and character for founders, and how creators build durability by…
MTSCold Healing on TikTok Anthropology, Social Media Friendships, and Dimes Square | MTS Live
Cold Healing joins MTS to discuss why young people should still move to big cities, the durability of New York and San Francisco against rivals like Austin and…
MTSKylie Robinson on Scoops Culture, Hard Tech, and San Francisco's Rental Market | MTS Live
Kylie Robinson joins MTS to discuss her takeaways from interviewing Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, including Altman's claim that OpenAI plans to manufacture its…
MTSLyn Alden | Semiconductor Bottlenecks, Stablecoin Growth, Stagflation Risk Live on MTS
Lyn Alden joins MTS to discuss the semiconductor rally and where value accumulates in the AI buildout, the divergence between Bitcoin and software stocks, and…
MTSSheel Mohnot on AI Acquisitions, Strategic Voting, and Airline Business Models | MTS Live
Sheel Mohnot joins MTS to discuss the blocked Meta acquisition of Manus AI, California's jungle primary system and the governor race, and the structural…
MTSSteven Sinofsky, Aaron Levie, Martin Casado on The Silicon Valley Gap, Agents as Users, Integration Walls | MTS Live
Steven Sinofsky, Aaron Levie, and Martin Casado join MTS to discuss the widening gap between Silicon Valley and enterprise AI adoption, why agents should be…
MTSShaun Maguire on Middle East, China, SpaceX | MTS Live
Shaun Maguire joins MTS to discuss the two positions he calls the most controversial of the past year, pro Israel and pro data centers, covering the strategic…
MTSPacky McCormick on Ocean Data Centers, Super Hot Geothermal, and Stranded Energy | MTS Live
Packy McCormick joins MTS to discuss ocean-based data centers, stranded energy assets powering the AI buildout, and the state of tech optimism in 2026. --…
MTSSignüll on Relationships as Economy, Hinge Streamers, Apple AI | MTS Live
Signüll joins MTS to discuss why modern dating apps are broken, his thesis that the internet tends to reverse pre existing social norms, and what Apple's next…
MTS10x Engineer on Claude vs Codex, Open Source Models, The End of LeetCode | MTS Live
10x Engineer joins MTS to discuss the backlash over Anthropic's silent token limit test, the tradeoffs between Claude Code and Codex for daily development, and…
MTSTaylor Lorenz on Online Culture, Phone Bans, AI Aesthetics | MTS Live
Taylor Lorenz joins MTS to discuss what makes new media experiments work, why she opposes school phone bans, and how AI-generated aesthetics and streamer…
MTSBen Smith | Secret Group Chats, Semafor, Media Fog of War Live on MTS
Ben Smith of Semafor joins MTS to discuss Marc Andreessen's retreat from media and the group chat era that followed, how Semafor was built to go straight up…
MTSMartin Shkreli | OpenAI vs Anthropic, Optical Computing, Pharma Economics Live on MTS
Martin Shkreli joins MTS to discuss the OpenAI and Anthropic rivalry, why he believes optical computing will end the silicon era, and how generics, GLP-1…
MTSCremieux | How China Won the Clinical Trial Race, Gene Therapy, US Biotech's Blind Spot Live on MTS
Cremieux joins MTS to discuss China's rapid ascent to the top of global clinical trial output, the structural regulatory reforms that drove it, and what the US…
MTSAella | AI Boyfriends, Miming, Psychedelics | 🟡🔴🔵 MTS Live
Aella joins MTS to discuss AI doom, transhumanism, and the economic illiteracy of young people. She walks through her approach to microdosing psychedelics, her…
MTSBalaji Srinivasan | NYT vs Tech, Go Direct, Prove Correct | 🟡🔴🔵 MTS Live
Balaji Srinivasan joins Erik Torenberg and Theo Jaffee on MTS to discuss why media sits upstream of politics and money, how tech can build verifiable…
MTSMarc Andreessen | CNN History, Moral Panics, New Media | 🟡🔴🔵 MTS Live
Marc Andreessen joins MTS to discuss why the shape of media determines behavior, how CNN's original "it" strategy became today's current thing cycle, and why…