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The Dick & Paul Show
Two of the sharpest minds in tech, Dick Costolo and Paul Kedrosky, pull back the curtain on AI, startups, and the future that’s rushing toward us. With insider access, fascinating guests, and a healthy dose of irreverence, they’ll make you laugh while they explain how the world might end (and how we might still save it).
Episodes
- The Dick & Paul Show
The Myth of the Great CEO
Dick Costolo and Paul Kedrosky discuss the “myth of the CEO,” criticizing the worship of godlike tech leaders and the recency bias that elevates celebrity…
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Why Meta’s Muse Will Beat OpenAI and Anthropic
Dick Costolo and Paul Kedrosky make the case that Meta’s Muse won’t just win the race for personal AI agents. They think it could knock the frontier labs back…
- The Dick & Paul Show
The Uniformity Of Crowds
Dick and Paul dig into why everything — restaurants, faces, portfolios, hiking trails, even AI chatbots — is starting to look exactly the same. From a Soho…
- The Dick & Paul Show
How We Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bots
Dick and Paul dig into why the "Terminator" version of AI risk is the wrong one to worry about, using the actual data: a farming AI study where removing one…
- The Dick & Paul Show
The Hidden Link Between Ozempic & Employment Rates
Ozempic is quietly distorting U.S. jobs data, and your favorite wellness podcast might be lying to you — Dick and Paul debunk viral health claims (bananas…
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Big Tech's AI Spending Has Gone Full Enron... Literally
Dick and Paul take a deep dive into the AI data center spending boom and why it's different from — and in some ways scarier than — the dot-com fiber-optic…
- The Dick & Paul Show
Prediction Markets & The "Big Score" Economy
In this episode, Dick and Paul dig into why "lottery-style" speculation is exploding — from South Korea's illegal 3x leveraged semiconductor ETF mania (where a…
- The Dick & Paul Show
The Barriers to Mediocrity Have Collapsed
Dick and Paul dig into why general-purpose AI models are doing to robotics what they already did to language — and why that's a bigger deal than the…