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Possible with Reid Hoffman
What if, in the future, everything breaks humanity's way? Possible is an award-winning, weekly podcast that sketches out the brightest version of the future—and what it will take to get there. Hosts Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger take that question to the people building the answer: founders, scientists, artists, and deep thinkers working across AI, healthcare, education, and geopolitics. The conversations run deep and specific, testing optimism against hard questions rather than trading hot…
Episodes
Possible with Reid HoffmanWhy Democrats won the 2026 midterms | Reid Hoffman
After Democrats win the House and Senate in the 2026 midterms, Reid Hoffman sees a clear demand: an economy that works for everyday Americans. He and Aria…
Possible with Reid HoffmanAI’s midterm coalitions, Anthropic’s safety bill, and VC conflicts
Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger weigh in on AI policy heading into the midterms, from Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar’s proposal to ban superintelligence to…
Possible with Reid HoffmanKarpathy’s AI gap, free Adobe clones, and AI’s effect on persistence
What happens to software businesses when AI makes their products easier to recreate? Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger explore what a developer’s effort to rebuild…
Possible with Reid HoffmanWhy Americans are so worried about AI
Only 36% of AI-aware Americans expect AI to mostly help their country, according to a Gallup and Microsoft survey. Reid traces that unease to three forces…
Possible with Reid HoffmanBuilding safety tools no one can take away with ROOST’s Camille François
Protecting people online shouldn’t depend on whether a company keeps its safety tools effective, affordable, and available. ROOST founding president Camille…
Possible with Reid HoffmanWho gets to pull the plug on AI?
Reid Hoffman sees promise in an AI buildout and wants its financial risks in the open. He and Aria Finger unpack a Financial Times report on up to $300 billion…
Possible with Reid HoffmanWhen AI's builders sound the alarm
Can America lead in AI while making life better for everyday Americans? Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger weigh in on Dario Amodei’s call to pace the frontier, and…
Possible with Reid HoffmanSeven creators, $1,000 a week in AI tokens, one summer
Reid Hoffman and Parth Patil argue that if your AI experiments always work, you’re not pushing hard enough. Wrapping up the Tokens to the Future series, they…
Possible with Reid HoffmanCan we defend against AI hacks? | Dozie Anazia
When AI can fake your CFO’s face and voice, what still counts as proof of identity? Infosec Analyst Dozie Anazia joins Reid Hoffman and Parth Patil to explain…
Possible with Reid HoffmanTraining robots for a world they’ve never seen
Useful robots won’t be programmed one task at a time; they’ll need to adapt to unfamiliar objects, environments, and robot bodies. Physical Intelligence…
Possible with Reid HoffmanInside an AI-powered personal dashboard | Matthew Tiemann
AI strategist Matthew Tiemann is building toward a world where AI agents work around the clock—and humans step in for the decisions that matter. Across his…
Possible with Reid HoffmanThe whole studio is one guy | Jonathan Brazeau
Jonathan Brazeau joins Reid Hoffman and Parth Patil to explain how AI animation and filmmaking are making the one-person studio possible—letting small teams…
Possible with Reid HoffmanMaking taxes fun with Pikachu and AI | Cadi Zhang
Cadi Zhang joins Reid Hoffman and Parth Patil to explore how generative AI is changing game development, world models, and robotics. Drawing on her work across…
Possible with Reid HoffmanHow Sougwen Chung teaches robots to pause
Sougwen Chung has spent more than a decade drawing alongside robots—not to automate their art, but to discover what changes when a machine becomes a creative…
Possible with Reid HoffmanThe artist using AI to sell brands | Joe Salvatore
Visual artist and brand content creator Joe Salvatore joins Reid Hoffman and Parth Patil to explain how AI is turning creative professionals into orchestrators…
Possible with Reid HoffmanThe creator using AI to go viral | Will Weinbach
Social media strategist Will Weinbach joins Reid Hoffman and Parth Patil to explain how AI agents are reshaping content, distribution, and what a single…
Possible with Reid HoffmanThe film director winning awards with AI | Ben Hansford
Commercial director, AI filmmaker, and USC professor Ben Hansford joins Reid Hoffman and Parth Patil to explain how AI is reshaping Hollywood, film production…
Possible with Reid HoffmanIntroducing Tokens to the Future: free tokens for builders
Tokens to the Future is a new limited series from Possible about how AI is expanding what people can build—with more tokens, custom agents, and a community…
Possible with Reid HoffmanAmerica's aerospace rebirth
Blake Scholl joins Reid and Aria to explain why the future of aviation won't be built by reviving the past, but by reinventing it. They explore how Boom…
Possible with Reid HoffmanWho's got the ball on carbon removal?
Carbon removal has gone from a niche climate concept to one of the world's most important challenges. Reid and Aria sit down with Nan Ransohoff, Head of Public…
Possible with Reid HoffmanAI’s next big test: the public market
Reid and Aria explore what the coming wave of AI IPOs could mean for the future of technology, investing, and the broader economy. They discuss why public…
Possible with Reid HoffmanSatya Nadella on making human and token capital compound
Reid sits down with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella fresh off Microsoft Build 2026. The conversation goes wide: how AI is reshaping work, business, and society—and…
Possible with Reid HoffmanWhat it takes to trust AI | Kanjun Qiu
Before Kanjun Qiu raised $200 million from NVIDIA and others to build reliable AI agents, she was writing high-frequency trading algorithms to pay her way…
Possible with Reid HoffmanAI’s hidden 20-year monopoly
Reid and Aria dig into where AI is creating real, durable value—and where they see it heading to next. Reid shares an inside look at his AI-driven drug…
Possible with Reid HoffmanHow fast can you upskill in AI? We did a sprint to find out.
We all feel the urgency: learn to use AI, or risk falling behind at work. And we all know there’s upside: AI can reduce tedious tasks, streamline operations…
Possible with Reid HoffmanAnthropic’s push into finance
Reid and Aria explore how an AI-native world is reshaping trust, money, and work. Reid breaks down why crypto could power identity and transactions in an…
Possible with Reid HoffmanThe artist AI can’t kill
Beeple didn’t turn an 18-year daily JPEG habit into a $69 million Christie’s sale by waiting for permission. He posted, missed, learned, repeated, and…
Possible with Reid HoffmanDivine intervention in AI
Reid and Aria unpack a pivotal turning point for AI as rapid advances in generative image tools, such as ChatGPT Images 2.0, lead to deeper questions on AI…
Possible with Reid HoffmanNetflix co-founder Reed Hastings: stories, schools, superpowers
This week, Reid and Aria sit down with Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings. Reed has seen technology rewrite the rules of entertainment before, but AI takes him…
Possible with Reid HoffmanThe grid(lock) slowing AI down
With AI moving from apps into the devices we use every day, Reid and Aria explore where the real value will be created. From Google Gemini powering hundreds of…
Possible with Reid HoffmanAI’s expanding attack surface
Reid and Aria unpack the geopolitical battle over chips, from U.S. export controls to China’s push for self-sufficiency, and how the race for compute is…
Possible with Reid HoffmanShould we give AI a bank account?
In this episode of Possible, Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger talk with Sean Neville, co-founder of Circle and architect of USDC, about building the financial…
Possible with Reid HoffmanAfter SaaS
Is SaaS actually dead or just evolving? Reid and Aria break down why the traditional seat-based software model is under pressure as AI reshapes how products…
Possible with Reid HoffmanHumans secretly prefer AI writing
Reid and Aria unpack three emerging fault lines in the AI era: where real power sits in the AI stack, how AI is reshaping human creativity, and whether…
Possible with Reid HoffmanThe AI Kept Choosing War
Reid and Aria unpack new research on AI decision-making in simulated nuclear crises—and what it reveals about the limits of machine reasoning. They explore why…
Possible with Reid HoffmanHow Notion rebuilt for the age of AI
In this episode of Possible, Reid and Aria talk with Ivan Zhao, co-founder of Notion, about what happens when intelligence becomes abundant rather than scarce…
Possible with Reid HoffmanNetwork effects, AI medicine, and the fight for free speech
In this episode, Reid and Aria are live from New York as they unpack why predictions about the “death” of San Francisco and New York keep missing the mark and…
Possible with Reid HoffmanDoes AI really save time?
In this episode, Reid and Aria examine a growing tension at the heart of the AI moment: whether these tools are actually saving time or simply accelerating the…
Possible with Reid HoffmanMaking sense of the layoff wave
In this episode, Reid and Aria unpack the growing panic around layoffs, the actual impact of AI on work, and why autonomous agents are reshaping productivity…
Possible with Reid HoffmanCryptoPunks creators: from art experiment to cultural movement
Before NFTs were a category and crypto was an industry, two artists released 10,000 characters into the world with no roadmap, no pitch, and no expectations…
Possible with Reid HoffmanReid Riffs with Parth Patil on AI-Native Startups (Part 3 of 3)
This episode is our third and final installment of a special, three-part Reid Riffs miniseries focused on what it actually means to become AI-native. In this…
Possible with Reid HoffmanReid Riffs with Parth Patil on Enterprise AI Integration (Part 2 of 3)
This episode is our second installment of a special, three-part Reid Riffs miniseries focused on what it actually means to become AI-native. Instead of a news…
Possible with Reid HoffmanReid Riffs with Parth Patil on Individual AI Mastery (Part 1 of 3)
This is the first of a special, three-part Reid Riffs miniseries. Instead of a news-and-headline driven conversation, Reid sits down one-on-one with Parth…
Possible with Reid HoffmanAmjad Masad on vibe coding, AI agents, and the end of boilerplate
On this episode of Possible, Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger sit down with Amjad Masad, founder and CEO of Replit, to explore how AI is fundamentally changing who…
Possible with Reid HoffmanBONUS: Conversations with Coleman: Big Tech, Politics, and Trust in Institutions
This is a bonus episode from the Conversations of Coleman podcast, featuring Reid Hoffman as the guest. Here are the show notes from that episode: My guest…
Possible with Reid HoffmanStephen Colbert on connection, discovery, and human nature
This is a holiday special re-airing of our excellent episode with Stephen Colbert. What could we gain—and what might we lose—when technology begins to…
Possible with Reid HoffmanThe power of AI, from curing cancer to ballot boxes
In this special episode of Reid Riffs, Reid and Aria are joined by Pulitzer Prize–winning author, oncologist, and Manas AI cofounder Siddhartha Mukherjee for a…
Possible with Reid HoffmanThe AI energy war is here
In this episode of Reid Riffs, Reid and Aria explain why "compute" is the new oil powering the cognitive industrial revolution. They argue that the United…
Possible with Reid HoffmanR.I.P. Computer Keyboard (1964 – 2025)
In this special live episode of Possible, Reid and Aria sit down with Wispr Flow founder and CEO Tanay Kothari to explore a post-keyboard future where voice…
Possible with Reid HoffmanAI’s Influence On The Church, Cybersecurity, and Disney
This week, Reid and Aria dive into three central AI stories that have been dominating the headlines: Pope Leo XIV issues a powerful call for moral discernment…
Possible with Reid HoffmanOur AI blindspot: incentives over intentions
Software is eating the world, but will it start eating us? On this episode of Possible, Aria Finger and Reid Hoffman sit down for an encore conversation with…
Possible with Reid HoffmanHow we regulate AI could decide the next century
In this episode of Possible, Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger explore how AI is colliding with real-world regulation, responsibility, and even civility. As states…
Possible with Reid HoffmanReid riffs on NVIDIA's chips, China’s AI ambitions, and the push to pause AI
This week Reid and Aria break down the global AI race from Nvidia’s $5 trillion valuation and the U.S.–China chip rivalry to what happens when AI starts…
Possible with Reid HoffmanSteve Kerr and Kris Brown on Leadership, Purpose, and Innovation in Sport and Society
What does it take to turn tragedy into advocacy, and advocacy into lasting change? This week, Reid and Aria are talking to Warriors head coach Steve Kerr and…
Possible with Reid HoffmanAza Raskin on interspecies communication, empathy, and AI’s next frontier
Can AI help us better understand animals and, if it could, what might we discover? This week’s episode was recorded live at the 2025 Masters of Scale Summit…
Possible with Reid HoffmanReid riffs on fostering trust with founders, in boardrooms, and in AI
In this week's episode, Reid and Aria unpack why trust is a practical skill, not just a feeling. Reid riffs on the importance of hands-on investor-founder…
Possible with Reid HoffmanDavid Fajgenbaum on drug repurposing, AI, and saving his own life
How can AI really help advance medicine? Should patients and care teams be seeking second opinions from LLMs? This week, Reid and Aria sit down with…
Possible with Reid HoffmanReid riffs on Trump’s $100K visa fee, 3-day work weeks, and AI trust issues
This week, Reid and Aria dive into the debate over new $100,000 fees on H-1B visas, and discuss how immigration powers U.S. innovation and how to ensure…
Possible with Reid HoffmanLisa Su on semiconductors, compute, and big bets
What’s the role of semiconductors—and the companies that make them—in powering human progress? What does it look like to innovate thoughtfully in a landscape…
Possible with Reid HoffmanReid Riffs on AI translations, Apple Intelligence, and OpenAI’s Critterz
This week, Reid and Aria discuss Apple’s new AirPods Pro 3 and live translation capabilities, AI-generated movies (specifically Critterz from OpenAI), and what…