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🎙️ Pod Shots #152 - The Scaffolding Era

Matt Wolfe

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🎙️ Pod Shots #152 - The Scaffolding Era

🤖 Rubrik, Rackspace, JobNimbus and two solo builders spent a week shipping AI systems. Not one of them argued about which model.

BYAlastair Preacher

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Sep 8, 2026

Apple's New CEO, Stripe's $50B Retreat, Meta's $18B Reckoning

Anthropic

+7

Apple's New CEO, Stripe's $50B Retreat, Meta's $18B Reckoning

Plus: agent security for PMs, building SaaS without code, and the PM leadership paradox

BYAlastair Preacher

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Sep 4, 2026

🎙️ Pod Shots #151 - Taking Pains

Pod Shot

+9

🎙️ Pod Shots #151 - Taking Pains

🤖 Production went free. The hours nobody sees just got expensive. Jen Abel, Casey Muratori, Kipp Bodnar and a 1920s ad man agree on where the edge moved.

BYAlastair Preacher

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Sep 1, 2026

Anthropic's IPO Sprint, Apple's Leadership Handoff, Uber's Agent Factory

Anthropic

+14

Anthropic's IPO Sprint, Apple's Leadership Handoff, Uber's Agent Factory

Plus: churn signals hiding upstream, career moves via JTBD, and AI OKRs that measure customers not models

BYAlastair Preacher

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Aug 27, 2026

🎙️ Pod Shots #150 - The Long Cut

Pod Shot

+8

🎙️ Pod Shots #150 - The Long Cut

🤖 A model found internet access it wasn't given, located an answer key on someone else's servers, and hacked in. Four podcasts, one week, same argument.

BYAlastair Preacher

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Aug 25, 2026

Stripe's Double Grab, Anthropic's $65bn Sprint, Apple's Exit Tax

Anthropic

+27

Stripe's Double Grab, Anthropic's $65bn Sprint, Apple's Exit Tax

Plus: prompt injection worms, agents with org charts, and India's AI land-grab

BYAlastair Preacher

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Aug 21, 2026

🎙️ Pod Shots #149 - The Uneven 10x

Pod Shot

+10

🎙️ Pod Shots #149 - The Uneven 10x

🤖 OpenAI's head of design has the survey data: designers are the unhappiest people in tech on every dimension.

BYAlastair Preacher

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Aug 18, 2026

Nvidia's Investable Chips, the Attack Surface Nobody's Patching, Gemini's Billion Users

SpaceX

+21

Nvidia's Investable Chips, the Attack Surface Nobody's Patching, Gemini's Billion Users

Plus: Wells Fargo's tokenised deposits, Tesla and SpaceX share a chip fab, and the question nobody asked before agents started writing the code

BYAlastair Preacher

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Aug 14, 2026

🎙️ Pod Shots #148 - The Funnel Of Doom

Pod Shot

+8

🎙️ Pod Shots #148 - The Funnel Of Doom

🤖 Cursor's head of talent reaches out to fifty people, not five hundred. Seth Godin emails twenty. Same mechanic, four disciplines.

BYAlastair Preacher

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Aug 11, 2026

Google's Brain Drain, OpenAI's Agents Escape, Airtable's Long Fall

Alibaba

+16

Google's Brain Drain, OpenAI's Agents Escape, Airtable's Long Fall

Plus: the EU's fines go live, DeepSeek raises prices, and a court rules your agent is legally you

BYAlastair Preacher

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Aug 7, 2026

🎙️ Pod Shots #147 - The Playbooks Are Breaking

Pod Shot

+10

🎙️ Pod Shots #147 - The Playbooks Are Breaking

🤖 Collison questions lean startup. Whatnot hired 1 PM from 31,832 applicants. The received wisdom is having a bad week.

BYAlastair Preacher

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Aug 4, 2026

OpenAI Bets $750bn Twice, Google Logs You In By Face, Governance Becomes the Product

Anthropic

+8

OpenAI Bets $750bn Twice, Google Logs You In By Face, Governance Becomes the Product

Plus: ditching your calendar for a sabbatical, robots learning from their co-workers, and India's first private rocket

BYAlastair Preacher

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Jul 31, 2026

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