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SaaStr
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🎙️ Pod Shots #156 - Who Pays For The Agent
🤖 SaaStr was quoted up to $240,000 a year for its own agent to keep using a system it already pays for. Seven conversations on who ends up holding the agent bill.
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Oct 6, 2026
Pod Shot
+18
🎙️ Pod Shots #155 - The Vouching Layer
🤖 Eight conversations on agent security, sovereignty and signal. Nobody proposed a new technique.
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Sep 29, 2026
Pod Shot
+10
🎙️ Pod Shots #154 - You First
🤖 Six conversations on pacing AI. Nobody could name who stops first.
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Sep 22, 2026
Matt Wolfe
+10
🎙️ 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.
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Sep 8, 2026
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.
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Sep 1, 2026
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.
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Aug 25, 2026
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.
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Aug 18, 2026
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.
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Aug 11, 2026
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.
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Aug 4, 2026
Pod Shot
+11
🎙️ Pod Shots #146 - Own Your Intelligence Stack
🤖 Jensen Huang, Ben Horowitz, and Anthropic's first PM converge on who should control AI
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Jul 28, 2026
Pod Shot
+9
🎙️ Pod Shots #145 - The Floor Is Falling
🤖 A $600k Salesforce contract went to zero. A CAR-T therapy took six months. Here's what still has a floor under it.
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Jul 21, 2026
Etched
+13
🎙️ Pod Shots #143 - Bet the Company
🤖 De-risking is the safe advice. This week, the winners did the opposite.
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Jul 7, 2026
Pod Shot
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🎙️ Pod Shots #142 - Use Less AI
🤖 The people building AI just told you to use less of it.
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Jun 30, 2026
Pod Shot
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🎙️ Pod Shots #138 - We're in 1997
🤖 Exit Multiples Have 10x'd, Agents Have Crossed a Capability Threshold, and Most Companies Are Running on Last Year's Playbook
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Jun 2, 2026
