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Eric Newcomer | newcomer.co

Hi, I'm Eric Newcomer. With this podcast, I dive straight into the heart of the tech industry, interviewing top investors and founders. I’m bringing my sensibility as someone who understands the inside story of Silicon Valley but who is happy to poke and prod as to why the tech world operates like it does.If you want first-person and insider information delivered to your newsletter, subscribe to my podcast at newcomer.co on Substack.

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210 episodes

  1. Immad Akhund on Building Mercury, AI Agents & Taking On Big Banks 52:09
  2. Alex Kantrowitz on OpenAI, Nvidia & What Could Derail the AI Boom 1:06:24
  3. Reid Hoffman on ChatGPT, Data Centers & Why America Needs AI 52:33
  4. Josh Elman on Apple, AI Agents & Why Startups Can Still Win 51:06
  5. Former SEC Official on FTX, Crypto & Silicon Valley’s Fraud Problem 58:55
  6. Zavain Dar on Hugging Face, NVIDIA & Why Silicon Valley Should Pay Attention to China 49:19
  7. Sam Parr on The Hustle, Hampton & Why the OpenAI-TBPN Deal Was a Mistake 56:43
  8. This AI Was Trained on a Billion Video Game Clips. Now It Controls Robots. 58:32
  9. John Coogan on Selling TBPN to OpenAI, Sam Altman & the Future of Tech Media 1:01:50
  10. Taylor Lorenz Unfiltered on Social Media, Free Speech & the Surveillance State 1:06:10
  11. The Goldman Sachs Exec on AI, Wall Street & the Firm That Went Bankrupt in 40 Minutes 25:43
  12. Ben Smith on Trump, Anthropic & the Collision of Government and Big Tech 55:06
  13. Aidan Gomez Unfiltered on AGI, China & AI's Biggest Risk 21:33
  14. Christina Cacioppo Unfiltered on Fake Compliance, AI Security & Building a $4B Company 46:42
  15. Ed Zitron Unfiltered on OpenAI, Anthropic & Why the Whole Thing Is a Con 58:05
  16. How Tech's San Francisco Values Gave Way to the Right 1:06:45
  17. WIRED's Editor on Elon, Trump & Silicon Valley's War on the Press 54:12
  18. The Man Who Helped Destroy Gawker Is Coming Back For The Rest of Media 1:10:52
  19. Vinod Khosla on the End of Jobs and the Future of Capitalism 1:05:26
  20. Katie Jacobs Stanton on Elon, Trump & Why Silicon Valley Won’t Speak Up 56:20
  21. Amanda Askell on AI Consciousness, Claude & Silicon Valley’s Biggest Fear 55:36
  22. Kara Swisher — "I'd rather have Ted Cruz make decisions about AI" 52:18
  23. Jim Lanzone — "They Had a Chance to Sell for $44 Billion. They Didn't." 1:00:10
  24. The Startup That Crashed Its Own Servers Because of Open Claw 1:25:12
  25. Matt Mahan — "California's Failure Is the Best Ammunition Trump Has Ever Had" 1:05:09
  26. Shardul Shah — "I wired the money before knowing what they were building" 56:01
  27. Barry McCardel on Why Everyone Is Copying Palantir’s Playbook (And Getting It Wrong) 1:02:06
  28. Rick Heitzmann: The AI Boom Is Forcing a New IPO Wave 50:12
  29. Can Tech Work With Zohran Mamdani? | Julie Samuels 46:52
  30. Jeremy Levine on AI Hype, Market Cycles & Playing the Long Game 55:16
  31. Keith Rabois and Eric Newcomer's Heated Conversation on Tech, Trump, and Tariffs 1:11:04
  32. Yoni Rechtman Unfiltered on Trump, AI Roll-Ups & Why VCs Backed the Wrong Side 1:01:46
  33. Tony Fadell Unfiltered on Apple, OpenAI & the Next Big Device 1:03:50
  34. What the AI Boom Means for Databases and Enterprise Software 29:01
  35. Katie Benner on Meritocracy, Race, and American Education Reform 1:08:57
  36. 2026 Predictions: AI Grammy Winner, OpenAI Buying Pinterest, and MORE 42:00
  37. The Tech Quotes That Defined 2025 1:12:03
  38. The Secret to Raising $9B 43:18
  39. IF NETFLIX WINS WITH WARNER BROS... They’ll STILL Lose to YouTube 24:45
  40. OF COURSE, Trump’s AI Czar David Sacks Has ALSO Invested In AI 23:39
  41. Inside the Sex Cult That Fooled Silicon Valley 34:54
  42. Reid Hoffman on Epstein, Elon Musk, and why AI is NOT a Bubble 1:03:21
  43. Which $Billion AI Startup Would You Short? 49:19
  44. Inside Anthropic’s Plan to Fix AI’s BIGGEST Problem 45:39
  45. AI Predicts Its Own Rise (and Fall) 32:38
  46. Inside the AI Gold Rush (One Year Later) 1:10:14
  47. Inside Amazon’s $100B Automation Gamble 52:48
  48. Inside the $Trillion AI Money Machine 36:27
  49. The Coming AI Crash No One Wants to Admit | Alex Heath x Newcomer Podcast 51:46
  50. Andreessen Horowitz’s Media Empire, Trump vs. Kimmel, Klarna’s $15B IPO Lessons 43:41