The Conversational Minimum

The minimum you need from the conversations that matter. AI-curated podcast digests — two hosts break down the best episodes so you don't have to listen to the whole thing.

No Days Off: Keith Rabois on Hiring Ruthlessly and Why PMs Are Dead

Season 1 · Episode 19 · 11:00 · 2026-04-12

Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures, ex-PayPal/LinkedIn/Square) joins Lenny Rachitsky for a brutally honest take on building in the AI era. Dick and Ivanna unpack his ruthless hiring philosophy, why product managers are becoming obsolete, and his contrarian views on work-life balance. Source: Lenny's Podcast (2026-04-12)

SpaceX Goes Public, Iran Gets Complicated

Season 1 · Episode 18 · 04:53 · 2026-04-03

SpaceX filed to go public at a 1.75 trillion dollar valuation. Plus: Chamath's Tesla merger call, day 34 of the Iran war, and a quantum computing warning that should make every Bitcoin holder nervous. Source: All-In Podcast (2026-04-03)

SpaceX Goes Public, Iran Gets Complicated

Season 1 · Episode 17 · 04:37 · 2026-04-03

SpaceX filed to go public at a 1.75 trillion dollar valuation. Plus: Chamath's Tesla merger call, day 34 of the Iran war, and a quantum computing warning that should make every Bitcoin holder nervous. Source: All-In Podcast (2026-04-03)

Why Vision AI Is Still Three Years Behind Language

Season 1 · Episode 16 · 04:56 · 2026-04-04

Nathan Labenz talks to Joseph Nelson, CEO of Roboflow — serving over a million engineers and half the Fortune 100. The surprising gap between language AI and vision AI, and why computer vision is still catching up. Source: The Cognitive Revolution (2026-04-04)

The $4B Healthcare Empire Built on Chaos and Cold Sweats

Season 1 · Episode 15 · 04:24 · 2026-04-04

Harry Stebbings sits down with Andrew Dudum, founder of Hims & Hers — stock down 66% over six months, yet 4.3B market cap on 2.3B revenue. A revealing look at building a healthcare company in the public markets glare. Source: 20VC (2026-04-04)

Trump's 48-Hour Iran Ultimatum: Endgame or Escalation?

Season 1 · Episode 14 · 03:38 · 2026-04-05

Dan Senor hosts Nadav Eyal and Amit Segal to break down Trump's ultimatum to Iran — with 48 hours left on the clock. Two Israeli analysts split on whether this ends in a deal or a strike. Source: Call Me Back (2026-04-05)

SpaceX Goes Public, Iran Gets Complicated

Season 1 · Episode 13 · 04:18 · 2026-04-03

SpaceX just filed to go public at a 1.75 trillion dollar valuation — eighth largest company in the world before a single share trades. Plus: Chamath's Tesla merger call, the Iran war fallout, and a quantum computing scare that turned out to be more noise than signal. Source: All-In Podcast (2026-04-03)

Trump's 48-Hour Iran Ultimatum: Endgame or Escalation?

Season 1 · Episode 12 · 03:38 · 2026-04-05

Dan Senor convenes Nadav Eyal and Amit Segal to map Iran war endgames as Trump's ultimatum expires. Two paths: gradual energy strikes or a full takedown of Iranian oil infrastructure — and why neither guarantees lasting change. Source: Call Me Back (2026-04-05)

SpaceX Goes Public, Iran Gets Complicated

Season 1 · Episode 11 · 04:18 · 2026-04-03

The All-In trio breaks down SpaceX's $1.75T IPO filing, the 34-day Iran war's fertilizer crisis fallout, and why quantum computing gives Bitcoin just 5-7 years before wallets become vulnerable. Source: All-In Podcast (2026-04-03)

Extreme Harness Engineering for Token Billionaires

Season 1 · Episode 10 · 04:53 · 2026-04-07

Ryan Lopopolo built a million-line codebase with zero human-written code and zero code review — in five months, with a team of three. This Latent Space episode is the definitive dispatch from the frontier of AI coding agents doing real production work. Source: Latent Space (2026-04-07)

Granola's Design Playbook: Do One Thing, Do It Calm

Season 1 · Episode 9 · 05:56 · 2026-04-08

Granola co-founder Sam Stephenson on building a $1.5B AI note-taking app with zero paid acquisition. The secret: an 'OXO philosophy' — design for the most chaotic workday and delight everyone else. Plus: why the vibe-coding era makes discipline the rarest resource, how their growth engine is literally the shared meeting notes, and the AI memory/privacy tradeoffs they're still wrestling with. Source: The Cognitive Revolution (2026-04-08)

The Iran Ceasefire: Pause or Trap?

Season 1 · Episode 8 · 06:28 · 2026-04-08

Hours after the Iran ceasefire was announced, Dan Senor brings in Nadav Eyal and FDD's Mark Dubowitz to break it down. Pakistan surprised everyone as mediator. The Hormuz strait reopens, but enriched uranium stockpiles and ballistic missiles stay on the table. Is Iran buying time in its proven battlefield — the negotiating table — or is this a real off-ramp? Source: Call Me Back (2026-04-08)

Josh Shapiro's Blueprint: How Democrats Win Again

Season 1 · Episode 7 · 07:55 · 2026-04-08

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro joins All-In to lay out what a viable Democratic future looks like: pro-growth, pro-data center, tough on crime, 60% approval in a swing state. He breaks down what Democrats got catastrophically wrong, calls out Congress as 'pathetic people,' and gives his sharpest take yet on Netanyahu and the Iran war. The 2028 subtext is completely obvious. Source: All-In Podcast (2026-04-08)

Terence Tao: We're in a Copernican Revolution About Intelligence

Season 1 · Episode 6 · 12:00 · 2026-03-20

Fields Medal winner Terence Tao on why idea generation cost is now zero but verification is the bottleneck, how Darwin beat Newton by writing plain English, why correct theories initially look worse than wrong ones, and what hybrid human-AI science looks like within a decade. Source: Dwarkesh Podcast (2026-03-20)

From Brain Injury to $19B: The Anthropic Growth Story

Season 1 · Episode 5 · 09:57 · 2026-04-05

Anthropic's Head of Growth Amol Sarva on going from $1B to $19B ARR in 14 months, why activation is harder than acquisition when your product keeps getting smarter, and why Anthropic believes AI risk is more serious internally than they say publicly. Source: Lenny's Podcast (2026-04-05)

The New Arms Race: Why Silicon Valley Is Building America's War Machine

Season 1 · Episode 4 · 15:39 · 2026-04-06

Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar and Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf on the 10,000:1 US-China drone gap, why the WWII industrial base can't be recreated, and the ethics of building weapons. Plus: Arsenal One, the monopsony problem, and foreign influence on campuses. Source: All-In Podcast (2026-04-06)

Demis Hassabis Says AGI Is 10x the Industrial Revolution at 10x the Speed

Season 1 · Episode 3 · 12:53 · 2026-04-07

DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on his 5-year AGI timeline, the 'jagged intelligence' problem, and why he wants philosophers more urgently than engineers. Plus: why the gap between leading AI labs is widening, and his IAEA-for-AI safety proposal. Source: The Twenty Minute VC (2026-04-07)

From ChatGPT to Atoms: The AI Lab for the Physical World

Season 1 · Episode 2 · 10:55 · 2026-04-03

ChatGPT co-creator Liam Fedus left OpenAI to build Periodic Labs — an AI foundation lab that discovers new materials through closed-loop experimentation. Dick and Ivanna break down why physicists are flooding into AI, how self-improving systems are accelerating materials science, and what it means when AI can run its own experiments. Source: No Priors (2026-04-03)

Marc Andreessen on Why AI's 80-Year Overnight Success Is Finally Real

Season 1 · Episode 1 · 08:41 · 2026-04-03

Marc Andreessen joins Latent Space to argue that AI adoption isn't slow — it's fighting 80 years of accumulated institutional friction. From 900-hour hairdresser licensing to dock worker strikes blocking automation, he maps the real blockers. Plus: why AI finally enables founder-led companies at scale, killing managerial capitalism. Source: Latent Space (2026-04-03)