Podcast

A conversation with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince about the shift from search engines to answer engines, the future of content monetization in an AI world, and why original human creativity may be more valuable than ever.

A conversation with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber about building an open social network on the AT Protocol, giving users real control over their experience, and why protocol design decisions shape everything downstream.

A conversation with USV co-founders Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham about the early days of their partnership, how their investment thesis evolved with technology, and the curiosity-driven approach that has defined the firm.

Catching up on the latest episodes

A conversation with Jam CEO Dani Grant about her journey from USV analyst to founder, cultivating curiosity, and building tools that make bug-fixing and team collaboration not just efficient but joyful.

A conversation with author Steven Johnson — the originator of the "slow hunch" idea — about his path from Hypercard in the 1980s to building NotebookLM at Google Labs, and the dream of a digital commonplace book.

A conversation with Stacks co-founder Muneeb Ali about his decade-long slow hunch that blockchain networks will be used for far more than financial transactions, and why Bitcoin makes sense as the base layer.

Introducing The Slow Hunch Podcast. First guest: Fraser Kelton, who went from building an AI mental health startup to launching ChatGPT at OpenAI to investing at Spark Capital.

A few weeks ago at the CoinAlts conference in Chicago, I did a fireside chat with Sam McIngvale, CEO of Coinbase Custody.  CoinAlts is a conference focused mostly on the institutional infrastructure around crypto assets — legal, accounting, custody, etc.  So we started out talking about the evolving...

A few months ago, I did a short interview for the Engadget Show on the state of real-time bus information here in NYC.  The interview was for a video segment which led into a live interview with the reporter I worked with, Rick Karr.  The whole episode is now available online.  Before our section is...

The opening keynote speaker at the Towards Carfree Cities conference is Mia Birk, from a bike/ped planning firm here in Portland called Alta Design. Check out the short episode of “Big Ideas for a Small Planet,” above, featuring Mia talking about the pedestrian & bicycle planning movement in Portlan...