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  • Venture is Dead (Again)

    Ballooning fund sizes are forcing venture partners to make bad deals or take on less uncertainty. History suggests it won’t end well. 

    Written by Jerry Neumann

    Read by Scott Brick

    Read ‘Venture is Dead (Again)’ here.

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    Presented by Ramp

    And by:

    Vanta

    WorkOS

    Cognition

    Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    24 min
  • The Office of the Frontier

    The fight to regulate AI and reform American science runs through a little-known White House office, and the Thiel-turned-Trump aide in charge of it

    Written by Harry Lambert

    Read by Scott Brick 

    Read ‘The Office of the Frontier' here.

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    Presented by Ramp

    And by:

    Vanta

    WorkOS

    Cognition

    Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    49 min
  • The Sane Asylum

    A love letter to a new kind of company.

    Written by Brie Wolfson

    Read by Suzanne Elise Freeman 

    Read ‘The Sane Asylum' here.

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    Presented by Ramp

    And by:

    Vanta

    WorkOS

    Cognition

    Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.

    39 min
  • The Many Failures of Larry David

    Why the creator of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm is one of history’s purest founders.

    Written by Blake J. Harris

    Read by Scott Brick

    Read ‘The Many Failures of Larry David’ here.

    Selected material from this article appears in the book EMPEROR OF NOTHING: The Making of Larry David by Blake J. Harris. Copyright © 2026 by Blake J. Harris. To be published on October 20, 2026, by Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Excerpted by permission.

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    Presented by Ramp

    And by:

    Vanta

    WorkOS

    Cognition

    Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    56 min
  • AI Will Not Make You Rich

    Written by Jerry Neumann

    Read by Scott Brick

    Read ‘AI Will Not Make You Rich’ here.

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    Presented by Ramp

    And by:

    Vanta

    WorkOS

    Cognition

    Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    53 min
  • Coming to America: David Vélez and Nubank

    Written by Gabi Marques

    Read by Scott Brick

    Read ‘Coming to America’ here.

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    Presented by Ramp

    And by:

    Vanta

    WorkOS

    Cognition

    Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    56 min
  • Mark Zuckerberg

    Written by Jeremy Stern

    Read by Scott Brick

    Read ‘Mark’ here.

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    Presented by Rogo

    And by:

    Ramp

    Vanta

    WorkOS

    Cognition

    Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    1 hr 57 min
  • White Collar PEDs

    One writer’s experimental high and crash through the not quite legal, sort of effective, occasionally heart-pounding medicine cabinet of Wall Street and Silicon Valley’s productivity optimizers

    Written by Park MacDougald

    Read by Scott Brick

    Read ‘White Collar PEDs’ here.

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    Presented by Rogo

    And by:

    Ramp

    Vanta

    WorkOS

    Cognition

    Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.


    40 min
  • Michael Moritz: The Wretched Refuse

    The following is an exclusive excerpt adapted from the author’s new book, Ausländer: One family's story of escape and exile, out in North America today.

    Written by Michael Moritz

    Read by Scott Brick

    Read ‘The Wretched Refuse’ here.

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    Presented by Rogo

    And by:

    Ramp

    Vanta

    WorkOS

    Cognition

    Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.

    44 min
  • 3G Capital: Built to Own

    How 3G Capital, the lean and secretive private equity firm, created some of the world's largest companies.

    Written by Dom Cooke

    Read by Scott Brick

    Read ‘Built to Own’ here.

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    Presented by Rogo

    And by:

    Ramp

    Vanta

    WorkOS

    Cognition

    Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.

    1 hr 39 min

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