The Diff

By Byrne Hobart

The Diff is a newsletter exploring the technologies, companies, and trends that are making the future high-variance. Posts range from in-depth company profiles, applied financial theory, strategy brea... more

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The podcast currently has 264 episodes available.

The Diff episodes:

February 25, 2022Match Group and Managed Dissatisfaction
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(00:00) - Match Group and Managed Dissatisfaction
(08:29) - Revolving Doors
(09:36) - Sanctions
(10:58) - Iterating
(11:54) - Bad Funds, Conflicts, and Bias
...more
14min
February 18, 2022How Would You Run a 10,000-Year Endowment?
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(00:00) - How Would You Run a 10,000-Year Endowment?
(07:55) - A Word From Our Sponsors
(08:39) - Buy-to-Sell?
(09:30) - Dematerializing Gaming
(10:37) - New Profits in Old Media
(11:35) - Insourcing
...more
13min
February 14, 2022VC and the Systematic Search for Outliers
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(00:00) - VC and the Systematic Search for Outliers
(05:44) - The Paradox of Decentralization and NFTs
(07:05) - Pigouvian Benefits Update
(07:46) - Two Kinds of Growth
(09:03) - Accidental Shortages
(09:43) - LNGeopolitics, Continued
...more
11min
February 11, 2022The Factorio Mindset
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(00:00) - The Factorio Mindset
(07:14) - The Carbon Rally
(08:21) - The Bridge
(09:03) - Housing and Rates
(09:49) - Full Stack Media
(10:16) - Buying Out Contracts
...more
12min
February 04, 2022What Happens When You Buy at an All-Time High?
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(00:00) - What Happens When You Buy at an All-Time High?
(05:57) - Amazon and Ads Ads Ads!
(08:22) - NFTs as Tickets
(09:50) - Wages: Who's Losing?
(10:56) - Media-to-Monetization
(12:19) - Negawatts
...more
14min
January 28, 2022Learning from Overdetermined Failure
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(00:00) - Learning from Overdetermined Failure
(08:01) - Blackstone Buys the Dip
(09:13) - Growing an Ecosystem
(10:12) - Shortages are Demand-Side, Not Supply-Side (Again)
(10:56) - Pricing out Values
...more
13min
January 21, 2022Reflexivity in Tech Returns: Talent Chasing Money Chasing Talent
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(00:00) - Reflexivity in Tech Returns: Talent Chasing Money Chasing Talent
(10:58) - Fixed Costs and Airlines
(11:43) - Goods Shortages and Worker Shortages
(12:16) - Marketing and Diversification
(13:01) - OverSPACed
(13:47) - Talent Shortages
...more
15min
January 14, 2022Keeping Options Open: The Equity Compensation Story
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(00:00) - Keeping Options Open: The Equity Compensation Story
(09:10) - Prime Elasticity
(10:22) - Labor Arbitrage
(11:08) - Location Arbitrage
(12:07) - Legal Accessibility
...more
14min
January 07, 2022Facial Recognition as a Pareto Technology
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(00:00) - Facial Recognition as a Pareto Technology
(09:43) - Aligned Incentives
(10:40) - Lord, Make Me Low-Emissions—But Not Yet
(11:33) - Elasticity
(12:32) - Google/TikTok Coopetition
(13:14) - The Remittance Economy
...more
15min
December 23, 2021Daloopa: Data-to-Information Accelerant
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(00:00) - Daloopa: Data-to-Information Accelerant
(10:12) - Covid Zero vs Ο-Variant
(10:50) - Covid Hormesis
(11:54) - Life on Planet Baumol
(12:45) - The Right Amount of Fraud
(14:03) - Selective Disclosure
...more
15min

FAQs about The Diff:

How many episodes does The Diff have?

The podcast currently has 264 episodes available.