Tech Giants and Trials: A Humorous Take

Jess, Sam, Brit, and Dave returned from spring break to catch up on chaotic headlines from the last week — from Tesla’s bad quarter to Google’s courtroom drama.

On the docket:

– the antitrust cases shaking up Google, Meta, and the entire ad economy

– is OpenAI quietly building the next Facebook?

– Sam’s theory on “zombiecorns”

– is OnlyFans the new Uber?

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00:00 Trailer

01:25 Recruiting PMs and hard-to-fake filters

08:34 Google anti-trust legal theater

13:58 Market narratives and fruit monopolies

22:21 LLMs and media companies

25:49 Is the web dying?

32:05 People want resonance

38:19 Adult content and AI

40:59 Meme stock Tesla and messiah Elon

47:30 How Musk handles the poliola

49:15 "Spam" Lessin's factory-farmed VC unicorn end

52:23 National medal of motherhood

55:48 Be the mountain, not the storm

58:10 Outro and announcement