The Ghosts Of Silicon Valley, with Will Depue

It’s almost Halloween, so we dressed up as disgraced founders and covered the dead companies and fads of Silicon Valley. This conversation takes a trip down memory lane, starting with the dot-com bubble, moving through the 2010s, the ZIRP era, and crypto, before finishing with a few recent casualties of the current AI hype cycle. I also catch up with my good friend and OpenAI researcher Will Depue, where we talk all things ghosts, his twinkness, traveling, and short-form content.

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