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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#265: A Chat with Peter Sagal of WAIT, WAIT…DON’T TELL ME