AI Productivity Is Real But Enterprise Proof Is Uneven

The group agrees AI is boosting software teams, but they split on whether that has yet translated into large, durable profit pools for incumbents.
Travis Kalanick says real founder-led companies are shipping faster, while big enterprises still get stuck on messy change management.

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(0:00) Bestie intros: Travis Kalanick joins the show!

(0:42) Mamdani taxes the rich: new pied-à-terre tax coming to NYC

(11:23) OpenAI's identity crisis: Leaked memo, enterprise pivot, Anhropic valuation flip (27:28) Big Tech's compute dominance: How will this impact frontier labs?

(33:53) Allbirds stock up over 400% on AI pivot, and what's behind the datacenter disaster?

(54:37) The Price is Wrong: Name That Overvalued Startup ROUND 1

(59:23) Eric Swalwell drops out of CA governor race and resigns from Congress: Who knew what and when? Impact of the Democratic Machine

(1:10:31) State of the market: Confusing indicators, pricing in Iran peace, AI's mixed results, inflated valuations

(1:26:31) The Price is Wrong: Name That Overvalued Startup ROUND 2

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