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Newcomer Pod

Hi, I'm Eric Newcomer. With this podcast, I dive straight into the heart of the tech industry, interviewing top investors and founders. I’m bringing my sensibility as someone who understands the inside story of Silicon Valley but who is happy to poke and prod as to why the tech world operates like it does. If you want first-person and insider information delivered to your newsletter, subscribe to my podcast at newcomer.co on Substack.

Website ↗ Last published 19 October 2026 210 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on Newcomer Pod

“I do find this kind of pretty funny that everyone calls all their revenue ARR now. I grew up in the day where it's no ARR unless it's contracted revenue for like three years. I think that's all thrown away now. So I always say annualized revenue. It's nice and precise.” — Immad Akhund, Newcomer Pod
Immad Akhund · 19 Oct 2026 Listen →
“One of the, I think, annoying things about crypto is none of it's reversible. So if your agent goes rogue and sends a bunch of Bitcoin or whatever, there's just no way to get it back. Whereas if your agent goes rogue and goes and does a big e-commerce shop, you can normally dispute it. And you might have to send the stuff back, but you'll get the money back.” — Immad Akhund, Newcomer Pod
Immad Akhund · 19 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Within Apple, the people working on the self-driving car when it existed, which is an AI project, couldn't talk to the people doing face ID within Apple. They're both computer vision-based systems. But because they were on different products and Apple had this cultural legacy, they said no talking. So both products end up getting hurt because they can't share experiments and research.” — Alex Kantrowitz, Newcomer Pod
Alex Kantrowitz · 13 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Amazon's retail division blocked Muse from logging in. The reason why that happened is Amazon's retail business is not a retail business. Amazon's retail business is a company that happens to do retail so it can sell ads. Everything is ads. It's all ads.” — Alex Kantrowitz, Newcomer Pod
Alex Kantrowitz · 13 Oct 2026 Listen →
“To your average college student, from what they're being told, they're like: okay, you gave me a homework helper and you took away my career. Take your homework helper back and give me my career back. … And that's incorrect as a framing.” — Reid Hoffman, Newcomer Pod
Reid Hoffman · 2 Oct 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Newcomer Pod is hosted by Tom Dotan , Katie Benner , Madeline Renbarger , Max Child and James Wilsterman .

Recent Episodes

  1. 19 Oct 2026

    Immad Akhund on Building Mercury, AI Agents & Taking On Big Banks

    With Immad Akhund

  2. 13 Oct 2026

    Alex Kantrowitz on OpenAI, Nvidia & What Could Derail the AI Boom

    With Alex Kantrowitz

  3. 2 Oct 2026

    Reid Hoffman on ChatGPT, Data Centers & Why America Needs AI

    With Reid Hoffman

  4. 24 Sep 2026

    Josh Elman on Apple, AI Agents & Why Startups Can Still Win

    With Josh Elman

  5. 17 Sep 2026

    Former SEC Official on FTX, Crypto & Silicon Valley’s Fraud Problem

    With Renee Jones

  6. 10 Sep 2026

    Zavain Dar on Hugging Face, NVIDIA & Why Silicon Valley Should Pay Attention to China

    With Zavain Dar

  7. 26 Aug 2026

    Sam Parr on The Hustle, Hampton & Why the OpenAI-TBPN Deal Was a Mistake

    With Sam Parr

  8. 3 Aug 2026

    This AI Was Trained on a Billion Video Game Clips. Now It Controls Robots.

    With Pim de Witte

  9. 28 Jul 2026

    John Coogan on Selling TBPN to OpenAI, Sam Altman & the Future of Tech Media

    With John Coogan

  10. 10 Jul 2026

    Taylor Lorenz Unfiltered on Social Media, Free Speech & the Surveillance State

    With Taylor Lorenz

  11. 6 Jul 2026

    The Goldman Sachs Exec on AI, Wall Street & the Firm That Went Bankrupt in 40 Minutes

    With Marty Chavez

  12. 29 Jun 2026

    Ben Smith on Trump, Anthropic & the Collision of Government and Big Tech

    With Ben Smith

Guests

Reid Hoffman (4 episodes), Alex Heath (3 episodes), Teddy Schleifer (3 episodes), Taylor Lorenz (3 episodes), Erin Griffith (3 episodes), Ben Smith (3 episodes), Vinod Khosla (3 episodes), Kyle Harrison (2 episodes), Nayeema Raza (2 episodes), Kate Clark (2 episodes), Jonathan Weber (2 episodes), Jon McNeill (2 episodes), and 131 more.