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Better Offline

Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build. Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, ho...

Website ↗ Last published 28 October 2026 285 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on Better Offline

“That kind of investing, not to make financial returns, but almost like an expression of your identity. I mean, that's very much alive in the US. Just look at Tesla or even SpaceX, right?… SpaceX is not valued as a normal company. It's valued as like by like Elon Musk fanboys and girls who will just give him money because they believe in him… It's just what people do.” — Robin Wigglesworth, Better Offline
Robin Wigglesworth · 14 Oct 2026 Listen →
“If you're in a movie hall and somebody shouts fire, it's going to be… the old and infirm that might not get out of the door in the mad scramble. And that's the triple C companies… They already borrow so much money. They already pay such high interest rates. They have no margin of safety. They have no nest egg. If the economy turns south, they will get hit very quickly.” — Robin Wigglesworth, Better Offline
Robin Wigglesworth · 14 Oct 2026 Listen →
“We've sold possibly $200, $300 billion worth of GPUs that have gone nowhere and they're planning to buy more. This alone is a story. And they look at you like you're reading algebra to a dog.” — Ed Zitron, Better Offline
Ed Zitron · 7 Oct 2026 Listen →
“These are companies like Anthropic and OpenAI and Meta who are in the business of stealing everything made by anybody ever. And they then have the gall to point at literally any other company and say, you're reverse engineering or stealing our IP. I have a really hard time reconciling why I should feel bad. … If a company that has ingested all these authors and musicians and everyone else's work then feels like their IP for their LLM has been infringed upon by a competitor. You know, it's like, make me care.” — Steve Burke, Better Offline
Steve Burke · 7 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I call it earnings before bad things. So if I cut out all of the things that are costing me a lot of money and then I calculate EBBT — not EBIT, but EBBT, earnings before bad things — my cash flow is tremendous.” — Paul Kedrosky, Better Offline
Paul Kedrosky · 23 Sep 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Better Offline is hosted by Ed Zitron , Steve Burke , Robert Evans , Victoria Song , Cory Doctorow , Alex Cranz , Edward Zitron , Sophie Lichterman and Dan Friesen .

Recent Episodes

  1. 28 Oct 2026

    The Truth About Data Centers w/ Paris Marx

    With Paris Marx

  2. 23 Oct 2026

    Monologue: Amazon Is Warehousing Billions In GPUs

  3. 21 Oct 2026

    The Mind of Larry Ellison w/ Tom Dotan

    With Tom Dotan

  4. 19 Oct 2026

    Introducing: Knowledge Fight Country

  5. 16 Oct 2026

    Monologue: Anthropic Slows Down

  6. 14 Oct 2026

    The Hater's Guide To Bonds With Rob Wigglesworth

    With Robin Wigglesworth

  7. 9 Oct 2026

    Monologue: Australia's Dodgiest AI IPO Is A Pale Horse

  8. 7 Oct 2026

    "Cycular" Financing w/ GamersNexus

  9. 2 Oct 2026

    Monologue: Anthropic's $413bn Burden

  10. 30 Sep 2026

    Monologue: Anthropic Lost $8bn In 2025, Was A Worse Business Than OpenAI

  11. 25 Sep 2026

    Monologue: The AI Data Center Overbuild

  12. 23 Sep 2026

    The Hidden Recession Beneath The AI Bubble w/ Paul Kedrosky

    With Paul Kedrosky

Guests

Ed Ongweso Jr. (11 episodes), David Roth (7 episodes), Edward Ongweso Jr (6 episodes), Chloe Radcliffe (6 episodes), Cal Newport (5 episodes), Jason Kint (5 episodes), Phil Broughton (5 episodes), Michael Fisher (4 episodes), Cherlynn Low (4 episodes), Gare Davis (4 episodes), Paris Martineau (3 episodes), Garrison Davis (3 episodes), and 87 more.