E52: Trump's SPAC, peak venture liquidity, te...

(0:00) Axon CEO Rick Smith joins David Friedberg (2:39) History of TASER/Axon: brink of bankruptcy to IPO (9:05) Going public during the dot-com crash, selling to police, battling shorts and an SEC investigation, pivoting to software (20:47) Creating the police body cam, surveill ...  Show more

(0:00) Bestie intros! (3:37) Midterms postmortem: What led to a generational GOP collapse? (32:26) How can Trump salvage his presidency? (53:13) Market reaction: Data center fears, $4T in market cap shed, AI ban potential (1:24:21) Science Corner: OpenAI solves Exponential Time H ...  Show more

Todays show: Alex Wilhelm joins Jason to discuss the role of social media and rhetoric in spreading conspiracy theories in the wake of the attempt on Trump (5:43), Silicon Valley's political landscape and views on Biden and Trump's policies (20:14), Sequoia's strategy with Stripe ...  Show more

On this episode of Okay, Computer. Dan Nathan is joined by Josh Wolfe of Lux Capital and Rick Heitzmann of FirstMark Capital for a conversation about investing in private tech, the macro environment and geopolitical hotspots.  Key Insights from the Pod: Intro (Listen to the las ...  Show more

0:51 Jason intros Zach Coelius & Sam Parr 2:28 Barstool Sports vs. Call Her Daddy 6:49 Penn National Gaming stock soaring, Dave Portnoy winning this controversy 13:17 SoftBank reports $17.7B annual loss, worst figures in 39-year history 17:19 Does SoftBank's involvement typically ...  Show more