Hating the Player and the Game
Show notes
Block’s 40% employee purge says more about Jack Dorsey’s CEO skills than AI. David Zaslav gets only a PE golf clap for making Warner Bros shareholders money. McDonald’s CEO becomes a symbol of out-of-touch financializers. But hope is on the way as Cal AI’s teenage founders bootstrapped their way to riches.
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Chapters:
* 00:00 Open
* 00:47 Welcome
* 01:45 Human Computer’s Ballgame
* 06:46 AI & Game Dev
* 08:51 Anthropic Pentagon Clash
* 14:04 AI Narrative Wars
* 17:37 War News Fragmentation
* 28:43 Layoffs & AI Excuses
* 32:36 Holding CEO’s Accountable
* 44:29 Cal AI Exit
* 48:09 SXSW Nostalgia
* 53:53 Good Product
* 58:12 Outro
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