▶ 97:15 · Life Sciences & Drug Development · Vivodine scales vascularized human tissues to replace animal models; FDA modernization acts accelerate adoption

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Kushner and Iger are Buying The Lakers, Grok 4.6, AI Watermarks, Nuclear Jellyfish

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speakers

andre

Joined Revolut 7 years ago when it had ~150 employees; built internal performance management framework now productized as Revolut People to export high-performance culture to European tech companies.

patrick whitesell

Former co-CEO of Endeavor, founded Whitesell investment company with $250M from Silver Lake partnership; invests in entertainment, sports, content, and creator economy companies like Alex Cooper's Unwell.

hard gil

Founder and CEO of Code Rabbit, an AI code review platform that raised $143M Series B at $1B valuation; third-time founder with background in observability (former startup acquired by Datadog).

jeff huber

Founder and CEO of Chroma, an AI memory infrastructure company; launched Chroma Cloud with ~1,000 paying customers; previously worked on AI agents and memory systems.

sean maguire

Sequoia partner with PhD in physics; led $1B Series B investment in nuclear startup Valor; former physicist who applies first-principles thinking to hard tech investing.

john coogan

Co-host of TBPN, a live technology and business show focused on startups, venture capital and Silicon Valley.

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▶ 97:15 · Life Sciences & Drug Development · Vivodine scales vascularized human tissues to replace animal models; FDA modernization acts accelerate adoption

episode briefing

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Kushner and Iger are Buying The Lakers, Grok 4.6, AI Watermarks, Nuclear Jellyfish

2026-08-12 · 17 company · 11 thematic

sentiment

12 bull2 bear3 neu

speakers

andre

Joined Revolut 7 years ago when it had ~150 employees; built internal performance management framework now productized as Revolut People to export high-performance culture to European tech companies.

patrick whitesell

hard gil

Founder and CEO of Code Rabbit, an AI code review platform that raised $143M Series B at $1B valuation; third-time founder with background in observability (former startup acquired by Datadog).

jeff huber

Founder and CEO of Chroma, an AI memory infrastructure company; launched Chroma Cloud with ~1,000 paying customers; previously worked on AI agents and memory systems.

sean maguire

Sequoia partner with PhD in physics; led $1B Series B investment in nuclear startup Valor; former physicist who applies first-principles thinking to hard tech investing.

john coogan

Co-host of TBPN, a live technology and business show focused on startups, venture capital and Silicon Valley.

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As AGI disruption threatens corporate durability, investors like Kushner/Iger are allocating to sports teams as permanent, scarce assets uncorrelated to technology cycles, with valuations r…

Private Marketstailwindscore 7/10john coogan

Hosts and Darren Rall: Sports franchises emerge as AGI hedge and durable asset class for ultra-wealthy

As AGI disruption accelerates, billionaires are buying sports teams (Lakers $12.5B) as permanent, uncorrelated assets that survive technological upheaval, driving a structural shift from tr…

Creator Economytailwindscore 7/10patrick whitesell

Top creators build diversified media companies beyond platform dependence; investors wait for power-law proof before deploying capital

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AI Coding Agentstailwindscore 9/10hard gil

AI code generation explosion creates code review bottleneck, spawning 'DataDog for code review' category

Tools like Cursor and Claude Code automate inner coding loop, generating massive PR volumes that human reviewers cannot handle; Code Rabbit and similar tools automate validation, explanatio…

AI Coding Agentstailwindscore 8/10hard gil

Code Rabbit CEO: AI code generation creates permanent code review bottleneck; third-party validation becomes critical infrastructure

As AI agents automate inner coding loop, code review becomes the choke point; GitHub is the choke point, and automated validation/explanation layers (like Code Rabbit) become the 'Datadog o…

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