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Only 4% Are Cutting Jobs, Pancreatic Cancer Survival Doubles, and NVIDIA’s $96.2B Quarter | EP #284

2026-08-29 · 20 company · 13 thematic

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Dave Blundin (DB2) is Peter Diamandis' longtime friend and MIT roommate, partner at Link Ventures, and described as a guru on exponential investing. He focuses on moonshot-stage companies in AI, robotics, and space.

alex wissner-gross

Computer scientist, physicist, entrepreneur and investor whose work spans artificial intelligence and complex systems. He is the founder and managing partner of Reified.

salim ismail

Salim Ismail is a serial entrepreneur and strategist who co-wrote Exponential Organizations (ExO 1.0 and 2.0). He leads the OpenExO community of 50,000 people in 150 countries and has worked with Fortune 500 companies (P&G, Siemens Energy, HP, Black & Decker) on edge innovation. He is launching the Organizational Singularity (ExO 3.0) as a living AI book via a Claude skill.

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“I think the most obvious path to get there is one, SpaceX and Tesla merge sometime in the next sometime in the next year or two. And that gives SpaceX, the new SpaceX, not the old SpaceX, Optimus revenue. I I think Optimus alone, not finan…”

—alex wissner-gross

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