Newcomer Podcast
A podcast about Silicon Valley, hosted by newsletter writer and independent journalist Eric Newcomer. Listen in for interviews with the dealmakers and builders who matter. Subscribe to newcomer.co for summaries of the episodes plus tech industry news, scoops, and analysis.
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135 episodes • 0 archived •
Vibecode Showdown
March 28
March 28
19 mins
The Biggest Deal of the Year!
March 21
March 21
44 mins
Everything's Computer
March 13
March 13
24 mins
Best Crypto to AI Pivot Ever
March 7
March 7
22 mins
$200 Billion for Data Centers... In This Economy?
February 28
February 28
17 mins
Humane’s HP Exit & the Foundation Model Slugfest
February 21
February 21
24 mins
Elon Musk’s Boisterous OpenAI Bid
February 14
February 14
19 mins
DOGE's Twitter Firestorm
February 7
February 7
24 mins
The DeepSeek Fire Drill
January 31
January 31
24 mins
Grit vs Grift
January 24
January 24
25 mins
Beware the "Tech Industrial Complex"
January 17
January 17
21 mins
Waymo’s Next Challenge: Humanity
January 10
January 10
15 mins
Is the Tech IPO Window Open?
Dec 16, 2024
Dec 16, 2024
23 mins
Shake-ups at Silicon Valley's Biggest VC Firms
Dec 11, 2024
Dec 11, 2024
20 mins
Has AI Hit a Wall? A Debate from the Cerebral Valley AI Summit
Dec 5, 2024
Dec 5, 2024
42 mins
Listen to Anthropic's Dario Amodei from Cerebral Valley + Videos from on Stage
Nov 27, 2024
Nov 27, 2024
27 mins
Fear-Mongering & Forecasting: Assessing AI's Predictions About AI
Nov 19, 2024
Nov 19, 2024
49 mins
The AI Startup Fantasy Draft
Nov 13, 2024
Nov 13, 2024
48 mins
Trump & AI Policy + Overrated/Underrated on the Cerebral Valley Podcast
Nov 9, 2024
Nov 9, 2024
55 mins
Silicon Valley Can't Look Away from the Election
Oct 29, 2024
Oct 29, 2024
21 mins
Newcomer Turns Four
Oct 22, 2024
Oct 22, 2024
23 mins
Listen: Bullish on AI, Bullish on Self-Driving, But Apprehensive About OpenAI & Tesla (with Jon McNeill)
Oct 15, 2024
Oct 15, 2024
24 mins
The Ongoing Startup Downturn & More PR People Than Reporters to Answer Their Emails
Oct 8, 2024
Oct 8, 2024
17 mins
Listen: OpenAI's 'Great Man,' AI Regulation & Drugs
Oct 1, 2024
Oct 1, 2024
24 mins
AI + Robots, YC Preview & Why the Cool Kids Keep Picking on Tech
Sep 24, 2024
Sep 24, 2024
23 mins
Why Software Is Eating The Banks | Mercury CEO Immad Akhund, Then Lead Bank CEO Jackie Reses
Mar 26, 2024
Mar 26, 2024
48 mins
Lessons Learned From a Bank Run (Peter Hébert & Laurence Tosi) + SVB's Marc Cadieux
Mar 21, 2024
Mar 21, 2024
52 mins
Two Titans on the Future of AI (with Reid Hoffman & Vinod Khosla)
Nov 30, 2023
Nov 30, 2023
44 mins
Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi & MosaicML Founder Naveen Rao Speak at Cerebral Valley
Nov 21, 2023
Nov 21, 2023
22 mins
The Artificial Intelligence Startup Draft
Nov 14, 2023
Nov 14, 2023
1h 4m
Chip War (with Chris Miller)
Nov 10, 2023
Nov 10, 2023
1h 32m
The AI Personal Stack (with Joshua Browder)
Nov 1, 2023
Nov 1, 2023
1h 23m
Someday That NPC Could Be More Alive Than You Are (w/ Amy Wu & Keith Kawahata)
Oct 24, 2023
Oct 24, 2023
1h 34m
AI Kills Us All (with Daniel H. Wilson)
Oct 17, 2023
Oct 17, 2023
1h 15m
The Cerebral Valley Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Becomes Reality
Oct 10, 2023
Oct 10, 2023
1h 1m
Life Extension Innovations, Moonshots & Snake Oil (with Celine Halioua & James Peyer)
Sep 27, 2023
Sep 27, 2023
1 hr
Fighting for Pro-Crypto Legislation in Sam Bankman-Fried's Shadow (with Chris Lehane)
Sep 13, 2023
Sep 13, 2023
1h 5m
He Helps Rich Tech Founders Part With Their Money (with Rey Flemings)
Aug 29, 2023
Aug 29, 2023
59 mins
Hydrogen Space Balloon (with Jane Poynter & Ali Rohde)
Aug 22, 2023
Aug 22, 2023
1h 6m
Spaceman Explains to Earthman How Things Work (with Delian Asparouhov)
Aug 15, 2023
Aug 15, 2023
56 mins
Scaling People (with Claire Hughes Johnson)
Aug 8, 2023
Aug 8, 2023
59 mins
Staying Global (with Bejul Somaia)
Aug 1, 2023
Aug 1, 2023
53 mins
Psychedelics, Micro Nuclear Reactors & Venture Turbulence (with Rebecca Kaden)
Jul 25, 2023
Jul 25, 2023
43 mins
Talking Threads With the Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen
Jul 18, 2023
Jul 18, 2023
57 mins
Musk & Zuck Go Head to Head, Vying to Rule Global Online Discussion (with Katie Notopoulos & Tom Dotan)
Jul 11, 2023
Jul 11, 2023
57 mins
Techstars CEO Maëlle Gavet Talks Pre-Seed Deals, YC, SoftBank & `Zombie Mode' Funds
Jul 6, 2023
Jul 6, 2023
53 mins
Not Exactly AR And Not Exactly VR (with Lauren Goode & Anand Agarawala)
Jun 13, 2023
Jun 13, 2023
53 mins
Rug Salesman Turned Valley Insider Raises a $432 Million Seed Fund (with Pejman Nozad)
Jun 6, 2023
Jun 6, 2023
48 mins
The Gossip Economy (with Kyle Harrison)
May 31, 2023
May 31, 2023
1h 3m
The State of Consumer Investing With Benchmark's Sarah Tavel
May 23, 2023
May 23, 2023
58 mins
Substack's Index Fund of Culture (with Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie)
May 17, 2023
May 17, 2023
51 mins
Traffic Jam (with Ben Smith)
May 2, 2023
May 2, 2023
54 mins
The World After Capital (with Albert Wenger)
Apr 25, 2023
Apr 25, 2023
58 mins
Amazon Bedrock & BabyAGI (with Jon Turow)
Apr 18, 2023
Apr 18, 2023
49 mins
Open-Source AI: Replit's Amjad Masad & Hugging Face's Clem Delangue
Apr 6, 2023
Apr 6, 2023
56 mins
Cerebral Valley Double Feature: Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque & General Catalyst's Deep Nishar
Apr 4, 2023
Apr 4, 2023
49 mins
Venture Capital Gravitational Physics (with Ravi Mhatre)
Mar 29, 2023
Mar 29, 2023
43 mins
Peering Over the Edge of Death (with Jon McNeill)
Mar 21, 2023
Mar 21, 2023
53 mins
A Wall Street Veteran & Investor Explains Silicon Valley Bank's Unraveling (with Laurence Tosi)
Mar 14, 2023
Mar 14, 2023
1h 2m
This Kicked Off With a Dinner With Elon Musk Years Ago (with Reid Hoffman)
Mar 7, 2023
Mar 7, 2023
57 mins
Newcomer, the Podcast
Mar 6, 2023
Mar 6, 2023
1 min
A New Dimension (w/Nan Li, Adam Goulburn, and Zavain Dar)
Feb 1, 2023
Feb 1, 2023
51 mins
Another Shoe to Drop (w/Jeremy Levine)
Jan 24, 2023
Jan 24, 2023
1h 12m
'I Fell in Love With an Algorithm' (w/Cristóbal Valenzuela & Alexis Gay)
Jan 17, 2023
Jan 17, 2023
56 mins
Business Tea, the Creator Economy Downturn, Twitter Drama & TikTok's Chinese Influence (w/Taylor Lorenz)
Jan 10, 2023
Jan 10, 2023
1 hr
All Eyes Are on Apple's Augmented Reality Device As the Hunt for a Revolutionary Consumer Startup Continues (w/Max Child & James Wilsterman)
Jan 4, 2023
Jan 4, 2023
1h 14m
Does That Mean the Cat's Dead?
Dec 27, 2022
Dec 27, 2022
1h 13m
'This Monolithic Other That Is Acting in Some Dark Confederacy Against What Is True and Good in the World' (w/Antonio García Martínez)
Dec 20, 2022
Dec 20, 2022
1h 17m
The Musk Bubble in Tech Is Going to Pop (w/Alex Stamos)
Dec 14, 2022
Dec 14, 2022
1h 12m
Hollywood As Told By the Former NBC Entertainment Chairman (w/Paul Telegdy)
Dec 6, 2022
Dec 6, 2022
1h 11m
Going All-In on the Tech/Media War (w/Jason Calacanis)
Nov 30, 2022
Nov 30, 2022
1 hr
Taylor Swift Tickets, FTX & Twitter
Nov 22, 2022
Nov 22, 2022
56 mins
SBF in Shambles (w/Teddy Schleifer)
Nov 15, 2022
Nov 15, 2022
54 mins
The End of Quiet Quitting (w/Aki Ito)
Nov 8, 2022
Nov 8, 2022
55 mins
Blue Checks & Semi-Fascism (w/Tim Miller)
Nov 1, 2022
Nov 1, 2022
1h 4m
Roko's Basilisk (w/Nathan Benaich)
Oct 25, 2022
Oct 25, 2022
1h 14m
VC Twitter Ghostwriters (w/Logan Bartlett)
Oct 18, 2022
Oct 18, 2022
1h 1m
Cult of the Dead Cat (w/Joseph Menn)
Oct 12, 2022
Oct 12, 2022
56 mins
I’d Jump on a Grande for You (w/Erin Griffith)
Oct 4, 2022
Oct 4, 2022
56 mins
Take a Scooter to Your Local Court House
Sep 28, 2022
Sep 28, 2022
1 hr
Dream of Semafornication (w/Reed Albergotti)
Sep 21, 2022
Sep 21, 2022
1h 10m
What Would Steve Do? (w/Kara Swisher)
Sep 14, 2022
Sep 14, 2022
1h 7m
Like, Comment, Subscribe (w/Mark Bergen)
Sep 7, 2022
Sep 7, 2022
1h 2m
Extremely Online (w/ Taylor Lorenz)
Aug 30, 2022
Aug 30, 2022
1h 2m
Dogfood Your Ideals (w/Ellen Huet)
Aug 23, 2022
Aug 23, 2022
1h 3m
Unreal BeReals
Aug 17, 2022
Aug 17, 2022
51 mins
Do You Trust Amazon With Your Medical Records?
Aug 9, 2022
Aug 9, 2022
53 mins
Freeloaders, Fat cats & Ne'er-do-wells (w/Alex Heath)
Aug 2, 2022
Aug 2, 2022
1h 11m
Travis Kalanick's Right-Hand Man Tells the Story of the Coup that Brought Them Down (w/Emil Michael)
Jul 26, 2022
Jul 26, 2022
1h 27m
This Episode Wasn't Sponsored By Techmeme
Jul 14, 2022
Jul 14, 2022
43 mins
SBF Plays Crypto Savior (w/Teddy Schleifer & Jeff John Roberts)
Jul 5, 2022
Jul 5, 2022
41 mins
A Long Drag on a Mango Juul Pod (w/ Lauren Etter)
Jun 29, 2022
Jun 29, 2022
53 mins
Nothing More Than a Magic Trick (w/Gary Marcus)
Jun 22, 2022
Jun 22, 2022
1h 5m
Coming to You From a Soon To Be Chesa-Free San Francisco (w/Jonathan Weber)
Jun 15, 2022
Jun 15, 2022
52 mins
Sheryl Sandberg Leans Out (w/Deepa Seetharaman)
Jun 8, 2022
Jun 8, 2022
49 mins
State of Substack (w/Casey Newton)
May 31, 2022
May 31, 2022
54 mins
How Tech is Defending the Right to an Abortion (w/Kiki Freedman)
May 24, 2022
May 24, 2022
35 mins
The Rug Pull Really Tied the Room Together
May 17, 2022
May 17, 2022
57 mins
We Saw This Movie. Everybody Died at the End (w/Rick Heitzmann)
May 10, 2022
May 10, 2022
48 mins
Adderall on Demand (w/Rolfe Winkler)
May 3, 2022
May 3, 2022
56 mins
Streaming in Crisis (w/Lucas Shaw)
Apr 26, 2022
Apr 26, 2022
59 mins
Rooting for Elon
Apr 19, 2022
Apr 19, 2022
52 mins
Imploding Fast (w/Kate Clark)
Apr 12, 2022
Apr 12, 2022
53 mins
The Fictionalized Viral Uber Driver
Apr 5, 2022
Apr 5, 2022
1h 8m
Going Evergreen (w/Hunter Walk)
Mar 29, 2022
Mar 29, 2022
59 mins
VC Jeopardy!
Mar 22, 2022
Mar 22, 2022
53 mins
Brands Are Not Human Beings (w/Jack Conte)
Mar 15, 2022
Mar 15, 2022
58 mins
Keeping Tabs on the Oligarchs (w/Teddy Schleifer)
Mar 9, 2022
Mar 9, 2022
54 mins
A Content Farming Retrospective (w/Shawn Colo)
Mar 1, 2022
Mar 1, 2022
58 mins
Super Pumped (w/Mike Isaac)
Feb 22, 2022
Feb 22, 2022
1h 3m
Razzlekhan and Wordcels
Feb 16, 2022
Feb 16, 2022
56 mins
Meta Commentary (w/Alex Heath)
Feb 8, 2022
Feb 8, 2022
1h 9m
The Dead Cat Experience
Feb 1, 2022
Feb 1, 2022
57 mins
Bobby Kotick's Call of Duty (w/Kirsten Grind)
Jan 25, 2022
Jan 25, 2022
47 mins
Across the Pond (w/Ophelia Brown)
Jan 18, 2022
Jan 18, 2022
43 mins
No One Wants to Spend Any Amount of Time With a Plastic Thing Strapped to Their Face (w/Phil Libin)
Jan 11, 2022
Jan 11, 2022
1h 1m
Emperor Zuck (w/Deepa Seetharaman)
Jan 5, 2022
Jan 5, 2022
1h 10m
Defogging Our 2021 Amnesia
Dec 29, 2021
Dec 29, 2021
1h 2m
Giving Hollywood the Business (w/Richard Rushfield)
Dec 21, 2021
Dec 21, 2021
1h 2m
Elizabeth Holmes' Moveable Feast (with Erin Griffith)
Dec 14, 2021
Dec 14, 2021
1h 2m
Dipping into Miami
Dec 9, 2021
Dec 9, 2021
51 mins
The Media's Facebook Deflection (w/Alex Stamos)
Nov 23, 2021
Nov 23, 2021
48 mins
Tech Workers of the World Unite. Or Don't.
Nov 16, 2021
Nov 16, 2021
45 mins
100 Percent Ethereum (w/ Daniel Liss)
Nov 9, 2021
Nov 9, 2021
1h 1m
Fine-tuning of the Metaverse
Nov 2, 2021
Nov 2, 2021
41 mins
The Contradictarian (w/ Max Chafkin)
Oct 25, 2021
Oct 25, 2021
47 mins
Blood Sport (w/ Erin Griffith)
Oct 19, 2021
Oct 19, 2021
47 mins
That's What the Money's For!
Oct 13, 2021
Oct 13, 2021
46 mins
Look on my Monthly Uniques, ye Mighty, and despair! (w/ Ben Smith)
Oct 2, 2021
Oct 2, 2021
41 mins
Three Down
Sep 29, 2021
Sep 29, 2021
40 mins
The Facebook Philes
Sep 21, 2021
Sep 21, 2021
42 mins
If It Bleeds, It Leads
Sep 14, 2021
Sep 14, 2021
49 mins
Episode 3: Liz Jarvis-Shean
Sep 8, 2021
Sep 8, 2021
48 mins
Episode 2: Christina Cacioppo
Aug 30, 2021
Aug 30, 2021
31 mins
Episode 1: Interview with Parker Conrad
Aug 23, 2021
Aug 23, 2021
39 mins