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The Cerebral Valley Podcast
The Cerebral Valley Podcast
Eric Newcomer | newcomer.co

The Cerebral Valley AI Summit is back. So Eric, Max, and James are taking stock of where the industry is headed before... more

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Episodes

War on Reality: AI Voice and Video

In this second installment of the Cerebral Valley podcast series, co-hosts James Wilsterman and Max Child of Volley join Eric... more

13 Jun 2025 · 38 minutes
Cerebral Valley: AI Agents Are Already Here

The Cerebral Valley AI Summit is right around the corner! To help you navigate the fast-evolving AI landscape ahead of... more

06 Jun 2025 · 47 minutes
VC Haves and Have Nots (with Kate Clark)

We're welcoming Bloomberg's Kate Clark to the show this week and diving into her reporting on the rough fundraising environment... more

30 May 2025 · 42 minutes
The Great Financial Services Debate

In this special episode, we feature two interviews recorded live during Newcomer’s Breaking the Bank Summit, a financial technology summit... more

23 May 2025 · 48 minutes
A Very Stable “Coin” GENIUS

Eric relays his dispatch from Dimension Capital’s biotech summit in Park City, where the crowd was much more academic than... more

16 May 2025 · 23 minutes
Marc Benioff on AI Eating SaaS, San Francisco’s New Mayor & CEO Trump Pandering

How does the AI gold rush look from the helm of a $40-billion software giant? Salesforce co-founder, chair, and CEO Marc... more

09 May 2025 · 56 minutes
Josh Wolfe on America’s Next War and Why It Isn’t Taiwan

This week, we kick off by discussing Ben Smith’s bombshell post ”The group chats that changed America,” that exposed the... more

02 May 2025 · 49 minutes
The TRUTH about VC Media

We’re back to opining on the state of tech media! A16z has aqui-hired Erik Torenberg and his newsletter Turpentine, while... more

25 Apr 2025 · 24 minutes
AGI, Seriously + Foundation Model Polyamory (With Kyle Harrison)

This week, Tom breaks down his scoops on how the big foundation model providers are doing.and much to the chagrin... more

18 Apr 2025 · 55 minutes
Walter Bloomberg at the Wheel for the Whole Stock Market

We're welcoming special guest Tom Dotan of Dead Cat fame to the show this week — just in time for the tariff market meltdown.... more

11 Apr 2025 · 1 hour, 6 minutes
OpenAI: A $300 Billion Non-Profit?

OpenAI has done it again. The AI giant closed $40 billion in fresh funding (kind of) led by Softbank, We... more

04 Apr 2025 · 57 minutes
Vibecode Showdown

This week, Eric shared the details of his vibe coding frenzy from the past few weeks, testing out Vercel and... more

28 Mar 2025 · 19 minutes
The Biggest Deal of the Year!

We're opening in a celebratory mood this week with Wiz's big exit to Google, which if it holds will offer... more

21 Mar 2025 · 44 minutes
Everything's Computer

We’re recording this episode on the ground from two different tech conferences, the flashy new HumanX summit in Las Vegas... more

13 Mar 2025 · 21 minutes
Best Crypto to AI Pivot Ever

In this episode of the Newcomer Podcast, Eric and Madeline dissect why VCs are mad about Trump’s plans for a... more

07 Mar 2025 · 21 minutes
$200 Billion for Data Centers... In This Economy?

Eric and Madeline break down the week that was in AI news in this episode of The Newcomer Podcast, from the unnecessary... more

28 Feb 2025 · 17 minutes
Humane’s HP Exit & the Foundation Model Slugfest

In this episode of the Newcomer Podcast, Eric and Madeline give a sendoff to the Humane and its AI Pin.... more

21 Feb 2025 · 24 minutes
Elon Musk’s Boisterous OpenAI Bid

Eric and Madeline unpack the biggest “deal that wasn’t” story of Elon Musk’s unsolicited offer to purchase OpenAI for $97.4... more

14 Feb 2025 · 19 minutes
DOGE's Twitter Firestorm

In this episode of the Newcomer podcast, Eric Newcomer and Madeline Renbarger dig into all of the chaos in Washington... more

07 Feb 2025 · 25 minutes
The DeepSeek Fire Drill

In this episode, Eric Newcomer and Madeline Renbarger break down DeepSeek’s impact on western AI companies. Is it really the “AI Sputnik Moment” that... more

31 Jan 2025 · 24 minutes
Grit vs Grift

"In this episode of The Newcomer Podcast, Eric Newcomer and Madeline Renbarger unpack how tech elites are reacting to the early days of the Trump... more

24 Jan 2025 · 25 minutes
Beware the "Tech Industrial Complex"

In this jam-packed episode, Eric and Madeline break down Biden’s surprise crackdown on the “Tech Industrial Complex,” explore Trump’s tight... more

17 Jan 2025 · 22 minutes
Waymo’s Next Challenge: Humanity

Waymo’s milestone — surpassing Lyft’s ride numbers in San Francisco — takes center stage in our first podcast of the... more

10 Jan 2025 · 15 minutes
Is the Tech IPO Window Open?

The ServiceTitan IPO has been an unexpected bright spot as 2024 comes to a close.On this year’s final episode of... more

16 Dec 2024 · 23 minutes
Shake-ups at Silicon Valley's Biggest VC Firms

After a brief hiatus, the Newcomer podcast is back! Madeline Renbarger has rejoined me as my co-host to help break... more

11 Dec 2024 · 20 minutes
Has AI Hit a Wall? A Debate from the Cerebral Valley AI Summit

I’ve been spending some of the afternoon chatting with OpenAI’s now fully released o1. So far, I don’t know that... more

05 Dec 2024 · 42 minutes
Listen to Anthropic's Dario Amodei from Cerebral Valley + Videos from on Stage

If you get some downtime over the Thanksgiving holiday, catch up on everything that happened at the Cerebral Valley AI... more

27 Nov 2024 · 27 minutes
Fear-Mongering & Forecasting: Assessing AI's Predictions About AI

Cerebral Valley is tomorrow! I’ve been listening to old interviews, brainstorming with Claude and ChatGPT, and talking to investors to... more

19 Nov 2024 · 49 minutes
The AI Startup Fantasy Draft

This is probably my favorite episode of the year. We just updated our picks for our artificial intelligence startup fantasy... more

13 Nov 2024 · 48 minutes
Trump & AI Policy + Overrated/Underrated on the Cerebral Valley Podcast

We’re back with a couple episodes of the Cerebral Valley Podcast leading up to our summit on November 20. I’m... more

09 Nov 2024 · 55 minutes
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"In this episode of The Newcomer Podcast, Eric Newcomer and Madeline Renbarger unpack how tech elites are reacting to the early days of the Trump presidency. They... more