The a16z Show

When AI Agents Start Spending Your Money | Alex Rampell & Terry Angelos

AI could simultaneously increase consumer spending while eliminating the subscriptions, fees, and other forms of economic "breakage" that depend on people not paying attention.

The a16z Show

What Makes a Consumer AI Product Stick? | Josh Elman

Josh argues that getting attention has actually become easier, but getting consumers to stick is harder than ever.

Diet TBPN

Apple’s iPhone Duo, Meta’s Muse AI Agent, Anthropic Researcher Quits Over AI Doom | Diet TBPN

You spend more time on your phone than you do in your car. And your car is 10 times the price of your phone always like if not more.

The CEO Signal

Affirm's Max Levchin Wants To Give Customers 'The Advice That's Not Comfortable' | The CEO Signal

This idea that I have no idea how this works. I know I'm paying too much. I'm probably getting screwed and it's too complicated. And that that's the origin story in that.

The Business of Tech

FTN Motion's electric ride

Rather than chasing a futuristic look like many EV makers, FTN Motion doubled down on nostalgia and craftsmanship, betting that riders want something that feels like a classic, not a gadget.

TBPN

Ben Thompson Explains the XBOX Disaster

People buy consoles to play games, not to have a portal to the internet in their living room. And so you're selling a multi-hundred sort of console to people who want to play games, but people who don't want to play games aren't going to randomly start buying consoles.

Freakonomics Radio

The World Is (Still) Drowning in Sludge

Insurance forms that make no sense. Subscriptions that can't be cancelled. A never-ending blizzard of automated notifications.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Dara Khosrowshahi - Uber's Bet on AVs, AI, and Building a Super-App - [Invest Like the Best, EP.476]

The goal is to make Uber so useful that it becomes your default relationship for getting around and getting things done in the real world. And I think the super-app vision, where you can order food, get a ride, get a package delivered, book a flight — all from one place — is something that's very natural for consumers, because they don't want to have 15 different apps. They want one trusted relationship.

TBPN

Cerebras IPO, Warsh Confirmed Fed Chair, Musk-OpenAI Trial Nears End | Diet TBPN

Token consumers customers businesses have shown this revealed preference for and and a willingness to pay for speed.

TBPN

Chad Janis: How I Sold Grüns to Unilever for $1.2B

I was drinking a greens powder and looked up in the corner of the room and I was just like, there's no way I'm keeping this habit past 30 days. Um, so that was sort of the epiphany of, hey, how do I take uh something as robust and comprehensive and make it into a form factor that could build a habit for consumer.

Compound Interest

Why Oura’s CEO Is Embracing Washington Regulation

I think peak subscription refers to subscriptions that don't deliver a lot of value because it's so easy I think to sign up for an app or you know a service and then maybe even forget about it and then six months later you look at say I haven't been using this or I haven't been consuming it.

Hidden Brain

Group Think

How do the groups you identify with shape your sense of self? Do they influence the beer you buy? The way you vote?

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Hasbro's CEO lets AI Peppa Pig help design toys

toys and games have become a market for adults as much as for kids. This is really a remarkable conversation: toys are a big, complex business.