The Business of Tech

Why big companies kill good ideas – and how to save them

really cool ideas can just naturally make the world better and be commercially successful.

The Business of Tech

Why big companies kill good ideas – and how to save them

for innovation to work in a corporate but has to look and feel like a real startup. It needs its own budget, a clear, finite time span, specific deliverables, and tough stage gates where ideas are reviewed and must earn the right to keep going exactly as they would if a founding team was pitching for the next funding round.

Fresh Air

Best Of: Arsenio Hall / Jeff Ross

I wanted to do this show that didn't exist when I was a kid, and I knew the talent was out there. You know, I found Bruno Mars and put him on the show when he was two feet tall. I wanted those things that Johnny didn't do.

TBPN

SpaceX Financials, Does AI Increase Unemployment or Leisure, Chimp Civil War | Diet TBPN

Elon has uh always had multiple irons in the fire, one project that's working and producing cash flow and and growing uh to finance the next uh piece of innovation.

The Business of Tech

From Leaf to lunch: the Canterbury startup rethinking protein

How could we develop a system that produced far more protein per hectare of land at a much lower environmental impact, and can we weave those things together into a business, which is what we have done.

Acquired

The physics of F1 cars are awesome.

What if you did the opposite? That is what the Lotus team did. They shaped a car like an upside down airplane wing.

TED

The Story You’re Not Hearing About AI Data Centers | Ayșe Coskun | TED

The very technology driving this unforeseen demand is also probably the only thing smart enough to tame it.

Acquired

The Evolution of Speed in Formula 1

What if we can turn the whole car into a wing? I mean, rather than our traditional shaped car with a wing slapped on top, what if we made it actually part of the body style itself?

Book of the Day

Apple is turning 50. David Pogue’s new book tells its history. | NPR's Book of the Day

What I find super interesting is that that mission of taking advanced technologies and trying to put it in everybody's hands hasn't changed in 50 years.

TBPN

The Great Peptide Debate with Martin Shkreli & Max Marchione

I think the genie's out of the bottle and we cannot ignore peptides as a tool in the toolkit.

The a16z Show

Why Every Satellite Needs Earth | Northwood CEO on a16z

Northwood is building the systems that connect satellites back to Earth, enabling faster, more scalable space missions.

The Business of Tech

Too small is a tech myth – Mehran Gul on NZ’s real advantage

if one or two places can change their relative importance in technology within such a short time span, you know, five to seven years, and it's not just China, you know Canada, for instance, the outsize role that it has played in AI research. You know, much of the AI boom that we see today comes from just a couple of major advancements in AI that happened, for instance, alexnet, which was this seismic event in neural networks.

TBPN

Inside Bezos’ Plan to Rebuild U.S. Manufacturing With AI

As manufacturing gets cheaper like the tools that you use, the cars that you drive, the washing machine in your home, uh the tires on your cars, uh all these different things get better, not just cheaper, but actually unlock new capabilities and new things that people people enjoy.

The a16z Show

Inside Palantir: Building Software That Matters with Shyam Sankar

the most important thing America can do right now is inspire its latent heretics to step forward

TBPN

FULL INTERVIEW: Uber Founder Travis Kalanick is Back with a New AI Startup

If you do, you do to the kitchen what Uber did to the car. So I've been doing that since 2018.

TED

The Tiny Organisms Transforming Farming | Karsten Temme | TED

Well microbes in response shut down that nitrogen-fixing function, putting those genes into hibernation. What if we could wake them back up?

The a16z Show

Palantir CEO Alex Karp on the Zero-Sum AI Race

America's single greatest competitive advantage is its ability to cultivate and protect unconventional talent.

The Business of Tech

AI’s Kiwi gatekeeper inside Microsoft

if this can transform how architects are imagining buildings, imagine how we can transform every industry.

The Origins Podcast

(New Science News Feb 2026) Fusion Dark Matter, String Theory in Biology, and Rapid Evolution

if we ever have a nuclear fusion reactor why not give it a try you know it's uh it makes a lot of sense to me

Acquired

How SpaceX changed the space industry structure with NASA in 2008

If you think about the Apollo missions, NASA would design something. It was the NASA engineers and then they would bid out these sort of subcontracts to different people. Ultimately, it was a NASA owned and operated vehicle that they paid enormous amounts of money to someone else to build and then they'd run their own missions on it.