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  • Jaden McDaniels Is The Best Player in the World, The Sixers and Celtics and GAME SEVEN, The Lakers Officially on Collapse Watch

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  • Vibe Coding, Windsurf and Anthropic, ChatGPT Connectors

    Monday, June 9, 2025

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    AI coding is much broader than vibe coding, the dynamics of AI coding, and why OpenAI wants to own everything.


  • An Interview with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan About Surviving COVID and Building Moats

    Thursday, March 14, 2024

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    An interview with Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan about starting Zoom, surviving COVID, and building a moat in the enterprise.


  • Apple Earnings; OpenAI, GPTBot, and Robots.txt; Zoom’s Terms-of-Service

    Tuesday, August 8, 2023

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    Apple’s earnings were boring, which is a credit to the company, while OpenAI and Zoom raise questions about data and AI


  • Peloton Changes CEO, The Pandemic Stocks, Peloton’s Options

    Monday, February 14, 2022

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    Breaking down what is going wrong with Peloton’s business, and why it might make sense to go in the opposite direction.


  • Google Sued by States, Ranking the Cases, Fantasy Basketball and Silver Linings

    Thursday, December 17, 2020

    Google’s many antitrust cases, ranked! Plus, one small way that COVID is pushing one group of friends into the future.


  • Slack Acquires Rimeto, New Teams Features, An Interview with Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield

    Thursday, July 9, 2020

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    An Interview with Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield about the acquisition of Rimeto and competing with Microsoft.


  • Hey v Apple Follow-Up, Shopify and Walmart, Three Follow-Ups

    Thursday, June 18, 2020

    Apple’s likely next steps, encouraging moves from Shopify, and quick thoughts on the EU versus Apple, Section 230, and Zoom and encryption


  • Podcast Apps Banned in China, Podcast Censorship, Zoom Suspends U.S.-based Chinese Activist

    Thursday, June 11, 2020

    Two podcasts apps were banned in China; Apple has to follow local law, but how much censorship is Apple doing itself? Then Zoom demonstrates it can’t be trusted.


  • Zoom’s Earnings, Zoom and AWS, Zoom and End-to-end Encryption

    Thursday, June 4, 2020

    Zoom didn’t just add free users: it’s revenue exploded as well. How AWS made that possible, and why Zoom’s encryption plans are a good idea.


  • Zoom’s “Genuine Oversight”, Zoom’s Strengths and Weaknesses, Virality Versus Network Effects

    Tuesday, May 5, 2020

    Zoom has another screwup, this time in terms of reporting how many users it has. It is a disturbing pattern and a reminder that strengths are weaknesses.


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    Tuesday, April 28, 2026
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  • An Interview with F1 Driver and Venture Capitalist Nico Rosberg About the Drive to Win

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  • Intel Earnings, Intel’s Differentiation?, Whither Terafab

    Wednesday, April 29, 2026
  • An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman About Bedrock Managed Agents

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  • Jaden McDaniels Is The Best Player in the World, The Sixers and Celtics and GAME SEVEN, The Lakers Officially on Collapse Watch

    Greatest Of All Talk | May 1
    Jaden McDaniels Is The Best Player in the World, The Sixers and Celtics and GAME SEVEN, The Lakers Officially on Collapse Watch
  • OpenAI, Musk & Microsoft

    Dithering | May 1
    OpenAI, Musk & Microsoft
  • (Preview) AWS History and Trainium’s AI Future, OpenAI Makes a Deal With Microsoft, Meta and the Future of Wearable Devices

    Sharptech | May 1
    (Preview) AWS History and Trainium’s AI Future, OpenAI Makes a Deal With Microsoft, Meta and the Future of Wearable Devices

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  • An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman About Bedrock Managed Agents

    Tuesday, April 28, 2026
  • An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About the Agentic Moment

    Thursday, April 23, 2026
  • An Interview with F1 Driver and Venture Capitalist Nico Rosberg About the Drive to Win

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