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Todays show:

David Weisburd hosts Jeff Richards, Ryan Denehy, and Jason Calacanis to discuss down rounds in startups (5:26), changing operations in response to market shifts (23:07), and impact of AI & remote work on job availability (1:02:17).

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Timestamps:

(0:00) David Weisburd intros Jeff Richards, Ryan Denehy, and Jason Calacanis

(5:26) Down rounds and cram down rounds in VC deals

(13:06) NetSuite - By popular demand, NetSuite has extended its one-of-a-kind flexible financing program for a few more weeks! Head to https://www.netsuite.com/liquidity

(14:22) The terms of investment and the importance of good business fundamentals

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(23:24) Changing operations in response to market shifts

(30:20) Increasing deal flow and setting ambitious goals

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(37:26) AI adoption in startups and businesses

(1:02:33) The role of remote work in shaping the global economy and the potential of offshore hiring

(1:09:34) Comparing the fundraising process pre and post COVID

(1:14:30) Wrap up: Jeff's latest 3 investments and Ryan's company, https://www.Electric.ai

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A decade ago, I was feeling pretty pessimistic about climate change. The politics of mitigating global warming just seemed impossible: asking people to make sacrifices, or countries to slow their development, and delay dreams of better, more prosperous lives.

But the world today looks different. The costs of solar and wind power have plummeted. Same for electric batteries. And a new politics is starting to take hold: that maybe we can invest and invent and build our way out of this crisis. But some very hard problems remain. Chief among them? Cows.

Hannah Ritchie is the deputy editor and lead researcher at Our World in Data and the author of “Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet.” She’s pored over the data on this question and has come away more optimistic than many. “It’s just not true that we’ve had these solutions just sitting there ready to build for decades and decades, and we just haven’t done anything,” she told me. “We’re in a fundamentally different position going forward.”

In this conversation, we discuss whether sustainability without sacrifice is truly possible. How much progress have we made so far? What gives her the most hope? And what are the biggest obstacles?

Mentioned:

“What was the death toll from Chernobyl and Fukushima?” by Hannah Ritchie

“Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers” by Joseph Poore and Thomas Nemecek

“Future demand for electricity generation materials under different climate mitigation scenarios” by Seaver Wang, Zeke Hausfather et al.

Book Recommendations:

Factfulness by Hans Rosling

Possible by Chris Goodall

Range by David Epstein

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This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Rollin Hu. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris, with Mary Marge Locker and Kate Sinclair. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Isaac Jones. Our senior editor is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Annie Galvin, Kristin Lin and Aman Sahota. Original music by Isaac Jones. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. Special thanks to Sonia Herrero.

American lawmakers have tried for years to ban TikTok, concerned that the video app’s links to China pose a national security risk.

Sapna Maheshwari, a technology reporter for The Times, explains the behind-the-scenes push to rein in TikTok and discusses what a ban could mean for the app’s 170 million users in the United States.

Guest: Sapna Maheshwari, who covers TikTok, technology and emerging media companies for The New York Times.

Background reading: 

• A tiny group of lawmakers huddled in private about a year ago, aiming to bulletproof a bill that could ban TikTok.
• The TikTok law faces court challenges, a shortage of qualified buyers and Beijing’s hostility.
• Love, hate or fear it, TikTok has changed America.

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Sunny joins Jason to dive into this week’s AI news and demos.

(1:52) Various user-driven enhancements to Llama 3

(8:28) Abacus runs Llama-3 locally on your iPhone.

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(18:43) Deep dive into the advancements in self-driving car technology and Tesla’s FSD

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(33:48) Sunny weighs the possibility of a Robotaxi death in the next couple of years.

(37:11) Sunny’s theory that the leader in autonomous cars will be the one to use the Uber model.

(46:02) Jason has producer Cort jump on the pod to try out an “AI Death Calculator”.

(51:10) Sunny demos Vibecheck.

(59:49) Sunny demos Wisdolia.

(1:02:25) Sunny demos Globe Engineer

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Warehouses and cargo-moving companies spent a few weeks in limbo after the Baltimore bridge collapse. Now, they’re working hard to reroute goods that usually went through the city’s port, with some truckers driving far and wide to pick up freight redirected to other cities. In this episode, how one cargo transportation company is adjusting. Plus, who will hurt the most from a cap on credit card fees, what economic data the Fed is keeping an eye on this week, and why desk phones are disappearing.

We have found some pretty amazing ways to observe human behaviour and from it, discovered some especially interesting things about how we operate, who we are at our core, our irrational beliefs and so much more. In today's episode, we break down five of my favourite psychology studies of all time from jam, to mental escapism and binge watching TV, how many friends we actually need, the healing power of nature and the origins of imposter syndrome. Listen now! 

Study One: The Stanford Jam Experiment

https://faculty.washington.edu/jdb/345/345%20Articles/Iyengar%20%26%20Lepper%20(2000).pdf

Study Two: In your 20s it's quantity, in your 30s its quality 

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2015-10764-001 

Study Three: Loneliness, Escapism, and Identification With Media Characters 

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.785970/full 

Study Four: The Imposter Phenomenon in High Achieving Women

https://www.paulineroseclance.com/pdf/ip_high_achieving_women.pdf 

Study Five: Effects of Coastal Environment on Well-being 

https://www.walshmedicalmedia.com/open-access/effects-of-the-coastal-environment-on-wellbeing-jczm-1000421.pdf 

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Today's Episode is a long one and it's FULL of incredible insights and advice for businesses and entrepreneurs of all kinds. These are all segments from the 11-hour livestream I recently did for my new book Day Trading Attention! You will hear me giving actionable advice to creators, businesses, and brands on how they can take their businesses to the next level. You will hear from people like the incredible Nick Cassano (@nicky.cass) and the hysterical Zarna Garg (@zarnagarg). I hope you all enjoy it.

Last week.... A former Baltimore high school athletic director was arrested for allegedly using artificial intelligence to impersonate the school principal in a recording that included racist and antisemitic comments about individuals at the school.

The investigators say the athletic director faked the principal's voice. They are now facing charges that include theft, stalking, disruption of school operations and retaliation against a witness.

On Ask the Expert, Dr. Alex Del Carmen joined the KRLD Afternoon News. He is Professor and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal and Fine Arts and the School of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Strategic Studies at Tarleton State University.

He shares his concern with how common these AI crimes are becoming and how far behind the law is in being able to prosecuting AI crimes.

Joe Biden cracks jokes, mocks Trump, and goes around traditional media outlets to get his message out on shows like Smartless and Howard Stern. Democratic and Republican politicians get involved in the debate over the Gaza protests on college campuses. One-time Republican Trump critics line up to kiss the ring, and Kristi Noem destroys her VP chances by coming out as an unapologetic puppy killer.

For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast.

Khan Academy first rocked the education world with online video. Now Khan Academy CEO and founder Sal Khan has gone all-in on AI, convinced that it has immense potential to democratize and improve education. Khan tells Rapid Response host Bob Safian how an early outreach from OpenAI led Khan Academy to create an AI assistant called Khanmigo, which is already being used by thousands of students and teachers. Khan shares lessons from this real-world experiment, plus the inspiration behind his new book, Brave New Words, and why the most educated among us tend to avoid the risks worth taking.

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The Village People were a smash hit singing group that came and went in under two years. Then other people performed under that name for several decades. This is their story. 

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