Pale Blue Nexus
Making sense of the future, from right here. Pale Blue Nexus is a podcast about the technologies reshaping our world, and what they mean for us as humans. Sponsored by Aloomii, subscribe to the newsletter at palebluenexus.com
Episodes
CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:26 Who Gabe is and what Subfrost does
01:56 Finding traction in a bear market
02:20 The China road trip and an unexpected user base
04:32 Alkanes' share of Bitcoin block space, in Gabe's numbers
05:30 How trustless can Bitcoin smart contracts really be?
06:06 Progressive decentralization: nine signers, then doxxed, then permissionless
08:59 Current TVL
09:03 The L2 misconception an...
CHAPTERS
00:00 The tooling gap between a working demo and production
02:15 Token prices are rising. Why that is the wrong thing to panic about
06:57 What constrains supply: data centers, power, cooling, hardware
08:30 Where generative AI prototypes actually go to die
10:58 Why something that looks 80 percent done is closer to 20 percent
14:16 Silent regressions and testing a non-deterministic system
15:37 What ...
Chapters
00:00 Welcome and how to pronounce Lugli
02:43 Who is Victor Lugli
06:17 Rhetoric, Rome, and the roots of influence
08:38 From psychology to cognitive neuroscience
11:03 Studying consciousness, building neuromarketing
13:28 The pattern behind successful CEOs
19:09 The trust recession
20:23 Why AI produces averages, not intelligence
25:53 Everyone's pitch sounds the same now
34:29 Speed, acquis...
0:00 Welcome and intro
1:00 Origin story: a 2002 AI research spinoff that became Markup AI
3:27 Why Matt says "content is the next code"
4:16 Real client results: productivity, quality, and the previously unimaginable
6:13 Cloud infrastructure and how Markup AI works across multiple LLMs
7:29 How Markup AI proves impact with standards and risk scoring
9:32 The agent to agent economy and machine readable brand
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Chapters:
00:00 Meet Vadim, founder and CEO of Diffco
01:13 The 10x engineer myth and why the metric is an illusion
03:18 Cutting client costs by 4x, and the legacy codebase reality check
05:18 What he'd build today: the most unsexy, regulated industries
09:04 The three kinds of projects worth building
12:56 Wearing the advisor and investor hats
13:34 What he invests in: outsiders who challenge the status quo
Chapters:
00:00 Meet Vitaly Golomb
01:32 Why job losses are inevitable this time
04:41 How close are autonomous trucks?
06:10 Manufacturing, China, and lights-out factories
07:30 The five robotics verticals his fund invests in
11:10 If capital doesn't need labor, who buys anything?
15:22 China's laws on replacing workers with robots
17:45 UBI, or why "negative income tax" might actually pass
20:27 Fixing ...
Chapters
00:00 Meet Mary Grove
00:22 Immigrant parents, an operating room nurse, and a clinic
02:25 From the IPO desk to building a global startup program
02:52 Why 75% of venture dollars still land in three cities
04:22 The capital efficiency case for building outside the coasts
05:40 Food tech, digital health, vertical SaaS, and why those three
07:31 Not trying to build the next Silicon Valley
08:31 Inside...
My guest this week built a headset that turns your own brainwaves into a video game, and the point of that game is to teach your brain to drop into a flow state on demand, even under pressure.
Steve Gullans spent 18 years as a scientist at Harvard Medical School, ran a venture fund, took a company public and rang the NASDAQ bell, then came out of retirement to bring this technology to market. His company, Thynk, is starting in publi...
Every index fund quietly does something strange. When a company's founder retires, sells, or passes away, the index buys more of that company, not less. Haren Bhakta thinks that is exactly backwards. On this episode of Pale Blue Nexus, the CEO and founder of Inside Ownership Index explains why he would rather own the leaders of a business than the logo, and why he went through roughly 20,000 proxy filings by hand to build the data ...
Eliza Blank built The Sill into one of the most recognizable houseplant brands in the country. Now she's CEO of The Farmlink Project, a national nonprofit moving 150 million pounds of surplus produce a year from farms to families facing food insecurity. In this conversation, she breaks down how a grassroots COVID-era effort by college students became one of the most efficient food recovery operations in North America, why relations...
Founder and self-described "agentic power broker" Charles Cormier on why human relationships are the one moat AGI can't cross, how to use a podcast as your B2B funnel, and why comfort is death.
What if the next frontier isn't a metaphor, it's a market?
Venture capitalist Nectarios Economakis (Partner & Co-Founder, Amiral Ventures) just closed the first $40M of a new $75M fund built to keep Canada's best builders home. We start with the brain drain and end up at asteroid mining, and somehow it all connects.
In this episode we get into why "San Francisco is just a wrapper on Waterloo," why Canada is great ...
DeepInfra (https://deepinfra.com/) is serving over 5 trillion tokens a week and just closed a major raise backed by NVIDIA. In this episode of Pale Blue Nexus, host Yohann Calpu sits down with co-founder Nikola Borisov to unpack how DeepInfra is challenging the hyperscalers on price, why he compares inference optimization to Formula 1, and what the future of open source AI looks like.
Nikola shares the technical playbook beh...
Austin Armstrong has 5 million followers across social, 11k affiliates, a $2M ARR AI video SaaS
(https://syllaby.io/?via=yohann80), a startup incubator in Durham, NC (Bullhouse), and a conference in Dallas he used to attend as a fan and now co-owns (AI Marketing World, Oct 21–24).
He sat down with Yohann to talk about the moment he saw the AI wave coming and bet his agency on it, why founder-led sales has a ceiling...
Jack Couch was the security guy in the Vista war room, personally set up Xbox Live's network in Japan, watched the iPhone kill the Zune in real time — and then went and built Sophtron, the AI-powered platform that lets agents access banking data the banks don't want them to access.
He calls his company "a security firm wrapped in a fintech veneer." It supports 14,000+ banks, 60,000+ connections, with about two dozen data scien...
He co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros, gaining 4,200% returns in a single decade. He drove around the world twice, once on a motorcycle and once by car, setting two Guinness World Records. Then in 2007, he sold his New York City mansion for $16 million and moved his entire family to Singapore because he believed the 21st century belongs to Asia.
Jim Rogers has spent 50 years making bets that everyone else called crazy...a...
Yohann Calpu introduces the relaunch of his podcast and the switch from the NFT Hype brand, which will cover his expanded curiosity beyond NFTs, the launch of the Pale Blue Nexus podcast, and the intersection of technology and humanity.
Interview w/ Mike (@allhailoverlord) from Asigna on Multisig Wallets for Bitcoin, Ordinals, BRC20s, and Stacks
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Gansy (Founder, Rare Satoshi Society) joins Yohann to talk about why art on Bitcoin using Ordinals brings so many new benefits to artists that it’s inevitable that artists will come to the Bitcoin scene in droves.
Follow @RareSatSociety on X/Twitter and visit their website for more info. Follow our guest, Gansy on X @theGANSmachine.
Read “Why Art on Bitcoin” as a supplement to this interview if you’d l...
A 20min primer on Bitcoin NFTs vs Ethereum NFTs.
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