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by Mackenzie Bohannon, Angela Du, Ashley Mayer, Helen Min, & Sally Shin
A podcast mostly about tech.
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- Yesterday33 min
Who are the billboards for?
You can’t turn around in San Francisco without seeing a startup billboard…or five. We share some of our favorite marketing stunts of all time, and talk about why startup-branded shuttles and cafes are all the rage in our current era. Plus: more SpaceX S-1 talk (we can’t get enough), with Anthropic’s confidential filing close on its heels. It’s going to be a fun few months in the group chat. Mercury is back as the headline sponsor for year two of Great Chat. Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group, Column N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust; Members FDIC. This podcast is edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod
- 1 weeks ago43 min
AI services, so hot right now
The AI labs’ ARR charts only go up and to the right, but actual diffusion through the Fortune 500? Way messier. This week, Jaclyn Rice Nelson, co-founder and CEO of Tribe AI (and Ashley's partner at Coalition), joins the chat to explain why OpenAI and Anthropic each stood up their own deployment companies. We discuss why the big consultancies can’t get the job done, and why "change management" is the wrong frame for what's actually a from-scratch refactor of how enterprises work. Plus: SpaceX's $1.75T turducken IPO, and a meh Google I/O may have just made the case for moving beyond conference-driven product launches. Mercury is back as the headline sponsor for year two of Great Chat. Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group, Column N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust; Members FDIC. This podcast is edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod
- 2 weeks ago41 min
Dear Graduates: we’re sorry about the Schmidt speech
Eric Schmidt delivered a pitch for AI to the University of Arizona graduating class—and the audience was not having it. We break down the nuance behind those boos, and grapple with the reality that no tech leader could have delivered a rousing AI speech in this moment. On the bright side, Schmidt sent us down a fun rabbit hole, reviewing some of the best commencement speeches in recent history (RIP Steve Jobs). Plus: the most boring possible verdict in the Musk v. Altman showdown, the tweet about the SF wealth gap that broke our group chats, and the doomsday vibes at Meta. Mercury is back as the headline sponsor for year two of Great Chat. Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group, Column N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust; Members FDIC. This podcast is edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod
- 3 weeks ago38 min
What does it mean to be mission-driven in 2026?
We’ve come a long way from the idealistic startup missions of the 2000s and 2010s. Today’s mission statements (when they exist) are more adversarial and more capitalist. Did we lose something, or are we just being honest? Plus: secondary sales exacerbate the already crazy SF housing market, and blaming AI isn’t landing as well for the latest wave of tech layoffs. Mercury is back as the headline sponsor for year two of Great Chat. Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group, Column N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust; Members FDIC. This podcast is edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod: https://lightningpod.fm/
- Apr 22, 202636 min
The hills we’ll die on
In this era of hot takes loosely held, we each reveal the hills we’re willing to die on. Helen defends advertising as the perfect business model, Angela says the maths never really math (so throw out your spreadsheets), and Ashley insists you only lose when you try to play someone else’s game. Plus: the Anthropic narrative shift, everyone loves Bret Taylor, and so long Tim Apple (hello Johnny Appleseed?). Mercury is back as the headline sponsor for year two of Great Chat. Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group, Column N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust; Members FDIC. This podcast is edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod
- Apr 15, 202638 min
Developer marketing when everyone is a developer
When everyone is a developer, what does developer marketing even mean? This week on Great Chat, we're joined by developer relations expert Matt Palmer to discuss developer marketing and the eternal question of what's cool in San Francisco. Mercury is back as the headline sponsor for year two of Great Chat. Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group, Column N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust; Members FDIC. This podcast is edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod
- Apr 8, 202638 min
OpenAI's new media M&A and old media exposé
In the wake of its historic $122B fundraise, OpenAI just wrapped one of the crazier weeks in news, but we couldn't miss the chance to zero in on its surprise acquisition of new media darling TBPN. We asked Alexia Bonatsos, early stage investor and former editor of TechCrunch (a new media darling from a prior era), to join the chat. Plus: Is Medvi a shining new example of company building, or a business milkshake duck? And what's the deal with VC firms removing controversial startup logos from their websites (cough, Delve)? Mercury is back as the headline sponsor for year two of Great Chat. Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group, Column N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust; Members FDIC. This podcast is edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod: https://lightningpod.fm/
- Apr 2, 202640 min
Go touch some grass (but don’t tweet about it)
So we all survived Q1—barely. When the world gets crazy, how do you stay sane? Spoiler alert: we don’t have any answers, but we have lots of hot takes. Plus: Mac opens a factory and schools us on submarine life, we wonder if anyone has reached Goldilocks status of being just the right amount online (not us), and it turns out AI may not have the polarizing effects of social media—we love a narrative violation. Mercury is back as the headline sponsor for year two of Great Chat. Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group, Column N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust; Members FDIC. This podcast is edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod
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