The Generalist
“The future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed.”
The Generalist Podcast brings you weekly conversations with the people who live in these pockets of the future – visionary founders, prescient investors, and original thinkers. Each episode is designed to introduce you to new ideas, technologies, and markets and help you prepare for the world of tomorrow.
How a Solo Founder is Reshaping Global Finance (Parth Garg, CEO of Aspora)
How Do You Build a New Singapore? Inside Próspera’s Bet on Private Governance | Erick Brimen
Why Psychedelics Might Be the Breakthrough That PTSD Patients Need | Kevin Ryan
Biological Time Travel: How Cryopreservation Could Transform Medicine | Laura Deming
"This feels like 1996": Why a16z's Martin Casado believes the AI boom still has years to run
How to be Agentic in the Age of AI | Cate Hall (CEO of Astera)
Maintaining Human Intelligence in the AI Era | David Krakauer (President of the Santa Fe Institute)
Building Beautiful Homes with Robots: The Future of Construction | Salar al Khafaji (Monumental)
What Makes Something Alive? Assembly Theory and the Origins of Life | Sara Walker
Airships, Supersonic Flight, and Antimatter: How Eli Dourado Is Writing Ideas Into Reality
Inside General Catalyst’s $1B+ Bet on Fixing Healthcare | Hemant Taneja (CEO and Managing Partner)
The Future of Crypto: Stablecoins, AI Integration, and the Path to Mass Adoption | Jesse Walden
The Evolution of AI Agents: Navigating the “Fog of AI” in Rapidly Changing Foundations
The Decade of Data with Tomasz Tunguz
Why the Real Computer Revolution Never Happened | Alan Kay & Anjan Katta
Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity: Lessons from AI, Pandemics & Nuclear Threats | Toby Ord
Are We Alone In The Universe? Sara Seager on Exoplanets, Venus, and the Hunt for Alien Life
Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading | Nadia Asparouhova (Writer and Researcher)
Creating Stars in a Bottle: The Race to Commercialize Fusion Energy | Vinod Khosla & Bob Mumgaard
The Semiconductor Century with Chris Miller (Author of "Chip War")
How Anduril Is Reimagining the Defense Industry: Faster Tech, Ethical AI, & a New Kind of Deterrence
The Substack Playbook: Inside The $650M Platform Rewriting Media, Trust, and Creator Economics
Lessons from 20 Years of Venture Capital: Roelof Botha (Managing Partner at Sequoia Capital)
Shrinking the Gap Between Sci-Fi and Sci-Fact: Josh Wolfe (Co-Founder of Lux Capital)
How AI Will Enhance Human Potential, Not Replace It: Reid Hoffman