"The Riff" with Byrne Hobart and Erik Torenberg
By Byrne Hobart
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Investor and writer of the popular newsletter The Diff, Byrne Hobart, and co-host Erik Torenberg discuss today’s major inflection points in technology, business, and markets – and help listeners build a diversified portfolio of trends and ideas for the future.
Topics covered: Finance, Venture Capital, Tech, AI, Crypto, and Industry Cycles
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E71: Risk Taking, Contrarianism, and Growth [Byrne on Interintellect]
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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E70: OpenAI’s Open Source Strategy, Volatility & Tariffs, and Automation’s Consequences w/ Byrne Hobart
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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E69: Good vs Bad Bubbles, Stagnation, and Bitcoin [Byrne on Bankless]
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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E68: Chinese Free Trade, AI Managers, and Why AI Art is Art
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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E67: Hidden X-Risk, Network Effects of Elon’s Empire, and American Hegemony
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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E66: The Politics of Alex Karp and Palantir, DOGE Breakdown, and AI vs Blogging
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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E65: Bill Gates’s Persona, Against Copying Berkshire Hathaway, and Making the Economy More Like Chipotle
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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E64: US vs China’s Strategies, Uber’s Growth Model, AI Supply Chains
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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E63: OpenAI Deep Research, Elon’s Potential Hostile Takeover, and AI Agent Companies
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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E62: Trump’s Tariffs, Open Source AI Models, and The Future of VR
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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E61: Markets React to DeepSeek, Threads vs X, and Stargate Announcement
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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E60: Trump Coin, US Industrial Policy, and TikTok Ban
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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E59: Zuck’s PR, The Loneliness Economy, and OpenAI Corporate Structure
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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E58: How Jensen Huang Outpaces Tech Giants w/ Tae Kim, author of THE NVIDIA WAY
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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E57: Pod Shops; Contrarian Vibe Checks; Scaling Laws Analysis
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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E56: AI Agents are Coming; China’s Internet; Google Wants to Win
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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E55: Futarchy, Elon, and Gut Decisions in Business
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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E54: How Bubbles Create The Future
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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E53: Election Analysis, Heresy, and Real Estate
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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E52: How Tech Journalism Works w/ Patrick McKenzie
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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E51: Venture Scale, Y Combinator, and Financial Bubbles
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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E50: Freemium Apps, Restaurants, and Search with Patrick McKenzie
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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E49: AI Art, Young Founders, and Disrupting Higher Education
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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E48: Facebook vs MySpace, Why Peter Thiel is Wrong About Competition, and OpenAI Corporate Structure
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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E47: Cult Stocks, Tech Media, and Technological Revolutions
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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E46: Degrowth, Private Equity, and the EU Tech Industry
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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E45: Efficient Market Hypothesis, Missing Billionaires, and Digital Currencies
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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E44: Founder Mode, Uber’s Self-Driving Strategy, and Big Tech Skepticism
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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E43: The Silicon Valley Canon, Smart Contracts, and the Yen Carry Trade
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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E42: Navigating Tech Antitrust and the Future of AI
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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E41: Meta’s Open Source Strategy, Amazon’s Culture Drift, and What’s Going on With Character.AI
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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E40: The Age of the AI Organization
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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E39: Mental Models and Financial Infrastructure with Patrick McKenzie
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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E38: Resurgence of Prediction Markets, AI Adoption and Complex Financial Systems
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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E37: 2024 Election Updates, Partisanship on Wikipedia, and Amazon’s Media Business
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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E36: Meritocracy, Modeling Globalization, and The Burden of Knowledge
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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E35: How to Be President, the Future of AI Celebrities, and Training Larger AI Models
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Jul 06, 2024 |
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E34: Chamath & Tinder, Threads API, and the Difficulties of Scaling AI Labs
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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E33: AI Therapy, 4chan, and Why Conferences Are Like Cities
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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E32: Populism, Elites, and Preparing for AGI
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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E31: Google API Documentation Leak, Apple's Plans for Siri, and Analyzing Texas Instruments
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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E30: xAI Fundraising, Vivek's BuzzFeed Investment, and Ad-Based AI Monetization
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May 30, 2024 |
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E29: Meme Stocks, Reserve Currencies, and the Case Against Home Ownership
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May 23, 2024 |
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E28: Amazon’s Potential for an Airline, Hidden Economic Gains, and the Nature of Equities
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May 17, 2024 |
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E27: Costco's Business Model, Martingale Strategies, and Usage-Based Lock-in for AI
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May 09, 2024 |
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E26: Stripe's Unbundling Strategy, What AI Means for Education, and 24-Hour Markets
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May 03, 2024 |
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E25: Lambda School Drama, Meta's Path to AI, and Why Hardware Constraints Protect Your Privacy
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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E24: Why Acquisitions Fail, How to Write a Great Memo, and The Fate of ChatGPT Wrappers
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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E23: Hard Tech Pivots, Potato Investing, and When to Enforce the Law
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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E22: Corporate Espionage, Algorithmic Collusion, and Transitioning through AI
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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E21: Austin Real Estate, Duolingo’s Bull Case, and Identifying Spurious Correlations
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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E20: Content Moderation, AI in Advertising, and the Future of Social Security
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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E19: Hedging Against Life, Outage Economics, and Open Source vs Proprietary AI
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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E18: Tiger Global, Selling Alpha, and Dating Apps
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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E17: How Quants See the World
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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E16: The Fertility Crisis
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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E15: Understanding Real Estate with Brad Hargreaves
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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E14: How to Build a Media Empire
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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E13: Corporate Mortality, Momentum Investing, and Learning From Extreme Events
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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E12: How Silicon Valley Became Financially Literate
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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E11: What Byrne Hobart Thinks about Nearly Everything (Part Two)
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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E10: Prediction markets are a trillion dollar opportunity. Why aren’t they working yet?
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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E9: What Byrne Hobart Thinks About Nearly Everything
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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E8: Antitrust, the Future of Competition, and Higher Education
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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E7: OpenAI updates, macro predictions, and why McDonald’s is a software company
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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E6: How Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett beat the market
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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E5: Hedge Funds, VC, and Finding Alpha
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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E4: A Closer Look at Demographics, Dating, and Globalization
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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E3: Sam Altman, the Microsoft Bull Case, OpenAI and AI Live Players
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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E2: OpenAI, Investing Bets, and Social Media Paradigms
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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E1: Psychoanalyzing SBF, Crypto Markets, and Byrne's Biggest Influences
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Nov 16, 2023 |