EPISODE
Jeremy Allaire, Tomasz Tunguz, William Layden, Justin Beroz, Eli Wachs, Sean McCarthy, Tom Mueller
00:01:00 Jeremy Allaire discusses Circle’s launch of Arc, a blockchain-based economic operating system designed for payments, capital markets, and trusted AI-agent transactions. The Circle co-founder, chairman, and CEO also explains how stablecoins such as USDC could reduce payment costs and expand global financial access, while addressing evolving U.S. cryptocurrency regulation.
00:02:00 Tomasz Tunguz, founder and general partner at Theory Ventures, discusses AI regulation, liability, inference infrastructure, open-source models, and investment opportunities across the AI stack. He also examines soaring valuations for AI companies, agent economics and monetization, software acquisitions, and venture capital liquidity.
00:03:00 William Layden discusses how Roon’s modular AI data centers convert surplus utility-scale solar power into computing capacity. He explains the technology’s rapid deployment, potential applications for wind and other renewable sources, and his belief that solar energy will power the future of computing.
00:04:00 Justin Beroz, founder and CEO of Rainco, is a mechanical engineer and theoretical physicist developing mathematical tools to solve turbulence. Justin Beroz discusses the practical limits of the Navier–Stokes breakthrough, AI-generated proofs, and Rainco’s plans to commercialize more reliable fluid-simulation software and eventually turbulence-control hardware.
00:05:00 Eli Wachs, founder of Footprint, discusses building an AI operating system that helps financial institutions detect, investigate, and prevent financial crime. He explains how Footprint uses AI agents, extensive data access, and case memory to investigate every transaction, counter increasingly sophisticated criminal networks, and reduce the multitrillion-dollar global impact of fraud.
00:06:00 Sean McCarthy discusses his role as co-founder and CEO of Back Ops, an AI-native platform that automates supply-chain back-office operations. He explains how the company reduces operating costs, improves claims approval rates, integrates with systems ranging from spreadsheets to mainframes, and plans to use its $42 million Series B to expand across retail, manufacturing, and pharmaceuticals.
00:07:00 Tom Mueller discusses Impulse Space’s $808 million Series D financing, its Mira and Helios spacecraft, and growing opportunities in orbital transportation and government launch programs. The founder and CEO also reflects on SpaceX’s engineering culture, AI adoption, spacecraft reliability, and the challenges of hiring experienced aerospace and software talent.