Oct 19, 202652 min
Mercury CEO Immad Akhund on the AI startup funding frenzy, agents that spend money, and the future of banking. Immad joins Eric Newcomer to discuss building Mercury to $1 billion in annualized revenue, competing with...
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Newcomer Pod
Hosted by Eric Newcomer | newcomer.co · news · EN-US
About this Podcast:
Hi, I'm Eric Newcomer. With this podcast, I dive straight into the heart of the tech industry, interviewing top investors and founders. I’m bringing my sensibility as someone who understands the inside story of Silicon Valley but who is happy to poke and prod as to why the tech world operates like it does.If you want first-person and insider information delivered to your newsletter, subscribe to my podcast at newcomer.co on Substack.
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What is Newcomer Pod about?
Hi, I'm Eric Newcomer. With this podcast, I dive straight into the heart of the tech industry, interviewing top investors and founders. I’m bringing my sensibility as someone who understands the inside story of Silicon Valley but who is happy to poke and prod as to why the tech world operates like it does.
What has Newcomer Pod covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Immad Akhund on Building Mercury, AI Agents & Taking On Big Banks" (19 October 2026, 52 minutes), "Alex Kantrowitz on OpenAI, Nvidia & What Could Derail the AI Boom" (13 October 2026, 66 minutes), and "Reid Hoffman on ChatGPT, Data Centers & Why America Needs AI" (2 October 2026, 53 minutes).
How often does Newcomer Pod publish?
Newcomer Pod publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 55 minutes across 210 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Newcomer Pod?
Booking probability for Newcomer Pod is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Newcomer Pod requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Newcomer Pod's contact route on record: verified email.
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The strongest fits for Newcomer Pod are Software and Business & Management Consulting. Newcomer Pod has a news audience and around 7,500 subscribers on YouTube.
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Oct 13, 20261h 6mOpenAI’s revenue confusion, Apple’s AI missteps, and Nvidia’s investments raise a bigger question: how much depends on the AI boom continuing?Big Technology founder Alex Kantrowitz joins Eric Newcomer to examine OpenAI...
Oct 2, 202653 minReid Hoffman on ChatGPT, the future of jobs, and why he believes the AI boom is keeping America out of a recession. The LinkedIn co-founder joins Eric Newcomer to explain why America needs to keep building AI while...
Sep 17, 202659 minRenee Jones on how billion-dollar startups escaped public scrutiny, why founders became more powerful than their boards, and what happens when private markets operate in secrecy. Renee Jones, Boston College Law School...
Sep 10, 202649 minWhat does NVIDIA really get from Hugging Face—and what is Silicon Valley missing about China? Zavain Dar, co-founder of Dimension and an early Hugging Face investor during his time at Lux Capital, joins Eric Newcomer to...
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Jul 28, 20261h 2mJohn Coogan, co-founder of TBPN, joins Eric Newcomer to talk about the acquisition that shocked the tech media world. John breaks down how TBPN went from two guys in suits to one of the most-watched live tech shows on...
Jul 10, 20261h 6mTaylor Lorenz on why the social media panic is overblown and who's actually driving it. Taylor Lorenz, journalist and author of Extremely Online, joins Eric Newcomer to push back on the moral panic around phones, social...
Jul 6, 202626 minThe Goldman Sachs exec who automated Wall Street on what AI agents actually do to jobs, companies, and the future of enterprise software. Marty Chavez got his AI PhD in 1991 when there were exactly zero AI jobs. So he...
Jun 29, 202655 minSemafor's editor-in-chief on why Washington has decided Anthropic needs to pick a side. Ben Smith, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Semafor, joins Eric Newcomer to break down the collision between the Trump...
Jun 26, 202622 minAidan Gomez on AGI, China, and the Biggest Risk Facing AI. Cohere co-founder and Transformer co-author Aidan Gomez joins Eric Newcomer to discuss whether we've already reached AGI, why Chinese AI models are being...
Jun 16, 202647 minThe CEO of a $4 billion compliance company on how her biggest competitor was faking it, and what that means for AI startup culture. Christina Cacioppo, co-founder and CEO of Vanta, joins Eric Newcomer to talk about the...
Jun 8, 202658 minEd Zitron is back, and he's making his strongest case yet that OpenAI and Anthropic are running a deliberate con on the public. In his second appearance on the Newcomer Podcast, Ed Zitron sits down with Eric Newcomer to...
May 29, 20261h 7mHow San Francisco's tech culture went from countercultural idealism to right-wing power, and what it means for the rest of us. Jonathan Weber, editor at large at The New Yorker and author of City on the Edge, joins Eric...
May 22, 202654 minWIRED's global editorial director on why Silicon Valley wants to control the press and what she's doing about it. Katie Drummond, global editorial director of WIRED, sits down with Eric Newcomer to talk about the...
May 15, 20261h 11mThe man who helped bring down Gawker is back, and this time he’s coming for the media industry. Eric sits down with Aron Ping D’Souza, the Oxford law student who first pitched Peter Thiel on the idea that would...
May 12, 20261h 5mVinod Khosla on Why AI Could End Human Labor and Change Capitalism Forever Vinod Khosla joins Newcomer to discuss AI, capitalism, freedom, education, religion, and why he believes technology will fundamentally reshape...
Apr 27, 202656 minSilicon Valley has more power than ever, so why won't it speak up? Katie Jacobs Stanton, former Twitter executive, Obama White House alum, and founder of Moxxie Ventures, joins Eric Newcomer to talk about what's really...
Apr 20, 202656 minAmanda Askell, AI safety researcher at Anthropic, joins Eric Newcomer to break down one of the biggest and most uncomfortable questions in tech right now: could AI systems like Claude become conscious, and if they do...
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