09:03 Neo Lab Market Map 30:28 5 Fixes to Explode LLM Adoption 46:40 𝕏 Timeline Reactions 01:01:14 Oil Tycoon Teams with Rockefellers 01:04:07 𝕏 Timeline Reactions 01:36:08 Blake Dodge, a journalist at Pirate Wires, transitioned from investigative reporting at Business Insider to focus on optimistic tech narratives. She discusses California's proposed wealth tax, highlighting billionaire departures due to concerns over the tax's retroactive nature and its impact on business. Dodge also emphasizes the importance of tech leaders engaging in visible public works to foster goodwill amid growing inequality. 01:51:25 Fredrik deBoer, a writer and former academic, now authors a Substack newsletter and writes books, enjoying the independence of self-publishing. He discusses his skepticism toward exaggerated claims about AI's imminent impact on the economy, highlighting the inconsistency between dire predictions and the reluctance of AI proponents to commit to specific, measurable outcomes. To challenge these assertions, deBoer proposed a wager with blogger Scott Alexander, betting that in three years, economic indicators would remain within normal ranges, thereby questioning the narrative of an impending AI-driven economic upheaval. 02:09:35 Sohail Prasad, Founder and CEO of Destiny (D/XYZ), previously founded Forge, a private securities marketplace that went public in 2022. He discusses the creation of Destiny Tech100, a closed-end fund listed on the NYSE under ticker DXYZ, designed to provide public investors access to private technology companies. Prasad explains the fund's structure, investment strategy, and recent investments, including a $100 million secondary purchase in Anthropic. 02:22:00 Travis Brashears, co-founder and CEO of Mesh Optical Technologies, has a background in laser technology from high school through his tenure at SpaceX, where he contributed to the development of space laser communication systems. In the conversation, he discusses Mesh Optical's first product—a pluggable transceiver designed to enhance GPU cluster connectivity within data centers by eliminating power-hungry components, thereby improving efficiency. He also highlights the company's commitment to U.S.-based manufacturing, aiming to scale production to millions of units by 2027 to meet the growing demand for optical interconnects in AI data centers. 02:32:53 Evan Spiegel, co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc., discusses the implementation of safeguards in generative video features to prevent misuse, the expansion of Snapchat's developer ecosystem with over 400,000 developers creating lenses, and the potential of tools like Easy Lens to democratize lens creation through prompts. He also highlights the contrast between user-generated content and AI-generated content, emphasizing the importance of authentic, original content in driving engagement. TBPN.com is made possible by: Ramp - https://Ramp.com AppLovin - https://axon.ai Cisco - https://www.cisco.com Cognition - https://cognition.ai Console - https://console.com CrowdStrike - https://crowdstrike.com ElevenLabs - https://elevenlabs.io Figma - https://figma.com Fin - https://fin.ai Gemini - https://gemini.google.com Graphite - https://graphite.com Gusto - https://gusto.com/tbpn Kalshi - https://kalshi.com Labelbox - https://labelbox.com Lambda - https://lambda.ai Linear - https://linear.app MongoDB - https://mongodb.com NYSE - https://nyse.com Okta - https://www.okta.com Phantom - https://phantom.com/cash Plaid - https://plaid.com Public - https://public.com Railway - https://railway.com Restream - https://restream.io Sentry - https://sentry.io Shopify - https://shopify.com/tbpn Turbopuffer - https://turbopuffer.com Vanta - https://vanta.com Vibe - https://vibe.co Follow TBPN:  https://TBPN.com https://x.com/tbpn https://open.spotify.com/show/2L6WMqY3GUPCGBD0dX6p00?si=674252d53acf4231 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/technology-brothers/id1772360235 https://www.youtube.com/@TBPNLive