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All-In 86
How I Built This 68
Top Founders 59
Acquired 46
Capital Allocators 25
My First Million 23
Sourcery 23
the Knowledge Project 22
TBPN 20
the a16z Podcast 19
20VC 19
American Optimist 17
A Product Market Fit Show 14
the Startup Ideas Podcast 11
We Live to Build 10
Catalyst 9
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 7
Founders 5
the Pitch 5
Startups For the Rest of Us 5
Invest Like the Best 5
the Green Blueprint 5
the Neon Show 4
Big Technology 4
Founder's Journal 3
Innovators & Investors 3
Lenny's Podcast 3
No Priors 3
the MAD Podcast 3
David Senra 3
BigDeal 2
the Official SaaStr Podcast 2
In Depth 1
BG2 Pod 1
Cheeky Pint 1
the Paul Morris Podcast 1
Starter Story 1
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Do data centers actually increase electricity prices? No...and yes
- ▶ 29:48 Shayle Kann So Vivek Ramaswamy, uh, former presidential candidate, is running for, I think, governor of Ohio now, and his platform is that, uh, data centers that come into, uh, 2 times in the scene
Building a Power Company for the Next 50 Years | Zach Dell, Base Power
Advice Line with Ben Goodwin of Olipop
Redefining Chip Architecture with Arm CEO Rene Haas
Late July Snacks: Nicole Bernard Dawes. Crackers and Cookies were Failing… Tortilla Chips Saved Them
- ▶ 28:58 Nicole Bernard Dawes Ohio at the time.
He spent $0 on marketing—raised $400M at $3.25B valuation | Judi Health
- ▶ 39:10 AJ Loiacono And as we expanded, you know, now I'm hopping on a flight, you know, we're, we're in Ohio.
Dario Defends Himself, Datacenter Panic, AI Doomer Trap, Senate Toss-Up
- ▶ 6:27 Chamath Palihapitiya Critical GOP Senate race in Ohio, largely around this issue.
- ▶ 1:01:19 Jason Calacanis Uh, there are some special elections going on in Florida and Ohio. 2 times in the scene
Mass Surveillance, Police Misuse, and Who Controls Your Flock Cameras with Flock CEO, Garret Langley
- ▶ 15:14 Garrett Langley And I saw this individual who just got arrested in, I think it was either Ohio or Illinois.
Bobbie: Laura Modi. How a Baby Formula Startup Took Market Share From Two Industry Giants
Lighthouse or Landgrab? How to Pick Your AI Sales Strategy
- ▶ 0:12 Joe Schmidt Go after the very obvious companies here in San Francisco that probably have some sort of proof or social value associated with them, or like go out and sell in Ohio.
- ▶ 2:22 Joe Schmidt Or, like, go out and sell in Ohio.
Google’s AI Brain Drain, SpaceX's Huge Quarter, Airtable’s 90% Collapse, US Data Fuels China AI
- ▶ 42:19 Brad Gerstner It wasn't the Chinese open source companies that were buying, you know, SpaceX's XS compute or building the 10 gigawatt, you know, plant in, in Ohio.
John D. Rockefeller: The Principles Behind The Greatest Fortune in History
- ▶ 4:55 Shane Parrish Rockefeller's family had been moving his entire childhood, drifting from town to town across New York before heading down into Ohio.
- ▶ 42:57 Shane Parrish On a spring morning that April, the funeral train carrying Abraham Lincoln's body stopped in Cleveland, Ohio.
- ▶ 1:38:52 Shane Parrish Standard Oil was chartered as an Ohio corporation, but under the laws of the time, a corporation chartered in one state could not own property or stock in other companies in another state.
- ▶ 2:15:10 Shane Parrish When Ohio's courts ruled that their present arrangement was illegal, the partners dissolved it on paper into 20 separate companies—
- ▶ 2:30:21 Shane Parrish For two years, Rockefeller had been locked in a vicious tax fight with the state of Ohio. 4 times in the scene
Inside the AI power wars
- ▶ 5:33 Jeremy Eliahu-Ontiveros So it's actually, it's actually in Ohio, in Columbus, Ohio. 2 times in the scene
Nate Silver Predicts: Democrats Take the House, Newsom Is Fading, President AOC?!
- ▶ 54:51 Nate Silver For whom your contribution might make a lot of difference, but like, no, if Democrats win the Senate, that means it's a really blue year to overcome the fact that you're winning in places like Ohio, Iowa, Alaska.
How AI Agents Are Creating an Infinitely Scalable Workforce · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 2:02 Nima Ghamsari You know, to first to the Midwest, first to Michigan, and then to Ohio, and my parents were professors there. 2 times in the scene
Questions Every Founder Must Answer Before Taking an Acquisition Offer | Shashank, VNDLY & Pantomath
- ▶ 49:36 Shashank Saxena When we could have been built, like when we was built in Ohio, like in Cincinnati, the whole journey start to end. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:43 Siddhartha Ahluwalia You know, strengths that you raised in your first journey starting in Ohio from tier one investors?
- ▶ 58:15 Shashank Saxena I feel that company was the right one to be built in Ohio and not in the Bay Area, uh, because I feel I was isolated and in a little bit of my own shell there, uh, which was good because I was heads down and focused.
How the Left Weaponized Slavery · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 41:44 Coleman Hughes The, the, the reason that's a great natural experiment is because the land is the same, but, uh, slavery was legal in Kentucky and illegal in Ohio. 2 times in the scene
Why old-school sales work still wins in the AI era | Graham Moreno (Head of GTM, Parallel)
- ▶ 8:45 Graham Moreno Because if there's six layers, if you're selling to a major bank, like, CIO of JP Morgan is nine layers between an engineer, and she's not necessarily hearing from engineers on a regular basis, but if you're a vendor who can say, hey, we…
Trump’s Plan for AI Dominance · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 3:26 Jacob Helberg We need to re-industrialize at home while making sure that all the factories that are in Ohio and in Oklahoma and in Virginia actually have all of the inputs and niche
Advice Line: New Offerings, Bigger Markets
- ▶ 29:43 William Carroll My name is William Carroll and I'm the co-founder of tool club in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Apple-Intel Chip Deal, U.S Adds 115K Jobs, DeepSeek Eyes $50B Valuation | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 28:37 unnamed speaker This is an Ohio
300 Pages on Anduril: Inside Modern Warfare · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 48:10 Kyle Harrison Uh, so like Arsenal one, they're going to be building, um, like theory, uh, theories in Ohio.
The 7 Money Rules From the Richest Man Who Ever Lived
- ▶ 0:03 Codie Sanchez Cleveland, Ohio.
We asked a $18.9B Investor how to survive the AI bubble
- ▶ 10:57 Shaan Puri Like, the start of your story is you're mowing lawns in Ohio, listening to self-help tapes on a, you know, in your earbuds while you mow lawns to try to figure out what the hell you're gonna do, and then I, my, my understanding, you tell… 2 times in the scene
Wingstop: Antonio Swad. A Brilliant Idea — And a Nail-Biting Exit
- ▶ 1:00:11 Antonio Swad Okay, that's a lot of money to a young, young man from Ohio who started off at the dish machine, you know.
How 200mph Flying Taxis Will End Traffic Jams
- ▶ 28:29 Joe Lonsdale I mean, at some point, at some point, do you have to focus more on your facilities in Ohio and scaling than you do on, because you already have all the designs, or, like, how do you think about that? 5 times in the scene
Scaling America's domestic solar supply chain
- ▶ 17:58 Scott Moskowitz First Solar's been good at this in Ohio.
Jake Paul on Endorsing Trump & the AI Economy · Joe Lonsdale
John Fetterman: 'I'm the Only Democrat in Congress Saying This'
- ▶ 21:28 John Fetterman And the red states in America, like Florida, Ohio, and others,
Mitchell Green: Why 50% of VCs Should Not Exist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:12 Mitchell Green Like, you're the, you're the small local town in Iowa, or the small town in, you know, Kansas, or Ohio, or wherever, and Virginia,
The Remarkable AGI Predictions of Daniel Gross
- ▶ 19:27 unnamed speaker Um, coal generation surged, ah, 13%, ah, overall in America, 23% in Ohio, 58% in Oklahoma, where they're sort of data center hotspots.
Brian Armstrong: When Washington Tried to Kill Coinbase
- ▶ 1:29:30 David Senra They were doing these demonstrations on like this guy's field in Ohio and almost, there'd be like three people watching them.
Reiner Pope of MatX on accelerating AI with transformer-optimized chips
- ▶ 58:31 John Collison And they went back and they, uh, to Ohio and they had a wind tunnel and they were like testing their design in the winter.
Square: Jim McKelvey. He Lost a $2,000 Sale, Then Built a $10 Billion Company
- ▶ 11:26 Jim McKelvey You know, so there was none of that until these two guys in Ohio basically created this small furnace.
Epstein Deep Dive: Prince Andrew Arrested, Global Network, Mythology, Reid Hoffman Files
- ▶ 40:57 Michael Tracey New York townhouse that she was invited and accepted, uh, to go to the Ohio compound of Lexley Wexner to be an artist in residence of sorts because she was a paint, a painter.
FULL INTERVIEW: Dylan Patel Says We’re Still Underestimating AI
- ▶ 14:21 Dylan Patel So in Nebraska and Iowa, and then in Ohio, they've got like these complexes and now they're building one in,
Why AI will dwarf every tech revolution before it: robots, manufacturing, AR glasses from CES 2026
- ▶ 11:29 Hemant Taneja So, so why did we go, um, you know, uh, acquire a health system in, uh, uh, Ohio? 2 times in the scene
AI Needs a Steve Jobs, Meta’s Nuclear Powerplants, a16z raises $15B | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 17:43 unnamed speaker New reactor projects with the developers Terra Power and Oklo, and has struck a deal with the power producer Vistra, which is up 11% today, ah, to purchase and expand the generation output of three existing nuclear power plants in Ohio and… 2 times in the scene
CES’s legacy, reactions to Dwarkesh’s “Capital in the 22nd Century,” and more | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 17:55 unnamed speaker If you have a home in Ohio and you have, like, 300,000 dollars locked up in that, you're not gonna get, like, you're not gonna get some massive incremental return from that.
Massive Somali Fraud in Minnesota with Nick Shirley, California Asset Seizure, $20B Groq-Nvidia Deal
- ▶ 11:13 Chamath Palihapitiya There was a lot of traffic this weekend about Ohio, Illinois, California. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:17 David Sacks It's all of us through our federal tax dollars, and I'm seeing a lot of follow-on commentators in other states now saying, hey, you know what, in Ohio or in the state of Washington, we're looking at the government rules, and we're seeing…
Trae Stephens on Anduril’s Origin, Peter Thiel, & Palantir DNA · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 11:43 Molly O'Shea choosing Ohio, where you're from, what was that like? 6 times in the scene
Inside Anduril: Exclusive HQ Tour w/ Palmer Luckey, Brian Schimpf, Matt Grimm & Trae Stephens · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 15:37 Molly O'Shea choosing Ohio, where you're from, what was that like? 4 times in the scene
Her VCs said she killed the company. 6 years later, it's worth $1.3B. | Jennifer Smith, Founder o... · PMF Show
- ▶ 0:09 Jennifer Smith Those two teams in Kansas and Ohio, they're supposed to do the same thing.
- ▶ 2:30 Jennifer Smith So I spent a bunch of years at McKinsey in the Oregon Ops practice, so that's like a fancy way of saying 200 to 250 days a year on a plane, going to places like Kansas and Ohio into these like really big operation centers and trying to…
- ▶ 4:26 Jennifer Smith Those two teams in Kansas and Ohio, they're supposed to do the same thing.
Inside General Catalyst’s $1.5B AI Roll-Up Machine · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 2:16 Mark Bhargava So folks have seen the announcement about us buying a hospital system in Ohio, for example.
- ▶ 5:13 Mark Bhargava Maybe if you're in healthcare, you decide to sell into our hospital system in Ohio and be able to test out your technology.
Robert Boucai & James Broyer – Tax-Efficient Multifamily Real Estate at Newbrook (EP.475)
- ▶ 32:58 James Breuer They don't want to make the decision of, do I want to buy North Carolina or do I want to buy Ohio?
Coca-Cola: The Complete History & Strategy (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:09:51 David Rosenthal In Ohio, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Gymshark: Ben Francis. From pizza delivery to billion-dollar fitness brand.
- ▶ 28:21 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, Gymshark breaks into the U.S. market, and Ben lands in Ohio in December without checking the weather first.
- ▶ 41:12 Ben Francis We did events in Ohio, California, Cologne, Melbourne, the UK. 6 times in the scene
How Todd Graves Built Raising Cane's
- ▶ 1:32:39 Todd Graves I opened up in Ohio, opened up in Minnesota, opened up in Nevada, opened these, these different areas.
Does OpenAI Need a Bailout? Mamdani Wins, Socialism Rising, Filibuster Nuclear Option
- ▶ 1:17:02 Brad Gerstner And I think on a national level, folks in Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, they don't fall for that.
Joe Manchin Exposes The Chaos Inside Biden’s White House
- ▶ 4:06 Joe Manchin And what happened, he had to go to Lordstown, Ohio to get a
Inside Coatue: $70B Hedge Fund’s AI & Retail Strategy · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 1:32 Michael Barton Well, I'm from, uh, Cincinnati, Ohio, and I live in New York now.
California Forever: The Startup Building America's Next Great City
- ▶ 6:02 Jan Sramek You cannot do a one-day trip to Texas or Ohio.
CEOs of Epirus & Galvanick on the Future of Defense & Cybersecurity · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 17:07 Andy Lowery Now, the other thing it does, though, is it accentuates enormous gaps in very simple pieces of equipment, like rocket motors for the drones, and Palmer detected that he wasn't going to be able to source that many rocket motors in the…
Joby, Dirac & Allen Control: The Future of Air, AI Factories & Defense Tech · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 2:00 Eric Allison And, uh, and actually, so, um, we are actually also, uh, taking, uh, steps to expand into Ohio. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:42 Eric Allison And as we figure that out, then we can bring in other sites like Ohio where we're actually expanding to those new locations, um, where we can take that learning span to that location and put it together into the aircraft that we're…
- ▶ 5:11 Eric Allison So all of the stuff we're building, whether or not it's parts in Ohio or, or lots of parts in California, that's all feeding into the aircraft that
Ro Khanna Calls Out Both Parties: Immigration, Tech & Free Speech
Anduril CEO: China Has Scale. Can America Catch Up?
- ▶ 33:25 Chris Power I mean, we've seen, as, as we're launching Arizona, and Brian, I know you've got this perspective from Ohio as well, is,
Weekly Recap: Matthew McConaughey on AI, Nvidia x OpenAI
- ▶ 37:11 Catherine Boyle Anderil is a perfect example with their facility in Ohio.
Poor People Add, Rich People Multiply - Billionaires Do Neither
- ▶ 26:49 Todd Agobin And I run one of the divisions in Ohio.
Turning Rent Control Into Profit
- ▶ 27:44 Kimberly Stepp In Texas, in Cincinnati, Ohio slash Indiana.
Herb Wagner – Opportunistic Value at Finepoint Capital (EP.460)
- ▶ 0:48 Ted Seides Our conversation starts with Herb's hard work as a youth in small town Ohio, this fortuitous early entry into distressed investing in hedge funds,
- ▶ 6:03 Herb Wagner I grew up in a small town in Southwest Ohio, Beaver Creek, Ohio. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:22 Herb Wagner So I grew up in the seventies, close to Dayton, Ohio.
No Priors Ep. 131 | With Jared Kushner
- ▶ 34:38 Jared Kushner Uh, at the time, uh, we had ISIS, had, had a caliphate the size of Ohio.
David Rothzeid on How Shield Capital Fuels Dual-Use Innovation in Defense-Tech
- ▶ 3:16 David Rothzeid So from Cincinnati, Ohio, and then went to college at Miami University in Ohio, go Red Hawks, class of 2008, while at Miami, sort of 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Taylor Swift Gets Engaged, SpaceX Launches Falcon 9, Dr. Drew
- ▶ 1:42 John Coogan In grants, and then another equal amount in loans for an Ohio facility, and those are, are going to be rolling out, and they should draw, and Intel should be able to draw down on them, but, ah, they could always be rolled back if something…
- ▶ 10:26 John Coogan And so if Liputon needs to come to him and say, Hey, you know, we're trying to make this a facility in Ohio.
- ▶ 14:25 Jordi Hays Um, he said it in a little bit, um, uh, less, uh, uh, PG language, if I remember correctly, but Intel became the law's biggest beneficiary, qualifying for roughly eleven billion in grants and about eleven billion in loans for a plant in…
- ▶ 22:54 John Coogan In July, Intel said it would lay off 15% of its workers by year end, cancel billions in planned investments, and further delay work on the sprawling Ohio plant.
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 9:52 Ben Gilbert In 1996, Paul was a student at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, which, you may also know this, David, famously was one of the Ohio Strong.
How 8VC Builds Billion-Dollar Companies | Palantir, Addepar, Saronic · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 30:06 Drew Oetting We have about over a thousand folks in our big flagship plant in Ohio.
No Priors Ep. 127 | With SemiAnalysis Founder and CEO Dylan Patel
- ▶ 31:26 Dylan Patel They're still constrained on power, but they had to delay the, uh, bring up of some GPUs in Ohio because the AEP, the grid in Ohio, like had some issues, right?
PJM and the capacity crunch
- ▶ 21:52 Steve Piper Customers in Ohio and Pennsylvania and Maryland, they're getting these notices.
Advice Line with Isaac Larian of MGA Entertainment
- ▶ 2:24 Isaac Larian We, MGA owns the largest toy factory in America, in Hudson, Ohio.
From Startup to $11B: ServiceTitan's CRO Breaks Down Their Sales Playbook
- ▶ 28:09 Ross Beesman I'm going to meet one of the founders in Ohio later tonight.
Episode 785 | Choosing Between AI Products, Building Multiple App...
- ▶ 14:52 Dylan Pierce This is Dylan Pierce from Cleveland, Ohio.
Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
- ▶ 23:20 Alex Kantrowitz A more modest goal of building a small data center by the end of this year, likely in Ohio.
- ▶ 35:43 Stephen Morris And it's a real open question about how the hell you're going to power all of this stuff in particular, you know, in, in states that are really bidding for this, for these, to have these data centers built, to create jobs and revenue like…
Weekly Recap: Casey Neistat, OpenAI Cracks Math, The Future of ChatGPT, Apple x F1, Intel Layoffs
- ▶ 1:45:28 John Coogan Intel also has the Intel 18 a, which is at the same sites plus Ohio.
Scott Galloway on Billionaire Happiness, Money & Self-Worth | Why We Should Drink More & Not WFH · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:40 Scott Galloway And he let, you know, he, he, he, uh, basically started his third marriage while I was still married to my mom, left, moved to Ohio.
Bridging Investment and Operations: AJ Dye on Scaling Tech with Vertex Innovations and Unifi Ventures
IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate
- ▶ 1:41:49 David Sacks He was far to the left of voters in Ohio.
How Browserbase Raised $67.5M to Power AI Agents & Vibe Coders · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 47:08 Paul Klein Well, you can think about Paul Klein, uh, Dua Lipa's ex, the singer actually of Lanny, um, or you think of Paul Klein, uh, Ohio family.
35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest and beyond | Bob Baxley
- ▶ 59:01 Bob Baxley And if we take just one example, you know, you're going to be at a very nice diner with a grandmother and her two teenage sons in Ohio, and the check's going to come and the waiter, the waiter, the waitress is going to hand over the device…
What Apple's Failures Say About AI's Limitations — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 27:16 M.G. Siegler Uh, and I just, on a, on a whim, I saw a long line of people.
How 200MPH Flying Cars are about to Change the World · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 12:10 JoeBen Bevirt Well, then we've got, uh, Ohio.