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AI-Designed Viruses, OpenAI’s First Device, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:36 John Coogan Uh, well, in a study published Thursday in Science, researchers at Stanford and the Ark Institute trained an AI model to recognize patterns in naturally occurring viral DNA. 2 times in the scene
AMD Advancing AI, Google Q2 Earnings, OpenAI Plans $750B Cloud Spend | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 18:39 unnamed speaker 77 search funds, new search funds listed by the, according to an annual study conducted by researchers at Stanford in twenty-twenty-five.
Inside Travis Kalanick’s Wild New AI Company
- ▶ 22:32 John Coogan Stanford CS new grad worried about software engineering not being the easy path where I can bounce around from Google and maybe Uber had a cushy job for me.
Tyler Cowen Doesn't Think America Should Ban Chinese AI Models
- ▶ 32:44 unnamed speaker Um, uh, yeah, I, I saw some stats around, like, uh, uh, new grad computer scientists from Stanford, uh, not getting as many job placements, and, uh, Tyler on our team was saying, like, that's a skill issue. 2 times in the scene
Apple Sues OpenAI, Experts Sign Another AI Warning Letter, Paramount Threatens CA Exit
- ▶ 23:21 John Coogan So if you look at who signed this, you have a ton of people from OpenAI, Anthropic, Stanford, uh, Meter, uh, like every, Harvard, like every lab.
WWDC Reactions, Claude Fable 5 Debuts, McAfee Eyes ESPN Mega Deal | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:08 unnamed speaker Like, these were Stanford AI researchers who started this company in, like, 2008 or something like that, and grew it, and then eventually sold it to Apple as Siri Inc., acquired October, uh, initially released October fourth, 20 11, 14…
Where Brad Gerstner Is Investing Billions
- ▶ 42:44 Brad Gerstner He's doing it with Josh Rowe, the incredible professor over at Stanford.
Musk Loses OpenAI Case, Leopold’s 13F, Data Center Backlash | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:23 unnamed speaker Like, is that, that felt like a speech more potentially like oriented towards maybe like the Stanford student body, which is like, how are you going to contribute to AI? 2 times in the scene
FULL INTERVIEW: Anjney Midha on Fixing AI’s Biggest Bottleneck
- ▶ 15:55 Anjney Midha We were roommates 14 years ago at Stanford, and then he went on to build a grid.
- ▶ 20:43 Anjney Midha You know, when I was at Stanford, I got the chance, as an undergrad, I had the chance to take Peter Thiel's class, the zero to one, and he was, you know, his whole moniker was, we wanted flying cars 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:52 Anjney Midha So cs-one-fifty-three.stanford.edu, I would recommend anybody watching, go check it out. 2 times in the scene
Chad Janis: How I Sold Grüns to Unilever for $1.2B
- ▶ 1:42 Chad Janis Um, so I actually was trying not to start a company, ah, when I had the idea for Grins, I was going to go get my MBA at Stanford, and I was saying, hey, I want to have a pretty normal MBA experience, hang out with friends a ton, and it was… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:04 unnamed speaker Well, you, you mentioned that you, uh, demoed the product with, uh, your Stanford class. 2 times in the scene
Novartis Buys Excellergy for $2B, Anthropic Vs. Pentagon, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:30 unnamed speaker Which they've been doing at labs at Stanford and burn, uh, into what is basically a VC backed biotech company, a drug company.
Netflix’s Next Move, Zuck’s $170M Florida Mansion, the Billionaire Tax Push | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 16:16 unnamed speaker Of Stanford, MIT, Berkeley.
The Peptide That “Changes Everything” with Andrew Huberman
- ▶ 6:53 Andrew Huberman We had our head of male sexual health from, uh, Stanford.
- ▶ 10:51 Andrew Huberman And I, you know, I'm not saying this because of my relationship to Stanford or anything like that, but I'll just say, I do not think
- ▶ 25:32 Andrew Huberman He's a clinician, Keith Humphries from Stanford. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:46 Andrew Huberman The microbiome as it relates to the solo episode that I did, plus, you know, some recent work from my colleague Justin Sonnenberg, for instance, at Stanford, perhaps the best researcher on the human microbiome in the world.
Will AWS Buy Google’s TPUs, Remembering Claude The Gator, Ricursive Raises $35M | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 14:07 unnamed speaker On a quiet residential street a few blocks from Stanford University, two former Google researchers are launching a startup they hope will remake the eight hundred billion dollar chip industry, trying to build software that can automate the…
Wednesday’s Diet TBPN
- ▶ 1:05 Jordi Hays With the Stanford. 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Matthew McConaughey on AI, Nvidia x OpenAI
- ▶ 38:05 John Coogan It was at Stanford, uh, and it became the backbone of the bestselling book zero to one. 3 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Apple Debuts iPhone 17, Einstein of Wall Street, YC Demo Day, Declining AI Adoption
- ▶ 23:17 unnamed speaker If you want to move to the valley, you go to Stanford, DYC.
Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot
- ▶ 1:43:19 Delian Asparouhov Um, when I think about, you know, handing, you know, sort of two Stanford grads and a hundred million dollars to go try and, you know, sort of replicate that, 3 times in the scene
E-Cigarettes: Now FDA-Approved?
- ▶ 2:22 John Coogan Uh, couple Stanford guys working on a project.
Andrew Huberman on the Uncertain Future of Science
- ▶ 4:23 Andrew Huberman Some of these universities, not all, but some of them, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UT, Austin, et cetera.
- ▶ 18:58 Andrew Huberman This has been tested largely from a Nolan Williams lab at Stanford, um, for the, it seems to, in one or two sessions, it has, uh, led to a significant number of veterans, um, essentially ceasing their alcohol use disorder, what is,
We Interviewed the Best Startups From YC Demo Day (June 2025)
- ▶ 21:43 unnamed speaker So, so, so, so a very early version of this product relaunch, which is like rank Stanford, like, like, like, like Stanford rank, which was, so we basically built this, we basically scraped the entire alumni database of Stanford. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:36 unnamed speaker Uh, I worked as a researcher at Stanford, a researcher at Harvard. 3 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
- ▶ 1:02:12 Andrew Huberman Um, incidentally did his undergraduate master's PhD and medical school training, and then was a professor of medicine at Stanford. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:30:08 Andrew Huberman This has been tested largely from Nolan Williams lab at Stanford.
- ▶ 1:36:14 Andrew Huberman So, I mean, listen, I grew, I was born at Stanford hospital, you know, did my training, much of it at Stanford. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:10:17 unnamed speaker So, so, so a very early version of this product relaunch, which is like rank Stanford, like, like, like, like Stanford rank. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:23:10 unnamed speaker Uh, I worked as a researcher at Stanford, researcher at Harvard. 3 times in the scene
Read Write Own - A16Z Partner Chris Dixon on TBPN
- ▶ 7:44 Chris Dixon AI came out of, you know, Stanford and so forth.
Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows
- ▶ 12:05 Balaji Srinivasan It's a long, long topic, but just to, to, to level set, you know, I actually spent, you know, 10 years at Stanford. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:53 Chris Dixon AI came out of, you know, Stanford and so forth.
We Interviewed the New Thiel Fellow Dropouts
- ▶ 11:08 unnamed speaker Um, I'm actually always kind of concerned that, um, amongst people my age, like when I talk with people from Harvard or Stanford or whoever, right, like who are considering dropping out, everyone wants to start a B to B company.
Missing PayPal and Google Made Him a Better Investor | Ali Partovi on TBPN
- ▶ 3:46 Ali Partovi First of all, when you mentioned meme, I thought you were talking about, there's, there was a Twitter meme a month or two ago saying these are the institutions that, you know, students would drop out of Harvard and Stanford for, and it,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:09 Ali Partovi My Stanford PhD friends, Larry and Sergey are starting.
- ▶ 16:36 Ali Partovi In fact, I'm, I'm dialing in from Stanford university. 2 times in the scene
The Risk of Losing the Moon to China | Delian Asparouhov on TBPN
- ▶ 5:29 Delian Asparouhov This is like, I think like CERN, um, you know, think about like Spark down at Stanford, right?
What Great Founders Really Do | David Senra on TBPN
- ▶ 5:04 David Senra But Moritz tells a story, I think at Stanford, uh, you can see this on YouTube, where he's like,
Augustus Doricko (Rainmaker) Talks Terraforming, Regulation Battles, and Climate Tech
- ▶ 5:30 Augustus Doricko Um, but you know that, that part where, or that like famous Stanford speech where Teal says, um, you know, you should go after a really small market.
Delian Asparouhov on Defense Startups, NASA, Continuing Resolution and More
- ▶ 9:09 Delian Asparouhov It's incredibly hard to be an early stage founder today, trying to recruit super talented people, because the super talented, even like, 22 year old Sanford kids are getting like ten million thrown at them. 2 times in the scene
Jordan Schneider (ChinaTalk) On the US-China Power Struggle
- ▶ 11:42 Jordan Schneider China's economic, you know, uh, earnings potential in China expanding, like bad vibes for Asians in America and COVID, um, a lot more of those, uh, sort of top folks who would have ended up wanting to go to, you know, uh, MIT or Stanford…
Rob Mohr on Co-Founding the Huberman Lab Podcast and Scicomm Media
- ▶ 0:35 Rob Mohr As I'm sure many are familiar neuroscientists at Stanford, uh, natural born teacher, uh, who has a real gift for explaining, you know, how to better your physical health, mental health, and performance.
- ▶ 2:29 Rob Mohr In 2020 when COVID broke out, Stanford basically, you know, encouraged Andrew to get out and start talking to media, and that's when Andrew and I reconnected.
Shaun Maguire breaks down Wiz investment, building great teams, and the Everything App.
- ▶ 9:05 Shaun Maguire It's much easier to concentrate talent in Israel than it is as like a Stanford spin out. 3 times in the scene
Brendan Foody on using AI to predict job performance and scaling from $1M to $100M in 11 months
- ▶ 2:09 Brendan Foody Cause it was the extension of our initial network at Harvard, Stanford, MIT, et cetera.
Packy McCormick Breaks Down Ramp's New $13B Valuation and Where He's Investing Right Now.
- ▶ 22:59 Packy McCormick And he, like without him, I wouldn't invest in bio.
Elizabeth Holmes First Interview Released
- ▶ 5:35 unnamed speaker At 20, she dropped out of Stanford her sophomore year to focus on developing healthcare technology on a mission to save lives.
- ▶ 7:55 unnamed speaker Is widely sort of known at this point, but it's worth restating, you know, this was not a Silicon Valley startup, despite being started out of Stanford, right?
- ▶ 12:03 unnamed speaker But in this case, I really do think it was, Hey, this, this woman is clearly compelling Stanford dropout, highly motivated.
Understanding The TRANSFORMER SHORTAGE
- ▶ 9:38 unnamed speaker Facebook, Stanford, et cetera, are all on this grid.
The BEST Super Bowl Commercial (Saquon Barkley)
- ▶ 38:39 John Coogan But then on the other end, you're hearing like, oh, a couple of kids at Stanford rebuilt it for 50 bucks. 2 times in the scene
The FULL HISTORY of Temu (Why it's EXPLODING!)
- ▶ 55:02 unnamed speaker He assures me that investing five hundred million dollars into a surveillance drone startup run by a 24 year old Stanford dropout is critical for national security.
DeepSeek, Stargate Update, Bees Do Enjoy Honey, Golden Retriever Maxxing, Bring on the Trilly
- ▶ 54:31 Jordi Hays From Stanford to MIT, DeepSeq R-One has basically become the model of choice for America's top university research, researchers, basically overnight.
The END of TikTok?
- ▶ 1:58:52 John Coogan Like, we just had, I, well, there was a study, there was a study, a bunch of MIT, Harvard, and, uh, Stanford researchers got together
How to WIN in 2025? (INSANE Predictions List)
- ▶ 41:09 John Coogan Um, I mean, Stanford certainly did that, where Stanford's like, you know, above Brown, clearly.
The END of Ski Season? (E26)
- ▶ 1:59:55 John Coogan But also just, like, like, even though the colleges do follow, like, a bit of a power law where, like, Stanford, Harvard, MIT are gonna be, like, the best, like, there are, even within the schools, like, extra power law people, like, uh,… 2 times in the scene
You are NOT a Lottery Ticket (Peter Thiel Breakdown)
- ▶ 29:03 unnamed speaker Pete Campbell says, dear Tech Bros Pod, can you think of anyone more accomplished or deserving to deliver next year's Stanford commencement speech than Gary Tan? 3 times in the scene
CHRISTIANITY: Why it's making a comeback (ep23)
- ▶ 1:15:00 John Coogan Seeing this on your website plus contact us for pricing means, you know, you're about to talk to two of the most obnoxious, twenty-three-year-old Stanford grads ever.
How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- ▶ 14:14 John Coogan Uh, did a PhD in statistics at Stanford, and then.
How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- ▶ 1:25:24 John Coogan You just need top institutions like Stanford, Berkeley, perfect weather, the world's best talent, top accelerators like YC, thousands of angel investors,
Taylor Lorenz Trades Teams (ep16)
- ▶ 1:44:28 John Coogan And that's the Lockheed Grooms, the Nat Freedmans, these new generation of capital allocators that are doing very well versus the droves of Stanford grads who are just associates at large firms that are just churning through cold calls.
Election Betting Gone WRONG (ep15)
- ▶ 32:15 unnamed speaker And let's not forget his pedigree, a Stanford engineering grad and a varsity water polo athlete.
FACT CHECKERS vs. tech article (ep14)
- ▶ 1:02:35 John Coogan Says, I'm at Stanford, and I research software engineering productivity.
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars Fast (ep13)
- ▶ 1:58:46 John Coogan Went to Stanford, um, was in the military, and I met him, and he looks just like the typical, like, San Francisco, like, thin programmer guy.
Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- ▶ 7:32 John Coogan Like, Alex Conrad, who makes the minus list, was like, this is actually a good idea, and then, and then we, we started, like, talking about it, and so I talked to Abe a bunch, and I was like, dude, like, if, if, if someone, I mean, A, if,…
- ▶ 59:59 Jordi Hays So even if you weren't a PM at Uber or you didn't go to Stanford, you can still signal that you're a part of that.
- ▶ 1:49:12 John Coogan The founder went to Stanford and worked at Stripe for eight months, so downside risk is basically zero, plus their deck had really clean margins.
Trump's Secret Career (ep7)
- ▶ 2:46:09 Jordi Hays Cause like the only way that I could see this business even maybe being sellable is if a smart enterprising, um, search funder out of Stanford goes and decides I'm going to roll up all the mom and pop sailboat manufacturers.
The Secret Billionaire Party (ep6)
- ▶ 2:08:59 John Coogan They didn't fit the normal mode of like, oh, they're like a Stanford dropout hacker, and they know programming, so they're so good, so they can install DocuSign.
- ▶ 2:14:49 John Coogan One of Stanford discrete math class, math, 61 DM.