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Xmas Spectacular 2025: What's Next? (PREMIUM)
After revisiting our extremely erudite predictions in this week's free ep, we let our beloved premium members in on some pure alpha, predicting what we reckon will happen in tech in 2026. Will we get folding iPhone in 2026? Will we get GPT 6 or whatever? Holograms, perhaps? Listen and find out.
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Xmas Spectacular 2025: The Year That Was
In the inaugural episode of this years holiday special, we rack up Ws as we dissect the predictions we made last silly season for 2025. Go to https://www.downround.net/ to sign up for PREMIUM and get ad-free listening PLUS an extra episode every week. In this week's premium ep, we make our predict…
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Xmas Spectacular 2025: The Year That Was
In the inaugural episode of this years holiday special, we rack up Ws as we dissect the predictions we made last silly season for 2025.
1:00:46
Feelin' Fine
A highly requested topic in the Down Round Discord is mental health and mindfulness apps — from meditation platforms like Calm to therapist marketplaces like BetterHelp. That's the topic of today, discussing the boom during the ZIRP era, the peak during COVID, and how it all relates to other engage…
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Meta Buries the Metaverse (PREMIUM)
On this premium episode we take a look at another Apple departure, this time for human interface boss Alan Dye, who is going to Meta. Also, the flood of hardware designers heading for OpenAI. Also, reports their top chip guy is also considering a move too. We unpack what this says about Apple’s st…
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Netflix Eats Everything
Netflix wants to buy Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount Skydance wants to buy Warner Bros. Discovery. Both for many billions of dollars. Why? We break down the $70 – 100 billion bids, the Ellison–Trump court politics, and why this could mark the final enclosure of the film industry by tech. Also: J…
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Netflix Eats Everything
Netflix wants to buy Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount Skydance wants to buy Warner Bros. Discovery. Both for many billions of dollars. Why? We break down the $70 – 100 billion bids, the Ellison–Trump court politics, and why this could mark the final enclosure of the film industry by tech. Also: J…
47:00
CODE RED (PREMIUM)
In this premium ep we discuss Apple's appointment of John Giannandrea's as their head of machine learning and what it might mean for their AI ambitions, Sam Altman enacting CODE RED at OpenAI, and finally chat through Google's move to start selling their proprietary TPU chips.
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Everything is Sportsbet Now
This week we're going deep on the rise of prediction markets — the hybrid of futures trading, sports gambling, and economic theology that suddenly seems to have eaten the world. Platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi are booming and an increasingly big part of both tech culture and also gambling cult…
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Everything is Sportsbet Now
This week we're going deep on the rise of prediction markets — the hybrid of futures trading, sports gambling, and economic theology that suddenly seems to have eaten the world. Platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi are booming and an increasingly big part of both tech culture and also gambling cult…
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