Best Cheeky Charlie Podcasts (2026)

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2025: A Queer Year in Versatile Re-View (Part 1) 48:57

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6h ago48:57

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Jack Knave and Charlie Darling are your co-hosts for a brand new LGBTQ+ podcast, promising top tier takes and bottomless banter. We've made it to the end of 2025 baybee AND the end of Season 1 of Versatile Views, so let's take a look back at the year; its terrifying lows, its dizzying highs, and its creamy middles! Understand our journey of startin…

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Camp as Christmas 53:24

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Jack Knave and Charlie Darling are your co-hosts for a brand new LGBTQ+ podcast, promising top tier takes and bottomless banter. It's Christmas Eve, so Darling and Knave are talking all things Xmas, from murders in Albert Square to Miss Piggy. They'll be covering their favourite Christmas films, songs, memories and stories, so listen along for some…

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Celebrity Memoir Review - Coming Up For Air 53:34

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Jack Knave and Charlie Darling are your co-hosts for a brand new LGBTQ+ podcast, promising top tier takes and bottomless banter. This week, they try their hand at reviewing a celebrity memoir, taking a look at Tom Daley's 2021 autobiography Coming Up for Air: What I Learned from Sport, Fame and Fatherhood. They discuss Daley's dedication to his spo…

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Xmas Movie Review - Single All The Way 59:57

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Jack Knave and Charlie Darling are your co-hosts for a brand new LGBTQ+ podcast, promising top tier takes and bottomless banter. Let's make the Yuletide Gay! Your co-hosts are feeling festive as they watch a seminal film in the pantheon of queer cinema; Single All The Way. This 2021 movie stars Michael Urie and Philemon Chambers as two best friends…

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Scandalacious! - A Wicked Review 48:06

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Jack Knave and Charlie Darling are your co-hosts for a brand new LGBTQ+ podcast, promising top tier takes and bottomless banter. Rejoicify! For in this episode, Jack and Charlie are headed to Oz, to talk all about Wicked, the musical phenomenon that took the world by storm in 2024 and 2025. You can guarantee their takes are going to be thrillifying…

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Boy Problems 48:32

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Jack Knave and Charlie Darling are your co-hosts for a brand new LGBTQ+ podcast, promising top tier takes and bottomless banter. In this episode, Jack and Charlie are getting personal, sharing some of their dating stories from over the years. Starting with their first gay kisses, all the way through to disappointing encounters they've had in recent…

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Julia DeWahl of Antares on building nuclear reactors for the US military 45:17

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Julia DeWahl is the cofounder of Antares, a company developing nuclear micro-reactors for the US military and critical infrastructure. She sits down with John to discuss the vision for the "Starlink of electricity", and why AI hyperscalers are driving a nuclear renaissance. They cover the bipartisan shift in nuclear regulation (and why the NRC’s ol…

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Representation in Cinema - Straight Actors, Queer Roles 43:47

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Jack Knave and Charlie Darling are your co-hosts for a brand new LGBTQ+ podcast, promising top tier takes and bottomless banter. In this episode, Jack and Charlie talk about queer representation in cinema, then delve into a light analysis of two famous films; Brokeback Mountain and Red, White and Royal Blue, that both feature straight male actors p…

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Satya Nadella describes how lessons from Microsoft’s history apply to today’s boom 1:18:51

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Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, sits down with John to discuss the diffusion of AI inside the enterprise. He explains why “all your data at your fingertips” is the evergreen pitch, why this AI CapEx cycle is different from the .com bubble, and his vision for "agentic commerce". They also cover Microsoft's product bundling strategy and how he "wand…

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Pokémon and its Queer Impact 36:06

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Jack Knave and Charlie Darling are your co-hosts for a brand new LGBTQ+ podcast, promising top tier takes and bottomless banter. In this episode, Jack and Charlie talk about Pokémon; their relationship with it, how its brought them closer together, and why it is so popular and meaningful to queer people.…

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Dave Ricks, CEO of Eli Lilly, on GLP-1s and the business of pharma 2:05:15

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Dave Ricks, the CEO of Eli Lilly, the world's most valuable pharmaceutical company, sits down with John and Patrick to discuss the complex business of drug development. Dave explains the true origin story of GLP-1s (from Gila monster saliva), why their potential goes far beyond weight loss to addiction and inflammation, and how "self-pay" has becom…

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Corporate Queers 41:46

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Jack Knave and Charlie Darling are your co-hosts for a brand new LGBTQ+ podcast, promising top tier takes and bottomless banter. In this episode, Jack and Charlie talk about navigating the corporate world as a queer person, touching on the differing experiences of people who are visibly and invisibly queer.…

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Stablecoin special: Zach Abrams (Bridge) and Henri Stern (Privy) 1:14:09

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Zach Abrams, the CEO and cofounder of Bridge, the leading stablecoin orchestration platform, and Henri Stern, CEO and cofounder of Privy, the leading crypto wallet infrastructure, sit down with John to discuss the future of stablecoins, issuing, and what it will take for crypto to become ubiquitous. Both companies recently joined Stripe, and are un…

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Elon Musk Launches Wikipedia Rival: Grokipedia | 3 Stabbed in UK by Afghan Migrant | Whitehouse Drops Halo Memes | Halo is Coming to Playstation 5 32:17

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Elon Musk has launched Grokipedia – an AI powered non-biased alternative to Wikipedia. 3 have been st*bbed one of whom has died at the hands of an illegal Afghan migrant in the UK. The US government is posting Halo memes in the wake of the news that Halo will launch on Playstation next year … a Halo: Combat Evolved remake. Johnny Massacre breaks do…

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Album Review - E•MO•TION 40:26

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Jack Knave and Charlie Darling are your co-hosts for a brand new LGBTQ+ podcast, promising top tier takes and bottomless banter. In this episode (Part 2 of 2), Jack and Charlie continue to relive 2015 and this time are discussing the songs from E•MO•TION, Carly Rae Jepsen's seminal 3rd album. Now it's Jack's turn to pick apart Charlie's favourite m…

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Album Review - Queen of the Clouds 45:22

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Jack Knave and Charlie Darling are your co-hosts for a brand new LGBTQ+ podcast, promising top tier takes and bottomless banter. In this episode (Part 1 of 2), Jack and Charlie are looking back to 2015 and reviewing Tove Lo's debut album, Queen of the Clouds. It's one of Jack's favourites, so will Charlie's rankings of the songs cause any problems …

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Casey Handmer of Terraform Industries on solar maximalism, hard tech, and reclaiming the Salton Sea 1:16:07

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Description Casey Handmer is the founder of Terraform Industries, who is developing a machine that makes synthetic natural gas from sunlight and air. He joins the podcast to explain his solar maximalist worldview, why he believes solar costs will drop another 10x, and the core physics that doomed Hyperloop from the start. They also discuss the less…

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If Mamdani Wins Tuesday… Say Goodbye to New York City 🚨 21:08

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New York is on the brink. 🚨If Zohran Mamdani wins Tuesday’s mayoral election, the city you know could vanish overnight — taxes up, cops down, chaos rising. In this video I break down exactly how his radical policies will gut small businesses, crush the middle class, and send NYC into a tailspin.#NYC #Mamdani #Election2025 #Politics #JohnnyMassacre …

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Dan Sundheim of D1 Capital on the art of public market investing 1:38:08

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Seasoned public and private investor Dan Sundheim sits down with John to discuss the harrowing GameStop short squeeze, waking up at 3am for the European market open, and the emotional asymmetry of managing billions of dollars. They cover why he thinks successful private companies should avoid the public markets, the real genius of Elon Musk's busin…

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London - Queer in the Capital 43:51

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Jack Knave and Charlie Darling are your co-hosts for a brand new LGBTQ+ podcast, promising top tier takes and bottomless banter. In this episode, Jack and Charlie talk about their home city of London; what brought them here, what kept them here for 12+ years, and why they believe London is a fabulous place to live as a queer person.…

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Straight Jacket - Overcoming Shame and Finding Community 30:46

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Jack Knave and Charlie Darling are your co-hosts for a brand new LGBTQ+ podcast, promising top tier takes and bottomless banter. In this pilot episode, Jack and Charlie share their mission statement, before discussing what they found to be the most relatable themes from Matthew Todd's book Straight Jacket, published in 2015.…

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Welcome to Versatile Views! 1:00

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Hello and welcome to Versatile Views, the LGBTQ+ podcast promising top-tier takes and bottomless banter. Launching everywhere on the 15th of October, your co-hosts Jack Knave and Charlie Darling will be talking about queer literature and media, pop culture and London's LGBTQIA+ lifestyle. New episodes drop every Wednesday. See you there!…

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How to build a $16B car company with RJ Scaringe, founder of Rivian 1:08:48

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RJ Scaringe, founder and CEO of Rivian, sits down for a cheeky pint with John Collison to discuss what it takes to build a car company from scratch, developing the first electric pickup truck, the shift to a software-defined zonal architecture, Rivian's AI-driven approach to autonomy, and the strategy behind their recent $5.8 billion deal with Volk…

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Letitia James INDICTED For Mortgage Fraud 🚨 Faces 30 YEARS In Prison 27:43

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Letitia James tried to indict and arrest Trump for mortgage fraud and failed, the $500m fine being thrown out of court on appeal. In an ironic twist, now Letitia James is being indicted for her own mortgage fraud and faces 30 years in jail.Johnny Massacre breaks down the news today.#DonaldTrump #Trump #Hasan #Antifa #news #worldnews 🌎🌍🌏 Welcome to …

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Tobi Lütke is still captivated by internet commerce, 20 years later 1:42:55

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Shopify founder and CEO Tobi Lütke joins John Collison to discuss the philosophies driving one of the internet’s most foundational companies. Tobi shares his perspective on why companies are a form of technology, how internal tools and "opinionated software" shape an organization's culture and accelerate its evolution, and why the best gift is find…

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Everyone Is Cancelling Their Netflix Subscription | Elon Musk Calls Out Woke Company 38:53

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Johnny Massacre breaks down the news today.🌎🌍🌏 Welcome to Johnny Massacre’s World! 🌏🌍🌎If you are interested in truth, culture, news, politics, music and gaming, you're in the right place.🎙️ Episode 837⚠️Memberships are now live⚠️Become a member AKA a MassacreMate™ tonight to unlock exclusive emojis, text-to-speech access and fuel the mission via th…

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Marc Andreessen and Charlie Songhurst on the past, present, and future of Silicon Valley 2:07:56

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Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz, sits down for a Cheeky Pint with John Collison and Charlie Songhurst to discuss the history of Silicon Valley, spotting bubbles in real time, the "Elon method" of management, and why the mistakes that haunt you are the companies you don't invest in. Show notes: Roger Lowenstein: When G…

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Des Traynor on reinventing Intercom twice and the “four horsemen” of good AI companies 1:18:20

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Des Traynor, cofounder of Intercom, sits down for a Cheeky Pint with John Collison to discuss the growth of Fin (Intercom’s AI customer service agent), why selling AI products is hard, advice for product marketers, and cofounder dynamics. Full transcript on Substack: https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/des-traynor-on-reinventing-intercom Timestamps: …

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Ambrook CEO Mackenzie Burnett on American agriculture, rural resilience, and carrying 50lbs of fresh pork on Amtrak 54:53

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Mackenzie Burnett joins John Collison to talk about American agriculture, labor and immigration challenges, building rural resilience, ERPs, and the principle of money movement. She also shares some feedback for Stripe. Show notes: Where Soil is Holy, and Climate Change Is Seldom Mentioned Farming goes digital The End of Accounting and the Path For…

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SEGA Dreamcast 26th Anniversary VS Sony PlayStation 30th Anniversary | Top 10 Games Of Each Console 55:41

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Johnny Massacre breaks down the best games ever released for Sony Playstation 1 and SEGA Dreamcast, then riffs on which was the better console. I was there!#gaming #dreamcast #playstation #sega #sony #ps1 #psx #segadreamcast 🌎🌍🌏 Welcome to Johnny Massacre’s World! 🌏🌍🌎If you are interested in truth, culture, news, politics, music and gaming, you're …

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No … Charlie Kirk’s Shooter Wasn’t A Trump Supporter | UK Holds "Unite The Kingdom" Rally 35:45

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Johnny Massacre breaks down the news and the reaction of Charlie Kirk's assassination.#news 🌎🌍🌏 Welcome to Johnny Massacre’s World! 🌏🌍🌎If you are interested in truth, culture, news, politics, music and gaming, you're in the right place.🎙️ Episode 830⚠️Memberships are now live⚠️Become a member AKA a MassacreMate™ tonight to unlock exclusive emojis, …

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Zipline CEO Keller Cliffton on air-dropping blood to Rwandan hospitals and getting to 50,000 aircraft per year 1:14:12

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Keller Cliffton joins John Collison to talk about Zipline’s journey to 115 million miles flown, the lost art of American airplanes, building 50k drones a year in California, getting to 99.9% reliability, and US vs. Chinese manufacturing. Books referenced: The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe Skunk Works by Ben Rich Apple in China by Patrick McGee Timestamp…

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Cognition CEO Scott Wu on acquiring Windsurf, AI replacing engineers, and the Moneyball-ification of everything 57:53

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Scott Wu joins John Collison to talk about Cognition’s AI software engineer, the Moneyball-ification of everything, math competitions with Alexandr Wang in 6th grade, acquiring Windsurf over a weekend, whether coding tools will be replaced by the labs, and why he thinks we already have AGI. Full transcript on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub…

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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on bitcoin going to $1 million, electing a pro-crypto Congress, and Jamie Dimon 1:16:31

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Brian Armstrong joins John Collison to talk about what’s happening behind the scenes at Coinbase: battling North Korean hackers, war stories from early scaling, confronting people who won’t use AI to code, Coinbase becoming people’s primary financial account, and why banks are now embracing crypto. Full episode transcript on Substack https://cheeky…

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Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on tokenizing private companies, changing the SEC, and Frank Slootman 1:05:50

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Vlad Tenev joins John Collison to discuss Bulgarian hyperinflation, Robinhood Banking, details from the GameStop saga—including advice from Marc Benioff, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk, payment for order flow economics and Michael Lewis’ Flash Boys, his approach to leadership through the Frank Slootman framework, and how he would change the SEC. Fu…

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on designing AGI-pilled products, model economics, and 19th-century vitalism 1:02:51

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Dario Amodei joins John Collison to talk about Anthropic's growth to ~$5 billion in ARR, how AI models show capitalistic impulses, predictions for an agentic future, the economics of model businesses, and the 19th-century concept of vitalism. Full episode transcript on Substack: https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/a-cheeky-pint-with-anthropic-ceo Tim…

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BREAKING: Trump Vows to Release Epstein Files FRIDAY After “Sexy Letter” Accusation by WSJ – Johnny Massacre's World Ep. 815 5:54

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The Wall Street Journal published a report on a letter allegedly sent by Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003. The letter included a drawing of a naked woman, causing a stir. Trump has vehemently denied writing or drawing anything in the letter, describing it as fake and has announced his intention to sue The Wall Street Jo…

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Superman [2025] Movie Review | No Plot & Kinda Woke 44:23

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An HONEST NO-BS review of the 2025 Superman movie. Spoiler: it's not good. In fact – it's bad! There is literally no plot, it's a little woke, there is too much (poor-quality) CGI, and it's a cynical attempt at cinematic universe building by DC. #superman #movie #moviereview

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Serial entrepreneur Pieter Levels on building in public and living as a digital nomad 22:37

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Pieter Levels joins John Collison to discuss building successful online businesses as a digital nomad, thoughts on European accelerationism, and Pieter’s unconventional methods and philosophy as a bootstrapped founder making over $3 million per year. Full episode transcript https://cheekypint.transistor.fm/4/transcript Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:…

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Trump Is Now Free To Do WHATEVER THE F HE WANTS after SCOTUS BLOCKS Activist Judges 🌎🌍🌏 JMW Ep. 809 1:14:54

6M ago1:14:54

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SCOTUS has cleared the pathway for Trump to enforce his mass deportation policies and even denying citizenship for non-citizens born in the USA. All the while the stock market is booming, inflation is dead, Iran is nerfed, businesses are flocking to the United States, and democrats are floundering. #Trump #SCOTUS #dowjones 🌎🌍🌏 Welcome to Johnny Mas…

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The Bot Company founder and CEO Kyle Vogt on home robots and why he’ll never sell another company 22:31

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The Bot Company founder and CEO Kyle Vogt—who also cofounded Twitch and Cruise—joins John Collison to talk about applying AI to home robots, the similarities between robotics and self-driving, and why the next $100 billion company will have fewer than 100 people. Full episode transcript https://cheekypint.transistor.fm/3/transcript Timestamps (00:0…

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Meta CFO Susan Li on headcount vs. GPU allocation, “free cash flow” hats, and almost becoming a PM 29:43

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Susan Li of Meta—the youngest chief financial officer of a Fortune 100 company—joins John Collison to talk about capital allocation, managing investors, and how Mark Zuckerberg has changed over the 17 years of working together. Full episode transcript https://cheekypint.transistor.fm/2/transcript Timestamps (00:00) Intro (01:20) Early education and…

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OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman on the scaling hypothesis and refactoring as a killer AI use case 31:51

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Greg Brockman—OpenAI cofounder and Stripe's first engineer—joins John Collison to talk about research-driven product development, an early moment he thought OpenAI was doomed, S curves in AI advancement, and energy bottlenecks. Full episode transcript: https://cheekypint.transistor.fm/1/transcript Timestamps (00:00) Intro (02:51) Was OpenAI the fir…

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Cheeky Pint hosted by Stripe cofounder John Collison 0:56

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John sits down with founders and builders over a pint—Greg Brockman (cofounder of OpenAI), Susan Li (chief financial officer at Meta), Kyle Vogt (founder of The Bot Company and cofounder of Twitch and Cruise), and Pieter Levels (indie hacker). Watch Cheeky Pint on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@stripe.…

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GTA VI Reaction | Ego Death Story | The Hunt For Cinnamoroll 🌙 Cheeky Live Stream #147 7:15:40

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Jaguar Destroys Their Brand With Terminally Woke Ad 1:12:12

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Jaguar just destroyed their brand with one of the wokest ads of all time … no exaggeration. How is this even real?!#jaguar #cars #branding #ad Episode. 788🇺🇸DONATE SO I CAN MAKE MORE VIDEOS🇺🇸: https://streamlabs.com/johnnymassacrehttps://PayPal.Me/GimmeAHellYeahhttp://www.Patreon.com/johnnymassacre————🇺🇸ALTERNATE CHANNELS🇺🇸: My gaming channel “Mass…

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DONALD Trump WINS 2024 ELECTION! LIVE STREAM WATCHPARTY INC. INSANE REACTIONS WHEN HE WON! 8:53:19

1y ago8:53:19

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We watched the 2024 election live and exploded with happiness when Trump won! A must watch! #Trump #Trump2024

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Elon Musk Stole the Show At Donald Trump's MSG Rally 🔥 Sold-Out Crowd 30:26

1y ago30:26

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Donald Trump made a rockstar appearance in Madison Square Garden New York on a campaign rally in an event the left-wing media compared to a nazi rally. Elon Musk was a guest speaker, along with Vivek Ramaswamy, Tulsi Gabbard, Tucker Carlson, Hulk Hogan, Tony Hinchcliffe, RFK Jr., JD Vance and more. The Tesla boss was amped for the event and made a …