Best DAO Today Podcasts (2025)

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308 · Jack Schwager and Emanuel Balarie - Market Wizards, Measured: Inside the Criteria, Craft, and Grit 57:41

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We’re joined by Jack Schwager—author of the legendary Market Wizards series and co-founder of FundSeeder—along with his partner and fellow co-founder & CEO, Emanuel Balarie. Jack shares what it really takes to be considered for a Market Wizards book: not one formula, but a mix of standout performance, disciplined risk, and an almost obsessive commi…

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Ep 76: Ari Morcos from Datalogy AI and Rob Toews from Radical VC on AI Talent Wars, xAI’s $200B Valuation, & Google’s Comeback 1:02:54

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This episode features a deep dive into the current state of AI model progress with Ari Morcos (CEO of Datalogy AI and former DeepMind/Meta researcher) and Rob Toews (partner at Radical Ventures). The conversation tackles whether model progress is genuinely slowing down or simply shifting into new paradigms, exploring the role of reinforcement learn…

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Ep 75: Nano Banana’s Oliver Wang and Nicole Brichtova - Behind the Breakthrough as Gemini Tops the Charts 41:04

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Fill out this short listener survey to help us improve the show: https://forms.gle/bbcRiPTRwKoG2tJx8 This week on Unsupervised Learning, Jacob sits down with Nicole Brichtova and Oliver Wang, the Google researchers behind "Nano Banana" - the breakthrough AI image model that achieved unprecedented character consistency and took over social media. Th…

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307 · Mario Dimitroff - The Gamer’s Edge: High-Win Scalping in Pre-Market Madness 1:13:40

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A former competitive gamer, Mario Dimitroff from Bulgaria got his start on a local trading floor before discovering that the U.S. premarket session best fit his skills. Now trading for a living and doing nothing else, his news-driven, event-based scalping focuses on low-liquidity movers. Leveraging gaming-honed speed and pattern recognition, he qui…

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Ep 74: Chief Scientist of Together.AI Tri Dao On The End of Nvidia's Dominance, Why Inference Costs Fell & The Next 10X in Speed 58:37

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Fill out this short listener survey to help us improve the show: https://forms.gle/bbcRiPTRwKoG2tJx8 Tri Dao, Chief Scientist at Together AI and Princeton professor who created Flash Attention and Mamba, discusses how inference optimization has driven costs down 100x since ChatGPT's launch through memory optimization, sparsity advances, and hardwar…

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306 · Michael Katz - Prop Goes the Trader 55:07

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Online funding prop firms have captured the attention of traders in recent years. In this episode, the CEO of Trade The Pool, Michael Katz, joins the podcast to answer key questions and offer perspective from inside one of the leading firms. The conversation explores how these firms operate, what they mean for traders, and the common debates surrou…

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Ep. 36 – Seeing through The Net 46:17

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In this new, technological age, Alan Watts explains how seeing reality via only one perspective can lead to a fragmented view of the world; instead, he encourages listeners to adopt both the analytical and the organic. This series is brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization and Ram Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation. Visit Alanwatts.org for …

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Ep 73: General Partner of Felicis Peter Deng on on AI Pricing Tactics, Reaction to GPT-5 & Why Voice is Underrated 1:04:14

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In this episode, Jacob sits down with Peter Deng, General Partner at Felicis and former Product Leader at OpenAI, Facebook, and Uber. Peter shares his insider perspective on building ChatGPT Enterprise in just seven weeks and leading voice mode development at OpenAI. The conversation covers everything from why traditional SaaS pricing models are br…

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305 · Julian Komar - When Story, Fundamentals, and Technicals Align 1:30:42

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Growing up in Germany without a financial background, Julian Komar became fascinated by stocks as a teenager. He moved past complex German trading products to concentrate on U.S. equities. Specializing in momentum and growth stocks on the daily timeframe, he blends fundamentals, technicals, and story analysis to uncover opportunities that put him i…

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Ep 72: Co-Founder of Chai Discovery Joshua Meier on 99% Faster Drug Discovery, BioTech’s AlphaGo Moment, Building Photoshop for Molecules 57:15

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In this episode, Jacob sits down with Joshua Meier, co-founder of Chai Discovery and former Chief AI Officer at Absci, to explore the breakthrough moment happening in AI drug discovery. They discuss how the field has evolved through three distinct waves, with the current generation of companies finally achieving success rates that seemed impossible…

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Human Trials for Anti-Aging Drugs! 0:38

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What if we stopped treating aging as “natural” and started treating it like a disease? In this episode of the Molecule Podcast, Ella McCarthy-Page (Sci Comms Lead at Molecule)and Alana Tara Singh (Behavioural Strategist) unpack a seismic shift in how governments are approaching longevity science. The German National Academy of Sciences has official…

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The Real Story Behind Pump Science! 1:27:09

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What if your healthspan was backed by a token? What if trading fees funded science? And what if longevity wasn’t just about “not dying”, but about living better for the ones you love? In this episode of the Molecule Podcast, we dive deep with Jillian and Benji, the team behind Pump Science, a protocol that combines crypto markets with open scientif…

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304 · Kyle Ng aka JadeCap - $4.5M with Process, Patience, and Prop Firms 1:18:13

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From academic struggles at SUNY Albany to holding the world record for the largest prop firm payouts—roughly $4.5 million in total, Kyle Ng a.k.a. JadeCap’s journey started out like many aspiring traders. Sparked by a childhood friend's success in forex about 14 years ago, he found his way into the financial markets. Like many traders, he went thro…

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303 · Chris Vermeulen - From Tick to Trend, Day Trading to Wave Riding 1:08:39

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What happens when a teenager growing up without TV in rural Canada stumbles across CNBC in a college dorm and sees people making $100,000 in a day? For Chris Vermeulen, that moment changed everything—and kicked off a 25-year journey of trading triumphs, painful losses, and profound strategy shifts. In this episode, you'll meet a trader who’s lived …

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Ep 71: CEO of TurboPuffer Simon Eskildsen on Building Smarter Retrieval, AI App Must-Have Features & Current State of Vector DBs 51:08

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Fill out this short listener survey to help us improve the show: https://forms.gle/bbcRiPTRwKoG2tJx8 In this episode, Simon Eskildsen, co-founder and CEO of TurboPuffer, lays out a compelling vision for how AI-native infrastructure needs to evolve in an era where every application wants to connect massive amounts of context to large language models…

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Ep 70: Karol Hausman and Danny Driess (Physical Intelligence) Unpack the Most Recent Breakthroughs & Path to Generalist Robots 1:09:57

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In this episode, Jacob sits down with Karol Hausman (Co-Founder) and Danny Driess (Research Scientist) from Physical Intelligence, two of the minds behind some of the most exciting advances in robotics. They unpack the last decade of progress in AI robotics, from early skepticism to the breakthroughs powering today’s generalist robot models. The co…

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The Future of Cancer Therapy: Modular, Safe & Open! 41:51

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What if your immune cells came with a smart upgrade?In this episode of the DeSci Podcast, we speak with Dr. Henry Erdlei, medical doctor, cancer researcher, and founder of GoCart, a new cell therapy platform building safer, modular CAR-T therapies through decentralized science.Henry breaks down:* How CAR-T cell therapies work* The real-world risks …

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302 · Dylan Maltman - Go Where Orders Flow 1:11:51

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Dylan Maltman, an intraday futures and forex trader and founder of Apex Capital, must have had exceptional clarity starting at a young age. Introduced to the markets in a high school presentation by a prop firm, Dylan caught the passion for the potential of the markets and persuaded his way into a position at the firm. Learning about back testing, …

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The Hidden Quantum World Inside Your Body! 58:00

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What if you were told that your body is secretly responding to Wi-Fi signals you can't even feel?In episode 49 of the Molecule Podcast we meet Dr. Geoff Anders (Founder, Leverage) and Dr. Clarice D. Aiello (Quantum Engineer), to explore the cutting-edge field where quantum physics meets biology, revealing how the smallest particles in the universe …

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301 · Erik Smolinski - Trading Earnings Volatility with Options 1:21:55

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Erik Smolinski returns to Chat With Traders after his first appearance on episode 272, joining Tessa for a trader-to-trader conversation about the intricacies of options trading, a topic Erik is deeply passionate about. In this episode Erik digs into one of Tessa’s own options strategies, offering thoughtful feedback and sharing his expertise and e…

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Ep 69: Co-Founder of Databricks & LMArena on Current Eval Limitations, Why China is Winning Open Source and Future of AI Infrastructure 54:57

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Ion Stoica helped define the modern data stack. Now he’s coming for AI evaluation. From co-founding Databricks and Anyscale to launching LMArena, Ion has shaped the infrastructure underlying some of the biggest shifts in computing. In this conversation, he unpacks what most people get wrong about model evaluation, the infrastructure challenges ahea…

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Ep 68: CEO of Mercor Brendan Foody on Evals Replacing Knowledge Work, AI x Hiring Today & the Future of Data Labeling 44:03

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Brendan Foody is the co-founder and CEO of Mercor, a company building the infrastructure for AI-native labor markets. Mercor’s platform is already used by top AI labs to label data, evaluate human and AI candidates, and make performance-driven hiring decisions. They’re operating at the intersection of recruiting, evals, and foundation model develop…

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If Einstein Was Born Today, He Would Have Chosen DeSci! 44:39

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What if science wasn’t locked in labs or universities? In episode 47 of the Molecule Podcast, we meet Juan Keymer, Assistant Professor, Shenzhen X-Institute who enlightens us on the existing academic pipeline and how it can be made more flexible with the advancement in AI, DeSci (Decentralized Science), Blockchain Innovation, Open Credentials and m…

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300 · Patrick Petersson - We Should Not Die as Traders 1:25:33

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In this episode we catch up with Patrick Petersson, who returns two years after his first interview on Chat With Traders on episode 260, where he shared his incredible story of overcoming hardship to attaining success in trading as a professional trader. Patrick has become best known for his intuitive, price-action, news-based, scalping trading sty…

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Ep 67: Max Junestrand (CEO, Legora) on Differentiating and Pricing AI Apps & How the Legal Industry Will Evolve 44:09

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Jacob and Logan sit down with Max Junestrand, founder and CEO of Legora - a rapidly growing legal AI platform (and Redpoint portfolio company). After announcing their Series B last week, Max joined the show to discuss why law is uniquely suited for AI, what it takes to scale an enterprise-ready product across global markets, and a few crazy moments…

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$2.2B in Research Grants Frozen: Can DeSci Save Research? 43:45

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Over $2.2 billion in NIH research grants are frozen. Labs are going dark. What happens now? In Episode 46 of the Molecule Podcast, we speak with Aaron Weaver, Chief Commercial Officer at Molecule, about the ongoing NIH funding crisis, its global impact, and how decentralized science (DeSci) is becoming a critical alternative. Aaron brings a unique …

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Ep 66: Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic Sholto Douglas on Claude 4, Next Phase for AI Coding, and the Path to AI Coworkers 57:45

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Sholto Douglas, a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, joined Unsupervised Learning to break down why coding is the clearest early signal of model progress, how AI agents are already accelerating research, and what it’ll take to unlock real-world breakthroughs in fields like biology and robotics. (0:00) Intro (0:48) Claude 4 (1:30) Capabilities …

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Ep. 35 – Dreaming the World 54:16

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Diving into the cosmic drama of reality, Alan Watts describes the world as a divine dream which is poetic, playful, and only sometimes serious. Being in the Way is brought to you by the Alan Watts Organization and Ram Dass’ Love Serve Remember Foundation. Visit Alanwatts.org for full talks from Alan Watts. On this episode of Being in the Way, Alan …

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How SpineDAO Is Redefining DeSci - From Back Pain to Blockchain 58:48

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What if your next spine surgery was coordinated by a DAO? In Episode 48 of the Molecule Podcast, we’re joined by Vincent Challier, spine surgeon and co-founder of SpineDAO, and Virginie Lafage, medical strategist and Core Team member, to explore how decentralized science can transform a field as specialized and critical—as spinal health. SpineDAO i…

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Ep 65: Co-Authors of AI-2027 Daniel Kokotajlo and Thomas Larsen On Their Detailed AI Predictions for the Coming Years 1:23:27

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The recent AI 2027 report sparked widespread discussion with its stark warnings about the near-term risks of unaligned AI. Authors @Daniel Kokotajlo (former OpenAI researcher now focused full-time on alignment through his nonprofit, @AI Futures, and one of TIME’s 100 most influential people in AI) and @Thomas Larsen joined the show to unpack their …

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299 · Michael Martin - Intersection of Emotional Intelligence and Tactics 1:33:54

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Michael Martin, raised in a hardworking blue-collar community, embraced the same ethic. An entrepreneur at heart, he hustled from cutting grass when he was 12 to working all types of jobs including golf caddying and waiting at restaurants to starting businesses. Determined to transition into the white-collar working world and being at the right pla…

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Ep 64: GPT 4.1 Lead at OpenAI Michelle Pokrass: RFT Launch, How OpenAI Improves Its Models & the State of AI Agents Today 47:12

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In this episode, I sit down with Michelle Pokrass, who leads a research team at OpenAI within post-training focused on improving models for power users: developers using OpenAI models in the API and power users in ChatGPT. We unpack how OpenAI prioritized instruction-following and long context, why evals have a 3-month shelf life, what separates su…

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The Solution to Science's BIGGEST PROBLEM | Kevin Noessler 39:44

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What if we could reinvent intellectual property for science? In this episode of Molecule’s DeSci Podcast, Kevin Noessler - Product Head at Molecule - joins us to talk about the next frontier of DeSci Science: Proof of Invention. Kevin unpacks how Molecule is building infrastructure for decentralized IP creation, ownership, and attribution. This epi…

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Ep 63: Khan Academy Founder/CEO on Salman Khan on Classrooms in 20 years, Rolling out to 1.4M Users & Sal’s Hopes for AI Education 50:53

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When Khan Academy launched Khanmigo, Salman Khan thought they might reach 100k users by 2025. Today, they’re at 1.4 million. 🎧 Sal joined us on Unsupervised Learning to talk about AI's role in education— from the vantage point of someone deploying it at scale. As founder of Khan Academy, he’s overseen the rollout of AI tools to over a million teach…

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298 · Christian Mayer - The Power in Fixed-Sized, Non-Compounding Plays 1:05:33

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Christian Mayer, with an institutional trading background, transitioned from equities to forex, focusing on fixed sized mean-reversion strategies with fundamental correlations where structural edge is statistically likely. His initial losses led him to a research and systematic-driven approach, and back testing. He trades with fixed position sizes,…

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IP, DAOs & Cultural Ownership: Jesse Hudson Reveals the FUTURE of DeSci 1:00:49

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What if the future of science and biotech was built on legal frameworks that empower communities, not corporations? In Episode 44 of the Molecule Podcast, we sit down with Jesse Hudson — lawyer, anthropologist, and Chief Legal Architect at Molecule. Jesse is a pioneer in building legal infrastructure for decentralized science (DeSci), DAOs, and int…

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Ep 62: CEO of Cohere Aidan Gomez on Scaling Limits Emerging, AI Use-cases with PMF & Life After Transformers 50:44

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Aidan joined this week’s Unsupervised Learning for a wide-ranging conversation on model architectures, enterprise adoption, and what’s breaking in the foundation model stack. If you’re building or investing in AI infrastructure, Aidan is worth listening to. He co-authored the original Transformer paper, leads one of the most advanced model labs out…

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297 · Cody Yeh - Slow, Medium, and Fast Money Strategies 1:11:35

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A former engineer turned successful options trader, real estate investor and entrepreneur, Cody Yeh shares his incredible journey from the 9-to-5 grind to achieving financial freedom through smart investing and calculated risk-taking. We unpack his options trading strategies, mindset hacks for building wealth, and how he helps others escape the rat…