Best Software Defined Talk Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 545: No one cares about Chickens 1:12:45

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This week, we discuss cloud earnings, Siri teaming up with Gemini, and AI bottlenecks. Plus, is cloning your dog weird? Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 545 Runner-up Titles Stack the deck Pets and Chickens Blame it on Android They’re fungible Are they going to have to introduce a new principle? Managers of rocks The world we live in Mar…

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Focusing on AI at the Edge 18:46

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Synaptics is well known for their touch technology, but they do a lot more including their new Astra SL2610 family of system-on-chip (SoC) that incorporates Google’s open source, Coral artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator. Synaptics’ Vikram Gupta talks about the Synaptics' continuing push for edge AI and how that is tied into their other offeri…

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This new AI role is exploding (News) 8:43

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A new AI-led tech role has emerged with a massive increase of job postings, Corey Quinn explains why younger devs won’t tolerate pain in the AWS, Thomas Ptacek makes the case that you should write an agent, Paul Kinlan goes deeper on his dead framework theory, and Andrew Gallagher says to stop vibe coding your unit tests. View the newsletter Join t…

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#define: sheer resistance (Friends) 1:42:41

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On this seventh iteration of our award-worthy game show filled with obscure jargon, fake definitions, and expert tomfoolery: past winners battle to determine the champion of champions. (Also, Adam.) Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Tiger Data – Postgres…

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Guest pod: Alex LaCasse talks AI governance with Brenda Leong and Andrew Burt 27:12

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As artificial intelligence continues to coalesce in the modern economy, AI governance only grows in significance. Brenda Leong, director of ZwillGen's AI division, and Andrew Burt, CEO of Luminos, have long been on the front lines of AI's emergence and busy helping organizations navigate this space. In a first for The Privacy Advisor Podcast, we're…

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The world of open source metadata (Interview) 1:43:59

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Andrew Nesbitt builds tools and open datasets to support, sustain, and secure critical digital infrastructure. He’s been exploring the world of open source metadata for over a decade. First with libraries.io and now with ecosyste.ms, which tracks over 12 million packages, 287 million repos, 24.5 billion dependencies, and 1.9 million maintainers. Wh…

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The State of Silicon Carbide in Power Electronics 14:39

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Wide-bandgap semiconductors like silicon carbide (SiC) have changed the landscape of electronics and have fomented a revolution in power conversion. In this podcast, we talk to Adam Barkley, VP, Power Technology Development at Wolfspeed, about the state of the industry in silicon carbide and where the industry is going.…

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The overlooked power of URLs (News) 7:30

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Ahmad Alfy explains how URLs are state containers, Shrivu Shankar shares how he uses every Claude Code feature, Yusuf Aytas laments how AI broke technical interviews, Wu Xiaoyun tells how he saved TikTok $300k during his internship, and TOON is a new serialization format to save us some LLM tokens. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog+…

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We see dead projects (Friends) 1:18:33

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It’s a FRIGHT…when your record a podcast with dead projects all around. Tech debt, poor choices, timing, market shift, and optimizing for the wrong things are all lurking around waiting to pop out at you! Just don’t forget to push record. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Joi…

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Episode 544: The Enterprise Turing Test 1:02:21

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This week, we discuss Claude’s new Excel skills, whether AI is augmenting or automating humans, and the latest developer surveys. Plus, AI making the command line cool again! Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 544 Runner-up Titles Cote’ shock jock mode Art with squids Command-Line Life Style AI isn’t for experts. The triumph of the command…

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Agentic infra changes everything (Interview) 2:03:40

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Adam Jacob joins us to discuss how agentic systems for building and managing infrastructure have fundamentally altered how he thinks about everything, including the last six years of his life. Along the way, he opines on the recent AWS outage, debates whether we’re in an AI-induced bubble, quells any concerns of AGI and a robot uprising, eats some …

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Episode 112: The World Wide Web, Content, Work, Blogging Adventures, Short Videos, etc., with Russell Davies 1:17:24

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We talk with Russell Davies this episode. He has done many things, above all else made lots of interesting content and messed around with producing content. Advertising, blogging and the World Wide Web of the 2000's, interesting conferences (call exactly that: interesting), books, and of late, he's been mastering the short video format. I am a big …

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The Evolving Cloud Infrastructure 18:01

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We can simulate everything very exactly, but when it comes to that analog interface between the system and reality, you must be very careful because sometimes things don't behave in the analog realm the way they're predicted to. In this episode, we talk to Dermot O'Shea, CEO of Taoglas, about the state of the cloud and IoT and the challenges in dev…

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Code like a surgeon (News) 8:24

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The Dead Internet Theory dies, Geoffrey Litt tries to code like a surgeon, Matt Sephton thinks spreadsheets are great for UI design, Nate Meyvis advocates for front-end maximalism, Hemant Pandey thinks 9-5 employment is a great option for most, David Miranda compares React to Backbone in 2025. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ mem…

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Kaizen! Mop-up job (Friends) 1:47:36

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It’s our first Kaizen after the big Pipely launch in Denver and we have some serious mopping to do. Along the way, we brainstorm the next get-together, check out our new cache hit/miss ratio, give Pipely a deep speed test, discuss open video standards, and more! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they mad…

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Episode 543: Arts and Crafts 1:06:34

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This week, we discuss OpenAI’s new browser, AI trying to build spreadsheets, and when to use Claude skills. Plus, Coté explores the art of the perfect staycation. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 543 Runner-up Titles Firewire is dead USB, what are you going to do? It’s like I tell my son: you know what to do, you chose not to do it. I am…

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Bringing Atuin to the desktop (Interview) 56:39

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Ellie Huxtable’s magical shell tool, Atuin, won developers’ hearts by syncing, searching, and backing up our shell history with ease. Now Ellie is tackling the desktop with a GUI built to help teams make their workflows repeatable, shareable, and reliable. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 2 minutes at the end of this episode and …

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Episode 28 - Page One Is Dead: Tracking SEO Success in the AI, Mobile, and Local Era 14:50

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Episode 28 - Page One Is Dead: Tracking SEO Success in the AI, Mobile, and Local Era For decades, SEOs have lived and died by one metric — page one rankings. But in 2025, that definition is obsolete. With mobile-first indexing, AI overviews, and local grid systems, the idea of being “ranked number one” no longer guarantees visibility. Sign up for S…

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Episode 29 - The Silent Killer of SEO: 20 Crawlability Fixes Every Website Needs in 2025 20:57

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Episode 29 - The Silent Killer of SEO: 20 Crawlability Fixes Every Website Needs in 2025 You can have the best content in the world — but if Google can’t find it, it doesn’t exist. In this episode, we unpack one of SEO’s most overlooked fundamentals: crawlability — the invisible network of rules, settings, and structures that determines whether you…

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Episode 24 - Keyword Research API Wars: Choosing the Right Data Pipeline to Scale SEO 16:55

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Episode 24 - Keyword Research API Wars: Choosing the Right Data Pipeline to Scale SEO Every SEO professional hits the same wall: clunky tools, noisy data, and inconsistent outputs that make scaling your workflow a nightmare. This episode dives deep into the solution — Keyword Research APIs — the data pipelines that quietly power the world’s most ef…

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Episode 21 - SEO Software Showdown: Ahrefs vs. SEO PowerSuite vs. Search Atlas in 2025 14:12

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Episode 21 - SEO Software Showdown: Ahrefs vs. SEO PowerSuite vs. Search Atlas in 2025 SEO has changed more in the last two years than in the previous decade. With generative AI, LLMs, and real-time ranking shifts, the tools marketers use have to evolve faster than the algorithms themselves. In this episode, we compare three major platforms shaping…

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Episode 20 - The AI Advantage: How to Spot the Next Dogecoin in the $100 Billion Meme Coin Boom 15:43

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Episode 20 - The AI Advantage: How to Spot the Next Dogecoin in the $100 Billion Meme Coin Boom Artificial intelligence is changing the way investors and analysts interpret crypto markets — especially in the unpredictable world of meme coins. In this episode, we explore how AI-driven sentiment models, on-chain data, and behavioral analytics are rev…

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Episode 25 - Raven Tools vs. Moz: Are Legacy SEO Platforms Falling Behind AI Automation? 17:27

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Episode 25 - Raven Tools vs. Moz: Are Legacy SEO Platforms Falling Behind AI Automation? For years, Raven Tools and Moz have defined the SEO landscape — powering agencies, marketers, and analysts with reliable reporting, backlink tracking, and keyword intelligence. But in 2025, the competition isn’t just about features anymore — it’s about automati…

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Episode 23 - Automating SEO Authority: 9 AI Internal Linking Tools You Should Know in 2025 17:48

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Episode 23 - Automating SEO Authority: 9 AI Internal Linking Tools You Should Know in 2025 If you’ve ever managed a large website, you know how exhausting internal linking can be. It’s one of the most powerful levers for SEO performance — and one of the hardest to scale manually. In this episode, we explore nine automated internal linking tools tha…

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Episode 26 - Ahrefs vs. Moz vs. Search Atlas: Who Wins the 2025 SEO Battle? 13:35

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Episode 26 - Ahrefs vs. Moz vs. Search Atlas: Who Wins the 2025 SEO Battle? Choosing the right SEO platform has never been more high-stakes. Between Ahrefs, Moz Pro, and the new AI-driven entrant Search Atlas, marketers are being asked to decide between deep data, trusted authority metrics, and automated execution. Sign up for Search Atlas here htt…

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Episode 27 - BrightEdge Unpacked: Is the Fortune 500’s Heavyweight SEO Platform Still Worth It in 2025? 17:13

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Episode 27 - BrightEdge Unpacked: Is the Fortune 500’s Heavyweight SEO Platform Still Worth It in 2025? Enterprise SEO isn’t for the faint of heart — it’s a world of massive data pipelines, multi-site management, and million-dollar contracts. In this episode, we dive deep into BrightEdge, one of the most established enterprise SEO platforms on the …

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Episode 22 - Surfer SEO vs. Search Atlas: Which Platform Defines the Future of SEO? 17:32

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Episode 22 - Surfer SEO vs. Search Atlas: Which Platform Defines the Future of SEO? SEO tools are no longer just about keywords — they’re shaping how content is created, optimized, and even understood by AI-driven algorithms. In this episode, we go deep into Surfer SEO’s data-first model and its core tension between algorithmic precision and creati…

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Talking about Test with Liquid Instruments 21:45

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The world of test and measurement is getting more complex and challenging in many ways. There are multiple factors impacting the T&M industry, from materials to new topologies to smaller form factors with even higher levels of integration and power density. In this episode, we talk to the CEO of Liquid Instruments, Daniel Shaddock, about the curren…

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The science behind developer flow states (News) 6:47

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Csaba Okrona lays out exactly what Flow is (then shows you how to engineer your way back to it), a smart vacuum turned against an innocent hacker, Matz and the Ruby core team step up to steward RubyGems, Simon Willison things Claude Skills could be bigger than MCP, and Luke Plant looks at technical debt from a more positive perspective. View the ne…

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There will be bleeps (Friends) 1:41:45

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Mike McQuaid and Justin Searls join Jerod in the wake of the RubyGems debacle to discuss what happened, what it says about money in open source, what sustainability really means for our community, making a career out of open source (or not), and more. Bleep! Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 2 minutes at the end of this episode an…

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Episode 542: Yuriy Shyyan on owning your own Cloud. 1:02:34

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Matt Ray talks to Yuriy Shyyan, the Director of Cloud Systems Architecture for OpenMetal. They discuss the cost of running your enterprise in the public cloud, high school hacking, building a business on OpenStack, and recognizing that cloud credits are an invitation to purchase a timeshare. Show Links OpenMetal.io Contact Yuriy Shyyan LinkedIn: Yu…

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Spec-driven development with Kiro (Interview) 1:25:20

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We’re joined by Deepak Singh from the Kiro team. Kiro is AWS’s attempt at building an AI coding environment to take you from prototype to production. It does that by bringing structure to your agentic workflow with spec-driven development. Their aim: the flow of AI coding, leveled up with mature engineering practices. Join the discussion Changelog+…

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Episode 111: The uncontrollable urge to click "publish," with Manton Reece 1:15:53

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Blogs! Whitney and Coté talk with Manton Reece, founder and owner of micro.blog. They talk about journaling, the urge to write and publish, and a whole lot about blogging, social media, and how AI fits into all of that. Check out micro blog at, well, micro.blog and also Manton's blog. Special Guest: Manton Reece.…

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For Really Low Power Neural Networks Try Spiking Neural Networks 23:37

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Spiking neural networks (SNN), also known as neuromorphic computing, are one way to implement artificial intelligence/machine learning models. It has significant advantages over the more popular digital deep neural networks (DNN) like convolutional neural networks (CNN), including very low power operation. Innatera’s CEO, Sumeet Kumar, taks about h…

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The great software quality collapse (News) 8:45

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Denis Stetskov describes how we’ve “normalized catastrophe” in the software industry, Meta is officially handing React and React Native over to a foundation, The New Stack reports on GitHub’s Azure migration priority, Miguel Grinberg benchmarks Python 3.14, and The Oatmeal’s Matthew Inman published his take on AI art. View the newsletter Join the d…

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A new direction for AI developer tooling (Friends) 1:29:52

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Elixir creator, José Valim, is throwing his hat into the coding agent ring with Tidewave –a coding agent for full-stack web development. Tidewave runs in the browser alongside your app, but it’s also deeply integrated into Rails and Phoenix. On this episode, José tells us all about it. Also: his agent flow, YOLO mode, an MCP hot take, and more. Joi…

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Personal data defined? Ulrich Baumgartner on the implications of the CJEU's SRB ruling 44:37

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On 4 Sept., the Court of Justice of the European Union gave its highly anticipated decision in the EDPS v. SRB case. In its landmark ruling, the CJEU clarified the definition of personal data under the EU General Data Protection Regulation, and, in essence, the scope of EU data protection law. For Ulrich Baumgartner, a partner at Baumgartner Bauman…

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Episode 541: Why not do everything 54:23

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This week, we discuss Apps in ChatGPT, OpenAI’s Agent SDK and Codex. Plus, Matt has a possum problem down under. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 541 Runner-up Titles Living in the dark ages of Sequoia He’s the racoon remover of the neighborhood Don’t say we don’t cover everything They’re hoping someone’s going to unlock a lot of value h…

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Vite documentary companion pod (Interview) 1:12:22

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Our friends at Cult.Repo launch their epic Vite documentary on October 9th, 2025! To celebrate, Jerod sat down with Evan You to discuss Vite’s adoption story, why he raised money to start VoidZero, how developer documentaries get made, open source sustainability, and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode becau…

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Episode 18 - Adobe Downgrade Shock: Why Google’s Gemini 2.5 Is Threatening a Creative Empire 14:21

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Episode 18 – Adobe Downgrade Shock: Why Google’s Gemini 2.5 Is Threatening a Creative Empire UBS just downgraded Adobe (ADBE) from Buy to Neutral, cutting its price target from $430 to $400 — and the market took notice. Behind this move isn’t just weaker technicals or slowing growth. It’s a deeper fear: that AI isn’t just enhancing creativity… it’s…

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Episode 17 - Bill Hemmer’s Fox News Exit: How a 20-Year Anchor Shift Signals a New Daytime Strategy 10:10

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Episode 17 – Bill Hemmer’s Fox News Exit: How a 20-Year Anchor Shift Signals a New Daytime Strategy After nearly two decades behind the desk at America’s Newsroom, Bill Hemmer is stepping away — not into retirement, but into reinvention. Teaming up with Dana Perino, Hemmer’s next chapter could redefine how Fox News approaches its daytime lineup and…

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Episode 19 - Arichain’s Daily Quiz: How Gamified Education Is Building Technically Smarter Blockchains 14:24

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Episode 19 – Arichain’s Daily Quiz: How Gamified Education Is Building Technically Smarter Blockchains In a market addicted to hype and speculation, Arichain is doing something completely different — paying users not to trade, but to learn. Through its ARI Wallet Daily Quiz, users can earn small rewards for answering questions on network security, …

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Episode 16 - The Adobe Paradox: Why Stellar Fundamentals Are Being Ignored by Wall Street 14:31

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Episode 16 – The Adobe Paradox: Why Stellar Fundamentals Are Being Ignored by Wall Street Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) looks perfect on paper — profit margins near 29%, a return on equity above 28%, and consistent year-over-year growth in both revenue and cash efficiency. Yet, the stock’s technical indicators are flashing red, institutional investors are p…

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Episode 15 - Rum and Silicon Valley: How a Tech HR Scandal Pulled a Centuries-Old Brand Into the Spotlight 10:08

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Episode 15 – Rum and Silicon Valley: How a Tech HR Scandal Pulled a Centuries-Old Brand Into the Spotlight What happens when a 300-year-old rum legacy suddenly becomes part of a Silicon Valley HR controversy? In this episode, we explore how Andrew Cabot, CEO of Privateer Rum, found his centuries-old family brand unexpectedly pulled into the glare o…

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Episode 12 - Geico’s $20 Billion Bet: How Automation Replaced 30,000 Jobs 11:32

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