More or Less Podcast

More or Less Podcast

52 videos · Last synced Mar 17, 2026 10:05

Breaking down technology, capital, and media with Dave Morin, Brit Morin, Sam Lessin, and Jessica Lessin every Friday wherever you get your podcasts. For 15 years, the Morins and the Lessins have debated the future of Silicon Valley and tech as the closest of friends. Now six companies, two venture funds and more than a decade at Google, Apple and Facebook later, they are opening up the debate. From The Information, Offline Ventures and Slow Ventures. Follow the crew: http://x.com/davemorin

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More or Less Podcast · confidence 0.84 · built from 64 chunks across 52 videos · Sep 25, 2026

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Tone
insider debate: skeptical, thesis-driven, playful, occasionally alarmed
Rhythm
moves quickly from banter to market structure; short punchy claims followed by longer causal chains, caveats, and operator/investor implications
Vocab tells
narrative capitalism, agentic, model routing, software commoditization, regulatory capture, the middle drops out
Frameworks
capability vs. business model: technology may work while company economics fail; narrative vs. fundamentals: valuations, recruiting, and market access depend on story as much as cash flow; interface disintermediation: agents replace apps, SaaS seats, search, commerce flows, and platform-controlled surfaces; distribution and trust as moats when software and intelligence become cheap; physical-world counterweight: real-world assets, gatherings, hardware, health, manufacturing, defense, and energy gain importance as digital content gets cheaper
Topics
AI agents, personal AI, OpenClaw, and agent security, AI lab economics, token pricing, compute, model routing, and open source, venture capital, IPOs, public-market access, and startup valuation cycles, SaaS disruption, software engineering jobs, and new technical stacks, Apple, Meta, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX, and other platform companies, media strategy, narrative formation, and public trust, physical experiences, wellness tech, hardware, and real-world AI

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52

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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVPayYVn9c12mpDOiQsl2uQ

Videos (52)

Title Duration Status Date
Claude Is Doing Science, a16z Is Starting a University & Peptides 101 from Matt Mazzeo 58:42 completed Sep 25, 2026
Anthropic Wants to Slow Down AI. Is Dario Amodei Actually Right? 56:38 completed Sep 18, 2026
OpenAI's Astra Is Scary Good. Why the AI Labs Can't Slow Down 51:17 completed Sep 11, 2026
AI Agents Are Going Rogue. Should We Be Worried? │Claude vs. Grok, Tesla vs Waymo, Google vs Canva 55:31 completed Sep 04, 2026
Meta’s $17B Reckoning & Why Parents Can’t Compete With Big Tech's Algorithm 54:40 completed Aug 28, 2026
OpenAI Can’t Hold a Lead, Stripe Buys OpenRouter & AI Hits a Wall 56:23 completed Aug 21, 2026
Special Edition MOL with Josh Wolfe, Rachel Holt, Scott Belsky, Scott Stanford, and Peter Deng. 58:55 completed Aug 14, 2026
Jeff Dean Leaves Google, Airtable Sells, and the Bag-Securing Era 55:19 completed Aug 07, 2026
The Lilian Weng Saga, Mental Health Essay Then OpenAI | Meta's AI Ad, China Cracks DUV 59:23 completed Jul 31, 2026
Stripe Is Trying To Buy PayPal For $150b | OpenAI Cyber Incident, Frontier Model Economics, Peptides 1:01:09 completed Jul 24, 2026
Open Source AI Wins. Now Labs Are Running to Washington |Thinking Machines, Johnny Ive, Realtime API 50:03 completed Jul 17, 2026
AI Frontier Lab Is Essentially Doomed | Open AI Offered U.S. Equity, Xbox Is In Trouble, Post-AGI 55:11 completed Jul 10, 2026
Why Identity Verification Matters For The Internet | Vox Americanus, GLM 5.2, Claude Fable 5 Is Back 54:13 completed Jul 03, 2026
Chinese AI Model GLM 5.2 Beating Frontier Models | Meta Glasses, Polymarket Scandal, AI Talent War 49:34 completed Jun 26, 2026
SpaceX Hit $2.5 Trillion. Now Watch What Elon Buys Next. 40:50 completed Jun 19, 2026
Teamshares IPO: $60M EBITDA, 92 Companies, Zero Exits 51:58 completed Jun 17, 2026
AI has a lower approval than Jeffrey Epstein 1:20 completed Jun 13, 2026
Apple’s New Siri, SpaceX’s $300B IPO & the AI Company Killing Its Own Brand 44:12 completed Jun 12, 2026
Would you trade an employee for an agent? 1:07 completed Jun 08, 2026
Silicon Valley IPO Summer 2026: SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI Explained 45:44 completed Jun 05, 2026
Did Anthropic Use the Pope as a Marketing Stunt? Ft. Amir Efrati 50:53 completed May 29, 2026
SpaceX IPO Date Talk + OpenAI Confidential Filing Rumors 52:09 completed May 22, 2026
50M People Know How to Code. 6 Billion Use Software. That Gap Is About to Close. 1:08 completed May 16, 2026
Google's AI-First Laptop, Meta's Spy Games, AI Monks in Middle America 45:55 completed May 15, 2026
Why the Met Gala Hates Tech, Elon vs OpenAI Drama, and the Rise of Chinese AI Models 59:08 completed May 08, 2026
Cursor Has Data Worth Billions (And They Don't Know It Yet) 1:06 completed May 04, 2026
Elon Musk vs OpenAI Trial, Google Cloud Surge, Meta’s Blocked Acquisition, Anthropic Winning 1:01:04 completed May 01, 2026
What Tim Cook’s “Executive Chairman” Move Really Means | Musk vs OpenAI, xAI and Cursor Rumors 52:44 completed Apr 24, 2026
Seed Rounds Are Now 2X 2021 Prices. Here's the Data. 1:13 completed Apr 21, 2026
Allbirds Pivoted to AI GPUs. Yes, the Shoe Company. #podcast #investing #realestate 1:11 completed Apr 21, 2026
Inside the AI Lab Oppo Research War 1:11 completed Apr 21, 2026
Allbirds Pivoted to AI Data Centers | SpaceX $1.5T IPO, Anthropic $800B, $175M Seed Rounds 44:07 completed Apr 17, 2026
Vercel CEO: 70% of Our Traffic Is Now AI Agents "Nobody Was Prepared" | Anthropic, OpenClaw, OpenAI 47:08 completed Apr 10, 2026
Content Moderation Is Dead. Why AI Makes Every Rule Unenforceable | Sam Lessin 1:17 completed Apr 08, 2026
Anthropic's $360B Valuation Is "Quite Religious" 1:08 completed Apr 08, 2026
I'm Bullish on Software and Negative on Software Businesses 0:47 completed Apr 08, 2026
Silicon Valley Just Disrupted Itself 1:17 completed Apr 08, 2026
AI Agents Are Pulling Random Code Off GitHub 1:01 completed Apr 08, 2026
OpenAI's $852 Billion Valuation Makes Zero Sense (ClawCon Tokyo, Anthropic's Leak, Goodbye Internet) 47:45 completed Apr 03, 2026
The New Startup Stack: One Founder + Agents | Henrik Werdelin (Audos) and Ben Broca (Polsia) 54:02 completed Mar 27, 2026
Nvidia’s GTC Was “Taylor Swift for Straight Men” (Apple, OpenAI, and OpenClaw News) 58:56 completed Mar 20, 2026
Anthropic’s Bet on Coding Is Working (OpenAI Shopping Pivot, A16Z’s Top 50 List, $1B Tennis Channel) 58:43 completed Mar 13, 2026
Fire Sam Altman, The End of Software Engineers, and Why AI Is All Narrative 51:58 completed Mar 06, 2026
Apple, OpenAI & Why Nobody Makes Money in AI | The SaaS Apocalypse 47:33 completed Feb 27, 2026
OpenClaw vs Meta vs OpenAI: The Personal Agent Wars Heat Up 56:32 completed Feb 20, 2026
Why OpenAI Can't Win The Decentralized AI Future (OpenClaw, Apple's Win, X.AI Exodus) 1:00:40 completed Feb 13, 2026
Elon’s Trillion-Dollar Move, WaPo Layoffs & The Super Bowl 50:25 completed Feb 06, 2026
Agentic AI Will Break the Internet (ClawdBot, OpenAI & the AI Demand Delusion) 56:58 completed Jan 30, 2026
The Seed Market Is Broken: Mega-Rounds, Narrative Games, and Walkouts 49:27 completed Jan 23, 2026
SaaS Companies Beware: AI Is The New UI (Anthropic's Claude Code and Cowork) 53:46 completed Jan 16, 2026
Founders Beware: Illiquid Valuations vs. Real‑World Taxes 57:56 completed Jan 09, 2026
Hype vs Reality: Our 2026 Predictions for Tech, Media, and Culture 56:11 completed Dec 19, 2025