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The stealth 'moonshot' agriculture technology company incubated by The Production Board, which uses multiplex gene editing to transformatively increase crop yields. David Friedberg has stepped in as its full-time CEO.
President of Microsoft, who announced the company's new policy to pay for the full cost of its energy and water consumption for new data centers.
The competition regulator in the United Kingdom. They are the primary body holding up the Adobe-Figma deal, citing concerns about future competition, which the podcast panel critiques as a novel and problematic legal theory.
A phenomenon discussed where excessive funding in the tech ecosystem (like during the ZIRP era) leads to too many companies being started, spreading top talent too thinly and preventing the concentration needed to build truly great companies.
An advanced form of gene editing that involves making multiple edits across multiple genes simultaneously. This is the core 'moonshot' technology of Friedberg's new company, aiming for transformative increases in crop yield.
David Friedberg's firm, which functions as a holding company and incubator for businesses in science and technology. It incubated the stealth gene-editing agriculture company that Friedberg is now leading as CEO.
The president of Harvard University who faced intense questioning and criticism for her testimony at the Ivy League antisemitism hearings.
Congressional hearings where the presidents of Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, and MIT testified regarding the rise of antisemitism on their campuses following the October 7th attacks. Their responses, particularly regarding whether calls for genocide violated school conduct codes, sparked widespread criticism and debate.
The US Constitutional amendment protecting freedom of speech and the press, which Shirley invokes in his lawsuit against California.