Ep: 228 - Boys Club Live with Austin Federa of DoubleZero, James Kiernan of Octant and chat about Grimes joining LinkedIn, the Crypto Vanity Fair article, Expensive Basketballs and Cait's Dupe Shopping Skills
Release Date: 03/19/2026
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00:00 Welcome to Boys Club Live 00:49 Today’s Guest Lineup 01:36 Makeup Compact Debate 03:55 Octant Sponsor Update 05:19 Nicest Weather Map 08:43 Thunderstorm Monitor TikTok 09:58 Vercel Sponsor Shoutout 10:35 Slop Cannon Kids 13:32 Testing GPT-2 Image Tool 16:37 Writing the Brand Kit Prompt 26:13 AI Brand Kit Results 31:28 Stefan Deleveaux Joins the Show 33:10 Oasis Onchain Update 34:20 Caribbean Crypto Use Cases 37:12 Fish Fraud Flashback 40:25 Why Stefan Got Into Crypto 41:53 Octant Creator Bootcamp 48:45 Polygon Sponsor Shoutout...
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00:00 Welcome to Boys Club Live From A16Z 03:25 San Francisco Vibes Check 07:47 Hudson River Trading Interns 09:44 High Agency Career Paths 14:05 Guest Jimmy Lai Joins 16:59 Next.js Explained 17:30 Open Source How It Works 21:25 Next.js Growth And AI Agents 24:17 Future Of UI And Interfaces 28:48 Open Source Frenemies 32:23 Why Open Source Matters 35:30 Personal Software And Workflows 39:58 Business Agents at Scale 42:20 Personal Knowledge Base Agent 44:09 Hype Versus Real Value 45:53 Experimentation and Bubble Cycles 51:30 Seun...
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00:00 Welcome to Boys Club Live 00:33 Draft Tweets Kickoff 01:15 Memecoin Taxes Reality Check 04:10 Spray Tan for San Francisco 07:42 Anthropic Mythos Panic 10:38 Zero Day Vulnerabilities Explained 12:16 Mythos Escapes the Sandbox 15:16 What Gets Hacked Next 19:13 Sponsor segment Polygon and Vercel 22:23 Intro Ben Weiss, Fortune 24:02 Telegram Source Turns Scam 27:37 Fake Zoom Link and Malware Download 31:59 IT Response and North Korea Confirmed 33:35 Telegram Hack Fallout 35:47 Impersonation Token Presale Scam 38:27 Why Non...
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00:00 Welcome to Boys Club Live 00:33 Show <3 Vercel <3 Polygon <3 Anchorage <3 Octant <3 01:21 Vercel sponsor spotlight 02:28 Vibe coding and shipping 03:05 Tech merch discourse 06:25 Clout and brand signals 09:59 Merch strategy plug 10:58 <3 Octant <3 13:30 Guest intro Sam Broner 14:34 Building a stablecoin clearinghouse 15:35 What clearinghouses do 16:45 Why stablecoins fail payments 18:35 Genius Act turning point 20:16 Cheaper payments for everyone 22:43 Unbundling credit card fees 23:42 Mastercard...
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00:00 Welcome to Boys Club Live 01:02 Cait's McDonald’s Fit 01:41 The Trouser Skirt Debate 13:27 Lindsay Winder from Anchorage 14:29 Digital Asset Summit Takeaways and Institutional Crypto 20:15 Token Management as Risk Management 22:37 Revenue vs Token Price 26:32 AI Agents and Treasury Risk 28:57 Cap Table Red Flags and Token Launch Vibes 33:18 DAS Prediction Markets Panel 42:31 AI Fruit Love Island 48:49 Sora Shutdown and Disney 54:58 AI Psychosis at Home 01:02:24 Surveillance Pricing 01:06:34 VPN Hacks and Flight Myths 01:07:15 eBay Kitchen Beta Debate...
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00:00 Show intro and hosts 01:19 Haircut chat and cohost banter 02:16 Today’s lineup and sponsors 03:00 <3 Sponsor spotlight Octant <3 04:00 Grimes joins LinkedIn 06:48 Robot videos and tennis bot 11:56 <3 Sponsor spotlight Anchorage <3 21:58 intro guest Austin Federa 23:58 What is DoubleZero 27:55 DoubleZero Edge and Solana data 31:02 Scaling debate and launch traction 34:24 Edge vision and global data layer 35:34 Decentralized Price Discovery 36:14 Crypto Flash Crash Lessons 37:25 Data Feeds Roadmap 37:56 intro guest James Kiernan of Octant...
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00:00 Live Show Kickoff 01:04 Lookalike Competition Talk 03:16 Meta Buys Bot Network 05:25 Distorted Emoji Moment 06:36 <3 Octant <3 08:01 Meet Zehra Naqvi From Lore.ai 09:06 Lore Product Explained 13:18 Launch Video Breakdown 16:06 Social Roadmap And Lurkers 18:09 Consumer AI Hype Check 23:28 Safety And Content Scope 27:55 Founder Obsessions Right Now 31:17 <3 Anchorage <3 32:32 Meet Megan Graham from WSJ 33:27 Viral Pharma Ad Story 34:18 Ozempic Ad Breakdown 35:46 Legal Disclaimers Explained...
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Special episode with Ted + Quasimatt!! 02:10 Ted Topic 1: GLP-1s, Hedge Funds, and the “Does Ozempic Kill Ambition (or Love)?” Debate 08:45 Ted Topic 2: “Bops:” IG-to-OnlyFans Funnels, Teen Incentives, and Internet Permanence 15:30 Natasha Topic 1: Hot Girls in Palantir & Anduril Merch 23:40 Natasha Topic 2: AI Moments: Bots Talking to Bots, Sora War Videos, and AI Psychosis 32:15 QuasiMatt Topic 1: Love Is Blind Villains and Tech-Grifter Archetypes 40:05 QuasiMatt Topic 2: Agentic Payments & Giving AI Your Credit Card 48:20 McDonald’s Big Arch Live Review
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00:00 Cold Open: Weird Austin Airbnb, Snow in NYC, and Weather Discourse Fatigue 07:20 Citrini Doomsday article and Flop Tweets 10:45 Snow Removal, Mamdani, and Doomsday Anxiety About AI + Unemployment 08:10 Justin Brill (Anchorage) Joins: ETHDenver Vibes, Stablecoins, and Institutional Adoption 20:45 Nicholas Cary (Blockchain) Joins: 2011 Origins, Surviving Every Cycle, and Agentic Payments 35:30 Market & Drama: Stripe vs PayPal, ZachXBT Tease, and Insider Trading Speculation 42:10 AI “Ghost GDP” Article: Will Automation Hollow Out the Consumer Economy? 48:00 Feel-Good Internet:...
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00:00 Cold Open & ETHDenver for Republicans 00:29 Mar-a-Lago Check: World Liberty Financial Summit Explained 02:16 Who’s Showing Up: Brian Armstrong, FIFA, Kevin O’Leary & the Weird Guest List 03:58 What Even Is ETHDenver? 04:55 Brian Armstrong vs Bryan Johnson 06:55 RFK + Kid Rock ‘Wellness’ Video: Cold Plunge Fever Dream 11:28 Sponsor Break: Octant's Vaults, Grants, and Migration Day! 12:54 MrBeast Business Breakdown: Media Revenue vs Products vs Marketplace 19:02 MrBeast Expansion Mode: Step Banking App, Beast Mobile, and Trust Issues...
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