Moonshots Podcast

Moonshots Podcast · Episode 296 · Hosts: Peter Diamandis, Emad Mostaque · Guests: Cathie Wood, Nikhil Chandhok · Published Sep 29 2026 · Runtime 59:57 · Watch: YouTube Chapters People Products Overview Places Ads Chapters 0:00 The Singularity and Technological Speed 3:10 AI’s Productivity Gains and Economic Impact 6:13 AI Agents and the Future Internet Economy 9:06 Blockchain, Provenance, and Stablecoins 14:47 Blockchain Scalability and Proof of Humanity 17:24 AI Funding, DAOs, and Digital Societies 20:20 AI in Healthcare and Longevity 28:38 Generative Media and Digital Property Rights 33:50 Financial Infrastructure and Blockchain Innovation 36:42 Autonomous Vehicles and Human Safety 38:46 Countering Fear with Data-Driven Optimism 43:58 Digital Assets and the Future Economy Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. People Peter Diamandis Official site · Moonshots Host. Frames singularity speed and the bull case for America. 0:00 Emad Mostaque Intelligent Internet · The Last Economy Co-host. AI agents, internet economy, and digital-society lane. 6:13 Cathie Wood ARK Invest · Wikipedia Guest — ARK founder/CEO/CIO; AI productivity, longevity, digital assets. 3:10 Nikhil Chandhok Circle Guest — Circle CPTO; stablecoins, provenance, financial infrastructure. 9:06 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Products The Last Economy (Emad Mostaque) — Emad’s named AI-economy book. Amazon 6:13 ARK Invest Official site · Circle Official site · Moonshots Official site · Metatrends Official site Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Overview Peter and Emad sit with Cathie Wood and Circle’s Nikhil Chandhok on singularity speed, AI productivity, stablecoins, healthcare longevity, autonomous vehicles, and the digital-assets bull case — from Tesla–SpaceX chatter to $1M Bitcoin framing. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Places ARK Invest — Cathie’s disruptive-innovation desk. 3:10 Circle — Stablecoin / USDC infrastructure lane. 9:06 Moonshots Live 2026 — Stage for this cut. 0:00 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Ads None this episode. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Show notes are a summary, not a full transcript. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Links on this page may be affiliate links through Amazon and other partner programs we participate in now or in the future. If you buy through those links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.

Moonshots Podcast · Episode 297 · Hosts: Peter Diamandis, Dave Blundin, Alexander Wissner-Gross · Guest: Ben Lamm · Published Sep 30 2026 · Runtime 42:52 · Watch: YouTube Chapters People Products Overview Places Ads Chapters 0:00 Woolly mammoths, CRISPR & Colossal’s moonshot. 1:22 Why Ben Lamm entered synthetic biology. 4:30 Business model for AI + biology / Anthropic wet lab. 7:49 Can AI understand a genome? 9:49 De-extinction & engineering life. 14:41 Designing animals & ethics of de-extinction. 19:21 Are we entering a biological singularity? 20:27 Scalable gene editing & DNA synthesis. 22:05 Artificial wombs within 24 months? 27:14 Moonshots, conservation & ex utero mammals. 31:30 Can woolly mammoths help fight climate change? 34:46 Astromech, biodiversity & the future of biology. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. People Peter Diamandis Official site · Moonshots Host. Frames Colossal moonshot and biological singularity lane. 0:00 Dave Blundin Moonshots Co-host. Business-model and AI + wet-lab grilling. 4:30 Alexander Wissner-Gross Moonshots Co-host. Genome / singularity / Astromech questions. 7:49 Ben Lamm Colossal Biosciences Guest — Colossal founder; de-extinction, multiplex edits, artificial wombs, biodiversity backup. 1:22 George Church Wikipedia Named in Ben’s path into synthetic biology / Colossal scientific lane. 1:22 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Products Jurassic Park [Blu-ray] — De-extinction pop-culture foil on tape. Amazon 9:49 Game of Thrones: The Complete Collection (4K Ultra HD) — Named cultural reference on tape. Amazon 14:41 The Next Whole Earth Catalog (Stewart Brand) — Tools / whole-systems cite. Amazon 34:46 Colossal Biosciences Official site · Moonshots Official site · Metatrends Official site Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Overview Peter, Dave, and Alex sit down with Colossal’s Ben Lamm on Anthropic’s wet-lab move, scalable gene editing, de-extinction ethics, artificial wombs in ~24 months, and biodiversity backup — from teacup mammoth dreams to Astromech and climate-tundra bets. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Places Harvard — George Church / synthetic-bio lane. 1:22 Siberia / tundra — Mammoth / climate framing. 31:30 Botswana — Elephant / conservation haven cite. 27:14 Dubai — Biodiversity backup / government interest. 34:46 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Ads None this episode. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Show notes are a summary, not a full transcript. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Links on this page may be affiliate links through Amazon and other partner programs we participate in now or in the future. If you buy through those links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.

Moonshots · Guest: Vlad Tenev (Robinhood CEO) · Hosts: Peter Diamandis, Dave Blundin · Published Sep 19 2026 · Runtime 2:06:20 · Watch: YouTube Overview Peter Diamandis and Dave Blundin sit with Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev (Bulgarian-born Stanford math co-founder, 39) for a long AI-and-markets tape. Cold open stacks tokenization-of-everything CNBC heat, OpenAI misalignment disclosures, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent telling labs they don’t get a liability blank check, and Figure’s Helix robot making a stranger’s bed. Vlad talks coding agents that ping him overnight, AI-lab liability vs regulated broker realities (FINRA/SEC/money transmitter), Google-for-Startups sponsor break, regulatory capture vs existential AI blast radius, Anthropic formalization and misalignment reports, Trump Accounts brokerage partnership (BNY), Robinhood Chain / tokenization of private markets and 24/7 trading, prediction markets, and whether AI kills lawyers or 10x’s the trusted human advisor. Close: build a company — singularity velocity. Timestamp directory 0:02 Cold open montage — CNBC “tokenizeizing everything,” OpenAI misalignment framework, Figure Helix bed-fold demo. 0:58 Show open — “Now that’s a moonshot”; Abundant Summit / Link Ventures; Seem on a plane. 2:38 Vlad intro — Stanford math duo 2013; free trading thesis; $1.3B revenue / +32%; Bulgaria; CEO of Robinhood. 3:10 Coding agents overnight — $1,000 spend cap; phone in another room for mental health. 3:57 Bessent / House Financial Services — no AI liability exemption; Dario essay foil; “own what you break.” 5:20 Vlad on blast radius — bank-size breach vs existential AI risk; regulated financial company contrast. 13:06 Ad: Google for Startups / DeepMind technical guide — link in show notes. 13:40 FAA regs “written in blood” analogy vs unbounded AI damage; regulatory capture debate. 16:28 Robinhood’s regulator stack — FINRA, SEC, money transmitter, CFTC futures; global tokenization desk. 36:40 Anthropic / OpenAI misalignment reporting — frontier-lab disclosure culture. 56:10 Trump Accounts — Robinhood as initial brokerage; BNY partnership; kids’ investing UX. 1:15:40 Tokenization deep dive — Robinhood Chain; private-company access; 24/7 markets. 1:31:28 Figure Helix robot video chat — stranger home, bed never seen before, laundry fold. 1:43:08 Day-trader / latency / AI-native markets — who still has edge. 2:03:08 Lawyers & advisors — 10x AI-assisted humans beat pure robo; oil-age / paper-office analogies. 2:05:14 Close — stop looking for a job, build; singularity velocity; love to Immod / Seem. Stories Agents that won’t sleep 3:10 Vlad runs multiple coding agents overnight with a hard ~$1,000 cap and keeps the tech in another room so pings don’t wreck his sleep. Rare morning where the spend did something useful. Own what you break 3:57 Bessent’s no-liability-exemption line lands three days after a Dario essay. Vlad frames blast radius: a contained security breach is one thing; unbounded AI damage is closer to atomic-energy lessons the industry still argues about. Trump Accounts on Robinhood rails 56:10 Robinhood as sole initial brokerage for the Trump Accounts program with BNY — kids’ investing UX, contribution matching chatter, “only Robinhood could introduce” framing from the table. Tokenize the private market 1:15:40 Robinhood Chain and tokenization as the unlock for private-company ownership, 24/7 trading, and prediction-market adjacent products — the “tokenizeizing everything” freight train from the cold open. Helix folds a stranger’s bed 1:31:28 Figure Helix 2.5 demo: robot walks into a never-seen home, makes the bed, folds laundry end-to-end. Table riffs Terminator optics vs useful armature. Lawyers don’t vanish — they 10x 2:03:08 Robo-advisors were supposed to kill human advisors; humans grew faster because trust/delegation beats tax-loss harvesting alone. Same arc for AI-assisted counsel — cost of a consigliere becomes a rounding error next to Elon-scale decision speed. People Peter Diamandis Host. Moonshots framing; singularity close. 0:58 Dave Blundin Co-host / Link Ventures. Regulatory-capture and advisor-market pushbacks. 0:58 Vlad Tenev Guest. Robinhood co-founder & CEO; tokenization / Trump Accounts / AI-liability tape. 2:50 Scott Bessent Treasury Secretary — no AI liability blank check. 4:14 Dario Amodei Anthropic essay foil in the liability open. 4:24 Places Stanford — Vlad’s math / founding origin. 2:12 Bulgaria — Vlad’s birthplace. 2:47 Washington, D.C. — House Financial Services / Bessent week. 4:14 Products Robinhood — App, Chain, private markets, Trump Accounts brokerage. 2:50 OpenAI — Misalignment disclosure framework referenced in cold open. 0:33 Anthropic — Misalignment reporting / Dario essay lane. 4:24 Figure / Helix — Humanoid robot bed-and-laundry demo. 1:31:28 Ads Google for Startups (13:06) — Startup technical guide / DeepMind blueprint; link in show notes as read. Passing, unlinked: Seem (co-host traveling), Immod, co-founder Baiju Bhatt (Stanford duo era), auditors / evaluation firms, ICI conference crowd, FINRA exam apparatus, prediction-market traders, day traders vs model latency, Elon / 10x-lawyer thought experiment. Show notes are a summary, not a full transcript. Product links may be affiliate links through Amazon and other programs. We may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.

Moonshots Podcast · Episode 298 · Hosts: Peter Diamandis, Alexander Wissner-Gross, Salim Ismail · Guest: Emad Mostaque · Published Oct 2 2026 · Runtime 2:23:48 · Watch: YouTube Chapters People Products Overview Places Ads Chapters 1:24 Moonshots Live recap — Shatner AMA and the optimism room. 6:04 East Room lunch and the four-layer superintelligence accord. 10:36 Zuckerberg, the “Last Supper” photo, and who drafted it. 20:19 Alignment is capabilities. 26:09 The orthogonality thesis. 31:46 Elon on abundance and universal high income. 47:24 Anthropic files its S-1. 1:02:09 OpenAI Dev Day — Dots, Soul, and the agent moat. 1:16:32 The Gifted wins the Future Vision crowd. 1:27:11 AMD buys Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs. 1:35:54 Starship flight 14 reaches orbit. 1:44:49 Who writes the moral code — scholars, then liability. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. People Peter Diamandis Official site · Wikipedia Host. Abundance thesis, The Gifted, and the Moonshots Live close. 31:46 Alexander Wissner-Gross Wikipedia · Moonshots Co-host. Calls the accord Zuck’s move; alignment-as-capabilities. 10:36 Salim Ismail Wikipedia Co-host. Abundance as access, not raw stuff; skeptical of the accord’s teeth. 33:53 Dave Blundin Moonshots Co-host — out this episode. Emad Mostaque Wikipedia · Intelligent Internet Guest mate. Liability, open-weight pressure on Anthropic, champion-model abundance. 26:09 Elon Musk Wikipedia · The Celeb List Universal high income at the press conference; Starlink and Starship flight 14. 31:46 Mark Zuckerberg Wikipedia · The Celeb List Alex’s read: Zuck drafted the accord and won the room. 10:36 Donald Trump Wikipedia · The Celeb List Hosts the East Room lunch and frames self-policing over a slowdown. 6:04 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Products Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think — Peter’s book, the thesis he says Elon picked up. Amazon 31:46 Consider Phlebas (The Culture) — closest match for the Culture series Peter says he is rereading. Amazon 39:48 Ready Player One: A Novel — Emad’s Oasis compare for digital status. Amazon 36:34 Moonshots Official site · Metatrends Official site · Intelligent Internet Official site Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Overview Peter, Alex, and Salim sit with Emad (Dave is out) on a 48-hour stack: the White House superintelligence accord, Elon on universal high income, Anthropic’s S-1, OpenAI’s agent Dev Day, The Gifted, AMD buying World Labs, and Starship’s first orbit. Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Places East Room, White House — Accord lunch with the AI stack. 6:04 San Francisco — OpenAI Dev Day while Sam sits out the lunch. 1:02:09 Los Angeles — Inaugural Moonshots Live; 2027 dates teased. 1:24 Hawaii — Starship’s soft landing in the North Pacific nearby. 1:35:54 Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Ads Abundance Summit / Link Ventures (1:09) — opening bring-on. Abundance Summit Google for Startups (31:18) — generative-media technical guide. goo.gle/startupgenmedia Blitzy (1:00:55) — blitzy.com Fountain Life (1:59:10) — fountainlife.com/peter Show more Want this section to go deeper? Share this page with the creators and have them sign up so we can get permission to dig deeper into this episode. Show notes are a summary, not a full transcript. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Links on this page may be affiliate links through Amazon and other partner programs we participate in now or in the future. If you buy through those links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.