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🎙️ AI startup valuations just went full sci‑fi—and this episode of Tech Insider Weekly asks whether investors are buying real moats or just very expensive vibes. In this episode, Lauren and Derek unpack the soaring valuations of AI darlings like Runway, ElevenLabs, and Harvey, then dive into how autonomous AI coding agents are quietly reshaping developer workflows, security models, and junior engineering careers. The conversation zooms out to Egypt’s new unified startup charter as a case stud...

🎙️ Robotaxis, Apple’s stealth AI empire, and healthtech’s real moats—this episode dives into where the next decade of tech value is actually being built. In this episode of Tech Insider Weekly, Lauren and Derek break down Uber’s 25,000-robotaxi bet and Waabi’s pivot from autonomous trucks to a "robot brain" for robotaxis, then connect it to Apple’s $2B AI audio deal and its aggressive Private Cloud Compute strategy. From autonomous vehicles and robotics to privacy‑centric AI infrastructure, h...

🎙️ When billion-dollar valuations happen in weeks instead of years, you're either witnessing the future—or watching a bubble inflate in real time. This week on Tech Insider Weekly, hosts Lauren and Derek dissect the explosive AI startup landscape where speed is breaking everything from funding timelines to leadership teams. In this episode, Lauren and Derek explore the wild world of AI startups raising at astronomical valuations before they've even shipped products. From Ricursive hitting $4 ...

🎙️ Seed-stage startups priced like unicorns, “brain wars” between Neuralink and Merge Labs, and a global AI power shift—this episode of Tech Insider Weekly dives straight into the chaos shaping tomorrow’s tech landscape. In this episode, the hosts unpack why AI companies like Humans& and Higgsfield are raising at eye-watering valuations, what that signals about defensibility and founder psychology, and who’s actually taking the biggest risk. They then jump into the emerging battle over br...

🎙️ Is your AI strategy actually defensible—or just one API change away from collapse? This episode of Tech Insider Weekly dives into the real unit economics, platform risk, and regulatory pressure shaping the next decade of AI and consumer tech. In this fast-paced conversation, the hosts dissect Amazon’s new $50 AI wristband and what on-device models plus daily pattern data really mean for Prime lock-in and Alexa’s comeback. They then zoom out to the AI startup gold rush—from a16z’s $15B fund...

🎙️ When venture capital rewrites the rules, AI moats move, and gene editing goes commercial—all in one episode. In this episode, the hosts break down A16z’s record-shattering $15B fund and what it really signals about the next era of AI investing, where pure infrastructure plays can’t win and defensibility comes from domain expertise, distribution, and regulation. They then shift to healthcare and biotech, unpacking how CRISPR and personalized gene therapies are becoming real businesses, why ...