Austin Next
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Austin is building the new tech, cultural, and intellectual stack. The region is a living laboratory to answer a single question: How do you build a global innovation superpower?Host Jason Scharf dissects innovation from the individual to the ecosystem. From the soundstage to the data center to the fab, we decode the mechanics of Austin's innovation ecosystem.As Atoms, Bits, and Intelligence converge, we explore how Hard Tech scale, digital velocity, and creative density collide. This is an audi...
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Episodes (187)
The Army Is Adapting to the New Speed of War | Matt Willis, Army FUZE
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Sep 10, 202656:06completed
What This Unlikely Deal Shows About New Austin | Max Cunningham (Sesh) & Jake Me...
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Jul 16, 202658:42pending
Live from Hack Club Stasis: The Teenage Hardware Frontier Lands in Austin
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Jun 30, 202640:08pending
Love Conquers Fear: The Last Barrier to Abundance Is Our Own Fear | Brett Hurt
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Jun 18, 20261:12:39pending
Austin: From Counterculture to Culture | Karen Blashek, Austin Home Magazine
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Jun 11, 20261:15:59pending
Revisited: How Specificity in Vertical AI Rewrites Industries | Nick Tippmann,...
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May 21, 20261:04:43pending
What Building in Austin Actually Feels Like Right Now | Will Johnson & Alex Cohe...
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Apr 29, 20261:11:46failed
The First Thing Built on the Moon Will Come from Austin | Jason Ballard & Will H...
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Apr 23, 20261:12:05failed
Reinventing School Is Accelerating Austin's Talent Flywheel | Joe Liemandt, Alph...
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Apr 15, 20261:12:18failed
We're Living Through the Cyberpunk Era of War | Jim Rebesco, CEO, Striveworks
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Mar 24, 202651:57failed
Innovation Ecosystems Are Inherited | Nait Jones
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Mar 18, 20261:02:11completed
The Western Canon in the Age of Vibe Coding | Carlos Carvalho, President, Univer...
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Mar 11, 20261:12:36failed
Bootstrap vs. VC: Speed Costs Control | Rob Taylor, Silverton Partners
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Feb 19, 202647:57pending
Patient Capital in the Age of the $10B Seed | Brian Smith, S3 Ventures
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Jan 21, 202651:50pending
The Semiconductor Moment for the Mind
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Jan 14, 20261:07:33pending
Combat as the Minimum Viable Product | Cix Liv, REK
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Dec 10, 20251:03:02pending
Is The Venture Capital Model Broken? | Andrew Romans, 7BC
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Dec 3, 202551:49pending
Zachary Levi | Can Austin Build an Ark for Human Creativity?
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Oct 1, 20251:23:38pending
Is Austin a Music Incubator? | Terry Lickona, Austin City Limits
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Sep 24, 202557:48pending
From Wristbands to AI: A New Cancer Playbook | Suzanne Stone, CEO, Livestrong
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Sep 9, 20251:03:24pending
Did Austin Turn Soda Into Fashion? | Stephen Ellsworth, Co-founder, Poppi
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Sep 3, 202552:51pending
Autonomy’s Moment Is Now. Austin Is the Autonomy Capital | Jeff Cavins, Outdoors...
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Aug 27, 202559:02pending
Reading the Global Rankings | Austin’s Momentum vs the Incumbents
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Aug 20, 202541:08pending
Can AI Really 2X Output and Break Legacy Business Models? | Dru Armstrong, Affin...
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Jul 23, 202558:05pending
Design vs Slop | John Roescher, Raw Materials
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Jul 16, 202553:08pending
Fungi, Coffee, and Diapers | Tero Isokauppila, Four Sigmatic & HIRO
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Jul 9, 20251:10:16pending
Live from Health Supernova: Austin’s Rise as a Bio & Health Frontier Powerhouse
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Jun 24, 202550:04pending
Bitcoin and the Future of American Power | Brian Morgenstern, Riot Platforms
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Jun 18, 202556:43pending
How Specificity in Vertical AI Rewrites Industries | Nick Tippmann, TipTop VC
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Jun 11, 202557:54pending
The Threads That Scale Innovation with Brian Hall EO Austin
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May 22, 202558:26pending
Houston Will Be the Industrial Bio Capital of the World with Veronica Breckenrid...
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Apr 29, 202558:57pending
Endless Frontiers and the Future of American Innovation with Jordan Blashek, Man...
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Apr 15, 20251:15:15pending
From Semiconductors to AI Ecosystems with Tyson Tuttle, Founder and CEO Circuit
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Apr 9, 20251:12:31pending
Texas Innovation Ecosystems in the AI Era with Samantha Lewis, Partner Mercury F...
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Mar 26, 20251:03:08pending
Activating the Future of Human Flourishing with Janine Leger, Co-Founder Edge Ci...
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Feb 25, 202555:44pending
Rewriting Biopharma's Playbook with Mallory Factor, Founder and CEO IntraBio
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Feb 19, 202548:50pending
Engineering Agency, Innovation, and Ecosystems with Gena Gorlin
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Feb 13, 20251:12:52pending
Austin4America Rises From SXSW's Military Sponsor Ban with Luke Fischer, Co-Foun...
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Jan 24, 202552:20pending
Science in the Commercial Space Age: Live from UATX's SOMA Inaugural Summit
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Jan 8, 202538:13pending
Why Gauntlet AI Chose Austin to Build the Next Wave of AI Engineers with Austen...
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Dec 21, 202449:25pending
From DNA to Deep Space with Eliah Overbey, Professor at University of Austin
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Dec 10, 20241:10:31pending
The Skills and Learning Revolution in the New Tech World with Rob Rosenthal, CRO...
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Dec 3, 202442:36pending
Quantum CEOs Get Real About Hype, Hope, and Hardware at Austin's Quantonation Da...
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Nov 20, 202435:59pending
Building Austin's Next Health and Wellness Revolution with Jim Donnelly, Humanau...
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Nov 13, 202453:29pending
Backing Extraordinary Leaders to Build Austin Moonshots with Craig Cummings, Co-...
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Nov 6, 202459:07pending
Can Austin Lead the Race to Solving Rare Diseases with the Founders of the Firef...
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Oct 2, 202438:27pending
Angel Investing's Evolution and What Austin's Scene Reveals
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Sep 24, 202443:45pending
Artificial General Intelligence Modeled on the Human Mind with Peter Voss
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Sep 18, 202459:48pending
From Tel Aviv to Austin with Texas Venture Partners
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Sep 11, 202458:03pending
Riskgaming and Tech's Future Frontiers with Danny Crichton, Lux Capital
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