Venture is Dead (Again)

Ballooning fund sizes are forcing venture partners to make bad deals or take on less uncertainty. History suggests it won’t end well.  Written by Jerry Neumann Read by Scott Brick Read ‘Venture is Dead (Again)’ here. Become a Colossus member to receive our quarterly print magazine. Subscribe here⁠. Presented by Ramp And by: Vanta WorkOS Cognition Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

The fight to regulate AI and reform American science runs through a little-known White House office, and the Thiel-turned-Trump aide in charge of it Written by Harry Lambert Read by Scott Brick  Read ‘The Office of the Frontier' here. Become a Colossus member to receive our quarterly print magazine. Subscribe here⁠. Presented by Ramp And by: Vanta WorkOS Cognition Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

A love letter to a new kind of company. Written by Brie Wolfson Read by Suzanne Elise Freeman  Read ‘The Sane Asylum' here. Become a Colossus member to receive our quarterly print magazine. Subscribe here⁠. Presented by Ramp And by: Vanta WorkOS Cognition Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.

Why the creator of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm is one of history’s purest founders. Written by Blake J. Harris Read by Scott Brick Read ‘The Many Failures of Larry David’ here. Selected material from this article appears in the book EMPEROR OF NOTHING: The Making of Larry David by Blake J. Harris. Copyright © 2026 by Blake J. Harris. To be published on October 20, 2026, by Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Excerpted by permission. Become a Colossus member to receive our quarterly print magazine. Subscribe here⁠. Presented by Ramp And by: Vanta WorkOS Cognition Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Written by Jerry Neumann Read by Scott Brick Read ‘AI Will Not Make You Rich’ here. Become a Colossus member to receive our quarterly print magazine. Subscribe here⁠. Presented by Ramp And by: Vanta WorkOS Cognition Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Written by Gabi Marques Read by Scott Brick Read ‘Coming to America’ here. Become a Colossus member to receive our quarterly print magazine and private audio experience, including exclusive profiles and early access to select episodes. Subscribe here⁠. Presented by Ramp And by: Vanta WorkOS Cognition Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Written by Jeremy Stern Read by Scott Brick Read ‘Mark’ here. Become a Colossus member to receive our quarterly print magazine and private audio experience, including exclusive profiles and early access to select episodes. Subscribe here⁠. Presented by Rogo And by: Ramp Vanta WorkOS Cognition Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

One writer’s experimental high and crash through the not quite legal, sort of effective, occasionally heart-pounding medicine cabinet of Wall Street and Silicon Valley’s productivity optimizers Written by Park MacDougald Read by Scott Brick Read ‘White Collar PEDs’ here. Become a Colossus member to receive our quarterly print magazine and private audio experience, including exclusive profiles and early access to select episodes. Subscribe here⁠. Presented by Rogo And by: Ramp Vanta WorkOS Cognition Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.

The following is an exclusive excerpt adapted from the author’s new book, Ausländer: One family's story of escape and exile, out in North America today. Written by Michael Moritz Read by Scott Brick Read ‘The Wretched Refuse’ here. Become a Colossus member to receive our quarterly print magazine and private audio experience, including exclusive profiles and early access to select episodes. Subscribe here⁠. Presented by Rogo And by: Ramp Vanta WorkOS Cognition Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.

How 3G Capital, the lean and secretive private equity firm, created some of the world's largest companies. Written by Dom Cooke Read by Scott Brick Read ‘Built to Own’ here. Become a Colossus member to receive our quarterly print magazine and private audio experience, including exclusive profiles and early access to select episodes. Subscribe here⁠. Presented by Rogo And by: Ramp Vanta WorkOS Cognition Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.