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

00:00 Welcome to Boys Club Live 00:11 Hosts and Show Format 00:33 NYC Neighborhood Catch-Up 01:14 Tech Bathhouse Discourse 02:32 Meet Jules and New Show 03:24 Sponsor Shoutout Octant 05:21 Elon vs Altman Trial Talk 06:41 Show Me Your Stack Origin 08:46 Stack Philosophy and AI Tools 13:28 Season Details and Vercel 14:20 YouTube Launch and Subscribe 16:03 Behind the Scenes Plane Chaos 19:30 Rich Auntie Clip Breakdown 24:22 Etiquette and Wealth Rules 27:18 Calendar Invites vs Whats Up 28:20 Auntie Affirmations Mindset 28:45 Lifestyle Leverage Debate 29:32 Reality Show Pitch 30:08 Polygon Sponsor Break 31:04 Meta Creator Payouts 31:24 Tiago Sada Guest Intro 35:15 World Proof Of Human 37:55 WorldID Verification Orb 39:34 Concert Kit Ticketing 41:03 Dead Internet Reality 43:15 Agent Kit For Bots 47:10 Global Roots And Culture 50:34 AI Psychosis Summit 54:45 Taste And AI Art 59:22 Shake Social App Demo 01:00:59 Shaking Social Graph 01:01:37 Group Shake Leaderboards 01:02:06 AI Psychosis Summit Plug 01:02:32 Viral Coffee Shop Photo 01:05:16 Public Screens Privacy Debate 01:08:22 Always On Blast Era 01:09:36 When Conversations Become Content 01:12:09 Show Me Your Stack Launch 01:13:12 Shiv Browser Stack Tour 01:15:04 AI Browsers Agent Mode 01:19:15 Sponsor Vercel V0 01:19:45 Analog Lists And Reminders 01:20:47 Building Shivs Marketplace 01:22:28 Claude Powered Wants Feature 01:26:01 Wrap Up And Subscribe  

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 49:56 Welcome Anthony Soohoo, MoneyGram CEO to the show 55:25 Stablecoin Remittance Rails 01:00:56 Scaling Markets and Compliance 01:07:19 MoneyGram Beyond Remittance 01:10:08 AI Color Analysis Outro

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 Omonije Intro 54:18 Telephone Entropy Explained 57:19 Slop Incentives and Industry 01:01:14 ELI5 Quantum Breaks Crypto 01:07:23 Qubit Counts and New Architectures 01:09:15 AI Accelerates Quantum Progress 01:11:13 Motives and Defenses in Crypto 01:13:14 Do Your Own Research Closing

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 Whales Get Targeted 40:46 Drift Exploit Breakdown 41:46 DPRK Facilitator Playbook 45:54 Security Clues and Fixes 48:51 Sponsor Octant 52:17 Meet Danger Testing Duo Marc and Los 55:41 Weekly App Sprint Process 01:00:57 Distribution Anxiety Lessons 01:02:52 Appstar YouTube for Apps 01:09:53 Viral Backlash and Attention 01:13:13 Dream Collabs and Wrap 01:15:41 Joshua Harris, PixieChess Joins the Show 01:16:32 Lunch Break Meme Coin Lore 01:18:41 What Is Pixie Chess 01:20:39 Why Crypto Gaming Flopped 01:23:26 Launch Lessons and Cheating 01:25:24 Pieces Auctions and Packs 01:29:06 Site Tour and Tournaments 01:31:40 Minting Pieces Live 01:35:16 Quick Play Match Demo 01:42:15 Anti Cheat and Wrap Up  

00:00 Welcome to Boys Club Live 00:33 Show 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 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 and Visa moves 25:38 Agents Need Easier Payments 26:41 Building With AI Agents 27:16 Founder Mode Reflections 29:00 Michael Saylor AI Ad 32:58 AI Slop and Legality 37:36 Meet Alli Pope of Vercel 39:00 SF vs NYC Culture Shock 42:49 Vercel Programs and V0 44:43 Accelerator Trends and Demos 49:13 Hiring Advice AI Native 53:21 Slop and New Media Strategy 56:17 Hot Takes on Content 57:21 Ship It and Post Consistently 57:52 X Algorithm and Content Formats 58:51 AI Lowers the Bar Taste Wins 01:00:27 Personal Websites After AI 01:02:19 Design Decks vs Word Docs 01:09:33 Minimalist Website Philosophy 01:11:20 Anthropic Code Leak Breakdown 01:15:21 Vibe Coding vs Security Ops 01:17:05 Claude Logs Your Profanity 01:21:53 Data Privacy Social Credit Takes 01:24:40 Wrap Up and we love Anchorage!  

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 01:08:09 Facebook Marketplace Food Tales 01:11:51 Meet Ostium Founder, Kaledora 01:14:20 Ostium Thesis and Product 01:18:57 Broker vs Exchange Liquidity 01:22:25 Oil Trade  01:24:11 Metals and Macro Volatility 01:27:49 Trader Data Bulls vs Bears 01:33:37 Wrap Up and Goodbye

00:00 Show intro and hosts 01:19 Haircut chat and cohost banter 02:16 Today's lineup and sponsors 03:00 04:00 Grimes joins LinkedIn 06:48 Robot videos and tennis bot 11:56 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 40:06 What Is Octant 41:33 Sustainable Grants With DeFi 44:44 Octant / Shutter DAO Partnership 46:31 Octant Vaults Explained 47:55 Octant V2 Modular Suite 51:46 Funding Ethereum Public Goods 53:24 Vanity Fair Side Chat 55:00 Quick Hits Banksy Doxed 58:10 Inflation Basketball Prices 59:57 Fashion Zara Galliano 01:02:44 Dupe Shopping   

00:00 Live Show Kickoff 01:04 Lookalike Competition Talk 03:16 Meta Buys Bot Network 05:25 Distorted Emoji Moment 06:36 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 32:32 Meet Megan Graham from WSJ  33:27 Viral Pharma Ad Story 34:18 Ozempic Ad Breakdown 35:46 Legal Disclaimers Explained 39:11 Pharma Ads and Consumer Health 41:15 Equinox AI Campaign 42:51 AI Backlash and Brand Risk 45:41 Likeness Rights and Lawsuits 46:37 DoorDash Social Strategy 51:36 Speed and Risk Tolerance 53:57 Social as Insights Engine 01:00:54 Internet Obsession and Wrap-Up

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

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: Bad Haircut TikTok and Collective Coping 52:30 Catherine (Default Friend) Joins: AI Cryptids, Reborn Dolls, and Manosphere Culture 01:05:00 Wrap-Up: Clavicular Discourse, TikTok AI Edits, and Officecore in Austin