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And since then, Kevin has continued to do big things.

He just has a new book out called the AGI Chronicles, which is the best kind of overall history of the, I guess we say generalist or the first draft of history.

This is kind of the first draft, I think, of the AGI age and the competition between, especially Anthropic and OpenAI.

And Kevin, who until recently was A reporter at the New York Times has recently departed and now is a full-time podcaster along with Casey Newton.

about, I

mean, we'll get into

your book, but I'd be curious to hear a little bit more about why you decided to leave The Times and what the vision is for this new podcast, which I am definitely excited to listen to.

Yeah, so we had been doing Hard Fork at the times for four years.

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Viktor Popovic.

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Great to be here.

Calvin Cooper.

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Hey, thanks for having me.

You broke into venture capital by working 10 PM to 2 AM doing free research and then offered to raise money for the fund before anyone asked you to.

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The intelligence you need to build bold, scale smart, and stay future-proof.

This is Future-Proof Founder with your host, five-time founder and globe-trotting adventurer, Jeff Mains.

Welcome back to the Future Proof Founder Podcast, where all rest after the exit is the most expensive sentence a founder ever says.

I'm Jeff Mains, five-time founder and your guide for the messy, magnificent climb from startup to 30 million and beyond.

Here's what I believe.

Welcome someone who's been rebuilding systems on her own and everyone else's her entire life.

Hanna Bauer.

Hey, Hannah, welcome to Future Proof Founder.

And remember when Google released BARD, right? That was sort of their first take at like an agent type of application.

And so I went back and looked at some of my predictions from the final chapter in the book, which was called Future Proofing.

And I had talked about at the time, at some point in the future, we're going to go from search engines to like a search and act engine.

And the term at the time, again, 15 years ago, we had talked about these as app systems.

Welcome someone who's been moving freight and building opportunities since before most of us knew that those were the same skill, Daman Grewal.

Hey, Damon, welcome to Future Proof Founder.

Thanks for having me.

Appreciate being here.

And David, it's been an absolute pleasure.

Great conversation.

Thanks for being on Future Proof Founder.

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