What Are You Building? with Jayden Clark
Oct 23, 2026 · 34 min · 8 segments
Rachel Reses is joined by Members of Technical Staff founder and host Jayden Clark (@creatine\_cycle) to figure out why the party…
Oct 23, 2026 · 34 min · 8 segments
Rachel Reses is joined by Members of Technical Staff founder and host Jayden Clark (@creatine\_cycle) to figure out why the party…
I know yours, one of the two MTS podcasts, it's also a tech culture podcast, a little bit like ours, but it focuses on San Francisco in particular is my understanding.
SF might be just one of maybe a few American cities that could really, I think, sustain a culture podcast of its own.
Like you have pods that have done coverage of New York, like the sort of downtown scene last decade or so.
And then I think maybe there's some podcasts about D.C., although maybe more professionally than culturally.
Do you feel like SF is a company town? And what, I guess, in that respect makes it interesting to cover culturally?
In fact, I remember having this conversation with a friend of mine in 2022, Anton Troynikov, so previously founder of Chroma.
but we were coming from something and he said, I was just asking him how he was doing.
And he was like, yeah, good work, you know, to mining town at the end of the day.
And, you know, you ask most people this question, how are they, what have they been up to? They will say something along those lines.
And I do think, you know, as an extension of that, the kind of work they are doing, um, really highlights the kind of people that are in town, the kind of proclivities they may have, and the culture and the weirdness that will then stem from that.
And I say cover, and I put that in quotation marks, right, because I'm a commentator, not a journalist.
But no, I really try and come at it from an insider's point of view, like very unapologetically from an insider's point of view.
I know yours, one of the two MTS podcasts, it's also a tech culture podcast, a little bit like ours, but it focuses on San Francisco in particular is my understanding.
SF might be just one of maybe a few American cities that could really, I think, sustain a culture podcast of its own.
Like you have pods that have done coverage of New York, like the sort of downtown scene last decade or so.
And then I think maybe there's some podcasts about D.C., although maybe more professionally than culturally.
Do you feel like SF is a company town? And what, I guess, in that respect makes it interesting to cover culturally?
In fact, I remember having this conversation with a friend of mine in 2022, Anton Troynikov, so previously founder of Chroma.
but we were coming from something and he said, I was just asking him how he was doing.
And he was like, yeah, good work, you know, to mining town at the end of the day.
And, you know, you ask most people this question, how are they, what have they been up to? They will say something along those lines.
And I do think, you know, as an extension of that, the kind of work they are doing, um, really highlights the kind of people that are in town, the kind of proclivities they may have, and the culture and the weirdness that will then stem from that.
And I say cover, and I put that in quotation marks, right, because I'm a commentator, not a journalist.
But no, I really try and come at it from an insider's point of view, like very unapologetically from an insider's point of view.
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