Results Junkies

Watch us on YouTube! [https://youtu.be/4Ye6ezmQlN4] An early-stage company in Ed's portfolio has a unique opportunity to pre-empt their next round. Paul and Ed discuss in detail.  Health tech seems to be having a moment in the ecosystem [https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/29/top-30-startups-announced-for-vivatech-2025-innovation-of-the-year-award/]. Paul offers his perspective based on his current role. We'd love it if you'd leave us a rating [https://ratethispodcast.com/junkies].  It takes less than a minute and really helps us out.  Just click here [https://ratethispodcast.com/junkies]! If you've got a comment or question for the show, you can e-mail us at show@resultsjunkies.com.  You can find Paul and Ed  online @paulsingh [https://twitter.com/paulsingh] and @pizzainmotion [https://twitter.com/pizzainmotion].

Watch us on YouTube! [https://youtu.be/r-jbYaNK26M] Paul and Ed turn into middle school boys as they discuss a new AI-powered startup [https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/the-wild-story-of-how-gut-health-ai-toilet-startup-throne-raised-4m-led-by-moxxie/].  Is Jony Ive poised to release the next "must have" device [https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/what-sam-altman-told-openai-about-the-secret-device-hes-making-with-jony-ive-f1384005?mod=tech_trendingnow_article_pos1] for millions of people?  And, is Fortnite back on the Apple app store [https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/20/fortnite-returns-to-the-us-app-store-after-a-five-year-gap/] for good? We'd love it if you'd leave us a rating [https://ratethispodcast.com/junkies].  It takes less than a minute and really helps us out.  Just click here [https://ratethispodcast.com/junkies]! If you've got a comment or question for the show, you can e-mail us at show@resultsjunkies.com.  You can find Paul and Ed  online @paulsingh [https://twitter.com/paulsingh] and @pizzainmotion [https://twitter.com/pizzainmotion].

Watch us on YouTube! [https://youtu.be/-8MOoy5Rns8] Prompt engineer was the hot job 2 years ago [https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-hottest-ai-job-of-2023-is-already-obsolete-1961b054?mod=tech_feat2_ai_pos3]. It was a well paid position that companies were clamoring for. And, then, it wasn't.  Microsoft bought Skype for $8 billion [https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/so-long-skype-thanks-for-all-the-dropped-calls-ccc22f96?st=uTNU1S&reflink=article_imessage_share]. That investment has yielded....Microsoft Teams? As Skype sunsets, we ask if Microsoft got their money's worth.  And, we wrap up with Bezos getting into the car game [https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/bezos-backed-slate-auto-debuts-analog-ev-pickup-truck-that-is-decidedly-anti-tesla/]....with crank windows.    We'd love it if you'd leave us a rating [https://ratethispodcast.com/junkies].  It takes less than a minute and really helps us out.  Just click here [https://ratethispodcast.com/junkies]! If you've got a comment or question for the show, you can e-mail us at show@resultsjunkies.com.  You can find Paul and Ed  online @paulsingh [https://twitter.com/paulsingh] and @pizzainmotion [https://twitter.com/pizzainmotion].

Watch us on YouTube! [https://youtu.be/4Ye6ezmQlN4] Paul and Ed discuss the standards for employee stock options pools and how a portfolio company can deal with a unique situation.  More large AI models are adopting a common protocol [https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/09/google-says-itll-embrace-anthropics-standard-for-connecting-ai-models-to-data/ ] for how to transfer data.  Lastly, Paul brings up some important points from the CEO of Shopify [https://x.com/tobi/status/1909231499448401946].  We'd love it if you'd leave us a rating [https://ratethispodcast.com/junkies].  It takes less than a minute and really helps us out.  Just click here [https://ratethispodcast.com/junkies]! If you've got a comment or question for the show, you can e-mail us at show@resultsjunkies.com.  You can find Paul and Ed  online @paulsingh [https://twitter.com/paulsingh] and @pizzainmotion [https://twitter.com/pizzainmotion].

Watch us on YouTube! [https://youtu.be/f7bnEtyFC18] It's not exactly Moore's Law, but the size of the tasks that AI agents can take on [https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-complete-long-tasks/] continues to increase at an unbelievable pace.  Google continues to weave AI into their travel services [https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/27/google-rolls-out-new-vacation-planning-features-to-search-maps-and-gemini/ ], including some new features including price tracking on hotel reservations.  In the fight against AI web crawlers, some developers have employed an interesting tactic [https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/27/open-source-devs-are-fighting-ai-crawlers-with-cleverness-and-vengeance/].  We'd love it if you'd leave us a rating [https://ratethispodcast.com/junkies].  It takes less than a minute and really helps us out.  Just click here [https://ratethispodcast.com/junkies]! If you've got a comment or question for the show, you can e-mail us at show@resultsjunkies.com.  You can find Paul and Ed  online @paulsingh [https://twitter.com/paulsingh] and @pizzainmotion [https://twitter.com/pizzainmotion].