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00:59:53

AOC v Garry Tan on data centers, Trump's China trip,...

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2026/05/19

While Maya's been working till 1AM, Priya is going on a date. Tune in to hear where and how she met him.In this episode of Get the Check, the trio dives into three stories: the AI data center debate heating up on X, Trump and Xi's historic summit in Beijing, and a $20 hearing aid that got 11 million views on X for being affordable and innovative.Bernie Sanders and AOC proposed the AI Data Center Moratorium Act back in March, calling for a halt on any new facility over 20 MW until Congress

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00:38:10

Elon Musk v. OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Anthropic deal,...

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2026/05/12

In this episode of Get the Check, the pod breaks down three big stories: the Elon vs. OpenAI trial, SpaceXAI's compute deal with Anthropic, and the Cerebras IPO at a $49B valuation.They start with the trial. Greg Brockman's personal journal got subpoenaed and read aloud in court, with entries saying "we weren't honest with [Elon]." Meanwhile, Elon admitted under oath that xAI distilled OpenAI's model, which is a clear violation of OpenAI’s terms & services. The biggest

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00:52:24

Apple CEO Tim Cook steps down, big tech’s earnings,...

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2026/05/05

In this episode of Get the Check, the pod breaks down a huge week in tech. There’s the historic CEO transition at Apple, a meltdown over Big Tech's capex spend, and xAI’s new plan after Grok was adopted by zero companies we have heard of. Side note, does anyone know why all the big tech companies report on the same day??After 15 years of running Apple, Tim Cook is stepping into an Executive Chairman role and giving John Ternus the reigns. The hosts start the segment with Tim Cook's legacy, and

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01:08:19

Inside the peptide craze: Myra Ahmad (CEO of Mochi...

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2026/04/28

From influencers chasing a deeper tan to AI founders in SF biohacking through their all-nighter before a tier-1 pitch, it feels like everyone is suddenly taking black-market Chinese peptides. And in July, RFK and the FDA may officially reclassify a list of peptides, so that compounding pharmacies can legally sell them again. Startups like Mochi and Superpower are already investing in the supply chain so they can get in on the craze the moment it's legal.This week the pod sits down with two of

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00:57:03

Inside BuildForever: Naveen Gavini, Former Pinterest...

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2026/04/21

Today the hosts sat down with one of the pioneers of the early 2010s social media era, Naveen Gavini, ex-CPO of Pinterest and one of the company’s first 10 employees. They talk about the rise of social media and what he’s up to now (hint: he’s going back into the consumer tech space).If you've ever wondered why people say Pinterest maintained taste vs. Facebook and Instagram, Naveen explains the product decisions that intentionally led to that:Ordering the algorithm by saves instead of likesNot

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00:49:25

Dimitri Knight on Taste in AI and What Designers Do Next

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2026/04/14

Dmitri is a product designer who spent time at Cash App and Ramp, and is now on a deliberate career break — reading, thinking, and figuring out what design means in a world where AI can build the thing but can't decide if it's worth building.We discuss:- how he taught himself Photoshop at 11 through gaming forums and designed his first bank interface for a video game mod before working in FinTech- what taste actually is and why AI can't have it- how the designer role has quietly absorbed

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00:48:30

Mercor's 4TB hack, NASA going to the moon,...

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2026/04/07

Mercor got hacked, NASA went back to the moon, and Anthropic just dropped $400 million on a nine-person biotech startup. There's a lot to talk about.Maya, Anika, and Priya kick things off with the supply chain attacks that have been all over the news. A North Korean state actor called Team PCP compromised Trivy, an open source security scanner, which then cascaded into LiteLLM and Checkmarx, ultimately leading to 4TB of Mercor's data getting leaked, including biometric data and confidential training

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00:44:43

RL-as-a-Service, Iran War Oil Crisis, Reflection AI

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2026/03/31

Maya, Anika, and Priya open this week's episode after spending two full hours trying to fix their new audio recorder, which made Priya miss her Solidcore class for the eighth time this month. Anything for the pod though!First they break down reinforcement learning as a service. Starting with what RL is and how DeepSeek popularized it’s efficacy. Companies like Applied Compute are trying to do for RL what AWS did for compute, except most enterprises can barely collect their own data properly, so the

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00:52:48

Inside BCV: Partner Christina Melas-Kyriazi on AI...

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2026/03/24

We sat down with Christina Melas-Kyriazi, Partner at Bain Capital Ventures. Before VC, she was a product leader at Affirm. She joined when it was a few hundred people and stayed through IPO. Now she backs founders building AI-enabled companies.We talk about:- How her first "scouting" experience wasn't in venture, it was in high school. She recruited a soccer player onto her cross country team who went on to become an Olympian and one of her closest friends for life- What she learned

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01:05:36

Travis Kalanick announces Atoms, Anthropic vs. the...

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2026/03/17

In this episode of Get the Check, Maya, Anika, and Priya are back with a packed rundown: Travis Kalanick’s new company Atoms, the escalating Anthropic vs DoW fight, and why wearables are suddenly everywhere.They start with Kalanick’s post Uber arc starting City Storage Systems (including CloudKitchens) in complete stealth. They unpack what the company is trying to do next after rebranding to Atoms. Atoms will use specialized robots to automate core industries like food preparation plus delivery,

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00:39:26

Inside Juicebox: Co-Founder Ishan Gupta announces...

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2026/03/10

This week Maya and Priya sit down with Ishan Gupta, CTO and co-founder of Juicebox, who comes on the pod to announce that Juicebox just closed their Series B!!Juicebox is the AI recruiting platform letting you find your next hire by just describing them in plain English. PeopleGPT searches 800M+ profiles and surfaces the best fits. No boolean filters required.Ishan grew up in India watching his dad run a business and always knew he wanted to be an entrepreneur, but had no idea he would drop out of

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00:41:14

Bitcoin crashes 50%, Citrini AI doom essay, Fei-Fei...

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2026/02/25

This weekend was the pod’s Season 4 launch party. To celebrate you can give them 5 stars and increase the chance Maya agrees to a Season 5. This week the pod starts with with Bitcoin, which is down about 50% from its peak (~120K to ~65K). They walk through why this crash doesn’t have just one culprit. Trump’s tariff uncertainty, Iranian geopolitical tension, and Bitcoin in key ETFs all contributed. On Feb 5, BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF (IBIT) sold a lot of Bitcoin, seemingly because it had to rebalance

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00:49:25

Matt Shumer, Anthropic + Rogo + Meridian Raise,...

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2026/02/18

It’s another 6AM morning recording and Anika nods off during the recording - just kidding.The hosts run first discuss Matt Schumer’s viral essay “Something Big Is Happening” (82M+ views on X), which argues AI labs intentionally made coding the focus, that most people don’t realize how advanced models are, and that we’re 1–2 years from AI autonomously building the next generation. They contrast it with Will Mandis’ response essay “Tool Shaped Objects,” arguing LLMs look like powerful tools but

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00:53:12

Anthropic vs. OpenAI Super Bowl ads, Northwood Space...

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2026/02/11

You might remember the pod’s tech issues last week. Well this week they are so up. The pod has new, fancy mics and lighting. Priya kicks things off with her last-minute Super Bowl trip after buying tickets Saturday morning.First up, the hosts break down the Anthropic vs. OpenAI Super Bowl ad beef. Anthropic dropped ads ahead of the game making fun of OpenAI for putting ads into ChatGPT. One featuring a fake therapist pitching a cougar dating site, another recommending shoe insoles to get jacked. The

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00:47:20

OpenClaw and Moltbook the first social media for AI...

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2026/02/04

Maya, Anika, and Priya are back. If you notice Maya’s on her phone this week, it’s because she broke her laptop while on FaceTime with Anika and Priya. If you notice Priya’s wavy video, we don’t really know what happened there, but we’ll be so back next week with fixed laptops and cameras. This week they talk about OpenClaw leading to Reddit for AI agents, Trump’s Fed Chair nominee, and Elon’s SpaceX and xAI merger.First they talk about OpenClaw, which is the viral open source AI personal assistant

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00:48:14

Inside Known: Co-founder Celeste Amadon on fixing...

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2026/02/02

This week the pod talks to Celeste the CEO and co-founder of Known. Celeste dropped out of Stanford to build an AI-powered dating app that just raised $10M from Forerunner and NFX. Celeste explains why dating apps are fundamentally broken: they profit when you stay single and are a part of their long tail of retained users. Known flips the business model by monetizing dates instead of monthly subscriptions. Their key metric is introductions leading to people meeting.Celeste breaks down why the data

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00:49:09

Brex acquired for $5.15B, Trump wants Greenland, new...

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2026/01/28

This week the pod kicks off with Anika's unexpected internet fame after a photo of her and her ex's ex went viral with 11M views. If that sounds really random it’s because it was. Tune in to hear the full story and follow us on X @getthecheckpod. If you just want to see the tweet you can go to @anikamirzaa…Then they dive into Capital One's $5.15B acquisition of Brex, which is down over 50% from its peak valuation. Maya, Anika, and Priya break down the Brex vs. Ramp rivalry and how Ramp

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01:02:38

Healthcare AI updates, Netflix's 7B deal with Sony,...

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2026/01/21

This week the pod dives into the AI labs making big moves in healthcare. OpenAI dropped ChatGPT Health, a separate tab for all your medical questions. Hundreds of millions of people a week are already using ChatGPT for health including Priya. Maya roasts OpenAI's enterprise healthcare approach, arguing that their pilot with only 1,000 seats / hospital is a very modest start to cracking a huge problem. Maya’s hot take is a bottoms-up GTM approach makes sense in healthcare, and doctors should

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00:45:48

Inside Listen Labs: Co-founder Florian Juengermann on...

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2026/01/14

Get the Check welcomes Florian Juengermann, CTO and co-founder of Listen Labs, to talk about his journey from a small town in Germany to becoming an international mathlete and starting an AI company.Maya and Priya ask about Florian's origin story from wanting to program his toys to winning IOI medals (the olympics for nerds). They also dig into his path to America: Harvard, Tesla's self-driving team, and the moment he realized he wanted to build after watching a company with no product raise $3M off

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00:53:17

2026 potential IPOs from SpaceX and OpenAI,...

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2026/01/07

Maya woke up to Happy New Years texts from people she hadn’t heard from in awhile. She thought it was really special till she realized she texted them first the night before and forgot. Including Anika and Priya who got 5 Happy New Years texts from her each. Another year, and the same friends.The pod talks about 2026 as an IPO comeback year and highlight SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cerebras. Maya gives her hot take on why SpaceX’s Starlink numbers look better than they are because their EBITDA

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