Jensen Secures Top Spot on Naughty List, Rockefeller Christmas Tree Delivered, Timeline in Turmoil
John Coogan and Jordi Hays break down breaking reports surrounding Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's admitted affair with suspected Chinese intelligence operative Alice Wong and examine its geopolitical and regulatory fallout. The episode features live founder interviews with Sweetgreen CEO Jonathan Neman on the chain's dinner push and AI ordering, Nominal CEO Bryce Strauss on their $240M Series C for physical system engineering, Mavria CEO Adam Blake on modular 5-megawatt data centers, Foundry Robotics CEO Adarsh Kulkarni on autonomous manufacturing, and Co-frame CEO Josh Payne on building an agent-ready web.
- Mavria raised a $30 million pre-seed from Nat Friedman and a $100 million subsequent round to mass-produce modular data centers called Terrain in Houston. Read →
- Foundry Robotics raised a $100 million Series A to scale its 130,000-square-foot autonomous manufacturing facility in Emeryville, California. Read →
- Orders originating from autonomous AI agents like Muse doubled between June and October, prompting Sweetgreen to engineer direct connectors and an in-house agent to capture higher customer lifetime value without paying aggregator commissions. Read →
- Josh Payne raised $25 million for Co-frame to replace static user interfaces with continuously learning systems. Read →