50 Gigawatts To The Face, 17% GDP Growth Please, Road to COD 4, Bing Gordon Joins
John Coogan and Jordi Hays discuss Nathan Fielder's documentary film on Elizabeth Holmes with Wired's Katie Drummond, analyze SemiAnalysis's surging 50-gigawatt AI data center forecast, and review the latest Call of Duty campaign. They are joined by gaming legend Bing Gordon to discuss product psychology and AI in game design, followed by startup funding discussions with Greptile CEO Daksh Gupta ($50M Series B), Town CEO Jean Denis ($108M Series B), and Tolen founder Quinton Farmer ($30M Series B).
- Electronic Arts founding executive Bing Gordon argues that volume of output separates elite talent: "better people get more iterations out, more good iterations out." Read →
- Greptile raised a $50 million Series B led by Menlo Ventures to build independent, automated code testing and validation software. Read →
- Town secured a $108 million Series B led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures at a $1 billion valuation to build enterprise AI agents. Read →
- Katie Drummond, Global Editorial Director at Wired, admits the publication ran one of the earliest Elizabeth Holmes profiles and "largely laundered her lies" during the 2010s tech boom. Read →
- Quinton Farmer raised a $30 million Series B for Tolen from Keith Rabois at Khosla Ventures and Mike Mcdano at Union Square Ventures to build personal AI companions. Read →
- SemiAnalysis revised its 2027 data center capacity forecast upward from 43 to 50 gigawatts, backed by contracts and satellite tracking. Read →