Radical Talks

Going beyond AI headlines with the researchers, founders, and investors shaping what comes next.

Radical Talks is a technology podcast hosted by Radical Ventures, with 21 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Radical Ventures hosts Radical Talks, a technology show with 21 episodes published.

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  Applying RSI to the Organization, Not Just the Model

  Aug 14, 202642 min

  Tantum Collins, Co-Founder & CEO of Inherent, joins Radical Partners Molly Welch and Aaron Rosenberg to dig into recursive self-improvement (RSI), using AI to build better AI, and why Inherent is betting on RSI at the organizational level, not just the model level. Drawing on his time leading DeepMind's meta-research team and shaping AI policy in the Biden White House, Tantum brings a unique lens to the conversation. He discusses Faraday, Inherent's AI agent, the company's "living within the experiment" culture, and why Inherent is structured as a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC).

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  The Rise of NeoLabs

  Jul 22, 202642 min

  Aaron Rosenberg and Rich Kotite, Partners at Radical Ventures, join Molly Welch to discuss "The Rise of NeoLabs," their report mapping the researcher-led AI startups raising massive capital. Drawing on Radical's track record backing companies like World Labs and Inherent, they dig into the research paradigms attracting top talent, how investors evaluate these early-stage teams, and what it takes to build a category-defining lab.

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  Talent Flows in AI

  Jun 3, 202640 min

  Yvonne Likomanova, Senior Director of Talent at Radical Ventures, digs into what's really driving the AI talent flows. Drawing on a career that spans Stripe, Cruise, Applied Intuition, Yvonne shares where the world's best researchers and engineers are setting their sights. The conversation covers why elite talent is leaving frontier labs for a new class of research-first institutions, what candidates are really optimizing for beyond compensation, and what founders need to get right today to compete for the people who will define their company's trajectory.

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  Building-AI Native Advertising

  May 6, 202639 min

  Michael Rubenstein, Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Firsthand, joins Radical's Molly Welch to dig into what's broken in digital advertising — a trillion-dollar-plus industry that AI isn't just improving, it's replacing entirely. Drawing on a career that spans DoubleClick, AppNexus, and now Firsthand, Michael makes the case for why the future belongs to brand agents, not ads. The conversation covers how Firsthand's infrastructure meets consumers at the moment of intent, why the real bottleneck is structural rather than technical, and what has to be true for this new model to go mainstream without leaving brands behind.

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  Powering the AI Era

  Apr 22, 202652 min

  Varun Sivaram, Founder & CEO of Emerald AI, joins Radical Partners Molly Welch and Rob Toews to explore what's actually holding back AI infrastructure. While the conversation around AI bottlenecks tends to focus on chips and models, Varun explains why the binding constraint is power, from grid capacity limits and interconnection backlogs to the widening gap between compute demand and energy supply. Drawing on his path from senior energy official in the Biden White House to CTO of India's largest solar company to founding Emerald AI, the discussion unpacks why the fix is software, not just more generation, how Emerald's Conductor platform turns data centers into flexible, grid-responsive assets, and what has to be true for AI infrastructure to scale without breaking the grid.

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