SELL EVERYTHING (Including Your Dollars), Tesla Roadster Hype, Valar Atomics VC Feud | Reed Albergotti, Bryan Cantrill, Daniel Kimminau
October 15, 2026
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5 min readThe hosts of TBPN open the episode with a countdown to Christmas (70 days away) and a heat advisory in California, but the mood quickly turns to the market. "It's an absolute bloodbath out there," one host says, as the AI trade broadly and CoreWeave specifically have fallen roughly 50% over the last month. The proximate cause is Anthropic’s investor day, where the company reported Q3 revenue of $16.8 billion, which it annualized to $67.2 billion. For a company that was doing a tenth of that a year ago, the growth is staggering — but it wasn't enough. The market had priced in a 10x year, and Anthropic delivered something closer to 9x. "It's crazy that you can be growing at 45% quarter on quarter and still not meet expectations," one host notes. The sell-off is real but narrow: the Nasdaq is down only 0.3%, while the Dow is up nearly a full percent. The hosts interpret this not as a crash but as a rotation out of the most speculative AI names and into SaaS, social networks, and other businesses with proven margins.
The Distillation Problem and the Anthropic Investor Day
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **Show Open & Christmas Countdown** - The hosts banter about the 70-day countdown to Christmas and a teammate being a "Grinch" about the hot weather, establishing the show's tone.
- 2 (03:56) **Market Bloodbath & Anthropic's Investor Day** - The hosts react to the market sell-off triggered by Anthropic's Q3 revenue numbers, which fell short of extreme growth expectations.
- 3 (06:11) **The Distillation Problem** - The hosts analyze the impact of model distillation on Anthropic's revenue, revealing it accounts for 5-7% of revenue.
- 4 (10:57) **Meta's Open Source Play & The Distillery Ecosystem** - The hosts discuss Meta's release of "Muse Spark Open" and the sophisticated "distillery" ecosystem that uses wrapper companies to mask distillation activity.
- 5 (13:41) **"Sell Everything" & The Market Rotation** - The hosts unpack the "sell everything" meme, clarifying that it's actually a rotation out of tech and into the Dow, not a total market collapse.
- 6 (22:45) **PPI & The "CPI Reserve" Breakdown** - The hosts react to the hottest PPI number in four years and then play a game of "overrated/underrated" with items from the "CPI Reserve" (inflation for the global elite).
- 7 (30:24) **Blake Byers' AGI Market Thesis** - The hosts read a prediction from Blake Byers about interest rate spikes driven by AI CapEx, leading to short-term panic followed by euphoria.
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Show Notes
- (05:04) - Recapping Anthropic Investor Day
- (15:04) - SELL EVERYTHING
- (23:24) - Inflation Heats Up
- (30:29) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions
- (44:02) - Valar Atomics VC Feud
- (51:16) - Tesla Roadster Hype
- (01:00:53) - Porsche Mission S
- (01:04:49) - Reed Albergotti, Semafor’s San Francisco bureau chief and host of the Future Proof podcast, discusses Tesla’s self-driving technology, Microsoft’s AI strategy, Xbox’s future, and the debate over regulating open-source AI. He also examines the financial and infrastructure bottlenecks facing the AI industry as technology companies rapidly increase spending.
- (01:26:45) - Bryan Cantrill discusses founding Oxide Computer Company, where he serves as CTO and builds integrated rack-scale cloud computing systems for on-premises data centers. He explains Oxide’s technically ambitious hardware-software co-design, lessons from failed predecessors, patient enterprise sales strategy, and focus on profitability, operational efficiency, and building a generational company rather than pursuing an exit.
- (01:45:54) - Daniel Kimminau discusses founding Advanced Spade Company after working at SpaceX, The Boring Company, and Anduril, where he developed expertise in transportation and underground construction. He explains how the company uses integrated technology, mapping, and specialized equipment to make underground utility installation safer, faster, and more affordable.
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