Swatch AP Collab, Cerebras IPO, Trump Visits China | Ferdinand Dabitz, Spencer Rascoff, Eric Olson, Matt Lohstroh, Jay Azhang, Amir Sadeghian, Alexander Taubman, Quaid Walker

May 11, 2026

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Audemars Piguet (AP) and Swatch announced a collaboration for an affordable Royal Oak-inspired watch, launching May 16, sparking debate on brand dilution, resale flips (potentially 5-12x retail via lines in secondary cities), and countering fakes flooding markets like Alibaba. Hosts noted AP's trademark losses on octagonal bezels, positioning this as damage control and entry-level access amid $30K+ aftermarket Royals; a Chrome Hearts Rolex Daytona auction added hype. Quaid Walker predicted a mechanical System 51 movement (90-hour reserve, disposable), possibly lanyard-compatible, retailing ~$400 without cannibalizing luxury sales.

Cerebras upped its IPO to 30M shares at $120-125, targeting $4.8B raised amid 20x oversubscription, eyeing $50B+ market cap debut under CBRS. The wafer-scale inference chips (4T transistors, petabit bandwidth) excel in transformer workloads, powering fast LLMs like GPT-5.3 Spark; demand surges from agents, with customers like OpenAI/Amazon. Benchmark's 2016 bet positions it for VC history if it scales like Shanghai peers. Hosts demoed Codex Desktop for instant responses, contrasting early FUD on flexibility/customer concentration.

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1 (00:02) **Swatch-AP Royal Oak Collab Tease** - Hosts discuss official teaser video, speculate on design as accessible Royal Oak-inspired watch with business implications like countering fakes and entry-level appeal
2 (05:47) **Chrome Hearts-Rolex Daytona Collab** - Auction of unique one-off 18k gold Daytona sparks authenticity debate amid Code 1159 underselling
3 (08:26) **Whoop Band Watch Trends** - Weird Omega strapped to Whoop for fitness tracking, highlights DIY health insights like sleep apnea detection via LLM
4 (12:31) **BYD Denza EV Ad with Daniel Craig** - James Bond actor endorses luxury EV shooting brake in poetic ad, sounds like ICE engine; priced ~$40-140k equivalent
5 (16:51) **Cerebras AI Chip IPO Upsize** - Filing ups to 30M shares at $120-125, targeting $4.8B raise amid 20x oversubscription and inference demand
6 (25:00) **Trump-Xi Summit with Tech CEOs** - Meeting focuses on Iran war/Strait of Hormuz, trade (ag/energy), AI supply chain amid CAISI regs easing
7 (29:44) **Junk Mail Ban Push** - Palmer Luckey calls for USPS reform like CAN-SPAM, cites 100M trees/year waste; virtual mailboxes as workaround

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Show Notes

(00:29) - AP & Swatch Collab
(16:45) - Cerebras Boosts IPO Price Range
(24:56) - Trump to Visit China
(29:37) - Timeline Reactions
(36:37) - Ferdinand Dabitz, co-founder and CEO of Augustus, a fintech company specializing in instant bank payments, discusses the recent conditional approval from the SEC to charter Augustus National Bank as a full-service U.S. national bank. He emphasizes the unparalleled global demand for the U.S. dollar and identifies inefficiencies in current clearing banks, which are slow and outdated. Dabitz outlines Augustus National Bank's mission to modernize this infrastructure, aiming to enhance the distribution of the dollar by offering faster and more efficient clearing services to global financial institutions.
(41:47) - - Spencer Rascoff, co-founder of Zillow and current CEO of Match Group, discusses his transition from the board to CEO, emphasizing his commitment to addressing the global loneliness epidemic through Match Group's platforms. He outlines his initial focus on breaking down organizational silos within the company, transforming it from a holding company to an operating company, and highlights the importance of people, motivation, and organization in building great products. Rascoff also shares his hands-on approach to revitalizing Tinder, aiming to enhance innovation and user outcomes, particularly for the Gen Z demographic.
(01:05:47) - - Eric Olson, co-founder of Consensus, an AI-powered academic search engine, discusses the company's recent $30 million Series B funding led by Great Point Ventures, aimed at expanding their product beyond search into a comprehensive workspace for researchers. He highlights the organic growth driven by direct-to-consumer adoption and partnerships with over 100 universities, where libraries distribute the product to students. Olson emphasizes focusing on automating specific research tasks, such as literature searches, while leaving uniquely human aspects like idea generation and interdisciplinary connections to researchers.
(01:13:37) - - Matt Lohstroh, co-founder and CEO of Giga Energy, began his journey at Texas A&M University, where he and his colleagues developed modular data centers powered by flared natural gas to mine Bitcoin. Facing supply chain challenges, they vertically integrated their operations, manufacturing essential components like transformers and switchgear, and expanded into AI data centers. Lohstroh emphasizes Giga's commitment to rapid deployment, achieving data center energization in nine months by prefabricating infrastructure, and highlights the importance of community engagement to address concerns such as noise and energy consumption.
(01:28:03) - - Jay Azhang, founder of N of 1, an AI research lab focused on financial markets, discusses his background in public market investing and software development, and how his company aims to train models that gener