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#96: Google & Meta on Trial, Tesla, AI & Media

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2025/04/25
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More or Less

2025/04/25
Jess, Sam, Brit, and Dave returned from spring break to catch up on chaotic headlines from the last week — from Tesla’s bad quarter to Google’s courtroom drama.
On the docket:
– the antitrust cases shaking up Google, Meta, and the entire ad economy
– is OpenAI quietly building the next Facebook?
– Sam’s theory on “zombiecorns”
– is OnlyFans the new Uber?
We’re also on ↓
Connect with us here:
1) Sam Lessin: https://x.com/lessin
3) Jessica Lessin: https://x.com/Jessicalessin
4) Brit Morin: https://x.com/brit
00:00 Trailer
01:25 Recruiting PMs and hard-to-fake filters
08:34 Google anti-trust legal theater
13:58 Market narratives and fruit monopolies
22:21 LLMs and media companies
25:49 Is the web dying?
32:05 People want resonance
38:19 Adult content and AI
40:59 Meme stock Tesla and messiah Elon
47:30 How Musk handles the poliola
49:15 "Spam" Lessin's factory-farmed VC unicorn end
52:23 National medal of motherhood
55:48 Be the mountain, not the storm
58:10 Outro and announcement