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2026 potential IPOs from SpaceX and OpenAI, billionaire tax in CA, SF vs Austin tech hub debate, Arya.ag raises $81M Series D
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Maya woke up to Happy New Years texts from people she hadn’t heard from in awhile. She thought it was really special till she realized she texted th...
2025 superlatives: Nvidia and Groq’s $20B deal, the rise of prediction markets, Meta’s AI drama, and the NEO robot letdown
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the final episode of the year, the pod gives out superlatives:Most likely to dupe the FTCMoment of the yearMost questionable purchase of the yearBi...
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17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Netflix’s $82B bid for Warner Bros, Harvey AI’s third funding round this year, Meta’s Reality Labs Cuts
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Get the Check, the pod covers one of the largest deals of the year: Netflix’s $82B bid for Warner Brothers. Also, Harvey AI’s t...
Nucleus Genomics, Gemini 3 Pro, Suno
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Get the Check the pod returns from Thanksgiving break and their podcast offsite. They debrief the Gemini 3 model drop, AI music sta...
How to get a job in one month and other early career reflections
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the pod takes a break from analyzing tech and instead analyzes themselves. Anika, Priya, and Maya sit in Priya’s childhood home dur...
Inside Greptile: Co-founder Daksh on building code review
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sit down with Daksh, the CEO and co-founder of Greptile: the AI code-review agent used by thousands of engineering teams and backe...
Google’s Project Suncatcher, new AI model releases, Xania Monet, OpenAI calls for a government “backstop”
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Inside the CA-11 race: Saikat Chakrabarti on affordability and running against Pelosi
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week the hosts sit down with Saikat Chakrabarti, who was Stripe’s second engineer and later worked on the Bernie Sanders campaign and served as...
Quantum news, David Sacks vs. Anthropic, SB 53 AI bill, Sysco’s impact on American food
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Maya, Priya, and Anika start by unpacking why they need to edit the podcast, while their other podcaster friends just upload the raw file.This week th...
China’s REM export controls, Anduril’s Eagle Eye AI helmet, Zepto raises $450M
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s day 21 of the government shutdown. The pod’s true fans were there when Maya told everyone to put money on the Kalshi 15+ days shutdown market...
Figure 03 humanoid launch, OpenAI Dev Day and AMD deal
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It seems like Anika was waiting for this week’s recording to confront Maya about something she said (or rather didn’t say) in the group chat. Once...
Government Shutdown, Doordash launches Dot, Thinking Machine launches Tinker
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Tech Week and Get the Check’s one-year anniversary! Maya may have never believed in this milestone, but we know you all did. This Tech Week, ...
OpenAI’s $1 trillion infra play, OpenAI goes into ads, Tik Tok’s final verdict, Until Labs Series A
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The hosts are back and diving into a massive week for OpenAI. They start with Nvidia’s $100B investment, which will fund OpenAI’s GPU purchases, a...
Trump imposes $100k fee for H1-B, Meta releases Ray-Ban Display, Oura raises Series E
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week the hosts are back, recharged after a trip to Thailand. They kick things off by recapping their first-ever female founders + investors dinne...
Anthropic pays authors $1.5B, Google keeps Chrome, an update on the AI browser wars
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Get the Check, the hosts talk about how 1000 gallons of water flooded Maya’s apartment building and how ChatGPT may have saved her $11k...
Trump fires Lisa Cook, Open Evidence, and SpaceX's Starship launch
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The hosts start with Trump’s firing of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook over alleged mortgage fraud. They unpack the legal battle around whether a...
AI bubble + 95% of biz have no GenAI returns, Russia-Ukraine update, Eight Sleep raises $100M
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week the pod dives into the multi-trillion dollar question: is AI a bubble? The hosts break down the history of the dot-com bubble and compare wh...
Inside the Viral Subliminal Learning AI Paper with author Minh Le
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week the pod sat down with Minh Le, one of the researchers behind the viral AI safety research study “Subliminal Learning: Language models tran...
GPT-5, Open weight models, Blade sells passenger business
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You might remember Maya decided her life had no value after the pod read AI 2027 a couple of months ago, which outlines a doomsday AI scenario where t...
Elon's Neuralink clinical trials, Trump beefs with Powell and the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The year is 2030 your Neuralink chip calls your Tesla back from an EV charging station and your Optimus robot opens the door for you (chivalry isn’t...
Trump’s AI plan, Tea app, Figma IPO
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The pod read Trump’s 90 AI policy recommendations so you don’t have to. This week, they dive into the highlights, including why the government wan...
AI browser wars, ChatGPT agent, China's AI chips and Kimi K2, Lovable raises $200M
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you read the entire internet multiple times over you would be the smartest person on Earth, so why is it that every frontier model has done that an...
Grok 4, Windsurf, AI talent wars, BILT's Series C
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do Love Island and BILT have in common?They both just had a major breakup this season.BILT and Wells Fargo officially called it quits, something ...
Mamdani, Tesla robotaxis
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🗳️ How did the city with one of the biggest shifts to the right in the 2024 presidential election just vote for a socialist?This week the pod bre...
YC Demo Day & Building Sim Studio with CEO Emir Karabeg
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we sat down with Emir Karabeg, the co-founder of Sim Studio (YC X25), an open-source AI agent builder used by the Department of Defense. We ...
Scale AI/Meta, No Kings Protest
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meta just dropped a casual $14.3 billion on Scale AI for a 49 percent non-voting stake. The hosts are wondering if Zuck is in his desperation era hand...
Nucleus Genomics, IPO landscape, AI trend report
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The hosts get together at 7am after Anika and Maya both managed to sleep through 6am alarms. This week the trio dives into Nucleus Genomics, the hot I...
Grammarly raises $1B, Rhode acquired by e.l.f., VC invests in AI roll ups
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Get the Check, the trio kicks things off with a vulnerable chat about work besties (RIP to Maya’s). The hosts cover Grammarly’s...
Claude 4, OpenAI acquires io, Google I/O
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Get the Check Maya, Anika, and Priya are recording with less than ideal lighting and after a 4am night, but nothing keeps them wide awake...
OpenAI launches Codex, Airbnb's rebrand, Uber Route Share, Trump's Middle East trip
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The hosts of Get the Check kick off another episode by talking about a weekend run, which is misleading, since they’ve only run twice. They debrief ...
Windsurf’s $3B acquisition, Is Google Search dead, Partiful monetizes
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Get the Check, the hosts discuss Maya postponing this week’s recording to 6AM the morning before the release day. She did have a pretty...
Hims & Novo partnership, GPT-4o sycophancy, AI 2027
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The hosts kick off by recapping their run club experience because honestly, are you even in your 20s living in a big city if you haven’t gone to a r...
Trump's demands to Columbia and Harvard, Leetcode cheating tool Cluely raises $5.3M
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Get the Check, the hosts break down Trump’s letter to Columbia and Harvard threatening to revoke billions in federal funding unl...
Inside Merge: CEO Shensi Ding on API integration powering AI
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Merge recently launched Merge MCP helping AI apps understand everything about their customers. Today, Anika sits down with Shensi, co-founder and CEO ...
Tariffs, MCP, and Base Power
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The pod is back from their travels and are talking tariffs in the best episode yet. They also breakdown Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), wh...
Inside Notion Mail: Andrew Milich on reimagining your inbox
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Billions of people use email every single day. For the first time in decades, it’s been reimagined. Say hello to Notion Mail.Today, Priya sits down ...
Inside Glean: CMO Matt Kixmoeller on enabling every employee to deploy agents and use AI
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🚀 Big moves from @Glean! Last month, they announced that any employee across any department can now build AI agentsToday, @Maya sits down with @Mat...
Google acquires Wiz, Pepsi buys Poppi, Nvidia’s GTC highlights, Deel spy uncovered
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week the pod covers Google’s acquisition of Wiz, Pepsi’s acquisition of Poppi (two deals in one pod wow M&A is so back!), and key announc...
Inside Carta: CPO Vrushali Paunikar on making equity management sexy
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A decade ago when you got equity at your cool new tech startup you would get an envelope in the mail with a ledger. Now you just log in to Carta. Toda...
TSMC pledges $100B, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Trump creates Strategic BTC Reserve, Passes
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Get the Check, the hosts cover TSMC’s massive $100 billion investment in US chip facilities, Anthropic’s new Claude 3.7 Sonnet ...
Inside Fay: Co-founder Sammy Faycurry on building the fastest growing health and wellness company
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you live in America, experts say your leading cause of death is what you eat. There’s one company changing that.Today CEO and co-founder Sammy Fa...
DOGE updates, Majorana 1, HP acquires Humane
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Get the Check the hosts get political by diving into Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and then get technic...
Robinhood partners with Kalshi, Stargate, Apple launches Partiful copycat
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Get the Check, Anika, Maya, and Priya discuss the Super Bowl, focusing on the brands running ads and Robinhood’s attempt to offe...
Inside Gentrace: COO Daniel Liem on building the eval platform for your AI products
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Get the Check features Daniel Lim, co-founder and COO of Gentrace. Gentrace is a developer platform for testing generative AI, and i...
Anduril’s Arsenal-1, Meta’s content moderation, LA fires, Job referrals-as-a-service
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Get the Check, Anika, Maya, and Priya discuss Arsenal One, Anduril’s new $1 billion defense tech manufacturing factory in Ohio. ...
Inside Pylon: Co-Founder Marty Kausas on modernizing B2B support
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Get the Check features Marty Kausas, co-founder and CEO of Pylon, a modern support platform built for B2B companies. Pylon brings ever...
Winning wallets: How Ramp captured corporate spend
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the hosts take a deep dive into Ramp, a Series D corporate card and spend management platform recognized as one of the fastest-growing comp...
TikTok ban, Netflix's live streaming bet, OpenAI's o3 model, H1-B debate
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The hosts are very excited to be back with Season 2. They dive into four exciting tech stories right now: the potential TikTok ban, Netflix going into...
2024 tech highlights: Cyberwarfare, Google’s potential breakup, Databricks acquires Tabular, and OpenAI’s evolution
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the last episode of Season 1, the hosts reflect on four major tech stories that shaped the year: state-sponsored hacking, the DOJ’s antitrust cas...
Coining the future: Coinbase's crypto ecosystem
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Get the Check, the hosts unpack Coinbase, the leading US-based cryptocurrency exchange. They cover Coinbase riding the wave of Bitc...
From data to dominance: Palantir’s playbook for modern intelligence
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Get the Check, the hosts unpack Palantir’s rise into one of the world’s leading data analytics firms and the U.S.'s largest def...
Data at scale: Shaping the AI landscape with Scale AI
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Get the Check, the hosts discuss Scale AI's role in the AI ecosystem. With AI models requiring high-quality, labeled data to perfor...
Playing cupid: Match Group’s reign over dating in the digital age
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Get the Check, the hosts dive into Match Group, the largest online dating company and parent of Tinder, Hinge, and more. They explo...
It’s not rocket science: How SpaceX took off
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Get the Check, the hosts dive into SpaceX. They explore the founding story of Elon trying to buy an old USSR rocket. They also disc...
Betting on the ballot: Prediction markets on Kalshi
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Get the Check, the hosts take a closer look at Kalshi, a prediction market where people can trade on real-world events, including t...
Enemies to lovers: The Uber and Waymo partnership
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode of Get the Check, the hosts dive into the rapidly evolving landscape of autonomous vehicles (AVs). They explore how Waymo trans...
Periods to profit: How Flo hit a billion dollars
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of Get the Check, the hosts dive into Vice President Kamala Harris’s appearance on Call Her Daddy, where women’s health t...
Pilot Episode: BILT for success?
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Get the Check Pod introduces their podcast and discusses the sustainability of BILT's business model. The podcast is about four friends working in d...