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• Daily Idea - Podcasts Become Data

• Family Dinner Pitch

Every Podcast Interview, Now Queryable Data

Chamath rants. CEOs slip. Rogan rambles. What if you bottled the alpha?
NTE Zero to One can help.

The One Liner

AI turns podcasts into Bloomberg-style datasets.

The 140 character tweet (or X) version

Every podcast hides gold. This tool digs it up, structures it, and sells the insights to investors, analysts, and founders hunting for edge.

The Longer Story Version

The Problem
Podcasts are like Vegas buffets. Tons of stuff on the table… but you only leave with indigestion.

Think about it:

• A16z partner casually drops how they’re thinking about AI infra.

• Shopify’s CFO reveals their secret playbook on cost-cutting.

• An analyst on Odd Lots basically hands you the next trade.

And yet - poof. Gone. The insights vanish into the noise. Because who has 10 hours a week to play podcast archaeologist with a notepad?

Right now, it’s like everyone’s panning for gold with a plastic spoon.

The Solution
What if AI turned every podcast, panel, and interview into a Bloomberg terminal?

Here’s the move:

• Whisper transcribes.

• GPT + LlamaIndex normalize.

• Pinecone makes it searchable.

• Suddenly you’ve got structured datasets instead of random soundbites.

Now:

• Investors can scan transcripts for “AI + logistics” and instantly see which CEOs are talking supply chain disruption.

• Consultants can pull “what Fortune 500s say about hiring freezes” without listening to 100 earnings calls.

• Founders can track when competitors spill product hints on a podcast before TechCrunch even notices.

It’s like “Ctrl+F the world’s conversations.”

How We’d Build It

Stage 1 — Scrappy Hacker

• Glue together Whisper + GPT + Pinecone.

• Spin up a Retool dashboard.

• Scrape 50 trending podcasts → package insights → cold DM 100 analysts: “Want the best 5 takeaways from Chamath this week without listening to him rant for 90 minutes?”

Stage 2 — Operator Mode

• Auto-ingest: pull from RSS, YouTube, Otter.ai.

• Add tagging (VC, SaaS, biotech, fintech).

• Sell weekly digests at $99/mo. “The top 10 things billionaires accidentally revealed this week.”

Stage 3 — Scaler Mode

• SaaS platform with dashboards + custom alerts: “Ping me if Jensen Huang says ‘chip shortage.’”

• Enterprise GTM: partner with Tegus, maybe even Bloomberg.

• Distribution hack: leak a “What Elon Actually Said” dataset on Twitter. Go viral. Sell subscriptions in the comments.

Why It Needs to Exist
Because the smartest people on the planet are leaking alpha every day into microphones. Right now, those insights are disappearing into the ether, or worse, rotting inside someone’s Notes app.

AI makes it possible to turn that noise into structured intelligence, instantly queryable like Bloomberg for conversations. And in a world where edge = money, the people who can turn chatter into data will always win.

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The Family Dinner Pitch 🍗

Here’s how you know if your startup idea has legs: put it through the Thanksgiving gauntlet.

Not TechCrunch. Not Y Combinator. Not a 40-slide pitch deck.
The real crucible = family dinner.

So let’s run today’s idea - “Bloomberg for podcasts” (AI that mines podcasts/interviews/panels and spits out structured datasets investors and businesses actually use) through the test.

Cousin (finance bro):
“Wait… I’d actually use this. Hedge funds would too. We literally pay interns to sit through 10 hours of earnings calls to catch one line about supply chain headwinds. If I could just type in ‘chip shortage’ and see every CEO mention across the last 6 months? That’s alpha.”

Verdict: Strong nod. If the people who already light cigars with $10k analyst reports want it, you’re onto something.

Dad:
“So you’re recording people’s conversations? Sounds shady. Isn’t that… stealing?”

Verdict: Fair. Data ownership/IP is the dragon here. Podcasts and panels are technically public, but reselling insights at scale? That’s legal gray zone territory. But here’s the trick: gray zones often = business opportunities. Google “scraped the web” to become Google. Clear conscience or clear advantage, choose one.

Grandma:
“As long as it’s not crypto, dear.”

Verdict: Bless her. She doesn’t know what a Bloomberg Terminal is, but she does know she doesn’t trust magic internet money. Framing matters. Don’t sell this as “DeFi data.” Sell it as “making sense of human chatter.” Grandma’s blessing secured.

Mom:
“But is there an app for it?”

Verdict: The mom test always comes down to this: simple packaging. If she can’t picture how it works, you’re sunk. A clean SaaS interface, big search bar, type “AI + logistics,” instant takeaways. Done. No API docs, no Pinecone configs. Just mom-proof simplicity.

Final Call

So where do we land?

Cousin sees dollar signs. Dad smells lawsuits. Grandma shrugs. Mom wants an app icon.

Net takeaway: if your idea can survive Thanksgiving without you flipping the table and storming off, you might just have product-market fit.

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Netflix, gyms, random SaaS you forgot existed, every company makes canceling painful on purpose. What if one app nuked them all instantly, FTC-compliant, and saved you hundreds? That’s not just convenience, that’s righteous revenge as a service.

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Big desserts are out. Bite-sized, aesthetic desserts (think TikTok-worthy 3-bite cheesecakes in tiny boxes) are in. Gen Z would line up for subscription kits of “micro-desserts” they can post, flex, and snack on without guilt. Sugar-meets-status symbol.

Some ideas you laugh at. Some you ignore. But one of these? Might be the one you marry.

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