This week on the channel +1.8M views this week

SpaceX borrowing and everyday annoyances meet on Prof G Markets

Ed Elson brings John Foley and Ronan Farrow into a conversation spanning capital demands, customer friction and AI mathematics.

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Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

SpaceX Raised $111B — It Already Needs More

A discussion of SpaceX's borrowing plans shares an episode with something much closer to home: the everyday difficulty of dealing with companies. That combination made "SpaceX Raised $111B — It Already Needs More" Prof G Markets' most watched new upload, reaching roughly 260,000 views.

Ed Elson asks the Financial Times' John Foley about the company's financing needs and whether its valuation makes sense. Then Ronan Farrow joins him to discuss the "annoyance economy" and legislation aimed at tackling it. Viewers pick up on that phrase, while one singles out Elson's acknowledgment of a prediction he got wrong. The episode closes with his assessment of OpenAI's reported mathematics breakthrough, a subject also given its own shorter clip questioning whether mathematical ability translates into a good business.

AI gets a longer examination with Cal Newport, Georgetown's computer science professor and the author of Deep Work. Their conversation asks what a desirable AI future would look like, whether large language models are the right foundation, and how government should regulate the technology. It came close to the SpaceX episode's audience and is drawing more daily views now.

Across fifteen uploads, the channel added about 2,000 subscribers. Its weekly view gain was the largest among its nearby money-and-business peers, although today's viewing is well below its usual daily level. The newest source of momentum is Elson's Simply Put episode "Fraud Is Booming — Here's Why," which currently draws slightly more daily views than the Newport interview.

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14:00 Credit to Ed for pointing out a prediction that he missed. Very few podcast types have that kind of integrity.
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The annoyance economy is a good name for it.
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I'm sure the market will stop being irrational any minute now.
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