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A show about the winding journeys the world's most interesting people take to becoming great—and what they do when figuring out a question we all face: What's Next? Because before you launch at Zero, you have to figure out what to launch at Minus One. Hosted by South Park Commons Partner Aditya Agarwal and members of the SPC community.

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Trae Stephens, cofounder of Anduril Industries and Partner at Founders Fund, joins South Park Commons Partner Aditya Agarwal to discuss his journey from working in government intelligence to helping build some of the most ambitious companies in tech ... more

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Sergey Levine, cofounder of Physical Intelligence, joins South Park Commons Partner Aditya Agarwal to discuss the race to build general-purpose robots that can learn new skills and operate in environments they've never encountered before.

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Dmitri Dolgov, co-CEO of Waymo, joins South Park Commons Partners Aditya Agarwal and Ruchi Sanghvi to discuss the 17-year journey from early self-driving experiments to putting fully autonomous cars on public roads.

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Helmy Eltoukhy, CEO of Guardant Health, joins South Park Commons Partner Mark Jacobstein to discuss his journey from electrical engineering to building one of the leading companies in cancer diagnostics.

They talk about Guardant’s path from liquid b... more

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Trae Stephens
Cofounder of Anduril Industries and Partner at Founders Fund
Anduril Industries
Episode: What Nobody Tells You About Building Defense Tech Companies | Trae Stephens
Sergey Levine
Cofounder of Physical Intelligence and professor at UC Berkeley
Physical Intelligence
Episode: How Close Are We to Robots That Can Do Anything? | Sergey Levine, Physical Intelligence
Dmitri Dolgov
Co-CEO of Waymo
Waymo
Episode: How Waymo Made Self-Driving Cars a Reality | Dmitri Dolgov, Co-CEO
Helmy Eltoukhy
Co-CEO and Chairman of Guardant Health, pioneer in molecular diagnostics
Guardant Health
Episode: The Blood Test That Could Detect Thousands of Diseases | Helmy Eltoukhy, Guardant Health
Sridhar Ramaswamy
CEO of Snowflake, former Google executive
Snowflake
Episode: The Secret Superpower of Great Founders | Sridhar Ramaswamy (Snowflake CEO)
Tom McGrath
Co-founder of the interpretability team at DeepMind; co-founder of Goodfire
Goodfire
Episode: What Is Reward Hacking and Can We Stop It? | Tom McGrath, Goodfire
Thariq Shihipar
Anthropic engineer, on Claude Code and the future of coding with AI
Anthropic
Episode: Anthropic Engineer on the Future of Coding with AI | Thariq Shihipar
Shubhanshu Shukla
Indian astronaut and fighter pilot, second Indian to go to space in 41 years
ISRO / Indian Space Research Organisation
Episode: The Man Who Took India to the International Space Station | Shubhanshu Shukla
Nato Saichek
Co-founder and CTO of Longshot Space
Longshot Space
Episode: Minus One to Space Gun | Nato Saichek

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Aditya Agarwal
Partner at South Park Commons

Reviews

4.5 out of 5 stars from 25 ratings
  • Dumb host

    Guy tried to sound smart, but he's extremely mid

    Apple Podcasts
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    JJkollins
    United States8 months ago
  • Very interesting!

    Loved the comparison of the few moments before a race, and the minus one stage of launching a new business.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    BeckaBSN
    United States2 years ago
  • Wow

    Inspiring!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Ditzikow
    United States2 years ago

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What Nobody Tells You About Building Defense Tech Companies | Trae Stephens
Q: What made you transition from being an operator to an investor?
After a difficult six years at Palantir, Stephens was recruited by Peter Thiel to join Founders Fund. Stephens initially knew little about venture capital and was unsure why Thiel wanted him to make the move.
What Nobody Tells You About Building Defense Tech Companies | Trae Stephens
Q: What's your organizing framework for how to think about good quests and ideas worth working on?
Stephens says a good quest finds the founder: the best companies often start when someone becomes deeply obsessed with a problem, rather than deciding to become an entrepreneur and searching for an idea.
How Close Are We to Robots That Can Do Anything? | Sergey Levine, Physical Intelligence
Q: What are your latest views on either the scarcity or perhaps actually relative abundance of data for robotics?
Levine argues that robots operating in the physical world could eventually generate far more useful data than is available online. The challenge is bootstrapping enough deployment, with human interventions and later robot autonomy contributing to learning.
How Close Are We to Robots That Can Do Anything? | Sergey Levine, Physical Intelligence
Q: What is the key ingredient that unlocked the capability and generalization from Pi Zero to Pi 0.5?
Levine points to the right data and the ability to understand complex instructions by breaking them into steps. Pi 0.5 added an internal reasoning component that plans subtasks before grounding them into robot actions.
How Waymo Made Self-Driving Cars a Reality | Dmitri Dolgov, Co-CEO
Q: What were the key milestones that moved Waymo from a demonstration to large-scale operations?
Milestones included the 100,000 autonomous miles and 10 complete Bay Area routes with no human intervention, which forced comprehensive hardening of the entire stack and operational readiness for broader deployment.

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What is Minus One about and what kind of topics does it cover?

Long-form conversations about the uncertain stretch before a major venture takes shape, and the decisions that turn an idea into a company, product or new field of work. Regular host Aditya Agarwal speaks with founders, senior technology leaders, researchers and other people with first-hand experience of building ambitious projects. Their stories connect personal career turns with practical questions about product strategy, hiring, company culture, fundraising, technical execution and what to build next. Recent conversations range across artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous vehicles, healthcare, cybersecurity and space technology, with an emphasis on how emerging technologies move from research or early experiments into real-world ... more

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