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  • Bob Lee Part 5: Tech vs. San Francisco

    May 7, 2026 · 38 min

    With Nima Momeni convicted of second degree murder, the media storm around Bob Lee faded. Reporter Shawn Wen tries to make sense of the widespread fascination with Lee’s death. She looks to the period before his death, when San Francisco…

  • Bob Lee Part 4: The Made-for-TV Murder Trial

    April 30, 2026 · 50 min

    Nima Momeni's trial for murdering Bob Lee began in October 2024. Lee's killing, no longer a stand-in for random street crime, no longer fit neatly into the political zeitgeist. Instead, the tabloids latched onto the story for its salacious…

  • Bob Lee Part 3: The Brilliant Programmer and a Lot of Wild Living

    April 23, 2026 · 39 min

    Weeks after his death, Bob Lee’s toxicology report was released, indicating that he had alcohol, cocaine, and ketamine in his system. While his killing no longer fit neatly with the San Francisco Doom Loop narrative, a new story emerged…

  • Bob Lee Part 2: The Brother Did It

    April 16, 2026 · 48 min

    Nine days after Bob Lee was found stabbed in San Francisco, police arrested Nima Momeni for his murder. Desperate to squash the ‘Doom Loop’ narrative, San Francisco officials insisted that Bob Lee was killed by someone he knew, a fellow…

  • Bob Lee Part 1: San Francisco Has Blood On Its Hands

    April 16, 2026 · 37 min

    Three years ago, Bob Lee, a tech executive famous for creating Cash App, was found stabbed in San Francisco. His killing set off a wave of online fury. Reporter Shawn Wen takes us back to the turbulent days before his killer was arrested…

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  • Foundering: The Killing of Bob Lee (Trailer)

    April 14, 2026 · 2 min

    Three years ago, Bob Lee, a tech executive best known for creating Cash App, was found stabbed in the streets of San Francisco. His killing set off a wave of online fury. Rumors and misinformation ran rampant. Several tech industry leaders…

  • OpenAI Part 5: Beware the Ides of November

    June 27, 2024 · 48 min

    Right as Sam Altman was at the peak of his success, touring the world to espouse the virtues of AI, his board turned on him. Altman was unceremoniously fired. OpenAI’s coup is a story of secrets, betrayal, employee revolt and Altman’s…

  • OpenAI Part 4: Heaven and Hell, Part 2

    June 20, 2024 · 22 min

    It’s widely predicted that AI will upend the economy and threaten many existing jobs. Sam Altman, in trying to stay ahead of public fears of mass unemployment, has offered universal basic income as a solution. He also has envisioned an AI…

  • OpenAI Part 3: Heaven and Hell, Part 1

    June 13, 2024 · 32 min

    A group of high-level early employees who had glimpsed the fluidity and power of the technology behind ChatGPT left OpenAI to start a new company. Their exit sparked concerns that OpenAI is not prioritizing safety. Meanwhile, the success…

  • OpenAI Part2: Ilya Dreams of AGI

    June 6, 2024 · 35 min

    OpenAI employees were motivated by the dream of building an artificial general intelligence, which could think and solve problems like a human mind. In reality, they sometimes spent their days building bots that played video games. But new…

  • OpenAI Part 1: The Most Silicon Valley Man Alive

    June 6, 2024 · 39 min

    Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, shot to tech stardom with the release of ChatGPT. His company is one of the most valuable startups in the world, and he is treated like an ambassador for the AI future, zipping around the globe, meeting with…

  • Foundering: The OpenAI Story (Trailer)

    May 30, 2024 · 2 min

    The biggest story in tech is artificial intelligence, and the biggest story in AI is OpenAI. The company’s rapid progress and blazingly popular consumer products like ChatGPT have pushed tech giants to dump billions of dollars into an AI…

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Foundering is an award-winning, serialized podcast from the journalists at Bloomberg Technology. Each season, Foundering brings you inside a different high-stakes drama from the technology industry, where its companies are wielding unprecedented capital and power.