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• Anthropic files its S-1 , AI cracks PHP, OpenAI buys Orchestra Bio

  October 27, 2026 · 36 min

  In this episode of Get the Check, Maya and Priya hold down the fort (RIP Anika) to cover Anthropic finally filing its S-1, AI uncovering a 14-year-old flaw in the code behind ~70% of the internet, and OpenAI acquiring Orchestra Bio. They…

• AI market panic over CoreWeave, Bumble goes private at $1.3B, Modal’s $15B valuation

  October 20, 2026 · 46 min

  In this episode of Get the Check, the pod talks about everyone panicking over the market, Bumble going private for roughly a tenth of its peak valuation, and Modal hitting a $15.75B valuation. A really fun lineup, assuming you haven’t…

• Inside Pie: Co-Founder Nadya Okamoto on IRL and growing an audience of 6M followers

  October 13, 2026 · 46 min

  Nadya Okamoto has built an audience of more than 6 million followers, founded the period care company August, and spent over a decade turning social media audiences into real communities. Now she’s co-founder and CMO of Pie, the social app…

• Inside HackerRank: Founder Vivek Ravisankar on shaping the way companies hire the top engineering talent

  October 9, 2026 · 32 min

  The first time Vivek ever flew internationally, he asked the flight attendant before takeoff, "This is going to San Francisco, right?" He was on his way to a 10-minute Y Combinator interview with PG, Sam, Jessica, Paul Buchheit, and Harj…

• Inside Sentience: Founder Sam Kececi on digital twins that talk like you, not like Claude

  October 6, 2026 · 40 min

  One of Sam Kececi's investors never got pitched by Sam. They found a link to his Sentience, talked to his digital twin over several days, and by the end the investor asked to write a check. Sam (the real version) just had to send the…

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