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July 25, 2025

Austin's Tech Ambitions

From our episode "Can AI Really 2X Output and Break Legacy Business Models? | Dru Armstrong, AffiniPay CEO" #Austin #Innovation #Startups #innovationecosystem

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July 24, 2025

The Billable Hour is Golden Handcuffs

From our episode "Can AI Really 2X Output and Break Legacy Business Models? | Dru Armstrong, AffiniPay CEO" #LegalTech, #GenerativeAI, #ProfessionalServices

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July 23, 2025

Can AI Disrupt Billable Hours?

From our episode "Can AI Really 2X Output and Break Legacy Business Models? | Dru Armstrong, AffiniPay CEO"

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July 23, 2025

Ep 160: Can AI Really 2X Output and Break Legacy Business Models? | Dru Armstrong, AffiniPay CEO

How do 100X engineers, cheap development, and AI-everywhere workflows flip slow-moving industries and legacy business models? AffiniPay CEO Dru Armstrong joins to discuss how vertical fintech and generative AI reshape professional services, power the next small-business software stack, and accelerate Austin’s climb into the top five tech cities. Highlights 00:00…

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July 21, 2025

Designing Ecosystems Means Designing Narratives

A clip from our episode "Design vs Slop | John Roescher, Raw Materials" #EcosystemDesign #InnovationNarrative #StartupCommunities #CityBuilding #IntentionalDesign #AustinNext

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July 18, 2025

You Can’t Design the Outcome, Only the Conditions

A clip from our episode "Design vs Slop | John Roescher, Raw Materials" #DesignThinking #InnovationStrategy #IntentionalDesign #StartupCulture #UXDesign #AustinNext

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July 17, 2025

Creativity is the Counter to AI Slop

A clip from our episode "Design vs Slop | John Roescher, Raw Materials" #GenerativeAI, #Design, #Creativity, #DesignThinking, #AI, #AustinNext

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July 16, 2025

Ep 159: Design vs Slop | John Roescher, Raw Materials

We live in an age of unprecedented creative tools, from generative AI and design platforms to open access to code, capital, and talent. Joining this episode is John Roescher, Founder and CEO of Raw Materials, the design firm behind the public-facing strategies of Anduril, Saronic, and Meta, to explore why…

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July 14, 2025

Up Next on Austin Next: Design vs Slop

Get a sneak peek of our episode "Design vs Slop | John Roescher, Raw Materials" #Design #StartupCulture #InnovationEcosystem #GenerativeAI #AustinNext

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July 12, 2025

$5M is a Biotech Win; CPG needs $50M

A clip from our episode "Fungi, Coffee, and Diapers | Tero Isokauppila, Four Sigmatic & HIRO" #AustinNext, #CPG, #Biotech, #StartupFunding, #VentureCapital

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July 11, 2025

Fungi: Ancient, Adaptable, Everywhere

A clip from our episode "Fungi, Coffee, and Diapers | Tero Isokauppila, Four Sigmatic & HIRO" #Fungi, #Biotech, #NatureTech, #AustinNext, #EnvironmentalInnovation

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July 10, 2025

Why Tech and CPG Stay Separate in Austin

A clip from our episode "Fungi, Coffee, and Diapers| Tero Isokauppila, Four Sigmatic & HIRO" #AustinNext, #CPG, #TechEcosystem, #ConsumerBrands, #StartupCulture

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July 9, 2025

EP 158: Fungi, Coffee, and Diapers | Tero Isokauppila, Four Sigmatic & HIRO

Mushrooms, coffee, and diapers. It’s not the start of weird joke, but the the innovation arc of Tero Isokauppila, one of the most uniquely disruptive founders at the convergence of bio and consumer goods. From building the $2B mushroom coffee category at Four Sigmatic to launching HIRO, the world’s first…

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July 7, 2025

Up Next on Austin Next: Fungi, Coffee, Diapers

Tero Isokauppila (@ImTero ) helped create a $2B mushroom coffee category. Now he's building fungi that can digest plastic. And he joins the next episode of Austin Next. #AustinNext #Biotech #CPG #FungiTech #mushroom

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June 30, 2025

Austin Attracts the Cowboy Class

A clip from our episode "Live from Health Supernova: Austin’s Rise as a Bio & Health Frontier Powerhouse" #InnovationCulture #FounderMindset #AustinFrontier #BuildOutsideTheSystem

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June 29, 2025

How Austin Could Eradicate Heart Attacks

A clip from our episode "Live from Health Supernova: Austin’s Rise as a Bio & Health Frontier Powerhouse" #PreventiveHealth #DigitalHealth #BioTech #PublicHealth

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June 27, 2025

Austin's Bio & Health Tech Boom

A clip from our episode "Live from Health Supernova: Austin’s Rise as a Bio & Health Frontier Powerhouse" #AustinTech #BioInnovation #HealthTechEcosystem #FutureOfHealth

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June 25, 2025

Regulating the Future with PDFs

A clip from our episode "Live from Health Supernova: Austin’s Rise as a Bio & Health Frontier Powerhouse" #InnovationPolicy #HealthcareReform #FutureOfRegulation #HealthTech

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June 24, 2025

Austin’s Bio & Health Frontier Is Rising

A clip from our episode "Live from Health Supernova: Austin’s Rise as a Bio & Health Frontier Powerhouse" #FutureOfHealth #InnovationEcosystem #AustinNext #BuildTheFuture

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June 24, 2025

EP 157: Live from Health Supernova - Austin’s Rise as a Bio & Health Frontier Powerhouse

What does it mean to build the future of Bio & Health at the frontier, and why is Austin the place to do it? Recorded live at Health Supernova, this episode explores the deep structural shifts underway in bio, health, and tech. From trillion-dollar ambitions to FDA bottlenecks, from digital-first…

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June 23, 2025

Austin Isn’t the Next Silicon Valley. It’s the Frontier.

Austin is Rising This is What’s Next. Subscribe. #Austin #Innovation #FutureOfTech #Podcast #Startups #Tech

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June 23, 2025

What Is Austin Next?

#Austin #Innovation #AustinNext Austin is rising. Austin Next chronicles and amplifies the region's transformation into the next mythic innovation ecosystem. This isn't a news show. I'm not a journalist. We're exploring, theorizing, and shaping the future through tech, innovation, capital, and culture. Subscribe to see What's Next! #TechPodcast #StartupEcosystem #InnovationEcosystem

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June 23, 2025

Why Texas Is Winning the Bitcoin Race

A clip from our episode "Bitcoin and the Future of American Power | Brian Morgenstern, Riot Platforms" #Texas #Bitcoin #Bitcoinming #Energy #AI #AustinNext

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June 21, 2025

Why Bitcoin is National Security Infrastructure

A clip from our episode "Bitcoin and the Future of American Power | Brian Morgenstern, Riot Platforms" #Bitcoin #NationalSecurity #DigitalInfrastructure #Geopolitics #Resilience #AustinNext

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