Members of Technical Staff
Welcome to Members of Technical Staff: week-after-week of prestige narration from the hotbed of San Francisco tech culture. Featuring founders, funders, and fanatics, join Jayden (@creatine_cycle) and friends as they chronicle the culture, scandal, and humourlessness of the most important city of the 21st century.
Episodes
29 episodes
Gym Bro vs Bio Bro: Peptide Edition, with Max Marchione
I wouldn't get used to polished MOTS but I figured what better way to announce a @superpower partnership than to bring in some cameras and microphones and have a super serious debate on peptides and looksm...
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41:04
The State of X Dot Com, with Roon
I turned @tszzl into an ominous gray blob as we sat down with dearest @sofi_a and @baelentina_ to discuss the state of X Dot Com the ev...
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36:08
Training with Navy Seals, with Blackbox
I took a trip to the salesforce tower to talk to the @blackboxai guys about the leaning Millennium Tower behind us, training regiments of navy seals and pushups in this MOTS extra.Watch on
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18:09
Can a Psychic with LLMs Predict My Future? with Gillian Obrien
Today is the day everyone finally finds out my sexuality using the power of tarot and LLMs. Dearest psychic Gillian Obrien joins to me facilitate the prediction of my future and I welcome Blackbox AI and Zo Computer to the MOTS mafia.Wat...
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25:06
🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 xAI Engineer Fired for Podcasting?
Another day another current thing in the niche San Francisco technology culture. Was Sulaiman Khan Ghori, a former xAI engineer fired for podcasting or was this some sort of grand exit? If he was fired, did he release xAI secrets or did ...
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16:34
The Real Perception of AI, with Anton Troynikov
While AI is eating the world, it turns out that most people don’t actually like that idea, and current messaging around AI is on track to make things worse. What are AI vibes like in places outside of San Francisco? Does the layperson see produ...
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Navigating the SF Social Scene as a Straight Dude
I booked a $1k-a-night hotel room and, instead of feeling the touch of a woman, I decided to talk to myself on camera for nearly 40 minutes. Anyway, the San Francisco social scene. Is X the key to the city? Is it worth going to networking event...
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36:58
🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 Chinese Peptides Made the NYT, with Sina Hartung
So it really is a new year, new me, because I made
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33:51
New Year New San Francisco, with Matt Palmer
The world needed another podcast of two single straight dudes giving predictions for 2026, so don’t ask and you shall receive. @mattyp and I covered four key topics with our predictions: San Francisco culture,...
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37:23
🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 Looksmaxxing Into 2026
Looksmaxxing is on the cards for 2026, and that’s something I know a thing or two about. I decided to take on Clavicular at his own game and mog him. I also dropped some caution around Chinese peptides before breaking down different gyms in SF ...
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16:47
2025 Timeline In Review, with Valentina
The X timeline giveth and the X timeline taketh away. From Chinese social media apps to accounts becoming the main character for weeks, the 2025 timeline had it all. Valentina joins me to break down the current thing for each month of 2025. Don...
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47:57
Tech Bros Deserve Love Too This Christmas, with Valentina
It's Christmas time and everyone is scrambling to book meetings, close rounds, and decide whether to see their family or go skiing. However, one important thing must be discussed before all the technology brothers take off for the holidays: wha...
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32:15
🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 Cline's Head of AI Was Fired
Woke is back! Was Cline's Head of AI being fired due to VC pressure or a severe miscalculation? I have no idea, but my unemployed ass would never let a good crisis go to waste. In this episode I cover the initial Twitter comment that drew criti...
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18:01
Y Combinator Demo Day F25, with Spor
It's the quarterly startup equivalent of the NBA draft, and I was lucky enough to be let in as neither a founder nor an investor. YC Demo Day F25 has come to a close, and I sat down once again with my friend Justin (
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36:14
Climber Vs Gym Bro, with Keller Cliffton
Keller joined me on the day his company, Zipline, announced their $150 million contract with the US State Department, which will include $400 million in co-commitments from their African partner governments. Rather than focus on the announcemen...
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32:47
🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 Going Viral For the Wrong Reasons, with Theo Browne
Theo joined me to cover one of the greatest dunks and most brutal ratios X dot com has ever seen at the expense of yours truly. We talked about how a post of Theo's dunking on me took over the app for a day out of nowhere and how this roasting ...
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24:18
Intro Culture and Raising Venture Capital, with Paige Finn Doherty
It's raising season, and you know what that means. Young, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed startup founders have flocked to San Francisco for introductions. We cover how to appropriately go about getting introductions, Partiful vs Luma events, Twitter...
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46:24
🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 Girlsgiving, with Madison Kanna
I was lucky enough to sit down with Madison Kanna the day after "The 7 Girls of SF" Thanksgiving party where I was even luckier to be invited as the token straight male. We covered all things vibes, attendance, the timeline and my sexuality.&nb...
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20:59
Dating a Founder in SF, with Adam Tazi
The pre-seed, pre-product-market-fit founders in SF deserve love too. We break down why they may or may not be hard to date and talk about the quirks of founder dating in San Francisco specifically. We cover splitting the bill, fly-out culture,...
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46:02
The Rise of the Anonymous Tech Twitter Account, with Spor
Not many people know this, but some of the most influential figures in technology today are or once were anonymous Twitter accounts. This conversation explores their rise and the different cultural movements that emerged from them. We covered R...
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45:47
Throwing the Perfect San Francisco Party, with Miranda Nover and Valentina Escudero
We threw an absolute rager in San Francisco and it was actually good! This conversation covers how we did it, the ratio, the costumes, the lack of networking, whether people wore their shoes or not and what to think about when trying to throw a...
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33:00
The Ghosts Of Silicon Valley, with Will Depue
It’s almost Halloween, so we dressed up as disgraced founders and covered the dead companies and fads of Silicon Valley. This conversation takes a trip down memory lane, starting with the dot-com bubble, moving through the 2010s, the ZIRP era, ...
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37:21
🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 Extropic Hardware Launch, with Gill Verdon
I managed to catch Extropic founder and CEO Guillaume Verdon on launch day for their new thermodynamic computing hardware. We cover all things from benchmarks to bench press and we gain an insight into how the...
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9:55
Congratulations On Your Unemployment, with Andi Duro
In San Francisco you are lauded and in New York City you are exiled. This conversation covers being unemployed in the big cities, the different labels the unemployed give themselves for status, and we discuss what it's like to see the unemploye...
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36:57
The Yoked Chads and Staceys of Silicon Valley, with Matt Palmer
The Soylent and Huel meal replacement shakes have been replaced with Fairlifes and energy drinks in FAANG refrigerators and squat racks are being put in pre-seed startup offices. This conversation covers the new found trend of lifting in tech, ...
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