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Going Direct Conversations

Jordan Wolfe

Going Direct explores the decentralization of the real economy and how new technologies can bring us closer to the products we buy and the people who make them. goingdirect.substack.com

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76 episodes

  1. #80 Ben O’Hanlon: The Intelligence Revolution Will Be Decentralized 1:02:21
  2. #79 Douglas Rushkoff: Remaining Human In The AI Age 1:08:42
  3. #78 Ben Cartwright: The Second Life of AI Hardware Will Become a Big Market 1:07:51
  4. #77 Nikhil Gupta: Mining Isn't the Chokepoint. Refining Is. 54:39
  5. #76 Mollie Claypool: Building Affordable Housing That’s Beautiful. 59:40
  6. #75 Tom Joseph: The Real Gatekeepers Of American Primary Elections 1:04:26
  7. #74 Sue Helper: Re-industrialization Starts With Coherent Strategy 1:02:29
  8. #73 Inside Going Direct: Gen Z vs Millennial Debate On The Future Of Work 1:05:00
  9. #72 Rajat Bhageria: The Only Thing Keeping American Food Onshore Is Robot Labor 58:56
  10. #71 Maria Intscher-Owrang: Pour It, Mold It, Wear It - A New Way To Make Clothing In America 58:31
  11. #70 Avalo: Using AI To Build A New Deal For American Farmers 1:09:44
  12. #69 Kat Scott: First They Laugh, Then They Fight, Then You Win, Open-Source Robotics 1:05:17
  13. #68 Fabien Cros: Decentralized AI Is Winning Inside the Enterprise 1:06:07
  14. #67 Roya Amini-Naieni: Building the Self-Driving Biology Lab 1:00:59
  15. #66 Tom Chi: The Capitalist Case for Cleaning Up Industry 1:03
  16. #65 Jay Acunzo: Storytelling & Becoming Irreplaceable in the Age of AI 1:04:15
  17. #64 Simon Owens: Business Of Content, $100 Billion Middlemen, & Future of Media 58:53
  18. #63 Duncan Young: Jobs Are Dead. Long Live The $10 Million Niche. 1:12:58
  19. #62 Brian Morrissey: The Great Decentralization of Media & New Media Energy 1:01:30
  20. #61 INSIDE GOING DIRECT: What, “Going Direct” Actually Means 2:09:10
  21. #60 Aleks Gampel: America Needs High Quality, Affordable Homes 48:07
  22. #59 Will Fry: The Great Wealth Transfer And Saving Small Business Ownership in America 1:03:30
  23. #58 Aaron Feigelman: A New Model for Food Distribution in America 1:05:28
  24. #57 Scott Porter: America Runs on This $80 Billion Industry 1:08:31
  25. #56 Andra Keay: 5 Ethical Laws of Robotics & The Future of Automation 53:30
  26. #55 Toby Shorin: Financialization & The Death Of Culture 1:06:07
  27. #54 Saman Farid: America Doesn’t Have a Robot Problem. It Has a Deployment Problem. 1:04:23
  28. #53 Jan Liphardt: The Battle Over Who Controls The Robots 1:12:46
  29. #52 Meta Prime: Rebuilding The Social Structure in America 1:15:56
  30. #51 Sam Lessin: A VC’s Take On Why Decentralization Is Inevitable 55:01
  31. #50 Onye Ahanotu: Reinventing The World’s Oldest Wine 49:52
  32. #49 Oren Falkowitz: Moving The Farm, Not The Food 1:02:42
  33. #48 Brett Bivens: Production Capital For The New Industrial Age 1:13:53
  34. #47 Andy Hunter: Anti-Amazon Tech Platform Reviving Independent Bookstores 1:08:09
  35. #46 INSIDE GOING DIRECT: Diving Into Industrial Bio-manufacturing 1:00:38
  36. #45 Kary Bheemaiah: Robotics Hype vs. Reality 1:04:35
  37. #44 Nic Radford: The Case For Industrial Humanoid Robots 1:02:47
  38. #43 Chris Paxton & Michael Cho: Robopapers And Future Of Robot Learning 58:40
  39. #42 Alan Perlstein: Reinventing Chocolate Production 1:00:44
  40. #41 Jenny Kan: Investing In The Future Of Bio-manufacturing 55:23
  41. October 2025 Recap Show 5:36
  42. #40 INSIDE GOING DIRECT: Building The Going Direct Economy 57:15
  43. #39 Liz Muller: Micro Nuclear Energy Reactors; Powering The AI Boom 52:42
  44. #38 Karol Hausman & Kevin Black: Building A Brain For Any Robot | AI Eating The Physical World 1:08:46
  45. September 2025 Recap Show 6:23
  46. #37 INSIDE GOING DIRECT: AI, Robotics, & Decentralizing Our Economy 1:12:38
  47. #36 Gaurab Chakrabarti: Breaking the Chemicals Monopoly; Re-Industrializing America 53:57
  48. #35 IGD: Gen Z’s Fight Against Gatekeepers & Centralization 58:02
  49. #34 Jamie Gull: From SpaceX to VC; Investing In The Next Industrial Revolution 58:27
  50. #33 INSIDE GOING DIRECT: Capitalism in America vs Europe - Part 2 1:05:18