#90: Silicon Valley Unscripted: Billionaires, AI, and Interplanetary Exploration

On this week's episode of More or Less, Jessica, Dave, Sam, and Brit tackle a chaotic week hashing out Waymo’s Peninsula push, Sam’s million-dollar Mars wager with Brit, and YC’s agentic AI craze—fresh from ski season vibes and office debates.

Also on the deck this episode:

• Waymo’s expansion has Jessica ditching Lyft (almost)

• Sam vs. Brit: a million bucks on Mars colonization odds

• TikTok’s sale—Oracle’s in, but ByteDance might still call the shots

• Anthropic’s CEO says AI will write all code soon—engineers aren’t having it.

Plus, recession drums beat louder, Jessica’s tennis mag Racket swings big, and Sam’s still trolling with billboards.

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00:00 Trailer + Introduction

01:46 Sam has another billboard!

04:23 Waymo news

09:12 New space age, flying motorcycles, tech CEOs

14:21 Starlink, rockets, the space war use case

19:56 More or Less bet: humans on Mars by 2040?

24:34 Can this entity afford TikTok?

27:53 Recession? Who cares?

35:32 Startups are recession-proof

42:30 Anthropic and vibe coding

44:55 Billionaire free caltrain

45:29 What's on our Instagram explore pages?

47:42 Tennis magazine