The Grove is your weekly guide to the best conversations in podcasting — we surface the ideas that actually mattered this week, play the moments worth your time, and point you to the shows worth your subscribe. Hosted by Marcus.
This week, five conversations across five corners of the world — and two more worth your time. Everything is linked below; if one becomes your new favorite show, go subscribe and tell them The Grove sent you.
This week's features
- Putting a Price on the Future — My First Million
Sam Parr & Shaan Puri work through the SpaceX IPO and land on the cleanest version of the bull case: the whole thing is a bet on becoming the low-cost provider of computing power for the world — "the Saudi Arabia of compute," but in space. Episode: "The most simplified breakdown of the SpaceX IPO on the internet."
- The Plumbing Under the Boom — Odd Lots
CoreWeave co-founder Brannin McBee tells Joe Weisenthal & Tracy Alloway what's really bottlenecking the AI buildout — not chips, but "powered shells," transformers, and electricians you can't scale — and why the gap between paper power and billable GPU-hours is the real moat. Episode: "How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now."
- How It's Actually Built — Invest Like the Best
Patrick O'Shaughnessy talks with Clay founder Kareem Amin, who explains explosive growth with almost no jargon: pick three things you truly believe, point everything at them — and then "courage." Episode: "Kareem Amin — The Unusual Approach to Company Building."
- What the System Leaves Behind — Conversations with Tyler
Historian Katja Hoyer on why East Germans still hold almost none of the country's top jobs decades after reunification — not a conspiracy, but the invisible machinery of careerism: "I didn't even have a concept of networking." Episode: "Katja Hoyer on Weimar, the GDR, and the German Character."
- Life in the Clouds? — Science Friday
MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager on why scientists keep asking whether something is alive in Venus's temperate clouds — and the "billion-dollar question" of where you draw the line in chemistry between what nature makes and what only life could. Episode: "Looking for life in the clouds of Venus."
Also worth your time
- Pekingology (CSIS) — what China actually wants from North Korea, and how much leverage it really has.
- The Dwarkesh Podcast — two economists on the strangest question in AI: what stays scarce when intelligence itself becomes cheap.
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