Exponential: A Nexus Podcast

In Episode 6 of Exponential , Dylan Zhang, co-founder and CEO of Pond, joins us to unpack a fast-emerging frontier: helping early-stage AI startups launch, scale, and find product-market fit through a new kind of internet-native capital platform. At a time when AI tooling is accelerating and the barriers to launching new products are dropping, Pond is building infrastructure for what comes next —...

As the Web3 space matures, projects are rethinking how to grow and sustain communities. In Episode 5 of Exponential , Zach Heerwagen, co-founder and CEO of Snag, joined us to explore how “questing” is emerging as a powerful mechanism for aligning users, incentives, and long-term network health. Zach defines questing as Web3’s take on loyalty. In traditional business models, loyalty is mostly trans...

In the fourth episode of Exponential , Samuel Judson — head of zkVM engineering at Nexus — joins the show to unpack the science, strategy, and systems thinking behind zero-knowledge cryptography.  Sam brings a rare combination of perspectives: part mathematician, part systems engineer, and deeply attuned to the social and regulatory dimensions of cryptographic technology.  This primer-style episod...

In Episode 3 of Exponential , we sat down with Nexus Chief Strategy Officer Alex Fowler for a conversation about the forces shaping the next era of the internet. With a career that spans bioethics, early cryptographic policy, and consumer technology, Alex brings a rare combination of philosophical grounding and technical experience to one of the most urgent questions of our time: as machines begin...

The rapid expansion of AI systems has ignited a fundamental question: How do humans stay meaningfully involved as intelligent software grows more capable, autonomous, and ubiquitous? The second episode of Exponential: A Nexus Podcast features Jordan Gray, co-founder of PublicAI , a startup working to ensure human participation remains central to the future of artificial intelligence.  In a wide-ra...

What if you could hear the future being built—one idea, one insight, one proof at a time? We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Exponential , a new Nexus podcast about the people, code, and capital shaping the frontier of technology. Each episode features conversations with founders, engineers, and thinkers working at the edge of what’s possible—from cryptography and AI to systems design and ec...