Small Time Bets: The Only Annual Podcast

In this special year-end episode, Jonathan and Douglas look into the crystal ball for 2026 before facing the music on their 2025 calls. We’re shaking up the format this year: 2026 Big Bets come first, followed by the definitive marking of last year’s homework. Part 1: The 2026 Predictions 🔮 We break down our high-conviction bets for the year ahead across five key pillars: ​The Markets: Will the m...

Jonathan and Douglas are back with their diamond hands and their crystal balls! Join them for their annual predictions podcast, featuring 12 predictions each for the year ahead and a look back at their 2024 track record. Will they be right again? Tune in and find out!

Jonathan and Douglas check in to see where their 2023 predictions landed; and then look ahead to very specific 2024 predictions covering tech, politics, markets and mashed peas.

This is the trailer and episode 0 for “Tech Back Control”, a podcast about taking back control from technology, using technology.  We're entering into an era where generational disruptions in technology have the potential to shift power back into the hands of the people and the planet. AI is giving super powers to the masses; open digital money is uprooting the legacy financial system; the 3r...

We review our 2022 predictions, see what surprises surfaced along the way and share our 2023 predictions. Also: A Year in the Markets and the equivalent look back and forward in Web3. Links we mentioned: Our Discord: https://discord.gg/9Fktv2u3vu We have a merch store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/smalltimebets/shop Our TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@smalltimebets Our YouTube channel: https:/...

After 5 weeks away Jonathan and Douglas talk ChatGPT, a month of Musk-Twitter, provide a proper summary of FTX, and a roundup of NFT news. Links we mentioned: Making ChatGPT run a fictional chat room: https://twitter.com/gfodor/status/1599233429941686273?t=MC8EmsA3ahzuSXj4wFDqAA&s=09 Making ChatGPT pretend to be Linux: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/openais-new-chatbot-...

Tech is down and crypto is up as rates rise in the US and UK. But 0.75% has different meanings on either side of the Atlantic in our market update. Then this week we go deep on autonomous vehicles because suddenly everyone’s a critic. Triggered by a harmless TechCrunch article. This Week in Crypto looks at Meta’s embrace of arweave for NFTs on Insta; and in NFTs we cover the Meebits MB1.1 relaunch...

We begin with a market update in which tech is down but overall things are up, followed by Twitter boosts Doge, McDonald’s doing well, Chick-fil-A better. Transhumanism is this week’s topic, it mostly means modding your body. We consider some examples and impacts. This Week in Crypto we look at what internet infrastructure web3 might decentralise, but then ask why and how, but also again why? And...

We begin with a crypto market update, amid stocks volatility and with crypto alarmingly low. Solana has an off day, BNB bridge hacked, Celsius doxxes all their users, and ShapeShift decentralises further. In NFTs this week, Apple fees, OpenSea analytics and Anthony Hopkins. Also because we have a soft spot for 10KTF, the latest physical products of Wagmi-san. Links we mentioned: Iconomi copytradin...

Because we’re based in the UK we can’t not talk about the last 45 days. Then it’s this week / month in the markets and whether this is the right time to buy stocks or sell your house or something. We return to the tech beat with a lookback at the following events: Google Pixel 2022, Surface, Meta’s Quest Pro. Then we ask if metaverse hype has any substance. Links we mentioned: Shark cordless vacuu...

This week: algo-curated content, a markets update, the UK’s diminished budget, and Patagonia not for sale. This week in crypto the SEC claims jurisdiction and in NFTs the season one finale of 10KTF. Links we mentioned: The podcast Your Undivided Attention on TikTok: https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/bonus-addressing-the-tiktok-threat A far infrared heating panel by Kiasa: https://amzn.to/3RbzgKo...

This week, bad tech. How hyperloop, Starship international flights and Elon’s tunnels just make zero sense, as much as we want them to. Also a 170km long city in Saudi - The Line. After a markets update, the Merge! How it went, what’s next for ethereum. Do Kwan’s arrest, OFAC clarification on Tornado Cash, and Wall St launches a centralised crypto exchange. In NFTs, Starbucks announces Odyssey NFT...

Some opening remarks on the Queen, duty and continuity. Then this week, getting through the winter: with storage heaters, radiator insulation, Bitcoin mining, infrared wallpaper, zero emission boilers. Energy price caps and unintended consequences. The Apple Special Event: Severance, Apple Watch, Ultra, iPhone 14 camera, Satellite SOS, the Apple “make nothing bad happen” proposition, Dynamic Islan...

This week is an AMA on: if the Apple premium is worth it, electric vehicles vs the grid, the Inverse Kramer ETF; and where to put savings at a time like this. After a markets update we cover crypto AMA questions including: partners’ attitudes to crypto, which centralised exchanges are okay, best and worst ever investments, the DYDX bot test; and will ethereum drop post merge. We close with NFTs an...

This week we talk food production and try to make sense of a world where obesity and food waste sit alongside food banks, shortages and riots. Today’s grain mostly comes from four companies. It’s abundant, subsidised and cheaper than the alternative, but it depletes our soil, decimates diversity; and producing food accounts for nearly a quarter of global GHG emissions. Are lab-grown meat and carbs...

Back after 6 weeks we talk fast and cover lots. Upsets in US and UK politics against a backdrop of rising energy prices, inflation, strikes and recession. Meanwhile Samsung releases more folding phones and Jonathan got a Steam Deck. In Crypto and the Markets, we unpick the 10% stocks rally and ask if the Merge will boost Ethereum prices. The US Treasury’s shutdown of Tornado Cash is the main news...

Electric vehicles past, present, future - and what this means for car manufacturers. What of hydrogen? Who wins self-driving? And what’s Apple up to? In Crypto and the Markets: Winter. How long does this last and what might Spring look like? Also the underwhelming metaverse and an EU regulatory milestone. In NFTs this week we use a cork board plus some string to identify the key players in NFT. An...

The end of VC-subsidised perks like cheap Ubers and half price groceries now that money isn’t cheap anymore, also the sub-15 minute delivery segment. Then in Crypto & the Markets we ask how long this low lasts. Also: a Solana phone. In NFTs this week, NYC roundup, two 10KTF surprises, eBay buys into NFTs, as does Uniswap. Doodle partners with Pharrell Williams for Doodles Records. We ask whether e...

Tale of two AIs, DALL·E 2 vs LaMDA, the question of sentience. A brutal week in the markets, we know. Celsius, 3AC and the risk of contagion from CeFi into DeFi (and further). Winter, the market cap of crypto, A16Z powering through. NYC NFT conference coming up and which projects will make it. Links we mentioned: Our Discord: https://discord.gg/9Fktv2u3vu Curated wardrobe selections from Stitch Fi...

WWDC chat, with extra on CarPlay, Continuity Camera, Passkey and Apple Pay Later. In Crypto & Markets, ethereum long term, inflation, A16Z’s 4th crypto fund, regulatory developments x 3, and HOP airdrop. We greet NFT winter and take note of Goblins and MeeKicks before closing out with “NFT or The Tiger Who Came to Tea”. Links we mentioned: Our Discord: https://discord.gg/9Fktv2u3vu Mark Andreessen...

This week in our first interview we are joined by Finance bigwig and friend of the pod, Andrew Hamilton. We discuss the outlook for the global economy, how do you solve a problem like inflation, taxing big oil, Elon’s super bad feeling; and then a deep dive on the world of luxury watches with parallels to the NFT market. Links we mentioned: Our Discord: https://discord.gg/9Fktv2u3vu

What’s the Blockbuster of our time? On hotels, car manufacturers, journalism, publishing, Intel. And is Facebook Yahoo yet? In Crypto / Markets a pretty dire week, and it’s a pattern, also Vitalik’s contradictions. NFT news of Meebit shoes, thinking through Otherside land and we close out with “NFT or The Tiger Who Came to Tea” Links we mentioned: Our Discord: https://discord.gg/9Fktv2u3vu A woode...

Google I/O, the pixel watch, the AR glasses, a wallet again. Then in Crypto and the Markets a rough week post CPI and UST, a wider view, and Coinbase may be underpriced. We go deep on Luna / Terra and regulatory blowback. An actual Ethereum movie planned, directed by Ridley Scott. Also “Layer 2 Summer”. In NFTs: Instagram, Lego/Sony/Epic, a short-domain-names club, Ape land update, 10KTF’s first m...

Amazon does Shopify with free shipping, the world’s primary world-maker Unreal 5. Then a markets and crypto update, Meta’s metaverse losses, Apple bobs but Amazon falls, Optimism’s airdrop, a defi mortgage based on credit score. In NFTs, the Ape land sale and Instagram phishing. “How Do I Crypto” covers stablecoins this week. And we close with a new game, “Cryptic or Quick-trick” Links we mentione...

Twitter vs Elon again, and the aspired global town square and how to build it. Then in crypto and the markets: Netflix, inflation, ethereum merge delay. In NFTs this week: Coinbase finally, Meta’s NFT fees, Niantic’s AR pets, MoonBirds land, NBA set to reinvent fantasy sports; and 10KTF unmasks what immersive means. We close as ever with CrytoPunk or CryptoFunk Links we mentioned: Our Discord: htt...