Members of Technical Staff
Welcome to Members of Technical Staff: week-after-week of prestige narration from the hotbed of San Francisco tech culture. Featuring founders, funders, and fanatics, join Jayden (@creatine_cycle) and friends as they chronicle the culture, scandal, and humourlessness of the most important city of the 21st century.
Episodes
22 episodes
🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 Chinese Peptides Made the NYT, with Sina Hartung
So it really is a new year, new me, because I made
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New Year New San Francisco, with Matt Palmer
The world needed another podcast of two single straight dudes giving predictions for 2026, so don’t ask and you shall receive. @mattyp and I covered four key topics with our predictions: San Francisco culture,...
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37:23
🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 Looksmaxxing Into 2026
Looksmaxxing is on the cards for 2026, and that’s something I know a thing or two about. I decided to take on Clavicular at his own game and mog him. I also dropped some caution around Chinese peptides before breaking down different gyms in SF ...
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16:47
2025 Timeline In Review, with Valentina
The X timeline giveth and the X timeline taketh away. From Chinese social media apps to accounts becoming the main character for weeks, the 2025 timeline had it all. Valentina joins me to break down the current thing for each month of 2025. Don...
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Tech Bros Deserve Love Too This Christmas, with Valentina
It's Christmas time and everyone is scrambling to book meetings, close rounds, and decide whether to see their family or go skiing. However, one important thing must be discussed before all the technology brothers take off for the holidays: wha...
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32:15
🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 Cline's Head of AI Was Fired
Woke is back! Was Cline's Head of AI being fired due to VC pressure or a severe miscalculation? I have no idea, but my unemployed ass would never let a good crisis go to waste. In this episode I cover the initial Twitter comment that drew criti...
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Y Combinator Demo Day F25, with Spor
It's the quarterly startup equivalent of the NBA draft, and I was lucky enough to be let in as neither a founder nor an investor. YC Demo Day F25 has come to a close, and I sat down once again with my friend Justin (
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Climber Vs Gym Bro, with Keller Cliffton
Keller joined me on the day his company, Zipline, announced their $150 million contract with the US State Department, which will include $400 million in co-commitments from their African partner governments. Rather than focus on the announcemen...
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32:47
🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 Going Viral For the Wrong Reasons, with Theo Browne
Theo joined me to cover one of the greatest dunks and most brutal ratios X dot com has ever seen at the expense of yours truly. We talked about how a post of Theo's dunking on me took over the app for a day out of nowhere and how this roasting ...
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Intro Culture and Raising Venture Capital, with Paige Finn Doherty
It's raising season, and you know what that means. Young, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed startup founders have flocked to San Francisco for introductions. We cover how to appropriately go about getting introductions, Partiful vs Luma events, Twitter...
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46:24
🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 Girlsgiving, with Madison Kanna
I was lucky enough to sit down with Madison Kanna the day after "The 7 Girls of SF" Thanksgiving party where I was even luckier to be invited as the token straight male. We covered all things vibes, attendance, the timeline and my sexuality.&nb...
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Dating a Founder in SF, with Adam Tazi
The pre-seed, pre-product-market-fit founders in SF deserve love too. We break down why they may or may not be hard to date and talk about the quirks of founder dating in San Francisco specifically. We cover splitting the bill, fly-out culture,...
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The Rise of the Anonymous Tech Twitter Account, with Spor
Not many people know this, but some of the most influential figures in technology today are or once were anonymous Twitter accounts. This conversation explores their rise and the different cultural movements that emerged from them. We covered R...
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Throwing the Perfect San Francisco Party, with Miranda Nover and Valentina Escudero
We threw an absolute rager in San Francisco and it was actually good! This conversation covers how we did it, the ratio, the costumes, the lack of networking, whether people wore their shoes or not and what to think about when trying to throw a...
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The Ghosts Of Silicon Valley, with Will Depue
It’s almost Halloween, so we dressed up as disgraced founders and covered the dead companies and fads of Silicon Valley. This conversation takes a trip down memory lane, starting with the dot-com bubble, moving through the 2010s, the ZIRP era, ...
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37:21
🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 Extropic Hardware Launch, with Gill Verdon
I managed to catch Extropic founder and CEO Guillaume Verdon on launch day for their new thermodynamic computing hardware. We cover all things from benchmarks to bench press and we gain an insight into how the...
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Congratulations On Your Unemployment, with Andi Duro
In San Francisco you are lauded and in New York City you are exiled. This conversation covers being unemployed in the big cities, the different labels the unemployed give themselves for status, and we discuss what it's like to see the unemploye...
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36:57
The Yoked Chads and Staceys of Silicon Valley, with Matt Palmer
The Soylent and Huel meal replacement shakes have been replaced with Fairlifes and energy drinks in FAANG refrigerators and squat racks are being put in pre-seed startup offices. This conversation covers the new found trend of lifting in tech, ...
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36:21
Agentic Workflows and the State of the AI Hype Cycle, with Sam Hogan
The AI hype cycle is in full swing and now agentic workflows are all the rage. From prompt engineering to asking for AGI timelines on dates. This conversation covers the AI hype cycle buzz terms up until this point, what agentic workflows even ...
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32:53
996 and the Rise of The Striver in Silicon Valley, with Turner Novak
Those in Silicon Valley have adopted 996 and you know this because they will simply tell you about it online. From pictures of girlfriends being fired to pictures of laptops are open at the bar. This conversation covers the adoption of 996 in t...
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The Quest for Beauty and the Evolving Tech Bro Stack, with Max Marchione
Those in Silicon Valley now want to be hot and are willing to cut all kinds of corners in order to get there. This conversation covers the evolution of the modern day tech bro wellness stack, how unregulated peptides have become normal among th...
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Fixing the San Francisco Party, with Madison Kanna
While tech-adjacent parties in San Francisco are home to the most powerful social circles on the planet they come with a few negative stereotypes. No shoes, no small talk and no women. This conversation covers the etymology of the San Francisco...
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