Jason Scharf

Austin's counterculture is still the ethos. The next chapter is what gets built on top of it. Karen Blashek, the editor-in-chief of Austin Home Magazine, took over a 21-year-old design publication with no editorial background and turned it into one of the city's most consequential platforms for naming what's already happening. We ask why Austin's design talent operates one neighborhood away from its tech talent and neither knows the other exists.

Austin Next EP 178: Revisited: How Specificity in Vertical AI Rewrites Industries | Nick Tippmann, TipTop VC 1× 0:00 Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -1:04:42 -1:04:42 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. EP 178: Revisited: How Specificity in Vertical AI Rewrites Industries | Nick Tippmann, TipTop VC Updated re-release. A year ago we left one question unresolved. Where do foundational AI models end and where do the applications begin?

This was not the episode we planned. Will Johnson, founder and CEO of Gyde, and Alex Cohen, founder and CEO of Hello Patient, came on to talk about innovation in the business of health. Instead it became our off the record conversations, but behind the microphone. An unfiltered field report on what it actually feels like to build a startup in Austin right now. The talent math, hunting for mid-size office space, the venture culture, Austin vs Miami, the press gap, and the political friction.