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The Silicon Valley Insider Show with Keith Koo

The Silicon Valley Insider Show with Keith Koo

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Discover the latest information on ’what’s hot’ in the digital world, best practices and big concepts for innovation, disruption and pivoting in the Silicon Valley. Features: Innovation | Cyber Risk & Security | Bitcoin & Blockchain | Cross - Border Business | Silicon Valley Insider airs AM 1220 KDOW and 860 AM KTRB The Answer in the Silicon Valley / San Francisco Bay Area.

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  • The SpaceX IPO: How a Banker Reads the Largest Offering in History

    The SpaceX IPO: How a Banker Reads the Largest Offering in History
    Jun 19 2026

    Last week, SpaceX priced the largest IPO in stock market history — $135 per share, a $75 billion raise, a $1.75 trillion valuation, trading on Nasdaq as SPCX. Most coverage is a space story. This episode is a capital markets story.

    Keith Koo, Founder and Host of Silicon Valley Insider® and Vice President at U.S. Capital, an international investment bank, opens the prospectus the way a banker would. First, the real economics: a Starlink subscription business generating $11.4 billion in revenue and $4.4 billion in operating profit, carrying a launch segment and an AI segment that together lose billions. Then the structure: a dual-class share system giving Elon Musk roughly 80% voting control on 42% of the equity, a fixed-price offering with no bookbuild, a staggered lockup waterfall, and a retail allocation three times the Wall Street norm. Finally, what it means in practice for executives whose companies depend on Starlink, for investors weighing the stock, and for founders watching the biggest cap-table lesson ever taught in public.

    Not investment advice — a masterclass in reading the deal.

    Start the conversation at keithkoo.com or reach Keith at info@svin.biz. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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    41 mins
  • An Ambulance Into the Future: Jose Luis Cordeiro on Cryonics, 2045, and The Death of Death

    An Ambulance Into the Future: Jose Luis Cordeiro on Cryonics, 2045, and The Death of Death
    May 15 2026

    What if death is optional?

    From the BOLD Awards in Barcelona, Keith Koo sits down with Jose Luis Cordeiro - MIT-trained engineer, student of Marvin Minsky, longtime collaborator of Ray Kurzweil, former Singularity University faculty, and author of "The Death of Death" (now in 15 languages) - for a deep dive on the science of cryonics, transhumanism, and the future of human longevity.

    Cordeiro calls cryonics Plan B. Plan A is biological rejuvenation by 2045 - Ray Kurzweil's forecast for when humanity reaches the technological singularity. Cordeiro argues death is already becoming optional, with the 2050s as the projected window for reanimating cryonically suspended people.

    Inside this episode:

    The difference between cryonics, cryogenics, and cryopreservation

    How cryoprotectants work, and why ice crystals - not cold - are the real problem

    Current progress: sperm, eggs, embryos, ovaries, corneas, trachea, and small-animal kidneys all successfully cryopreserved

    Why full brain reanimation still waits on nanotechnology

    The Walt Disney myth corrected (his head is not in cold storage)

    James Bedford, the first human ever cryopreserved - January 12, 1967, one month after Disney died

    The actual cost: $20,000 to $80,000 for a brain, not the $1 million most people assume

    The billionaire-funded race: Altos Labs ($3B from Bezos and Yuri Milner), Calico ($3B from Sergey Brin and Larry Page), the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

    UC Davis as a quietly leading longevity research institution

    The ethical case for extending life

    110,000 people die every day of age-related diseases - more than any war in history

    Why Cordeiro calls cryonics "an ambulance into the future"

    The faith and ethics questions this conversation raises are taken up in the companion episode on Ten Talents this week. Both episodes belong together.

    "The Death of Death" by Jose Luis Cordeiro - available on Amazon in 15 languages.

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    Chapter markers

    00:00 Show Intro

    00:26 Barcelona Guest Setup

    01:17 Cordeiro Background

    02:09 Defeating Death

    04:18 Cryonics Basics

    06:48 Organs to Brains

    08:31 Break and Contacts

    11:10 Tech Roadmap 2045

    12:33 Cloning and Identity

    14:44 Rejuvenation and Disease

    18:13 IVF and Selection

    19:05 Next Segment Tease

    19:52 Return to Barcelona

    20:20 Sci-Fi Cryonics Inspirations

    21:49 Ethics of Immortality

    25:54 Organs, Brains, Identity

    28:08 Resource Scarcity Debate

    30:20 Funding the Longevity Race

    33:04 Book Plug and Break

    34:49 Democratizing Life Extension

    37:06 Plan A vs Plan B

    38:02 How Cryonics Works

    39:18 Ambulance to the Future
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    41 mins
  • Claude Mythos: The AI Model Anthropic Refused to Release

    Claude Mythos: The AI Model Anthropic Refused to Release
    Apr 15 2026
    SILICON VALLEY INSIDER® WITH KEITH KOO "Claude Mythos: The AI Model Anthropic Refused to Release" Anthropic built their most powerful AI model yet. Then they refused to release it. What they found inside that model should concern every executive, investor, and technology leader who depends on software infrastructure to run their business. This is that story. Episode Summary In an industry defined by speed, Anthropic did something no major AI lab has done before — they built a flagship model and chose not to release it. In this episode, Keith Koo breaks down what Claude Mythos Preview actually does, why it changes every assumption underlying modern cybersecurity, and what the geopolitical and organizational implications are for executives, governments, and anyone responsible for technology risk. Drawing on years of experience managing vendor ecosystems and technology risk inside some of the largest financial institutions in the country, Keith explains not just what happened — but why it matters more than almost any AI story of the past decade. Segment Highlights Segment 1 — The Moment Keith opens with the announcement that stopped him cold. Anthropic released a new AI model called Claude Mythos Preview and simultaneously announced they would not be making it publicly available. In an industry that measures itself by who ships first, a leading lab looked at what it built and said it could not put this into the world the way it normally would. Keith explains what Mythos actually does — how it was built as an advanced coding model, how it unexpectedly became extraordinary at finding software flaws, and how it identified thousands of previously unknown vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser in the world. Some of those vulnerabilities had been hiding in production code for 27 years. And Anthropic's own engineers — people with no formal cybersecurity training — found serious flaws overnight using plain English prompts. The same class of vulnerability that used to cost months of elite specialist work was replicated for under fifty dollars. Segment 2 — The Collapse of the Security Model Keith connects the Mythos announcement to something he spent years working through from the inside — the reality of managing technology risk across thousands of vendors and third parties. He explains why the third-party risk problem, already difficult, just became categorically harder. Why legacy systems running hospital records, payroll platforms, municipal water systems, and power grids are now living under an elevated threat level they were never designed for. And why the assumption that complexity itself was a form of protection is no longer valid. The core problem: identifying a vulnerability with AI happens at machine speed. Fixing it still takes weeks or months. The asymmetry between attack and defense has not just narrowed — it has inverted. Segment 3 — AI, Power, and the World Keith takes the Mythos story to the geopolitical level. He refines the nuclear weapons comparison — nuclear capability is hard to build and easy to detect, AI-based cyber capability is easy to replicate and almost impossible to contain. The doctrine is not mutually assured destruction. It is mutually assured vulnerability. Every major nation, including the most advanced offensive cyber powers, is running the same legacy systems Mythos just found thousands of vulnerabilities in. Keith raises the question he has not heard asked loudly enough: who is auditing the AI that is auditing our infrastructure? And he makes the case that the policy window for getting governance right is not measured in years — it may be measured in months. Segment 4 — What We Do Now Keith closes with three paths — controlled access, AI-on-AI defense, and international coordination — and what each one gets right and fails to answer. He speaks directly to the executives, founders, and technology leaders in his audience. Get honest about your legacy exposure now. Accelerate your defensive AI evaluation. Take the governance question seriously inside your organization and in the policy conversations you have standing to participate in. He closes with the observation that stayed with him: Anthropic built something extraordinary and then made an extraordinary choice. That standard — asking not just can we release this but should we — is the standard every AI lab and every technology organization should be held to. Key Takeaways Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview found thousands of previously unknown vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser — some hiding in production code for 27 yearsAnthropic engineers with no formal cybersecurity training found serious software flaws overnight using plain English prompts — the same class of vulnerability that used to require months of elite specialist work was replicated for under fifty dollarsThe assumption that complexity itself was a form of protection ...
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    41 mins
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