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Welcome to Lost in Tech! Each week, Lola and Mamuna dive into the tech industry, sharing insights and opinions, and answer questions and letters from our listeners.
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AI Warnings, LinkedIn Noise, and Who You Can Trust (opens the original)
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How do you judge what to trust when every platform tells a different story? Mamuna and Lola discuss Jacob Coxon's departure from Anthropic and the reactions they saw on X and Threads. They connect that debate with everyday decisions about AI answers, online sources, and professional credibility. Then they turn to LinkedIn. What do hiring managers check beyond your CV? Do shared connections mean someone actually knows you? Can a human-written note still get mistaken for AI? Subscribe to Lost in T
Can a One-Person AI Company Really Be Worth $1 Billion? (opens the original)
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Could one person build a company valued at $1 billion with AI doing the work? Mamuna and Lola compare that idea with their own experience building businesses. They discuss the time spent checking AI agents, a contract draft that repeated the same clause, and the gap between valuation and revenue. They also ask where human expertise still makes the difference. Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:52 The one-person AI unicorn 02:43 Which jobs could AI do? 06:46 Maintaining a team of AI agents 08:53 Claude chec
She looked 69, fit, and real. The entire Instagram account was AI. (opens the original)
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“I’m used to being able to tell when video is AI-generated. This was so good I gave it my like.” Lola thought she had found an inspiring fitness creator: a stylish Black woman in her 60s with natural hair, great glasses and age-appropriate advice. Then the kitchen changed. The shelf moved. The lighting jumped. The entire account was AI. She and Mamuna follow the trail from hyper-real Instagram influencers to LinkedIn’s “AI slop” button and the bigger problem underneath it all: credible publisher
The study that linked return-to-office mandates to narcissistic CEOs (opens the original)
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“You’re going to demand I come back into the office—and you can’t tell me why we exist?” Lola and Mamuna are both building companies, and both are wrestling with the same uncomfortable question: after years of criticizing other leaders, can they actually walk the talk themselves? They get honest about ruthless prioritization, the difference between founder commitment and employee responsibility, and the moment people stop believing in a leader’s decisions. Then they get into the research linking
Someone may be paying $2,000 to ask about you (opens the original)
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Someone may be paying $2,000 to ask about you. Both hosts keep getting approached by research firms — with a brief and a budget — for detailed conversations about people they used to work with, now heading into public-company roles or raising money. This week they open that up, and it raises one uncomfortable question for everyone in tech: are you a good person, and what surfaces when someone pays to find out? Inside: why researchers skip your superfans and call everyone else, the best-case and
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