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Byrne Hobart

Founder & Author, The Diff

Search every verified Byrne Hobart interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Byrne Hobart, founder of the finance and technology newsletter The Diff and a general partner at Anomaly Fund, has been active in podcast appearances and live events in early 2025. He discussed his book *Boom: Bubbles at the End of Stagnation* at an Interintellect salon in Austin, where he argued that founders, rather than investors, typically profit most from bubbles. He also appeared on Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast at SXSW, where he and political consultant David Shor discussed public anxiety over AI-driven white-collar job displacement, with Hobart noting that AI tools have become "useful faster than they've become smarter." In recurring appearances on The Riff and Upstream podcasts with Erik Torenberg, Hobart has commented on Trump administration tariffs, describing them as a bluff that is unlikely to be effective as a long-term strategy. He has also argued that AI may replace senior rather than junior roles in the workplace, discussed China's progress in AI hardware, and suggested that the US dollar's reserve currency status is unlikely to be undone within a four-year period. He has also participated in book club discussions on hedge fund memoirs and financial crises, and has spoken on topics including discount rates, prediction markets, and the economics of media businesses.

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“I think that the public is much more radical on this issue than people think. Me personally, I'm not usually the person who goes out and says, 'Ah, the people crave radical policy change.' But we really are in a very radical time right now. If you ask voters, do you support price controls, the answer is yes by 2:1, which is not something that was true 5 years ago.”

“I think that the public is much more radical on this issue than people think. Me personally, I'm not usually the person who goes out and says, 'Ah, the people crave radical policy change.' But we really are in a very radical time right now. If you ask voters, do you support price controls, the answer is yes by 2:1, which is not something that was true 5 years ago. When we've done tests, we had one test where we had a”

“I would say that one piece of this is that the people who do the best in bubbles are typically not the investor class. Like investor class will make the most money from when we first call it a bubble to the peak, but it's usually the the founders who actually make the most money.”

“So there there are definitely a lot of paradoxical relationships here because in in one sense financial markets well I guess like in full disclosure they're very fun for me. I enjoy reading about them writing about them interacting with them in various ways. So I do I do personally like them but um in so in one sense they are just a really elegant mechanism for directing capital towards potentially high return activi”

“The default state of humanity is not that we're all very happy and prosperous. It's that we all have pretty bad lives as basically a particular variety of wild animal that can talk. And that the difference between our lives today and that the state of nature is the accumulation of physical technologies and also social technologies.”

“The people who do the best in bubbles are typically not the investor class. Like investor class will make the most money from when we first call it a bubble to the peak, but it's usually the founders who actually make the most money.”

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