Going Direct Conversations

By Jordan Wolfe

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Going Direct explores the decentralization of the real economy and how new technologies can bring us closer to the products we buy and the people who make them.

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#72 Rajat Bhageria: The Only Thing Keeping American Food Onshore Is Robot Labor
Jul 28, 2026
#71 Maria Intscher-Owrang: Pour It, Mold It, Wear It - A New Way To Make Clothing In America
Jul 21, 2026
#70 Avalo: Using AI To Build A New Deal For American Farmers
Jul 07, 2026
#69 Kat Scott: First They Laugh, Then They Fight, Then You Win, Open-Source Robotics
Jun 30, 2026
#68 Fabien Cros: Decentralized AI Is Winning Inside the Enterprise
Jun 24, 2026
#67 Roya Amini-Naieni: Building the Self-Driving Biology Lab
Jun 17, 2026
#66 Tom Chi: The Capitalist Case for Cleaning Up Industry
Jun 09, 2026
#65 Jay Acunzo: Storytelling & Becoming Irreplaceable in the Age of AI
May 26, 2026
#64 Simon Owens: Business Of Content, $100 Billion Middlemen, & Future of Media
May 19, 2026
#63 Duncan Young: Jobs Are Dead. Long Live The $10 Million Niche.
May 12, 2026
#62 Brian Morrissey: The Great Decentralization of Media & New Media Energy
Apr 29, 2026
#61 INSIDE GOING DIRECT: What, “Going Direct” Actually Means
Apr 21, 2026
#60 Aleks Gampel: America Needs High Quality, Affordable Homes
Apr 15, 2026
#59 Will Fry: The Great Wealth Transfer And Saving Small Business Ownership in America
Apr 07, 2026
#58 Aaron Feigelman: A New Model for Food Distribution in America
Mar 31, 2026
#57 Scott Porter: America Runs on This $80 Billion Industry
Mar 24, 2026
#56 Andra Keay: 5 Ethical Laws of Robotics & The Future of Automation
Mar 17, 2026
#55 Toby Shorin: Financialization & The Death Of Culture
Mar 10, 2026
#54 Saman Farid: America Doesn’t Have a Robot Problem. It Has a Deployment Problem.
Feb 24, 2026
#53 Jan Liphardt: The Battle Over Who Controls The Robots
Feb 17, 2026
#52 Meta Prime: Rebuilding The Social Structure in America
Feb 11, 2026
#51 Sam Lessin: A VC’s Take On Why Decentralization Is Inevitable
Feb 03, 2026
#50 Onye Ahanotu: Reinventing The World’s Oldest Wine
Jan 27, 2026
#49 Oren Falkowitz: Moving The Farm, Not The Food
Jan 20, 2026
#48 Brett Bivens: Production Capital For The New Industrial Age
Jan 13, 2026
#47 Andy Hunter: Anti-Amazon Tech Platform Reviving Independent Bookstores
Jan 06, 2026
#46 INSIDE GOING DIRECT: Diving Into Industrial Bio-manufacturing
Dec 23, 2025
#45 Kary Bheemaiah: Robotics Hype vs. Reality
Dec 16, 2025
#44 Nic Radford: The Case For Industrial Humanoid Robots
Dec 09, 2025
#43 Chris Paxton & Michael Cho: Robopapers And Future Of Robot Learning
Dec 02, 2025
#42 Alan Perlstein: Reinventing Chocolate Production
Nov 26, 2025
#41 Jenny Kan: Investing In The Future Of Bio-manufacturing
Nov 18, 2025
October 2025 Recap Show
Nov 17, 2025
#40 INSIDE GOING DIRECT: Building The Going Direct Economy
Nov 11, 2025
#39 Liz Muller: Micro Nuclear Energy Reactors; Powering The AI Boom
Nov 04, 2025
#38 Karol Hausman & Kevin Black: Building A Brain For Any Robot | AI Eating The Physical World
Oct 22, 2025
September 2025 Recap Show
Oct 17, 2025
#37 INSIDE GOING DIRECT: AI, Robotics, & Decentralizing Our Economy
Oct 14, 2025
#36 Gaurab Chakrabarti: Breaking the Chemicals Monopoly; Re-Industrializing America
Oct 06, 2025
#35 IGD: Gen Z’s Fight Against Gatekeepers & Centralization
Sep 29, 2025
#34 Jamie Gull: From SpaceX to VC; Investing In The Next Industrial Revolution
Sep 22, 2025
#33 INSIDE GOING DIRECT: Capitalism in America vs Europe - Part 2
Sep 16, 2025
#32 Kuba Graczyk: 3D Printer Factories, AI & U.S. Shoe Production
Sep 08, 2025
#31 Dimitry Gershenson - Non-Dilutive Funding for Entrepreneurs; Capitalism’s Role In Building The New Economy
Sep 01, 2025
#30 INSIDE GOING DIRECT: Capitalism in America vs Europe - Part 1
Aug 24, 2025
#29 Bernt Bornich: AI & Robots Solving General Labor; Humanoids In The Home
Aug 18, 2025
#28 Dr. Manan Shah — Surgeon-Turned-Founder Helping You Breathe Again
Aug 10, 2025
#27 This Will Change How You See Capitalism Forever | Reiss Jones
Jul 25, 2025
#26 Joe Cross - From, ‘Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead’ To Building Nama Alongside Micro Creators
Jul 20, 2025
#25 Luca Prosperi — Stablecoins Are The Cryptocurrency Set To Replace Banks
Jul 14, 2025
#24 Alex Barrett: The Canadian Going After Corporate Health Care In the US
Jul 06, 2025
#23 Dr. Spencer Nadolsky: Doctor-Creator-CEO Bypassing The Healthcare Gatekeepers
Jun 29, 2025
#22 Dylan Patel: China’s Robotics Dominance; AI Infrastructure Breakdown
Jun 22, 2025
#21 Jeff Epstein — Masterclass on Affiliate And Referral Marketing Programs
Jun 16, 2025
#20 Stefano Bernardi — An Investment Thesis Around Decentralization Of The Real World
Jun 08, 2025
#19 Josef Chen - Robots, Restaurants Of The Future, & One-Way Mirrors
Jun 01, 2025
#18 Megan Lightcap & Yoni Rechtman — Investing In Creators, Small Business, & The American Dream
May 25, 2025
#17 Eileen Galván – $20 Strawberries, Gen-Z, And Overconsumption
May 18, 2025
#16 Rafik Kheffache – Using Solar Power To Make Construction Materials
May 11, 2025
#15 Khaled Al Mezayen – Water Deep Dive And Decentralizing The World’s Most Critical Resource
May 03, 2025
#14 Ed Mehr - America Must Invent Their Own Game To Win Manufacturing
Apr 27, 2025
#13 Oliver Beavers - Playbook To Unlock Trillions For Next-Gen Infrastructure
Apr 20, 2025
#12 Packy McCormick - Techno-Industrial Revolution & Why Vertical Integrators Will Win
Apr 13, 2025
#11 Aleks Gampel - Micro-Factories And Future Of Construction
Apr 06, 2025
#10 Ian Rountree - Venture Capital’s Role In Decentralized Production
Mar 30, 2025
#9 Jon Olinto: Fixing Flour with Decentralized Stone Mills
Mar 23, 2025
#8 Kathryn Judge: Rise Of The Middleman Economy
Mar 18, 2025
#7 Aleh Kandrashou: Reinventing Home Building
Mar 01, 2025