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The Puck: Venture Capital and Beyond
The Puck: Venture Capital & Beyond is a conversation with the people shaping how the world works: investors, economists, historians, scientists, and policymakers. Host Jim Baer, a longtime restructuring advisor and president of CMBG Advisors, started the show in venture capital, and it has grown...
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The Puck: Venture Capital and Beyond
Hosted by Jim Baer
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131 episodes • 2018 - 2026
The Puck: Venture Capital & Beyond is a conversation with the people shaping how the world works: investors, economists, historians, scientists, and policymakers. Host Jim Baer, a longtime restructuring advisor and president of CMBG Advisors, started the show in venture capital, and it has grown into the "& Beyond": markets and technology, geopolitics and the global economy, the health of our institutions, and the ideas underneath them.
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Sara Seager: The Search for Life on Venus, Widowhood, and Autism
Sara Seager joins The Puck to talk about her search for life beyond Earth, including a privately funded mission to Venus, her post-traumatic growth after losing her husband, being diagnosed as autistic in her 40s, and her return home to Toronto after 30 years...
Avi Loeb: This Is a Blind Date of Interstellar Proportions
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb - former chair of Harvard's Astronomy Department, head of the Galileo Project, author of Extraterrestrial and Interstellar - joins Jim Baer for a conversation that isn't really about aliens. It's about how serious people think...
Michael Moritz: Steve Jobs, Sequoia, and the Weight of History
My guest today is Michael Moritz. He started as a journalist at Time Magazine, then spent 35 years at Sequoia Capital backing Google, Yahoo, PayPal, and YouTube. Before any of that, he wrote The Little Kingdom, the first inside account of Apple, written with...
Lori Garver
Lori Garver spent years inside NASA making an argument most of the agency didn't want to hear: that commercial partnership wasn't a compromise, it was the strategy. On this episode of The Puck, Jim sits down with the former NASA Deputy Administrator to unpack...
Christopher Beha
He edited Harper's. He almost lost his faith to cancer and the new atheists. Now he's written a book called Why I Am Not an Atheist — and he's not backing down from the hard questions. Christopher Beha joins Jim to go toe-to-toe on Darwin, the Big Bang, and...
Jason Furman
Harvard economist and former Obama CEA Chair Jason Furman joins Jim to unpack the risks hiding beneath a strong economy — from a potential Strait of Hormuz oil shock, to whether AI valuations are a bubble (and if so, dot-com or housing-crash style), to why...
Avik Roy on Healthcare, Debt, and the Math Washington Won’t Touch
Is healthcare the real driver of the national debt crisis? Avik Roy joins The Puck to discuss one of the most important questions in American public policy. Roy, president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, argues that the United States has...
Annie Lamont on Healthcare, AI, Epic, Medicaid, and the Future of American Medicine
Everyone says AI is going to transform healthcare. Annie Lamont explains why this time may actually be different — but also why Epic, Medicaid, misaligned incentives, and China’s rise in drug development could determine whether American healthcare gets fixed...
Yuval Levin: Why America Stopped Trusting
Yuval Levin joins The Puck to explain why Americans have stopped trusting their institutions — and what it would take to rebuild that trust. Levin argues that institutions are supposed to shape people into responsible citizens, leaders, professionals, and...
Katherine Baicker
In Episode 122 of The Puck: Venture Capital & Beyond, Jim Baer sits down with Katherine Baicker, one of America’s leading health economists, for a clear-eyed conversation about what is broken—and what still works—in the U.S. healthcare system. Baicker...
Dr. Ashish Jha
In this week's episode, Jim sits down with Dr. Ashish Jha — physician, health policy expert, and former White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator — for a candid look at what the pandemic revealed about how America actually works under pressure. This...
Dinny McMahon on China’s Hidden Crisis
China looks unstoppable from the outside — record exports, dominant EVs, and a relentless push into AI, robotics, and advanced manufacturing. But beneath the surface, a very different story is unfolding. In Episode 120 of The Puck, Jim Baer sits down with...
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