{"id":398170,"date":"2026-04-18T05:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/398170\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T05:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:04:19","slug":"we-like-big-bubbles-and-we-cannot-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/398170\/","title":{"rendered":"We Like Big Bubbles and We Cannot Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conferences are fun for journalists because the private chatter flows. Business Insider’s The Long Play<\/a> in San Francisco was no exception.<\/p>\n

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Biohacker Bryan Johnson<\/a> urged founders to bang, not build<\/a>. Carina Hong dished<\/a> on the AI talent wars. Joanna Strober reflected<\/a> on her late, great friend Susan Wojcicki. Jason Blum described the horror<\/a> of making AI movie shorts with Meta. That’s what we reported from the stage. Here’s what else I heard:<\/p>\n

A tech CEO recalled being interviewed last year by a big newspaper about a possible AI bubble<\/a>. She gave a nuanced answer and didn’t make it into the article. “Bubble is sexy,” she said. “No bubble, not sexy.” That belongs on a T-shirt.<\/p>\n

Nearby, another CEO wrestled with how to pay and retain their top executives, while a founder marveled at how sharply San Francisco car break-ins have dropped. Turns out, if you actually try to stop crime, it can go down.<\/p>\n

One exec said he regularly pits Grok<\/a> against Gemini<\/a> to get stronger AI outputs. On a similar note, Hong cited Elon Musk<\/a> and Demis Hassabis<\/a> as leaders she admires, adding that Musk’s tough decisions are sometimes necessary. (Risky for your career in Silicon Valley. She said it anyway).<\/p>\n

While recounting fundraising challenges, Strober quipped: Menopause was not hot years ago. It was hot for me, but not for everyone else.<\/p>\n

Another joke: Mark Zuckerberg got attention for smoking meat<\/a>; Bryan Johnson gets attention for getting his meat smoked. Blame Zak<\/a> for that one.<\/p>\n

Several attendees worried they wouldn’t be able to follow Johnson’s advice: work less, sleep more, avoid late eating, and stay off your phone in bed.<\/p>\n

One startup exec said she prefers “biojacking” \u2014 bad food, too much drinking, and little sleep. As I left, a founder admitted, “I lie awake thinking about how to destroy my competition.”<\/p>\n

Later that night, I got a text from a CMO who attended: “I have followed 0% of that longevity guy’s advice over the last several hours.”<\/p>\n

Same: I’d just finished a pizza<\/a> on the couch. Then I went to bed and looked at my phone.<\/p>\n

Sign up for BI’s Tech Memo newsletter here<\/a>. Reach out to me via email at abarr@businessinsider.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conferences are fun for journalists because the private chatter flows. Business Insider’s The Long Play in San Francisco…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[1368,345,343,344,12954,125345,188875,188871,1269,188873,350,107400,4697,85,46,188874,3032,3395,4674,188872,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-398170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-advice","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-attention","13":"tag-bed","14":"tag-big-bubble","15":"tag-biohacker-bryan-johnson","16":"tag-business-insider","17":"tag-carina-hong","18":"tag-elon-musk","19":"tag-exec","20":"tag-founder","21":"tag-il","22":"tag-israel","23":"tag-joanna-strober","24":"tag-mark-zuckerberg","25":"tag-phone","26":"tag-san-francisco","27":"tag-smoking-meat","28":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}