Great Chat podcast: comms pro Aaron Zamost dissects tech's reputational decline and Twitter beefs
ashleymayer · x · 2026-10-17
Ashley Mayer releases a new Great Chat episode with comms expert Aaron Zamost, dissecting recent Twitter drama (Valar vs Day One, Factory vs Cognition, Vinod Khosla and Kelly Clarkson). Key idea: "if you're defending you're losing." They also cover tech's reputational decline, AI/data-center backlash, what changed since Zamost's 2015 "startup clock" essay, and the AI-to-SI rebrand wave.
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