# innovation ecosystems (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier

Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover innovation ecosystems.

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## [EP 182: What This Unlikely Deal Shows About New Austin | Max Cunningham (Sesh) & Jake Medwell (8VC)](https://ecosysmetacognition.substack.com/p/ep-181-what-this-unlikely-deal-shows)

_2026-07-16 · Jason Scharf · Ecosystem MetaCognition_

Sesh looks like CPG, behaves like a regulated tech company, and is backed by a deeptech fund. Welcome to the New Austin.

[Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207189312/3e8eda3bc967eb85da0448923faab4b3.mp3)

## [EP 181: Live from Hack Club Stasis: The Teenage Hardware Frontier Lands in Austin](https://ecosysmetacognition.substack.com/p/ep-181-live-from-hack-club-stasis)

_2026-06-30 · Jason Scharf · Ecosystem MetaCognition_

How $15 circuit boards and a charity run by teenagers turned a 100-person hackathon into Austin's newest hard-tech frontier.

[Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/203998522/df4240717868007862d072a3cd4a467b.mp3)

## [Why Do Some Capital Cities Become Something More?](https://ecosysmetacognition.substack.com/p/why-do-some-capital-cities-become)

_2026-06-23 · Jason Scharf · Ecosystem MetaCognition_

Austin, Atlanta, Albany, and Sacramento reveal the difference between an assigned capital and a compounding ecosystem.

## [EP 180: Love Conquers Fear: The Last Barrier to Abundance Is Our Own Fear | Brett Hurt](https://ecosysmetacognition.substack.com/p/ep-180-love-conquers-fear-the-last)

_2026-06-18 · Jason Scharf · Ecosystem MetaCognition_

Brett Hurt makes the case that the fear we inherited from the savannah is the last thing standing between us and the age of abundance.

[Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/202475514/7c8540ade62c87665ee389ef5bef8bed.mp3)

## [EP 179: Austin: From Counterculture to Culture | Karen Blashek, Austin Home Magazine](https://ecosysmetacognition.substack.com/p/ep-179-austin-from-counterculture)

_2026-06-11 · Jason Scharf · Ecosystem MetaCognition_

The editor-in-chief of Austin Home Magazine on the cultural infrastructure Austin builds next, and why the tech and creative halves of the city compound when they finally meet.

[Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/201473021/ef86ed7eef51d939bb73eda3446758c0.mp3)

## [EP 178: Revisited: How Specificity in Vertical AI Rewrites Industries | Nick Tippmann, TipTop VC](https://ecosysmetacognition.substack.com/p/ep-178-revisited-how-specificity)

_2026-05-21 · Jason Scharf · Ecosystem MetaCognition_

Updated re-release.

[Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/198593576/db5e79bbd8f281a53e48f7a4d1d3efbf.mp3)

## [EP 177: What Building in Austin Actually Feels Like Right Now | Will Johnson & Alex Cohen](https://ecosysmetacognition.substack.com/p/ep-177-what-building-in-austin-actually)

_2026-04-29 · Jason Scharf · Ecosystem MetaCognition_

This was not the episode we planned.

[Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/195559472/46648dd70908f8fcfd0d826b75278a18.mp3)

## [EP 176: The First Thing Built on the Moon Will Come from Austin | Jason Ballard & Will Hurd, ICON](https://ecosysmetacognition.substack.com/p/ep-176-the-first-thing-built-on-the)

_2026-04-23 · Jason Scharf · Ecosystem MetaCognition_

How a construction robotics company went from printing houses to military barracks, and why the moon base is next.

[Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/194659869/d51ee21123be7a54d2d9daa8584f4c6a.mp3)

## [EP 175: Reinventing School Is Accelerating Austin's Talent Flywheel | Joe Liemandt, Alpha School](https://ecosysmetacognition.substack.com/p/ep-175-reinventing-school-is-accelerating)

_2026-04-15 · Jason Scharf · Ecosystem MetaCognition_

Austin's experimental schools are pulling in the families. The families feed the innovation ecosystem. The city's next 20 years of talent is being built by its K-12 ecosystem.

[Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/194218441/61112bdbcb51f497ea7e2cd8a2fa9f21.mp3)

## [EP 174: We're Living Through the Cyberpunk Era of War | Jim Rebesco, CEO, Striveworks](https://ecosysmetacognition.substack.com/p/ep-174-were-living-through-the-cyberpunk)

_2026-03-24 · Jason Scharf · Ecosystem MetaCognition_

The new battlefield weapons look like science fiction, and underneath, they're rewriting defense tech's design philosophy and economics.

[Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/191876380/b308be60e8939b380b65909a1e7e7f87.mp3)

## [Code Faster with Clear Tutorials (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/9D3V3xNOyag3)

_2026-03-24 · **Sponsored**_

Short, step-by-step coding videos you can follow along

## [What Tech Weeks Teach Us About Community Building](https://scalingecosystems.substack.com/p/what-tech-weeks-teach-us-about-community)

_2025-10-18 · Ken Bautista · Scaling Ecosystems_

How community-led celebrations compound trust and opportunity across generations in tech and innovation ecosystems