Butterfly ($BFLY) podcast mentions
And studied mechanical engineering in college. Spent a long time working wandering through the desert, figuring out what I wanted to be when I grew up. I did a long stint at a hedge fund, discovered there a real passion for artificial intelligence, and eventually I decided that what I wanted to do was work on high-stakes medical devices. Got my education in how to do high-tech medical devices at a startup company called Butterfly Network. It's now a public company. We built a handheld ultrasound machine, and that gave me the audacity and access to capital and talent and confidence that you need to take on something like building a better hearing aid. And my co-founders and I started Fortell about 6 years ago now, and about 9 months ago, we finally came out and launched.
Matthew de Jong · Equity · Why Thrive, Founders Fund, and Antonio Gracias are betting on hearing aids · 2026-09-16Right? So, you know, Josh Kushner, when we first met him, you know, Josh was invested in us at the most risky time when we were just a couple of guys and an idea. But he had, he was intimately aware of what we had done at Butterfly. And it's because our target market was emergency medicine physicians. We were building this, you know, this handheld ultrasound machine for emergency medicine doctors. And it just so happens that his father-in-law is an emergency medicine doctor, retired now. And so I think it was this combination of this market could be very large if, if you really can pull it off. Wow, I want to, I want to make the world better and I want to, you know, it's like we're all kind of doing this out of revenge for what we saw happen to our grandparents.
Matthew de Jong · Equity · Why Thrive, Founders Fund, and Antonio Gracias are betting on hearing aids · 2026-09-16And then the third thing is, even though we had this crazy approach of building custom AI and custom chips, that our track record doing this in the medical imaging context, and then Andy, our CTO, after Butterfly went on to Google and was TPU designer, I think that those three elements came together to make this a fundable concept.
Matthew de Jong · Equity · Why Thrive, Founders Fund, and Antonio Gracias are betting on hearing aids · 2026-09-16We did something twisted. Now we're going to talk about the twist. We're going to talk about the shift. We're going to talk about what's going on, the butterfly within the yield space, because it's so simplistic in the media. OMG, price down, yield higher, world coming to an end. Sinjin Bowen with us right now, high yield Bonds and all at Beach Point Capital, decades of experience. But spreads haven't changed, right?
Tom Keene · Bloomberg Surveillance · AI Safety and Rising Yields · 2026-09-15in the incubator— for the first time. And she was, like— like, weirdly perfect. She had all the parts. These long fingers and long feet. Delicate little nose, and she had hair and fingernails and eyebrows and, you know, all the things that they're supposed to have. But she was translucent. Hmm. You could just see right through her. You could see all the veins running under her skin. You could see her heart thumping in her chest. Wow. Um, and her eyes were sealed shut like a puppy. And She was, like, beat up. She had bruises all over her body, and she had a black eye. Just from the— you know, they're very careful with them when they're born, but just that very delicate handling kind of batters these babies because they're so fragile. I mean, it was, like, weird. Like, I didn't know how I was supposed to feel. I mean, you want to believe that the minute you meet your daughter, there's gonna be, like, butterflies, you know, or, like, unicorns or something. It's supposed to be the best moment of your life. But there was so much terror inside that moment.
Kelly Benham · Radiolab · 23 Weeks 6 Days · 2026-09-11Now in those 5 days, pretty much everything in their lives changed. I mean, on the most superficial level, they began their hospital stay, day zero, in the maternity ward, which had butterflies on the walls and—
Jad Abumrad · Radiolab · 23 Weeks 6 Days · 2026-09-11Whoever was in charge of this animation cooked. Uh, I think this animation is really important for several reasons. Yeah, one is you use the word glass, which is like liquid glass kind of falls into this, so like that's convenient for them. But yes, two is it intuitively gives you a little bit more of an understanding of the continuity that's happening, which is when you're closed you have the thing that's on the single screen When you open it, you kind of get an idea of, I am extending something to the left of my current screen. So I'm like adding to the left. Yes. So when it's open, whatever is on that right-hand screen, when you close it from the left, you are aware that that is what's going to stay on the screen. It's still there. Yes, the continuity. So it's intuitive, but it helps you to understand what you're going to get when you close it. Yeah. And it's very fast. And this, I didn't expect to hit me as hard as it did, but a lot of foldables, I've been using these for years, and Dave2D talked about this in his video, but we've just gotten used to there being a little bit of a delay when you close a foldable. There's just a beat and then it's ready to go. Yeah. And you open it and there's a beat and it's ready. And there's just a little beat. And sometimes there's like a fun animation, like butterfly wings or whatever on your wallpaper or something. But this one, by the time I like swivel it open as fast as I can, like the inside screen's already open. And by the time I close it, by the time I start to see the outside screen, it's already on. It's so Cool. So it's a really fast animation. Yeah. I will not lie and say I didn't see any bugs. I did see some foldables bug out in the hands-on area and bug out as we were testing them. Yeah. And I imagine this is a really hard animation to make it work perfectly every time. But for all of those reasons, I really want it to work perfectly every time because it's really good. Yeah. So that is like the thing. I posted a short of it.
Marques · Waveform_ The MKBHD Podcast · Did Apple Actually Duo It? · 2026-09-11No, I know, I actually, I'm tempted to, I just, I don't know. I guess systems theory would tell you that the more knobs and dials you've got to twiddle on something that is a chaotic dynamic feedback system, highly variable, three-body problem kind of stuff, it's sort of like there is more unintended consequence that can go wrong. So there is something to— there is— I hear how you're laying it out. And in theory, then yes. I mean, obviously, the more tools I've got as a surgeon, the more likely I am able to get to the organ and chop it out and do the thing that I need to do. If you're just gonna hammer and say, there you go, perform a triple bypass surgery on those tools, like, well, no, I need more tools. But some systems are actually less robust under more, and then it is really hard to think, and again, it's a hard thing to sort of wrap your head around, but particularly for these sort of dynamic systems full of feedback loops and very recursive in nature, That's how things get out of control very, very— the butterfly effect, you know? It's like, you know, a little flap of the wings and then there's a tornado on the other side. It was a horrible analogy, but that's the one that everyone goes with. But it's sort of like, well, so that's really hard to predict. What if I had a butterfly and a dragonfly and an old lady with a fan? Like, well, there's more control. Surely that's better. It's like, no, you misunderstand the nature of the system.
Chris Hill · Motley Fool Money · Mailbag, incl: Are LICs on the way back? September 6, 2026 · 2026-09-05Hey, Claude is great at that. You know, they use all those little butterflies and whatever. Clip art.
David · The Vergecast · AGI is whatever you want it to be · 2026-09-04But you know what, Jason, this is another learning lesson for Paige. I promise I'm not talking down to you at all. This is a funny conversation. No, no, not at all. What I've discovered is Gen Z is actually learning how to not be the youngest generation. And you actually don't know what's happening culturally as much as you used to. And it happens. This is why millennials hated Gen Xers. This is why Gen Zs hate millennials. Like there's this whole thing. And so you are going through the transition. You are become— you're in the chrysalis. You are going to become this butterfly of suddenly being an elder in the room because 'cause my boys, Gen Alpha, they will come in every day and tell you that unc is a term of endearment. And it's like, you are the cool uncle who comes in and you like know what's up, but you have zero Fs to give. Like, so unc's like back in a positive way.
Caitlin Holloway · This Week in Startups · VC experts on why Physical AI funding is heating up | E2333 · 2026-09-02For sure, there's, there's, there's differences. I just, I reflect back to that. I like the way that they conduct themselves. I think it's, it's— and there's a lot that's to be said to that because it's, it's a longer-standing sport. There's been more time and experience into it. But yeah, 100%. I mean, you know, I, I was— before this April fight I— the first round of the day of sparring, I was just going light with Callum Bisping for literally 1 second, and we moved around. He's a heavyweight. We moved around, he took me— took— he tried to take me down. I stuffed it. He took me down, and I kind of just sat with it because I didn't want to get caught in any, you know, knee tweaking positions or anything because he's just so much heavier than I am. And I sat into a butterfly, which is typically how I would do that— elevate the hips immediately and try to make a scramble. And my, my meniscus just popped instantly right then and there. First round of the day, barely, barely had done anything, barely started, and it wasn't even like a crazy position. But yeah, now I have a sustained injury. Now I don't go against heavyweights anymore because—
Ethyn Ewing · The Joe Rogan Experience · JRE MMA Show #185 with Ethyn Ewing · 2026-09-02