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Stretch Four Podcast

The Stretch Four Podcast is hosted by Matthew Parker and covers topics across his world of venture-backed startup building, performance and health, family life, and living in San Francisco. He is joined by occasional guests and high performers who share their knowledge on company building their lifestyle hacks. New episodes released every Monday at 8 AM PST.

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24:43

Anthropic Is Suing the Pentagon. OpenAI and Google Are Backing Them.

24:43

Anthropic Is Suing the Pentagon. OpenAI and Google Are Backing Them.

Watch now | Plus: Oracle under pressure with $100B in debt. Mira Murati's comeback with a gigawatt of Nvidia. And why Roy Lee is building the real…

4 hrs ago • Matthew Parker

15:24

Databricks Overtook Snowflake. Here's Why They Should IPO Before SpaceX.

Listen now | Plus: Anduril raises $4 billion while the Middle East burns. And Claude crashed because too many people want to use it.

Mar 4 • Matthew Parker

16:25

AI Is Replacing AND Augmenting Workers. Here's the Data.

Naval on software engineering. Anthropic vs. the Pentagon. And what the Dallas Fed just said about your job.

Mar 3 • Matthew Parker

16:10

$110 Billion for OpenAI, 4,000 Jobs Gone at Block, and the $1.7 Billion Medicaid Fraud That Business Identity Could Have Caught

Watch now | Four Insights — Episode 005 | Saturday, February 29, 2026

Feb 28 • Matthew Parker

14:06

Nvidia's $68 Billion Quarter, the $109 Million AI Lobbying War, and the Fintech Infrastructure Company You've Never Heard Of

Four Insights — Episode 004 | February 28, 2026

Feb 27 • Matthew Parker

18:38

Stripe Could Buy PayPal for Less Than a Quarter of Its Own Valuation

Workday funds the AI pivot, Stripe circles PayPal, and two engineers built what the DOJ said was impossible.

Feb 25 • Matthew Parker

20:06

The Through Line: Banking, AI Guardrails, and the Re-Plumbing of Payments

Watch now | FIS reports $2.7B in Q4 revenue, Anthropic faces Pentagon policy friction, and stablecoins keep eating B2B payment margins.

Feb 25 • Matthew Parker

10:55

Earnings Week, Agentic Commerce, and the 40,000-Acre Problem

Watch now | Run of Show 001

Feb 23 • Matthew Parker

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