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The Generalist

Mario Gabriele

Booking Overview

This weekly interview show explores emerging technology, startups, investing, and the people building what comes next, with recurring guests who are venture-backed founders and high-level technical or investment leaders. Credible pitches include founders of ambitious technology companies, frontier AI and engineering experts, investors, and original thinkers with substantial achievements; booking difficulty is high because recent guests include CEOs of highly valued companies and accomplished leaders from organizations such as SpaceX and OpenAI.

Metrics

Episodes: 51

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000

Gender skew: Male

Listener location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

mario@readthegeneralist.com

hey@readthegeneralist.com

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Host

Mario Gabriele - Mario Gabriele is the founder and editor of The Generalist, a publication focused on technology, startups, investing, and emerging markets.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Venture-backed founders and CEOs, prominent investors, frontier technology researchers, and senior technical leaders with demonstrated company-building experience, major product achievements, or distinctive expertise in emerging markets.
Required Achievements:  
Founded or led a highly valued technology company, Raised significant venture capital, Held senior roles at prominent technology companies or research organizations, Developed notable AI, software, financial, or hardware technologies, Published or contributed influential technical or investment work

Recent Guest Discussions

Scott Morton - Industrial Software, Hardware Systems, Ai-assisted Engineering, Startup Scaling, Engineering Culture, And Lessons From Spacex.

Farooq Malik - Stablecoins, Cross-border Payments, Fintech Infrastructure, Entrepreneurship, Company Building, Hiring, And Ai-enabled Financial Systems.

Eric Nguyen - Biological AI, Genome Models, Drug Discovery, Synthetic Biology, Biodefense, Biological Verification, And AI Safety.

Matan Grinberg - AI Agents, Software Engineering Automation, Enterprise Technology, Open Models, Compute Economics, Startup Culture, And The Transition From Physics To Entrepreneurship.

Yash Patil - Custom AI Models, Post-training, Reinforcement Learning, Enterprise AI, Model Ownership, AI Infrastructure, And The Future Of Work.

Recent Topics

Artificial Intelligence, Startups, Venture Capital, Technology, Fintech

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
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Jaan Tallinn would like us to survive

October 08, 2026

Jaan Tallinn is a founding engineer of Skype and Kazaa, and a co-founder of the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and Future of Life Institute. For more than fifteen years, he has been among the most consistent voices arguing that advanced AI poses an extinction-level risk to humanity.Jaan became interested in AI risk in 2008 after reading the work of Eliezer Yudkowsky, a founding researcher of the field of AI alignment. In 2009, after a four-hour meeting with Yudkowsky, he m...

Periodic Labs: A chatbot walks into a laboratory

September 29, 2026

Liam Fedus and Dogus Cubuk are the co-founders and co-CEOs of Periodic Labs, a startup building “synthesis superintelligence.” In practice, that means an AI system that closes the loop between hypothesis, experiment, and learning.Liam previously led post-training at OpenAI, where he was one of the creators of ChatGPT. Dogus spent years at Google DeepMind leading a large team of chemists and materials scientists. Together, they’ve brought those two trajectories to bear on a problem that has st...

An Ex-SpaceX Engineer on Elon Musk, Starship, and Building a $1B-Valued Startup (Scott Morton, Founder & CEO of Revel)

September 08, 2026

Scott Morton is the founder and CEO of Revel, a software platform for testing and controlling complex hardware systems. Before founding the company in 2024, Scott spent nearly a decade at SpaceX building control software for Falcon 9 and Starship. That experience helped him recognize a broader problem: while rockets, nuclear systems, supersonic aircraft, and other advanced machines have grown increasingly sophisticated, the software used to test and control them is often fragmented and decade...

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Frequently asked questions

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The Generalist
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How do I get in touch with The Generalist?

The Generalist is hosted by Mario Gabriele. Its publicly listed emails are mario@readthegeneralist.com and hey@readthegeneralist.com. For guest bookings, the host or producer is usually the best person to reach. Podseeker helps you find direct host and producer contacts and pitch from your own inbox.

What is the email for The Generalist?

The publicly listed emails for The Generalist: mario@readthegeneralist.com and hey@readthegeneralist.com.

How many listeners does The Generalist have?

Podseeker estimates The Generalist reaches 100 to 1,000 listeners per episode. Only the publisher has exact numbers.

Who is an ideal guest for The Generalist?

The Generalist typically books industry leaders. Typical guest background: Venture-backed founders and CEOs, prominent investors, frontier technology researchers, and senior technical leaders with demonstrated company-building experience, major product achievements, or distinctive expertise in emerging markets. Common among recent guests: Founded or led a highly valued technology company; Raised significant venture capital; Held senior roles at prominent technology companies or research organizations. Recent guests include Scott Morton, Farooq Malik, and Eric Nguyen.

How hard is it to get booked on The Generalist?

High. It mostly books established leaders in its field.

What topics does The Generalist cover?

Recent episodes cover Artificial Intelligence, Startups, Venture Capital, Technology, and Fintech. Pitch an idea tied to one of these topics and mention a recent episode.

Publicly listed emails

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