
Down Round
Hosted by Raph and James and Henno and The Riph Raph · Down Round
4.9from 133 ratings
- 311
- Episodes
- 161
- Transcribed
- 133
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 16K
- YouTube views
About Down Round
The number one podcast about tech business and culture, from James "JR" Hennessy and Raph Dixon.
- Publisher
- Down Round
- Category
- business · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 27 Jul 2022
- Latest episode
- 20 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
161 of 311 episodes have a transcript.

20 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Tesla Roadster And Apple Home

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The Firmus IPO Disaster

6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Hallowed by Thy Tokens
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Tesla Roadster And Apple Home
Published 20 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Anyway, so I download it and I set it up and it is easier than shortcuts, except your phone has to be open for it to run because Apple doesn't let you like apps do like background stuff. Your phone has to be open, which is like... Like, the whole point was that I just wanted to happen. Anyway, so that's a long, convoluted story. But what I'm saying there is, like, Apple is so locked down that incorporating it with a bunch of, like, my little vibe-coded apps and my LLMs and everything that, like, I want to do is not what Apple's made for. It's still like a walled garden. No, exactly. I think that's fair enough. […]
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- YouTube views
- 16,271
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 9 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 124 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 70 / 100
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- Quality
- 72
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 93
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