Episode · Big Technology Podcast · 2026-05-27
Books mentioned on Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
Dick Costolo is the ex-CEO of Twitter and managing partner at 01 Advisors. Costolo joins Big Technology Podcast to look ahead to the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs, looking at whether the offerings will be successful, who should go first, how the companies differ, and where the capital will come from.
Dick Costolo discussed Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Great Expectations
Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's classic coming-of-age novel that follows the orphan Pip as he navigates class, ambition, and heartbreak in nineteenth-century England.
Discussed“And literature is filled with these, "Hey man, stop chasing ghosts. Stop looking Stop living a life of comparison and chasing ghosts and and you know, this phantom thing you're think you're supposed to have." Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, um Great Expectations of Dickens.”
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To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is a modernist novel that delves deeply into the complexities of the human condition, family dynamics, and mortality.
Discussed“And literature is filled with these, "Hey man, stop chasing ghosts. Stop looking Stop living a life of comparison and chasing ghosts and and you know, this phantom thing you're think you're supposed to have." Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse”
Where to get it
