Business Bubble
Business Bubble is a podcast hosted by James Okpare with guests such as Offiong and Franklin Oladipo. They discuss technology, business, power, capitalism, tax, and both micro and macroeconomic factors. The show also covers the stock market, Silicon Valley, and global developments. It offers broad conversations on how these forces shape economies and societies.
Episodes
Meta Muse: Is Mark Zuckerberg Reinventing Meta for the AI Agent Era?
Meta spent years building the world’s largest social-media ecosystem. Now, it appears to be trying to transform itself into something much bigger: an AI-powered personal assistant platform.On this episode of Business Bubble, we explore Meta Muse, Meta’s new personal AI agent designed to move beyond simply answering questions and actually take action on behalf of users.Muse is designed to help user
AI Safety Doomerism: Is Dario Amodei Right to Fear the Future of AI?
AI is moving faster than almost any technology in history — but how dangerous could it become?On this episode of Business Bubble, we explore the growing debate around AI safety, AI doomerism, and the possibility of advanced AI systems becoming difficult for humans to control.Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has repeatedly warned about the potential risks of increasingly capable AI, including scenarios w
Who Eventually Owns the AI Circular Financing Debt
The AI boom is being fueled by an extraordinary flow of capital — but as billions move between AI companies, hyperscalers, chipmakers, data-centre operators and investors, a bigger question is emerging:Who ultimately owns the debt created by this AI financing cycle?In this episode of Business Bubble, James breaks down the increasingly interconnected financial system behind the AI boom — from massi
The $1 Trillion AI Bet: Bubble, Boom or the Greatest Investment Opportunity of Our Generation?
AI is attracting unprecedented amounts of capital — from venture capital and private equity to corporate spending, private credit and massive investments in chips, cloud infrastructure and data centres.But as billions continue to flow into the AI ecosystem, one question matters more than ever: where will the returns actually come from?In this episode of Business Bubble, James and Offiong unpack th
Refinancing From Japan is Over
Business Bubble Podcast – Episode DescriptionFor decades, the global financial system has rested on a quiet but powerful relationship: America borrows, and countries like Japan lend. But what happens when the world's largest foreign holder of U.S. Treasury bonds begins signaling that it may sell?In this episode of Business Bubble, we unpack one of the most important yet least understood storie
E34: OpenAI + Stripe + Shopify Integration, Nvidia’s $100bn into OpenAI & The TikTok Deal
In this episode of the Business Bubble Podcast, we discussed OpenAI + Stripe + Shopify Integration, Nvidia’s $100bn into OpenAI & The TikTok Deal
E33: Apple, Most Affected From US-China Tariff War?
What happens when the world’s two largest economies go head-to-head and Apple is at the center? James Okpare unpacks Apple is the tariff war.#JamesOkpare #BusinessBubble
E32: Interview w/ Sanusi Abubakar on the Fashion Industry in Africa | Business Bubble
🎙️ The Business of African Fashion | The Business Bubble Podcast ft. Jopiter's CTO Sanusi AbubakarThe African fashion industry is booming, blending tradition with innovation to create a global impact. In this episode of The Business Bubble Podcast, we sit down with Sanusi Abubakar, CTO at Jopiter, to explore how technology is transforming African fashion—from e-commerce and supply chains to AI
E31: How Trump's Tariffs Will Impact Canada, Mexico and the Markets
In this episode, James Okpare is making sense of Trump's tariffs on Canada, Mexico, China and the BRICS and how that can translate to inflation for US consumers and GDP decline for all these nations concerned.
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2025 Predictions: Defining Trends that Would Play out in Technology, The Economy and Society
This year would shape the world like no other, a resurgence of Donald Trump back into the White House, with the Republicans having The House and The Senate, and the popular vote behind him, all giving the 47th President of the US more influence like never before. His bromance with the world’s richest man Elon Musk and tech mafias like Peter Thiel, David Sachs and others in Silicon Valley hoping to
E29: Donald Trump’s Win, Implications for Silicon Valley & Democrats’ Fumble
In this episode, James Okpare shares his views on the recently concluded U.S. Presidential Elections where Donald Trump was declared winner by winning the popular vote and electoral college and also a win on the House and on the senate by Republicans. This makes Donald Trump the most powerful president elect. His administration would be largely influenced by Silicon Valley as Elon Musk and other S
S2 E13: Solving Inflation & Understanding Interest Rates w/ James Okpare and Sam Adekunle
In this podcast episode, James Okpare and Sam Adekunle discuss the impact of inflation and what led to current inflation levels over the past few years and how the ZIRP era contributed to it.
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S2 E12: The Semiconductor Industry with James Okpare and Sam Adekunle
In this podcast episode, James Okpare and Sam Adekunle discuss the whole semiconductor industry, it's players and some explanations how the supply chain of chip production works.
S2 E11: A Conversation with Matej Curda and James Okpare on Bitcoin ETFs, Crypto, and Web3
In this conversation James Okpare and the guest Matej talk on everything cryptocurrencies with the focus on bitcoin ETFs, the crypto market and other topics like Web3.
Profile of Matej Curda
Introducing Matej Curda, a seasoned consultant turned influential web3 leader.
Having previously helped organizations extract maximum value from their data, and starting his own web3 startup, he now leverag
S2 E10: AI News Development, Rabbit R1 & CES 24 w/ Sam Adekunle, James Okpare & Ibukun Shorinwa
In this new episode of the Business Bubble Podcast James Okpare, Sam Adekunle & Ibukun Shorinwa give their insights on the latest in Artificial Intelligence, and the new developments/ regulations, their takes on the new Al device Rabbit R1, and to top it off, our guest- Ibukun talks on his experience at CES 2024
S2 E9: 2023 Year Recap: Big Stories and 2024 Predictions w/ James Okpare and Sam Adekunle
2023 was the year that made major headlines, in the world of Artificial Intelligence with OpenAl, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia and countless of Al startups that raised billions, it was also a year in which we saw Banks collapsing such as SVB and Credit Suisse, quantum computing also made a huge leap with IBM.
The war in Ukraine and Russia's effects on commodity prices.
The Israel-Hamas conflict.
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S2 E8: Novo Nordisk Breakthrough Weigh-Lost Drug, Q3 Market Performance & African Startups Collapse
In Episode 8 of season 2, Novo Nordisk Breakthrough WeightLoss Drug, Q3 Market Performance etc w/James Okpare & Sam Adekunle
In this episode, the podcast centers on Wegovy, a breakthrough weight loss drug from Novo Nordisk tackling obesity. In addition, it reviews the US Federal Reserve's report on the Q3 stock market performance. Lastly, Sam and James dive into the recent collapse of African st
S2 E7: Private Equity Insights with Samuel Adebisi, Austin Onele, Sam Adekunle and James Okpare
In this episode of Business Bubble, Samuel Adebisi, Austin Onele, Sam Adekunle and James Okpare discusses on insights in the Private Equity space and the opportunities they are seeing for the reminding decade ahead.
S2 E6: The IPO Market: 💻 ARM, 🛒 Instacart, 🏠 Better.com and more
The Public Market is getting revived in 2023 with major IPOs from ARM, Instacart, Klaviyo and recent IPOs of Better.com, Vinfast and Cava. James and Sam gives their thoughts on the public market.
S2 E5: Uber First Profit 💸, Vinfast $86bn IPO 🔔, Tesla New Models 🚘
In this episode, Sam and James talk on a range of topics in the public market, from Uber’s first GAAP operating profit to Vietnamese car maker— Vinfast on $86bn IPO debut via SPAC and Tesla upcoming models that could add to their bottom line.
S2 E4: Superconductors 💥, X: The Everything App 🐦 & Building in a Downturn 👷🏾 w/ James and Sam
In this episode, James and Sam explores the world of Room Control Superconductors and what it could potentially mean for innovation and reinventing the world’s GDP. The Everything App: X and Elon’s vision and building in a downturn and VC vintages from 2002, 2008.
S2 E3: The Golden Age of Private Credit💰& Valuations Markdowns📉 w/ James Okpare and Sam Adekunle
In this new episode, James Okpare and Sam Adekunle talk on The Golden Age of Private Credit which has ballooned to $1.5 trillion in market size and the opportunities for institutional investors and also tech valuations markdowns with focus on Africa tech scene.
S2 E2: Twitter vs Threads, IRL Blowup, Inflection AI Monster Raise w/ James Okpare & Sam Adekunle
In this latest episode of the Business Bubble podcast, Sam Adekunle and James Okpare explore big news tickets first with the social media war w/ Twitter and Thread, IRL fake users of 20 million and big AI news such as Inflection AI $1.3billion raise and Databricks multiple acquisitions.
S2 E1: AI Buzz & Mistral AI, Bill Gate in Nigeria, Fraud in Tech w/ James Okpare & Sam Adekunle
New Season, New Episodes: Sam Adekunle and James Okpare discuss the elephant in the room— 🤖Artificial Intelligence and it’s impact in the 🌍world including buzzing news from 🇫🇷French 4 weeks old startup Mistral AI and it’s recent funding. As well as news from the African 👩🏽💻tech space with Bill Gate in Nigeria and fraudulent activities in the African tech space.
E16: Why The Naira Keeps Falling 📈 Emerging Economies Woes 💸 & Global Distress | With James Okpare🕵🏾♂️
James Okpare explains Nigeria’s debt and economic problems to come such as debt defaults and foreign reserve exchange problems and bans and some other issues affecting emerging economies.
E15: What Caused This Inflation 🌪 Massive Layoffs 😰 The Economy Going Forward 💰
In this episode, James Okpare and Nubel Kpoodibabari talk on the economy, layoffs at tech companies and the reasons we have spiraling inflation.
E14: 2022’ Market Crash and Recession
James Okpare analyzes the current market crash as global equities loses $35 trillion in wealth destruction and a possible recession.
E13: Interview on Crypto, Web3 & More w/ John Ogbuehi
James Okpare sits down with John Ogbuehi, a Web3 evangelist, and his thoughts on the future of Web3, Metaverse and Cryptocurrencies
E12: Why Is Microsoft buying Activision, N.Pelosi Insider Trading, Kamala Harris Decline, Rates Hike
In this episode of Business Bubble, James Okpare and Nubel Kpoodibabari have a conversation around Microsoft crazy $69 billion buying of Activision, Nancy Pelosi insider tradings, Kamala Harris lost in popularity, and interest rates hikes
E11: Web3 Explained 👩🏽💻 | Short w/ James Okpare
In this episode of Business Bubble, James Okpare explains in not so details, what Web3 is and the buzz around it that’s being making headlines in the Twitterverse for months.
E10: Twitter’s New CEO Parag Agrawal and Jack Dorsey’s Block 🐦 | Short w/James Okpare
In this episode of Business Bubble, James Okpare talks about Twitter new CEO, the impact of Indians in the USA and Jack Dorsey’s new role at Block.
E9: What The Heck is Wrong With Rivian and Lucid Motors 🚗 | Short w/James Okpare
In this episode of Business Bubble, James Okpare analyze the public listing or IPOs of Rivian and Lucid motors.
E8: Who Are the Companies Building Their Metaverse? | Short w/James Okpare
In this episode of Business Bubble podcast, James Okpare highlights the companies building their Metaverses.
E7: What is Big Crypto? 🪙💻 | Short w/James Okpare
In this episode of Business Bubble podcast, James Okpare explains what Big Crypto is. There’s Big Tech, Big Data but what is Big Crypto?
E6: Foxconn New Cars 🚘, Trump New Social Media and SPAC🧔🏼♂️, Facebook New Name👀, Bitcoin In The News🚀
In this episode of Business Bubble, James and Nubel have a conversation around Foxconn plans to compete with Tesla and other automakers, Donald Trump new social media— TRUTH Social to take on Big Tech, Facebook new name and Bitcoin news.
E5: How Blockchain Technology Would Change the World 🌍, NFT Scams 🥷🏼, Cryptocurrency Bubbles 💣
In this episode of Business Bubble, James Okpare and Nubel Kpoodibabari have a conversation on the promises of Blockchain technology and how it’s impacting the world, NFTs scams and FOMO, Cryptocurrency bubbles and Ponzi schemes.
E4: Pandora Papers📝, Bitcoin Soaring 🚀, US Debt Ceiling & Inflation 💸
In this episode of Business Bubble, Nubel & James have conversations around the leaks of Pandora Papers and how it implicates top officials around the globe, Bitcoin soaring amidst the SEC said it won’t ban it like China did and the U.S. debt ceiling.
E3: The Next Market Crash 💥, Bitcoin in El Salvador 🇸🇻, Latest From Apple📱, Global Chip Shortage 💾
In this episode of Business Bubble, Nubel Kpoodibabari and James Okpare have a conversation around: The possibilities of a looming market crash, inflation, Michael Burry shorting the whole Ark Invest Fund, the SEC on regulating cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin in El Salvador, Apple’s product release, and the global chip shortage.
E2: Unpacking The Metaverse And The Opportunities w/ James Okpare (Exclusive) | Business Bubble
In this episode of Business Bubble, James Okpare unravels what the Metaverse is, the opportunities and the companies leading this new revolution.
E1: War in Afghanistan, Blackrock, Capitalism, Business in Africa, Other Ideas | Business Bubble
On this first episode of Business Bubble, Nubel Kpoodibabari and James Okpare have a conversation around tech, business, power, capitalism in the United States of America and what works in Nigeria.
