Enhanced Games’ Aron D’Souza: “The Olympics are broken”

The Times Tech Podcast

• Episode: Enhanced Games’ Aron D’Souza: “The Olympics are broken”
• Website: The Times Tech Podcast
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• Duration: 00:43:59
• Published: 2024-05-03 04:00

Would you watch an Olympics where everyone was doping? The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Aron D’Souza, co-founder and president of the Enhanced Games, to talk about launching a new competition where everyone is pharmacologically enhanced (6:00), the events (10:00), why he started it (14:50), meeting Peter Thiel (18:20), leading the Gawker case (19:30), the response from the Olympics (23:00), how it could go wrong (26:00), making sure noone dies (28:10), adding robotics and cybernetics (32:20), the funders (35:00), lining up media rights (39:00), the most recent doping scandal (41:00), and the coming legal fight (41:45).

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