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Dwarkesh Patel was a cohort-19 grantee (April 2022) for 'podcasting and career support.' What he built is The Dwarkesh Podcast — long-form interviews with frontier AI researchers, economists, historians, and biologists. The podcast has become one of the more important venues for technical AI discussion. Patel's guests include Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, Mark Zuckerberg, Tony Blair, Jeff Dean, and the people actually building the models. His preparation is famously thorough — he reads the books, runs the experiments, and asks technical questions that other interviewers don't. This is a particularly clean EV win: a small grant to a young writer-podcaster, who then became one of the canonical sources of public understanding for the most important technology of the decade.