The Gen Z podcast

By Gen Z, For Gen Z.

A podcast rebuilding our generation's belief that we can still build the future, by studying the people who already did.

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Building the future has never been this easy.

AI collapsed the barriers. Anyone can write, code, design, research, prototype and launch faster than any generation before.

So why does it feel impossible?

More power
than any generation
before us.
Less belief
than any generation
before us.
Social media taught us to compare ourselves to everyone else.
Inequality became harder and harder to ignore.
And AI started to feel like a threat.

The barrier isn't skill anymore.
It's belief.

What we believe

Innovation isn't over.
It's our turn.

Gen Z has all the technology it needs to innovate. So what's missing? The mindset. The courage and curiosity it takes to build something new, worn down by years of social media that shrank our attention spans and taught us to scroll through the future instead of making it. The tools were never the problem. Our belief was. So we built newz to give it back.

How we do it

A podcast. By Gen Z, for Gen Z.

01

From the past to the future

By taking apart how past innovators actually thought, we start to unwind the future and how to build for it.

02

Made for Gen Z

Fun and conversational, but always about what comes next. Big ideas, said like real people.

03

Built for builders

Every episode ends where you start: what our generation can actually do with it.

Season one

The episodes.

Three episodes. One a month. Starting August 2026.

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About us

Two founders.
Two continents.
One mission.

London · Leo
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New York · Vail
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Leo Sartogo and Vail Brokaw, founders of newz
Leo & Vail
London ⟷ New York
Founders' photo drops in here. See the note in the page file.
Leonardo Sartogo
18 · London · Sevenoaks School
Vail Brokaw
18 · New York · Deerfield Academy

It started as Poli Opinion. In November 2024, at the height of the US election, Leo messaged Vail with a problem: our generation was drowning in misinformation. So we decided to do something about it.

A year and a half later, we saw a bigger problem: our generation was losing belief in its own ability to build the future. So we started newz, to study the past and understand how innovation really works. Soon, we'll sit down with the innovators shaping the future. All of it to help our generation build what's next.

Study the past Speak with the present Teach the future
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