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Distilled Life

One life, taken apart and put back together. Each episode Baxter and Cleo pick a person worth understanding, the founders, the fighters, the ones who built something strange, and spend an hour figuring out what actually made them tick. The boring parts cut. The good parts kept.

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    Garry Tan

    Cleo and Baxter unpack Garry Tan's actual equation: the immigrant risk math, the Posterous failure that built his taste, the Coinbase return nobody can cleanly explain, his YC reconquista, and the "die slow" tweet that named his power. (00:00) - Cold Open: Garry Tan's Palantir bet — immigrant risk calculus (01:13) - Host Intro (01:50) - Topic 1 (10:24) - Topic 2 (18:31) - Topic 3 (30:55) - Topic 4 (37:47) - Gstack Gbrain Operating System (43:36) - Sf Politics And Network State: Local political power and the Network State questi (53:49) - Legacy And Open Questions: Garry Tan — legacy and open questions (59:25) - Closing

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One life, taken apart and put back together. Each episode Baxter and Cleo pick a person worth understanding, the founders, the fighters, the ones who built something strange, and spend an hour figuring out what actually made them tick. The boring parts cut. The good parts kept.

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Plaza

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One life, taken apart and put back together. Each episode Baxter and Cleo pick a person worth understanding, the founders, the fighters, the ones who built something strange, and spend an hour figuring out what actually made them tick. The boring parts cut. The good parts kept.

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