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Intellectual Software

by Abhishek Kumar

Into the software of the smartest brains

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Episodes

  1. Mike Merrill: Human IPOs, NFTs, ConstitutionDAO, Military, Plato and growing up in a town of population 10

    With Bitcoin, it feels like a lot of the early adoption around that was as a counter to what was happening in the United States economically with the financial crash and fiat currency being used by the government to prop certain people up and not others. And I think when people are struck with a...

  2. John Coogan: Big Tobacco, YC, Theranos, Marxism, Memetics, entrepreneurship and civilization

    What really makes me pause at this point is not that someone has that unique of a thought process, it's that they've been able to distill it in a really memorable way, like Dawkins memetics. Like the idea of being on your deathbed and having no regrets; that's a very basic concept. I feel like a...

  3. Dave Nemetz: Side projects, Deep work, Unbundling of media, Pomp, Sam Parr, censorship and the future

    I've known Dave for a few months now and It was good to finally have him on the show. We talked about a bunch of stuff ( mentioned in the show notes ) from media in the past to where it's going and everything in between. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. SHOW NOTES 03:19 - Bleacher report…

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  4. Jonathan Domsky: Accidental entrepreneur, China, Books and Capitalism

    Steal My Marketing is back after a long break of self-reflection and doubt. This conversation with Jonathan was recorded a few months back and has everything that I love about podcasting. It allows this 26-year-old to talk to someone I've never met about things I'm deeply interested in. The world...

  5. Chris Hladczuk: How to connect with billionaires, crush it on Twitter and build atomic habits

    Chris Hladczuk has interviewed billionaires, built a loyal following of thousands from his awesome Twitter threads, and built atomics habits like reading 365 days in a row, deep work, and sacred hours. In this episode, he shares his exact method of connecting and strengthening his relationship…

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  6. Sachit Gupta: The Third Door to Mark Cuban, Tim Ferriss, Seth Godin, and Andrew Warner; and Podcasting, Poker nights and hacking conferences

    Sachit Gupta is THE best super-connector I know. He started with nothing almost 8 years back and has since worked with Tim Ferriss, Seth Godin, and Andrew Warner. His show Conscious Creators reached #1 in entrepreneurship last year and he led the On Deck Podcasting Fellowship. I wanted to bring…

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  7. The worldview of Danny Miranda: Lessons and Habits from the man who's grown his podcast from 0 to 55k downloads in 6 months

    Danny Miranda is an inspiration and the host of the Danny Miranda podcast. He's gone from 0 to 55,000 downloads in the past 6 months, published 87 awesome conversations, and has shared countless stories of his hustle on Twitter. This conversation goes beyond what Danny has done with his podcast…

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  8. Audience Builders: Dave Nemetz, Polina Marinova, Jonathan Hunt and Brian Morrissey

    This conversation is led by Bleacher Report founder Dave Nemetz, featuring Polina Marinova (The Profile Dossier), Jonathan Hunt (Complex), and Brian Morrissey (Digiday Media). The lessons compressed in this conversation are wide-ranging and if there's anything you need to learn about content-led...

  9. Darius Mirshahzadeh - Iran, gas stations, nightclubs, Tony Hsieh, Elon Musk, wrestling and books

    Darius Mirshahzadeh is a serial entrepreneur and a bestselling author. He spent his childhood in Iran and the US and learned the core principles of business from watching his dad run gas stations. I loved the stories of him selling candy in school to starting a nightclub business in college....

  10. Austen Allred on Lambda School, $400 Billion Clubhouse, Peloton replacing religion, the death of Silicon valley, first principles thinking and more

    Austen Allred is the founder of Lambda School and one of the smartest entrepreneurs trying to fix education. We talked about Austen's fascination with reading history in the context of business, his deep interest in shareholder letters and internal memos of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, Disney, and...

  11. 100+ side projects, working with Nathan Latka, Product Hunt's Maker of the Year 2016 - Mubashar Iqbal

    Mubs has been making things since he was about 8 years old. Selected as ProductHunt's maker of the year for 2016, Mubs has worked on 100+ side projects. He's collaborated with Nathan Latka on Founderpath and done tons of cool things. We talked about some of his successful early projects, Product...

  12. A 6-figure Youtube SEO strategy, a landing page that converts at 17% and building a fitness SaaS for nerds with Richa Prasad

    I read Richa's Indiehackers story when it first came out and sent her a DM on Twitter. I was surprised by how much she knows about Youtube's algorithm and I've never met anyone who understands Youtube SEO to the core, as much as Richa does. We talked about how she left her job at Microsoft to…

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  13. How a trip to India led to a cabin in the woods, a business idea and an antidote to endless Zoom meetings

    I went into this episode thinking I'd learn about travel during covid and the tiny house movement. I came out learning about habits, reading books, journaling, meditation, engineering luck, and much more. Last year, Hector was working in a startup as the head of growth and getting burned out when...

  14. How Sid Jha built Sunday Snapshots newsletter to 3000+ subscribers in 18 months and how you can too :)

    Sid Jha started a weekly newsletter in May 2019, while he was in college, sharing his observations on books and academic papers, unique business stories, and a few niche parts of the internet. He sent the first few editions to his close friends and over time has built a base of 3000+ subscribers....

  15. How Andy Bailey went from $1.5 million in debt to building NationLink Wireless to $4 million in revenues and then built Petra Coach to $7.5 million in revenues in less than a decade.

    Andy Bailey is the founder of NationLink Wireless (sold) and Petra Coach. As a kid, he'd climb trees, pull mistletoes and go door to door selling them. He'd sold candy bars, oil lamps, books, cut grass, and worked at a factory, all before graduating from school. In college, he started a…

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  16. How Matthew Stafford built a global network of 4000+ entrepreneurs in 46 cities, hosted the coolest YC event ever, and became an angel investor in 13 companies

    Matthew Stafford was working for a government-backed program connecting investors and founders when he had an idea of conducting founders' dinners. 9 years back, almost to this date, he conducted the first 9others dinner in Central London. That dinner has led to 100s of other dinners in 46 cities...

  17. How Dickie Bush went from 5 subscribers to 1000+ subscribers in 29 countries within 10 months by sharing his favourite books, articles and podcasts.

    This episode happened because I got lucky :D I was scrolling Twitter and saw Dickie’s tweet. He basically said he was available for 3 hours the next day and was looking for ideas. I asked him to come up on the podcast and within 24 hours, we were on call. The magic of the internet :) Dickie has…

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  18. Corey Haines is the only SaaS marketing guy you'll ever need to listen to.

    Corey Haines tells this crazy story of how he got his first marketing job, within 3 days, to propose to his girlfriend. Last year, he left his job as the head of growth of Baremetrics, to go bootstrapping full-time. He's since worked on Hey Marketers ( a job for only for marketers), Swipe Files…

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  19. The culture behind building a $60 million/year advertising agency and how it led to 3 successful exits, BetterBookClub and much more.

    After being fired from his job at a local TV station, Arnie Malham founded CJ Advertising, to help law firms advertise on TV and built it into one of the largest ad agencies in the US. At its peak, they were doing more than $60 million in revenues. Along the way, he founded 2 other companies and...

  20. How I built a multi-million dollar baseball team by creating fans first experiences - The Yellow Tux Guy, Jesse Cole

    Jesse Cole became the General Manager of the Gastonia Grizzlies baseball team and took it from losing $100,000 a year and $268 in the bank account to selling out games. After selling the team he bought the Savannah Bananas baseball team and went on from selling a single ticket in the first 2…

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  21. How Arvid Kahl built FeedbackPanda to $55,000 MRR in a niche market, wrote his book "Zero to Sold" and lessons from his journey

    Arvid Kahl built his SaaS business FeedbackPanda from $0 to $55,000 MRR in 2 years, without any outside funding or marketing spend. After selling it in 2019, he started sharing his lessons on Twitter and his blog (https://thebootstrappedfounder.com) which later turned into his book "Zero to…

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  22. How Pete from No CS Degree built his interview blog and newsletter into a platform for launching multiple products.

    Pete Macleod started No CS Degree about a year back, interviewing self-taught developers. He’s since grown his website into a job board, a Bootcamp index, and a newsletter; has made $15,000 and launched several products including a book, a course, and a members-only live interview session. SHOW...

  23. How Moshe Czapnik built a LinkedIn Consulting business and a co-working space at age 21.

    Moshe Czapnik is a LinkedIn consultant and is the founder of a coworking space in New Jersey. We talked about how he dropped out of college without a degree, took 2 dead-end jobs, and ended up mastering LinkedIn marketing at the age of 21. He’s since helped a number of small businesses with their...

  24. How Jamie MacDonald became a consultant for Dean Graziosi and has built multiple streams of income.

    Jamie MacDonald has battled domestic abuse, gambling, and depression to build a powerful network of clients and mentors from Dean Graziosi to Lewis Howes. He's also a freestyle football celebrity and has built multiple streams of income at a very young age. Learn the tools Jamie learned from Dean...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Into the software of the smartest brains

HOSTED BY

Abhishek Kumar

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Into the software of the smartest brains

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