Episodes
-
#59 - Haseeb Qureshi
Haseeb Qureshi is the Managing Partner at Dragonfly, a crypto investment firm with roughly $4 billion under management. Dragonfly recently closed its fourth venture fund at $650 million. Prior to Dragonfly, Haseeb was a General Partner at MetaStable Capital, the crypto fund co-founded by Naval...
-
#58 - Miles Grimshaw
Miles Grimshaw is a Partner at Thrive Capital, an investment firm that builds and invests in internet, software, and technology-enabled companies. Thrive recently closed on $5BN in new funds and also announced Thrive Holdings, a permanent capital vehicle to invest in, acquire, and operate...
-
#57 - Kevin Hartz
Kevin Hartz is Co-Founder and General Partner at A*, a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments. Before establishing A*, Kevin co-founded Eventbrite and guided the company as CEO for its first 11 years before it went public. His entrepreneurial journey also includes…
more -
#56 - Amjad Masad
Amjad Masad is the co-founder and CEO of Replit, a programming environment for everyone that allows anyone to write and deploy code, regardless of experience. Replit has 34 million users globally and is one of the fastest-growing developer communities in the world. Before Replit, Amjad was a tech...
-
#55 - Katherine Boyle
Katherine Boyle is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and cofounder of the firm’s American Dynamism practice, which invests in companies supporting the national interest across aerospace, defense, manufacturing, energy, logistics, and critical infrastructure. She sits on the boards of Apex...
-
#54 - Keith Rabois
Keith Rabois is a Managing Partner at Khosla Ventures and the CEO of OpenStore, which acquires small direct-to-consumer businesses. Keith co-founded Opendoor and led the first institutional investments in DoorDash and Affirm. He has early stakes in YouTube, Palantir, Lyft, Airbnb, Eventbrite, and...
-
#53 - Elad Gil
Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur, executive, and one of the greatest tech investors of all time, with early stakes in something like 40 billion-plus dollar companies: AirBnB, Anduril, Coinbase, Figma, Flexport, Instacart, Notion, OpenDoor, Pinterest, Square, Stripe… I could really go on. He’s…
more -
#52 - Erik Torenberg
Erik Torenberg is a technology entrepreneur and investor. Presently, he’s the founder of Turpentine. Previously, he was the chairman of On Deck, co-founder and general partner at Village Global, and first employee at Product Hunt. 0:00 - Intro 5:08 - On Investing vs Operating and Being a Player...
-
#51 - Bryan Johnson
Bryan Johnson is the world's most measured human. Johnson sold his company, Braintree Venmo, to PayPal for $800m in 2013. Through his Project Blueprint, Johnson has achieved metabolic health equal to the top 1.5% of 18 year olds, inflammation 66% lower than the average 10 year old, and reduced…
more -
#50 - Anthony Pompliano
Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano is an entrepreneur and technology investor. He runs his family office which makes private investments, along with owning majority stakes in a number of operating businesses. Additionally, Pomp hosts popular conversations on “The Pomp Podcast,” which has been downloaded…
more -
#49 - Bryan Caplan
Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a New York Times Bestselling author. He’s the author of 8 books, including The Myth of the Rational Voter, The Case Against Education, and Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration. His next book, Build, Baby…
more -
#48 - Delian Asparouhov
Delian Asparouhov is the co-founder, President and Chairman of Varda Space Industries, a company building spacecraft to manufacture materials in microgravity that are difficult or impossible to produce on Earth— starting with pharmaceuticals. He’s also a Partner at Founders Fund. Previously, he…
more -
#47 - Robin Hanson
Robin Hanson is a professor at George Mason University and researcher at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford. 0:00 - Intro 2:42 - Intelligent Life in the Universe 7:30 - Grabby Aliens: A Primer 15:29 - Elites and the End of Global Coordination 18:59 - 6 Hard Steps for the Emergence of Life...
-
#46 - Chris Mason
Chris Mason is a professor of Genomics, Physiology, and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine. He is also one of the founding Directors of the WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction. He is the author of The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds, and the co-author of The…
more -
#45 - Keith Rabois
Keith Rabois is a General Partner at Founders Fund and the CEO of OpenStore, which acquires small direct-to-consumer businesses. Keith co-founded Opendoor and led the first institutional investments in DoorDash and Affirm. He has early stakes in YouTube, Palantir, Lyft, Airbnb, Eventbrite, and...
-
#44 - Bradley Tusk
Bradley Tusk is a venture capitalist, political strategist, philanthropist and writer. He is the CEO and co-founder of Tusk Ventures, the world’s first venture capital fund that invests solely in early stage startups in highly regulated industries, and the founder of political consulting firm…
more -
#43 - Jeff Morris Jr.
Jeff Morris Jr is the Managing Partner at Chapter One, an early stage venture capital fund. He’s formerly the VP of Product and Revenue at Tinder, which he helped scale to become the #1 grossing app in the world. 0:00 - Intro 1:57 - Growing up in Silicon Valley 5:01 - Writing, Hollywood, and Tech...
-
#42 - Sari Azout
On founding versus Investing, parenting, indexing knowledge, collective intelligence, and good questions.
-
#41 - Jason Crawford
On optimism, progress in technology, drivers of stagnation, and how to think about innovation.
-
#40 - Samo Burja
On Immortal societies, civilizational decline, the longevity of information, and academia.
-
#39 - John List
On apologies, academia, quitting, critical thinking, and scaling great ideas.
-
#38 - Renée DiResta
On the internet’s biggest problems, social networks as open protocols, and pseudonymity online.
-
#37 - Kyle Samani
On risk, thesis-driven investment, and what Kyle thinks people aren’t thinking about enough.
-
#36 - Matt Galligan
On falling into tech, communication protocols, pseudonymity and reputation.
-
#35 - Anthony Pompliano
On conviction, decentralization, and writing online.
-
#34 - Adam Jackson
On marketplaces, community-owned networks, and the future of work.
-
#33 - Nadia Eghbal
On academia, how open source works, code as a public good, and journalism.
-
#32 - Rory Sutherland
On good storytelling, the brilliance of irrationality, the dangers of institutional behavior, and air fryers.
-
#31 - Roneil Rumburg
On dorm room crypto mining, Layer 2 Bitcoin, Web3 disruption, and much more.
-
#30 - Peter Diamandis
On curiosity, finding purpose in life, the future of longevity science, and the importance of space.
-
#29 - Agnes Callard
On status games, paths in life, persuasion, good parenting, privacy, and God.
-
#28 - Albert Wenger
On climate tech, crypto regulation, and writing in public.
-
#27 - Vijay Boyapati
On decentralization, geo-politics, and power
-
#26 - Sam Corcos
On metabolic health, running a remote company, bio-observability and more.
-
#25 - Gaby Goldberg
On forced reflection, breaking into VC, modern friendships, and the new logic of the internet
-
#24 - Tyler Cowen
On podcasting, the end of the great stagnation, academia, antitrust, and more.
-
#23 - Chris Blattman
On sampling in life, Colombian gangs, and the perpetuation of peace
-
#22 - Daniel Gross
On predicting success, angel investing, remote work, and more.
-
#21 - Gary Taubes
On navigating education, what good science means, and why we get fat.
-
#20 - Blake Robbins
On cold emails, the state of VC, time as wealth, and more.
-
#19 - Jude Gomila
The CEO of Golden talks investing, indexing knowledge, and important problems.
-
#18 - Jake
The pseudonymous figure talks fame, life decisions, and podcasting.
-
#17 - Eric Jorgenson
Eric Jorgenson talks sandwiches, book writing and leverage.
-
#16 - Delian Asparouhov
On immigrant beginnings, unconventional paths, and space factories.
-
#15 - Amjad Masad
On when startups become corporations, the future of open source, and doing what makes the best story.
-
#14 - Peter McCormack
On volcanoes, discovering bitcoin, and anarchism.
-
#13 - Rolf Potts
The travel writer and essayist talks time as wealth, why we travel, and the role of social media.
-
#12 - Aubrey de Grey
Dr. Aubrey de Grey on the ultimate human problem, why we age, and how we can stop it.
-
#11 - Robin Hanson
Professor Robin Hanson on hidden motives, emulating brains, and life in the universe.
-
#10 - Eli Dourado
On the great stagnation, transformational technologies, and the future of crypto with Eli Dourado.
We're indexing this podcast's transcripts for the first time — this can take a minute or two. We'll show results as soon as they're ready.
No matches for "" in this podcast's transcripts.
No topics indexed yet for this podcast.
Loading reviews...
Loading similar podcasts...