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Alpha Bytes — 62 episodes

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How to build a personal moat so AI can't replace you

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Why did my startup fail? How to use AI to validate business ideas before launch

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Understand how Agent Skills work to 10x your productivity

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The Simple (and Honest) Reddit Strategy That Gets Early Customers

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The internet is breaking, but YOU can fix it...

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Is AI really causing these tech layoffs?

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is the $1 billion solo founder now possible?

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What Will Happen to OpenAI?

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How to use NotebookLM and Gemini as your Personal Research Assistant - Wyndo | Practical AI

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How Non-Coders Can 10x Their Productivity with Cursor AI - Jake Handy | Practical AI

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Why the Internet is Running Out of Energy. Understanding the AI Energy Crisis

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Sovereign Wealth Funds, Explained. And Why The US Want to Build One of Its Own

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This one hit home hard! Why every startup founder should listen to this before starting a business

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Is AI Making the Internet Useless?

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The story behind DeepSeek (plain and simple - no fluff!)

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Project Stargate - Is this what AI Supremacy looks like?

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Why Meta is Building an AI Software Engineer

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The TikTok Ban Dilemma Simplified in 13 minutes | Musings #5

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The Biggest 2025 AI Predictions: AI will go through a huge upgrade | Musings #4

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Understanding Willow: Google’s Crazy Quantum Chip | Musings #3

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Distribution: I studied 1000+ pitch decks, I found something interesting….| Musings #2

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Train Your Brain to Work Creatively with ChatGPT | Musings #1

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#40: Peter Buckingham - Competing with NVIDIA, AI chips, and building high-performing teams

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#039: Ray Che - Gen Z Vibes, Millennial Marketing, and the Creator Economy

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#038: Chris Anselmo - Hello, Adversity: Building Resilience in a Challenging World

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#037: Shawn Tsao (Caviar) - How we built and sold our $400M food delivery business

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#036: Peter Buckingham (SambaNova) - Building our own AI chips, Going up against NVIDIA, the Future of AI, Silicon Valley, and Leadership

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#035: A mental framework for making hard decisions

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#034: Zach Lawryk (Rippling, Slack) - Solutions Engineering: How to skyrocket your Startup

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#033: Vatsal Bhardwaj - Why the Metaverse is only the Beginning

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#032: 10 Questions Every Founder Should Ask Before Starting a Company

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#031: Jennifer Garvey Berger - Mental Models for Effective Leadership in a Complex World

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#030: Danny Ma - My journey from Data Scientist to building a personal brand, and 100K+ following

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#029: Jessica Box – Scaling Linktree from 0 to 1 across Product and Growth, building teams, and leadership

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#028: Nazneen Rajani – Building GPT from scratch, Hugging Face, AGI, open source AI

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#027: Liam Bolling – Life of a Google Product Manager, interview tips, the power of AI, and career growth

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#026: Abby Davisson – The Art of Making Hard Decisions for Love and Money

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#025: Dean Rickles - Life is short, and why that’s a good thing for all of us

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#024: Jacky Khuu - Startup failure, food delivery, being resilient, hard lessons, and trying again

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#023: Arvid Kahl – Indie Hacking, Bootstrapping, Building in Public, Social Media

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#022: Neil Durrant – Become your true self, Nietzsche, Stoicism and the search for meaning

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#021: Adam Schwab - Luxury Escapes: Building an Iconic Travel Brand

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#020: Anthony Vicino – From $80K in Debt to 7-figure multimillionaire through hyperfocus and mental models

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#019: Francisco Mendes – How to Deal with Tech Burnout

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#018: Mark Gainey – Strava: Scaling to 100M users, mindset, exercise and growth

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#017: Ken Miller – Podcasting, AI, ChatGPT, Leadership, Learning, and Fathom

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#016: Mia Nguyen – How to Fundraise for your First VC Fund the right way

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#15: How To Identify If A Startup is a Rocketship 🚀

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#14: How One Company is Changing the $88 BILLION Pipe Sector | VAPAR

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#13: How Founders Can Cold Call Investors The Right Way

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#12: Kendrick Nguyen — Angel Investing for EVERYONE with Republic

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#11: Simon Olson - Raising my own VC fund, Swedish Tech Mafia, and Startup Nation

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#10: Tim Fung - Airtasker, going IPO, and secrets to building a company

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#9: Peter Bakker - Unhedged, Algo Trading & Beating Hedge Funds

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#8: Li Jiang - The ONE Blockchain To Rule Them All

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#7: Michael Suswal - Autonomous self-checkout is here!

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#6: Jemma Green - Power Distribution, Energy Harvesting and Blockchain

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#5: Jamie Burrows - The Revolution of Vertical Farming

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#4: Dave Dey - How Will Self-Driving Cars Talk to Pedestrians?

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#3: Casey Bowman - How I Got Started in Bitcoin

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#1: Natasha Baker - How I Started My Own Tech Company

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#2: Joel Chang - Building the Tesla of Electric Motorcycles