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Going Direct Conversations — 58 episodes

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#62 Brian Morrissey: The Great Decentralization of Media & New Media Energy

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#61 INSIDE GOING DIRECT: What, “Going Direct” Actually Means

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#60 Aleks Gampel: America Needs High Quality, Affordable Homes

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#59 Will Fry: The Great Wealth Transfer And Saving Small Business Ownership in America

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#58 Aaron Feigelman: A New Model for Food Distribution in America

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#57 Scott Porter: America Runs on This $80 Billion Industry

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#56 Andra Keay: 5 Ethical Laws of Robotics & The Future of Automation

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#55 Toby Shorin: Financialization & The Death Of Culture

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#54 Saman Farid: America Doesn’t Have a Robot Problem. It Has a Deployment Problem.

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#53 Jan Liphardt: The Battle Over Who Controls The Robots

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#52 Meta Prime: Rebuilding The Social Structure in America

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#51 Sam Lessin: A VC’s Take On Why Decentralization Is Inevitable

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#50 Onye Ahanotu: Reinventing The World’s Oldest Wine

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#49 Oren Falkowitz: Moving The Farm, Not The Food

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#48 Brett Bivens: Production Capital For The New Industrial Age

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#47 Andy Hunter: Anti-Amazon Tech Platform Reviving Independent Bookstores

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#46 INSIDE GOING DIRECT: Diving Into Industrial Bio-manufacturing

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#45 Kary Bheemaiah: Robotics Hype vs. Reality

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#44 Nic Radford: The Case For Industrial Humanoid Robots

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#43 Chris Paxton & Michael Cho: Robopapers And Future Of Robot Learning

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#42 Alan Perlstein: Reinventing Chocolate Production

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#41 Jenny Kan: Investing In The Future Of Bio-manufacturing

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October 2025 Recap Show

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#40 INSIDE GOING DIRECT: Building The Going Direct Economy

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#39 Liz Muller: Micro Nuclear Energy Reactors; Powering The AI Boom

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#38 Karol Hausman & Kevin Black: Building A Brain For Any Robot | AI Eating The Physical World

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September 2025 Recap Show

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#37 INSIDE GOING DIRECT: AI, Robotics, & Decentralizing Our Economy

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#36 Gaurab Chakrabarti: Breaking the Chemicals Monopoly; Re-Industrializing America

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#35 IGD: Gen Z’s Fight Against Gatekeepers & Centralization

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#34 Jamie Gull: From SpaceX to VC; Investing In The Next Industrial Revolution

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#33 INSIDE GOING DIRECT: Capitalism in America vs Europe - Part 2

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#32 Kuba Graczyk: 3D Printer Factories, AI & U.S. Shoe Production

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#31 Dimitry Gershenson - Non-Dilutive Funding for Entrepreneurs; Capitalism’s Role In Building The New Economy

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#30 INSIDE GOING DIRECT: Capitalism in America vs Europe - Part 1

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#29 Bernt Bornich: AI & Robots Solving General Labor; Humanoids In The Home

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#28 Dr. Manan Shah — Surgeon-Turned-Founder Helping You Breathe Again

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#27 This Will Change How You See Capitalism Forever | Reiss Jones

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#26 Joe Cross - From, ‘Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead’ To Building Nama Alongside Micro Creators

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#25 Luca Prosperi — Stablecoins Are The Cryptocurrency Set To Replace Banks

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#24 Alex Barrett: The Canadian Going After Corporate Health Care In the US

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#23 Dr. Spencer Nadolsky: Doctor-Creator-CEO Bypassing The Healthcare Gatekeepers

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#22 Dylan Patel: China’s Robotics Dominance; AI Infrastructure Breakdown

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#21 Jeff Epstein — Masterclass on Affiliate And Referral Marketing Programs

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#20 Stefano Bernardi — An Investment Thesis Around Decentralization Of The Real World

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#19 Josef Chen - Robots, Restaurants Of The Future, & One-Way Mirrors

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#18 Megan Lightcap & Yoni Rechtman — Investing In Creators, Small Business, & The American Dream

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#17 Eileen Galván – $20 Strawberries, Gen-Z, And Overconsumption

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#16 Rafik Kheffache – Using Solar Power To Make Construction Materials

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#15 Khaled Al Mezayen – Water Deep Dive And Decentralizing The World’s Most Critical Resource

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#14 Ed Mehr - America Must Invent Their Own Game To Win Manufacturing

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#13 Oliver Beavers - Playbook To Unlock Trillions For Next-Gen Infrastructure

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#12 Packy McCormick - Techno-Industrial Revolution & Why Vertical Integrators Will Win

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#11 Aleks Gampel - Micro-Factories And Future Of Construction

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#10 Ian Rountree - Venture Capital’s Role In Decentralized Production

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#9 Jon Olinto: Fixing Flour with Decentralized Stone Mills

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#8 Kathryn Judge: Rise Of The Middleman Economy

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#7 Aleh Kandrashou: Reinventing Home Building