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Smart Friends — 122 episodes

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#102 ​The Next Renaissance, AI Reality vs Hype, and a Movement of Hope with Zack Kass

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The Book of Elon - Part 4

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The Book of Elon - Part 3

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The Book of Elon - Part 2

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The Book of Elon - Part 1

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The Book of Elon launches today

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My Conversation with Naval Megasode

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#101 Tesla War Stories, Self-Driving at Waymo, and Building the Salesforce of BOM (Spencer Penn of LightSource)

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#100 Interviewing Your Parents, Writing Through Fear, and One's First Book (Kyle Thiermann)

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#099 Jonathan Swanson: Scaling Thumbtack, 10x Delegation, and Designing an Ideal Life

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#098 Danielle Strachman: What Makes a Thiel Fellow

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#097 Brad Feld: Founding Techstars, Giving First, and Mentorship

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#096 Cal Riley: Special Ops, Grief, and Why Your Business Needs a Heart

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My Conversation with Naval on Building Judgement

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My Conversation with Naval on Saving Yourself

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My Conversation with Naval on Learning Happiness

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My Conversation with Naval on Philosophy

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My Conversation with Naval on Building Wealth

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#095 Rolling Fun #10: Capitalism is Hard, Natural Gas From Sunshine, and "Blimps" (That Work This Time)

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#094 Rolling Fun #9: Basketball, Asteroid Mining, Child Labor (Not Really Tho)

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#093 Behind the Scenes of a Nuclear Microreactor Startup with Matt Loszak, Founder CEO of Aalo Atomics [Replay]

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#092 Sarma Melngailis: Bad Vegan, Memoir as Recovery, and Reclaiming Your Story

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#091 The Magic of Code, History of Computing, and the Future of AI Interfaces [Sam Arbesman #2]

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#090 Building a Venture Firm From Zero to One, and AI-driven VC Thesis Research [Arkady Kulik #2]

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#089 David Senra + Mitchell Baldridge #6 : Writing the Founders’ Book, Building Natural-fit Businesses, and Craft

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#088 Toby Rush: $100M Exits, Splitting Companies, Timing Startups, and Ideem Killing 2FA

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#087 Nat Eliason: From Blogging to Sci-Fi Novels, Writing Books That Last, and Owning Your Audience

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#086 Jim O’Shaughnessy: Learning to Learn, AI Disruption, and the Future of Publishing

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#085 Ben Reinhardt: How to Discover New Technology, Playing the Longest Game, and Philanthropy in Technology

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#084 Augustus Doricko: How to Terraform Earth, The History of Weather Control, and The Mandate of Heaven

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#083 Klaus Kleinfeld: How to Lead Fortune 500 Companies, Manage Energy, Inspire Teams

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#082 Paul Millerd: Profits in Publishing, Why Self-Publish, How Authors Make Big Money

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#081 The Next Industrial Revolution w/ J. Storrs Hall [Replay]

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#080 Solocast #3: Nuclear, Nanotech, and the next Industrial Revolution [Replay]

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#079 Andrew Wilkinson: De-risking Leverage, Investing vs. Operating, and the Best Part About Business [Replay]

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#078 David Senra + Mitchell Baldridge #5: David’s Private Conference, Writing Books, and Building Networks

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#077 Alex Komoroske: Systems Thinking, Builders vs Gardeners, and Working In Large Organizations

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#076 The Alliance of Entrepreneurs and Scientists with Arkady Kulik of RPV

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#075 Flywheel Masterclass, Flying Planes, and Building For Creators with Nathan Barry of Convertkit

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#74 Rolling Fun #8: New LPs, Mark-ups, Giant Guns for Space Cargo, How to Find a Lead Investor, Software for Manufacturing, AI for Ecomm.

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#073 Rolling Fun #7: Q4 Updates: Nuclear Fusion, AI for Kids, AI Manufacturing — and how founders can find lead investors

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#072 The First Artificial Human Arm with Tyler Hayes of Atom Limbs

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#071 Robotic Delivery Tunnels with Garrett Scott of Pipedream Labs

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#070 Rolling Fun #6: Investing in Robotic Prosthetics, 10x Batteries. Al meets MrBeast.

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#069 David Senra + Mitchell Baldridge #4: Old Books, New Events, and A Surprise CEO Job

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#068 Behind the Scenes of a Nuclear Microreactor Startup with Matt Loszak, Founder CEO of Aalo Atomics

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#067 Room-Temperature Superconductors and Nuclear Fusion with Andrew Cote

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#066 World-Changing Potential of Next-Gen Batteries with Eli Dourado and Ethan Loosbrock (Ouros Energy)

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#065 David Senra + Mitchell Baldridge #3: Recap Capital Camp, Lunch with Sam Zell

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#064 The Synthesis of Media and Ecommerce with Kevin Espiritu of Epic Gardening

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#063 Turning Discoveries Into Companies with Sam Arbesman of Lux Capital

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#062 Meeting Charlie Munger and Starting RE Costseg with David Senra and Mitchell Baldridge

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#061 How CEOs Build with AI - Sean Devine of XBE

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#060 Making Data Honest (and Valuable) with Omar ElNaggar (Weavechain) and Zach Pettet (Money20/20)

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#059 Rolling Fun #5: Investing in Nuclear, Ecommerce Data, and AI Productivity

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#058 Scaling Nuclear Energy, Saving The World – Bret Kugelmass of Last Energy

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#057 Startup To Scale, What CEOs Learn - Austen Allred (Bloomtech) and Al Doan (Missouri Star Quilt Co)

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#056 New York Times’ Radical Distortions and Fabrications with Ashley Rindsberg, Author of “The Gray Lady Winked”

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#055 Crypto Business Banking and Long-Term Blockchain Applications with Grace Guo of Domo and Mitchell Baldridge

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#054 Engineering an Acquisition, Grant Funding, and Nanotech Pharma with Maria Flynn

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#053 Rolling Fun #4: Q4 Portfolio Recap, Crypto Long-view, Uncapped Notes, and Fund Growth

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#052 Money 20/20, Fintech Innovations, and Interviewing Legends with Zach Anderson Pettet

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#051 AI Evolution: ComputerVision, Olfactory Computation, and Neural Nets with Max Olson

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#050 Growing Podcasts, Bookkeeping Biz, and Creator-Led Companies with David Senra and Mitchell Baldridge

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#049 Rolling Fun #3: Q3 Portfolio Recap and Life Updates: Crafting, Smart Kitchens, the API for the Auto Industry

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#048 Balaji’s Most Epic, Personal, In-Depth Interview Ever (Transhumanism, Investing, and more)

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#047 Track Zach Marshall #4: The Services Trap, Firing Customers, Chicken-and-Egg Problems

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#046 Finding Your Peak of Productivity: Ultraworking with Sebastian Marshall

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#045 The Future of Nuclear Energy: Politics, Culture, and Technology with Mark Nelson

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#044 Brainstorming Bologna with Matt Ferrel and Ben Bator

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#043 Automation and Delegation to buy $500 million+ of real estate, with Rohun Jauhar of JT Capital

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#042 Black Swans, The End of Jobs, and Long Volatility with Taylor Pearson of Mutiny Fund

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#041 Devouring Founder’s Biographies, Self-Belief, and the Power of Podcasting with David Senra of Founders Podcast

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#040 Customer-Driven Products: How Brett Kopf built “Slack for Schools” and launched Omella

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#039 Track Zach Marshall #3: 10x-ing your company in 4 Months

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#038 Creative EA Delegation, the Corporation of You, and Personal Leverage with Robert Hayes and Chris Ho of Athena

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#037 Inside Buying & Selling Internet Businesses with Thomas Smale, Founder/CEO of FE International

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#036 Rolling Fun #2: Q1 Portfolio Recap, Q2 Updates, Right Kind of Risks and more with Al Doan and Bo Fishback

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#035 EA Delegating w/ Michelle Penczak: Founder of Squared Away - Military Spouses becoming Top Tier Virtual Assistants

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#034 The Next Industrial Revolution w/ J. Storrs Hall: Nuclear Energy, AI and Nanotechnology

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#033 Channeling Anger to Fix the Finance Industry with Deregulation, Technology, and Crypto with Zach Pettet

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#032 Solocast #3: Nuclear, Nanotech, and the next Industrial Revolution (Book Recap: “Where is my Flying Car?”)

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#031 I’m Building an Early-Stage Fund with Al Doan and Bo Fishback (Rolling Fun #1)

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#030 Self-reinvention & building leverage in podcasts with Chris Williamson

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#029 Bringing Real Estate onto the Blockchain with Natalia Karayaneva & Adam Brown of Propy

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#028 Finding an edge in HR & Culture for growing Startups, with Jeannine Seidl of Density

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#027 Finding the 100 highest-quality public businesses in the world with Will Oliver and Will Barnes, founders of In Practise

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#026 Jason Hitchcock #2 w/ Four Moons: structuring a DeFi Fund, Liquid Staking & How to get involved in Web3

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#025 Shane Mac: Building Messaging Protocol for Web3 (XMTP), Company Culture, and Scaling Trust

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#024 SquidDAO: Web3 Project Deep-Dive: Part Crypto Hedge Fund, Part NFT DAO. An Anonymous Conspiracy for Mutual Enrichment

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#023 Tim Hwang: Trade Journal Cooperative, Robot Lawyers, Bubble in Digital Ads, Zuck Being Quantitatively Weird, and Misinformation as Warfare

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#022 Solocast #2 - Web3 by a Winter Fire

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#021 Track Zach Marshall #2: Focusing on customers, building MVPs, and creating trust as a new startup.

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#020 Chris Powers: Starting A Real Estate Empire at 17, Focus, Podcast Flywheels

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#019 Phil Huber: Crazy Alternative Assets, Crypto for Financial Advisors & the Book Writing

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#018 Bram Kanstein: Effing around on the internet - MicroStartups, Crypto/NFT’s & Course Building.

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#017 Chris Sparks: High-stakes Poker, the training regimen of a world-class mental athlete, and coaching the top 0.01%

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#016 Kevin Espiritu: Bootstrapping Epic Gardening to 8 figures by mixing Media + D2C Biz models. Oh and Poker, Pink Pineapples, and Male Models

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#015 David Perell: Intellectual Openness, Mental Models for Success, and Peculiar Ways of Looking at The World

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#014 Dan Reecer: What Is Polkadot And Why It’s The Future of Web3

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#013 Cliff Kuang: Optimizing User Interface And The Massive Opportunities Within Design

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#012 Mitchell Baldridge: Defeating Taxes, Financial Planning, and Flipping A Bored Ape NFT for $250k

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#011 Eric Jorgenson: Metagames, Feedback Loops and Transcending The Muggle World

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#010 Codie Sanchez: Learning Leverage From Drug Cartels, Vanguard, And Goldman Sachs

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#009 Track Zach Marshall Vol 1: From Navy SEAL To Marketplace Founder -- Future of Private Security

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#008 Andrew Finn of G64 Ventures & Wait But Why: How To Acquire A Free Company And Knowing When To Eat A Shitburger

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#007 Into the DAO: How Index Coop is building Crypto Index products

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#006 Sean O’Connor: How Blockchains Make Transactions Costless, and How that Transforms Society

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#005 Joe Hertler: Tapping Into Creative Genius & Pursuing Joy Through Creativity

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#004 Jason Hitchcock: DeFi, NFTs, And The Metaverse

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#003 Nick Huber: How to Leverage Twitter, an Abundance Mindset, and A Love of Chaos

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#002 Andrew Wilkinson: Investing vs. Operating, De-risking Leverage, and The Best Part About Business

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#001 Sky King: The Next Level of the Internet, Decentralization, and Becoming a Player in the Game of Life

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Almanack of Naval bonus episode and next: Jorgenson’s Soundbox

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The Almanack of Naval Epilogue: Recommended Reading

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Naval on Philosophy

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Naval on Saving Yourself

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Naval Ravikant on Learning Happiness

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Naval Ravikant on How to Build Judgement

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Naval Ravikant on How to Build Wealth

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Prologue featuring Naval Ravikant, Tim Ferriss, and Eric Jorgenson

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Welcome to the Audio Channel: Jorgenson's Soundbox