LaBossiere Podcast
52 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe New Narrative
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#52 - Erik Torenberg
May 03, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 71.9 MBErik 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 7:34 - Trust and Direct Distribution 10:45 - Legacy Media and the Techlash 17:24 - What is Turpentine 18:41 - Lessons From 1000 Interviews 20:59 - The Printing Press, Barbells, and the Future of Med...
#51 - Bryan Johnson
March 21, 2024 08:45 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBBryan 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 his speed of aging by the equivalent of 31 years. Johnson freely shares his protocols and data publicly for everyone to use. Project Blueprint, is an endeavor to achieve humanity and earth scale coope...
#50 - Anthony Pompliano
January 30, 2024 08:50 - 1 hour - 109 MBAnthony “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 than 50 million times. Pomp also writes a letter that is read by more than 250,000 investors each morning. Pomp’s interests lie at the intersection of finance, technology, entrepreneurship, and ...
#49 - Bryan Caplan
January 09, 2024 08:50 - 1 hour - 90.3 MBBryan 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, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing, will be published by the Cato Institute in 2024. He’s the editor and chief writer for Bet On It, the blog hosted by the Salem Center for Policy at the Universit...
#48 - Delian Asparouhov
December 12, 2023 09:50 - 1 hour - 69.9 MBDelian 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 was a principal at Khosla Ventures, head of growth at Teespring, and founder of a healthcare company called Nightingale. Delian is Bulgarian, attended MIT, and likes to ski and play soccer. 0:00 - I...
#47 - Robin Hanson
November 30, 2023 08:50 - 2 hours - 112 MBRobin 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 22:11 - The Probability of Aliens 33:05 - Domesticating Humans 38:08 - Signaling and the Elephant in the Brain 42:31 - Conscious and Subconscious Behavior 46:53 - Collective Signaling 49:54 - The C...
#46 - Chris Mason
November 22, 2023 08:50 - 1 hour - 66.9 MBChris 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 Age of Prediction: Algorithms, AI, and the Shifting Shadows of Risk. 0:00 - Intro 2:29 - How Long Will Humanity Last? 9:01 - On Societal Pessimism and Long-Term Thinking 13:02 - Aliens! 17:36 - The ...
#45 - Keith Rabois
November 15, 2023 10:06 - 1 hour - 70.5 MBKeith 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 Wish, and also led investments in Faire, Ramp, Trade Republic, and Stripe. He’s regarded as one of the greatest early stage investors. Keith began his career in the industry as a senior executive at P...
#44 - Bradley Tusk
November 08, 2023 08:50 - 1 hour - 83.1 MBBradley 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 Tusk Strategies. Bradley’s family foundation is funding and leading the national campaign to bring mobile voting to all U.S. elections. Tusk Philanthropies also runs and funds anti-hunger campaigns that...
#43 - Jeff Morris Jr.
October 31, 2023 07:50 - 1 hour - 73.7 MBJeff 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 13:15 - AI and the Future of Content 21:20 - Dating Apps Today and Time at Tinder 29:26 - Future of Product and Strategy 36:30 - Crypto 40:38 - On Venture Capital 53:19 - Building Chapter One 59:36...
#42 - Sari Azout
November 08, 2022 11:00 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBOn founding versus Investing, parenting, indexing knowledge, collective intelligence, and good questions.
#41 - Jason Crawford
October 25, 2022 10:00 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBOn optimism, progress in technology, drivers of stagnation, and how to think about innovation.
#40 - Samo Burja
October 11, 2022 10:00 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBOn Immortal societies, civilizational decline, the longevity of information, and academia.
#39 - John List
August 02, 2022 15:56 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBOn apologies, academia, quitting, critical thinking, and scaling great ideas.
#38 - Renée DiResta
May 19, 2022 11:00 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBOn the internet’s biggest problems, social networks as open protocols, and pseudonymity online.
#37 - Kyle Samani
April 20, 2022 13:49 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MBOn risk, thesis-driven investment, and what Kyle thinks people aren’t thinking about enough.
#36 - Matt Galligan
March 15, 2022 10:00 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBOn falling into tech, communication protocols, pseudonymity and reputation.
#35 - Anthony Pompliano
March 01, 2022 11:30 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBOn conviction, decentralization, and writing online.
#34 - Adam Jackson
February 15, 2022 11:00 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBOn marketplaces, community-owned networks, and the future of work.
#33 - Nadia Eghbal
January 20, 2022 11:00 - 28 minutes - 26 MBOn academia, how open source works, code as a public good, and journalism.
#32 - Rory Sutherland
January 11, 2022 15:56 - 52 minutes - 47.6 MBOn good storytelling, the brilliance of irrationality, the dangers of institutional behavior, and air fryers.
#31 - Roneil Rumburg
December 22, 2021 17:54 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBOn dorm room crypto mining, Layer 2 Bitcoin, Web3 disruption, and much more.
#30 - Peter Diamandis
November 10, 2021 12:00 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBOn curiosity, finding purpose in life, the future of longevity science, and the importance of space.
#29 - Agnes Callard
November 08, 2021 11:00 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBOn status games, paths in life, persuasion, good parenting, privacy, and God.
#28 - Albert Wenger
November 05, 2021 23:58 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBOn climate tech, crypto regulation, and writing in public.
#27 - Vijay Boyapati
November 04, 2021 14:41 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBOn decentralization, geo-politics, and power
#26 - Sam Corcos
October 14, 2021 11:00 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBOn metabolic health, running a remote company, bio-observability and more.
#25 - Gaby Goldberg
October 12, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBOn forced reflection, breaking into VC, modern friendships, and the new logic of the internet
#24 - Tyler Cowen
September 30, 2021 17:11 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBOn podcasting, the end of the great stagnation, academia, antitrust, and more.
#23 - Chris Blattman
September 23, 2021 20:01 - 29 minutes - 27 MBOn sampling in life, Colombian gangs, and the perpetuation of peace
#22 - Daniel Gross
September 16, 2021 16:40 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBOn predicting success, angel investing, remote work, and more.
#21 - Gary Taubes
September 02, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MBOn navigating education, what good science means, and why we get fat.
#20 - Blake Robbins
August 18, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBOn cold emails, the state of VC, time as wealth, and more.
#19 - Jude Gomila
August 11, 2021 10:00 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBThe CEO of Golden talks investing, indexing knowledge, and important problems.
#18 - Jake
August 02, 2021 11:00 - 45 minutes - 42 MBThe pseudonymous figure talks fame, life decisions, and podcasting.
#17 - Eric Jorgenson
July 26, 2021 10:00 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBEric Jorgenson talks sandwiches, book writing and leverage.
#16 - Delian Asparouhov
July 16, 2021 18:59 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MBOn immigrant beginnings, unconventional paths, and space factories.
#15 - Amjad Masad
July 13, 2021 10:20 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBOn when startups become corporations, the future of open source, and doing what makes the best story.
#14 - Peter McCormack
July 07, 2021 13:54 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBOn volcanoes, discovering bitcoin, and anarchism.
#13 - Rolf Potts
June 28, 2021 11:30 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBThe travel writer and essayist talks time as wealth, why we travel, and the role of social media.
#12 - Aubrey de Grey
June 25, 2021 11:00 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBDr. Aubrey de Grey on the ultimate human problem, why we age, and how we can stop it.
#11 - Robin Hanson
June 17, 2021 00:06 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBProfessor Robin Hanson on hidden motives, emulating brains, and life in the universe.
#10 - Eli Dourado
June 11, 2021 12:00 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MBOn the great stagnation, transformational technologies, and the future of crypto with Eli Dourado.
#9 - Beth Comstock
June 03, 2021 16:06 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBOn risk, corporate culture and the necessity of conflict with Beth Comstock, author and former CMO and vice chair at General Electric.
#8 - Annie Duke
June 01, 2021 16:09 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBAnnie Duke on “right” decisions, when to quit, and hedging your bets.
#7 - Patri Friedman
May 28, 2021 19:06 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBTalking poker, cities on the ocean, and anarcho capitalism with the founder of The Seasteading Institute.
# 6 - Troy Osinoff
May 27, 2021 00:08 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBOn starting young, unconventional paths, and the future of marketing with Troy Osinoff, co-founder of Juice, an award winning digital marketing agency.
#5 - Bradley Tusk
May 20, 2021 16:48 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBOn politicians, saving Uber, and mobile voting with Bradley Tusk, a man doing everything at once.
#4 - Ryan Delk
May 19, 2021 15:43 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBLessons in building, the state of education, and defining success with the CEO of Primer.
#3 - Mark Lutter
May 14, 2021 21:19 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MBOn building cities from scratch, good governance, and how we’ll live in 2050 with the Founder and Executive Director of the Charter Cities Institute.