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#178 with Balaji - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto
May 25, 2021 00:00 - 2 hoursMy First Million Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “I invest on an ideological basis. I invest in the world that I want to build” – Balaji Srinivasan A common approach to doing good is: work hard, make a lot of money and donate it to charity Balaji finds it a reasonable strategy but compares it to holding your breath He always tries to work on things that have meaning along the way Balaji foresees the internet causing the collapse of many traditional institutions His investments all contribu...
Tony Robbins: Own Your Future in Business, Life & Love EP 1107
May 16, 2021 00:00 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBSchool of Greatness Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Don’t judge yourself too hard and turn everything into a life and death situation “Go live a life that’s meaningful and you will love yourself” – Tony Robbins Being really angry for more than five minutes can suppress your immune system for 1-2.5 hours You can’t control what your parents do or have done, so you have to become stronger than any of it to be free, and freedom comes from growth Self-esteem doesn’t come from what peopl...
Baseball and business with A-Rod
May 14, 2021 00:00 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBBusiness Casual Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Alex Rodriguez is disappointed by the US education system not teaching financial literacy “It’s arguably the most important class than any young person can take today” Alex Rodriguez 78% of NFL players experience financial distress within 2 years from retirement In the past years, there has been a shift of power from the institution to individuals What should pro-athletes do for their finances? Surround yourself with the best people ...
Setting Boundaries: The Key to Work/Life Balance — Below the Hotline #4
May 06, 2021 00:00 - 9 minutes - 8.77 MBBelow the Line Podcast Notes Key Takeaways To have proper balance, you need to have routines and boundaries set in place Boundaries allow you to have consistency, momentum and ultimately, balance If you don’t have boundaries, you won’t have a good work/life balance A simple way to start practicing boundaries is to go to sleep and wake up at the same time every night It will also greatly improve your health Another boundary James practices is date night with his wife every Tuesday and ...
#244 Robert Cialdini - Mastering the Seven Principles of Influence and Persuasion
May 05, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 57 MBWhat Got You There with Sean DeLaney Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Seven principles of persuasion 1. Reciprocity Always give first People who receive something from you, are more likely to say ‘yes’ to your requests 2. Liking Before trying to influence someone, identify your similarities and bring them to the surface 3. Social Proof When people are uncertain, they look to their peers for answers 4. Authority People trust what experts say about a matter 5. Scarcity People want more ...
The Secret to Effortless Productivity & Overcoming Overwhelm w/Greg McKeown EP 1102
April 27, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 105 MBSchool of Greatness Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Our mindstate is the first thing holding us back from getting the results we want Three key productivity hacks: forgiveness, gratitude, and asking “how can I do this effortlessly?” You’d never think of forgiveness as a productivity hack, but that’s what it is It frees up so much energy “What if the essential things can be the fun things?” Greg McKeown We can create rituals to make what’s essential also enjoyable Instead, of aski...
#57 - MARK CUBAN
April 12, 2021 00:00 - 52 minutes - 82.4 MBPod of Jake Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Mark is keeping an eye on: blockchain, crypto, and smart contracts “Decentralized governance and the ability to handle business differently is the ultimate game changer” – Mark Cuban Mark views Bitcoin as digital gold (more used for storing value than for paying with it for goods or services) “Some people think it’s a hedge to fiat, I don’t. I just think it’s an alternative to gold.” – Mark Cuban Mark isn’t sure what the price of these crypto cur...
Marcus Lemonis on The Profit, Product, Process, and People.
March 31, 2021 00:00 - 45 minutes - 47.8 MBBusiness Lunch with Roland Frasier Podcast Notes Key Takeaways When evaluating a business, Marcus Lemonis examines the 3 P’s (people, product, and process) Product: You want a relevant product that customers need today and is high in demand by the market Process: Your process is how you develop the idea, test it, roll it out to customers, and continue to improve your ideas People: It’s important to remember that people work with you, not for you. You want to be collaborative and thoug...
E27: The Great Inflation Debate, Amazon gets spicy on Twitter, rethinking supply chains & more
March 30, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 33.9 MBAll-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg Podcast Notes Key Takeaways The big question on everyone’s mind: Will there be inflation? Answer: Yes, but there won’t be hyperinflation The government has printed trillions of dollars Artificial levels of consumption have been created Overconsumption may drive up commodity prices which may end up leading to inflation “I do think it will drive inflation. I do think it will drive commodity prices.” – Chamath Although Chamath believes there...
#162 - Why Clubhouse Will Fail
March 22, 2021 00:00 - 52 minutesMy First Million Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Writing a viral thread has a lot of upsides: Shaan got invited to go on CNBC and a German news station Had his thread praised by a lot of famous individuals Got an offer for a book deal Shaan gained about 20,000 new followers from that one thread Advice for writing a viral thread: Write your thread and then come back to it an hour or so later. You want to look at it with fresh eyes and then edit it. Ernest Hemingway used to say, “Write d...
#105 Seth Godin: Failing On Our Way To Mastery
February 23, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 155 MBKnowledge Project Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Your company shouldn’t be for everyone, it should be for someone “Nobody has everyone as their customer” – Seth Godin The internet is not a mass medium, it is a micro medium. It’s the best medium at reaching specific groups of people and the worst medium at reaching everyone. “Learning is the act of failing on our way to mastery” – Seth Godin Living in your own reality can be fun in the short term, but it’s dangerous in the long term “It ...
Mark Cuban: The Big Shark Formula | Family, NFT, NBA Top Shot and Shark Tank Stories
February 19, 2021 00:00 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBThe Quest with Justin Kan Podcast Notes Key Takeaways The pandemic changed countless industries, but one of the most exciting ones for Mark Cubans is blockchain “We’ll look back at the pandemic of 2020, particularly the summer, and say okay that was the inflection point of a lot of blockchain-based applications” – Mark Cuban Mark is bullish on Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for art. NFTs prove authenticity and ownership of digital art. E.g: The NBA launched Top Shot which sells digital mome...
Mark Cuban: The Big Shark Formula
February 19, 2021 00:00 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBThe Quest with Justin Kan Podcast Notes Key Takeaways The pandemic changed countless industries, but one of the most exciting ones for Mark Cubans is blockchain “We’ll look back at the pandemic of 2020, particularly the summer, and say okay that was the inflection point of a lot of blockchain-based applications” – Mark Cuban Mark is bullish on Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for art. NFTs prove authenticity and ownership of digital art. E.g: The NBA launched Top Shot which sells digital mome...
Ron Baron on Investing in Tesla and SpaceX (Podcast)
February 15, 2021 00:00 - 1 hourMasters in Business Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “Everyone else would buy and sell and trade…what I would do was just buy stuff and I would hold it” – Ron Baron “I love buying these businesses that can grow tremendously from what they were” The conviction to invest in a company for decades comes from understanding the competitive advantage the company has “The value of your money falls in half every 17 years” – Ron Baron “The stock market is the hedge against the devaluation of your cur...
#89 — How to 10x Your Chance at Startup Success
February 10, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBBelow the Line Podcast Notes Key Takeaways To 10x your chances at startup success: Fix a problem that you yourself have Make a list of 15-20 problems in your life Then rank them by most painful Then try to build a product that solves one of them “Build a company around a problem that you yourself have” – James Beshara Why build a company around a problem you have? You’ll have a familiarity with the problem which will help you design a solution You’ll have knowledge of existing so...
#496: Marc Randolph on Building Netflix, Battling Blockbuster, Negotiating with Amazon/Bezos, and Scraping the Barnacles Off the Hull
February 05, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 101 MBTim Ferriss Show Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “I just have to say that when you have begged for spare change on the sidewalk that asking a VC for $50,000 is nothing.” – Marc Randolph Leadership is largely communication driven. To be a great leader, you have to be a great speaker and writer. “When I look back at college, the two most valuable classes that I took was a writing class and a public speaking class, and I use both of those skills almost every single day.” – Marc Randolph...
Chamath Palihapitiya – The Major Problems Facing the World – [Invest Like the Best, EP.211]
February 02, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 45.7 MBInvest Like the Best Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Chamath sees inequality as the biggest risk to democracy His solution? Teach people about the importance of saving and investing “I think the key to peace and prosperity today…is to close the inequality gap and to close the inequality gap is to show people everyday normal people, how they can earn and save and invest and be a part of capital, not just be a part of labor.” – Chamath Palihapitiya The 3 biggest issues Chamath is trying to fi...
#495: David Rubenstein, Co-Founder of The Carlyle Group, on Lessons Learned, Jeff Bezos, Raising Billions of Dollars, Advising Presidents, and Sprinting to the End
January 27, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 97.4 MBTim Ferriss Show Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Personal decisions that improved David’s life: He doesn’t drink alcohol or do drugs He prefers to work hard instead of taking it easy David has tried to perfect 3 skills: writing, talking, and reading “I realized if you don’t love what you’re doing, you can never be great at it. Nobody ever won a Nobel Prize hating what they do.” – David Rubenstein Advice for raising money: If you want people to give you money, you need to give th...
#489: Guy Raz Interviews Tim Ferriss — How I Built This — Key Lessons, Critical Decisions, and Reinvention for Fun and Profit
December 28, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 82.2 MBTim Ferriss Show Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Tim’s parents didn’t always have the budget for toys, but they always had money for books: “My parents cultivated this love of reading very early on, and as a result, I did well in school” – Tim Ferriss Why did Tim initially join a data storage company? His mentors told him it was better to get a job in a growing industry (like data storage) because he would gain a lot more experience and learn how to scale a company “I wanted to ...
#486: Harley Finkelstein — Tactics and Strategies from Shopify, The Future of Retail, and More
December 13, 2020 00:00 - 2 hours - 124 MBTim Ferriss Show Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Harley sees Shopify as the world’s first retail operating system “We enable anyone who wants to sell a product to do so – Harley Finkelstein Law school taught Harley how to think on his feet and write better: “It taught me how very quickly reply and quickly think on my feet or my toes. But it also taught me how to write really, really well. And for those things alone, I wouldn’t change it for anything in the world.” – Harley Finkelste...
432: Larry Lawton | From Jewel Thief to Honorary Cop Part One
November 24, 2020 00:00 - 53 minutes - 25.7 MBJordan Harbinger Show Podcast Notes Key Takeaways What store owners can do to prevent robberies Put a double way mirror Put a sign saying that there’s a 24/7 offsite video monitoring Don’t put outside displays that prevent to see what’s going on in the store from outside Avoid excessive routine to prevent robbers from studying you Avoid receiving deliveries every day at the same time Avoid parking in the same spot every day Larry Lawton is disheartened by how the prison system ruins ...
Keith Rabois’s Advice For Angel Investors
November 17, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 49.4 MBVenture Stories Podcast Notes Key Takeaways The hardest part of angel investing is filtering and narrowing through opportunities to find the ones that are worth investing in Even Keith isn’t perfect at filtering which investing meetings to take. He’s missed out on several meetings with startups (like Pinterest and Coinbase) that ended up doing extremely well. As an angel investor, you want to have companies that fail in your portfolio because if none fail, that means you’re not taking eno...
SPI 446: How to Start and Sustain a Successful Business with Racheal Cook
November 05, 2020 00:00 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBThe Smart Passive Income Online Business and Blogging Podcast Podcast Notes Key Takeaways In life, remember to make time for important things like friends, family, and health: “If you don’t make time for your life, if you don’t make time for your friends and family, if you don’t make time for your health and wellness, it will not be there when you actually want it.” – Racheal Cook Once you get your first client, it becomes much easier to get the next one: “I know that when a per...
#125 - What is the Buy, Borrow, Die Process?
November 04, 2020 00:00 - 53 minutes - 74 MBMy First Million Podcast Notes Key Takeaways How do people get away with paying no taxes? They buy real estate and use depreciation to offset their taxes If you buy a residential property, you can depreciate that asset for 27.5 years If you buy a commercial property, you can depreciate it for 39 years Another way to avoid paying taxes is the buy, borrow, die strategy: Buy an asset Borrow money against it (it’s considered debt so you pay no taxes) Put that money in a trust and when ...
A Four-Step Strategy For Writing Copy That Always 'Works', With Craig Clemens.
November 04, 2020 00:00 - 10 minutes - 9.21 MBBusiness Lunch with Roland Frasier Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Why does Sam and Andrew not want to be CEOs of a company? Being a CEO is incredibly stressful and time consuming. There are tons of stories about CEOs being bad fathers because they spend all their time at work. Neither Sam or Andrew want that life. Instead, it’s better to be the owner and simply hire a CEO to run the day-to-day operations When thinking about a compnenstation strategy for a CEO, you need to consider what go...
#7: Meet Bryce Hall's Newest Mentor — Kevin Harrington
October 31, 2020 00:00 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBCapital University Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Influencers should build things instead of promoting brands, here is why Brands pay less as their market power increases Your business gives you equity, which lets you raise funds, use other’s resources, build wealth, and stay in control Always be on the lookout for the best new business deals and investments that get pitched Influencers can bring sweat equity to the table and charge fees for their work and consults You get paid for your ...
#4: Josh Richards and Bryce Hall talk with Kat Cole about Ani Energy
October 23, 2020 00:00 - 42 minutes - 58.1 MBCapital University Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “The moment of magic between a brand and its audience is when the audience feels like you get them”– Swan Sit If your brand is what gets people through the door, the product quality is what will keep them coming back “You can only put lipstick on a pig for so long” – Swan Sit “One thing I’ve learned is to just keep speaking to that core. If they were the influencers of the first product, they’ll be the influencers of the additional products...
12. James Altucher: How To Choose Yourself & Live Your Dreams
October 17, 2020 00:00 - 56 minutes - 38.7 MBThe Reader's Journey Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “You only have one life to live and you want to do things that you love doing” – James Altucher Choosing yourself means not waiting for approval from gatekeepers and starting the venture you want: Want to be an author? Self-publish your book on Amazon Want to make a TV show? Record it and upload it to YouTube Didn’t get into MIT? Take their free online courses “Choosing yourself, to summarize, is when everyone is telling you you can’t do...
633 - How I Built This with Guy Raz
September 28, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBJames Altucher Show Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Smart entrepreneurs keep their options open: “They don’t burn bridges; they keep their options open in case they need to pull that parachute” – Guy Raz When you solve a problem that you have, it’s confirmation of a market because you’re already a customer of it “If it works for you, it’s probably going to work for everybody like you” – James Altucher Tobias Lütke started Shopify to build an eCommerce store to sell snowboards Derek Sivers...
Eric Jorgenson: Lessons from Naval Ravikant
September 17, 2020 00:00 - 54 minutes - 50 MBNorth Star Podcast Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Be aware of the multiplying by zero effect: One bad variable that can ruin the whole experience Ex: You might own a beautiful restaurant with amazing food, but if the bathrooms are filthy and overflowing, you’ll have no customer Ex: You have your dream job and dream company, but if your manager is a jerk and hates you for no reason, you’ll hate working there “Impatience with action, patience with results” – Naval Ravikant Do that workout ...
Michael Seibel – Lessons from Thousands of Startups - [Invest Like the Best, EP.190]
September 09, 2020 00:00 - 55 minutes - 38.6 MBInvest Like the Best Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Founders are more concerned about making a positive impact today than in the past What Michael Seibel looks for in YC applicants The team’s ability to build and launch the first version of the product Evidence of forward-motion Evidence of a strong relationship between co-founders “The beautiful thing about founders is their ability to lie to themselves, and the number one thing they lie about is whether they have product-market fit. The...
#105 with Avlok Kohli and Xavier Helgesen - Leading AngelList Ventures and Buying Businesses Like Berkshire Hathaway
September 08, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 78.7 MBMy First Million Podcast Notes Key Takeaways The VC firms make 7-10x or in some cases 15x returns on their investment It’s really the unicorns (companies worth $1 billion or more) and decacorns (companies worth $10 billion or more) that allow for those kinds of extreme returns Most of the investments in any VC portfolio will fail but you only need 2-3 home runs to earn a great return. Those home runs can return 1,000 or 10,000x your initial investment. “It’s complete power-law dynamics h...
20VC: SPACs. What Are They? Why Now? How Do They Change The Venture Landscape? Are They Better Than IPOs & Direct Listings? How Should Founders Think About Them? Kevin Hartz & Troy Steckenrider @ A*
August 31, 2020 00:00 - 37 minutes - 30.3 MBTwenty Minute VC Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “We see this SPAC phenomenon not as a flash in the pan, not as a quick up and down…but really an enduring vehicle to bring our innovation companies to market and we find that to be extremely exciting”– Troy Steckenrider What is a SPAC? A SPAC is a pool of capital that is used to invest in a private company and help them go public. The capital is raised on the public markets through a traditional IPO and goes into a bank where it is held for ...
622 - Don't stir up so much trouble, Zuby!
August 27, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 79.6 MBJames Altucher Show Podcast Notes Key Takeaways James Altucher is calling the shift in the economy to a more digital world “The Great Reset” A few important skills you want to have in the new economy: social media, storytelling, and content creation Zuby has been on Twitter since 2009 but it wasn’t until February 2019 when he went viral for identifying as a man and breaking the women’s deadlift record That one tweet got over 12 million impressions. It also went viral on other platforms...
623 - Top Business Trend in this time with Sam Parr
August 27, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 87.4 MBJames Altucher Show Podcast Notes Key Takeaways 2020 has been a crazy year: Australian wildfires, possible war with Iran, impeachment hearings, COVID, riots, protests, and more Sam Parr is bullish on “dumb phones”- phones which usually only allow calling and texting “Dumb phones are going to be a lot more popular than they are now” – Sam Parr James Altucher wishes there was an email service that also acted as a networking tool by reminding him to reach out to contacts he hasn’t spoken w...
619: Jevon "JT" McCormick: From the son of a pimp to The President and CEO of Scribe Media
August 27, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 73.2 MBJames Altucher Show Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “My dad, he taught me a few things what to do, but more than anything, he taught me what not to do. He taught me how not to be a father.” – JT McCormick JT eliminated 3 words from his vocabulary: hope, wish, and luck “You can wish all day, it’s not going to produce anything” “I don’t do hope, I believe. Believe forces execution” – JT McCormick Don’t spend time hoping, wishing, or waiting to get lucky. Instead, believe in what you want and...
#Plog — Startups: Experiments with Truth
August 26, 2020 00:00 - 27 minutes - 31.9 MBBelow the Line Podcast Notes Key Takeaways The scientific community rewards scientists that make corrections and improve on their initial discovery. However, the law community is only focused on convincing people of a certain truth, not the actual truth. “Creation is like science. It is continual experiments with the truth.” – James Beshara “The critics apparent value is in persuasion, not in truth. They’re like the lawyer.” – James Beshara James has created several startups that have fa...
#71 — Plog — Startups: Experiments with Truth
August 26, 2020 00:00 - 27 minutes - 31.9 MBBelow the Line Podcast Notes Key Takeaways The scientific community rewards scientists that make corrections and improve on their initial discovery. However, the law community is only focused on convincing people of a certain truth, not the actual truth. “Creation is like science. It is continual experiments with the truth.” – James Beshara “The critics apparent value is in persuasion, not in truth. They’re like the lawyer.” – James Beshara James has created several startups that have fa...
#Plog — Startups: Experiments with Truths
August 26, 2020 00:00 - 27 minutes - 31.9 MBPodcast Notes Key Takeaways The scientific community rewards scientists that make corrections and improve on their initial discovery. However, the law community is only focused on convincing people of a certain truth, not the actual truth. “Creation is like science. It is continual experiments with the truth.” – James Beshara “The critics apparent value is in persuasion, not in truth. They’re like the lawyer.” – James Beshara James has created several startups that have failed and at one...
Balaji Srinivasan: Living in the Future
August 25, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 98.6 MBNorth Star Podcast Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “The most challenging thing to do as an entrepreneur but, it’s also absolutely necessary, is to hire people who are better than you” – Balaji Srinivasan “2020 is the year the internet starts” – Balaji Srinivasan More people are working, shopping, and living on the internet than ever before. People are even attending weddings through the internet. “Twitter and a lot of social media is like a restaurant that’s learned to put sugar in our food...
#90 Apolo Ohno: Process Versus Prize
August 20, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 107 MBKnowledge Project Podcast Notes Key Takeaways The main problem in apparel: finding clothes that fit customers and that customers love “Nobody was solving that core problem of how do I actually identify the clothes on this planet, out of the millions of things out there, that you specifically are going to love” – Katrina Lake Price and speed of delivery are important in the apparel industry, but at the end of the day people want clothes that they like: “Yes, price, speed, and delivery a...
SPI 435: 7 Terrible Traps Entrepreneurs Fall Into (And How to Get Out of Them)
August 15, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 63.8 MBThe Smart Passive Income Online Business and Blogging Podcast Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Almost all overnight successes took years of grinding behind the scenes before the pieces clicked into place Every great business idea starts with the belief in one’s own self, but that alone isn’t enough Once you have a good idea you have to move forward with the process of validating that idea with concrete evidence Your belief in what you sell will take you much farther than a desire for profit ...
#443: David Yarrow on Art, Markets, Business, and Combining It All
June 29, 2020 00:00 - 2 hours - 138 MBTim Ferriss Show Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Sports journalists are really just fans with typewriters Even though David Yarrow was successful and had $1 billion of assets under management and dozens of employees, he wanted to leave banking because everyone was trying to get a piece of his time “There was no real time for me…I wasn’t a happy person” – David Yarrow “I must never again put myself in a position where my work ethic can be undone by things totally beyond my control” –...
#441: John Paul DeJoria — From Homelessness to Building Paul Mitchell and Patrón Tequila
June 23, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 90.9 MBTim Ferriss Show Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Wonderful life advice from John: “Don’t limit yourself in life by your age, or what you think you’re capable of doing. You’re always as old as your mind leads you to believe, and there’s a lot of things you could do if you truly believe you could do it.” – John Paul DeJoria John’s diet is about 90 percent vegetarian “I don’t think man was made to eat meat, and I didn’t believe that till more recently, so I’m kind of changing in that d...
3 Negotiating Lessons from Burgundy, The Nazis & The 3 Walls, With Roland Frasier
June 21, 2020 00:00 - 8 minutes - 7.57 MBBusiness Lunch with Roland Frasier Podcast Notes Key Takeaways If you have an absolute secret you don’t want your negotiating opponent to discover, construct several “false walls” that you can allow them to “breakthrough” Breaching the “false walls” gives them the pleasure of getting something, which will help you to protect your most precious negotiating points “When faced with an opponent who has superior leverage, cooperate with them, and work collaboratively to find out what they real...
5 Licensing Strategies To Add A 6 Figure Profit Center To Your Business, With Bob Serling.
June 18, 2020 00:00 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBBusiness Lunch with Roland Frasier Podcast Notes Key Takeaways To license means to grant someone else permission for the use of something while you still retain ownership For example, George Foreman didn’t invent the George Foreman Grill, he licenses out his name and likeness to the company that made the grill An advantage of licensing is that you don’t take on much risk while still getting the upside The licensee takes on the manufacturing, distribution, and advertising costs while the ...
#1492 - Jocko Willink
June 17, 2020 00:00 - 3 hours - 255 MBThe Joe Rogan Experience Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “You know what the police need more than anything else? They need money for training.” – Jocko Willink Police do a tiny amount of training for such a serious, high-pressure job Navy SEALs would train for 18 months for a deployment Cops get about 4 hours of combative training a year “If we want to help the police through these situations, we need to invest more money into them. We need to get them better training. We need to pull them ...
#85 Bethany McLean: Crafting a Narrative
June 11, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 174 MBKnowledge Project Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Why was no one aware of Enron’s failure earlier? “Skepticism about business tends to travel in a very small circle, companies won’t speak ill of their competitors…employees can’t speak publicly…so there’s this odd veil over the information you most want to know” – Bethany McLean Many people have a simplistic view that companies that end up doing illegal activities are run by bad apples who are deliberately making bad decisions, but that’s ofte...
Predicting the Future with Barbara Corcoran
May 26, 2020 00:00 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBBusiness Casual Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Barbara is rethinking her commercial lease because: It’s expensive Many employees prefer working from home so they don’t need as much office space “I’m anticipating that half of the retail stores will not reopen” – Barbara Corcoran Lots of restaurants also won’t reopen Even if the pandemic ends, people won’t be so fast to jump into retail stores and start making lots of purchases “Nobody is going to get through this by being greedy...
20VC: Mark Cuban on His Relationship To Wealth and Risk, Why Coming Out of The Pandemic Will Be The Best Time In The History of Mankind To Start A Business & Why Silicon Valley Investors Are Like Old Hollywood
May 08, 2020 00:00 - 30 minutes - 24.2 MBTwenty Minute VC Podcast Notes Key Takeaways “Right now and going forward, whatever time it takes to get through the other side, it’s going to be the best time in the history of mankind to ever start a business because there are no rules. Everything is open for negotiation.” – Mark Cuban If you’ve been fired or furloughed, this is the best time to start your business “Now’s the time to do it” Mark views Silicon Valley investors as Old Hollywood. In Old Hollywood, everyone was trying to b...