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#342 The Lessons of History (Will & Ariel Durant)

March 25, 2024 00:00 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MB

Founders ✓ Claim Key Takeaways Check out the episode page Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org What I learned from reading The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant.  ---- Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes ---- Follow Founders Podcast on YouTube  ---- (1:00) This is a 100 page biography of the human species (1:00) The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant (Full Set)  (2:30) Generations of men establish a growing maste...

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang

March 17, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 82.2 MB

Acquired Key Takeaways  The trick of entrepreneurship is convincing yourself that it is not that hard, even when it is  “Your organization should be the architecture of the machinery of building the product.” – Jensen Huang    Pave the way to future opportunities; you cannot wait until the opportunity is in front of you to reach out for it   Many of the great all-time tech companies began by building products and services for developers  You don’t have to be that perfect if you...

Ep. 290: Financing the Deep Life (w/ Noah Kagan)

March 15, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.8 MB

Deep Questions with Cal Newport ✓ Claim One of the most common strategies for achieving a powerful ideal lifestyle vision is to leverage entrepreneurial activities to find a stable source of income that allows autonomy and flexibility. To help understand how to succeed in such ventures, Cal interviews the entrepreneur and author Noah Kagan about his new book, "The Million Dollar Weekend." Recording on the road as part of his book tour for "Slow Productivity," Cal also shares some lessons ab...

#48 - Delian Asparouhov

March 01, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 69.9 MB

LaBossiere Podcast Delian 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 pla...

#9 - Joe Lonsdale on Everything

February 04, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes - 54.6 MB

The Network State Podcast ✓ Claim Key Takeaways  The United States of America is the greatest startup in world history  As an entrepreneur, your social role is to make profits, but you also need to ensure that socialists do not take over your country  “Every founder starts as lead engineer and ends up as Chief Psychologist.” – Balaji  There is light in the world and there is darkness; accelerationism want light and the decels want darkness  A world of degrowth is a world that is full o...

#6 - Chris Dixon on Read Write Own

February 01, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 68.1 MB

The Network State Podcast ✓ Claim Key Takeaways  Blockchains provide the societal benefits of protocol networks but with the competitive advantages of corporate networks “Come for the tool, stay for the network.” – Chris Dixon   If every command line tool becomes an app, does every protocol become a blockchain?  Distribution was so scarce in the early days of the internet that Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber) killed for it  The Web3 version of a given Web2 app adds balances and the abilit...

Crisis in Higher Ed & Why Universities Still Matter with Marc & Ben

January 16, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 99.1 MB

A16z Podcast Key Takeaways  Universities still matter, especially the really good ones; the decisions made at elite universities end up influencing the future of the country  The bundling of the university is evidence that it has evolved; however, it is important for university leaders to continually evaluate that bundle to ensure that it makes sense The main credentialing of the college degree is in two parts: the fact that you were admitted and the fact that you graduated  The admissio...

Marc Andreessen

January 06, 2024 00:00 - 3 hours

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin ✓ Claim Key Takeaways  The more technology and capitalism we get, the better things are going to get  Fundamentally, whether or not a startup succeeds depends on whether it is building a product that people want  Great people want to be around other great people; most companies are too tolerant of mediocrity  In the long run, even the most innovative companies eventually become boring Tall Poppy Syndrome: Due to humanity’s tribal inclinations, the Tall Po...

#407 – Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

January 04, 2024 00:00 - 126 MB

Artificial Intelligence Podcast Key Takeaways  The universe is biased towards certain futures; there is a natural direction where the whole system wants to go  If you believe the future will be better, and that you have the agency to make it happen, then you are increasing the likelihood of that better future happenings  “Technically, e/acc was started in a basement. I quit big tech, moved back in with my parents, sold my car, let go of my apartment, bought about $100K of GPUs, and I just...

The 2023 Milly Awards: Part 1

December 24, 2023 00:00 - 53 minutes

My First Million Key Takeaways  We are in a new era of marketing; entertainment is being built around the product  Focus is a superpower  Having the optimal mix of optimism and pessimism is key to business success  “You can’t tell kids to follow their dreams when their dreams suck.” – Palmer Luckey  Do not wait for your current thing to get bad before choosing to work on something else People who do one thing and take it very seriously win over the long-term  Read the full notes @ pod...

When Weakness Turns Your Ego Up | A Simple Way To Measure Our Days

December 22, 2023 00:00 - 7 minutes - 6.69 MB

The Daily Stoic Key Takeaways  Ask yourself, “What is the thing that I uniquely enjoy?”  Since there is so much noise in sales, you must do something to stand out; using humor and satire are two ways to do that  To make the niche content funny, you need to know the terminology of the niche  There are no rules on X/Twitter; the owner of the site sells cars… we are on Twitter to have fun and laugh! Criteria for identifying problems to solve: market size, excitement, time-to-first...

#330 Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)

December 18, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 88.9 MB

Founders ✓ Claim Key Takeaways  Life is hard for the man who thinks he can take a shortcut  Once you become complacent, it is all over  You might not be smarter than everyone else, but youcan know more about something than everyone else  Get out of your office and help the customers Appeal to interest, not to reason Employees are inherently self-interested; ensure that the company’s incentive structure aligns with this reality    Never take advantage of a customer or employee, but ta...

#329 Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack)

December 10, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 104 MB

Founders ✓ Claim Key Takeaways “Trust is one of the greatest economic forces on earth.” – Charlie Munger  Genius has the fewest moving parts  “Good ideas are rare. Bet heavily when you find them.” – Charlie Munger  Understand the power of inversion; get what you want by avoiding what you do not want  Wisdom is prevention: wise people don’t solve problems, they avoid them  If you play games in which other people have an edge, and you do not, you are going to lose  Do not silo your edu...

#327 Ted Turner

December 03, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 79.3 MB

Founders ✓ Claim What I learned from reading Ted Turner's Autobiography. ---- Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes ---- Listen to Art of Investing #4 David Senra Lessons from the Founder Historian.  ---- (9:00) My net worth dropped by about 67 million per week, or nearly 10 million per day, every day for two and a half years. (10:00) Once to drive home a point about the difficulties of attracting good loyal emp...

E1: Let’s Get Nuke-Pilled

November 18, 2023 00:00 - 48 minutes

"Age of Miracles" Key Takeaways  More energy means more humanity flourishing  Nuclear fission is the cleanest and safest form of energy that we have  As of 2022, nuclear energy accounts for 20% of the electric grid Energy is a positive-sum game; the more we have, the better we do!  A shift is occurring in the United States: In 2023, 57% of Americans say they favor more nuclear power plants to generate electricity in the country, up from 43% who said the same in 2020 What if you were to...

E4: Fission Founders, Part 1: Manufacturing Nuclear

November 16, 2023 00:00 - 54 minutes

"Age of Miracles" Key Takeaways Check Out the Age of Miracles Website Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org What if we treated building nuclear more like a manufacturing challenge than a construction challenge? How could nuclear benefit from the tried-and-true methodologies of other large industrial industries like ship-building and oil and gas to make nuclear as cheap as solar and wind to produce? In this episode – the first of two with leading nuclear fission startup founders – Packy ...

Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, EP.350]

November 08, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour

Invest Like the Best Key Takeaways  Trust people when they tell you what their problems are, but don’t what they think the solution is Go “back to the future” in your research; you will discover promising ideas that were discussed in the past but have since been discarded  Care more about how other people will evaluate the impact of your work, rather than just doing what feels good to you  If America is going to be a nation that rewards and promotes innovation, then it should be steering...

20VC: The Three Types of Seed Round Today, Why Seed Has Never Been More Competitive, Why Pricing Has Never Been Higher, Why Boards at Pre-Seed Can Be Helpful & How Too Much Cash Too Soon Can Harm Companies with Ed Sim, Founder @ Boldstart

November 03, 2023 00:00 - 47 minutes - 109 MB

Twenty Minute VC Key Takeaways  The best talent wants to join a company not at the highest price, but at the best price with the right amount of capital for the right risk  There are three types of seed rounds: Discovery (sub $2m), Classic ($3m to $5m), and Megatron Jumbo ($5m+) To win in today’s venture climate, you must get “ball control” in any round that is presented to you Be as disciplined as possible concerning your entry price  “I think AI is the most transformational thing that...

The Techno-Optimist Manifesto with Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz

October 29, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 61.7 MB

A16z Podcast Key Takeaways  Capitalism and free markets are the machine that has lifted people out of poverty for the last 500 years It is best to embrace, support, and accelerate technology as much as possible, and then deal with the issues as they arise “I think the single biggest policy mistake of my lifetime was the decision in the 70s and 80s to essentially ban civilian nuclear power throughout the U.S. and throughout Europe as well.” – Marc Andreessen It can take decades for the co...

John Fio — The Wizard & The Warrior (EP.184)

October 27, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 55.8 MB

Infinite Loops John Fio is an inventor and entrepreneur who has bootstrapped four products that have collectively generated hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue. He joins the show to discuss why ideas are harder than execution, what he learned from being Justin Bieber’s intern, what most people get wrong about Kanye West, why magic is real, and what the success of Barbie and Taylor Swift can tell us about the future.  Enjoy! Important Links: Twitter LinkedIn MoonPals ...

TIP582: Quality & Defensive Investing w/ Christian Billinger

October 22, 2023 00:00 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MB

CryptoThe Investor's Podcast (TIP) Clay Finck is joined by Christian Billinger to discuss his quality investing philosophy. Christian is chairman of Billinger Förvaltnings AB, which invests in publicly listed equities. The firm seeks to generate attractive long-term total returns in real terms without employing financial leverage. Christian previously covered European equities for Cheyne Capital, Gartmore, and GAM in London. IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN: 00:00 - Intro 01:39 - Wh...

The best interview I've ever done about Founders

September 21, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 74.2 MB

Founders ✓ Claim What I learned from the first 6 years of making Founders. I recorded a new episode with Patrick. It should be out soon. Follow Invest Like the Best in your favorite podcast app so you don't miss it. 

#173 Frank Slootman: Doing Less, Doing Better

August 13, 2023 00:00 - 58 minutes - 80.5 MB

Knowledge Project Frank Slootman doesn’t start companies. But no CEO has a better track record for turning the ideas of others into jackpots. On this episode of the Knowledge Project, Slootman dives deep into the no-nonsense, results-based strategies that have made him a leading executive, including how to approach the first 90 days after taking over a company, doing less and doing better, the difference between a good sales organization and a great one, how to get the best out of people, po...

My 6-Step Process To Find +$1,000,000 Business Ideas

August 06, 2023 00:00 - 39 minutes

My First Million Key Takeaways  Sam Parr’s 6-step process for finding +$1,000,000 business ideas:  #1. What problem(s) do people have?  #2. How many people share that particular problem? #3. Who are the leaders in that space? What is succeeding, and why? #4. Of the leaders in that space, what shortcomings do they have?  #5. What business models are most effective?  #6. What problems are not being solved?  Pay attention when a large company shares information about a rising trend, and...

20VC: Instagram CEO, Adam Mosseri on Threads: The Journey from 0-100M Users; What Worked, What Didn't and the Plans Ahead | Instagram: Biggest Mistakes, Successes, Misconceptions, TikTok Competition & The Future of Social Media; Interest Graph or Friend G

August 04, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 160 MB

Twenty Minute VC Key Takeaways  If you really want to move the team on something, you need to say it so many times that you want to throw up in your mouth if you say it again; then say it again, again, and again  It is important to get a range of different experiences early in your career so you can figure out your aspirations and values in a more informed way  Doing good work and succeeding in the market boosts morale more than anything else  Teenagers spend more time in DMs than they d...

LinkedIn’s product evolution and the art of building complex systems | Hari Srinivasan (LinkedIn)

August 01, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 44.5 MB

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career ✓ Claim Key Takeaways  LinkedIn strives to connect people with economic opportunities by connecting people with people, and by connecting content with people Content with knowledge and/or advice works best on LinkedIn  If you do not have the functional experience for a given role, focus on how your industry experience makes you a strong candidate  The skills needed to manage a complex ecosystem are different than the skills needed to design a c...

Jeremy Giffon - Special Situations in Private Markets - [Invest Like the Best, EP.336]

July 16, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour

Invest Like the Best My guest today is Jeremy Giffon. I spend all my time trying to find people who have some “singularity” to them. People who seem like they can do an N of 1 something. Having spent many days with Jeremy recently, he strikes me as one of those people. He was the first employee and general partner at private equity firm, Tiny, which buys and holds internet and technology focused businesses. Prior to that, he was on the founding team of MediaCore, which was acquired by Workda...

The Road to Autonomous Vehicles: Are We There Yet?

July 16, 2023 00:00 - 56 minutes - 51.3 MB

A16z Podcast Key Takeaways  Waymo believes that a fully autonomous car will be safer than the human-driven alternative  Autonomous driving can be distilled down to:  Is the car aware of what’s happening around it?  Can it anticipate what the things around it are going to do?  Given its surroundings, can the vehicle reason on what it should do next? Autonomous vehicles use machine learning to make predictions on what pedestrians will do next depending on the gate and hand motions of the...

Is Instagram the place to unbreak news?

July 02, 2023 00:00 - 54 minutes

Recode Media with Peter Kafka Mosheh Oinounou worked his way up through the TV news ranks and ended up running CBS Evening News. Now he’s starting over - this time on Instagram - with Mo News, a platform he says is a more responsive way to deliver news to an engaged audience. Oinounou talks to Vox’s Peter Kafka about the maladies affecting conventional news, the challenge of bootstrapping a news outlet in 2023, and why CNN’s former boss Chris Licht may have gotten at least one thing right. ...

#306 David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man)

June 16, 2023 00:00 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MB

Founders ✓ Claim Key Takeaways  “The difference between one advertisement and another, when measured in terms of sales, can be as much as nineteen to one.” – David Ogilvy  Pay peanuts and you get monkeys  “I admire people who work with gusto. If you don’t enjoy what you are doing, I beg you to find another job. Remember the Scottish proverb: Be happy while you are living because you are a long time dead.” – David Ogilvy The most important thing you will decide is what benefit to promise...

Daniel Ek: How Spotify Revolutionized The Music Business

June 16, 2023 00:00 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MB

Starting Greatness with Mike Maples When he was a little boy growing up in Sweden, Daniel Ek was obsessed with two things: the binary realm of computers and the artistry of music. As a young adult, he combined his love for both by co-founding Spotify, which became the global standard-bearer for streaming, Spotify now has more than 500 million users per month. In this episode, Mike Maples, Jr of FLOODGATE interviews Daniel Ek to break down the importance of recognizing technology infections, ...

#636 - Rob Dyrdek - The Man Who Tracks Every Second Of His Life

June 11, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour

Modern Wisdom Key Takeaways  Tracking how you spend your time allows you to optimize your life; it becomes very apparent where you waste time and where you should be spending more of it  Be excited about becoming a better version of yourself  Take the time to design the life you want to live, and then take the steps to grow into it  Create disciplined habits to reduce the effort required to stick with them; eventually, these habits become intuitive and effortless  Immediately take actio...

#300 James Dyson (Against the Odds)

April 30, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 76.9 MB

Founders ✓ Claim What I learned from reading Against the Odds: An Autobiography by James Dyson for the 4th time. You can also find the book on Book Finder.  ---- This episode is brought to you by Meter: Meter is the easiest way for your business to get fast, secure, and reliable internet and WiFi in any commercial space. Go to meter.com/founders ---- This episode is brought to you by Tiny: Tiny is the easiest way to sell your business. Tiny provides quick and straightforward exits for F...

#300 James Dyson: Against the Odds!

April 30, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 76.9 MB

Founders ✓ Claim What I learned from reading Against the Odds: An Autobiography by James Dyson for the 4th time. You can also find the book on Book Finder.  This episode is brought to you by Meter: Meter is the easiest way for your business to get fast, secure, and reliable internet and WiFi in any commercial space. Go to meter.com/founders ---- This episode is brought to you by Tiny: Tiny is the easiest way to sell your business. Tiny provides quick and straightforward exits for Founder...

Martin Shkreli Reveals How He Made His First $100M

April 30, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour

My First Million Key Takeaways  Martin Shkreli worked for Jim Cramer’s hedge fund when he was in high school  Martin became a millionaire at the age of 29 when he took his pharma company public  “PubMed is the government database of all scholastic biomedical literature – so 36 million papers. If you sit there long enough and you have the passion, you can become a billionaire.” – Martin Shkreli  It is not a crime to choose the price of your product  He was bothered by the politicians try...

#164 Ravi Gupta: The Realities of Success

April 26, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 143 MB

Knowledge Project Key Takeaways  Be the same person at work as you are at home  Earned success is the key to happiness Understand that reality hits you at every moment and that there are costs to not embracing it Understand what it is you are actually betting on when you make an investment  Write about the topics that you actually care about; do not write about what you think someone else will think is interesting  “It’s easier to hold your principles 100 percent of the time than it is...

EP 41 - Exploring the Universe with Stephen Wolfram: Artificial Intelligence, Physics, and More

April 20, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 60.3 MB

Aarthi and Sriram's Good Time Show ✓ Claim Key Takeaways By keeping the mechanics of your life as straightforward as possible, you can increase the amount of effort you put into the intellectual, creative side of your life ChatGPT is adding a word at a time and figuring out the likely way that humans would continue that particular piece of text, based on what they have written in a few billion web pages “This whole idea of computational language just got much more exciting … because it b...

EP 95: How Twitter Changes Lives, Real Estate Cost Seg, & Market Updates with Chris Powers & Mitchell Baldridge

April 19, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 110 MB

The Nick Huber Show ✓ Claim Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Capital providers are waiting for interest rates to stabilize prior to coming back into the real estate market Despite how it may seem on Twitter, it is actually really hard to make money in the real estate business Class A storage is branded as “nice storage” but it requires renting a truck, moving your stuff with a dollie, putting it on an elevator, etc.  As interest rates rise, the people with the capital can...

The Library of Alexandra

April 15, 2023 00:00 - 43 minutes - 40 MB

Radiolab Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Sci-Hub is a library website that provides free access to millions of research papers and books, without regard to copyright  It was created in 2011 by a single person named Alexandra Elbakyan  All of the papers made available on Sci-Hub are copyrighted and owned, so open-sourcing them is technically illegal  The four for-profit publishers that dominate the scientific journal industry are charging the scientific community to read the research that was...

#610 - Alex Hormozi - 19 Harsh Truths About Human Nature

April 13, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 99.4 MB

Modern Wisdom Podcast Notes Key Takeaways  People live out all of the potential downsides in the mere reflection of what other people will think about them in the future, should they fail Shame only exists in the shadows; identify when you have the hesitation to confront something and ask yourself why you may be experiencing that hesitation The difference between successful people and the most successful people is that the most successful people say no to almost everything  Success comes...

#126 - KEITH RABOIS

April 11, 2023 00:00 - 53 minutes - 85.9 MB

Pod of Jake Podcast Notes Key Takeaways  OpenStore’s mission is to reinvent e-commerce to allow for the serendipitous discovery of products in a way that obviates the need to shop in the real world Optimally, a fundraising round should directly de-risk a certain aspect of the business  People are more emotional about selling their business compared to selling their future cash flows  There is a fixed cost of pain when building a start-up; you might as well amortize the same pain across t...

#126 - KEITH RABOIS 2

April 11, 2023 00:00 - 53 minutes - 85.9 MB

Pod of Jake Podcast Notes Key Takeaways  OpenStore’s mission is to reinvent e-commerce to allow for the serendipitous discovery of products in a way that obviates the need to shop in the real world Optimally, a fundraising round should directly de-risk a certain aspect of the business  People are more emotional about selling their business compared to selling their future cash flows  There is a fixed cost of pain when building a start-up; you might as well amortize the same pain across t...

Lessons of Greatness: Crisis Reveals Greatness

April 01, 2023 00:00 - 9 minutes - 8.48 MB

Starting Greatness with Mike Maples Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Check out Starting Greatness Episode Page & Show Notes Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org Startup founders dealt with uncertainty, stress and trauma in the wake of the run on Silicon Valley Bank, but the most important lessons from this crisis never showed up in social media. In this lesson of greatness, Mike Maples, Jr of FLOODGATE calls on the actions of a variety of founders who showed incredible courage and competenc...

#367 – Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI

March 28, 2023 00:00 - 2 hours - 102 MB

Artificial Intelligence Podcast Podcast Notes Key Takeaways  We will look back on GPT-4 as we do the early computers: buggy, slow, room for improvement, but nonetheless a monumental achievement  Progress is a continuous exponential; very rarely is there “a single moment” where technology crosses the rubicon OpenAI is building in public because they think it is important for the world to get access to this technology early and to shape the way it is going to be developed  Better alignment...

Shaan's Masterclass On Pitching That Has Raised Millions From Investors

March 28, 2023 00:00 - 20 minutes

My First Million Podcast Notes Intro Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) walks us through his tried and tested template for pitching your business idea to potential investors. Follow along on YouTube for the visuals. Additional context: This template is in slideshow format, otherwise known as a pitch deck. To explain each slide in further detail, Shaan often refers to the company Shuni, which is an app dedicated to sleep and meditation. Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org Episode 436: In a special ...

BREAKING: Twitch Founder/CEO Resigns - What I Learned From Him

March 20, 2023 00:00 - 24 minutes

My First Million Podcast Notes Key Takeaways There are four ways to frame a meeting with a company leader: I am doing this, FYI I am doing this, but I need your approval  I am trying to decide between A, B, or C. Can you help me think that through?  Remember that thing we agreed on? Here is what happened.  Company updates or memos should address “What, Why, and So What?” Fierce nerds are all in on the thing they are pursuing; they do not have a social thing to fall back on, and lack t...

Trae Stephens - Find Good Quests - [Invest Like the Best, EP.319]

March 17, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 45.7 MB

Invest Like the Best Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Many of the high-margin software businesses have no impact on society, and sometimes can even have a negative impact on society  Founders in the dynamism category are creating teams that are mission-oriented and interested in more than just making money; they want to build techno-optimist solutions for strategically important problems  It is important for society’s best players to choose good quests It is best to lean into your passions an...

20VC: Turning Canned Water into a $700M Media and Health Company, What Makes Truly Great Brands, How Founders Can Build Their Brand From Day 1 Today & How to Create Viral Content with Little to No Budget with Mike Cessario, Founder and CEO @ Liquid Death

March 10, 2023 00:00 - 46 minutes - 63.9 MB

Twenty Minute VC Mike Cessario is the Founder and CEO @ Liquid Death, the man hacking the healthy beverage market with the first hilarious water brand. It is working, Liquid Death's latest valuation was over a staggering $700M and Mike has raised over $200M since founding the company from the likes of Science Inc. Away's Jen Rubio, Dollar Shave Club's Michael Dubin, Swedish House Mafia and Tony Hawk to name a few. Prior to founding Liquid Death, Mike was in the advertising industry at a numb...

EP 36 - Marc Andreessen and Steven Sinofsky Talk Sentience, Ethics, Job Impacts, and the Future of AI

March 06, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 69.7 MB

Aarthi and Sriram's Good Time Show ✓ Claim Podcast Notes Key Takeaways The recent breakthroughs with ChatGPT break the world into two groups: those who can understand exponential growth, and those that sit around and deny it AI hallucinations are evidence that we have apparently solved the problem of computer creativity The real breakthroughs are going to happen when entrepreneurs discard all current assumptions and purely start from scratch “This may be the single biggest financial exp...

#160 TKP Insights: Leadership

March 03, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 81.2 MB

Knowledge Project Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Check out the Knowledge Project Podcast Episode Page & Show Notes Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org In the third installment in a series of episodes, The Knowledge Project curates essential segments from five guests revolving around one theme: leadership. This episode helps put a unique definition on leadership and examines whether or not good leaders are context-dependent, the differences between a great leader and an average leader, how...

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