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Truth Over Feelings: Inside Opendoor’s Massive Turnaround
No company decides to fail. It drifts there one comfortable lie at a time. Kaz Nejatian took over Opendoor when it was just months away from bankruptcy and set out...
The Best Summary of Atlas Shrugged
A brief, no-fluff, summary of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. If you want to learn how capitalist countries become socialist, this book will help you. Let’s dive in. Atlas Shrugged:...
The Mindset That Unlocks Your Full Potential | Dr. Gio Valiante
For the next hour, the world’s top mindset coach is your coach too. Dr. Gio Valiante is the world’s leading performance psychologist. We discuss why most people never reach their...
How to Repair and Nourish Your Gut | Dr. Giulia Enders
Dr. Giulia Enders has changed the way millions of people think about the human body. As a physician, microbiome researcher, and bestselling author, she has spent years studying the surprising...
Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley
Bill Gurley spent years on Wall Street, built his career as a partner at Benchmark, worked through Uber’s hypergrowth era, and now serves on the board of the Santa Fe...
Proven, Better, New: Mark Pincus on the Rules of Innovation
Mark Pincus is the creator behind Farmville and Words with Friends. He built Zynga into one of the biggest gaming companies in the world and helped shape the early era...
[Outliers] Chung Ju-yung: The Hyundai Founder Who Put a Country on His Back
Chung Ju-yung built Hyundai because he refused to be stopped. He is known for turning Hyundai into an industrial force that helped transform South Korea. The company built highways, ships,...
Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions
Winston Weinberg is the CEO and co-founder of Harvey, the AI platform built for the legal industry. Available Now: YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Transcript In this episode,...
Greg Brockman: Inside the 72 Hours That Almost Killed OpenAI
The AI race, the future of AGI, and the inside story of OpenAI. Greg Brockman is the co-founder and President of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and GPT-5. He was...
Mario Harik: Playing to Win
Mario Harik is the CEO of XPO, one of the largest logistics companies in the world. For years, he was the protege of legendary entrepreneur Brad Jacobs (who built eight...
Joe Liemandt: Alpha School and the Future of Education
Joe Liemandt is the principal of Alpha School and the founder of Trilogy Software and ESW Capital. Liemandt dropped out of Stanford to build Trilogy, became the youngest member of...
[Outliers] The Potato Billionaire | Harrison McCain
Harrison McCain learned salesmanship by talking his way into a pharmaceutical job at 22, then spent five years under legendary entrepreneur K.C. Irving, absorbing lessons in vertical integration, relentless determination,...
Brookfield CEO Connor Teskey: AI Infrastructure, Data Centers, and the Future of Investing
Connor Teskey is CEO of Brookfield Asset Management, one of the world’s largest investors, managing about a trillion dollars across infrastructure, power, real estate, private equity, and credit. In this...
An Unlikely Empire | J.W. Marriott
The world’s largest hotel company spent its first 30 years without a hotel. It started as a root beer stand in 1927. The first room didn’t open until 1957. The...
Inside the Mind of Robinhood Co-Founder Vlad Tenev
Robinhood’s co-founder reveals the brutal reality of surviving an 80% market crash, going “founder mode” to cut corporate bloat, and what actually happened during GameStop. Vlad Tenev is the co-founder...
[Outliers] Phil Knight: The Obsession That Built Nike
Phil Knight is the founder of Nike, the brand that reshaped sports and became one of the most powerful companies in the world. What would you do if your bank,...
Nicolai Tangen: The $2 Trillion Mind
Nicolai Tangen is the CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund. He is responsible for managing $2.1 trillion. That’s roughly 1.7% of every listed company...
Michael Ovitz: The Psychology of Power
Michael Ovitz co-founded CAA and helped reshape Hollywood, then took the same playbook into tech investing and advising founders. Available Now: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | X |...
[Outliers] Ray Kroc: How McDonald’s Took Over America
Ray Kroc turned McDonald’s from a single roadside restaurant into a system built to scale. At 52, after decades of selling paper cups and milkshake machines, he opened the first...
Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want
Morgan Housel breaks down the exact framework he uses to build wealth, minimize financial stress, and buy freedom. Available Now: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Transcript | YouTube | X...