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Ryan Serhant: How to Get People to Say Yes
Ryan Serhant is a real estate broker, founder of SERHANT., and star of Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing New York and Netflix’s Owning Manhattan. He explains how to sell without making...
[Outliers] Charlie Munger’s Interview with Todd Combs
I’m excited to share this previously unreleased 2022 conversation between Charlie Munger and Todd Combs. As with any Munger talk, the subjects are both deep and wide. I’ve pulled out...
Bill Ackman: The Biggest Fight of His Life
Bill Ackman is the founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, one of the most closely watched investment firms in the world. In this conversation, he breaks down the...
Tobi Lütke: AI Agents, Better Decisions, and the Future of Work
Shopify founder and CEO Tobi Lütke joins Shane Parrish to discuss AI agents, better decision-making, and the future of work. He explains how he uses an AI council to examine...
Steve Jobs in Exile
We all know the Steve Jobs who came back in the late 1990s and saved Apple from becoming a footnote. And we’ve all heard the story of how, in 1985,...
Roblox CEO: How to Make Better Decisions by Fixing Yourself First
David Baszucki is the co-founder and CEO of Roblox, a platform built around a simple idea: give people the tools and incentives to create together. In this short conversation, he...
The Mindset Behind Building a Great Little Business | Brad Jacobs
This summer, I’m revisiting one of my favorite episodes. If you haven’t heard it, now is the time. If you have, it’s a classic and worth listening to again. Brad...
[Outliers] John D. Rockefeller: The Principles Behind The Greatest Fortune in History
John D. Rockefeller became the richest man the world had ever known by thinking differently about business, competition, and family. This episode isn’t just the story of Standard Oil. It’s...
[Outliers] John D. Rockefeller: The Principles Behind The Greatest Fortune in History
John D. Rockefeller became the richest man the world had ever known by thinking differently about business, competition, and family. Public Release: July 28. Members have access now.Join us. Coming...
Truth Over Feelings: Inside Opendoor’s 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...