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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...
[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...