Episodes

April 10, 2025

#57 - Kevin Hartz

Kevin Hartz is Co-Founder and General Partner at A*, a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments. Before establishing A*, Kevin co-founded Eventbrite and guided the company as CEO for its first 11 years bef...

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March 20, 2025

#56 - Amjad Masad

Amjad Masad is the co-founder and CEO of Replit, a programming environment for everyone that allows anyone to write and deploy code, regardless of experience. Replit has 34 million users globally and is one of the fastest-gro...

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March 6, 2025

#55 - Katherine Boyle

Katherine Boyle is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and cofounder of the firm’s American Dynamism practice, which invests in companies supporting the national interest across aerospace, defense, manufacturing, energy,...

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Feb. 20, 2025

#54 - Keith Rabois

Keith Rabois is a Managing Partner at Khosla Ventures and the CEO of OpenStore, which acquires small direct-to-consumer businesses. Keith co-founded Opendoor and led the first institutional investments in DoorDash and Affirm....

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Aug. 8, 2024

#53 - Elad Gil

Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur, executive, and one of the greatest tech investors of all time, with early stakes in something like 40 billion-plus dollar companies: AirBnB, Anduril, Coinbase, Figma, Flexport, Instacart, No...

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May 3, 2024

#52 - Erik Torenberg

Erik Torenberg is a technology entrepreneur and investor. Presently, he’s the founder of Turpentine . Previously, he was the chairman of On Deck , co-founder and general partner at Village Global , and first employee at Produ...

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March 21, 2024

#51 - Bryan Johnson

Bryan Johnson is the world's most measured human. Johnson sold his company, Braintree Venmo, to PayPal for $800m in 2013. Through his Project Blueprint, Johnson has achieved metabolic health equal to the top 1.5% of 18 year o...

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Jan. 30, 2024

#50 - Anthony Pompliano

Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano is an entrepreneur and technology investor. He runs his family office which makes private investments, along with owning majority stakes in a number of operating businesses. Additionally, Pomp hosts p...

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Jan. 9, 2024

#49 - Bryan Caplan

Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a New York Times Bestselling author. He’s the author of 8 books, including The Myth of the Rational Voter, The Case Against Education, and Open Borders: ...

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Dec. 12, 2023

#48 - Delian Asparouhov

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...

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Nov. 30, 2023

#47 - Robin Hanson

Robin Hanson is a professor at George Mason University and researcher at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford. 0:00 - Intro 2:42 - Intelligent Life in the Universe 7:30 - Grabby Aliens: A Primer 15:29 - Elites and the E...

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Nov. 22, 2023

#46 - Chris Mason

Chris Mason is a professor of Genomics, Physiology, and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine. He is also one of the founding Directors of the WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction. He is the author of The Next 500...

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Nov. 15, 2023

#45 - Keith Rabois

Keith Rabois is a General Partner at Founders Fund and the CEO of OpenStore, which acquires small direct-to-consumer businesses. Keith co-founded Opendoor and led the first institutional investments in DoorDash and Affirm. He...

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Nov. 8, 2023

#44 - Bradley Tusk

Bradley Tusk is a venture capitalist, political strategist, philanthropist and writer. He is the CEO and co-founder of Tusk Ventures, the world’s first venture capital fund that invests solely in early stage startups in highl...

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Oct. 31, 2023

#43 - Jeff Morris Jr.

Jeff Morris Jr is the Managing Partner at Chapter One, an early stage venture capital fund. He’s formerly the VP of Product and Revenue at Tinder, which he helped scale to become the #1 grossing app in the world. 0:00 - Intro...

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Nov. 8, 2022

#42 - Sari Azout

On founding versus Investing, parenting, indexing knowledge, collective intelligence, and good questions.

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Oct. 25, 2022

#41 - Jason Crawford

On optimism, progress in technology, drivers of stagnation, and how to think about innovation.

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Oct. 11, 2022

#40 - Samo Burja

On Immortal societies, civilizational decline, the longevity of information, and academia.

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Aug. 2, 2022

#39 - John List

On apologies, academia, quitting, critical thinking, and scaling great ideas.

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May 19, 2022

#38 - Renée DiResta

On the internet’s biggest problems, social networks as open protocols, and pseudonymity online.

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April 20, 2022

#37 - Kyle Samani

On risk, thesis-driven investment, and what Kyle thinks people aren’t thinking about enough.

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March 15, 2022

#36 - Matt Galligan

On falling into tech, communication protocols, pseudonymity and reputation.

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March 1, 2022

#35 - Anthony Pompliano

On conviction, decentralization, and writing online.

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Feb. 15, 2022

#34 - Adam Jackson

On marketplaces, community-owned networks, and the future of work.

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