Jan. 19, 2026

Story Of The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of

Story Of The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of
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Episode 786:  Sam Parr ( ⁠https://x.com/theSamParr⁠ ) and Shaan Puri ( ⁠https://x.com/ShaanVP⁠ ) tell the story Demis Hassabis ( https://x.com/demishassabis ) and the creation of Deepmind. 

Show Notes:

(0:00) Demis the Menace

(22:05) The only resource you need is resourcefulness

(2457) Move 37

(29:38) The olympics of protein folding

(4639) We are the gorillas


Links:

• The Thinking Game - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d95J8yzvjbQ 

• Why We Do What We Do - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwFOwyoH-3g 

• Fierce Nerds - https://paulgraham.com/fn.html 

• Isomorphic Labs - https://www.isomorphiclabs.com/ 

• If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies - https://ifanyonebuildsit.com/ 


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• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

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