Mikey Taylor is a retired pro skateboarder, co Founder of Saint Archer Brewery, Co Founder & President of Commune Capital  and Thousand Oaks City Council Member.

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Today Ryan Pallotta is talking with Matt Bilinsky. Matt’s a business attorney, host of the Prevailing Narrative podcast, and an outspoken observer of how media has changed over the past decade. 

The self-described information bloodhound describes the dramatic shift in American values since the dawn of "great awokening," explains the media's central role in sowing division among people, and lays out their motives for doing so.

Matt details the decline in the quality of the people charged with delivering news, their propensity for bias, and other consequences of the monoculture's demise. 

Matt then explains how the narrative around the invasion of Ukraine, the Trump-Russia collusion, the BLM movement, the origins of COVID-19, and the efficacy and safety of the COVID-19 vaccines have all been impacted by this shift.

Brilliant investors Kyle Bass, Jordi Visser, and Robert Mullin discuss the markets in 2023, the fed, energy prices, China and more. Stream the live event now. 

Kyle Bass is the Co-Founder and CEO of Conservation Equity Management, a private equity firm focused on environmental sustainability and conservation. He is also the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Hayman Capital Management, a hedge fund that generates returns through a combination of long and short positions based on macroeconomic trends and events. Kyle is widely recognized for his macroeconomic and global financial market investments, particularly his accurate prediction of the collapse of the US housing around the Global Financial Crisis. 

Jordi Visser is the President and CIO at Weiss Multi-Strategy Advisers, overseeing portfolio managers and managing overall risk. Jordi is the mastermind behind the Weiss Alternative Multi-Strategy Fund (WEISX) and brings extensive experience in global macro investing. Before joining Weiss in 2005, Jordi was the founding Managing Partner of Anchor Point Asset Management, a global macro fund. He also has a background in trading various global equity derivative books as a former Managing Director at Morgan Stanley. 

Robert Mullin is the Founding Partner and Portfolio Manager of Marathon Resource Advisors and brings over 25 years of expertise in natural resource investing to the table. Marathon manages RAEIF LP, a strategy that invests across the global natural resource public equity markets and aims for capital gains and sustainable inflation-protected income. With a proven track record in managing portfolios and generating returns, Robert has led Marathon to become a leading player in the space.

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Today, I'm excited to talk with impact investor and investment industry veteran H. Perry Boyle. 

Perry's had a long and storied career in the financial world, but the first thing I wanted to know about was his hiring of Prometheus Founder and CEO Michael Wang as a Senior Analyst at the legendary hedge fund SAC Capital. 

Between 2004 and 2020, Perry held several positions at SAC and Point72. As SAC's Director of Research, Perry’s job was to change the culture, which he did—in part—by creating a curriculum for analysts and making portfolio managers stakeholders in their future success. 

Steve Cohen's SAC Capital is the inspiration for the Showtime series “Billions." So I asked Perry to describe the evolution of the firm's culture and the impact of having a psychologist on staff to optimize traders' performance. 

A little later, Perry tells me the "secret” of running a long/short portfolio and lays out his thoughts on the increasing scarcity of alpha. 

Lastly, Perry talks about the journey that took him from Point72 to climbing his “second mountain” —becoming chairman of the BOMA Project, a poverty graduation program for women, youth, and displaced persons in East Africa.

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Today Ryan Pallotta is talking with Maxwell Nee. Maxwell is Managing Partner at Oeno Group, an investment firm specializing in luxury assets like wine and whiskey. 

Maxwell shares his insights on why more and more investors are turning to these potent alternative assets to diversify their portfolios and protect themselves from volatility. 

He points out that wine and whiskey have less than a 1% correlation to the market and also reveals that the strategy employed by Oeno Group has never returned less than 11% annually.

Maxwell then gives us a sneak peek into Oeno's upcoming launch of a wine and whiskey exchange, where investors will be able to trade these hard assets just like stocks.

Lastly, Maxwell explains why he's so excited to introduce Prometheus users to an alternative asset class generating consistent returns.

Today Ryan Pallotta is talking with a very special guest, Prometheus Founder and CEO Michael Wang. Mike's an award-winning hedge fund veteran. An alum of Steve Cohen's legendary SAC Capital, Wang contributed to Tourbillon Capital Partners' early success before winning accolades as Cypress Funds' portfolio manager and co-managing partner. 

Mike created Prometheus around his strong belief that everyone should have access to information and investment opportunities that, historically, have only been accessible to a select few.  

This amazing podcast covers a lot of ground. Mike begins by describing the nascent trend of fund managers creating content to grow their audience and raise capital at scale and how he created Prometheus to develop this phenomenon.    

He talks about the limited credibility and utility of information shared on the subreddit WallStBets, and why people are waking up to the fact that investing success isn't nearly as easy as they may have initially thought. 

Mike later explains why the financial conditions we've enjoyed in recent times won't be returning for some time and why exposure to alternatives will be the key to investors protecting and growing their wealth in the months and years ahead.

Today Ryan Pallotta is talking with the Managing Partner of 8VC, Joe Lonsdale. Joe's a true iconoclast who builds mission-driven companies that use technology to solve inefficiencies and bridge what he calls conceptual gaps. Joe and 8VC led Prometheus' seed round fund-raise, inspired by our platform's mission to close such a gap.   

His own podcast is called American Optimist, and the chat begins with Joe laying out what underpins his optimism as challenges appear to be mounting up. 

Joe describes his upbringing and how various members of the "Paypal Mafia"—Peter Thiel, Keith Rabois, Elon Musk—shaped his worldview when he interned there. He then explains Thiel's role in the founding of data analytics software company Palantir Technologies.  

Joe candidly describes his shock at the level of inefficiency and waste he's seen in many areas of government-run projects and why, if this mismanagement can be stopped, we could all be living better lives. 

Joe and Ryan cover a lot of ground in this podcast. The running theme is possibility. Specifically, the world that is possible when new, innovative, disruptive thinking is paired with experience and expertise. 

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Kirk Myers is a celebrity trainer and founder of the Dogpound—one of the most exclusive gyms and iconic fitness brands in the world today. 

The chat gets underway with Kirk explaining the genesis of the Dogpound. 

He describes how, while on track to become an elementary school teacher, he was hospitalized with congestive heart failure and decided to take control of the situation—studying nutrition and losing some 130lbs over the next two years.  

After building a successful business in his native Kansas City, Kirk was hospitalized once again. This time lost everything. He then decided to start over in New York with a set of 10 goals that he quickly smashed—He even brought on Hugh Jackman as his first celebrity client. In fact, it was Jackman who ended up giving Kirk's reborn business its name. 

The pair go on to discuss how Kirk built on this momentum, how he developed and grew the Dogpound brand, and where his passion, his team, and his star-studded roster of clients will take the Dogpound from here. 

Throughout the chat, Kirk explains ideas that apply to all of our lives: playing to your strengths, building a great team, believing in what you're doing, taking control of your own destiny, and so much more.

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Dogpound culture PDF mentioned in pod: www.dropbox.com/s/7p9h7mbkdalvbhc/CULTURE%20BOOK%20%28%20PURPOSE%29.pdf?dl=1

Jackie Fast is Founder and Managing Partner at Sandbox Studios. 

Sandbox is a unique fund that invests exclusively in talent-led businesses at the seed stage. Jackie's also the author of Rule Breaker: Rebellious Leadership for the Future of Work. 

In their chat, Jackie explains how she saw the opportunity to disrupt how celebrity-endorsed deals are put together and executed. 

Jackie goes on to describe aligning the objectives of a brand and talent, the importance of creating a structure that makes them want to support the brand, and the value of setting up a contract set up in such a way that allows for the celebrity to draw consumers to the brand long-term. 

Ryan and Jackie then touch upon the uptick in celebrities doing deals and the prospect of saturation in this area. 

Lastly, Jackie gives us her take on what the space will look like in the years ahead.

Ron Sweeney, entertainment attorney, manager, consultant, and former record executive. He may be the biggest music industry legend you've never heard of. 

Named one of the top music lawyers by Billboard Magazine on multiple occasions, Ron has done major deals for artists like James Brown, Eazy-E, Sean "Puffy" Combs, and Lil Wayne. 

As a senior executive with Sony, Ron controlled a $70 million A&R budget and was directly responsible for signing several platinum and gold-selling acts. 

Ron is driven by his strong belief that creative people should own what they create. 

In the wake of George Floyd's murder, Ron helped to bring about meaningful change in an industry that has exploited people of color since its beginning.