By Alex LaBossiere
The New Narrative
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 Product Hunt. 0:00 - Intro 5:08 - On Investing vs Operating and...
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 olds, inflammation 66%...
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 popular conversations on “The Pomp Podcast,” which has been...
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: The Science and...
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 pharmaceuticals. He’s also a Partner at Founders Fund. Previously,...
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 End of Global Coordination 18:59...
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 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New...
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 has early stakes in YouTube, Palantir, Lyft,...
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 highly regulated industries, and the founder...
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 -...
On founding versus Investing, parenting, indexing knowledge, collective intelligence, and good questions.
On optimism, progress in technology, drivers of stagnation, and how to think about innovation.
On Immortal societies, civilizational decline, the longevity of information, and academia.
On apologies, academia, quitting, critical thinking, and scaling great ideas.
On the internet’s biggest problems, social networks as open protocols, and pseudonymity online.
On risk, thesis-driven investment, and what Kyle thinks people aren’t thinking about enough.
On falling into tech, communication protocols, pseudonymity and reputation.
On conviction, decentralization, and writing online.
On marketplaces, community-owned networks, and the future of work.
On academia, how open source works, code as a public good, and journalism.
On good storytelling, the brilliance of irrationality, the dangers of institutional behavior, and air fryers.
On dorm room crypto mining, Layer 2 Bitcoin, Web3 disruption, and much more.
On curiosity, finding purpose in life, the future of longevity science, and the importance of space.
On status games, paths in life, persuasion, good parenting, privacy, and God.
On climate tech, crypto regulation, and writing in public.
On decentralization, geo-politics, and power
On metabolic health, running a remote company, bio-observability and more.
On forced reflection, breaking into VC, modern friendships, and the new logic of the internet
On podcasting, the end of the great stagnation, academia, antitrust, and more.
On sampling in life, Colombian gangs, and the perpetuation of peace
On predicting success, angel investing, remote work, and more.
On navigating education, what good science means, and why we get fat.
On cold emails, the state of VC, time as wealth, and more.
The CEO of Golden talks investing, indexing knowledge, and important problems.
The pseudonymous figure talks fame, life decisions, and podcasting.
Eric Jorgenson talks sandwiches, book writing and leverage.
On immigrant beginnings, unconventional paths, and space factories.
On when startups become corporations, the future of open source, and doing what makes the best story.
On volcanoes, discovering bitcoin, and anarchism.
The travel writer and essayist talks time as wealth, why we travel, and the role of social media.
Dr. Aubrey de Grey on the ultimate human problem, why we age, and how we can stop it.
Professor Robin Hanson on hidden motives, emulating brains, and life in the universe.
On the great stagnation, transformational technologies, and the future of crypto with Eli Dourado.
On risk, corporate culture and the necessity of conflict with Beth Comstock, author and former CMO and vice chair at General Electric.
Annie Duke on “right” decisions, when to quit, and hedging your bets.
Talking poker, cities on the ocean, and anarcho capitalism with the founder of The Seasteading Institute.
On starting young, unconventional paths, and the future of marketing with Troy Osinoff, co-founder of Juice, an award winning digital marketing agency.
On politicians, saving Uber, and mobile voting with Bradley Tusk, a man doing everything at once.
Lessons in building, the state of education, and defining success with the CEO of Primer.
On building cities from scratch, good governance, and how we’ll live in 2050 with the Founder and Executive Director of the Charter Cities Institute.
