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By Michael Ye
The podcast currently has 6 episodes available.
Newer episodes will be on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/michaelye
Furqan was the CTO of Bebo (acq. by Twitch for $25M) & Applovin (worth over $2B).
We talk about the science behind virality, packaging company functions, & more.
New Episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/michaelye
John Coogan is the co-founder of Soylent (raised over $70M from Google Ventures & a16z) - it's the OG foodtech company that kickstarted the biohackers community by replacing all food with just a drink.
We talk about cargo cults, the exploit vs explore tradeoff in AI & how that applies to decision making, self-help vs stealth-help, & more.
New Episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/michaelye
Ashutosh and I breakdown key lessons learned in his 7 year journey of constantly pivoting & iterating, then finally building Sunsama (YC W19) which is now the "Superhuman for Daily Planning". We talk about pivoting 3+ times, power law distributions in relationships, vectors of thought suppression, & more.
New Episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/michaelye
Michael Ioffe is named 30 under 30 in EdTech. He started one of the world's largest education non-profits which was supported by Google, We Are Family Foundation, & more (TILE.org) in high school. & He's now building the future of micro-learning via text with his startup Arist (YC S20) which recently raised $2.1M from Craft Ventures, Global Founders Capital & Y Combinator.
We talk about problems with Coursera, the enlightenment era, heuristics vs metaheuristics, darkside of non-profits & more.
New Episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/michaelye
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In this episode, we talk about:
- How John Pollaers turned 2 different billion-dollar companies (Pacific Brands & Fosters Group)'s trajectory around from a decline
- Stories of talking with CEO of Ford on innovation & working with the Australian Prime minister
- Levels of Consciousness
- & more!
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The podcast currently has 6 episodes available.