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Nora speaks with bestselling author and former professional poker player Annie Duke about her new book Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away. She details why quitting is actually an important decision-making skill that’s worth developing, and offers tips on how to get good at quitting and what red flags to look for when it comes to decisive moments in your career and personal life. Source for the game: TIME’s Top 10 Quitters.

Host: Nora Ali

Producers: Olivia Meade and Raymond Luu   

Video Editor: Sebastian Vega

Production, Mixing & Sound Design: Daniel Markus

Music: Daniel Markus & Breakmaster Cylinder

Fact Checker: Kate Brandt 

Senior Producer: Katherine Milsop

VP, Head of Multimedia: Sarah Singer 

Full transcripts for all Business Casual episodes available at https://businesscasual.fm

Welcome to the FIRST EPISODE of The Crazy Ones, hosted by fellow friends, founders, and builders, Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista), Sophia Amoruso (@sophiaamoruso), and Jesse Pujji (@jspujji). Today, we talk about the rise and the insane $700M evaluation of Liquid Death, then we get into how to make your pitch deck UNDENIABLE to investors, and finally the truths that you need to know when you’re a tech entrepreneur.

Links Referenced:

Liquid Death’s Evaluation | Bloomberg

Martha Stewart’s Liquid Death Collab

Jesse Pujji’s Tweet Thread on Kahani’s Deck

Sophia Amoruso’s Business Class

Here’s a guide to understanding all-things crypto. First, Nora breaks down some crypto basics with Morning Brew’s own Jamie Wilde, who writes the Brew’s Incrypto newsletter (https://www.morningbrew.com/incrypto/subscribe). Then, we’ll find out how to navigate the crypto winter (and what that even means) with Raoul Pal, founder and CEO of Global Macro Investor and Real Vision. 

Host: Nora Ali

Producers: Olivia Meade and Raymond Luu   

Video Editor: Sebastian Vega

Production, Mixing & Sound Design: Daniel Markus

Music: Daniel Markus & Breakmaster Cylinder

Fact Checker: Kate Brandt 

Senior Producer: Katherine Milsop

VP, Head of Multimedia: Sarah Singer 

Full transcripts for all Business Casual episodes available at https://businesscasual.fm

Nora speaks with entrepreneur and investor Jesse Pujji, the founder & CEO of Kahani and Gateway X and Executive Chairman of Ampush and MySubscriptionAddiction.com about the future of ecommerce, growth marketing strategies and how to build a successful DTC business. Jesse also talks about his mission to help other founders as co-host of The Crazy Ones, a new podcast from Morning Brew! Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, and follow on YouTube.

Host: Nora Ali

Producer: Olivia Meade   

Video Editor: Sebastian Vega

Production, Mixing & Sound Design: Daniel Markus

Music: Daniel Markus & Breakmaster Cylinder

Fact Checker: Kate Brandt 

Senior Producer: Katherine Milsop

VP, Head of Multimedia: Sarah Singer 

Full transcripts for all Business Casual episodes available at https://businesscasual.fm

Nora speaks with Maëlle Gavet, the CEO of Techstars, a global investment business that provides access to capital, one-on-one mentorship, and programming for early-stage entrepreneurs in the form of accelerators. She's also the author of the book Trampled by Unicorns: Big Tech's Empathy Problem and How to Fix It.

Host: Nora Ali

Producer: Olivia Meade   

Video Editor: Sebastian Vega

Production, Mixing & Sound Design: Daniel Markus

Music: Daniel Markus & Breakmaster Cylinder

Fact Checker: Kate Brandt 

Senior Producer: Katherine Milsop

VP, Head of Multimedia: Sarah Singer 

Full transcripts for all Business Casual episodes available at https://businesscasual.fm

Nora speaks with Steve Case, co-founder of AOL and the venture capital firm Revolution, about his new book The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places are Building the New American Dream. He discusses his initiative to accelerate the growth of tech startups across the country – even for people who live outside the major coastal tech hubs – and renew communities in the process.

Host: Nora Ali

Producer: Olivia Meade  

Video Editor: Sebastian Vega

Production, Mixing & Sound Design: Daniel Markus

Music: Daniel Markus & Breakmaster Cylinder

Fact Checker: Kate Brandt 

Senior Producer: Katherine Milsop

VP, Head of Multimedia: Sarah Singer 

Full transcripts for all Business Casual episodes available at https://businesscasual.fm

Nora discusses the shifting venture capital landscape and the future of digital security with media mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg and entrepreneur Hari Ravichandran, the founder and CEO of Aura, a digital security company. Katzenberg’s venture capital firm, WndrCo, backed Aura, which last fall reportedly raised $200 million at a $2.5 billion valuation. For more info on our presenting sponsor, check out realvision.com/businesscasual. 

Host: Nora Ali

Producer: Olivia Meade   

Video Editor: Sebastian Vega

Production, Mixing & Sound Design: Daniel Markus

Music: Daniel Markus & Breakmaster Cylinder

Fact Checker: Kate Brandt 

Senior Producer: Katherine Milsop

VP, Head of Multimedia: Sarah Singer 

Full transcripts for all Business Casual episodes available at https://businesscasual.fm

Nora chats with Ben Lamm, founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences, a company that is focused on using genomics and synthetic biology to prevent, and in some cases, reverse extinction. Ben discusses Colossal’s keystone projects – bringing back the woolly mammoth and the thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger. For more info on our presenting sponsor, check out realvision.com/businesscasual. 

Host: Nora Ali

Producer: Olivia Meade   

Video Editor: Sebastian Vega

Production, Mixing & Sound Design: Daniel Markus

Music: Daniel Markus & Breakmaster Cylinder

Fact Checker: Kate Brandt 

Senior Producer: Katherine Milsop

VP, Head of Multimedia: Sarah Singer 

Full transcripts for all Business Casual episodes available at https://businesscasual.fm

Nora chats with Eric Ryan, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Method, OLLY, Welly and Cast about building brands and disrupting DTC industries that are perceived as overly complicated or stagnant. He shares the successes and failures in building three billion-dollar businesses, and his approach to leveraging design and creativity. For more info on our presenting sponsor, check out realvision.com/businesscasual. 

Host: Nora Ali

Producer: Olivia Meade   

Video Editor: Sebastian Vega

Production, Mixing & Sound Design: Daniel Markus

Music: Daniel Markus & Breakmaster Cylinder

Fact Checker: Kate Brandt 

Senior Producer: Katherine Milsop

VP, Head of Multimedia: Sarah Singer 

Full transcripts for all Business Casual episodes available at https://businesscasual.fm

Nora chats with Eddie Hearn, the President of Matchroom Boxing. What began as a family business, Matchroom Sport now has an estimated valuation of over $800 million. Eddie explains why storytelling is at the core of his business, and why he believes that “sales is a transfer of emotion.” Source for the game: Atlas Obscura’s 18 Obscure Sports That Are Well Worth Rooting For. For more info on our presenting sponsor, check out realvision.com/businesscasual. 

Host: Nora Ali

Producer: Olivia Meade   

Video Editor: Sebastian Vega

Production, Mixing & Sound Design: Daniel Markus

Music: Daniel Markus & Breakmaster Cylinder

Fact Checker: Kate Brandt 

Senior Producer: Katherine Milsop

VP, Head of Multimedia: Sarah Singer 

Full transcripts for all Business Casual episodes available at https://businesscasual.fm