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• You must have “one reason” to found a start-up; if you have five or six reasons to start it, then you have not yet found the single, very strong reason 
• Hire for raw IQ and hard work, then constantly iterate on solving the single problem at hand 
• Using your mind to its fullest capacity is the ultimate pleasure 
• The most successful people in the world are extremely focused and allow their focused efforts to compound over time 
• It is easy to identify conceptual gaps; developing the path toward closing that gap is the challenging part 
• You must figure out 1) what you are passionate about and 2) what you are good at 
• How you invest your time is more important than how you invest your capital, if wealth creation is your goal 

Episode 578: Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with Joe Lonsdale ( https://twitter.com/JTLonsdale ) to talk about how he leveraged one internship at PayPal into one billion dollar success after another. 

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My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

• #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

• People often underestimate the role of chance in their achievements
• Mild success can be explainable by skill, but wild success is attributable to variance 
• In the long run, the “lucky” regress to the mean 
• Understand Power Laws when investing; the wins of a few investments make up for the losses on many investments, and then some 
• Survivorship Bias: the tendency to focus on successful individuals without considering those who failed due to random factors 
• The probability of the loss must be judged in connection with the magnitude of the outcome; it is not the likelihood of an event that matters, but the magnitude of the outcome in connection with the likelihood of the event that does  
• Maximizing the probability of winning does not maximize the expected value from the game 
• The confidence in which you make your decision is more important than the expected value that comes from that decision 
• A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point 

Every podcast episode we explore a Lindy book, and find ideas you can use in business and life. Join 3,000+ curious minds and avid readers @ rationalvc.com to get free access to essays and exclusive content. For the video version of episode click here.

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(00:00) Intro / chit-chat
(20:11) Randomness & Luck
(24:46) Monte Carlo Simulation
(31:09) Ergodicity
(31:39) Hindsight Bias
(38:00) Survivorship Bias
(39:50) Asymmetric Bets / John & Nero
(49:53) Skewness & Asymmetry
(57:19) Pascal's Wager
(1:00:53) Induction & Chaos Theory
(1:03:22) Chapter 11
(1:08:45) System-1 vs System-2 Thinking
(1:10:03) Satisficing
(1:20:08) Normative vs Positive Thinking
(1:25:52) Signal vs Noise
(1:28:20) Heuristics
(1:33:45) Final Part of Book (Part 3's Importance)
(1:44:41) Favourite Quotes / Our Lives
(2:06:11) Final Thoughts

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• The question to consider: Does AI help the strong get stronger, or does AI allow for new businesses to emerge and disrupt the incumbents? 
• The top five technology companies are spending 2x on capital expenditure than the top five energy companies 
• Companies should strive to increase the consumer’s willingness to pay
• “Regulation is the friend of the incumbent.” – Bill Gurley 
• Venture capital is one of the few asset classes that has high persistence: the past winners tend to be future winners
• Develop a framework that allows you to benefit from the group dynamics of pattern recognition, but that does not tie you to one specific type of pattern 
• Instead of nit-picking how an investment may fail, make the primary focus of the discussion: “How big could this be?” 
• Investors must capture the extreme events if they wish to outperform 
• The sharpest minds desire to know where they are wrong about something 

My guests today are Bill Gurley and Michael Mauboussin. Bill is a General Partner at Benchmark, and Michael is the Head of Consilient Research for Counterpoint Global. While they are longtime friends with one another, I’d never heard them appear somewhere together so it was a real treat to be able to do this with the two of them. They are two of the leading minds in their fields, and we combined their decades of expertise into one wide-ranging conversation. We discuss the different kinds of increasing returns to scale, the issue of regulatory capture, AI, and hardware. Please enjoy this great conversation with Bill Gurley and Michael Mauboussin.

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Show Notes:

• Check out the episode page

Golden Harper is a lifelong runner and the founder of Altra Running Shoes. He ran his first marathon at age 10 (3:08:05) and holds the world’s best for a 12-year-old in the marathon at 2:45:34. After growing up working in his family’s running store, he studied Exercise Science (with a focus on running technique & running injuries) at Brigham Young University, where he was an All-American Cross-Country runner. His experience as a runner, combined with his education in proper running technique and biomechanics, led him to develop the world’s first foot-shaped, cushioned, zero-drop shoes. 

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In this episode, recorded during the 2024 Abundance360 Summit, Ray, Geoffrey, and Peter debate whether AI will become sentient, what consciousness constitutes, and if AI should have rights.

01:12 | The Future of AI and Humanity

10:30 | The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

25:00 |The Dangers and Possibilities of AI

Ray Kurzweil, an American inventor and futurist, is a pioneer in artificial intelligence. He has contributed significantly to OCR, text-to-speech, and speech recognition technologies. He is the author of numerous books on AI and the future of technology and has received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, among other honors. At Google, Kurzweil focuses on machine learning and language processing, driving advancements in technology and human potential.

Geoffrey Hinton, often referred to as the "godfather of deep learning," is a British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist recognized for his pioneering work in artificial neural networks. His research on neural networks, deep learning, and machine learning has significantly impacted the development of algorithms that can perform complex tasks such as image and speech recognition.

Read Ray’s latest book, The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

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Learn more about Abundance360: https://www.abundance360.com/summit 

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• Success in business is all about culture, and bringing the very best people along with you as you embrace that culture
• In negotiation, the other person should feel like they got more than what they thought they were going to get
• The most important person in a company is the one who interacts with the customer
• You want to work with people who have fight in them; work with people who can bounce back from defeat
• Keep your word, work as hard as you can, and give it all you got 

My guest today is Ken Langone. Ken is a legendary American businessman best known for his co-founding of Home Depot. He is also a former director of the New York Stock Exchange and a passionate philanthropist. He shares with us a lifetime's worth of wisdom, building Home Depot into a powerhouse and prioritizing his employees above all else. He says he still “bleeds orange” to this day. You’ll hear as he recounts his business endeavors, his strict belief in keeping your word, and his true pride in his country, which he knows to be the land of opportunity. We discuss his work with Ross Perot, the idea of an upside-down hierarchy, and the power of loyalty. For anyone who may find it easier to follow along, we have a transcript of the episode on joincolossus.com. Please enjoy this conversation with Ken Langone.  

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Show Notes:

• Tips for improved cognition: Sleep, exercise, maintain good metabolic health & low risk of cardiovascular disease, give yourself blocks of time for focused work

• Exercise for cognitive health: Train cardio in a ratio of 80:20, Zone 2:VO2 max

• Your emotions matter but don’t just take them at face value; use them as cue to dive deeper below the surface and consider the origin
• Considerations for emotional health: (1) Sense of purpose; (2) Satisfaction and joy; (3) achievement; (4) Quality of relationships; (5) Self-regulation; (6) Distress tolerance

• Take out your phone and voice record a description of what you would say to a friend if they just committed the same act you were just about to punish in yourself
• For example, instead of yelling at yourself for burning dinner, pull out your phone and record yourself talking to a friend who is upset they just burned dinner – you will find yourself much kinder to them than yourself
• With practice, you will still remember the incident happened, but you will be able to move on easier without it ruining the day

• The cereal is processed and made of junkier ingredients in the US than other places – but should you be eating the cereal in the first place?

Dr Peter Attia is a physician, longevity expert, podcaster and an author.

• In the 1930s, the US Treasury took partial possession of Fort Knox so that it could store its gold there
• Before Fort Knox, most of the United States’ gold was stored in New York City and Philadelphia, two cities that were close to the coast and potentially more vulnerable to an invasion from an adversary 
• Supposedly, there are 4600 metric tons of gold in the vault at Fort Knox; this equates to 2.5% of all the gold ever mined in human history  
• Some people believe that there is actually no gold in the vault 
• There have only been three official tours of Fort Knox since its founding
• Fort Knox is hooked up to its own water and power supply; it can go “off-grid”
• There is speculation that the field surrounding Fort Knox is a minefield

When Fort Knox was built in the 1930s to house America’s gold supply, it was billed as an impenetrable, impregnable, don’t-even-think-of-trying vault. But as the world has moved further away from gold, the stockpile’s lost a bit of its luster. Learn all about it in this classic episode.

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• Hormones do not act alone; they interact with many organs and neurotransmitters in the body
• Testosterone & estrogen are more than just sex hormones –

• Estrogen in females is important for bone growth, energy, muscle development, endurance, physical movement/urge to take action
• Testosterone in males plays a role in mood, bone growth and development, muscle mass, and strength

We think of estrogen and testosterone as the female and male sex hormones and they may seem kind of gross (is that just Josh?), but that simple understanding is way off. A magical biochemical dance between the two creates everything from bones to moods.

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• Curious about Andrew Huberman’s recipe for good sleep? Read more here

Tom Bilyeu answers questions from the Impact Theory community and covers topics like the "Power of Myth" by Joseph Campbell, the evolution of mythology, and Millennials and the culture of the workplace.

Tom Bilyeu is the co-founder of 2014 Inc. 500 company Quest Nutrition — a unicorn startup valued at over $1 billion — and the co-founder and host of Impact Theory. Impact Theory is a first-of-its-kind company designed to facilitate global change through the incubation of mission-based businesses and the cultivation of empowering content. Every piece of content Impact Theory creates is meant to underscore the company mission to free people from The Matrix and help them unlock their true potential. Impact Theory exists to inspire the next generation of game-changing companies and creators that will make a true and lasting impact on the world.

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