Topics:

(00:04:26) - Who are your influences?

(00:08:57) - When Facts Expire: The Half-life of Knowledge

(00:22:57) - The Playbook behind Boston Dynamics and DeepMind 

(00:28:36) - Research Orgs other than Academia, Govt, and Industry

(00:31:00) - DARPA and Speculative Technologies

(00:39:08) - Ink & Switch

(00:41:13) - Challenges of University Tech Transfer Offices

(00:47:42) - Transforming the future of Education 

(00:52:20) - Using AI tools in day-to-day life

(00:55:40) - Sam’s job at Lux Capital

(00:58:07) - Overperforming and Underperforming Technologies

(01:02:33) - What mental models do you use most frequently?

(01:03:45) - How to corner the market on a high-tech skillset

(01:05:40) - Industries you’re watching that no one else is paying attention to? 

(01:07:41) - Sci-Fi book recommendations

Links for more on Sam:

Sam on Tedx: The Half-Life of Facts

Sam’s books

Sam’s Website

Companies Mentioned:

Boston Dynamics

DeepMind

DARPA

Speculative Technologies

The Foresight Institute

Books Mentioned:

Why Greatness Cannot be Planned by Ken Stanley

The Three-Body Problem Trilogy by Cixin Liu

Neal Stephenson Books

Culture series by Iain Banks

Babel by R. F Kuang

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Don Swanson - Undiscovered Public Knowledge

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Links:

David on Twitter

Mitchell on Twitter

Founders Podcast

Invest like the best

How to Take Over the World

Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

Joe Lonsdale - Lessons from Peter Thiel

Topics:

(5:51) - David’s dinner with Charlie Munger

(29:33) - The power of Podcasting, Chris Powers, and innovation

(36:21) - How to make a successful Podcast

(47:42) - The Scarcity of GREAT ideas

(55:30) - Self-funding businesses and the philosophy behind Venture Capital

(1:14:27) - Mitchell’s new business

(1:55:53) - Travel plans, meet-ups and live events!

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Links:

XBE

Sean on Twitter & LinkedIn

ChatGPT

ChatGPT-4

BarelyKnown.com

OpenAI

CoPilot

Ben’s Bites newsletter

BaeKayla.com

Support our Sponsor:

Bread: https://www.madebybread.com/

Topics:

(5:04) - Setting the stage: Sean’s company & programming background

(20:38) - Part 1: Individual Contributor AI Applications: ChatGPT 4

(44:23) - Part 2: Product Improvement AI Applications

(1:11:40) - Part 3: Organizational expectations post-implementation

(1:21:26) - What resources would you recommend for people to learn more about AI tools?

(1:22:55) - How do you view the landscape of your company given the advancement of AI?

(1:26:50) - Will this cause margins to increase?

(1:30:21) - How do you feel about the potential risks of AI?

(1:36:14) - How helpful was your technical background in implementing AI?

(1:39:24) - Where can people find you online?

(1:40:07) - IF YOU ARE AN ELIGIBLE BACHELOR SEEKING A SMART & ENERGETIC WOMAN, LISTEN TO THIS SECTION

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Topics:

(4:21) - Introducing Omar & Zach (nerds)

(5:30) - Why will Web3 data take 100% of the market?

(7:22) - What are data flows?

(14:40) - Does the whole world need to be on Web3 to execute your vision?

(18:02) - Is there a gamification to this whole approach?

(25:05) - Are you seeing finance being the first industry to adopt Web3 Data flows?

(34:29) - CryptoPoops.com (Finest shit on the internet)

(36:02) - Being able to verify truth at any point

(44:59) - The history of HTTPS

(47:41) - The SVB crisis, wire transfers & chainalysis

(50:09) - Can we implement something like Weavechain without replacing the skeleton of the current financial system?

(1:01:15) - Distribution in Web3/Crypto & how Weavechain works in pharma and insurance

(1:14:49) - Decentralized Science

(1:17:35) - What is the 50-year vision for Weavechain?

(1:25:42) - Who are the best people for you to talk to regarding Weavechain?

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Links:

Weavechain

Omar on Twitter & LinkedIn

Zach on Twitter & LinkedIn

For Fintechsake Podcast

Money20/20 

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Helpful Links:

The Rolling Fun(d)

Al on Twitter

Bo on LinkedIn

Matt Loszak on Twitter

Midjourney

ChatGPT

Portfolio companies Mentioned:

FasterBetter

Solve.io

Sponsors:

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Listen and Learn more about Athena here: Creative EA Delegation with Athena on the Podcast

Topics:

(3:49) - Life Updates: Buying a cow, Sous Vide Bacon, and Eric’s book

(13:44) - Faster Better & Athena

(24:03) - Aalo Atomics (our first Nuclear company!!)

(33:25) - Solve Data, The Brain for Ecommerce Cos

(41:10) - Current fundraising environment & Artificial Intelligence

(52:02) - Portfolio Updates 

(1:01:02) - Growth of the fund

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Links:

Bret Kugelmass on LinkedIn

Last Energy

Titans of Nuclear Podcast

Energy Impact Podcast

Marc Andreesen regulatory capture podcast episode

The Energy Impact Center

Decouple Podcast

Invest your money alongside ours in high-tech, high-growth startups: Rolling.fun 

Rolling Fun Podcast episodes:

Rolling Fun Ep. 1

Rolling Fun Ep. 2

Rolling Fun Ep. 3

Rolling Fun Ep. 4

Sponsors:

Athena: Get a free first month (Worth $3k!) when you sign up with my code: athenago.me/eric-jorgenson

Listen and Learn more about Athena here: Creative EA Delegation with Athena on the Podcast

Topics:

(5:42) - “The more nuclear meltdowns, the better!”

(11:06) - Working with regulators on nuclear fission

(12:10) - Making regulation capability a competitive advantage in nuclear

(16:09) - Bret’s previous startup (drones)

(22:14) - Starting The Titans of Nuclear Podcast

(24:41) - The process of learning a new industry

(26:27) - Factions inside the nuclear industry?

(27:52) - Nuclear evangelist Dr. Chris Keefer

(29:46) - How did you form Last Energy’s strategy?

(37:26) - Avoiding supply chain risks in nuclear

(42:59) - Perceptions vs realities of nuclear waste, and Cognitive Biases

(44:29) - Public Opinion is more and more pro-nuclear

(49:16) - How do you see the next 50 years playing out for the Energy sector?

(51:42) - Renewables are fine, Nuclear is magic

(54:14) - The beauty of Nuclear

(55:37) - Hiring people without a background in nuclear industry

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Links:

Austen on Twitter

Al on Twitter

Bloomtech (Formerly Lambda School)

Becoming Trader Joe by Joe Coulombe

Rolling.fun

Rolling Fun Podcast episodes:

Rolling Fun Ep. 1

Rolling Fun Ep. 2

Rolling Fun Ep. 3

Rolling Fun Ep. 4

Creative EA Delegation with Athena on the Podcast

Sponsors:

Athenago.com

MadeByBread.com

Topics:

(6:29) - Warming up & Austen escaping San Francisco

(13:35) - Catching up on Bloomtech’s growth

(24:34) - Hiring horror stories and strategies

(37:02) - A lot of advice is bullshit

(50:10) - How to deal with hypergrowth

(1:00:05) - Will VR be a real thing?

(1:05:43) - AI’s early investment in Bloomtech

(1:13:32) - Bottlenecks for future growth

(1:18:09) - Work/Life… balance?

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Links:

The Gray Lady Winked by Ashley Rindsberg

Ashley on Twitter

Ashley on Substack

Ashley’s writing

Sponsor:

MadeByBread.com

GiveWell.org

Topics:

(5:02) - The impact of Balaji’s love for your book

(6:54) - When did you realize this book needed to be written?

(10:35) - Rejected by publishers

(11:44) - What changed? How did this get published?

(13:51) - The research and writing process

(18:01) - Examples: Holocaust, Fidel Castro, Vietnam, Atomic Bomb… 

(30:45) - Who is responsible for the failures?

(34:45) - Is misreporting happening in other legacy media companies?

(39:15) - Like a real-life ‘Succession’

(43:15) - Do people know about these lies?

(46:04) - Ashley’s broad personal perspective

(52:10) - How Ashley reads the news

(54:27) - The future of legacy media

(57:07) - Building Alitheum to solve these problems

(1:04:58) - Final thoughts

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Links:

Domo.so

Grace on Twitter

Mitchell on Twitter

Domo on Twitter

Jorgenson’s Soundbox #38 with Athena

Jorgenson’s Soundbox #52 with Zach Pettet

Sponsor:

Athenago.com

Givewell.org

Topics:

(5:21) - Introducing Grace and Mitchell

(5:58) - Who are your heroes?

(8:27) - How did you discover there was a need for Domo?

(17:22) - How are you thinking about incorporating fiat-based companies with Domo?

(21:18) - Who are the customers for this and how would you get accounting done for this?

(25:41) - What kind of real world applications do you envision for Domo?

(31:49) - Is invoicing one of the bigger features?

(32:22) - How did you start the company?

(36:44) - DAO Tooling

(37:43) - Domo’s ability to build horizontally or vertically

(40:53) - The decades outlook for crypto & blockchain

(54:03) - How differently do these chains behave?

(58:32) - Has anything gotten measurably harder at the end of 2022 vs. the beginning?

(1:00:35) - Are you getting inbound interest from accountants?

(1:03:57) - What is the next step to getting crypto bookkeeping to the ideal person?

(1:08:20) - Grace’s experience hiring with Athena

(1:13:10) - Manifesting the crypto future

(1:15:18) - How can people reach you?

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Links:

Topics:

(6:00) - Maria’s origin story & the founding of Orbis

(12:03) - What is this technology?

(13:46) - What was Corey’s breakthrough?

(16:06) - How many months of burn did you have from the seed round?

(17:42) - What was the process of running down your first 4 contracts?

(18:49) - When did grant funding come into the picture and how do people go about getting this type of funding?

(27:51) - What happens to your options when you secure a phase 1 grant?

(30:10) - What was your experience pursuing these sources of funding?

(34:00) - What are some of the technologies you see coming into contact with grant funding?

(35:44) - How and where are you submitting requests for grants?

(37:03) - How are proposals filtered through the acceptance process?

(37:55) - How often is the motivation for funding so that agencies can become customers?

(39:38) - How much of your funding came from equity investors and then from grants?

(44:47) - How long does it take from start to finish in order to secure grant funding?

(48:15) - How many times the funding in a deck come down to minute details within a proposal?

(49:58) - What process do you walk entrepreneurs through when they want to work with you about securing grant funding?

(55:56) - How do you think about acquisition coaching?

(1:01:35) - What was your experience being acquired?

(1:05:27) - How can other founders position themselves for a sale?

(1:07:07) - How do you think about managing a team through an acquisition?

(1:08:59) - How did the licensing inflection point tie into the acquisition?

(1:11:58) - What are some facts from your industry that would blow people’s minds?

(1:13:55) - How far can this technology go?

(1:14:47) - What happens to an IP of a technology like Orbis?

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