Smart Friends

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?

To support the costs of producing this podcast: 

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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?

To support the costs of producing this podcast: 

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Links:

Rolling Fun #1

Rolling Fun #2

Rolling Fun #3

Portfolio

Al on Twitter

Bo on Twitter

Positive Food Co.

Omella

Tonic Audio

Stell Engineering

NSION

Gently.com

Glyph

Terran Robotics

Topics:

(5:34) - Crypto has imploded, thanks FTX! What’s the long-term play?

(21:00) - Life and news updates

(23:20) - Q4 Investment updates

(1:01:00) - Elon and Twitter

(1:06:22) - Discussing the pros and cons of an uncapped Convertible Note and investment philosophies

(1:31:27) - Fund Growth Updates

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Links:

Zach on Twitter & LinkedIn

Money 20/20

For Fintech’s Sake Podcast

TripleBlind

Rule 1033

Propel

Trafficked with Mariana Van Zeller

Topics:

(4:25) - Recap the last episode with Zach and Eric

(5:34) - Fintech Industry Overview

(15:21) - Money 20/20 – the Biggest Fintech Conference in the world

(24:02) - Regulation looms over Fintech, always

(27:12) - The “Off The Record” Stage at Money 20/20

(29:28) - The CFPB and Rule 1033

(43:15) - Stripe, Adyen, Warren Buffett, and The Media

(49:01) - Behind the scenes at Money 20/20

(59:20) - How do you get Serena Williams on stage?

(1:01:58) - Holding the keys to so much potential ROI

(1:04:33) - Defining the relationship between a fintech org and a bank

(1:11:21) - Entrepreneurs buying their own community banks

(1:16:58) - The intersection of Crypto and Fintech

(1:27:11) - Is OnlyFans only a bad thing?

(1:35:34) - What is the overarching story that Money 20/20 tells?

(1:41:50) - Wrapping up

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Topics:

(5:29) - Max’s background and career

(14:15) - Is it reasonable to use Neural Net, Deep Learning and Machine learning interchangeably?

(26:37) - The Future of AI

(39:18) - Google & AI Writing

(49:42) - Hiring AI for help in our personal lives

(55:02) - How Improvements in Robotics will massively push things forward

(57:12) - Computers being able to smell and taste

(1:04:56) - Scarier futures of AI

(1:08:13) - Is there a new field of opportunities you’re paying attention to now in Computer Vision?

(1:16:03) - Prompt Engineering

(1:24:54) - Final recap

Links:

Max on Twitter

MaxOlson.com

Max’s Newsletter, Blog & Podcast - FutureBlind

Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders from Max Olson

Mashgin

LEX AI

GPT-3

Juggernaut AI

Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark

Turing Test

Midjourney community showcase

Jasper AI

Copy AI

>> Invest in early-stage companies alongside Eric and his partners at Rolling Fun: https://angel.co/v/back/rolling-fun

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Topics:

(4:12) - David on how to grow a podcast & Mitchell as a connector

(13:32) - David on changing the structure of his podcast

(15:58) - Creator-Led Business, Kobe Bryant, Arnold Schwarzenegger & Balaji

(36:49) - The genius of Berkshire Hathaway & The power of Twitter

(51:24) - Creator Economics & Story time with David Senra

(1:06:38) - Eric’s impact on David

(1:09:48) - Mitchell’s career model & Building a bookkeeping business

(1:28:11) - Focusing career growth

(2:04:32) - Thoughts on TikTok

(2:16:43)- How the guys spend their time (Finding operational leverage)

(2:21:29) - Trying to convince Mitchell to start a podcast

(2:24:34) - David’s thoughts on his new business model 

(2:33:38) - Wrap Up

Links:

- The Founder’s Podcast w/ David Senra

- Connect with Mitchell Baldridge

- Mitchell Baldridge on Twitter

- David Senra on Twitter

- BetterBookkeping.com

- David’s appearance on Jorgenson’s Soundbox

- Mitchell’s appearance on Jorgenson’s Soundbox

- Trung Phan on Twitter

- Sam Hinkie

- WorkWeek

- Coked Up Options on Twitter

- Ed Thorpe on The Tim Ferriss Show

- Business Breakdowns - Berkshire Hathaway

- Money20/20

- George Mack on Twitter

- Frank Niu on TikTok

To support the costs of producing this podcast: 

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Topics:

(1:05) - Life updates and catching up from Al’s Quilting Capital: Hamilton, MO

(20:08) - Fund updates for end of Q2

(25:15) - Fund updates for Q3: Omello, Ohm, Driv.ly & Glyph

(49:35) - Closing out Q3

(50:28) - Updates on old portfolio companies: StableCoin, Terran, Gently 

(55:23) - How to get involved with Rolling Fun!

Links:

Rolling Fun #1

Rolling Fun #2

Portfolio

Al on Twitter

Bo on Twitter

Wongo Puzzles

Positive Food Co.

Omella

Smart Ohm

Driv.ly

Glyph

To support the costs of producing this podcast: 

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>> Sign up for my online course and community about building your Personal Leverage: https://www.ejorgenson.com/leverage 

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Topics:

(5:53) - Start of Balaji Interview

(6:24) - How would you introduce yourself to a stranger?

(8:19) - Do you think of your work as “whatever it takes” to advance your ideology?

(10:05) - What would you like to see most achieved?

(13:14) - What are the things you believe you are the best at?

(20:52) - What are the ideas you are most confident telling others that you know for certain?

(30:22) - Balaji’s upbringing & growing up in an age before the internet

(1:03:35) - Have you always been like this? Was there an inflection point that made you who you are today?

(1:11:41) - Are there any formative media, movie or books that really had an impact on you growing up?

(1:19:15) - Doing math as a hobby & philosophical frameworks

(1:29:19) - The Feynman Lectures & Magic the Gathering

(1:51:29) - Were there any inspirations you looked to in your transition into entrepreneurship?

(1:56:45) - What do you consider your career or body of work?

(2:07:20) - Where have you seen some of the bigger obstacles in your career?

(2:25:57) - Wealth, Burn Rate, and feeling “free to speak your mind”

(2:38:40) - How are you spending time and resources to have an impact according to your mission?

(2:50:56) - Are you trying to start your own network state or help people start theirs?

(2:55:06) - What’s your process with getting up to speed on new technologies?

(3:00:23) - What do you think about the trade-off between focusing on learning vs. when to start doing?

(3:03:50) - Countries that impacted Balaji’s philosophy

(3:08:33) - Balaji’s predictions on what Eric chose to have in the book

(3:13:13) - What are the mental models or heuristics you use most often?

(3:19:21) - Eric’s Themes of Balaji’s work

(3:28:14) - What is your definition of technology?

(3:36:09) - Do you believe a startup is synonymous with a great new technology?

(3:37:20) - The co-evolution of technology and humanity & Youth-Extension

(3:43:34) - The long-term battle for Network systems

(3:45:50) - What do you envision transhumanism looking like?

(3:53:05) - Wrap Up

Links:

Balaji on Twitter

The Network State

Feynman Lectures on Physics

From Third World to First by Lee Kuan Yew

The Man Who Knew Infinity

Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos

Howl's Moving Castle

Isaac Azmov

Elements of Mathematical Modeling

Paul Tipler Physics books

Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham

One Thousand Exercises in Probability

fast.ai

Quantum.country

Classical Electrodynamics by John Jackson

The PERL Cookbook

PLEAC

Obey the Testing Goat

Nobody cares by Ben Horowitz

The Jewish State by Theodore Herzl

How ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Color Wheel Explains Humanity

Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence by Kellie Jackson

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham

Limitless

To support the costs of producing this podcast: 

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