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Project Mario

The inside story of how DeepMind’s experiments in AI safety governance transformed Demis Hassabis from an idealist into a realist

Inside Notion

The culture, people, and quirks behind the first pre-GPT company to become “AI-native”

We Have Learned Nothing

Startup pundits sold us a failed science of entrepreneurship. The Red Queen offers something better.

Beyond the Sky

Jeffrey Yan turned down $100 million, airdropped billions to strangers, and can’t travel without a bodyguard. The story of how he built Hyperliquid, a blockchain and crypto trading exchange, into the most profitable startup per employee on earth.

Inside Cursor

Sixty days with the AI coding decacorn

Flounder Mode

Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work

The New World

Joshua Kushner, Thrive Capital, and the American dream

Invisible Companies

AI Rollups, the latest fad to take venture capital by storm, point to a different source of excess returns that is only becoming more valuable

The Amusement Park for Engineers

An exclusive peek behind the curtain of Anduril's product engineering machine

The Making of a Market Maker

How Thomas Peterffy built the machines that killed the trading floor and made Interactive Brokers into a $100 billion business

The Patriot

For two decades, Shyam Sankar has been the most important but hidden figure behind Palantir. The question now is whether he will win his wars.

The Education of the Broligarchy

The same sources that inspired tech moguls to bend matter, minds, and markets to their will may also help explain their foray into other forms of power

Built to Own

How 3G Capital, the lean and secretive private equity firm, created some of the world's largest companies

The Last Human Edge

In an age of machines, Henry Ellenbogen’s alpha comes from reading people, patterns, and the painful transition where certain companies either compound for life or die trying

AI Founder Mode

Invest Like the Best

Brian Chesky is the co-founder and CEO of Airbnb. We cover the two types of people that won't survive the age of AI, why the best CEOs spend half their time on recruiting, and what changed when he stopped chasing adulation and started building things for the love of them.

Concentration and Conviction

Invest Like the Best

Josh Kushner is the founder and Managing Partner of Thrive Capital. We cover the stories behind Thrive's defining investments in Stripe and OpenAI, how a culture of entrepreneurship allows Thrive to stay small while making concentrated bets, and the family history and famous artists that have shaped his worldview.

Building Netflix

Invest Like the Best

Reed Hastings is the Chairman and former CEO of Netflix. We cover his philosophy of selecting for talent density, how Netflix funds original content in search of the next big hit show, and why the best board members are hands-off in daily operations but wise in a crisis.

Playing a Different Game

Invest Like the Best

William Hockey is the founder and CEO of Column. We cover how he finds an edge by studying emerging markets and obscure books, why starting businesses has become too safe, and the surprising beneficiaries of the AI boom.

Building Ribbit

Invest Like the Best

Micky Malka is the founder of Ribbit Capital. We cover the founding principles behind Ribbit's mission to innovate financial services, the exciting possibilities at the intersection of crypto and AI, and why there's no such thing as too much conviction when a team is aligned.

Investing for a Higher Purpose

Invest Like the Best

Cyan Banister is a partner at Long Journey Ventures. We cover why spirituality is an increasingly investable area, the power of staying curious in the face of adversity, and her best stories about everything from Uber to Bill Murray.

Applied Intuition: A Billion Intelligent Machines

Business Breakdowns

Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig are co-founders of Applied Intuition. We cover the untapped potential of physical AI, the decade of lessons behind their agentic software platform, and why a boring business model pairs well with frontier technology.

Cloudflare: Leading Cybersecurity

Business Breakdowns

Sam Eden is an investor at Square Peg's Global Tech Fund. We cover how Cloudflare protects its customers from 2.5 million outside attacks per second, the combination of simple onboarding and powerful network effects that enabled it to scale, and why recent outages have actually proved its moat.

Building a Beacon in the Fog of AI

Joys of Compounding

Nilam Ganenthiran is the CEO and founder of Beacon. We cover why trust becomes more important as competence becomes a commodity, the hardest lessons from scaling Instacart, and how Beacon is equipping the real-economy businesses Silicon Valley forgot.

The Art of Compounding

Joys of Compounding

Mitch Rales is the co-founder of Danaher. We cover the formula behind four decades of compounding success, why benchmarking and continuous adaptation are essential to building a winning organization, and the fishing trip that inspired his philanthropy.

#417: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Founders

David Senra is the host of Founders, where he studies history's greatest entrepreneurs. This is what he learned from reading Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

#295 I had dinner with Charlie Munger

Founders

David Senra is the host of Founders, where he studies history's greatest entrepreneurs. This is what he learned from having dinner with Charlie Munger and rereading The Tao of Charlie Munger.

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