Podcast highlights
This is the home for snippets of podcasts I've really enjoyed.
#143 Andrew Wilkinson: Entrepreneurial Insights — The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
Canadian businessman and billionaire investor Andrew Wilkinson has made a successful career out of channeling his entrepreneurial spirit, but he knows that sometimes that energy can be a double-edged sword. On this episode, Wilkinson goes in-depth on...Read More →
20VC: Matt Mullenweg on Relationships to Risk, Money and Insecurity as a Leader | Lessons from a Parent's Passing and the Pre — Grieving Process | What is High Performance in Leadership Today?
is the Founder of Automattic, the force behind WordPress, Tumblr, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Longreads, Simplenote, Pocket Casts, and more. What started as a simple open-source blogging platform, Matt has turned into one of the most significant internet...Read More →
#290 — What Went Wrong? — Making Sense with Sam Harris
A Conversation with Marc AndreessenRead More →
#606: Balaji S. Srinivasan — 5 — 10
Balaji S. Srinivasan — The Network State and How to Start a New Country | Brought to you by Eight Sleep’s Pod Pro Cover sleeping solution for dynamic cooling and heating, Athletic Greens all-in-one nutritional supplement, and Shopify global commerce platform providing tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail business. More on all three below.Read More →
#613: Russ Roberts on Lessons from F.A. Hayek and Nassim Taleb, Decision — Making Insights from Charles Darwin, The Dangers of Scientism, Wild Problems in Life and the Decisions That Define Us, Learnings from the Talmud, The Role of Prayer, and The Journey to Transcendence
Russ Roberts on Lessons from F.A. Hayek and Nassim Taleb, Decision-Making Insights from Charles Darwin, The Dangers of Scientism, Wild Problems in Life and the Decisions That Define Us, Learnings from the Talmud, The Role of Prayer, and The Journey to Transcendence | Brought to you by Athletic Greens all-in-one nutritional supplement, Eight Sleep’s Pod Pro Cover sleeping solution for dynamic cooling and heating, and Pique premium pu’er tea crystals. More on all three below.Read More →
American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle) — Acquired
We sit down with a16z General Partner Katherine Boyle to discuss investing in “American Dynamism”, why it’s so important and why now is the right time to pursue it. Katherine has a fascinating background, beginning her career as a reporter at The WaRead More →
Billion Dollar Business Philosophies With Hubspot Co — Founder Dharmesh Shah
Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk to Co-Founder & CTO of HubSpot, Dharmesh Shah (@dharmesh), about why a bad economy is a good time to start a business, creating an alternative to Wordle, and the trillion dollar Venn diagram of success.Read More →
One Question Friday: Where Did You Succeed Where Others Did Not? — My First Million
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) answers one listener's question: What did you do differently that allowed you to succeed, that you think other people who had similar circumstances to you, did not? Where did you succeed where they did not?Read More →
Patrick Campbell: The Billion $ Quilting Industry And Using Spy Secrets To Gain A Competitive Edge — My First Million
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk to Founder & CEO at ProfitWell, Patrick Campbell (@Patticus), about the billion dollar quilting industry, using spy secrets in business, buying cheap debt and a hostile takeover of a person.Read More →
Pieter Levels: Making $2.7M A Year With No Employees — My First Million
Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk to Pieter Levels (@levelsio) about being a solopreneur who makes nearly $3M a year with no employees while living a nomadic lifestyle.Read More →
Guillermo Rauch, Founder & CEO of Vercel, on Using Open — Source to Make The Web Faster
Guillermo Rauch is the Founder and CEO of Vercel, a cloud platform provider used to develop, preview, and ship frontend websites and applications using their Next.js open-source framework. Original...Read More →
20 Product: iPhone Creator, Tony Fadell on Marketing Lessons Learned from Steve Jobs, What is Truly Great Product Marketing, How The Best Product Teams Do Post — Mortems and Product Reviews & Is Product Art or Science, Data or Gut?
, often referred to as the father of the iPod is one of the leading product thinkers of the last 30 years as one of the makers of some of the most game-changing products in society from the iPhone and iPod to more recently founding Nest, creating the...Read More →
E66: $FB's major pullback, Rogan/Spotify mess, Xi/Putin meetup and understanding supply chain issues with Bestie Guestie Ryan Petersen (Flexport CEO) — All
0:00 Sacks' shining moment 2:34 Bestie Guestie Ryan Petersen joins to break down the supply chain situation: core issues, solutions, things to look out for 45:49 $FB's major pullback: causes, headwinds, and why going all-in on the Metaverse might have...Read More →
#241 – Money, Happiness, and Productivity as a Solo Founder with Pieter Levels (Part 1 of 2) — Indie Hackers
Today I'm catching up with Pieter Levels (@levelsio) after 4 years. The world has changed dramatically since we last spoke. Attitudes toward remote work and global travel are all completely different now. We'll talk about what headwinds and tailwinds thesRead More →
#098 – How to Make $2.5MM as a Solo Founder by Teaching What You Love with Adam Wathan — Indie Hackers
Courtland Allen interviews the ambitious indie hackers who are turning their ideas and side projects into profitable online businesses. Explore the latest strategies and tools founders are using to capitalize on new opportunities, escape the 9-to-5 grind, and create their own personal revenue-generating machines. The future is indie!Read More →
#63 with Andrew Wilkinson — Buying cash
Sam (@thesamparr) and Shaan (@shaanvp) are joined today by Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson) who is the co-founder of Tiny (tinycapital.com) - the internet version of Berkshire Hathaway. Shaan also launched a newsletter version of the podcast, subscribe t...Read More →
It's your turn — Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin
The power of 'no place to hide'Read More →
How to Get Rich: Every Episode — Naval
One giant episode that collects every episode of How to Get Rich.Read More →
Saas Companies that Anyone Can Start with Rob Walling — My First Million
Sam Parr (@theSamParr) and Ben Wilson (@BenWilsonTweets) discuss Sam's article defending Theranos, airport houses, and conducting an end of year family review. They are then joined by Rob Walling (@RobWalling) who talks about great SaaS business that anyone could start.Read More →
#105 Seth Godin: Failing On Our Way To Mastery — The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
Seth Godin is the author of 20 bestselling books, founder of altMBA, the Akimbo podcast and runs one of the most popular blogs in the world. Seth and Shane chat about creative work, fear, shame, trusting yourself, what it means to be a professional,...Read More →
Finish Things [Zach Braff, Donald Faison] — The Swyx Mixtape
The Scrubs stars give advice to young creatives.Read More →