Sunday Pick: Tech Solutions (#3): How one of China's biggest tech companies is tackling carbon removal (with Xu Hao)
Host Sherelle Dorsey talks with Dr. Xu Hao, Vice President of Sustainable Social Value at Tencent, about how the company is investing in and accelerating carbon removal and decarbonization technologies, particularly in hard-to-abate sectors like steel, cement, and chemicals. They examine the cost and scaling challenges these technologies face, the role of digital tools such as AI, data, and virtual power plants in improving efficiency and cutting emissions, and Tencent's own path toward carbon neutrality and net zero. The conversation also covers Tencent's use of video games for climate education and the need to pursue multiple climate solutions in the face of uncertainty about which technologies will ultimately dominate.
Dying Is Easy. Retail Is Hard. (Update)
This episode examines the troubled state of Macy's and the broader retail industry through conversations with Macy's CEO Tony Spring, retail veteran and academic Mark Cohen, and author-entrepreneur Jeff Kinney. Spring lays out his Bold New Chapter turnaround plan, including major store closures, real estate monetization, merchandise overhauls, and attempts to translate the marketing power of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade into better in-store experiences. Cohen sharply criticizes Macy's past strategies and questions the viability of the turnaround, while Kinney offers a contrasting example of place-based, community-focused retail through his unprofitable but culturally influential independent bookstore and downtown redevelopment project in Plainville, Massachusetts.
American Originals Holiday Special w/ Mike Rowe
Theo Von hosts a holiday special focused on American-made products, joined in-studio by Mike Rowe as they highlight small U.S. makers and talk about what it means to support American manufacturing. Throughout the episode they share stories from entrepreneurs and craftspeople behind items like gloves, cherries, hot sauce, cutting boards, pottery, and more, emphasizing resilience, ingenuity, and the "American dream" in action. The conversation closes with reflections on America as something citizens must actively maintain through everyday choices, including where they spend their money.
Stop Letting Fear Drive Your Money
Ken Coleman and Jade Warshaw co‑host a caller-driven episode focused on getting control of money by facing fear, shame, and relational pressure around finances. Callers discuss massive consumer and business debts, student loans, divorce settlements, housing decisions, and family dynamics around borrowing and lending money. The hosts emphasize practical baby steps, strong boundaries, living below your means, and choosing long-term freedom over short-term comfort or appearances.
Advice Line with Bill Creelman of Spindrift
Host Guy Raz and Spindrift founder Bill Creelman co-host an advice line, taking calls from three founders about their growth challenges. They discuss ingredient integrity and defensibility with a fast-growing pickle beer brand, hiring and marketing strategy for a flannel-aloha apparel startup, and focus and simplification for a kombucha company juggling multiple revenue streams. Bill also reflects on his own journey, emphasizing the importance of narrowing focus and solving the biggest problems rather than trying to do everything.
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna: Creating Smarter Business with AI and Quantum
Host Malcolm Gladwell interviews IBM CEO and chairman Arvind Krishna in front of a live audience at IBM's New York City office about IBM's role in solving complex business problems through technology. Krishna reflects on his early technical career, his predictive bets on networking and streaming, his strategic decision to acquire Red Hat instead of chasing hyperscale cloud, and his views on how enterprises should pragmatically deploy AI. He also explains why he believes quantum computing is a third, fundamentally different form of computation on par with the semiconductor revolution and outlines a near-term timeline for impactful quantum applications.
Is Macy's Thanksgiving Parade Its Most Valuable Asset? (Update)
The episode investigates the hidden economics and logistics of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, focusing on how it is produced, who pays for what, and what value it creates for Macy's, NBC, and New York City. Executive producer Will Koss, NBC executive Jen Neal, city officials, and author Jeff Kinney describe the year‑round production process, brand sponsorships, balloon design and fabrication, helium supply, security, and sanitation. Despite assembling many details, the show concludes that the true costs and financial arrangements around the parade remain largely opaque, and it tees up a second episode on Macy's broader retail challenges.
$10M Business ideas w/ The Most Interesting Guy In Tech
The hosts talk with investor and entrepreneur Shiel about housing affordability policies like a proposed 50-year mortgage, several AI-enabled business ideas for service industries, and health and longevity trends including peptides and EMS training. He shares his personal journey using surrogacy, the business opportunities and constraints in that space, and observations about prediction markets and San Francisco tech culture. They close with his contrarian view that most books are a waste of time compared to podcasts and his practice of emailing CEOs directly when brand experiences go wrong.
"We're in Way Over Our Heads With $1.5 Million in Debt"
Dave Ramsey and co-host Jade Warshaw take calls from listeners facing intense financial situations, from a young couple buried under $1.3 million in mostly business debt to people wrestling with car purchases, payday loans, and complex relationship money dynamics. They emphasize avoiding risky business and consumer debt, listening to internal red flags, setting firm boundaries when helping others, and aligning financial decisions with long-term goals and emotional health. The episode also covers topics like life insurance coverage, child support resentment, hiding wealth from a fiancée, grief after losing a sibling, and why 50-year mortgages are a dangerous political gimmick.
Hydro Flask: Travis Rosbach. How a thirsty surfer changed the water bottle industry
Travis Rosbach explains how dissatisfaction with existing reusable bottles led him to create Hydro Flask, a double-wall vacuum-insulated stainless steel water bottle. He describes his path through earlier businesses in fencing and sign-making, the technical and logistical challenges of developing manufacturing in China, and the scrappy early days selling bottles at markets and into retailers. The episode follows the company's rapid growth, financing crises, the arrival of an outside investor, and Travis's eventual decision to leave Hydro Flask.
4 hard truths about capitalism and climate | Steve Howard
Sustainability investor Steve Howard outlines four hard truths about capitalism and climate change, arguing that businesses, financial markets, and policies must be rewired to enable large-scale decarbonization. He explains how companies are structurally resistant to change, how short-term profit focus and unpriced environmental externalities distort markets, and why long, loud, legal climate policies are essential to drive investment into cleaner technologies. Drawing on examples from Temasek, IKEA, Singapore, and emerging climate-tech firms, he shows how better (cleaner, cheaper, higher-performing) solutions can scale quickly and calls on policymakers, asset owners, businesses, and individuals to actively redirect capital toward climate solutions.
"My Financial Advisor Told Us To Take Out A HELOC For A Tax Write-Off"
Hosts Ken Coleman and Rachel Cruze take live calls about money decisions, including retirement planning, debt payoff, parenting and consequences, college and career choices, and running small businesses. They consistently discourage debt-based tactics like HELOCs for tax advantages or student loans for ministry school, and instead promote cash-flowing expenses, simplifying plans, and aligning financial choices with personal values. Throughout, they emphasize budgeting, communication in marriage, and making hard lifestyle changes to get and stay out of debt.
TIP770: Mastering the Markets w/ Andrew Brenton
Host Clay Fink interviews Andrew Brenton of Turtle Creek Asset Management about why he believes public markets have become less efficient and how that shapes his value-oriented investing approach. They discuss Cliff Asness's "The Less Efficient Market Hypothesis," behavioral biases, bubbles, and the impact of passive flows and short-termism. Brenton then walks through Turtle Creek's investment theses and valuation approach for Floor & Decor and Kinsale Capital, and explains how he thinks about cyclicality, intrinsic value, portfolio optimization, and sticking with a high-active-share strategy through periods of underperformance.
We react to Bill Ackman's advice to young men
Two co-hosts discuss Bill Ackman's formal pickup line "May I meet you?" and share their own dating and pickup line stories before pivoting into examples of bold young entrepreneurs building "man-on-the-street" content businesses. They then dive into the origin story of MTV and its creative leadership, using it to explore the importance of planting a clear strategic flag, underestimating upside, and taking simple ideas very seriously. The conversation broadens into creative careers in animation, the power of curiosity and observational sensitivity in comedy, investing, and AI, and ends with a Jerry Seinfeld quote on proportion and knowing when to stop.
"I'm $147k In Debt And Only Make $1,500 A Month"
Hosts Rachel Cruze and Jade Warshaw take live caller questions about debt, budgeting, relationships, and major financial decisions, ranging from a struggling small business owner with six-figure debt to retirees managing multiple properties. They coach callers through practical next steps such as getting additional jobs, setting firm timelines, selling assets, communicating better in marriage, and avoiding debt for cars, housing, and education. The episode also features two debt-free screams including a truck driver who paid off over $63,000 in 11 months and a couple who became completely debt-free, including their house, after paying off $279,000 in under seven years.
Advice Line with Anthony Casalena of Squarespace
In this Advice Line episode of How I Built This Lab, host Guy Raz and Squarespace founder and CEO Anthony Casalena answer questions from three early-stage founders. They first discuss how Squarespace has evolved, including its role in a changing AI-driven web and its AI-enabled features. Then they advise a custom mattress entrepreneur, a clean first-aid brand founder, and the creator of an eating-disorder recovery app on branding, distribution, go-to-market strategies, and leveraging early users, before Anthony shares a key retrospective lesson on following his gut faster.
Kevin Hart: They're Lying To You About How To Become A Millionaire! I Was Doing 28 Sets A Weekend!
The host interviews Kevin about his journey from an unfocused teenager in North Philadelphia to a globally successful stand-up comic, actor, and entrepreneur. Kevin describes how his strict mother, his father's failures, and his own 'dummy moments' taught him to finish what he starts, persist through a 13-year grind before his big break, and later learn the worlds of business and investing by admitting ignorance and asking questions. They also explore the costs of relentless ambition, his approach to fatherhood and masculinity, setting boundaries to manage stress, and his evolving perspective as reflected in his stand-up special "Acting My Age."
#836: The 4-Hour Workweek Principles - 13 Mistakes to Avoid, The Art of Mini-Retirements, and Navigating the Dizziness of Freedom
Tim Ferriss presents an experimental episode featuring three full chapters from the audiobook of his book The 4-Hour Workweek, narrated by Ray Porter. The chapters explore the concept of mini-retirements and mobile living, how to handle the psychological and existential void that can appear once work is removed, and the 13 most common mistakes made by people adopting the New Rich lifestyle. The episode combines parables, case studies, detailed how-to checklists, and philosophical reflections on freedom, meaning, learning, and service.
How fortnite made me a millionaire
Sean walks through roughly a decade of business attempts-from a sushi restaurant and wristband dropshipping to a biotech venture and a series of social and messaging apps-before finally finding success with a high school Fortnite esports league that was acquired by Twitch. He then explains how his approach to project selection, learning, and risk changed, leading to a streak of more straightforward wins and a portfolio doing tens of millions in revenue. The conversation shifts into money, defining "enough," the idea of a second mountain focused on creative work and meaning rather than more wealth, and ends with a light segment about Halloween, parenting, and family traditions.
Emma Grede: #1 Trick Successful People Use Every Day (THIS Will Open Doors You Didn't Know Existed!)
In this live conversation, Jay Shetty interviews entrepreneur Emma Grede about overcoming self-doubt, navigating the structural barriers women face in business, and building confidence through action and excellence. Emma shares how focusing on what she does best, asking for help, and embracing trade-offs has allowed her to grow multiple companies while raising four children. Together they explore redefining success on your own terms, the power of focus and self-talk, and end with a live coaching session where Emma advises an audience member on how to start testing her TV show concept immediately at a small scale.
Introducing Business History: How Free Whisky, Hot Pants and Low Fares Led to Southwest's Success
Hosts Jacob Goldstein and Robert Smith trace the rise of Southwest Airlines from a Texas intrastate startup sketched on a cocktail napkin to one of the most consistently profitable airlines in U.S. history. They explain how regulatory structures, low fares, aggressive legal battles, operational innovations, and a deliberately unglamorous business strategy gave Southwest a durable edge in a notoriously bad industry. The episode then examines how those same strengths later exposed vulnerabilities, culminating in the 737 MAX grounding, a holiday meltdown, activist investor pressure, and strategic changes like adding assigned seating.
You Can't Control the Past, But You CAN Control the Path Forward
This episode features a series of caller questions about debt, housing, business setbacks, medical crises, and difficult family and relationship dynamics, with the hosts offering practical, step-by-step financial guidance. Topics include tackling large private student loans, restructuring small business debt after a serious car accident, handling family conflict over unpaid damages, deciding whether to keep or sell a negative-cash-flow rental property, recognizing and leaving financially controlling relationships, and planning for retirement with limited time. The hosts emphasize focusing on the next right step, avoiding new debt, building margin, and choosing strategies that prioritize long-term stability and personal safety over short-term comfort.
Every Business I Tried Before Making My First Million
Sam walks through roughly ten different companies and side projects he tried before making his first million at around age 31, sharing how much money each made and what he learned from them. The conversation covers early hustles like flipping sports equipment, running a hot dog stand, selling white whiskey online, organizing an Anti-MBA book club, building a roommate-matching app, launching niche products like poison ivy treatment, and eventually creating The Hustle and this podcast. Along the way, Sam and Sean discuss developing money-making skills, scrappiness, project selection, risk reduction, and how entrepreneurship is largely about enduring uncertainty and fear over many years.
Gymshark: Ben Francis. From pizza delivery to billion-dollar fitness brand.
Ben Francis tells the story of how he went from a student delivering pizzas and building websites to founding Gymshark, a global gymwear brand. He explains how Gymshark began as a dropship supplement site before pivoting into apparel, leveraged early YouTube fitness influencers, and grew rapidly while remaining bootstrapped. Ben also describes bringing in experienced operators, learning each function of the business, navigating a co-founder split, and eventually returning as CEO to lead Gymshark as a multi-hundred-million pound company with global reach.
TIP769: How Home Depot's Founders Built a $300 Billion Company from the Ground Up w/ Kyle Grieve
Host Kyle Grieve provides a narrative deep dive into the origins and growth of Home Depot, drawing heavily from the founders' book "Built from Scratch". He traces Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank's early careers, their firing from Handy Dan, the creation of the Home Depot concept, the role of key partners like Ken Langone and Pat Farah, and the company's early financing and expansion challenges. The episode then examines Home Depot's competitive strategy, supplier relationships, management philosophy, and long-term performance, extracting lessons for entrepreneurs and investors about culture, pricing, competition, and disciplined growth.
How Alex Hormozi Gets Other People To Build His $100M+ Empire
The host and Alex discuss how to think about talent, hiring, and leadership, including frameworks for diagnosing employee performance issues and prioritizing intelligence and small skill gaps in recruiting. They explore the evolution from operator to 'collector of people,' the importance of pattern recognition in building teams, and how to identify true partners versus employees. The conversation broadens into trade-offs between work and life, patience versus speed, the role of networks and alternative education, copywriting and persuasion, and Alex's current reflections on mortality, happiness, and redefining his priorities beyond business.
Most Replayed Moment: Why You're Never Satisfied! The 4 Pillars of Lasting Happiness
The conversation explores the components of happiness, distinguishing between pleasure, enjoyment, and satisfaction, and explaining how social connection and struggle contribute to deeper fulfillment. It examines the hedonic treadmill, the arrival fallacy, and an equation for satisfaction that emphasizes managing desires rather than accumulating more. The discussion then shifts to setting better goals around faith, family, friendship, and work that serves others, using fitness and habits as examples, and concludes with a framework for life meaning based on coherence, purpose, and significance, illustrated through two probing questions about why one is alive and what one is willing to die for.
TIP768: Best Quality Stock Idea Q4 2025 w/ Clay Finck
Host Clay Finck presents Interactive Brokers (IBKR) as his quarterly best quality stock idea, analyzing its business model, economics, and long‑term growth prospects. He covers the firm's history and founder Thomas Pederphy's automation-focused culture, its revenue drivers like commissions and net interest income, and its unique low-cost, tech-heavy positioning versus competitors such as Charles Schwab and Robinhood. The episode also explores IBKR's competitive advantages, management incentives, valuation, key risks, and why Clay holds a 2% personal position in the stock.
Advice Line with Chet Pipkin of Belkin International
This Advice Line episode of How I Built This Lab features Belkin founder Chet Pipkin helping three early-stage entrepreneurs work through practical business challenges. They discuss adoption and positioning for dissolvable shampoo tablets, inventory and cash-flow planning for a fast-selling sports accessory, and how a massage tool company can expand into B2B and corporate wellness markets. Throughout, Chet shares lessons from building Belkin around solving real problems, managing capital constraints, and relying on grassroots demand instead of top-down sales pushes.
Tim Ferriss: 4 Science-Backed Tools That Rewired Decades of Childhood Trauma & Depression
Tim Ferriss discusses his frameworks for learning quickly, choosing projects, and structuring life around relationships and energy rather than rigid long-term plans. He shares in depth about his history of childhood sexual abuse, severe depression, and near-suicide, and explains how he has used tools like psychedelic-assisted therapy, brain stimulation, and metabolic psychiatry to dramatically improve his mental health. The conversation also explores emerging bioelectric medicine, the importance of social connection, the pitfalls of modern dating, and practical practices like annual mini-retirements to sustain long-term well-being and productivity.
Two US governors - a Democrat and a Republican - on why there's hope for democracy | Matt Meyer and J. Kevin Stitt
Democratic Governor of Delaware Matt Meyer and Republican Governor of Oklahoma J. Kevin Stitt interview each other on stage at TED Next 2025 about the health and future of American democracy. They discuss restoring trust in government through effective service delivery and federalism, navigating polarized information ecosystems, leveraging AI and apprenticeships in education, and preserving the American dream through integrity-driven, bipartisan leadership. The conversation emphasizes shared values, personal rapport, and practical reforms over partisan point-scoring.
I Did Nothing For 2 Weeks. It Made Me Better At Everything.
Two co-hosts catch up after one has a new baby and the other returns from his grandfather's funeral, leading into honest reflections on paternity leave, men's emotional experience with newborns, and how much time off is actually useful. They explore Aristotle's concept of flourishing, the value of leisure and dedicated thinking time, and how engineered rest and movement can produce creative breakthroughs, tying into one host's project to write concise "one-hour" books and the discipline required for deep work. The conversation then shifts to Paul Graham's framework for procrastination, the transformative power of a parent or grandparent instilling belief in a child, immigrant family stories, the modern scarcity of belonging versus information abundance, and a fast-growing group travel company that builds community and reduces loneliness.
#835: Ben Patrick (KneesOverToesGuy) - 20-Minute Workouts That Produce Wild Results, From Chronic Knee Pain to Dunking Basketballs, Lessons from Charles Poliquin, Bulletproofing the Lower Body, and More
Tim Ferriss interviews strength coach Ben Patrick, also known as Knees Over Toes Guy, about his journey from debilitating knee pain and multiple surgeries to pain‑free athletic performance. Ben explains the origins of his knees‑over‑toes approach, the key exercises and minimalist programming he uses for joint health and performance, and how he applies this with clients and family, including his 71‑year‑old mother. They also discuss equipment innovations, American manufacturing, and Tim's philosophy on integrity, long‑term thinking, and resisting audience capture in media and business.
Follow a Proven Plan, Quit Making It Up As You Go
Hosts Jade Warshaw and Dr. John Delony take live calls about money and life decisions, focusing on debt payoff, budgeting, relationships, and long-term planning. Callers include young families struggling with daycare and car payments, near-retirees behind on investing, people navigating enabling family members, and listeners wrestling with combining finances, massive credit card debt, and post-divorce purposelessness. Throughout, they emphasize following a proven step-by-step financial plan, facing emotional and relational issues directly, and making short-term sacrifices for long-term stability.
Why Following Your Dreams Isn't Enough
Host Shankar Vedantam first speaks with Stanford professor Hagi Rao about why bold visions and passion often fail without careful attention to operations, using examples like the Fyre Festival, North Korea's unfinished "Hotel of Doom," and the rollout of healthcare.gov. Rao introduces the contrast between "poetry" (inspiring visions) and "plumbing" (execution, routines, and details), and explores how good leaders and organizations cultivate plumbing through practices like field visits, premortems, and empowering unsung "Sherpas." In the second segment, sociologist Rob Willer answers listener questions about bridging political divides, explaining why debate-style arguing backfires, how empathy and correcting misperceptions can reduce partisan animosity, and how structured conversations and role modeling from leaders can support healthier democratic engagement.
Are You Willing To Trade Your Comfort Today For Peace Tomorrow?
Hosts Ken Coleman and Jade Warshaw take live calls about career and money decisions, debt payoff, housing, cars, healthcare costs, and complicated family and relationship dynamics around finances. They emphasize trading short-term comfort for long-term peace, prioritizing debt freedom over investing or lifestyle upgrades, and facing the emotional and relational roots of money problems. The episode also covers broader themes like the affordability crisis in America, spending addictions, and how to structure money in second marriages.
"Tom Freston"
The hosts talk with media executive Tom Freston about his unconventional path from advertising into years of travel across North Africa and Asia, building a clothing business in India and Afghanistan, and eventually helping launch MTV and other major cable brands. Freston recounts the creation and impact of MTV, the birth of Comedy Central, his tumultuous years leading Viacom under Sumner Redstone, early views on platforms like YouTube and MySpace, and his later work in philanthropy and Afghan media. The conversation also explores his philosophy on travel, risk-taking, and using media for social change, plus colorful anecdotes involving Jimmy Buffett, Bangkok sex clubs, and a desert music festival near Timbuktu.
Backroads: Tom Hale. How a desk worker became a trailblazer in active travel
Guy Raz interviews Tom Hale, founder and CEO of Backroads, about how he turned a spontaneous idea into one of the largest active travel companies in the world. Hale describes leaving an unfulfilling environmental planning job, bootstrapping bike trips through U.S. national parks and later internationally, and building a logistics- and people-intensive business without outside capital. He also explains how Backroads survived major shocks like 9/11, the Great Recession, and COVID-19 while expanding beyond bike tours into hiking and multi-adventure travel.
The Woman Who Makes Millionaires: Only 1% of People Do This! The PPF Framework Will 10x Your Income!
Steven interviews Natalie, an entrepreneur who has co-founded two nine-figure companies, Cardone Ventures and Tenex Health, and worked directly with over 15,000 business owners to grow and scale their organizations. She explains her frameworks for goal setting, hiring, communication, time management, and sales, and contrasts the mindset and behaviors of the top 1% with those who struggle to build wealth. The conversation also explores hard work versus burnout, respect versus likability, AI-enabled opportunities, the coming women's wealth transfer, and the importance of believing you can learn any skill you need.
Sunday Pick: Tech Solutions (#1): The affordable tech that will revolutionize farming (with Samir Ibrahim and Josephine Waweru)
This episode of TED Tech, part of a special mini-series recorded at the TED Countdown Climate Summit in Nairobi, explores how affordable solar-powered water pumps are transforming smallholder farming. Host Cheryl Dorsey speaks with Sun Culture CEO Samir Ibrahim about building a farmer-centered business that has driven down the cost of solar irrigation through both engineering and business model innovation, while navigating investors and climate-related priorities. Coffee farmer Josephine Waweru then shares how installing a solar pump on her Kenyan farm solved her water challenges, enabled her to expand her crops and income, and inspired her to encourage other farmers and young people to see farming as a viable, growth-oriented business.
I Ranked the Best & WORST Businesses to Start Before 2026 | Andrew Wilkinson
The host and Andrew Wilkinson play a "tier list" game ranking different business models by their median successful outcome, lifestyle impact, upside, and difficulty, drawing heavily on Andrew's two decades of experience running agencies, buying companies, and managing capital. They discuss models such as MLMs, freelancing, agencies, SaaS, marketplaces, restaurants, content creation, real estate, hedge funds, angel investing, and buying local "sweaty" businesses, while also unpacking how Tiny was built and why its stock chart can be misleading. In the second half, they shift to psychological themes like the courage to be disliked, identity boxes, contrarian thinking, and designing a career around work you enjoy doing thousands of times rather than chasing labels or external approval.
652. Inside the Horse-Industrial Complex
This episode examines the modern thoroughbred horse industry, from elite breeding operations in Kentucky to the lived experience and economics of being a jockey and a backstretch worker. Former jockey Richard Migliore describes the physical and psychological demands, risks, and rewards of his nearly 30-year riding career, while industry participants like economist Jill Stowe and farm operator Mark Taylor explain the business structures, sales markets, and breeding strategies that underpin the sport. The conversation also explores how immigration rules shape the racing workforce and how long-standing breeding rules, especially the ban on artificial insemination, help keep Kentucky at the center of the global thoroughbred economy.
He's Still Living With His Ex's Parents and Needs a Way Out
Dave Ramsey and Rachel Cruze take calls on money, careers, housing, medical debt, and family dynamics while emphasizing personal responsibility, peace of mind, and avoiding financial entanglements that create stress. They interview generosity content creator Jimmy Darts about his "Undercover Kindness" book and how small acts of giving transform both givers and receivers, and talk with Ramsey Personality Jade Warshaw about the emotional side of money and her journey out of heavy debt. The episode also features a couple celebrating paying off their home and becoming completely debt-free.
The AI Race: Why the Future of Power Is at Stake with U.S. Energy Secretary, Chris Wright
Tony Robbins and co-host Christopher Zook interview U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright about the current and future state of American energy. Wright discusses the shift from "energy subtraction" to "energy addition," the role of entrepreneurs and deregulation in expanding electricity capacity, and the need to win the global AI race by rapidly growing U.S. power generation. He also covers nuclear power, fusion, quantum computing, natural gas, coal, and where he sees major investment and innovation opportunities in the energy sector.
TIP766: Intelligent Fanatics: How Great Business Leaders Win w/ Clay Finck
Host Clay Fink summarizes the book "Intelligent Fanatics" by Ian Cassel and Sean Iddings, explaining how extraordinary business leaders build durable competitive advantages through culture, incentives, and long-term thinking. He dives into case studies of Herb Kelleher at Southwest Airlines, Les Schwab at Les Schwab Tire Centers, and Chester Cajot at QuickTrip, highlighting their unconventional strategies and employee-first philosophies. The episode distills common traits of intelligent fanatics and connects them to how investors can better evaluate management teams and business quality.
Advice Line with Tariq Farid of Edible Arrangements
This advice-line episode features Edible Arrangements founder Tariq Farid joining host Guy Raz to answer real-time questions from three entrepreneurs. Tariq first shares an update on Edible Arrangements, including generational leadership transition, brand reinvention, and navigating the emerging "edibles" space. Callers then seek advice on educating consumers about Filipino banana ketchup, naming a highly sustainable polar expedition company, and scaling a service-focused screen printing business from $3M to $5M in revenue without losing its culture.
How to Use AI to Make Money, Save Time, and Be More Productive
Mel Robbins interviews AI expert Allie K. Miller about how everyday people can practically use artificial intelligence to save time, make money, and improve their lives. Allie explains what AI and generative AI are in simple terms, outlines four main ways to interact with AI tools, and shares concrete examples from travel planning and cooking to job searches and caregiving. They also address risks and concerns such as hallucinations, job loss, over-reliance, data privacy, and environmental impact, while emphasizing that learning to use AI now is crucial, especially for women and knowledge workers.
How AI is discovering athletes that human scouts miss | Richard Felton-Thomas
Sports scientist Richard Felton-Thomas explains how his team is using AI, computer vision, and biomechanics to make youth sports scouting more equitable and data-driven. He describes the AI Scout smartphone app, built with clubs like Chelsea and Burnley FC, which analyzes standardized movement drills to identify talent regardless of geography or background. Through examples from the UK, India, and Senegal, he shows how the technology is uncovering overlooked athletes and scaling across sports and regions.
The High School Dropout Who Made $2B & Bought an NBA Team
Ryan Smith describes his journey from a 1.9 GPA high school dropout to building Qualtrics from his family basement into a multi‑billion‑dollar company and later becoming an NBA team owner. He recounts being effectively forced out of school, surviving a precarious stint in Seoul as a teen English teacher, founding Qualtrics with his father during a cancer scare, and eventually turning down a $500 million acquisition offer before raising major venture capital and selling the company. He also reflects on focus, long‑term thinking, buying the Utah Jazz, and his personal frameworks for parenting and career decisions.
#834: David Baszucki, Co-Founder of Roblox - The Path to 150M+ Daily Users, Critical Business Decisions, Ketogenic Therapy for Brain Health, Daily Routines, The Roblox Economy, and More
Tim Ferriss interviews Roblox founder and CEO David Bazuki about his family's multi‑year struggle with his son Matthew's severe bipolar disorder and how a medically supervised ketogenic diet produced dramatic improvements after many medications and hospitalizations. They discuss metabolic psychiatry, ketosis, continuous glucose and ketone monitoring, and how physiology can underpin mental health. The conversation then shifts to the origin and growth of Roblox, its user‑generated economy, safety and civility at scale, the role of AI in the platform's future, and David's own health routines and long‑term decision‑making as a public company CEO.
Everything you need to know about AI agents | Swami Sivasubramanian
In this TED Talk featured on TED Talks Daily, Swami Sivasubramanian explains what AI agents are, how they differ from chatbots, and why they could be one of the most transformative technology shifts of our time. He outlines three key milestones needed for agents to change how we work: transforming software development, establishing trust through automated reasoning, and enabling non-programmers to build and collaborate with agents. Drawing from his own journey and examples from Amazon and Prime Video, he describes a future where human-agent collaboration lowers barriers to creation and makes powerful tools widely accessible.
A $60,000 Mistake Turned Into a Wake-Up Call
Hosts Ken Coleman and Jade Warshaw take live calls from listeners about money mistakes, debt, relationships, and big life transitions. They coach callers through issues like an unaffordable RV loan, restarting debt after paying it off, complex child support situations, side hustles that aren't profitable, and saving for a home in an expensive market. Throughout, Jade shares pieces of her and her husband Sam's journey paying off $500,000 of debt and emphasizes the emotional side of money-shame, fear, anger, and endurance-as critical to long-term financial change.
Babylist: Natalie Gordon. How a new mom used nap time to build a $500M business.
Software engineer Natalie Gordon describes how her overwhelming experience creating a traditional big-box baby registry while pregnant led her to build BabyList, a universal registry that lets parents combine products from any retailer with practical services like dog walking or diaper subscriptions. She explains how she bootstrapped the company while caring for a newborn, then gradually scaled it through affiliate revenue, an accelerator, seed funding, and later a major shift into holding inventory and operating as an e-commerce retailer. Throughout, she reflects on hiring and management challenges, learning to become a CEO, and keeping BabyList focused on serving expecting and new parents rather than expanding into adjacent categories like weddings.
3 Questions to Ask Yourself to Figure Out What You Really Want
Mel Robbins guides listeners through a three-question framework called the Odyssey Plan, developed by Stanford professors Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, to rethink their current life trajectory. She uses examples, research, and personal stories to show how visualizing your current path, imagining a forced change, and dreaming without constraints can reveal "unfinished business" and new possibilities. The episode concludes with practical advice on turning these insights into small daily experiments that gradually redesign your life.
#484 - Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming
Lex Fridman speaks with game writer and Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser about his creative process, influences, and the design of story-driven open world games like Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption. Dan explains how films, literature, and war stories shaped his approach to world-building and character creation, including the tragic arcs of Niko Bellic, John Marston, and Arthur Morgan. He also discusses his new company Absurd Ventures, its universes such as A Better Paradise and American Caper, his views on AI and large language models, and reflects on mortality, family, and advice for young people.
651. The Ultimate Dance Partner
This episode explores the past and present of horses, from their central role in ancient empires and industrial America to their modern status as high-value sport animals in disciplines like dressage. Economist-equestrians and historians explain how horses evolved from "living machines" that powered cities to luxury goods shaped by opaque markets, billionaires, and specialized breeding. The host then visits a New Jersey dressage barn to see training up close and even rides a high-level sport horse himself to experience the human-horse partnership.
I asked Cathie Wood the question no one else will
The host interviews investor Cathie Wood about her career trajectory from early service jobs through studying under Art Laffer and breaking into Capital Group, emphasizing how she used technology and hustle to add value. Wood explains ARK's research structure, open-research philosophy, and how her team uses volatility and rebalancing to manage high-conviction positions like Tesla. She addresses performance criticisms, lessons from the COVID boom and subsequent drawdown, discusses incentive structures in finance and venture capital, and lays out her views on AI, Tesla, robo‑taxis, humanoid robots, and the future economics of transportation.
Advice Line with Niraj Shah of Wayfair
In this Advice Line episode of How I Built This Lab, host Guy Raz and Wayfair co-founder and CEO Neeraj Shah take calls from three founders seeking help with branding, financing, and career-risk decisions. They discuss how to clearly communicate a novel cooking ingredient (CookStix), when and how to seek funding for a mineral sunscreen brand (Daily Shade), and how a founder of a solo-women-travel housing app (HerHouse) should think about leaving a well-paid job. Neeraj also reflects on his long co-founder relationship, Wayfair's scale and focus strategy, and the non-linear nature of entrepreneurial journeys.
#833: Jack Canfield - Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen
Tim Ferriss interviews Jack Canfield about his life, from a difficult childhood and early teaching career to becoming co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series and author of The Success Principles. Jack explains how mentorship from W. Clement Stone shaped his views on responsibility, goal setting, and success, and details the persistence and grassroots marketing that turned Chicken Soup for the Soul into a global phenomenon. He also discusses plant medicine experiences, limiting beliefs, decluttering "messes," aging, and why he is partly retiring to focus on family and creative hobbies.
Are Two C.E.O.s Better Than One? (Update)
Stephen Dubner revisits the question of whether companies run by co-CEOs perform better than those with a single chief, exploring both supportive evidence and strong skepticism. CEO advisor Mark Feigen and several current and former co-CEOs describe the benefits and pitfalls of shared leadership, while Yale professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld critiques the model as creating role confusion and undermining decisive authority. Computer scientist Lori Williams adds evidence from pair programming, showing how working in pairs can improve quality and satisfaction, raising the broader question of when two leaders might truly be better than one.
TECH006: Open-Source AI That Protects Your Privacy w/ Mark Suman (Tech Podcast)
Host Preston Pysh interviews Maple AI founder Mark Suman about building privacy-preserving, verifiable AI using trusted execution environments and secure enclaves. They discuss the cultural importance of privacy at Apple, the risks of feeding proprietary AI systems with intimate personal data, and how verifiable, open-weight models can mitigate manipulation and data leakage. The conversation also covers Maple's architecture, AI memory, the open-source vs proprietary model race, AI-assisted software development, and the potential future of running personal AI servers at home.
What if you could talk to your favorite character in a movie? | Christoph Lassner
AI engineer Christoph Lassner introduces a taxonomy of digital content he calls Content 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0, and explains how generative AI is enabling the next phase. He describes Content 3.0 as media that is dynamically generated with and for each individual viewer, allowing them to co-create stories, interact with characters, and explore worlds without preset narrative boundaries. He also discusses the technical underpinnings, creative possibilities, and economic implications of this shift for storytellers and the entertainment industry.
The Ramsey Show Live From Orlando
This live Ramsey Show event in Orlando features hosts taking questions from the audience on money, relationships, and life decisions while weaving in humor and interactive games. Callers and attendees discuss issues like overspending versus over-saving, boundaries with estranged parents, getting a disengaged spouse on board with finances, YOLO spending while in debt, shifting out of a poverty mindset, preparing for homeownership at 19, and combining money before marriage. The show closes with an in-room debt-free scream from Jessica, who paid off over $127,000 in five years largely on a modest income.
Masterclass: How to go from founder to CEO (without imploding)
Sam and Sean discuss how a startup's growth is constrained by the founder's psychology and development as a leader, especially after the brute-force phase ends around a few million in revenue. They contrast abdicating versus properly delegating, share concrete management frameworks (like RACI and feedback methods), and talk about building culture through real, lived values rather than slogans. In the second half, they examine how repeat founders exploit their edge talents by running the same proven playbook in similar industries, highlighting multiple examples of entrepreneurs who "speedrun" the same business model to build multiple large companies.
Nuts.com: Jeff Braverman. From Corner Store to Snacktime Powerhouse
Host Guy Raz interviews Jeff Braverman about how he transformed his family's small Newark Nut Company, founded in 1929, into the large e‑commerce brand Nuts.com. Jeff describes growing up in the store, his early experiments putting the business online, and eventually leaving a lucrative finance job to overhaul operations and focus on direct-to-consumer internet sales. He explains key inflection points, including aggressive use of Google Ads, quirky marketing stunts, a major rebrand to Nuts.com, navigating COVID-era challenges, and eventually transitioning from CEO to chairman while keeping the business family-owned.
TIP763: Investing Lessons for My 18-Year-Old Self w/ Clay Finck
Host Clay Finck delivers a solo episode structured as a letter to his 18-year-old self, sharing 12 key lessons from his investing journey, including starting early, using index funds, focusing on great businesses, and managing emotions. He explains why beating the market is difficult but possible, how patience and time horizons create an edge, and why moats, management quality, and megatrends matter more than simple valuation metrics like P/E. The episode also covers investor psychology, avoiding unnecessary complexity, building a peer network, and developing an independent, process-driven investment philosophy that fits one's personality and goals.
Advice Line with John Zimmer of Lyft
Host Guy Raz speaks with Lyft co-founder John Zimmer about his transition out of day-to-day leadership, the emotional and mental health challenges of stepping away, and his interest in building new, mission-driven consumer businesses. Together they take calls from three founders: a UK inventor of a soap-mixing showerhead seeking to scale to the U.S., a rucking gear entrepreneur struggling with inventory financing and tariffs, and a craft chocolate maker wrestling with work-life balance and long-term employee ownership. The episode focuses on practical advice around focus, financing, go-to-market tests, and personal sustainability for founders.
Oz Pearlman (Mentalist): This Small Mistake Makes People Dislike You! They Do This, They're Lying!
Mentalist Oze Perlman explains that he cannot literally read minds but has spent decades learning to read people through observation, suggestion, and influence. He shares how overcoming fear of rejection, making interactions about others, systematically taking notes, and improving memory have driven his success on stage and in business. The conversation covers practical techniques for persuasion, confidence, goal setting, habit formation, storytelling, and maintaining childlike wonder while navigating ambition, fame, and mortality.
You Can't Outearn Your Stupidity
Hosts George Kamel and Rachel Cruze take live calls about money and life decisions, helping listeners navigate issues like credit card use, career changes, relationships, housing, and large debt burdens. They repeatedly reference the Ramsey "baby steps" and emphasize behavioral change, intense debt payoff, and value-driven decision-making over purely mathematical optimization. Callers include people wrestling with credit card rewards, whether to change careers, living with partners before marriage, college savings strategies, upside-down car loans, real estate decisions, massive student loan balances, and the financial fallout of divorce.
5 AI Tools I'd Use to Make $1M (w/o employees, capital, or time)
Sam and Greg walk through a series of AI-powered tools and workflows that they personally use to boost productivity, create content, and make better business and financial decisions. They demonstrate concrete use cases for deepfake-style video generation, AI-first web browsing, voice dictation, AI spreadsheets, TikTok automation, and automated job applications, while also touching on the risks and ethical concerns around scams, spam, and brain-rotting content. The conversation balances excitement about arbitrage opportunities for people going from zero to one with unease about how pervasive and manipulative AI-generated content could become.
#831: Frank Miller, Comic Book Legend - Creative Process, The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City, 300, and Much More
Tim Ferriss interviews legendary comics creator Frank Miller about his life, creative process, and the evolution of his work from Daredevil and Elektra to Ronin, Sin City, and The Dark Knight Returns. Miller discusses technical aspects of drawing and storytelling, his influences from European and Japanese comics, and his collaborations with figures like Neil Adams, Alan Moore, and Robert Rodriguez. He also reflects on professional failure, Hollywood adaptations, alcoholism and sobriety, and offers advice to aspiring cartoonists and storytellers.
Magnolia: Chip & Joanna Gaines. From House Flipping to Household Name
Guy Raz interviews Chip and Joanna Gaines about how they built Magnolia from a small Waco, Texas home goods shop and house-flipping operation into a large lifestyle brand. They trace their journeys from childhood and early scrappy businesses through near-bankruptcy during the housing crisis, the rise of Fixer Upper, and the creation of Magnolia Market at the Silos and their media ventures. They also describe hard decisions like closing Joanna's first shop and ending Fixer Upper, how their faith and partnership guided them, and how they're thinking about the next decade of their lives and business.
How to live an asymmetric life
The host outlines five "guaranteed" ways to live a miserable life-avoiding deep friendships, remaining indecisive, neglecting goals and tracking, constantly switching projects, and trying to beat the stock market by picking individual stocks-and then explains how doing the opposite leads to a happier, more successful life. He uses philosophical ideas, psychological experiments, personal stories, and financial data to illustrate how close relationships, decisive action, clear goals, long-term focus, and simple index-fund investing compound over time. The episode concludes with a concise recap of the five positive behaviors listeners should adopt.
You Can Still Take Charge Of Your Financial Future
This episode features Dave Ramsey and co-host Ken Coleman taking live calls about debt, budgeting, family financial conflict, and long-term planning. Callers deal with issues like a father-in-law committing investment fraud using his son's Social Security number, overwhelming student loans from multiple degrees, questions about whether to sell or keep vehicles, handling co-signed car loans, HELOCs and housing decisions, late-in-life debt payoff, and whether to voluntarily repay discharged bankruptcy debts. The hosts emphasize boundaries, increased income, strict budgeting, and avoiding rationalizations for staying in debt.
You're Manifesting Wrong! Follow THIS 3-Step Alignment Formula That Actually Works (This is Life Changing!)
Jay Shetty breaks down common myths about manifestation and reframes it as a process of clarity, belief, and aligned, consistent action rather than magical thinking. He walks through seven specific misconceptions-about magic, positivity, journaling, wanting, a smooth path, passivity, and material goals-using research, analogies, and personal stories. The episode emphasizes building systems, taking concrete steps, and aligning goals with deeper values and purpose.
#2394 - Palmer Luckey
Palmer Luckey discusses his path from building virtual reality headsets as a teenager and founding Oculus to running the defense technology company Anduril. He and the host explore VR's impacts, robot combat and training, UFOs and government secrecy, U.S. defense waste and reform, China's industrial and military buildup, as well as Anduril's autonomous weapons like AI fighter jets and the Eagle Eye augmented-reality combat helmet. They also delve into media manipulation, interspecies communication, uplifted animals, simulation theory, nostalgia in product design, and the ethics of working on advanced weapon systems.
Advice Line with Stacy Madison of Stacy's Pita Chips
In this Advice Line episode of How I Built This Lab, host Guy Raz and guest co-host Stacey Madison, founder of Stacey's Pita Chips, answer questions from three entrepreneurs about scaling personality-driven brands, positioning a little-known spirit, and reviving a heritage snack company. Stacey also briefly reflects on her own journey, including her pivot from a food cart to pita chips, burnout from a pandemic-hit energy bar business, and the importance of listening to customers. Callers include the founder of a fast-growing pizza steel and content brand, the co-founder of a Peruvian pisco label, and the fourth-generation leader of Stucky's pecan snacks seeking to modernize while honoring legacy.
Mark Zuckerberg on the AI bubble and Meta's new display glasses | ACCESS
Hosts Alex Heath and Ellis Hamburger introduce their new tech podcast Access, explain the show's concept, and discuss Alex's early hands-on experience with Meta's new Ray-Ban display smart glasses and neural input band. Alex then interviews Mark Zuckerberg about why Meta is betting on smart glasses as the next computing platform, how the neural band works, and how AI will integrate into these devices. Zuckerberg details Meta's broader strategy for VR/AR, Horizon creation tools, and its aggressive push to build a frontier AI lab and massive compute infrastructure for superintelligence, including how he weighs the risk of an AI investment bubble versus underinvesting, and early signs of AI systems improving Meta's own products.
How two straight guys bought Grindr and made $2B
The hosts interview two entrepreneurs and operators who led the acquisition of Grindr from its Chinese owner under a forced divestiture and then took it public for a $2 billion valuation. They explain Grindr's origin, why U.S. regulators forced the sale, how homophobia and perceived risks created a buyer's opportunity, and the operational turnaround they executed across talent, tech, product, trust and safety, and monetization. The conversation broadens into how they approach private equity deals vs. startups, the use of leverage and risk reduction, opportunities and disruption in AI, crypto, and healthcare, and reflections on long careers in tech, investing, and choosing the right partners.
Your Financial Chaos Ends Today
Hosts George Campbell and Dr. John Deloney take live calls from listeners navigating complex financial and relational situations, from family members stealing student loans to deciding whether to finance cars, sell rental properties, or downsize homes. They emphasize paying cash, prioritizing peace over complicated financial arbitrage, facing hard family conversations, and putting basic needs first during crises like job loss, medical emergencies, and government shutdowns. Several callers share intense life transitions, including divorce, small-business struggles, and the sudden death of a spouse, and receive step-by-step guidance on stabilizing their finances and planning the next chapter.
Faherty Brand: Alex and Mike Faherty. How Jersey Shore + Manhattan Chic grew to 80 stores.
Twin brothers Mike and Alex Faherty describe how a high-school dream of blending surf culture with Manhattan-quality fashion became Faherty, a surf-inspired clothing brand with around 80 U.S. stores and roughly a quarter of a billion dollars in sales. They walk through their deliberate 12-year preparation period, early careers in fashion and finance, the decision to pursue a multi-channel model combining wholesale, e-commerce, and retail, and scrappy tactics like a mobile beach house store and a print catalog. The conversation covers cashflow struggles, a pivotal hero product, the impact of COVID on their business, rapid store expansion, family dynamics, and their desire to keep Faherty a long-term family-run brand.
5 App Ideas for ChatGPT's New App Store ft. Greg Isenberg
The host and Greg Isenberg discuss OpenAI's new ChatGPT app store and the significant opportunity it creates for entrepreneurs to build apps that live inside ChatGPT. They explain how in-chat app discovery works, show examples like design and real estate tools, and brainstorm specific app concepts including an AI tax assistant, a healthcare concierge, a meme generator, an "AI Grandma" advisor, and a credit score repair utility.
#830: Nick Kokonas and Richard Thaler, Nobel Prize Laureate - Realistic Economics, Avoiding The Winner's Curse, Using Temptation Bundling, and Going Against the Establishment
Tim Ferriss, Richard H. Thaler, and Nick Kokonas discuss how traditional economics models people as perfectly rational, selfish agents and why that vision breaks down when confronted with real human behavior. Thaler traces the origins of behavioral economics through stories and experiments on loss aversion, fairness, mental accounting, and self-control, showing how these insights improve predictions and policy in areas like retirement savings, pricing, and investing. They also explore the winner's curse in auctions and sports drafts, the power of nudges and temptation bundling, and Thaler's collaborations with Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, including a candid conversation about Kahneman's decision to end his life through assisted dying.
Advice Line with Michael Dubin of Dollar Shave Club
Host Guy Raz speaks with Dollar Shave Club founder Michael Dubin, who shares what he has been working on since selling his company, including writing a screenplay, advisory and board work, exploring new company ideas, and starting a wildfire-focused nonprofit. Together they field calls from three entrepreneurs: a founder launching Syrian cheese into U.S. grocery stores, a mobile mini-golf business owner scaling service quality through employees, and a former wildland firefighter making custom fire uniforms who is struggling with production capacity and growth. Dubin and Raz offer practical advice on marketing in a noisy digital world, brand storytelling, customer experience, hiring and incentives, and when and how to think about fundraising and manufacturing partnerships.
Louis Tomlinson: "The Room Was Cold That Day". When The Police Knocked... I Just Knew
Louis Tomlinson discusses his journey from a working-class upbringing in Doncaster to global fame with One Direction, and the impact that sudden success and its end had on his identity and mental health. He opens up in detail about losing his mother and younger sister, how those tragedies reshaped his sense of purpose and responsibility toward his family, and his evolving relationship with former bandmate Liam Payne, including Liam's death. Louis also reflects on fatherhood, redefining success in his solo career, and how his current happiness, relationship, and outlook are shaping his new, more uplifting music.
The best thing that could happen to the energy industry | Matt Tilleard
Host Elise Hu introduces a talk by renewable entrepreneur Matt Tilleard, who argues that the current clean energy shift is fundamentally different from past energy transitions because it is driven by technology instead of fuel. He explains how renewable technologies are less existential, more recyclable, more substitutable, and based on abundant materials, making control of resources and cartels far less powerful than in the fossil-fuel era. Using examples from his work in Africa and a case study in Madagascar, he outlines why the future of energy is likely to be more distributed, shared, and shaped by innovation and manufacturing rather than by those who control fuel deposits.
Brainstorming $100M Ideas with the $1B+ King of Brands
The hosts interview consumer brand entrepreneur Eric Ryan about how he repeatedly reinvents everyday product categories like soap, vitamins, and bandages into large, culturally resonant brands. Ryan explains his simple but disciplined model for spotting category white space, stealing inspiration from distant industries and geographies, and balancing familiarity with novelty, then applies that thinking in a live brainstorming session for new $100M+ brand ideas. He also discusses the challenges of execution, leadership, and funding, including a recent failed retail jewelry venture and his current shift toward incubating brands and investing via a new consumer fund.
TECH004: Sam Altman & the Rise of OpenAI w/ Seb Bunney
Host Preston Pysh and guest Seb Bunney discuss Karen Howe's book "Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares of Sam Altman's OpenAI," using it as a springboard to explore Sam Altman's biography, the founding and evolution of OpenAI, and the opaque 2023 boardroom crisis that briefly ousted Altman. They examine OpenAI's unusual nonprofit/for‑profit hybrid structure, its partnership with Microsoft, tensions between AI safety and competitive speed, and the hidden labor and economic costs of training large AI models. The conversation also touches on AGI definitions, human-AI interaction, other labs like Anthropic and DeepMind, NVIDIA's role in AI, and briefly previews their next book on longevity.
$50M Poker Pro Shares His Best Advice For Founders
Poker pro Daniel Negreanu joins the hosts to explore the parallels between high-stakes poker and entrepreneurship, including reading people, managing risk, and handling emotional swings. He describes how he developed his observational skills, his early ups and downs in Las Vegas, and his philosophy on bankroll management and when to take big risks. The conversation broadens into emotional intelligence, personal responsibility, learning from rock bottom moments, and the importance of continually updating one's mental "software" to stay world-class in any field.
Pressbox and Tide Cleaners: Vijen Patel. The $1.99 Gamble That Built a National Brand
Host Guy Raz interviews entrepreneur Vijan Patel about founding Pressbox, a dry cleaning and laundry startup built around 24/7 locker access in residential buildings. Patel explains how he and co-founder Drew McKenna bootstrapped the company, focused relentlessly on unit economics and quality, and expanded across multiple U.S. cities before being acquired by Procter & Gamble and folded into Tide Cleaners. He also describes the burnout of running a 24/7 service business, the competitive battles with venture-backed rivals and P&G itself, and his current focus on investing in "boring" but essential, asset-heavy businesses through his fund, the 81 Collection.
BOARD GAMES 2: Making our prototype
Planet Money follows its collaboration with Exploding Kittens as they turn an economic concept into a playable board game prototype. The team settles on the "Market for Lemons" idea about asymmetric information, watches Exploding Kittens discover and refine a simple but engaging deal-making mechanic, and wrestles with balancing economic education, fun, and manufacturing constraints. They then test the prototype with game consultant Jamie Wolanski and invite listeners to download and playtest a printable version to help refine the game.
JRE MMA Show #170 with Michael "Venom" Page
Joe Rogan and Michael "Venom" Page discuss Page's unorthodox point-fighting-based striking style, his transition from traditional kickboxing to MMA, and the challenges he faced earning respect from critics and opponents. They break down the mental and strategic dimensions of fighting, including nerves, fun, pattern-breaking movement, wrestling and grappling realities, and the dangers of extreme weight cutting. The conversation also ranges across notable fighters and matchups, training philosophies, the importance of self-marketing as a fighter, and how Page is preparing creatively for life after MMA.
The App That'll Be Bigger Than TikTok
The hosts discuss OpenAI's new Sora app for AI-generated video, exploring its onboarding flow, social mechanics, and why it may be more powerful than TikTok as a multiplayer AI experience. They broaden the conversation to AI as a super app (including ChatGPT's Pulse), concerns about OpenAI's growing power, and how AI will reshape content creation, education, therapy, and addiction support. The episode also covers the rise of micro sports betting and prediction markets, new businesses tackling gambling addiction with AI, and the extreme personal data logging practices of Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke alongside their own approaches to life-logging and memory capture with tools like Meta smart glasses.
"Failure Is NOT THE END!" - Tony Robbins Full Intervention
Tony Robbins responds to a woman named Anna who asks how to deal with failures and stay positive, especially when she feels she is wasting time. He explains that highly successful people fail more often but interpret those experiences as learning rather than defeat, and that unrealistic expectations about timelines create unnecessary suffering. Robbins then teaches his RPM framework-focusing on clear outcomes, compelling reasons, and a selective massive action plan-and shares the story of producer Peter Guber to illustrate how embracing struggle and viewing failure as a speed bump leads to long-term success.
Advice Line with Tony Xu of Doordash
This Advice Line episode of How I Built This features DoorDash co-founder and CEO Tony Hsu joining Guy Raz to coach three early-stage founders through strategic decisions. They discuss when to expand a product line beyond the core offering, how to think about raising capital versus using debt while maintaining control of a growing CPG brand, and how a small, mission-driven meat company can differentiate and educate consumers in a crowded "grass-fed" market. Tony also reflects on DoorDash's evolution, his approach to managing stress, and what he wishes he'd known as a first-time founder.
BOARD GAMES 1: We're making a game
Planet Money goes inside the modern board game industry as they embark on creating their own economics-themed tabletop game. They follow the journey of first-time designer and publisher Leonie Grundler, whose game Biome became a Kickstarter hit, and then meet Exploding Kittens co-creator Alon Lee to explore whether their game should be a complex Eurogame or a mass-market party game. Along the way, they unpack crowdfunding, manufacturing, tariffs, and the importance of core game mechanics while setting up a partnership to develop a smart but broadly appealing party game.
#482 - Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature
Lex Friedman interviews Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of Telegram, about his philosophy on freedom, discipline, technology, and the design of secure, scalable messaging systems. Pavel describes his strict lifestyle, his refusal to compromise on user privacy under pressure from powerful governments, and the technical and organizational principles behind Telegram's lean but highly productive engineering team. They also discuss government overreach, Pavel's legal ordeal in France, earlier clashes with Russia and Iran, the economics and crypto ecosystem around Telegram, and broader reflections on human nature, education, abundance, and mortality.
This TED Talk is full of bad ideas | Gabe Whaley
Host Elise Hume introduces a TED Talk by artist and mischief maker Gabe Whaley, founder of the New York art collective Mischief, about the surprising power of pursuing ideas that initially seem bad or impractical. Whaley walks through several of Mischief's projects, including a microscopic handbag, a robot dog with a paintball gun, the viral Big Red Boots, an ATM that publicly ranks users by bank balance, novelty objects, and a car shared via 5,000 keys, to show how the real artwork often becomes the interactions and communities that form around these experiments. He closes by encouraging people to give themselves permission to explore ideas that make them uncomfortable because they can evolve into something unexpected and meaningful.
The Hospitality Principles That Build Billion-Dollar Startups
The host interviews restaurateur and author Will Gudera about the philosophy and practice of "unreasonable hospitality" that helped his restaurant Eleven Madison become a top destination. They discuss how small, highly personal gestures can matter more than perfect execution, how to build a culture of rigorous feedback and care, and how to operationalize hospitality through roles like the "Dreamweaver" and systems such as one-size-fits-all, one-size-fits-some, and one-size-fits-one experiences. The conversation also explores applications in other industries, the economics of restaurants, and the broader pursuit of excellence in life and business.
The New Space Race with Jeff Thornburg
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice interview aerospace engineer and Portal Space Systems CEO Jeff Thornburg about the emerging space industry, agile spacecraft propulsion, and the interplay between government and commercial space. Thornburg discusses his work on advanced rocket engines at the Air Force Research Lab and SpaceX, why rapid maneuverability in orbit is now strategically critical, and how his company is pursuing solar-thermal propulsion and modular spacecraft. They also examine the value of failure in engineering, the consequences of cutting U.S. R&D and NASA science budgets, the geopolitical competition in space-especially with China-and speculative future technologies like quantum-enabled warp-like drives.
Craigslist: Craig Newmark - The Forrest Gump of the Internet
Guy Raz interviews Craigslist founder Craig Newmark about how a simple email list for San Francisco tech and arts events in 1995 evolved into one of the world's most-used online classified sites. Newmark describes his socially awkward childhood, early work in computer science and the internet, the organic growth and minimalist philosophy behind Craigslist, his decision to hand over leadership to CEO Jim Buckmaster, and his later-life focus on philanthropy in journalism, veterans' support, and animal rescue. They also discuss the disputed impact of Craigslist on newspaper classified revenue and Newmark's belief that he was largely lucky and in the right place at the right time.
DAVID SENRA: Daniel Ek, Spotify
Host David Senra speaks with Spotify founder Daniel Ek about optimizing life for impact rather than happiness, arguing that deep, sustained happiness is a trailing indicator of meaningful impact. Ek traces his journey from early financial success and subsequent depression to building Spotify as a long-term mission, emphasizing self-knowledge, founder archetypes, trust, creativity, and energy management. The conversation explores how he learns from other founders, delegates product decisions, focuses on problem-solving, and thinks about quality, longevity, and what it means to truly "live."
He turned a broke team into a billion dollars
The hosts profile Jesse Cole and the Savannah Bananas, tracing how he transformed a struggling summer-league baseball operation into a massively in-demand entertainment phenomenon. They describe his decade of experiments with the Gastonia Grizzlies, the all‑in risk he and his wife took to launch the Savannah Bananas, and the fan‑first innovations that led to Banana Ball and a huge touring live show business. Along the way they draw parallels to MrBeast, Steve Jobs, Will Guidara, Dan Porter, Monster Jam, and Feld Entertainment to explore strategy, hospitality, showmanship, and building AI‑proof live experiences.
Advice Line with Randy Hetrick of TRX
Host Guy Raz speaks with TRX founder Randy Hetrick on an 'Advice Line' episode where they take calls from three founders seeking guidance on scaling their businesses. Randy first updates listeners on his journey selling TRX to private equity, starting a new outdoor fitness venture, and eventually buying TRX back in a turnaround. Together, Guy and Randy advise the founders of an emerging low-caffeine energy drink brand entering Target, an Australian meat pie franchise looking for strategic investment, and an adaptive apparel company debating how narrowly to focus its target markets.
How to Get Rich (without luck, talent or a trust fund)
The host lays out four "rules of money" that he used to go from being broke in his twenties to making his first million by 30 and later building a net worth of $30 million. He explains how to pick and master one of four core money-making skills, convert that skill into equity via code, content, or capital instead of renting out time, adopt a long-term perspective that is impatient with action but patient with results, and deliberately move closer to ambitious peers and industry hubs to accelerate progress. Throughout, he illustrates the rules with concrete examples from his own life and from figures like Mr. Biso, Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Alex Ramosi, and Steve Martin.
#828: David Senra - How Extreme Winners Think and Win: Lessons from 400+ of History's Greatest Founders and Investors (Including Buffett, Munger, Rockefeller, Jobs, Ovitz, Zell, and Names You Don't Know But Should)
Tim Ferriss interviews David Senra, host of the Founders Podcast, about how studying hundreds of biographies of entrepreneurs and investors has shaped his thinking and behavior. They explore different archetypes of "extreme winners," the fine line between productive and destructive drive, David's obsessive reading and note-taking process, and how he built Founders from a one-man, paywalled show into a widely respected business history podcast. They also discuss his new conversation-driven show, his relationships with mentors like Daniel Ek, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Michael Dell, Sam Zell, and Michael Ovitz, and how focus, authenticity, and obsession guide his work and life design.
TECH002: Jensen Huang & NVIDIA w/ Seb Bunney - Review of The Thinking Machine by Stephen Witt
The episode is a book-club style discussion of Stephen Witt's "The Thinking Machine," focusing on how NVIDIA evolved from a niche gaming graphics company into a central player in the AI revolution. Preston and Seb trace the technical and strategic milestones behind NVIDIA's rise-parallel processing, GPUs, CUDA, and neural networks-while examining Jensen Huang's leadership style, culture-building, and obsession with speed and iteration. They also touch on the implications and risks of AI, Huang's reluctance to address them directly, and preview their next book on OpenAI and Sam Altman.
The Side Hustle King: 11 Easy Businesses Anyone Can Start
The hosts bring back their "side hustle king" guest Chris to share a series of concrete, small-business and side-hustle ideas ranging from seasonal porch pumpkin decorating and backyard sport courts to in-ground trampolines, male "dollhouse" building kits, liquidation arbitrage, and mobile fuel delivery. They discuss how these seemingly simple service and niche product ideas generate substantial revenue, how Chris validates demand with short-form content and paid ads, and how he structures operations with subcontractors and partners. Later, Chris describes his RV park investments, his interest in AI automation services for small businesses, and his plans for an AI-enabled QuickBooks competitor.
Poppi: Allison and Stephen Ellsworth. From Farmers Market Vinegar Drink to $2B Soda Sensation
Allison and Stephen Ellsworth describe how a homemade apple cider vinegar drink that helped Allison's health issues evolved into Mother Beverage and ultimately the prebiotic soda brand Poppy. They walk through bootstrapping production in their house, early traction at farmers markets and Whole Foods, a pivotal Shark Tank deal with investor Rohan Oza, a complete rebrand and shift to cans, and rapid growth fueled by Amazon, Shark Tank exposure, and TikTok. The episode concludes with their creation of a new "modern soda" category, Poppy's sale to Pepsi for nearly $2 billion, and reflections on building a generational brand as a married co‑founder team.
(#5) Elise's Top Ten: The new political story that could change everything | George Monbiot
Host Elise Hu introduces a 2019 TED Summit talk by journalist George Monbiot, part of her 'Top 10' playlist, about the political stories that shape our societies. Monbiot argues that neoliberalism persists not because it works, but because it has not yet been replaced by a more compelling 'restoration story', and he explains how narrative structures drive political change. He proposes a new politics of belonging centered on human altruism, cooperation, the commons, and participatory democracy to counter atomization and authoritarian tendencies.
How To Turn $100K into $4,000,000 with Distressed Investing
The hosts interview a distressed investor named Tom who specializes in buying bankruptcy claims, especially in crypto-related cases like Mt. Gox and FTX, and walk through how his niche works. He explains the "stake and sizzle" approach to finding situations with both downside protection and significant upside optionality, details the hustling and legal knowledge required to trade claims, and shares stories from early crypto bankruptcies and his own investing background. Later, he candidly discusses a controversial Delaware receivership case that resulted in fines and a settlement, and closes with core investing philosophies and a reading list for learning more about distressed and value investing.
TIP754: Rule Breaker Investing w/ David Gardner
Host Clay interviews David Gardner, co-founder of The Motley Fool, about his new book "Rule Breaker Investing" and the distinctive growth-oriented philosophy that produced multiple 100-bagger stock picks like Amazon, Netflix, and NVIDIA. Gardner explains why he diverged from Warren Buffett-style value investing, embraces losses as part of a venture-capital-like approach, and focuses on qualitative factors such as leadership, culture, and brand that traditional valuation metrics ignore. The conversation also covers his six traits of Rule Breaker stocks, six habits of Rule Breaker investors, conscious capitalism, the importance of optimism, and several current companies he believes embody his framework.