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.
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.
Essentials: How Your Brain Functions & Interprets the World | Dr. David Berson
Andrew Huberman speaks with neuroscientist David Burson about how the nervous system creates perception, focusing on vision, color processing, circadian regulation, balance, and movement control. They explain how retinal circuits, melanopsin-containing ganglion cells, the vestibular system, cerebellum, midbrain, basal ganglia, and cortex interact to stabilize our view of the world and guide behavior. The conversation concludes with a striking example of cortical plasticity in a blind Braille reader whose visual cortex had been repurposed for touch.
$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.
#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.