Fei-Fei Li, the godmother of AI. “AI is absolutely a civilizational technology. I define civilizational technology in the sense that, because of the power of this technology, it’ll have—or [is] already having—a profound impact in the economic, social, cultural, political, […]
Reluctantly influential: Lenny Rachitsky. “I have a rule: no meetings before 3pm,” Rachitsky says. It’s part of how he protects a “chill life” while still shipping an absurd amount of content and community work. ~ learn more
Ryan Petersen (@typesfast) can also talk fast. He’s a fountain of interesting comments. “The idea of a one-person company is stupid.” Ryan Petersen (Flexport) talks through why real leverage comes from coordination, not solo grind, then veers into tariffs, fraud, […]
The online poker boom up close. Taylor Caby describes watching the online poker boom up close, then realizing the whole thing was shakier than it looked. Also lots of other great story and nuggets here. “There was no like smartphones, […]
Larry Gies: scaling purpose to 25,000 employees. For a brief moment in time Larry and I guest spoke to the same class at the University of Illinois. On average that year, each of us guest speakers donated $15 million to […]
When Trump fired Rubenstein. This is a story about the private equity billionaire, not the president. David Rubenstein, the co-founder of the Carlyle Group, was suddenly dismissed by Donald Trump as chair of the Kennedy Center. “I’m the first person […]
The intuitive way of investing. “My deepest insecurity is that I have these intuitions about things that I cannot explain to anyone,” said Joshua Kushner. Despite the massive success of his venture capital firm, Thrive Capital, Kushner seeks advice from […]
How an Enron parody turned into a financial mess of its own. “In our first interview in Fayetteville, Gaydos seemed to perfectly parody tech bro hubris. He insisted that the Enron nuclear reactor was real “in theory” and that “we […]
Tyler Cowen, the man who wants to know everything. “Whether they know it or not, many tech gurus now subscribe to an economic analysis that Cowen first proposed in the 2010s, when he argued that technology could rescue America from […]
Jamie Gull’s aerospace dreams. Here’s a short and sweet profile of a founder I once backed who has now launched an interesting deep tech venture fund. “From child pilot to aerospace engineer and then startup founder to VC, Jamie Gull’s […]