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What 12 Years of Failure Taught Steve Jobs About Success

We all know the Steve Jobs who came back in the late 1990s and saved Apple from becoming a footnote. And we've all heard the story of how, in 1985, he was pushed out of t

Make Better Decisions by Fixing Yourself First

David Baszucki is the co-founder and CEO of Roblox, a platform built around a simple idea: give people the tools and incentives to create together. In this short convers

The Mindset Behind Building a Great Little Business | Brad Jacobs

This summer, I’m revisiting one of my favorite episodes. If you haven’t heard it, now is the time. If you have, it’s a classic and worth listening to again. Brad Jacobs

John D. Rockefeller: The Principles Behind The Greatest Fortune in History

John D. Rockefeller became the richest man the world had ever known by thinking differently about business, competition, and family.  This episode isn’t just the story o

Inside Kaz Nejatian’s Fight to Save Opendoor

No company decides to fail. It drifts there one comfortable lie at a time. Kaz Nejatian took over Opendoor when it was just months away from bankruptcy and set out to re

The Mindset That Unlocks Your Full Potential | Dr. Gio Valiante

Steve Cohen and Jack Nicklaus shared the same performance coach. For the next hour, he’s yours too. Dr. Gio Valiante is the world’s leading performance psychologist. We

How to Repair and Nourish Your Gut | Dr. Giulia Enders

Dr. Giulia Enders has changed the way millions of people think about the human body. As a physician, microbiome researcher, and bestselling author, she has spent years s

Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley

Bill Gurley spent years on Wall Street, built his career as a partner at Benchmark, worked through Uber’s hypergrowth era, and now serves on the board of the Santa Fe Ins

You Don’t Need To Innovate To Be Successful | FarmVille Creator

Mark Pincus is the creator behind Farmville and Words with Friends. He built Zynga into one of the biggest gaming companies in the world and helped shape the early era of

The Hyundai Founder Who Put a Country on His Back

Chung Ju-yung built Hyundai because he refused to be stopped. He is known for turning Hyundai into an industrial force that helped transform South Korea. The company bui

Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions | Winston Weinberg

Winston Weinberg is the CEO and co-founder of Harvey, the AI platform built for the legal industry. In this episode, Winston explains how AI is reshaping legal work, why

Greg Brockman: How to Stay Valuable as AI Gets Smarter

In 2023, OpenAI’s board fired Sam Altman and told Greg Brockman he would remain at the company. He quit that day. In this conversation with Shane Parrish, OpenAI’s co-fo

The Magic of Thinking Big | XPO CEO Mario Harik

Mario Harik is the CEO of XPO, one of the largest trucking companies in the world, and leads a team of 40,000 people across a multi‑billion‑dollar operation. He started

Alpha School: AI and The Future of Education | Joe Liemandt

Joe Liemandt quietly built one of the most successful software empires you’ve never heard of—then reappeared with a $1 billion bet that AI can make kids learn ten times f

Harrison McCain: The Potato Farmer who Went Big

Harrison McCain learned salesmanship by talking his way into a pharmaceutical job at 22, then spent five formative years under K.C. Irving, absorbing lessons in vertical

Beating the Market: Connor Teskey, CEO Brookfield Asset Management

Connor Teskey is the CEO of Brookfield Asset Management, one of the world’s largest investors, managing about a trillion dollars across infrastructure, power, real estate

An Unlikely Empire | J.W. Marriott

The world's largest hotel company spent its first 30 years without a hotel. It started as a root beer stand in 1927. The first room didn't open until 1957. The man behin

The Near Death Experience of RobinHood | Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder

In January 2021, Vlad Tenev made a decision that nearly destroyed Robinhood. Wall Street called it betrayal. Customers called it cowardice. He has never fully explained w

The Obsession That Built Nike | Phil Knight

Phil Knight is the founder of Nike, the brand that reshaped sports and became one of the most powerful companies in the world. What would you do if your bank, your suppl

The $2 Trillion Mind | Nicolai Tangen

Nicolai Tangen is the CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund. He is responsible for managing $2.1 trillion. That's roughly 1.