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by Bilal Zaidi, Jack Butcher, Trung Phan
230 EPISODES
Apr 2021
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229: Oasis Concert, Chamath Launching SPAC, Intel Turnaround (?) & How The South Park Guys Became Billionaires
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228: GPT-5, ChatGPT vs. Claude, AI Psychosis, Nvidia 15% Export Tax & Harvard Buys Bitcoin
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227: Singapore & Vietnam’s Growth, Figma IPO, Airport Lounges & Dishoom’s Genius Marketing
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226: Future of Substack, Support From Partner, Value of Names & Rebooting The UK
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225: What’s Driving ETH Price, Bitcoin All Time High, Treasury Company Playbook, Stablecoin Bill & Crypto Collateral Loans
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224: AMA - Meeting Historical Figures, PHDs vs AI, Simulation Theory, Fav 90s Media, & Routines
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223: AMA - China vs. US Energy, Population Decline, Tech Layoff Drivers & Future of AI Podcasting
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222: AMA - 1% Products, Dream Businesses, Disagreements, BYD vs. Tesla & is UBI a Good Idea?
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221: Booking: $170B+ A/B Testing Machine & How a $5000 Vegas Bet Saved FedEx
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220: Stablecoin Opportunity, Circle’s $25B+ IPO, WhatsApp Gets Ads & Meta’s $15B Scale AI Deal
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219: Apple WWDC Liquid Glass Flop, Hollywood vs. AI, Veo 3 & Elon vs. Trump
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218: PSG Win, Dyson’s $20B Run, Mary Meeker’s Trends, Waymo vs. Lyft & $500B+ Middle East AI Deal
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217: Google I/O Wrap, OpenAI’s $6.4B for Jony Ive & How Apple Fumbled AI
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216: Burrito Loans, AI Product vs. Distribution, Power Laws in Online Dating
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215: Rent vs. Buy, ChatGPT in College, OpenAI’s For-Profit Pivot & Is Google Search Cooked?
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214: Warren Buffett 60-Year Run, Berkshire's $150B+ Apple Bet, iPhone App Store Lawsuit and OpenAI's "Glazing" Controversy
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213: White Lotus Review, Case Against Streaming TV, Favorite Biographies & Business of Casinos
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212: Meta & Google Antitrust Cases, ChatGPT Memory Implications & Personalized AI Learning
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211: NIA 4th Year Anniversary, Tariffs (Bond Yield, Apple/China), LVMH vs. Hermes, Rory Win & Best Comeback Stories
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210: Tariffs, Trade War, Stock Meltdown, China & Can America Bring Back Manufacturing?
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209: Studio Ghibli ChatGPT, Hiyao Miyazaki, Meme Cycles & xAI Acquires X
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208: AMA - Career Advice, Scarcity vs. Abundance, Parenting in AI Age & Future of Social Media
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207: AMA - Abercrombie’s Comeback, Wedding Economics, Loyalty to Brands, David Deutsch’s “Fun Criterion” & Is Work-Life Balance Possible?
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206: Bitcoin Strategic Reserve, YouTube at 20, Ferrari Wild Economics & Manus DeepSeek Moment (?)
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205: Crypto Strategic Reserve, Skype Shutting Down, Oscars & Mixue $14B IPO
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204: $1.5bil Bybit Hack, Crypto Sell-off, Pig-Butchering Scams, Murdoch “Succession” Drama & Future of Local Media
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203: Libra $200M+ Rug, How We Use AI, OpenAI Deep Research & Vibe Coding
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202: Superbowl Ads, Kendrick HT, Elon $97B OpenAI Bid, X Algo, Dead Internet Theory & USAID
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201: Tariff War (Canada, Mexico, China), Shein & Temu, & ETH Drop
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200: DeepSeek Breakdown, Nvidia Short Thesis and Big Tech Winners & Losers
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199: Trump Memecoin, ETH vs. Solana, TikTok Ban & Inauguration Memes
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198: Zuck’s Meta Pivot, TikTok’s Future (?) and CES Highlights
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197: 2024 Awards & 2025 Next Big Thing (AI Agents, 2-way Podcasts, Art Collecting AI, DOGE)
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196: Best of 2024 - Book, Podcast, Song, Film, TV
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195: Fartcoin Fundamentals, Google Veo vs. OpenAI Sora, Waymo vs. Lyft, Healthcare Economics & Jensen Huang Story
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194: Google’s Quantum Chip, Bitcoin vs. Quantum Computing, Jack’s Sculpture & Taylor Swift’s $2B Eras Tour
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193: OpenAI vs. xAI, De-Banking Debate, Business of IVF & Presidential Pardon History
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192: MicroStrategy $35B Bitcoin-Buying Machine, Jaguar Wild Re-Brand and BlueSky vs. X
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191: Tyson vs. Paul, Trump UFC, AI Trading Meme Coins, MicroStrategy Moves & ETH vs. SOL
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190: Jack Back, Bitcoin $90k & Trump’s Impact on Big Tech, Tariffs, EV & Media
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189: The Podcast Election, Betting Markets (Polymarket, Kalshi) & Hollywood’s AI Play
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188: The Calvin and Hobbes Story
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187: AMA, Money Psychology, Favorite Mental Models & Future AI Jobs
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186: SpaceX Starship, Tesla vs. Waymo & Jensen Huang’s Nvidia Bull Case
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185: The Dorito-fication of Media
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184: Meta Orion Glasses, Google’s NotebookLM, Port Strike & Megalopolis Review
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183: Francis Ford Coppola’s Career, The Godfather, $500M Winery & Megalopolis
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182: Mr Beast’s Leaked Guide To Going Viral, The Power Broker 50th Anniversary & Robert Caro
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181: iPhone 16 Launch, Apple Intelligence + Siri, Kendrick Super Bowl & OnlyFans $6B Business
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180: Founder Mode, Seasonal Businesses, Spirit Halloween’s $650m+ Biz and X vs. Brazil
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