Eric Jorgenson is the author of, “Almanack of Naval Ravikant” and “Anthology of Balaji.” He also serves as CEO of Scribe Media, and General Partner at Rolling Fund writing checks to high-tech startups. In this conversation, we talk about his books, the process, Scribe Media, and then we dig deep into the ideas and takeaways of Balaji Srinivasan. ======================= Base is making it their mission to bring a billion people onchain. But what exactly is Base? It's an Ethereum L2 offering a seam...
Dec 20, 2023•47 min
Qiao Wang is the Founding Member of Alliance DAO & Messari. In this conversation, we talk about speculation with VC's vs crypto users, degens & early adopters, the decentralized utopia, Coinbase's brand new blockchain, stablecoins vs bitcoin in Friedrich Hayek's vision, artificial intelligence, and more. ======================= Auradine, a leader in web infrastructure solutions including blockchain, AI, and privacy, has unveiled the world's first 4nm Bitcoin mining systems, featuring bre...
Dec 20, 2023•53 min
Bill Miller IV serves as CIO and Chairman at Miller Value Partners, he also serves as a Portfolio Manager. In this conversation, we talk about the bitcoin market, ETF’s, miners, regulation, halving, stablecoins, artificial intelligence, and a non-bitcoin yield focus fund that Bill also manages. ======================= Base is making it their mission to bring a billion people onchain. But what exactly is Base? It's an Ethereum L2 offering a seamless experience for both builders and users. With ne...
Dec 18, 2023•43 min
Danny Masters is a bitcoin pioneer and the Executive Chairman at CoinShares, a European leading alternative asset manager specializing in digital assets. In this conversation we talk about prior bull markets, bitcoin outlook for 2024, bitcoin ETF, regulation, macro economy, CoinShares, and Danny reveals a surprise at the end. ======================= Auradine, a leader in web infrastructure solutions including blockchain, AI, and privacy, has unveiled the world's first 4nm Bitcoin mining systems,...
Dec 14, 2023•46 min
Kevin Erdmann is one of the most interesting analysts when it comes to the US housing market. He writes on Substack at kevinerdmann.substack.com . He also has 2 books, called “Shut Out” and “Building from the Ground Up: Reclaiming the American Housing Boom.” In this conversation, we go through ideas on how to make housing more affordable, how we get here, Federal Reserve, who is responsible, and solutions. ======================= Base is making it their mission to bring a billion people onchain....
Dec 13, 2023•46 min
Anthony Pompliano sat down with CNBC's Talia Kaplan. Topics include Federal Reserve, financial markets, interest rates, bitcoin, why he expects capital to flow into the asset class, and why he believes bitcoin bull market has begun. ======================= Auradine, a leader in web infrastructure solutions including blockchain, AI, and privacy, has unveiled the world's first 4nm Bitcoin mining systems, featuring breakthrough EnergyTune™ technology, setting new standards in performance and energy...
Dec 12, 2023•24 min
David Pakman is a Managing Partner at CoinFund, a blockchain & crypto-native investing firm. In this conversation, we talk about bitcoin, Web3, regulation, stablecoins, and what he is expecting in 2024 & beyond. ======================= Base is making it their mission to bring a billion people onchain. But what exactly is Base? It's an Ethereum L2 offering a seamless experience for both builders and users. With near-zero gas fees and rapid transaction speeds, Base is shaping the future of...
Dec 11, 2023•34 min
Peter Berg is a Managing Partner at M12, Microsoft’s venture capital arm. He leads the fund’s vertical SaaS invests & work. Peter is also a two-time founder, and most recently ran strategy & business development for Very Good Security. In this conversation, we talk about corporate venture capital, success stories for M12 & his career, artificial intelligence, recent OpenAI news, and advice for founders & entrepreneurs. ======================= Auradine, a leader in web infrastruct...
Dec 07, 2023•44 min
Darius Dale is the founder & CEO of 42Macro. In this conversation, we talk about their Weather Model, economy & financial market conditions, and his brand new strategy that incorporates bitcoin to outperform the standard 60/40 portfolio. ======================= Base is making it their mission to bring a billion people onchain. But what exactly is Base? It's an Ethereum L2 offering a seamless experience for both builders and users. With near-zero gas fees and rapid transaction speeds, Bas...
Dec 06, 2023•21 min
Graham Weaver is the Founder & Managing Partner of Alpine Investors, a people-driven private equity firm that invests in software & service businesses. He also teaches a top-rated Strategic Management course at Stanford Graduate School of Business. In this conversation, we talk about his philosophies, how he built Alpine, hiring & firing, company culture, favorite quotes, childhood, and more. ======================= Auradine, a leader in web infrastructure solutions including blockch...
Dec 04, 2023•54 min
Bradley Tusk is a venture capitalist, political strategist, writer, and owner of P&T Knitwear bookstore. In this conversation, we talk about his brand new book, called “Obvious in Hindsight.” It is all about a fictional story of innovative technology, flying cars, and what they have to go through with politicians, mafia members, etc. This is a great conversation about how technology meets politics, and the reality on the ground. ======================= Base is making it their mission to brin...
Nov 30, 2023•43 min
Oliver Rust is the Head of Product at Truflation. In this conversation, we talk about outdated process used for calculating CPI, what Truflation is doing with new data collection, how good data would change Fed’s response & lead to better decision making, why Truflation believes inflation will be sticky in 2024, and what success looks like for Truflation. ======================= Auradine, a leader in web infrastructure solutions including blockchain, AI, and privacy, has unveiled the world's...
Nov 28, 2023•33 min
Cliff Weitzman is the founder & CEO at Speechify. In this conversation, we talk about the explosion in audio content on the internet, how text to speech audio has become so great, why exactly so many people are now listening vs reading or watching, and how this impacts content creators and human productivity. ======================= Base is making it their mission to bring a billion people onchain. But what exactly is Base? It's an Ethereum L2 offering a seamless experience for both builders...
Nov 20, 2023•41 min
Aaron Ginn is the CEO & co-founder of Hydra Host, revolutionizing the way data centers operate by bringing GPUs everywhere to you easily and quickly. He also is the founder of the Lincoln Network, which connects the tech industry with policy makers. In this conversation, we talk about the state of venture capital, advanced computing, geopolitical conflict, politics, contrarian ideas, and more. ======================= Auradine, a leader in web infrastructure solutions including blockchain, AI...
Nov 15, 2023•1 hr 12 min
Bailey Pumfleet is the co-founder & co-CEO of Cal.com . Cal.com is taking open source calendar management to a whole different level. In this conversation, we talk about how to manage your calendar, how to become more efficient, and what Bailey is doing with Cal.com . ======================= Base is making it their mission to bring a billion people onchain. But what exactly is Base? It's an Ethereum L2 offering a seamless experience for both builders and users. With near-zero gas fees and ra...
Nov 14, 2023•33 min
Dan Reese is the President of Milkshake Factory. In this conversation, we talk about his time working at Heinz & Kraft, his interactions with 3G Capital and their ruthless prioritization of cost cutting, scaling of Milkshake Factory, economics of the business, and why they may become one of the next great premium brands in food & beverage. ======================= Auradine, a leader in web infrastructure solutions including blockchain, AI, and privacy, has unveiled the world's first 4nm B...
Nov 13, 2023•48 min
Guillermo Rauch is the founder & CEO of Vercel, working on giving developers the frameworks, workflows, and infrastructure to build a faster, more personalized web. In this conversation, we talk about whether artificial intelligence is going to replace jobs or create more of them, open-source vs closed-source, role of government & regulations, most over-hyped areas vs areas that need more attention, how value will accrue, and what Guillermo is doing with Vercel. ======================= B...
Nov 08, 2023•39 min
Ron Shaich is the Founder of Panera Bread, the Chairman of Cava, and the author or a brand new book called, “Know What Matters: Less from a Lifetime of Transformations.” In this conversation, we talk about innovation in the restaurant industry, how to evaluate people, how to deal with activist investors, investing through the full life cycle of a company, inflation & supply chains, and where his inspiration comes from. ======================= Auradine, a leader in web infrastructure solution...
Nov 07, 2023•48 min
Greg Lukianoff is the President of The FIRE Organization, and a free speech lawyer. He is also the co-author of "The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All―But There Is a Solution." FIRE is the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. In this conversation, we talk about why free speech is so important, what they are doing to protect people, how exactly "cancel culture" has taken over America, why the codling of our young people has been so de...
Nov 06, 2023•48 min
Praying for Exits is a pseudonymous account that is run by one of the most interesting early stage investors in venture capital. In this conversation, we talk about aerospace, artificial intelligence, defense technology, current state of venture capital, media, and why being pseudonymous is so advantageous for this specific investor. ======================= Base is making it their mission to bring a billion people onchain. But what exactly is Base? It's an Ethereum L2 offering a seamless experie...
Nov 02, 2023•46 min
Lyn Alden is the author of a brand new book called "Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better." This book is almost 500 pages, and it is a fantastic breakdown of the history of money, why the system is broken, and where we go from here. In this conversation, we talk about how the average individual is being impacted, saving vs investing, diversification, energy as the arbiter of truth, interest rates, US treasury, national debt, and more. ================...
Oct 31, 2023•49 min
Will Clemente is the co-founder of Reflexivity Research. In this conversation, we talk about bitcoin, why the price has gone up, ETF speculation, various metrics, bitcoin halving, and more. ======================= Trust and Will has simplified the process of creating and managing your will or trust online. They leverage a data-driven, design-first approach and amazing customer support to help you protect your legacy from the comfort of your home starting at just $159. Sign up today for 10% off u...
Oct 26, 2023•22 min
Lance Lambert is the co-founder, editor-in-chief, & CEO of ResiClub, a brand new media publication that I co-founded with Lance to cover residential real estate. In this conversation, we talk about housing affordability, how we got here, why it’s so bad, impact of interest rates, specific market analysis of what’s hot & what’s not, potential solutions, and what Lance is building with ResiClub. ======================= Trust and Will has simplified the process of creating and managing your...
Oct 23, 2023•39 min
Elbridge Colby is the co-founder and principal of the Marathon Initiative, a policy initiative focused on developing strategies to prepare the United States for an era of sustained great power competition. He is the author of “The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict.” In this conversation, we talk about the threat from China, Ukraine & Russia, what is happening between Hamas & Israel, how this all feeds into the economic strength of America, how private...
Oct 18, 2023•52 min
Shaun Maguire is a partner at Sequoia Capital. In this conversation, we talk about Shaun’s time with DARPA, including a deployment to Afghanistan, and what DARPA was thinking of bitcoin in the early days. We also talk about a company that Shaun helped co-found which sold for a billion dollars, breakdown of Sequoia Capital, SpaceX, Tesla, Elon Musk, and more. ======================= Auradine, a leader in web infrastructure solutions including blockchain, AI, and privacy, has unveiled the world's ...
Oct 17, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Mike Beckham is the founder & CEO of Simple Modern, a global producer of premium drinkware & lifestyle products. In this conversation, we talk about entering markets with high competition, how to sell an established product, strategy differentiation, core principle of achieving excellence, why you should always be generous, challenges of American manufacturing, and how to scale between a player & coach. ======================= Trust and Will has simplified the process of creating and...
Oct 16, 2023•57 min
Constantine Karides is a partner in Reed Smith’s Financial Industry Group, Office Managing Partner of the firm’s Miami office, and the co-lead for On Chain: Reed Smith’s Crypto & Digital Assets Group. This discussion was recorded at the BUILD Summit in New York. In this conversation, we discuss what a startup founder can do to evaluate law firms, test their competency, and how to work with them in the early days of your company to ensure the greatest success possible. =======================...
Oct 14, 2023•39 min
The following episode is a panel discussion from the BUILD Summit in New York led by Nik Sharma, the CEO of Sharma Brands. He is joined by Ryan Babenzien, the CEO & co-founder of Jolie, Ali Moiz, the founder of Native, and Juhi Pikale, the VP of Performance Marketing at Fabletics. Topics include how to build CPG brands, how to market, how to scale your company, and how to actually have a product people want. ======================= Trust and Will has simplified the process of creating and ma...
Oct 13, 2023•42 min
Darius Dale is the founder & CEO of 42Macro. In this conversation, we talk about their Weather Model, economy & financial market conditions, how US fiscal policy reacts to conflicts around the world, and how investors can think through various outcomes. ======================= Trust and Will has simplified the process of creating and managing your will or trust online. They leverage a data-driven, design-first approach and amazing customer support to help you protect your legacy from the...
Oct 12, 2023•17 min
This episode contains the opening remarks from the BUILD Summit in New York. Anthony Pompliano reflects on why entrepreneurship is so important, why founders are the most important people in the world, and why capitalism is the best system ever created. ======================= Auradine, a leader in web infrastructure solutions including blockchain, AI, and privacy, has unveiled the world's first 4nm Bitcoin mining systems, featuring breakthrough EnergyTune™ technology, setting new standards in p...
Oct 11, 2023•11 min
