#125 – NOAH SMITH
Listen on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or anywhere! Noah is an American economist and writer best known for his Substack, Noahpinion. He has made contributions to Bloomberg, Quartz, and The Atlantic, among other publications. Before starting his Substack, Noah wrote full-time for Bloomberg. Prior to that, he was an assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook University. Follow Noah on…
#124 – DAVID & DANIIL LIBERMAN
Listen on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or anywhere! David and Daniil are brothers, serial entrepreneurs, and investors. After selling their augmented reality startup Kernal AR to Snap, the brothers created a holding company, LibermansCo, to incubate their current endeavors: Product Science and Humanism. Humanism allows people to invest in people. Follow them on Twitter @DaLiberman.
#123 – MICHAEL GIBSON
Listen on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or anywhere! Michael is co-founder of the 1517 Fund, a venture capital fund investing in teams led by dropouts, the uncredentialed, and renegade scientists. He recently published his first book, Paper Belt on Fire: How Renegade Investors Sparked a Revolt Against the University. Previously he was vice president for grants at the Thiel Foundation…
#122 – WILLIAM “JB55” CASARIN
Listen on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or anywhere! Will is the Founder of damus.io, a mobile client for the decentralized social media protocol Nostr. In addition to his work on damus, Will is a regular contributor to Bitcoin Core and the Lightning Network. Follow Will on Twitter @jb55 and find him on nostr: npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s.
#121 – DAN SIROKER
Listen on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or anywhere! Dan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rewind.ai, a search engine for your life. Rewind uses artificial intelligence to help you find anything you have seen, said, or heard on your computer. Previously, Dan was the Co-Founder and CEO of Optimizely, an A/B testing software platform which he grew to over $120M ARR…
#120 – WOJCIECH ZAREMBA
Listen on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or anywhere! Wojciech is a Co-Founder of OpenAI, where he leads both the Codex research and language teams. OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company aiming to develop and ensure that artificial general intelligence is safe and benefits all of humanity. OpenAI is known for developing GPT-3, a natural language model that creates…
#119 – ILLIA POLOSUKHIN
Listen on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or anywhere! Illia is a Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol, a fully sharded, proof-of-stake, Layer 1 blockchain. NEAR has raised over $500 million and is widely considered one of the most promising projects in the blockchain space. Prior to NEAR, Illia managed a team of Deep Learning and Natural Language Understanding Researchers at Google Research…
#118 – JON ERLICHMAN
Listen on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or anywhere! Jon is a Senior Television Anchor at Bloomberg News and Co-host of Bloomberg Markets and The Open. He is also a Correspondent & Anchor at CTV National News, The #1 News Organization in Canada. Jon has interviewed many great investors and entrepreneurs as well as others like Kobe Bryant, Ice Cube, and…
#117 – DAN ROMERO
Listen on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or anywhere! Dan is the Co-Founder of Farcaster, a sufficiently decentralized social network. He was previously the 20th employee at Coinbase where he eventually became Vice President for International Business. Dan is also an angel investor in dozens of early-stage technology companies. Follow him on Twitter @dwr and send him a DM for an…
#116 – ERICK BRIMEN
Listen on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or anywhere! Erick is the Founder & CEO of Próspera, an economic development platform enabling sustainable, profitable growth in partnership with governments and communities, starting in Honduras. Próspera is building its first charter city on the island of Roatán in Honduras. In addition to Próspera, Erick is also the CEO of NeWay Capital, a…
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