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#863: Elad Gil, Consigliere to Empire Builders — How to Spot Billion-Dollar Companies Before Everyone Else, The Misty AI Frontier, How Coke Beat Pepsi, When Consensus Pays, and Much More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:00:00 -0000
Elad Gil (@eladgil) is CEO of Gil & Co, a multi-stage investment firm, holding company, and operating company working on the world’s most advanced technologies. Elad is a serial entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to private companies, including AirBnB, Anduril, Coinbase, Figma, Instacart, OpenAI, SpaceX, and Stripe. He was previously VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter and

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Amanda Chantal Bacon, Live From Cherry Bombe House
Radio Cherry Bombe · Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000
Today’s guest is Amanda Chantal Bacon, the founder of Moon Juice and a pioneer in the wellness world. Amanda joins host Kerry Diamond for a conversation recorded live at Cherry Bombe House to talk about her journey from chef to entrepreneur and how she helped bring ingredients like adaptogens and ashwagandha into the mainstream.They discuss Amanda’s New York City upbringing, her time working for c

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How Security Leaders Are Responding to Machine Speed Threats - with Sridhar Boddula of MassMutual
The AI in Business Podcast · Wed, 28 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0000
The cost and skill required to mount a serious cyberattack have collapsed, and most enterprise security programs still test on a quarterly or annual clock. In this episode, Sridhar Boddula, Head of Security Platform Engineering at MassMutual, breaks down why that mismatch is now the central risk for regulated enterprises and what has to change inside a security team to close it. He covers shifting

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Peri-Retirement: A New Money Playbook for Midlife
So Money with Farnoosh Torabi · Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:01:26 GMT
You’re not ready to retire. But you might be ready to stop working—and living—the way you have been. How do you figure out what you can afford to change?Farnoosh welcomes certified financial planner Sara Stanich, founder of Cultivating Wealth and author of Crossroads: A Financial Fable for Women Navigating the Decisions, Transitions, and Pivots of Peri-Retirement.Sara calls this stage “peri-retire

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HOW TO SELL WITH AN ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET
The Brutal Truth about Sales and Selling - We interview the world's best B2B Enterprise salespeople. · Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000
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#866: Sami Inkinen of Virta Health — Reversing Type 2 Diabetes, Rowing 2,750 Miles, and Lessons from Fixing Metabolic Health in 100,000+ People
The Tim Ferriss Show · Wed, 20 May 2026 16:30:00 -0000
Sami Inkinen (@samiinkinen) is a Finnish-born, Stanford-trained entrepreneur and the founder and CEO/president of Trulia and Virta Health. Virta is on a mission to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people using technology, AI, and nutrition. A world-class endurance athlete, Sami is a triathlon age-group world champion and an 8-hour, 24-minute Ironman finisher, having completed the Hawaii Ir

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Getting entrepreneurial in Korea (Summer School)
Planet Money · Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:30:00 +0000 · 40 min
This week’s stop on our world tour - Korea. A country divided into two very different power structures since the end of WWII. Today South Korea is the maker of some of the world’s favorite exports – from Samsung TV’s to BTS. But 75 years ago it was a much different story. How the textile industry and a partnership with Bangladesh lifted the country out of poverty and paved the way for rapid econom

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#858: The Random Show, Couch Edition! — Supplements, Hummingbirds, Cock Rings, Optimizing Mitochondria, Breathing and Balance Training, Cool Grip Strength Tools, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:30:00 -0000
Welcome to another wide-ranging "Random Show" episode that I recorded with my close friend Kevin Rose (digg.com)!This episode is brought to you by:Eight Sleep Pod Cover 5 sleeping solution for dynamic cooling and heating: EightSleep.com/TimAG1 all-in-one nutritional supplement: DrinkAG1.com/TimCresset family office services for CEOs, founders, and entrepreneurs: CressetCapital.com/TimTimestamps:[0

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Debt Is For Managing Wealth Not Creating It
Money For the Rest of Us · Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:00:00 -0000
Should you borrow money to magnify returns in your 401 (k), IRA, or other tax-deferred retirement account?We examine Basic Capital, which allows investors to leverage their retirement account investments.We also explore how the wealthy don't use debt to generate wealth but to manage it. SponsorsGelt - Taxes Done RightInsiders Guide Email NewsletterGet our free Investors' Checklist when you sign up

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At The Money: Should You Invest in Companies Led by Founders?
Masters in Business · Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:00:00 +0000 · 15 min
The Founders Fund by Peter Thiel has over $20 billion in assets and strong returns -- but you have no access to it. How can ordinary investors access funds of companies led by founders? Enter the Founders 100 ETF (FFF). Michael Monahan is a partner and portfolio manager of the Founders 100 ETF. He's been a Wall Street analyst, a private market investor, a tech startup CEO, and a public equity port

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Why Bitcoin Matters in an Inflationary Economy
Rich Dad Radio Show: In-Your-Face Advice on Investing, Personal Finance, & Starting a Business · Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0000
Bitcoin and inflation sit at the center of a much bigger debate about money, technology, debt, and the future of the global economy. In this episode of The Rich Dad Radio Show, Robert Kiyosaki talks with Jeff Booth, entrepreneur and author of The Price of Tomorrow, about why technological progress should make goods and services cheaper—and why many people are experiencing exactly the opposite. B

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AI-Powered Revenue Operations: The Future of Sales for SMBs - with Vanessa Tabbert of Salesforce
The AI in Business Podcast · Wed, 02 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0000
Enterprise sales teams routinely let the majority of inbound leads go untouched simply because there isn't enough team bandwidth to work them all. In this episode, Vanessa Tabbert, VP of Agentic Transformation and Sales Development at Salesforce, breaks down how her own team deployed an AI SDR agent to recover leads that would otherwise go cold, without replacing the humans who convert the best on

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Why I Left My Hollywood Dream Job To Become an Entrepreneur
Shopify Masters · Tue, 8 Sep 2026 04:30:00 +0000
Maradith Frenkel left her dream job as a film studio executive when her son's eczema sent her searching for a better baby sleeper. She couldn't find one, so she built Little Sleepies instead—bootstrapped, ad-free for over a year, and now beloved by a community of more than 2 million loyal customers. For more on Little Sleepies and show notes click here Subscribe and watch Shopify Masters on YouTub

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Founders: From blogger to billionaire, Canva's co-founder on what failures taught him
Business Daily · Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:30:00 +0000 · 20 min
Who studies law but then forgets to apply for any graduate jobs because they've started blogging about web design and JavaScript? Cameron Adams, the billionaire co-founder of design app Canva. He did eventually land a coveted job at Google (thanks to that blogging), but failure on its Google Wave project ’ led to an introduction to Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht, whose vision for making design

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The TikTok Live Playbook: How Skimpies Scaled to a $10M Valuation
Shopify Masters · Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:30:00 +0000
After a viral TikTok video doubled her sales overnight, former comedy writer Bette Bentley built Skimpies—a first-of-its-kind organic cotton liner for leggings—into a multimillion-dollar brand. By committing to live sell on TikTok for three hours a day for six months straight, Bette cultivated a fiercely loyal organic community without spending a single dollar on paid advertising. Today, the start

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Reinventing School for the AI Era | Joe Liemandt, Gagan Biyani & Erik Torenberg
The a16z Show · Tue, 27 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000
What should school look like if AI can help students learn dramatically faster? Alpha School founder Joe Liemandt argues the answer isn’t to fill the extra time with more academics, but to redesign school around the skills traditional classrooms struggle to teach: agency, teamwork, entrepreneurship, communication, and doing hard things.Joe joins Erik Torenberg and Horowitz and Andreessen Academy c

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The Chip Giant Helping Anthropic Buy More Chips
WSJ What’s News · Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:39:00 +0000
A.M. Edition for Oct. 27. Just hours after unveiling details about its hotly-anticipated IPO, the AI startup announced a $63 billion debt deal to help fuel its AI infrastructure push. WSJ reporter Ben Dummett breaks down how Broadcom’s CEO intervened to seal the deal, which some critics have dubbed “circular financing.” Plus, tech reporter Amrith Ramkumar looks at the midterm races that could ushe

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AI for Patient Critical Uptime in a Shrinking Technician Workforce - with Michael Goldman
The AI in Business Podcast · Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:00:00 +0000
The service environment is straining under rising equipment complexity and a rapidly shrinking technician workforce, making patient‑critical uptime harder to guarantee.   In this episode, Michael Goldman, Senior Director of Business Operations and Transformation at Patterson Dental, examines how AI can preserve service continuity by capturing institutional knowledge, supporting technician workflow

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Managing Change Across Modern Financial Operations - with Nathaniel Bell of Wells Fargo
The AI in Business Podcast · Tue, 22 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0000
For large banks, the barrier to AI at scale is rarely the model. It's decades of fragmented systems, inherited through mergers, acquisitions, and new products, where each team trusts its own data and no single view of context exists. Agentic AI doesn't fix that fragmentation; it amplifies it across every user and every prompt. ​ In this episode, Nathaniel Bell, Data Management Director at Wells Fa

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Manifesting Your Ideal Lifestyle (Practical Tools and No BS) with Heath Armstrong
Zero To Travel Podcast · Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000 · 85 min
What would it look like to build a life that reflects exactly who you are and where you want to go?  Heath Armstrong is an entrepreneur, author, and co-founder of Rage Create, a company known for its unconventional affirmation and oracle card decks that have raised over $200,000 through crowdfunding. He spent years living and working nomadically, including a period traveling full-time in a self-b

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Proving AI ROI in Pharma Marketing - with Kellen Winters of Novartis
The AI in Business Podcast · Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0000
Enterprise investment in AI is rising faster than the ability to prove what it returns, leaving technology and vendor spend largely unexamined until leadership asks whether it is working. In this episode, Kellen Winters, Director of Customer Success and Business Operations for AI at Novartis, examines why demonstrating AI value starts with building a measurement discipline before any tools are cho

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#870: Sebastian Mallaby, Biographer of Demis Hassabis — Lessons from 100+ AI Insiders on The Race to Superintelligence, The Religion of AI, and Spotting Breakthroughs Early
The Tim Ferriss Show · Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:30:00 -0000
Sebastian Mallaby (@scmallaby) is the Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and the author of six books, including More Money Than God, The Power Law, The Man Who Knew, and The World's Banker. His latest book is The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence.This episod

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09.15.26 Ask An Advisor With Wes Moss
The Clark Howard Podcast · Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0000 · 32 min
How To Build Wealth Without a Tech Job & Hidden Dangers of Coast FI Forget the myth that you have to work on Wall Street or in Silicon Valley to build massive wealth. Wes reveals the power of the "Everywhere Millionaires" – the 3 million Americans who have accumulated a collective $65 trillion by building unglamorous, low-tech, and non-tech businesses. Discover why tactile, essential industries a

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The doctors, nurses and aid workers rebuilding Syria | Rola Hallam
TED Talks Science and Medicine · Tue, 15 May 2018 14:50:11 +0000
Local humanitarians are beacons of light in the darkness of war, says humanitarian aid entrepreneur and TED Fellow Rola Hallam. She's working to help responders on the ground in devastated communities like Syria, where the destruction of health care is being used as a weapon of war. One of her campaigns achieved a global first: a crowdfunded hospital. Since it opened in 2017, the aptly named Hope

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Virtual data centres in space
Tech Life · Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:45:00 +0000 · 26 min
Where should data centres be built? We talk to an entrepreneur hoping to build a virtual data centre in space, by using computing power that's already up there - in satellites.Also this week: A Facebook whistleblower, whose story inspired a new movie, talks to us about social media and AI. And could rotating sails help to reduce container ship exhaust pollution?Presenter: Chris Vallance Producer:

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The AI pothole hunter
Tech Life · Tue, 12 May 2026 19:45:00 +0000 · 26 min
Drivers and cyclists know the dangers of potholes and broken road signs. A Swedish company is fitting vehicles with cameras, and using AI to spot potential problems and defects. We speak to the CEO to find out how it works.Also in Tech Life this week: some think the internet's business model is obsolete. We talk to a big tech leader on what might replace it. And a young entrepreneur, who learned t

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#869: Max Levchin, PayPal and Affirm — The Path from The Soviet Union to Building Multi-Billion Dollar Companies (Plus: Real-World Socialism vs. Capitalism)
The Tim Ferriss Show · Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:30:00 -0000
Max Levchin (@mlevchin) is a serial entrepreneur and investor in 100+ startups. He's the founder and CEO of Affirm, the payment network powering consumer purchases and merchant growth. An original PayPal co-founder, Max served as CTO until its 2002 acquisition by eBay.This episode is brought to you by:ProLon: science-backed Fasting Mimicking Diet that helps activate cellular renewal through fastin

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Uruguay: Top 7 Hidden Gems (That Most People Miss) + Testing the Remote Work Lifestyle with Lucia Krygier
Zero To Travel Podcast · Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:00:00 -0000 · 66 min
Ever considered traveling to or working from Uruguay?  Lucia Krygier is a Uruguayan entrepreneur and innovation consultant based in Montevideo. In early 2025, she spent two months working remotely from Cape Town, South Africa, an experience she describes as a turning point in her life. That trip led her to found Work From Uruguay, a community-driven workation program bringing together remote work

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'Pay-What-You-Want' Defies Logic, Confuses Economists, and Can Really Work
Death, Sex & Money · Tue, 08 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT
The pay-what-you-want business model is mostly found in museums and churches, but this week we’ll hear from entrepreneurs and artists who are implementing it in unlikely places. Guests include: Katie Bishop, owner of Principles G.I. Coffee House in Brooklyn, musician Jeff Rosenstock of Bomb the Music Industry!, and Aimé Nuñez, owner of Pegasus Creative Reuse in Dallas. We also hear from Shelle San

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Responsible Generative AI in Healthcare and What Leaders Need to Know for 2026 - with Rhett Alden of Elsevier Health
The AI in Business Podcast · Tue, 08 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0000
Generative AI is entering clinical workflows just as healthcare institutions grapple with black-box outputs, unclear regulation, and the need for provable accuracy.   In this episode, Rhett Alden, CTO at Elsevier, joins Emerj's Yolandi de Weerdt to articulate how claim-level validation and transparent sourcing are becoming prerequisites for clinical trust in AI. The conversation covers emerging AI

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Founders: The first black woman to own a billion-dollar company
Business Daily · Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:01:00 +0000 · 17 min
We meet Janice Bryant Howroyd, founder of ActOne Group. She arrived in Los Angeles with just $900 borrowed from her mother and went on to build a multi-billion-dollar business, becoming the first Black woman to own and run a billion-dollar company.But Janice says the foundations of her success were laid much earlier, growing up as one of 11 children in the segregated American South. So, how did th

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How much should you tell your AI agent?
The Vergecast · Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:27:00 -0000 · 41 min
The next big thing in AI, at least if you ask the tech companies, is assistant agents. David and The Verge's Allison Johnson have both been testing products like Meta's Muse, OpenAI's Dots, and startups like Instinct, in an effort to find out how much you can really get done by messaging with an AI tool – and whether the productivity is worth the tradeoffs. Further reading: Paramount and Wa

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Open Weights Aren’t Just Chinese Anymore - DTNS 5368
Daily Tech News Show · Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:12:04 GMT
Mistral and a New York company get competitive in open weights, and a startup wants to sell you a cheap AI PC. Cheap by AI standards.Starring Tom Merritt and Jason HowellShow notes found here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Could this tech help millions of us sleep better?
Tech Life · Tue, 05 May 2026 19:30:00 +0000 · 26 min
An anti-snoring device is being trialled as a potential solution to sleep apnoea, a condition which affects millions and can have wide-ranging consequences on daily life. We speak to the team behind the trial. Also on the programme, two health tech entrepreneurs whose personal experiences informed their products: A man who had a heart attack at 44 and now works to help reduce hospital recovery ti

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The Goodness Game: 5 Rules to Pay It Forward with Small Acts of Kindness with Bryan Driscoll
Zero To Travel Podcast · Tue, 05 May 2026 10:00:00 -0000 · 74 min
What if one small act of kindness could completely change someone’s life trajectory?  Bryan Driscoll is an entrepreneur, real estate investor, and the author of The Goodness Game. He built a multimillion-dollar real estate portfolio while running a marketing company, and he’s now focused on helping people create positive ripple effects through simple acts of kindness.  In this episode, Bryan sha

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Where Agentic AI Pays Off in the B2B Back Office - with Chris Bradley of Veritiv
The AI in Business Podcast · Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:00:00 +0000
Large B2B operations keep running order entry, invoicing, and other repetitive back-office workflows by hand, years after most companies started investing heavily in AI. In this episode, Chris Bradley, Chief Marketing Officer and Head of AI Transformation at Veritiv, breaks down why legacy systems have kept agentic AI out of these workflows, and what changed once Veritiv began automating a process

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Building the Cloud for an Agentic World | AWS CEO Matt Garman
The a16z Show · Thu, 8 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000
a16z’s Raghu Raghuram sits down with AWS CEO Matt Garman to discuss how AI is reshaping the cloud, from the needs of AI-native startups to infrastructure increasingly designed for agents.Matt explains how AWS is adapting as agents write code and manage infrastructure, why it’s reserving scarce GPU capacity for startups, and where custom chips like Trainium and Graviton fit into the AI stack.They a

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Bonus Bang: Hey, Keep Readin’ (Weird Al Yankovic, Ryan Gaul, Edi Patterson)
Comedy Bang Bang: The Podcast · Thu, 8 Oct 2026 06:05:00 +0000
On this Bonus Bang, former CBB band leader “Weird Al” Yankovic joins Scott to reflect on hitting the road for his Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour, getting relaxed on stage, and putting in the hard work for all 77 shows. Then, physician Dr. Peter Fash returns to check up on Scott’s diet, and entrepreneur Bean Dip stops by to market some of her wares. Originally released on June

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Bonus Bang: Road Toad (Natalie Palamides, Drew Tarver, Ryan Rosenberg, Dan Lippert, Jon Mackey)
Comedy Bang Bang: The Podcast · Thu, 6 Aug 2026 06:05:00 +0000
On this Bonus Bang, actress/comedian/writer Natalie Palamides joins Scott to talk about her new special “Nate – A One Man Show” on Netflix, her unique voice, and the sound recording process during the filming of her special. Then, entrepreneurs Jeff and Mike stop by to promote products from their men’s wellness company, Bold. Plus, sports legends Bill Walton and Wade Boggs drop by to promote their

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Introducing The Founder Mindset: Tim Ferriss on Experiments, Risk, and Freedom
HBR IdeaCast · Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:27:39 -0500 · 32 min
What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur in today's uncertain world? How do you balance risk, decision-making, and curiosity? We’re sharing an episode from The Founder Mindset with Reza Satchu, the new podcast from Harvard Business School Foundry about what it truly takes to be a founder now. Hosted by Harvard Business School senior lecturer Reza Satchu, the show features intimate convers

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