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Master the best of what other people have already figured out. Each week, I learn from the best so you can apply their insights to your life. No fluff, no filler, just timeless conversations that make you smarter. Inspired by Charlie Munger's timeless advice: "I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting down and trying to come up with everything on your own. Nobody's that smart." Subscribe now and start mastering ...
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The Social Radars

Jessica Livingston

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Jessica Livingston and Carolynn Levy are The Social Radars. Carolynn and Jessica have been working together to help thousands of startups at Y Combinator for almost 20 years. Come be a fly on the wall as they talk to some of the most successful founders in Silicon Valley about how they did it.
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Hacker News Recap

Wondercraft.ai

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A podcast that recaps some of the top posts on Hacker News every day. This is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by Wondercraft.ai. Create your own news rundown podcast at app.wondercraft.ai
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Life, Work, and Startups

Jason & Michael Seibel / Nugget

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Michael Seibel and his younger brother Jason Seibel talk about life, work, and startups. Michael is a full-time partner and CEO of the YC startup accelerator program. Previously he was the cofounder and CEO of Justin.tv (Twitch) and Socialcam. Jason was a Researcher at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He studied Computer Science at MIT and graduated in 2020.
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Round Two

Jaclyn Siu

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Join Jaclyn Siu, 3x founder and advocate for embracing entrepreneurship’s toughest moments, for honest conversations about failing forward. Each episode pulls back the curtain on startup life—the good, the gut-wrenching, and the unspoken—to help founders everywhere reclaim their stories, reinvent their identities, and rediscover their power.
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The Difference Engine helps founders and funders maximise business growth through category design. Hosted by two British northerners with decades of experience in launching, managing, and marketing disruptive tech companies. Paul Maher and Jonathan Simnett have been there, done it and thrown away the slogan t-shirts - now they'll help you become a category king. The Difference Engine - Disrupting Tech Strategy https://www.becategorical.com/
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Faith Driven Investor

John Coleman, Luke Roush

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Faith Driven Investor is a growing movement of business leaders, fund managers, investors, and pastors who are driven by their faith. We believe that God owns it all and that he cares deeply about how we steward our investments. Our vision is for a world where Christ's followers can pursue excellent investments that allow for financial returns and Gospel-centered transformation. Every investment has an impact. What's yours?
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Building One, a podcast hosted by Tomer Cohen, LinkedIn's Chief Product Officer, is a series of engaging one-on-one conversations with accomplished product leaders. The series delves into the professional journeys of these diverse leaders, extracts insights into the intricacies of product development, and reveals the stories behind their most impactful products. Building One not only offers valuable insights into the world of product development but also serves as a source of motivation and ...
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Subnet Show

Connor Daly

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Join blockchain developers Connor Daly and Gabriel Cardona as they explore the Avalanche ecosystem. Together, they interview the people building the future of decentralized finance while providing in-depth technical analysis approachable for all levels of crypto experience.
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Welcome to Innovation with Mark Peter Davis, a podcast dedicated to innovation, truth, and education. Through fireside chats with entrepreneurs, industry leading executives, and creative minded business folk, I'll highlight the society altering transformations that are happening all around us while providing crucial entrepreneurial advice. Pickup tips from founders who sold their company for hundreds of millions of dollars. Discover how everyday materials and goods are being reinvented by sc ...
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Join hosts Daniel Kivatinos and Harshith Vaddiparhty on the "JustPaid Podcast," where we explore the dynamic intersection of finance and technology. Dive into the latest in FinTech and artificial intelligence, with discussions on how these advancements are redefining banking, investments, and financial services. From AI chatbots enhancing customer experiences to algorithms predicting market trends, we cover the innovations shaping our financial future. Each episode features insightful interv ...
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Let's Get Started!

Raveesh Motlani

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Are you the entrepreneur planning to take the plunge or just got started? Do you have an eye towards space shuttling into 1M, 10M or 100M orbit? Then this show is for you. We uncover untold stories of entrepreneurs in a rather hard hitting, no BS format. Learn from the raw experiences, uncomfortable truths, jaw dropping facts and figures that entrepreneurs share. This is not a show where entrepreneurs sugarcoat and sell dreams. Each show packs ton of actionable insights for YOU from the wins ...
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the talktank

LSE SU Entrepreneurs

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You’ve reached the talktank - the official podcast of the LSE Entrepreneurs Society. We delve into the minds of those who think, live, and breathe outside the box, by interviewing thought-leaders about their work, experiences and stories they've collected along the way. Through our four series called "Beyond Profit", "Artistpreneurs", "Unwrapped" and "Bits and Bytes" we explore diverse areas including social entrepreneurship, the creative arts and technology. Our aim is to expose our audienc ...
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Somi Arian Podcast

Somi Arian

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The Somi Arian Podcast is your gateway to the dynamic terrain of business, technology, and human potential in an AI-driven society. We bring together thought leaders, innovators, and trailblazers from a wide spectrum of disciplines, including art, music, Web3, entrepreneurship, health span, and longevity, to unveil their profound insights and personal journeys. Our mission is to ignite inspiration, impart wisdom, and arm you with the tools to not only survive but thrive in a world marked by ...
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Welcome to the Blockchain Startup Show, where we explore the minds of the most innovative and dauntless leaders in the world of Crypto and Web3. I’m your host, Harrison Wright, and I’m excited to take you on a journey through the rapidly evolving landscape of decentralized technology. Get ready to investigate the latest trends and challenges facing the industry. Each week, we discover strategies that innovative leaders are using to survive and thrive. Whether you're currently a Web3 founder ...
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LIFT99 launched the LIFTOFF podcast as a continuation of their mission to spread the incredible Stories of Startup Founders in Eastern Europe and by doing so, inspire others to shoot for the moon. Most LIFTOFF shows are recorded live at LIFT99 Tallinn Hub, the birthplace of #EstonianMafia Wall of Fame and home of Estonian startup culture. But not all of them! The road might take us to wherever we find inspiring founders with stories worth sharing. LIFTOFF was launched in collaboration with L ...
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Boards & Swords

Chris Renshaw

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Bad jokes. Good folks. Games. Every other week, Chris & Philip talk about their experiences playing different games (both board games and video games). If you enjoy hearing people talk about the fun they have playing various games instead of why X game is better than Y game, this is the show for you. Plus, they've got the latest board games news , the worst jokes, and the best guests occasionally.
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Forward Thinking Founders is a founder podcast where we interview high potential founders from networks like Y Combinator, The Thiel Fellowship, Product Hunt, Twitter, etc. and brings to light what they're building for the world. Think of it like the opposite of How I Built This, where we interview founders before they are successful, then if they are, we have a moment in time we can look back on in the early days. Does the model work? Look at our early interviews and you'll have your answer.
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Aravind Srinivas on June 16, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco.Aravind Srinivas started Perplexity with one goal: to rethink how we search, browse, and interact with information online. In this conversation, he shares the journey from hacking together a natural-language-to-SQL search tool to building a product used by millions around the w…
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In this podcast episode, three-time founder and startup advocate Jaclyn Siu discusses resilience, reinvention, and redefining failure with Daniel Ahmadizadeh, founder and CEO of Time. About Our Guest: Daniel Ahmadizadeh is an entrepreneur, educator, and seven-time Y Combinator applicant turned founder. Daniel’s journey spans teaching at Stanford an…
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No guest this week, just a lot of news to talk about. Like what games does CMON have left? And why is Asmodee hiring their crowdfunding “expert”? Even I can read the tea leaves on why thats a bad idea. Also, would you pay $165 for a Magic the Gathering event? I don’t think I would. Join us on Discord! https://boardsandswords.com/discord News What d…
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Andrew Ng on June 16, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco.Andrew Ng has helped shape some of the most influential movements in modern AI—from online education to deep learning to AI entrepreneurship. In this talk, he shares what he’s learning now: why execution speed matters more than ever, how agentic workflows are changing what startups ca…
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Serial entrepreneur Rajat Suri, who co-founded Zimride/Lyft and took Presto public, shares hard-won lessons from 20 years of scaling companies. Discover how he completely changed his career trajectory from wanting to be a doctor to entrepreneurship, why technical founders must branch out beyond engineering, and the surprising origin story of ride-s…
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When one of my startups shut down, I couldn’t talk about it. I shrugged. I changed the subject. I avoided the story, even though that chapter shaped me more than any success ever did. I’ve learned that people WANT to hear that story. So I gathered up some of the most inspiring founders who have walked the same path I have and invited them to share …
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Mamoon Hamid is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins. He has been an early investor in and served on the boards of some of the most innovative software companies of recent times including Slack, Figma, Rippling, Glean and Box. Prior to joining Kleiner Perkins, Mamoon was a Co-founder and General Partner at Social Capital. He started his venture career in 2…
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‘A gut feeling.' It's a fairly common answer from many VCs when asked why they backed a particular startup over another. When all the numbers have been crunched and the data deliberated, the final decision often bypasses the brain and falls on the gut. However, is the human gut about to be out of a job? Nik Storonsky, co-founder of Revolut, is bett…
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Shopify President Harley Finkelstein talks with Shane Parrish about treating every role in your life like a job you have to earn again each year. Harley shares why stepping down as COO was his hardest choice, the family motto that guides his daughters, and what makes someone good at storytelling. They discuss AI's real advantage, the calendar syste…
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François Chollet on June 16, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco. François Chollet is a leading voice in AI. He's the creator of the Keras library, author of Deep Learning with Python, and the founder of the ARC Prize, a global competition aimed at measuring true general intelligence. He's spent years thinking deeply about what intelligence …
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A fireside with Dr. Fei-Fei Li on June 16, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco.Dr. Fei-Fei Li is often called the godmother of AI—and for good reason. Before the world had AI as we know it, she was helping build the foundation.In this fireside, she recounts the creation of ImageNet, a project that helped ignite the deep learning revolution b…
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At 96 years old, Jimmy Pattison still runs his $16 billion empire personally. He’s built it over 63 years without outside capital or a college degree. He owns 100% of car dealerships, billboards, radio stations—even Ripley’s Believe It or Not—with a philosophy of: "No partners, no shareholders, no relatives." This episode reveals the principles beh…
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Vinod Khosla is an entrepreneur, investor and technologist. In 2004, Vinod formed Khosla Ventures to focus on both for-profit and social impact investments that have included OpenAI, Stripe, DoorDash, Commonwealth Fusion Systems and many more. After graduating college, Vinod co-founded Daisy Systems, the first significant computer-aided design syst…
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Kirsten Green, founder of Forerunner Ventures, has backed some of the most iconic consumer brands of the past two decades — from Warby Parker to Chime to Dollar Shave Club. In this conversation with Garry, she shares how great products (not marketing tricks) still win, why AI is unlocking a new kind of emotional relationship between consumers and t…
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A fireside with Satya Nadella on June 17, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco.Satya Nadella started at Microsoft in 1992 as an engineer. Three decades later, he’s now Chairman & CEO, navigating the company through one of the most profound technological shifts yet: the rise of AI.In this conversation, he shares how Microsoft is thinking about…
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Episode 200 marks a major milestone—not just for the podcast, but for an entire movement that's reshaping how investors think about capital, impact, and stewardship. In this celebration episode, Faith Driven Investor founders Henry Kaestner and Luke Roush take us back to the very beginning—from their first meeting at Joe's Diner in Durham (famous f…
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Every crisis hides an opportunity. That might be cold comfort for M&S execs staring down a £300 million profit hit after a shelf shattering cyberattack. However, here at The Difference Engine, we prefer to see the positive. With cybersecurity now front and centre, and traditional defences clearly falling short, the question is: how can you seize th…
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On her first day as CEO of PepsiCo, Indra Nooyi fired her general counsel. Then rehired him before dinner. It wasn’t a stunt. It was a signal. She ran a $200 billion empire the same way she ran her life: with surgical precision, uncompromising standards, and an allergy to corporate theater. But here's what separates this conversation from every oth…
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