Videos
Long-form interviews and talks, summarized with key takeaways, detailed notes and notable quotes.
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Palmer Luckey on AIAA Up Next: Anduril’s Fury FQ-44A, Designing Missiles for Car Factories, Patents as Chinese Instruction Manuals, the iPhone Skill Ceiling, and Why Subterranean Warfare Is the Next Domain
Palmer Luckey sat down with AIAA CEO Clay Mowry and flight test engineer Jessica “Sting” Peterson at Anduril’s Costa Mesa headquarters for an episode of Up Next, the…
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Peter Thiel Interview with Mathias Döpfner on the AI Crisis, Europe’s Decline, the Democratic Socialist Threat, and the Case for Living Forever
Peter Thiel sat down with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner for an hour-long MDMEETS conversation on the day he received the Axel Springer Award. It covers a lot…
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Why I Couldn’t Build Jev at OpenAI: Diogo Almeida on TypeSafe, System One Models, RLCD, and Making AI Programmable
Diogo Almeida spent years inside OpenAI arguing that the entire field was optimizing the wrong thing, and then left to prove it. In this long interview recorded days…
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Rick Rubin on the One Human Trait AI Can Never Replicate: Point of View, Indefensible Art, and Why the Creativity Is in the Prompt
Rick Rubin has been making things for forty years, from founding Def Jam at twenty one to producing Johnny Cash, Jay-Z, Adele, Kanye West, Tom Petty, System of…
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Noam Brown on How a Swarm of 10,000 AI Agents Solved Navier-Stokes: Multi-Agent Scaling, Recursive Self-Improvement Timelines, the Hugging Face Incident, and Chain-of-Thought Monitoring
A week after OpenAI announced that a system of 10,000 AI agents solved one of the Millennium Prize Problems, Dwarkesh Patel sat down with Noam Brown, one of…
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Barry Ritholtz on How Not to Invest: The Failure Gap, Sturgeon’s Law, Why Financial News Actively Hurts Your Returns, and Why He Says You Should Buy a New Car
Barry Ritholtz returned to the Rational Reminder podcast for episode 421, roughly seven years after Benjamin Felix and Cameron Passmore hauled backpacks full of recording gear to his…
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Scott Bessent Says Bottom 25% Wage Growth Is Now Beating Inflation: Trump Accounts, the AI One Person Company Boom, and $600 Billion in Federal Fraud
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sat down with Andrew Kolvet and Blake Neff for a fast twenty four minute interview aimed squarely at young Americans who have been told…
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Michael Saylor Explains Why He Sold Bitcoin, How He Used AI to Make $15 Billion, and Why Saving Cash Destroys Your Wealth
Michael Saylor runs the company that owns 847,000 Bitcoin, roughly 4% of everything that will ever exist, and he sat down with Steven Bartlett on The Diary of…
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Why the Markets Are Pricing AI Wrong: Gavin Baker on the July 2026 Selloff, GPU Spot Prices, Memory LTAs, and Nvidia’s Credit Wrapper
Gavin Baker of Atreides Management returned to Invest Like the Best with Patrick O’Shaughnessy days after one of the strangest months the AI trade has ever produced. AI…
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Chip Stocks Crash, Leopold Aschenbrenner’s $20B Fund Gets Margin Called, Frontier Labs Beg Washington to Slow Down AI, and Mamdani’s City-Owned Grocery Stores
The besties open this episode on a genuine market event: a legendary AI trade unwinding in real time, taking a 25-year-old’s $20 billion hedge fund with it. From…
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Ray Dalio on the AI Bubble, the End of the 80-Year Big Cycle, Why Cash Is Not Safe, Gold Over Bitcoin, and What He Would Tell a 16-Year-Old Now
Ray Dalio built Bridgewater Associates from a two-bedroom apartment into the world’s largest hedge fund, produced roughly $53 billion in cumulative net gains for investors, and was one…
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David Senra on the 14 Patterns Behind the World’s Greatest Minds: Rick Rubin the Lazy Workaholic, Chips on Shoulders, Wisdom Is Prevention, and Why Your Life Is Your Relationships
David Senra has read something like 425 biographies and autobiographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs, and he now spends his weeks sitting across from living ones. This conversation with…