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Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley

Bill Gurley spent years on Wall Street, built his career as a partner at Benchmark, worked through Uber’s hypergrowth era, and now serves on the board of the Santa Fe Institute, where he studies complexity and systems thinking. Available Now: YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Transcript | X In this episode, Bill shares …

Proven, Better, New: Mark Pincus on the Rules of Innovation

Mark Pincus is the creator behind Farmville and Words with Friends. He built Zynga into one of the biggest gaming companies in the world and helped shape the early era of social products on the internet. Listen Now: YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | X | Transcript In this conversation, he breaks down how …

[Outliers] Chung Ju-yung: The Hyundai Founder Who Put a Country on His Back

Chung Ju-yung built Hyundai because he refused to be stopped. He is known for turning Hyundai into an industrial force that helped transform South Korea. The company built highways, ships, cars, and entire industries. At its peak, Hyundai accounted for 16% of South Korea’s economic output. This episode explores how Chung built Hyundai, how he …

Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

Winston Weinberg is the CEO and co-founder of Harvey, the AI platform built for the legal industry. Available Now: YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Transcript In this episode, Winston explains how AI is reshaping legal work, why judgment becomes more valuable as routine work gets automated, and how to build the prioritization muscle …

Greg Brockman: Inside the 72 Hours That Almost Killed OpenAI

The AI race, the future of AGI, and the inside story of OpenAI. Greg Brockman is the co-founder and President of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and GPT-5. He was the first engineer at Stripe before leaving in 2015 to help start OpenAI. In this rare conversation, Greg goes inside the moments that built, and nearly …

Mario Harik: Playing to Win

Mario Harik is the CEO of XPO, one of the largest logistics companies in the world. For years, he was the protege of legendary entrepreneur Brad Jacobs (who built eight multibillion-dollar companies from scratch). Today, Mario leads 40,000 people with a management style shaped by what he learned. It’s a rare combination of smart capital …

Joe Liemandt: Alpha School and the Future of Education

Joe Liemandt is the principal of Alpha School and the founder of Trilogy Software and ESW Capital. Liemandt dropped out of Stanford to build Trilogy, became the youngest member of the Forbes 400, then vanished from public life for 25 years. But he didn’t stop building. Through ESW Capital, he quietly became one of the most prolific …

[Outliers] Harrison McCain: How to Create Demand for Something Nobody Wants

Harrison McCain learned salesmanship by talking his way into a pharmaceutical job at 22, then spent five formative years under K.C. Irving, absorbing lessons in vertical integration, relentless deal-capture, and “management by suggestion.” Listen and Learn: YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Transcript He quit with no plan, two newborn kids, and no income. …

Brookfield CEO Connor Teskey: AI Infrastructure, Data Centers, and the Future of Investing

Connor Teskey is CEO of Brookfield Asset Management, one of the world’s largest investors, managing about a trillion dollars across infrastructure, power, real estate, private equity, and credit. In this exclusive interview, his first as CEO, we explore his approach to capital allocation, isolating variables, and building a business designed for long-term growth. Listen and …

[Outliers] J.W. Marriott: Building an Empire Without a Master Plan

Bill Marriott built the foundation of the world’s largest hotel company. But he didn’t open his first hotel until he was 55. Everything starts with a nine-seat root beer stand in Washington, DC, and a simple goal: serve people well and build something that lasts. And of course, he didn’t just go from restaurants to …