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Smart Friends

Eric Jorgenson

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Casual conversations with founders, technologists, investors, and artists about building a brighter future, together. Welcome to our digital living room. With science, technology and entrepreneurship we can *continue* to create unfathomable leaps in quality of life. We show you how to find, apply, build, and invest in technologies to change your life and the world. When we have smart friends, we do smart things. When we do smart things, we save the world. No matter who, where, or when you are –...

Episodes (122)

#063 Turning Discoveries Into Companies with Sam Arbesman of Lux Capital

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#062 Meeting Charlie Munger and Starting RE Costseg with David Senra and Mitchel...

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#061 How CEOs Build with AI - Sean Devine of XBE

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Apr 4, 20231:46:34pending

#060 Making Data Honest (and Valuable) with Omar ElNaggar (Weavechain) and Zach...

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Mar 28, 20231:29:15pending

#059 Rolling Fun #5: Investing in Nuclear, Ecommerce Data, and AI Productivity

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Mar 14, 20231:06:10pending

#058 Scaling Nuclear Energy, Saving The World – Bret Kugelmass of Last Energy

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#057 Startup To Scale, What CEOs Learn - Austen Allred (Bloomtech) and Al Doan (...

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#056 New York Times’ Radical Distortions and Fabrications with Ashley Rindsberg,...

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Jan 31, 20231:07:50pending

#055 Crypto Business Banking and Long-Term Blockchain Applications with Grace Gu...

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Jan 10, 20231:17:53pending

#054 Engineering an Acquisition, Grant Funding, and Nanotech Pharma with Maria F...

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Dec 27, 20221:19:11pending

#053 Rolling Fun #4: Q4 Portfolio Recap, Crypto Long-view, Uncapped Notes, and F...

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Dec 13, 20221:38:46pending

#052 Money 20/20, Fintech Innovations, and Interviewing Legends with Zach Anders...

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Nov 29, 20221:49:15pending

#051 AI Evolution: ComputerVision, Olfactory Computation, and Neural Nets with M...

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Nov 15, 20221:35:07pending

#050 Growing Podcasts, Bookkeeping Biz, and Creator-Led Companies with David Sen...

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#049 Rolling Fun #3: Q3 Portfolio Recap and Life Updates: Crafting, Smart Kitche...

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#048 Balaji’s Most Epic, Personal, In-Depth Interview Ever (Transhumanism, Inves...

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Oct 4, 20223:56:26pending

#047 Track Zach Marshall #4: The Services Trap, Firing Customers, Chicken-and-Eg...

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Sep 20, 20221:13:22pending

#046 Finding Your Peak of Productivity: Ultraworking with Sebastian Marshall

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Sep 6, 20221:30:51pending

#045 The Future of Nuclear Energy: Politics, Culture, and Technology with Mark N...

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#044 Brainstorming Bologna with Matt Ferrel and Ben Bator

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#043 Automation and Delegation to buy $500 million+ of real estate, with Rohun J...

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#042 Black Swans, The End of Jobs, and Long Volatility with Taylor Pearson of Mu...

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Jul 12, 20221:20:47pending

#041 Devouring Founder’s Biographies, Self-Belief, and the Power of Podcasting w...

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Jun 28, 20222:08:33pending

#040 Customer-Driven Products: How Brett Kopf built “Slack for Schools” and laun...

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#039 Track Zach Marshall #3: 10x-ing your company in 4 Months

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May 31, 20221:38:36pending

#038 Creative EA Delegation, the Corporation of You, and Personal Leverage with...

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May 17, 20222:02:43pending

#037 Inside Buying & Selling Internet Businesses with Thomas Smale, Founder/CEO...

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May 3, 20221:29:18pending

#036 Rolling Fun #2: Q1 Portfolio Recap, Q2 Updates, Right Kind of Risks and mor...

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Apr 26, 20221:03:58pending

#035 EA Delegating w/ Michelle Penczak: Founder of Squared Away - Military Spous...

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Apr 19, 202258:08pending

#034 The Next Industrial Revolution w/ J. Storrs Hall: Nuclear Energy, AI and Na...

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Apr 12, 20221:36:41pending

#033 Channeling Anger to Fix the Finance Industry with Deregulation, Technology,...

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Mar 22, 20221:16:34pending

#032 Solocast #3: Nuclear, Nanotech, and the next Industrial Revolution (Book Re...

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Mar 15, 202252:31pending

#031 I’m Building an Early-Stage Fund with Al Doan and Bo Fishback (Rolling Fun...

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Mar 8, 20221:42:04pending

#030 Self-reinvention & building leverage in podcasts with Chris Williamson

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Mar 1, 20221:43:28pending

#029 Bringing Real Estate onto the Blockchain with Natalia Karayaneva & Adam Bro...

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Feb 22, 20221:07:12pending

#028 Finding an edge in HR & Culture for growing Startups, with Jeannine Seidl o...

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Feb 15, 20221:42:32pending

#027 Finding the 100 highest-quality public businesses in the world with Will Ol...

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Feb 8, 20221:43:24pending

#026 Jason Hitchcock #2 w/ Four Moons: structuring a DeFi Fund, Liquid Staking &...

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Feb 1, 20221:49:28pending

#025 Shane Mac: Building Messaging Protocol for Web3 (XMTP), Company Culture, an...

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Jan 25, 20222:09:11pending

#024 SquidDAO: Web3 Project Deep-Dive: Part Crypto Hedge Fund, Part NFT DAO. An...

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Jan 18, 20221:50:04pending

#023 Tim Hwang: Trade Journal Cooperative, Robot Lawyers, Bubble in Digital Ads,...

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Jan 11, 20221:00:10pending

#022 Solocast #2 - Web3 by a Winter Fire

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#021 Track Zach Marshall #2: Focusing on customers, building MVPs, and creating...

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Dec 28, 20211:25:10pending

#020 Chris Powers: Starting A Real Estate Empire at 17, Focus, Podcast Flywheels

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Dec 21, 20211:47:46pending

#019 Phil Huber: Crazy Alternative Assets, Crypto for Financial Advisors & the B...

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#018 Bram Kanstein: Effing around on the internet - MicroStartups, Crypto/NFT’s...

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#017 Chris Sparks: High-stakes Poker, the training regimen of a world-class ment...

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Nov 30, 20211:54:44pending

#016 Kevin Espiritu: Bootstrapping Epic Gardening to 8 figures by mixing Media +...

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#015 David Perell: Intellectual Openness, Mental Models for Success, and Peculia...

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Nov 16, 20211:44:42pending

#014 Dan Reecer: What Is Polkadot And Why It’s The Future of Web3

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