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Dylan is an impact entrepreneur with a track record of building socially conscious technology companies in areas such as civil justice, local democracy, and now mental healthcare. He currently serves as the Founder and CEO of Mindbloom, a mental health and wellbeing brand helping people achieve personal and clinical breakthroughs with at-home, clinician-prescribed psychedelic therapies, beginning...

Raoul is the CEO and Co-Founder of Real Vision and Global Macro Investor. He was previously co-manager of the GLG global macro hedge fund in London and co-head of hedge fund sales in equities and equity derivatives at Goldman Sachs in Europe. Raoul was one of a relatively small number of investors to predict the mortgage crisis of 2008–2009. Today, he spends much of his time focused on crypto and...

Julia is an intellectual leader in the rationalist community and the author of the book, The Scout Mindset . She previously co-founded the Center for Applied Rationality, a nonprofit organization devoted to helping people improve their reasoning and decision-making. Julia has hosted the Rationally Speaking Podcast since 2010. Visit her website at juliagalef.com and follow Julia on Twitter @juliaga...

George is a digital marketing specialist and the founder of Multiply Marketing where he helps scale great products and ideas across the internet. He is known on Twitter for his thoughts on mental models, first principles thinking, and his creation of @NavalBot , a Twitter bot that resurfaces some of the greatest tweets from Naval Ravikant. Subscribe to George's newsletter, Clouds & Dirt , and...

Steven is cofounder and CEO of Cameo, the world’s leading marketplace for personalized video shoutouts. The company recently raised a $100 million Series C at a valuation north of $1 billion. Steven graduated from Duke University and worked in finance and entertainment prior to launching the company in 2016. [0:59] - What Steven learned from his early entrepreneurial ventures [5:01] - Mindset shif...

Vijay is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he focuses on investments in biopharma and healthcare. As the founding investor of a16z’s Bio Fund, he leads the firm’s investments at the cross section of biology and computer science. Previously, Vijay was the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Structural Biology and of Computer Science at Stanford University. During his...

Vedika is the Chief of Staff at Weekend Fund where she invests in early-stage startups and helps founders with product, community building, and go-to-market strategy. She previously held positions at Mithril Capital and Stripe and helped to scale TrueLayer into a global organization. Vedika was born and raised in India, attended UC Berkeley, and currently live in London. Check out Vedika's website...

Jake is a music manager and entrepreneur, founder of the talent management company, TH3RD BRAIN, and Head of Activation at Community. Most recently, he has become well known as an early BitClout enthusiast with one of the ten most valuable accounts on the network. BitClout is a new type of social network that lets you speculate on people and posts with real money, and it’s built from the ground up...

Geoff is the Founder & Managing Partner of Bedrock Capital, a technology investment firm currently managing approximately one billion dollars. He’s served on the Board of Directors for companies including Lyft, Nubank, and RigUp. He led the Series C round for Wish in 2014. Bedrock is credited with coining the phrase ‘narrative violations’ to describe the most compelling technology investment o...

Tim is a billionaire venture capitalist and the the founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) as well as Draper Associates, Draper University, Draper Venture Network, and Draper Goren Holm. His exceptional track record of investments includes Tesla, SpaceX, Baidu, Hotmail, Skype, AngelList, Ring, Twitter, DocuSign, Coinbase, Robinhood, and Twitch, among countless other companies. An early advocate...

Nathan is an entrepreneur, longevity biotechnology advocate, and investor based in Toronto. He is the creator of  Longevity List, Longevity Marketcap , and  Biohack Stack . He also writes the  Longevity Marketcap Newsletter  — a weekly review of developments in the longevity industry. Nathan is a former Quantum Optics Ph. D candidate on a mission to end biological aging. Follow him on Twitter @rea...

Soona is founder and GP of Volt Capital, a venture firm focused on pre-seed and seed companies in the digital assets space. Before starting Volt, Soona launched and ran Token Daily, a community of 20,000+ builders, investors, and talent in the crypto space. In addition to her work in the crypto space, Soona is an advisor to On Deck and was named to Forbes 30 under 30 in VC. [0:59] - Soona's experi...

Mark is a billionaire entrepreneur and investor. He is the owner of the 2011 NBA Champion Dallas Mavericks and stars on ABC’s Emmy Award-winning reality TV series Shark Tank . [0:59] - Mark's story and core skillset [5:50] - The potential of crypto and smart contracts [12:39] - Crypto today vs. the internet in the ‘90s [18:01] - Mark's perspective on crypto's hype cycles [25:09] - Hedging and long...

Kristen is the Founder and CEO of BIOAGE Labs, a biotechnology company that leverages AI for drug discovery and treatment for age-related diseases. Before beginning BIOAGE in 2015, Kristen spent over a decade in academia studying human longevity. In December of 2020, BIOAGE raised a $90M series C round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz and previous podcast guest Elad Gil. Additional informatio...

Lucy is an entrepreneur and early-stage venture investor, currently founder and general partner at Backend Capital. She previously cofounded Scale AI while participating in Y Combinator. Scale is now a multi-billion dollar company. Prior to starting Scale, Lucy served as a product designer at Snap and also worked for Quora. She studied Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon before dropping...

NASJAQ is a former Tesla chemical engineer turned content creator and angel investor. He produces compelling content about hard tech startups on TikTok where he has amassed over 800,000 followers in a short time. NASJAQ also makes YouTube videos and hosts a podcast called NASJAQ FVTRISM. His areas of interest include space, energy, quantum computing, biotech, longevity tech, terraforming, and more...

José is the creator of the blog, nintil.com . He is an independent researcher and prolific blogger who strives to estimate, compare, distinguish, discuss, and trace to its principal sources everything. José's latest work explores the phenomenon of aging and what can be done to reverse it. His research on the economic history of the USSR, state involvement with the invention of computers, and many...

Pierre is an economist, software engineer and self-ascribed Bitcoin maximalist. He is a prominent figure in the world of Bitcoin and currently serves as Bitcoin Strategist at Kraken. Pierre has researched and written about Bitcoin since February 2013 and co-founded the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute in 2014 to curate the best primary source literature on Bitcoin. He is a co-producer of the Noded Bitco...

Jerry is the executive director of Coin Center, a DC-based think tank focused on the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency technologies. He previously was a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and director of its Technology Policy Program. Jerry has testified several times before Congress on the subject of cryptocurrencies and regularly holds briefings for...

Albert is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures and the author of the book, World After Capital . Before joining USV, he was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor in companies including Etsy and Tumblr. Albert previously founded or co-founded several companies, including a management consulting firm and an early hosted data analytics company....

John is a product designer and software engineer as well as the creator of $ESSAY, the first community-owned essay, crowdfunded on Ethereum. He began his career at Snapchat before founding a startup that went through Y Combinator in 2018. Since then, John has worked as a designer and consultant for several startups and investors, including Mirror, Muze, a16z Crypto, and Y Combinator, where he help...

Hunter is a partner at Homebrew, a seed stage venture fund. Before Homebrew, he led consumer product management at YouTube, starting when it was acquired by Google. Hunter originally joined Google in 2003, managing product and sales efforts for AdSense. Prior to Google, he was a founding member of the product and marketing team at Linden Lab, the creators of the online virtual world, Second Life....

Mike is the Founder of IdeaMarket. IdeaMarket allows creators to earn passive income from their audience's confidence in them. It is intended to serve as an attention prioritization engine and to disintermediate centralized media like Bitcoin is disintermediating financial institutions and central banks. Mike has worked and consulted for a number of companies in the crypto space and also writes, d...

Christelle is the Founder & CEO of Codi, a company that connects remote workers with local workspaces hosted in people’s homes, like Airbnb meets WeWork. She earned her Master’s in City Planning from UC Berkeley and also holds a Master of Science in Environmental Science from École Polytechnique in France where she briefly served in the French military. Christelle was included on Forbes 30 for...

Elad is an entrepreneur and operating executive as well as an investor or advisor to a number of successful companies including AirBnB, Airtable, Coinbase, Flexport, Gusto, Instacart, Opendoor, Pinterest, Square, Stripe, and Wish. He previously was the co-founder and CEO Color Genomics and before that Mixer Labs which was acquired by Twitter. Elad served as the VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter...