The Pomp Podcast

Bradley Tusk is a venture capitalist, political strategist, writer, and owner of P&T Knitwear bookstore. In this conversation, we talk about his brand new book, called “Obvious in Hindsight.” It is all about a fictional story of innovative technology, flying cars, and what they have to go through with politicians, mafia members, etc. This is a great conversation about how technology meets poli...

Oliver Rust is the Head of Product at Truflation. In this conversation, we talk about outdated process used for calculating CPI, what Truflation is doing with new data collection, how good data would change Fed’s response & lead to better decision making, why Truflation believes inflation will be sticky in 2024, and what success looks like for Truflation.  ======================= Auradine, a l...

Cliff Weitzman is the founder & CEO at Speechify. In this conversation, we talk about the explosion in audio content on the internet, how text to speech audio has become so great, why exactly so many people are now listening vs reading or watching, and how this impacts content creators and human productivity.  ======================= Base is making it their mission to bring a billion people on...

Aaron Ginn is the CEO & co-founder of Hydra Host, revolutionizing the way data centers operate by bringing GPUs everywhere to you easily and quickly. He also is the founder of the Lincoln Network, which connects the tech industry with policy makers. In this conversation, we talk about the state of venture capital, advanced computing, geopolitical conflict, politics, contrarian ideas, and more....

Bailey Pumfleet is the co-founder & co-CEO of Cal.com . Cal.com is taking open source calendar management to a whole different level. In this conversation, we talk about how to manage your calendar, how to become more efficient, and what Bailey is doing with Cal.com .  ======================= Base is making it their mission to bring a billion people onchain. But what exactly is Base? It's...

Dan Reese is the President of Milkshake Factory. In this conversation, we talk about his time working at Heinz & Kraft, his interactions with 3G Capital and their ruthless prioritization of cost cutting, scaling of Milkshake Factory, economics of the business, and why they may become one of the next great premium brands in food & beverage. ======================= Auradine, a leader in web...

Guillermo Rauch is the founder & CEO of Vercel, working on giving developers the frameworks, workflows, and infrastructure to build a faster, more personalized web. In this conversation, we talk about whether artificial intelligence is going to replace jobs or create more of them, open-source vs closed-source, role of government & regulations, most over-hyped areas vs areas that need more...

Ron Shaich is the Founder of Panera Bread, the Chairman of Cava, and the author or a brand new book called, “Know What Matters: Less from a Lifetime of Transformations.” In this conversation, we talk about innovation in the restaurant industry, how to evaluate people, how to deal with activist investors, investing through the full life cycle of a company, inflation & supply chains, and where h...

Greg Lukianoff is the President of The FIRE Organization, and a free speech lawyer. He is also the co-author of "The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All―But There Is a Solution." FIRE is the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. In this conversation, we talk about why free speech is so important, what they are doing to protect p...

Praying for Exits is a pseudonymous account that is run by one of the most interesting early stage investors in venture capital. In this conversation, we talk about aerospace, artificial intelligence, defense technology, current state of venture capital, media, and why being pseudonymous is so advantageous for this specific investor.  ======================= Base is making it their mission to brin...

Lyn Alden is the author of a brand new book called "Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better." This book is almost 500 pages, and it is a fantastic breakdown of the history of money, why the system is broken, and where we go from here. In this conversation, we talk about how the average individual is being impacted, saving vs investing, diversifi...

Will Clemente is the co-founder of Reflexivity Research. In this conversation, we talk about bitcoin, why the price has gone up, ETF speculation, various metrics, bitcoin halving, and more.  ======================= Trust and Will has simplified the process of creating and managing your will or trust online. They leverage a data-driven, design-first approach and amazing customer support to help you...

Lance Lambert is the co-founder, editor-in-chief, & CEO of ResiClub, a brand new media publication that I co-founded with Lance to cover residential real estate. In this conversation, we talk about housing affordability, how we got here, why it’s so bad, impact of interest rates, specific market analysis of what’s hot & what’s not, potential solutions, and what Lance is building with ResiC...

Elbridge Colby is the co-founder and principal of the Marathon Initiative, a policy initiative focused on developing strategies to prepare the United States for an era of sustained great power competition. He is the author of “The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict.” In this conversation, we talk about the threat from China, Ukraine & Russia, what is happeni...

Shaun Maguire is a partner at Sequoia Capital. In this conversation, we talk about Shaun’s time with DARPA, including a deployment to Afghanistan, and what DARPA was thinking of bitcoin in the early days. We also talk about a company that Shaun helped co-found which sold for a billion dollars, breakdown of Sequoia Capital, SpaceX, Tesla, Elon Musk, and more. ======================= Auradine, a lea...

Mike Beckham is the founder & CEO of Simple Modern, a global producer of premium drinkware & lifestyle products. In this conversation, we talk about entering markets with high competition, how to sell an established product, strategy differentiation, core principle of achieving excellence, why you should always be generous, challenges of American manufacturing, and how to scale between a p...

Constantine Karides is a partner in Reed Smith’s Financial Industry Group, Office Managing Partner of the firm’s Miami office, and the co-lead for On Chain: Reed Smith’s Crypto & Digital Assets Group.  This discussion was recorded at the BUILD Summit in New York. In this conversation, we discuss what a startup founder can do to evaluate law firms, test their competency, and how to work with th...

The following episode is a panel discussion from the BUILD Summit in New York led by Nik Sharma, the CEO of Sharma Brands. He is joined by Ryan Babenzien, the CEO & co-founder of Jolie, Ali Moiz, the founder of Native, and Juhi Pikale, the VP of Performance Marketing at Fabletics. Topics include how to build CPG brands, how to market, how to scale your company, and how to actually have a produ...

Darius Dale is the founder & CEO of 42Macro. In this conversation, we talk about their Weather Model, economy & financial market conditions, how US fiscal policy reacts to conflicts around the world, and how investors can think through various outcomes. ======================= Trust and Will has simplified the process of creating and managing your will or trust online. They leverage a data...

This episode contains the opening remarks from the BUILD Summit in New York. Anthony Pompliano reflects on why entrepreneurship is so important, why founders are the most important people in the world, and why capitalism is the best system ever created. ======================= Auradine, a leader in web infrastructure solutions including blockchain, AI, and privacy, has unveiled the world's fir...

Peter Pham is the co-founder & managing director of Science, an incubator based in Los Angeles. This conversation was recorded at the BUILD Summit in New York. In this conversation, we talk about the art of fundraising for founders with startups, materials to use, timing & process, how to create a bidding war, and why up & to the right charts are so important. Peter is one of the best...

Amjad Masad is the co-founder & CEO of Replit. The conversation was recorded at the BUILD Summit in New York. In this conversation, we discuss the customer obsession that Replit has, importance of being technical, current state of artificial intelligence, culture of Replit, e/acc movement, and why we must accelerate the adoption, creation, & scaling of technology. ======================= A...

Emma Hinchliffe is a senior writer at Fortune, where she covers women in business. She also is the author of the 5-time a week newsletter called "Broadsheet." Emma recently wrote an article "Kim Kardashian turned Skims into a $4 billion company. She wants to build the next generation of unicorns with SKKY Partners, her new private equity firm." In this conversation, Emma breaks...

Rahul Vohra is the founder & CEO of Superhuman, the fastest way to do email. This conversation was recorded at the BUILD Summit in New York. In the conversation, Rahul reveals email hacks to be more productive, why responsiveness is so important, bad founders vs good founders, and why he built Superhuman. ======================= Auradine, a leader in web infrastructure solutions including bloc...

Howard Lerman is the co-founder & CEO of Roam. Howard previous built Yext, and took it public at a multi-billion dollar valuation. This conversation was recorded at the BUILD Summit in New York. In this conversation, we talk about tips, tricks, & hacks of a second time founder, 5-minute meetings, how Howard constructs the board, calendar zero, and many other insights. =====================...