TED

Inside Dubai’s Mission to Build the City of the Future | His Excellency Khalfan Belhoul | TED

If rules are an issue, we can change them for you. We can connect you with any relevant decision maker to break those rules. We will not be upset if you make mistakes, and we will support you on every winning bet you make.

The Prof G Pod

The Real Reason Trump Always Finds a Workaround

It's not just being a con man, which is something else. It's I am cheating the system. And that to me, I think illuminates not only Trump, but also many of the people who follow him because they're like, "Yeah, he's just a smart businessman. This is the way you're supposed to do business." And in a way that's a real denigration and destruction of what the system is, which is the American people trying to make rules under which to govern themselves.

TED

Inside Dubai’s Mission to Build the City of the Future | His Excellency Khalfan Belhoul | TED

Usually governments are a hurdle or they take time or they're bureaucratic. We are hearing from our leaders that we can actually do this. This is music to our ears.

TED

Why AI Will Never Replace a Great Teacher | Matt Wu | TED

Ask any student what has changed their life the most, and they won't tell you about a technology. They'll tell you about a person. A teacher who believed in them before they believed in themselves.

Semafor

The World of Work: The State of Global Workplace | Semafor Events

The problem that causes people to quietly quit is the work place. And ultimately, I think as we're all talking about all this worry and this anxiety, let's remember that the workplace is fundamentally broken. And so maybe we could use this as a moment to finally get it right.

Throughline

The architect of modern China

To make that vision real, he had to change China's relationship to the world and introduce capitalism to a society steeped in tradition and communist ideals.

Semafor

The World of Work: The State of Global Workplace | Semafor Events

80% of all of the world's workers have quietly quit. And by the way, it's not their fault. The problem is not work. The problem that causes people to quietly quit is the work place.

Daily Stoic

The Fall Of The Roman Republic With Barry Strauss

I leaned towards princ too principled and clean for the world of politics but that makes him a mediocre politician.

The CEO Signal

Ralph Lauren CEO Patrice Louvet On Leading The Dreams Business | The CEO Signal

Are we proud of the way we show up? And is it financially attractive? If the answer is no to either, then we should either make the intervention to address the issue or get out.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

John Kim - How to Raise a Few Billion Dollars - [Invest Like the Best, EP.482]

The number one thing I've learned is that investors invest in people, not ideas. You can have the best idea in the world, but if people don't trust you, don't believe in you, and don't think you can execute, they're not going to give you money.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

John Kim - How to Raise a Few Billion Dollars - [Invest Like the Best, EP.482]

The number one thing I've learned is that investors invest in people, not in strategies. You can have the best strategy in the world, but if they don't trust you, if they don't believe in you, if they don't think you have the capability to execute, they're not going to give you capital.

Pivot

Mitch McConnell Finally Appeared in a Photo. Kara and Scott Aren’t Buying It | Pivot

This isn't a story about Mitch McConnell. It's a story about American political system that refuses to make room for the next generation.

Book of the Day

Jonathan Jakubowicz says he wanted to write a book Venezuelans couldn't resist

When morals are put aside where ideology doesn't matter, the only thing that matters is that you support the leader, you know, so there is a breakdown in society, and and then suddenly anything goes, and I think it's a very dangerous path to take.

Book of the Day

Jonathan Jakubowicz says he wanted to write a book Venezuelans couldn't resist

My country elected a man who believes in nothing but loyalty. He doesn't care what you do as long as you don't cross him. So, why fight him? Who am I to tell people they're wrong for believing in a man who makes them feel seen?

TED

The Counterintuitive Secret of Leadership | Jessica Kriegel | TED

People don't change because you implemented new processes. People will act in alignment with what they believe. And so if you want to change their behavior, you have to shift what it is that they believe.

Book of the Day

Revisiting the story of the American Revolution with Rick Atkinson

A people not used to being forced to do things will not be drove. They must be led. And he is a leader and um in the army that he's commanding the army we have today actually that's a fairly critical insight that he's got and a recognition that this is the essence of leadership.

The Prof G Pod

Top House Intelligence Democrat on How Trump Misread Iran

Some people got in his ear and just said, "You know what you know you need to say to Donald Trump to persuade him," which is, "You will be the greatest leader since Napoleon." And painted a picture of Trump Towers being built in Shiraz and Tehran and that sort of thing.

The a16z Show

Don’t Follow Your Passion | Ben Horowitz’s Advice for New Graduates

Rather than urging students to "follow their passion," Horowitz argues that people should focus on developing their strengths and making meaningful contributions to the world.

Daily Stoic

How The Stoics Sparked The American Revolution

Gouverneur Morris would say that underneath Washington's calm demeanor was in fact incredible passions, and that his first and perhaps his greatest victory was not on the battlefield, but over these very passions.

The a16z Show

Outsmarting Uber: Why Bolt Wins in Europe

competing against much better-funded rivals, and why culture and ambition matter more than regulation

TED

Why Democracy Requires Renewal | Michael Dimock | TED

The founders didn't hand us a finished product. They handed us an ongoing project that requires engagement and creativity from one generation to the next.

TED

A Simple Solution to Fix Workplace Miscommunication | Melissa M. Mikus | TED

Employees and executives, 86 percent of them, blame workplace failure on ineffective communication. And US businesses alone lose $1.2 trillion -- trillion dollars -- a year as a result of miscommunication. So this isn't just about being nice and diplomatic. Miscommunication is expensive.

Freakonomics Radio

680. Can Universities Win Back Our Trust?

Dartmouth president Sian Beilock, a psychologist by training, made her name studying why people choke. Now she's applying those insights to one of the most scrutinized jobs in America.

The a16z Show

Outsmarting Uber: Why Bolt Wins in Europe

competing against much better-funded rivals, and why culture and ambition matter more than regulation.

TBPN

Etched Founder Joins, AI Creates Jobs, It's OVER for Peptides, Tristan Thompson in the Ultradome

Firms that adopt AI are hiring. They're going on the offensive. I've always said that this is the correct stance for a CEO to take is say, "Yeah, we're getting so much productivity. We're going to crush our competitors. We're staffing up."

The Week

The Week | Is Britain America's Future?

Netanyahu is constantly on a war footing and I go back to the same thing. I think the world would be a much better place once Netanyahu and Trump leave the world stage. But Netanyahu is on a war footing. He sees his political survival based on his promise to annihilate or destroy his enemies.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Kareem Amin - The Unusual Approach to Company Building - [Invest Like the Best, EP.478]

The most dangerous thing in a company is when people start managing up instead of managing the truth. Once that happens, you lose your ability to course correct, because the information flowing to the people who need to make decisions is filtered through what people think those decision-makers want to hear.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Kareem Amin - The Unusual Approach to Company Building - [Invest Like the Best, EP.478]

The most counterintuitive thing I've learned is that the companies that are most successful are the ones where the founder has figured out that their job is not to have the answers — their job is to build the system that produces the answers. And that's a fundamentally different orientation than most founders have, especially in the early days.

Freakonomics Radio

679. Why Does Vanderbilt Keep Winning?

It's a hard time to run a university: public trust is low, political pressure is high, and finances are fragile. But Daniel Diermeier, who trained as a political scientist, has Vanderbilt humming. How? He says the key is choosing magnets over wedges.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Kareem Amin - The Unusual Approach to Company Building - [Invest Like the Best, EP.478]

The thing that I found, that was quite surprising, is that the best founders are almost never the ones who can articulate most clearly what they do. The best founders are the ones who can articulate most clearly why they do it, and the ones who have a deep emotional connection to the problem they're solving.

Pivot

Elon Musk Is a Trillionaire. "He Can Pick the Next President" | Pivot Excerpt

Musk has always been able to do is to create this narrative over numbers that's like no one else in history.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Kareem Amin - The Unusual Approach to Company Building - [Invest Like the Best, EP.478]

The thing that's really changed for me is I used to think that the most important thing was finding the right answer. And what I now believe is the most important thing is creating the conditions for truth to emerge. Because if you create the conditions for truth to emerge, the right answer will find you.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Kareem Amin - The Unusual Approach to Company Building - [Invest Like the Best, EP.478]

Most people think about incentives as financial. The real incentive is truth. If you create a culture where people can tell you the truth, you will make better decisions than your competitors. And making better decisions than your competitors over a long period of time is the only sustainable advantage.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Kareem Amin - The Unusual Approach to Company Building - [Invest Like the Best, EP.478]

The moment you know the truth and you don't say it, you've broken something inside yourself. And I think the accumulation of that over time is what leads to people who are fundamentally not effective leaders, because they've taught themselves to look away from hard things.

Pivot

Trump Ruined the Reflecting Pool. Now He's Arresting People for It | Pivot

Trump has delivered on his promise of unconditional surrender. The problem is we're the ones unconditionally surrendering.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Kareem Amin - The Unusual Approach to Company Building - [Invest Like the Best, EP.478]

Most people think about company building as getting the strategy right, getting the product right, getting the right people. Kareem's view is that the most important thing is actually the energy and the spirit of the company — and that this is something the founder has to be intentional about creating and protecting.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Kareem Amin - The Unusual Approach to Company Building - [Invest Like the Best, EP.478]

Most people think that the way you build a company is you hire great people and then you tell them what to do. But the most successful companies I've seen are ones where you hire great people and then you create the conditions for them to tell you what to do.

EconTalk

Can a Phone Be a Cow? (with Philip Auerswald)

How much of human progress is inevitable, and how much depends on the determination of remarkable individuals?

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Kareem Amin - The Unusual Approach to Company Building - [Invest Like the Best, EP.478]

The most important thing I've learned is that the team you build is the company you build. And I think most people intellectually agree with that, but they don't actually act on it. They settle. They hire people who are 'good enough' because the role needs to be filled, and then they wonder why the company doesn't perform the way they hoped.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Kareem Amin - The Unusual Approach to Company Building - [Invest Like the Best, EP.478]

Most people think about a company as a product and a business model and a go-to-market. But I think the most important thing is actually the culture and the team, because the product and the business model will change, but the culture and the team are what allow you to navigate that change.

The Prof G Pod

Heather Cox Richardson: What History Predicts Happens Next

It's not just being a con man, which is something else. It's I am cheating the system. And that to me, I think illuminates not only Trump, but also many of the people who follow him because they're like, 'Yeah, he's just a smart businessman. This is the way you're supposed to do business.' And in a way that's a real denigration and destruction of what the system is, which is the American people trying to make rules under which to govern themselves.

Pivot

Elon Musk Is a Trillionaire. "He Can Pick the Next President" | Pivot Excerpt

Musk has always been able to do is to create this this uh narrative over numbers that's like no one else in history.

Compound Interest

How Amazon Business Made Business Buying Smart By Rebuilding Its Consumer Platform For Companies

Our users, our employees want the same sort of visibility, the same sort of clarity when they buy for their personal lives. We want that in our business lives.

Compound Interest

How Amazon Business Made Business Buying Smart By Rebuilding Its Consumer Platform For Companies

The thing that has not changed really the most is our uh focus on customer obsession. You know, you hear um Jeff Bezos originally talking about customer obsession, you know, quite a bit. And now Andy Jassy today really carrying that forward. And the concept is, you know, start with customers uh listen to them, figure out what they need, and then work backwards from there.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Kareem Amin - The Unusual Approach to Company Building - [Invest Like the Best, EP.478]

Most people think about building a company as building a product. I think about it as building a system of people and incentives and culture that then builds the product. The product is an output, not the thing you're actually building.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Dara Khosrowshahi - Uber's Bet on AVs, AI, and Building a Super-App - [Invest Like the Best, EP.476]

The formula that I used was when the company is doing well, double down. When the company is doing not so well, double down. I think that's actually the right formula because the greatest risk for Uber was irrelevance. If you slow down, you get lapped.

Semafor

Semafor Tech Summit | Semafor Events

It takes forever to really build incredible trust. It only takes a moment to break it. And that's something that we are very aware of. And AI, it just it makes it that much bigger because the use of that information can be so much more destructive if used improperly.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch on AI, the Met Gala & his secret succession plan

You'll hear Sundar say he realized he needed to rethink how Google worked a few years ago in response to ChatGPT, and he made a lot of executive changes and big decisions to get the company in a more aggressive posture.

Diet TBPN

WWDC Reactions, Claude Fable 5 Debuts, McAfee Eyes ESPN Mega Deal | Diet TBPN

So you have like Tim Cook operationalizing the company, making so much money from the app store, building the business, but at the same time, he just happened to be the CEO during the greatest AI winter ever, basically from 2011 to 2022, 2023 when we started getting LLM, started getting chat bots.