Smart Friends
Casual conversations with founders, technologists, investors, and artists about building a brighter future, together. Welcome to our 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 – you have smart friends too.
From the author of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant and The Anthology of Balaji.
Laugh and learn with people like Balaji Srinivasan, Naval Ravikant, Andrew Wilkinson, Austen Allred, David Senra, Josh Storrs Hall, Ashley Rindsberg, Zach Pettet, Bret Kugelmass, Omar ElNaggar, Grace Guo, Brett Kopf, Chris Williamson, Shane Mac, Tim Hwang, David Perell, Jason Hitchcock, Natalia Karayaneva, Sebastian Marshall, Taylor Pearson, Mitchell Baldridge and more.
Crazy or Crazy Awesome? 1517 Writes the Check to Find Out #founders #investing
The Thiel Fellowship Started With No One Running It #peterthiel #thielfellowship #startups
What Makes a Thiel Fellow? Mutants & Dog-on-a-Leash Energy #1517fund #thielfellowship #startups
#098 Danielle Strachman: What Makes a Thiel Fellow
The ‘Patriarch Problem’ That Holds Startup Communities Back | Brad Feld #startups #leadership
The Most Powerful Mentors Show You How to Be Yourself #leadership #mentor #mentoring
True Leaders Don’t Teach—They Inspire You to Be Yourself #leadership #inspiration
#097 Brad Feld: Founding Techstars, Giving First, and Mentorship
Cal Riley | This Army Drill Became My Business Leadership Framework #leadership #military
Cal Riley | Compassionate Leadership Isn’t Soft—It’s Honest and Clear #leadership #entrepreneurship
Cal Riley: EOS Isn’t a Hack—It’s the Operating System for Scale #eos #leadership #entrepreneurship
#096 Cal Riley: Special Ops, Grief, and Why Your Business Needs a Heart
Forget Boats—They’re Shipping Containers by Airship #cargo #freight #blimp #investing
Forget Amazon—These Robots Are for the Rest of Us #robotics #amazon #warehouse #startups
The Los Angeles Project: From Glow Fish to New Species—Bioengineering at Scale #startups #biotech
My Conversation with Naval on Building Judgement
My Conversation with Naval on Saving Yourself
My Conversation with Naval on Learning Happiness
My Conversation with Naval on Philosophy
My Conversation with Naval on Building Wealth
#095 Rolling Fun #10 Capitalism is Hard, Natural Gas From Sunshine, & "Blimps" (That Work This Time)
From Hammer-Drones to Real Homes—Terran Robotics Pulled It Off #construction #housing #startups