A podcast where we talk to risk takers, adventurers, travelers, entrepreneurs and simply mind bogglers.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 6 days 7 hours 18 minutes
episode 93: Thomas Thornton (The past, presence and future of the Hedge Fund industry)
00:00:30 Thomas’ experience at Wall Street (including running his own hedge fund and an insider trading investigation while working with Steve Cohen) and why he started his latest firm Hedge Fund Telemetry?00:18:40 How Thomas selects themes and tim
episode 92: Peter Voss (How and when will we build really intelligent machines?)
00:00:30 How did Peter get started studying intelligence and how he envisions computers and AI should become more intelligent?00:06:31 What better approach can we take to build a thinking machine?00:12:18 When will we have machines that can build and imp
episode 91: Harley Bassman (How to become a Convexity Maven?)
00:01:00 What is Convexity and how does it express itself?00:02:59 Why startup founders usually enjoy positive convexity. Why bonds often come with negative convexity?00:08:33 Why taking a flat fee is a good idea for money management?00:14:03 Did Softban
episode 90: Esther Sternberg (The science of the body and mind connection)
00:00:23 How Esther got started working on the intersection between mind and body and healthy living?00:13:32 What impact Ether’s research has on the ability to improve living conditions with autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Are we getting to
episode 89: Bill Ottman (How to build and run a 'free speech social network'?)
00:00:34 What drove Bill to start minds.com back in 2011? Why minds.com is fundamentally different than other social networks?00:07:31 Why did the ‘legacy’ social networks get so big?00:11:22 Is there a better engagement algorithm? How ‘
episode 88: Joe Henrich (WEIRD people and what drives cultures success?)
00:00:34 What drove Joe to research and write his latest book – The WEIRDest People in the World and what it suggests about the timeline of human development00:08:10 What made us these WEIRD people? Why and how did the nuclear family emerge? How di
episode 87: Jeff Barr - The amazing story of Amazon Web Services
00:00:35 How Jeff got started with Amazon Web Services in the place and how innovation has been moving along briskly with Amazon AWS.00:06:15 How did it feel to promise an Internet File System and promise not to loose any data? How does AWS deal internal
episode 86: Marc Faber (Gloom Boom & Doom)
00:00:36 What great investors does Marc admire?00:05:20 Why the world’s policy to print money (in Japan, Europe and the US now) is misguided and prohibits innovation?00:13:32 Is the ‘socialist utopia’ upon us? What will happen to inflat
episode 85: Matthew Karch (The video game industry and will we all live in immersive simulations soon?)
00:00:35 How Matthew got started in the video game industry?00:03:58 How the video game industry has evolved since Matthew started?00:15:43 How video game studios elect plans for a new game?00:21:06 How much revenue is there in video games really? Is the
episode 84: Thomas Power (The Power of Social Networks)
00:00:14 The origin story of Ecademy – the original social network for business.00:05:19 How social networks helped us get more connected but also made us more lonely at the same time. How can we find real trust and intimacy?00:12:03 How the way w