LaBossiere Podcast

<p>Keith Rabois is a Managing Partner at Khosla Ventures and the CEO of OpenStore, which acquires small direct-to-consumer businesses. Keith co-founded Opendoor and led the first institutional investments in DoorDash...

<p>Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur, executive, and one of the greatest tech investors of all time, with early stakes in something like 40 billion-plus dollar companies: AirBnB, Anduril, Coinbase, Figma, Flexport...

<p>Erik Torenberg is a technology entrepreneur and investor.</p> <p>Presently, he’s the founder of Turpentine. Previously, he was the chairman of On Deck, co-founder and general partner at Village Global, and first...

<p>Bryan Johnson is the world's most measured human. Johnson sold his company, Braintree Venmo, to PayPal for $800m in 2013. Through his Project Blueprint, Johnson has achieved metabolic health equal to the top 1.5% of...

<p>Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano is an entrepreneur and technology investor. He runs his family office which makes private investments, along with owning majority stakes in a number of operating businesses.</p>...

<p>Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a New York Times Bestselling author.</p> <p>He’s the author of 8 books, including The Myth of the Rational Voter, The Case Against Education...

<p>Delian Asparouhov is the co-founder, President and Chairman of Varda Space Industries, a company building spacecraft to manufacture materials in microgravity that are difficult or impossible to produce on Earth—...

<p>Robin Hanson is a professor at George Mason University and researcher at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford.</p> <p>0:00 - Intro 2:42 - Intelligent Life in the Universe 7:30 - Grabby Aliens: A Primer 15:29...

<p>Chris Mason is a professor of Genomics, Physiology, and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine. He is also one of the founding Directors of the WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction.</p> <p><br></p> <p>He...

<p>Keith Rabois is a General Partner at Founders Fund and the CEO of OpenStore, which acquires small direct-to-consumer businesses. Keith co-founded Opendoor and led the first institutional investments in DoorDash and...

<p>Bradley Tusk is a venture capitalist, political strategist, philanthropist and writer. He is the CEO and co-founder of Tusk Ventures, the world’s first venture capital fund that invests solely in early stage startups...

<p>Jeff Morris Jr is the Managing Partner at Chapter One, an early stage venture capital fund. He’s formerly the VP of Product and Revenue at Tinder, which he helped scale to become the #1 grossing app in the world.</p>...

On founding versus Investing, parenting, indexing knowledge, collective intelligence, and good questions.

On optimism, progress in technology, drivers of stagnation, and how to think about innovation.

On Immortal societies, civilizational decline, the longevity of information, and academia.