Podcasts and YouTube lectures that curate 1) achieving people sharing true insights and detail (inspiring) and 2) articulate and status-holding people giving credence to non-popular ideas (necessary). It’s incredible and still underappreciated that we can freely access these conversations when the price for a subsection of these speakers as a ticketed conference or degree plan would be thousands, if not completely inaccessible.
As the medium scales, we’ll see more of the best podcasters (superb listeners + directors of rambling guests) replace entire media organizations as supernodes in our collective consciousness, helping distribute attention across economic and political markets. Below are some of my favorites:
Index
Mixed (no series) | The Tim Ferriss Show | Joe Rogan Experience | Invest Like the Best | Dwarkesh Podcast | The Knowledge Project | BG^2 | Tetragrammaton
Mixed
- Osho – Buddha Aur Meera Ka Sangam (breaking down a beautiful piece of poetry from the mystic Kabir)
Tim Ferriss
- McConaughey – Oct 2020
- Richard Koch – Sep 2020 – Pareto in everything
- Michael Lewis – May 2020
- Jerry Seinfeld – Dec 2020
- Balaji Srinivasan – Jul 2022 and Mar 2021 – Crypto, technoculture, geopolitics
- David Rubenstein – Jan 2021 – Founding Carlyle
- Naval Ravikant – Jan 2016
- Seth Godin – Oct 2020
- Dan Harris – Nov 2020
- Henry Shukman – Sep 2021 – Koans
- Michael Dell – Sep 2021
- Noah Feldman – Oct 2021
- Roelof Botha – Aug 2022
JRE
- Peter Thiel
- Elon Musk (all appearances)
- Ray Kurzweil
- Sadhguru
- Wim Hof First and Second
- Kevin Hart First and Second
- Naval Ravikant
- Tulsi Gabbard & Jocko Willink
- Gad Saad
- Marc Andreessen First and Second
Invest Like the Best
- Cyan Lanister – Motivationally Differentiated Investing
- Brad Jacobs – Platform M&A
- Josh Wolfe – Lux Capital
- Micky Malka – Ribbit, Fintech
- Bret Taylor – AI Agents
- Ken Langone – American Dream
- Erik Serrano – Investing in Investors
- Trae Stephens – GovTech
- Bill Gurley
- Jared Kushner
- Robert Smith – Vista Equity
- Ravi Gupta – KKR / Sequoia
- Antonio Gracias – Valor Equity
- Gavin Baker – Atreides
- Orlando Bravo – Thoma Bravo
- Kat Cole – Focus Brands
- Ricky Sandler – Eminence Capital
- John Harris – (public equities)
- Chamath – Social Capital
- Ram Parameswaran – Octahedron
- Rory Sutherland – Ogilvy Advertising
- Michael Seibel – Y Combinator
- Charlie Songhurst – Microsoft / VC
- Ben Thompson – Stratechery
- John Collison – Stripe
- Tobi Lutke – Shopify
- Jeff Lawson – Twilio
- Jeff Ma
- George Rzepecki – Raba, Africa
Dwarkesh Podcast
- Jung Chang (on the reality of Communist China and its psychological consequences)
- David Deutsch – AI
The Knowledge Project
- Kunal Shah – Core Human Motivations
- Tyler Cowen – Thinking
- Balaji – Network State
- Naval – Angel Philosopher
- Gary Taubes – Sugar
Tetragrammaton
- Rory Sutherland
- Robert Greene
- Chris Dixon
- Woody Harrelson