Episode 494: Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talks with ex-CEO & co-founder of Twitch, Emmett Shear ( https://twitter.com/eshear ), about the potential o…

Mark Zuckerberg's interview on Meta's company strategy, Facebook's history, and the future of VR, AR, and AI live from Chase Center.

The complete podcast (and transcript!) of Nintendo’s current business strategy.

The complete podcast (and transcript!) of Nintendo’s company history and business strategy.

The complete podcast (and transcript!) of Starbucks’ history and business strategy.

There are four different stories of how AWS was founded. We explore each of them, and AWS's strategy vs Google and Microsoft today.

The complete podcast interview (and transcript!) with Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger

John Carmack is a legendary programmer, co-founder of id Software, and lead programmer of many revolutionary video games including Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, and the Commander Keen series. He is also the founder of Armadillo Aerospace, and for many years the CTO of Oculus VR. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/lex to get 20% off – Indeed: https://indeed.com/lex to get $75 credit – Blinkist: https://blinkist.com/lex and use code LEX to get 25% off premium – Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/lex and use code LEX to get special savings – Athletic Greens: https://athleticgreens.com/lex and use code LEX

The complete podcast (and transcript!) of Starbucks’ history and business strategy.

Amazon. No company has impacted the internet — and all of modern life — more than this one.

The complete podcast (and transcript!) of Costco’s history and current business strategy.

The complete podcast (and transcript!) of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s interview on Nvidia’s history and business strategy.

The complete podcast (and transcript!) of Nvidia’s recent history and current business strategy.

How NVIDIA went from gaming company to machine learning pioneer

How NVIDIA cheated death in the early days to invent modern graphics processing

Acquired dives into the history behind storied venture firm Sequoia Capital and its legendary founder, Don Valentine. Part 1 tells Don’s story, starting from humble beginnings born to uneducated parents in Yonkers, NY, through shaping the fabric of Silicon Valley itself first as head of Sales & Marketing at both Fairchild and National Semiconductor, and then for generations to come via his pioneering concept of “company building” at Sequoia Capital. No matter where you sit in the ecosystem today, Don and the companies he helped build laid the foundation for everything technology would become over the past 60 years.

The wait is over. Acquired returns with a very special Part II of the Sequoia Capital story, joined by the very best person in the world to help us tell it - Doug Leone. Since 1996, Doug has served as Sequoia’s Global Managing Partner, in charge of overseeing the firm’s incredible expansion from a single, $150m early-stage fund focused on Northern California to the multi-billion dollar global powerhouse it is today. Doug is incredibly candid and insightful about all that has gone into building the modern Sequoia: from winning Google and missing Facebook, to the enormous (and enormously successful) bet on decentralized expansion in China and India, to the firm’s “proudest moment” at the depth of the dot com bust. This episode is an absolute must-listen for anyone in the tech, startup and venture ecosystems today. Thank you to Doug and all of the Sequoia team for joining us to make it happen!

Industry veterans, degenerate gamblers & besties Chamath Palihapitiya & Jason Calacanis cover all things economic, tech, political, social & poker.

Marcus Blankenship discusses programmer motivation (and de-motivation), which is key to job satisfaction, performance, and turnover. Travis Kimmel spoke with Blankenship about why engineering motivation matters, the unique motivation needs of engineers, mentoring and coaching for motivation, 1:1s, and self-motivation.

Joel Spolsky (“Joel on Software”), founder and CEO of Stack Overflow, discusses lessons of building successful software companies. Host Nate Black spoke with Joel about the venture funded “land grab” situations vs. “bootstrapping with profitability”. How do venture capitalists think and how can you make fundraising easier? What’s the strategy to keep as much ownership of your company as possible? Besides growth and revenue, a third factor of a company’s valuations is risk. “Proof points” are a way of demonstrating low risk and will earn a higher valuation. What is the deciding factor for whether you will be successful when starting a company? What do founders risk when failure doesn’t mean going hungry? Rants include: what software companies still get massively wrong, how to do remote teams right, how developers undervalue their time by reinventing the wheel, how to make sure you are happy in your next job, and how to be a good citizen on Stack Overflow.

The epic conclusion of the Standard Oil breakup, and the enduring impact of Rockefeller's philanthropy.

We dive into original American capitalist mega winner, Standard Oil, and its legendary founder John D. Rockefeller.