Long-form interviews and conversations with tech, AI, and finance leaders (30min+)
Barry Silbert argues that Bitcoin's current underperformance reflects temporary capital rotation into gold and AI rather than fundamental weakness, highlighting that traditional wealth management platforms have completed infrastructure onboarding for crypto products but remain at zero allocation, setting the stage for massive future inflows when sentiment shifts.
Magic Johnson reveals how he built a billion-dollar empire through mentorship from Michael Ovitz and Dr. Jerry Buss, a strategy of investing in 'boring' cash-flowing businesses like Starbucks over trendy startups, and patient relationship-building that transformed sports franchises like the Dodgers and Commanders into appreciating assets.
Google raised $32 billion in debt within 24 hours to signal long-term commitment to the AI arms race, while a historic memory chip shortage drives semiconductor stocks up 200-340% and creates buying opportunities in beaten-down software names trading at cash flow multiples.
The Wirecutter's sex toy expert Bianca Alba discusses their comprehensive vibrator testing methodology and recommendations, emphasizing that vibrators are legitimate health products that help close the orgasm gap for people with vulvas.
This Modern Love episode reveals that true romance lies in thoughtful attentiveness to a partner's specific needs and quirks rather than expensive gifts, featuring listener stories of everyday gestures and an interview with a couple celebrating 30 years of creative Valentine's traditions.
Despite short-term Bitcoin weakness with potential drops to $49K by 2026, current fear levels present buying opportunities as the next halving cycle approaches in 791 days, while strong January jobs data reduces Fed rate cut likelihood.
Michael Every explains how the collapse of the liberal world order is triggering massive structural changes globally, with Japan's election victory signaling deeper US-Asia integration and the US pursuing a Monroe Doctrine 2.0 strategy rather than retreating to spheres of influence.
Capital Group CEO Mike Gitlin details how the firm's employee-owned structure and unique 'Capital System'—where analysts invest real capital and multiple portfolio managers collaborate—enables genuine long-term investing across $3.2 trillion in assets, positioning active management to capitalize as markets broaden beyond concentrated passive benchmarks.
Ritz Carlton founder Horst Schulze reveals the economics behind empowering employees with a $2,000 instant resolution authority to prevent unhappy customers from becoming 'terrorists,' while maintaining rigorous 92% satisfaction standards and peer recognition systems that scaled to $2 billion in managed revenue.
AI safety experts are leaving major companies in droves as recursive self-improvement capabilities approach, signaling a potential loss of human control over AI systems within 12 months.
Leadership professors Linda Ginzel and Deborah Gruenfeld argue that effective leadership development requires an "inside-out" approach of deep self-reflection rather than mimicking others, using the analysis of one's earliest leadership experience to uncover authentic instincts toward authority and become "wiser younger" through systematic self-coaching.
Ken Armstrong, CEO of West Haven Gold Corp, argues that gold's surge to $5,000 reflects its store-of-value role amid global uncertainty, while highlighting how his company's high-grade British Columbia projects remain profitable even at much lower prices, now secured by an $85 million Dundee partnership that eliminates near-term dilution risk.