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In Good Company (Nicolai Tangen)

Aliko Dangote details his journey from a 1978 trading firm to building Africa's largest industrial conglomerate, emphasizing radical discipline, backward integration strategy, and the $20 billion Dangote Refinery project that aims to transform Nigeria from fuel importer to exporter while targeting $100 billion in revenue by 2030.

Forbes

Raw Sugar Living CEO Mike Marquis explains how the $100 million beauty brand maintains sub-$10 pricing during inflation while operating with just 35 employees, leveraging digital testing and transparent weekly communication to compete against corporate giants.

Joe Rogan Experience

Gad Saad discusses his new book "Suicidal Empathy," arguing that excessive empathy hyperactivated toward wrong targets—like violent criminals or hostile ideologies—creates a self-destructive society. He uses the metaphor of a parasitic hairworm that drives wood crickets to drown themselves to explain how ideologies hijack both cognitive and emotional systems, leading to behaviors like victims protecting their attackers and judicial leniency that endangers the public.

The David Lin Report

Veteran investor George Noble warns that stretched equity valuations, resurgent inflation, and rising global bond yields create a dangerous market environment, advising investors to avoid frothy tech stocks while favoring gold and emerging markets as hedges.

All-In Podcast

Charles and Chase Koch detail how Koch Industries grew from 300 employees to over 130,000 across 60 countries by becoming 'capability-bounded' rather than 'industry-bounded,' reinvesting 90% of profits, and applying principles of experimental discovery while learning from near-catastrophic failures.

Adam Taggart | Thoughtful Money

Former Fed Governor Tom Hoenig warns that the Federal Reserve faces an impossible dilemma between political pressure to cut rates and rising inflation from an oil shock and war spending, while its continued monetization of government debt through quantitative easing makes the dollar's long-term debasement mathematically inevitable.

Reuters

FBI Director Kash Patel testified alongside leaders from the ATF, DEA, and US Marshals Service on FY2027 budget requests totaling billions for personnel, judicial security, and counter-narcotics operations. The hearing featured a heated exchange as Patel categorically denied allegations of excessive drinking and misconduct while defending his leadership under questioning from Senator Van Holland.

Bloomberg Technology

A South Korean policymaker's Facebook post about creating an AI dividend for citizens sparked massive market volatility, while CME prepares to launch the world's first computing power futures market, signaling AI's evolution into a tradeable commodity.

NVIDIA AI Podcast

NVIDIA researchers detail the development of Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, explaining how they evolved a text-only model into a multimodal system capable of processing vision, audio, and video through progressive training stages while maintaining the hybrid Mamba-Transformer architecture.

AI Engineer

Nico Albanese demonstrates building AI agents with Vercel's AI SDK 6, introducing the new tool loop agent pattern and three essential building blocks for 2026: agent runtimes, sophisticated tool ecosystems, and sandboxed computer environments for state persistence and code execution.

Reuters

The transcript consists of behind-the-scenes technical crew dialogue, camera instructions, and fragmented ambient chatter rather than substantive coverage of fans arriving for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Yahoo Finance

April's CPI report revealed inflation running hotter than expected, driven by energy and food costs, sending markets lower and pushing bond yields above 5% as traders price out Federal Reserve rate cuts for 2025. Despite price pressures, retail analyst Simeon Seagull notes that consumer spending remains resilient with revenues up across major brands, though companies like Under Armour and Nike face distinct turnaround challenges.