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#048 Balaji’s Most Epic, Personal, In-Depth Interview Ever (Transhumanism, Investing, and more)

Smart Friends

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Feynman and Vermonogen - Are You a Pragmatist?

I think one of the wonders of your career and story is that you have maintained an authentic sort of message and mission across a number of different, I don't know, gardens for lack of a better term. And it sounds like Feynman was sort of an early model for academia and led you in that direction. Did you have similar models or inspiration for the transition to entrepreneurship and then the transition from entrepreneurship into independence as you say? So Feynman and Vermonogen were probably, they were impactful, but I don't think I read them, and I was like, oh, I want to be a professor or something like that. That wasn't actually how I was thinking

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