#50 - Anthony Pompliano

Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano is an entrepreneur and technology investor. He runs his family office which makes private investments, along with owning majority stakes in a number of operating businesses.

Additionally, Pomp hosts popular conversations on “The Pomp Podcast,” which has been downloaded more than 50 million times. Pomp also writes a letter that is read by more than 250,000 investors each morning.

Pomp’s interests lie at the intersection of finance, technology, entrepreneurship, and economics, which he tweets about extensively to his more than 1.6 million followers.

0:00 - Intro

3:11 - Incumbents and Competition in the Age of AI

5:12 - Media’s Relationship with Technology

9:48 - Individuals vs Institutions and the Future of Content

11:46 - Consensus, Truth, and Misinformation

15:47 - How to Cut Through the Noise

18:47 - The Decline of Trust in Institutions

24:10 - Balancing Optimism and Cynicism

26:46 - National Debt

33:22 - Bad Legislation, Bad Politicians, and Bad Incentives

37:54 - Growing Our Way Out of the Problem

42:19 - Autonomous Cars, Pig Heart Transplants, and How Innovation Propagates Itself

49:22 - Legislating Technology

55:04 - Increasing the Number of Entrepreneurs in Society

1:03:08 - When Better Technology Doesn’t Mean Better Outcomes

1:05:24 - Talent Allocation

1:10:56 - What Does Pomp Do Every Day?

1:19:52 - Lessons From 1300 Interviews

1:21:56 - On Fame, Audience, and Parasocial Relationships

1:29:23 - The State of Crypto

1:34:14 - Institutional Adoption of Crypto

1:37:20 - Is Slow-Moving Bureaucracy a Bug or a Feature?

1:42:02 - Remote Work and Regulatory Arbitrage

1:46:22 - Promising Cities and the Internet as an Equalizer

1:50:03 - Lessons From War

1:58:07 - What Should More People Be Thinking About?

🎙️More Episodes🎙️ YouTube: https://bit.ly/3QDLQFt Apple: https://apple.co/478Be6M Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3sfiFiE

📲Socials📲

Twitter: https://twitter.com/adlabossiere

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexlabossiere/