Links:Zach on Twitter & LinkedInMoney 20/20For Fintech’s Sake PodcastTripleBlindRule 1033PropelTrafficked with Mariana Van ZellerTopics:(4:25) - Recap the last episode with Zach and Eric(5:34) - Fintech Industry Overview(15:21) - Money 20/20 – the Biggest Fintech Conference in the world(24:02) - Regulation looms over Fintech, always(27:12) - The “Off The Record” Stage at Money 20/20(29:28) - The CFPB and Rule 1033(43:15) - Stripe, Adyen, Warren Buffett, and The Media(49:01) - Behind the scenes at Money 20/20(59:20) - How do you get Serena Williams on stage?(1:01:58) - Holding the keys to so much potential ROI(1:04:33) - Defining the relationship between a fintech org and a bank(1:11:21) - Entrepreneurs buying their own community banks(1:16:58) - The intersection of Crypto and Fintech(1:27:11) - Is OnlyFans only a bad thing?(1:35:34) - What is the overarching story that Money 20/20 tells?(1:41:50) - Wrapping up>> Invest in early-stage companies alongside Eric and his partners at Rolling Fun: https://angel.co/v/back/rolling-fun>> Join the free weekly email list at ejorgenson.com/newsletter>> Text the podcast to a friend>> Give the podcast a positive review to help us reach new listeners 

Topics:(5:29) - Max’s background and career(14:15) - Is it reasonable to use Neural Net, Deep Learning and Machine learning interchangeably?(26:37) - The Future of AI(39:18) - Google & AI Writing(49:42) - Hiring AI for help in our personal lives(55:02) - How Improvements in Robotics will massively push things forward(57:12) - Computers being able to smell and taste(1:04:56) - Scarier futures of AI(1:08:13) - Is there a new field of opportunities you’re paying attention to now in Computer Vision?(1:16:03) - Prompt Engineering(1:24:54) - Final recap Links:Max on TwitterMaxOlson.comMax’s Newsletter, Blog & Podcast - FutureBlindBerkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders from Max OlsonMashginLEX AIGPT-3Juggernaut AILife 3.0 by Max TegmarkTuring TestMidjourney community showcaseJasper AICopy AI   >> Invest in early-stage companies alongside Eric and his partners at Rolling Fun: https://angel.co/v/back/rolling-fun>> Join the free weekly email list at ejorgenson.com/newsletter>> Text the podcast to a friend>> Give the podcast a positive review to help us reach new listeners >> Name-your-price subscription monthly, annual, or one-time: https://app.omella.com/o/9Bufa >> Follow me on Twitter: @ericjorgenson>> Get in touch about sponsoring this podcast by replying to an email or DMing me on Twitter.

Topics:(4:12) - David on how to grow a podcast & Mitchell as a connector(13:32) - David on changing the structure of his podcast(15:58) - Creator-Led Business, Kobe Bryant, Arnold Schwarzenegger & Balaji(36:49) - The genius of Berkshire Hathaway & The power of Twitter(51:24) - Creator Economics & Story time with David Senra(1:06:38) - Eric’s impact on David(1:09:48) - Mitchell’s career model & Building a bookkeeping business(1:28:11) - Focusing career growth(2:04:32) - Thoughts on TikTok(2:16:43)- How the guys spend their time (Finding operational leverage)(2:21:29) - Trying to convince Mitchell to start a podcast(2:24:34) - David’s thoughts on his new business model (2:33:38) - Wrap Up Links:- The Founder’s Podcast w/ David Senra- Connect with Mitchell Baldridge- Mitchell Baldridge on Twitter- David Senra on Twitter- BetterBookkeping.com- David’s appearance on Jorgenson’s Soundbox- Mitchell’s appearance on Jorgenson’s Soundbox- Trung Phan on Twitter- Sam Hinkie- WorkWeek- Coked Up Options on Twitter- Ed Thorpe on The Tim Ferriss Show- Business Breakdowns - Berkshire Hathaway- Money20/20- George Mack on Twitter- Frank Niu on TikTok To support the costs of producing this podcast: >> Buy a copy of the Navalmanak: www.navalmanack.com/ >> Sign up for my online course and community about building your Personal Leverage: https://www.ejorgenson.com/leverage >> Invest in early-stage companies alongside Eric and his partners at Rolling Fun: https://angel.co/v/back/rolling-fun>> Join the free weekly email list at ejorgenson.com/newsletter>> Text the podcast to a friend>> Give the podcast a positive review to help us reach new listeners >> Name-your-price subscription monthly, annual, or one-time: https://app.omella.com/o/9Bufa >> Follow me on Twitter: @ericjorgenson>> Get in touch about sponsoring this podcast by replying to an email or DMing me on Twitter.

Topics:(1:05) - Life updates and catching up from Al’s Quilting Capital: Hamilton, MO(20:08) - Fund updates for end of Q2(25:15) - Fund updates for Q3: Omello, Ohm, Driv.ly & Glyph(49:35) - Closing out Q3(50:28) - Updates on old portfolio companies: StableCoin, Terran, Gently (55:23) - How to get involved with Rolling Fun! Links:Rolling Fun #1Rolling Fun #2PortfolioAl on TwitterBo on TwitterWongo PuzzlesPositive Food Co.OmellaSmart OhmDriv.lyGlyph To support the costs of producing this podcast: >> Buy a copy of the Navalmanak: www.navalmanack.com/ >> Sign up for my online course and community about building your Personal Leverage: https://www.ejorgenson.com/leverage >> Invest in early-stage companies alongside Eric and his partners at Rolling Fun: https://angel.co/v/back/rolling-fun>> Join the free weekly email list at ejorgenson.com/newsletter>> Text the podcast to a friend>> Give the podcast a positive review to help us reach new listeners >> Name-your-price subscription monthly, annual, or one-time: https://app.omella.com/o/9Bufa >> Follow me on Twitter: @ericjorgenson>> Get in touch about sponsoring this podcast by replying to an email or DMing me on Twitter.

Topics: (5:53) - Start of Balaji Interview(6:24) - How would you introduce yourself to a stranger?(8:19) - Do you think of your work as “whatever it takes” to advance your ideology?(10:05) - What would you like to see most achieved?(13:14) - What are the things you believe you are the best at?(20:52) - What are the ideas you are most confident telling others that you know for certain?(30:22) - Balaji’s upbringing & growing up in an age before the internet(1:03:35) - Have you always been like this? Was there an inflection point that made you who you are today?(1:11:41) - Are there any formative media, movie or books that really had an impact on you growing up?(1:19:15) - Doing math as a hobby & philosophical frameworks(1:29:19) - The Feynman Lectures & Magic the Gathering(1:51:29) - Were there any inspirations you looked to in your transition into entrepreneurship?(1:56:45) - What do you consider your career or body of work?(2:07:20) - Where have you seen some of the bigger obstacles in your career?(2:25:57) - Wealth, Burn Rate, and feeling “free to speak your mind”(2:38:40) - How are you spending time and resources to have an impact according to your mission?(2:50:56) - Are you trying to start your own network state or help people start theirs?(2:55:06) - What’s your process with getting up to speed on new technologies?(3:00:23) - What do you think about the trade-off between focusing on learning vs. when to start doing?(3:03:50) - Countries that impacted Balaji’s philosophy(3:08:33) - Balaji’s predictions on what Eric chose to have in the book(3:13:13) - What are the mental models or heuristics you use most often?(3:19:21) - Eric’s Themes of Balaji’s work(3:28:14) - What is your definition of technology?(3:36:09) - Do you believe a startup is synonymous with a great new technology?(3:37:20) - The co-evolution of technology and humanity & Youth-Extension(3:43:34) - The long-term battle for Network systems(3:45:50) - What do you envision transhumanism looking like?(3:53:05) - Wrap Up      Links: Balaji on TwitterThe Network StateFeynman Lectures on PhysicsFrom Third World to First by Lee Kuan YewThe Man Who Knew InfinityInnumeracy by John Allen PaulosHowl's Moving CastleIsaac AzmovElements of Mathematical ModelingPaul Tipler Physics booksVisual Complex Analysis by Tristan NeedhamOne Thousand Exercises in Probabilityfast.aiQuantum.countryClassical Electrodynamics by John JacksonThe PERL CookbookPLEACObey the Testing GoatNobody cares by Ben HorowitzThe Jewish State by Theodore HerzlHow ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Color Wheel Explains HumanityForce and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence by Kellie JacksonCatching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard WranghamLimitless To support the costs of producing this podcast: >> Buy a copy of the Navalmanak: www.navalmanack.com/ >> Sign up for my online course and community about building your Personal Leverage: https://www.ejorgenson.com/leverage >> Invest in early-stage companies alongside Eric and his partners at Rolling Fun: https://angel.co/v/back/rolling-fun>> Join the free weekly email list at ejorgenson.com/newsletter>> Text the podcast to a friend>> Give the podcast a positive review to help us reach new listeners >> Name-your-price subscription monthly, annual, or one-time: https://app.omella.com/o/9Bufa >> Follow me on Twitter: @ericjorgenson>> Get in touch about sponsoring this podcast by replying to an email or DMing me on Twitter.

Topics:(7:05) - Updates from Zach: hiring, firing, building software, and finding PMF(13:41) - What drove the decision to focus more on the marketplace rather than services?(20:18) - How different was it working with a fund rather than angels?(23:03) - Cost cutting measures(24:35) - What was it about services that made them not repeatable or scalable?(37:00) - Fear mongering(38:19) - Regional focused marketplaces(41:07) - Corporate Enterprise focuses(45:15) - Rebuilding community and staffing via website development(50:38) - How does affiliate marketing discounts fit into your strategy?(54:34)- Firing a customer(59:17) - A bias for action, mixed with patience(1:07:06) - What are your hopes for our next meeting?(1:10:38) - Homework for the audienceLinks:Zach on TwitterConterra SecurityListen to Episodes 1-3 of this seriesThe Art of the Start by Guy KawaskiWebflowZapierAirTableNew Illinois crime law going into effectTo support the costs of producing this podcast: >> Buy a copy of the Navalmanak: www.navalmanack.com/ >> Sign up for my online course and community about building your Personal Leverage: https://www.ejorgenson.com/leverage >> Invest in early-stage companies alongside Eric and his partners at Rolling Fun: https://angel.co/v/back/rolling-fun>> Join the free weekly email list at ejorgenson.com/newsletter>> Text the podcast to a friend>> Give the podcast a positive review to help us reach new listeners >> Name-your-price subscription monthly, annual, or one-time: https://app.omella.com/o/9Bufa >> Follow me on Twitter: @ericjorgenson>> Get in touch about sponsoring this podcast by replying to an email or DMing me on Twitter.

Topics: (1:46) - Who are your heroes? (7:25) - Sebastian’s affinity for studying history, sports, art & professional gamers (11:30) - How do you take lessons learned from these studies and apply them to entrepreneurship?  (13:01) - Why do you approach life and work with a lens of ruthless optimization?(18:12) - Breaking down the concept of ‘productivity’ (26:56) - Non-value producing work (28:11) - Do you find that you have a higher sense of baseline after experimenting with optimizing your entire life? (34:25) - Maximum sustainable pace vs. Maximum possible pace (39:44) - Optimizing for fun (44:34) - Can you expand on the growth of Ultraworking? (50:04) - Improving scope-to-quality of work (55:36) - Sebastian’s period of life attempting to visit every country in the world (1:00:59) - Sebastian’s writing eras and how they changed him (1:14:40) - Agree or disagree: Self-measurement is self-punishment (1:19:51) - Monthly themes for life (1:22:45) - What is the mental model you find yourself implementing in your life the most?  Links: UltraworkingSebastian Marshall on Medium The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon by B. H. Lidell Hart On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle You and Your Research by Richard Hamming Stedi Annual Letter - Operational excellence Gateless by Sebastian Marshall Extreme Productivity by Robert Pozen Product Hunt Clockwork Nutrition To support the costs of producing this podcast: >> Buy a copy of the Navalmanak: www.navalmanack.com/ >> Sign up for my online course and community about building your Personal Leverage: https://www.ejorgenson.com/leverage >> Invest in early-stage companies alongside Eric and his partners at Rolling Fun: https://angel.co/v/back/rolling-fun>> Join the free weekly email list at ejorgenson.com/newsletter>> Text the podcast to a friend>> Give the podcast a positive review to help us reach new listeners >> Name-your-price subscription monthly, annual, or one-time: https://app.omella.com/o/9Bufa >> Follow me on Twitter: @ericjorgenson>> Get in touch about sponsoring this podcast by replying to an email or DMing me on Twitter.

Topics: (3:15) - Mark’s career & background (4:40) - Do you think there is a popular renaissance behind Nuclear Energy? (6:27) - Realizing the regulatory problem holding back energy advancement (15:35) - The costs behind Nuclear (18:06) - The Nuclear customer & Europe’s approach to Nuclear (31:46) - France’s energy price crisis (37:00) - The history of Nuclear Power (51:07) - The next wave: Advanced Nuclear (1:01:51) - Who’s behind the push for Advanced Nuclear? (1:03:27) - How did the USA lose its ability to build new reactors? (1:08:38) - Nuclear success in the United States Navy (1:21:57) - Debunking Plutonium (1:224:26) - What is the supply chain of building reactors in the Navy? (1:27:10) - What are reliable resources for people to learn more about or work in Nuclear? (1:32:14) - Wrap up  Links: Mark on Twitter Radiant Energy Fund Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air by David JC MacKay The World Nuclear Association Library Clean Corps The rePLANET Network The Mothers for Nuclear Organization  To support the costs of producing this podcast: >> Buy a copy of the Navalmanak: www.navalmanack.com/ >> Sign up for my online course and community about building your Personal Leverage: https://www.ejorgenson.com/leverage >> Invest in early-stage companies alongside Eric and his partners at Rolling Fun: https://angel.co/v/back/rolling-fun>> Join the free weekly email list at ejorgenson.com/newsletter>> Text the podcast to a friend>> Give the podcast a positive review to help us reach new listeners >> Name-your-price subscription monthly, annual, or one-time: https://app.omella.com/o/9Bufa >> Follow me on Twitter: @ericjorgenson>> Get in touch about sponsoring this podcast by replying to an email or DMing me on Twitter.

Topics: (5:14) - Matt & Ben’s friendship origin (8:42) - Starting Texts From Last Night (18:17) - Matt’s early career with Google, Coachella & Lafayette American (43:33) - Mille Mitten (58:34) - Tik Tok, Ads and Algorithms (1:06:55) - Elon Musk & Twitter (1:15:38) - Fixing Movie Theaters & car charging infrastructure (1:38:07) - Fixing conferences (1:50:50) - Exercise: Rebranding the podcast Links: Texts from Last Night Lafayette American TickPick Mille Mitten Mil-Spec Automotive Alamo Drafthouse To support this costs of producing this podcast: >> Buy a copy of the Navalmanak: www.navalmanack.com/ >> Sign up for my online course and community about building your Personal Leverage: https://www.ejorgenson.com/leverage >> Invest in early-stage companies alongside Eric and his partners at Rolling Fun: https://angel.co/v/back/rolling-fun>> Join the free weekly email list at ejorgenson.com/newsletter>> Text the podcast to a friend>> Give the podcast a positive review to help us reach new listeners >> Name-your-price subscription monthly, annual, or one-time: https://app.omella.com/o/9Bufa >> Follow me on Twitter: @ericjorgenson>> Get in touch about sponsoring this podcast by replying to an email or DMing me on Twitter.

Links:Rohun on TwitterJT CapitalThe Sovereign Individual by James DavidsonCBREJLL4 Hour Work Week by Tim FerrissLoomMavenThe Fear Setting Exercise - Tim FerrissTopics:(6:10) - Why Eric and Rohun Should have been friends 10 years ago(8:30) - Rohun’s Heroes & family dynamic(15:44) - Journeying into Real Estate(20:52) - Getting Reps: Underwriting Deals(26:57- The importance of scale(30:14) - What is the order of operations for buying a deal?(33:17) - How did you find your partners for JT Capital?(35:26) - Did your uncle pay you for your apprenticeship?(37:25) - What kind of expense ratios are you getting with these large deals as opposed to smaller properties(40:31) - What was your vision for building the company?(43:32) - Were you thinking about leverage at all in this process?(47:26) - Was there anything you brought with you from your career in tech into the RE industry?(50:49) - How are you using EA’s and Virtual assistants in your business?(1:05:04) - Is there anything in your business that cannot be automated or delegated?(1:10:46) - How has your life changed after making this investment?(1:13:36) - How do you balance having partners when you’re structuring your career around freedom?(1:16:15) - How do you compare the pressures of your job now vs. all the unique things you did before this?(1:21:53) - What was the single biggest inflection point of your career?(1:23:41) - Was there any single deal that was make or break for the company?(1:24:56) - What is the mental model you use most frequently?(1:28:50) - Final thoughts & Wrap upTo support this costs of producing this podcast: >> Buy a copy of the Navalmanak: www.navalmanack.com/ >> Sign up for my online course and community about building your Personal Leverage: https://www.ejorgenson.com/leverage >> Invest in early-stage companies alongside Eric and his partners at Rolling Fun: https://angel.co/v/back/rolling-fun>> Join the free weekly email list at ejorgenson.com/newsletter>> Text the podcast to a friend>> Give the podcast a positive review to help us reach new listeners >> Name-your-price subscription monthly, annual, or one-time: https://app.omella.com/o/9Bufa >> Follow me on Twitter: @ericjorgenson>> Get in touch about sponsoring this podcast by replying to an email or DMing me on Twitter.