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Links:David on TwitterMitchell on TwitterFounders PodcastInvest like the bestHow to Take Over the WorldHard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft EmpireJoe Lonsdale - Lessons from Peter ThielTopics:(5:51) - David’s dinner with Charlie Munger(29:33) - The power of Podcasting, Chris Powers, and innovation(36:21) - How to make a successful Podcast(47:42) - The Scarcity of GREAT ideas(55:30) - Self-funding businesses and the philosophy behind Venture Capital(1:14:27) - Mitchell’s new business(1:55:53) - Travel plans, meet-ups and live events!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>> Or at least give the podcast a positive review to help us reach new listeners! 

Links:XBESean on Twitter & LinkedInChatGPTChatGPT-4BarelyKnown.comOpenAICoPilotBen’s Bites newsletterBaeKayla.comSupport our Sponsor:Bread: https://www.madebybread.com/Topics:(5:04) - Setting the stage: Sean’s company & programming background(20:38) - Part 1: Individual Contributor AI Applications: ChatGPT 4(44:23) - Part 2: Product Improvement AI Applications(1:11:40) - Part 3: Organizational expectations post-implementation(1:21:26) - What resources would you recommend for people to learn more about AI tools?(1:22:55) - How do you view the landscape of your company given the advancement of AI?(1:26:50) - Will this cause margins to increase?(1:30:21) - How do you feel about the potential risks of AI?(1:36:14) - How helpful was your technical background in implementing AI?(1:39:24) - Where can people find you online?(1:40:07) - IF YOU ARE AN ELIGIBLE BACHELOR SEEKING A SMART & ENERGETIC WOMAN, LISTEN TO THIS SECTIONTo 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>> Or at least give the podcast a positive review to help us reach new listeners!

Topics:(4:21) - Introducing Omar & Zach (nerds)(5:30) - Why will Web3 data take 100% of the market?(7:22) - What are data flows?(14:40) - Does the whole world need to be on Web3 to execute your vision?(18:02) - Is there a gamification to this whole approach?(25:05) - Are you seeing finance being the first industry to adopt Web3 Data flows?(34:29) - CryptoPoops.com (Finest shit on the internet)(36:02) - Being able to verify truth at any point(44:59) - The history of HTTPS(47:41) - The SVB crisis, wire transfers & chainalysis(50:09) - Can we implement something like Weavechain without replacing the skeleton of the current financial system?(1:01:15) - Distribution in Web3/Crypto & how Weavechain works in pharma and insurance(1:14:49) - Decentralized Science(1:17:35) - What is the 50-year vision for Weavechain?(1:25:42) - Who are the best people for you to talk to regarding Weavechain?Support our Sponsor:madebybread.comLinks:WeavechainOmar on Twitter & LinkedInZach on Twitter & LinkedInFor Fintechsake PodcastMoney20/20 To support the costs of producing this podcast: >> Buy a copy of the Navalmanack: 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 

Helpful Links:The Rolling Fun(d)Al on TwitterBo on LinkedInMatt Loszak on TwitterMidjourneyChatGPTPortfolio companies Mentioned:FasterBetterSolve.ioSponsors:Athena: Get a free first month (Worth $3k!) when you sign up with my code: athenago.me/eric-jorgensonListen and Learn more about Athena here: Creative EA Delegation with Athena on the PodcastTopics:(3:49) - Life Updates: Buying a cow, Sous Vide Bacon, and Eric’s book(13:44) - Faster Better & Athena(24:03) - Aalo Atomics (our first Nuclear company!!)(33:25) - Solve Data, The Brain for Ecommerce Cos(41:10) - Current fundraising environment & Artificial Intelligence(52:02) - Portfolio Updates (1:01:02) - Growth of the fundTo support the costs of producing this podcast: >> Buy a copy of the Navalmanack: 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

Links:Bret Kugelmass on LinkedInLast EnergyTitans of Nuclear PodcastEnergy Impact PodcastMarc Andreesen regulatory capture podcast episodeThe Energy Impact CenterDecouple PodcastInvest your money alongside ours in high-tech, high-growth startups: Rolling.fun Rolling Fun Podcast episodes:Rolling Fun Ep. 1Rolling Fun Ep. 2Rolling Fun Ep. 3Rolling Fun Ep. 4Sponsors:Athena: Get a free first month (Worth $3k!) when you sign up with my code: athenago.me/eric-jorgensonListen and Learn more about Athena here: Creative EA Delegation with Athena on the PodcastTopics:(5:42) - “The more nuclear meltdowns, the better!”(11:06) - Working with regulators on nuclear fission(12:10) - Making regulation capability a competitive advantage in nuclear(16:09) - Bret’s previous startup (drones)(22:14) - Starting The Titans of Nuclear Podcast(24:41) - The process of learning a new industry(26:27) - Factions inside the nuclear industry?(27:52) - Nuclear evangelist Dr. Chris Keefer(29:46) - How did you form Last Energy’s strategy?(37:26) - Avoiding supply chain risks in nuclear(42:59) - Perceptions vs realities of nuclear waste, and Cognitive Biases(44:29) - Public Opinion is more and more pro-nuclear(49:16) - How do you see the next 50 years playing out for the Energy sector?(51:42) - Renewables are fine, Nuclear is magic(54:14) - The beauty of Nuclear(55:37) - Hiring people without a background in nuclear industryTo support the costs of producing this podcast: >> Buy a copy of the Navalmanack: 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 

Links:Austen on TwitterAl on TwitterBloomtech (Formerly Lambda School)Becoming Trader Joe by Joe CoulombeRolling.funRolling Fun Podcast episodes:Rolling Fun Ep. 1Rolling Fun Ep. 2Rolling Fun Ep. 3Rolling Fun Ep. 4Creative EA Delegation with Athena on the PodcastSponsors:Athenago.comMadeByBread.comTopics:(6:29) - Warming up & Austen escaping San Francisco(13:35) - Catching up on Bloomtech’s growth(24:34) - Hiring horror stories and strategies(37:02) - A lot of advice is bullshit(50:10) - How to deal with hypergrowth(1:00:05) - Will VR be a real thing?(1:05:43) - AI’s early investment in Bloomtech(1:13:32) - Bottlenecks for future growth(1:18:09) - Work/Life… balance?To support the costs of producing this podcast: >> Buy a copy of the Navalmanack: 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

Links:The Gray Lady Winked by Ashley RindsbergAshley on TwitterAshley on SubstackAshley’s writingSponsor:MadeByBread.comGiveWell.orgTopics:(5:02) - The impact of Balaji’s love for your book(6:54) - When did you realize this book needed to be written?(10:35) - Rejected by publishers(11:44) - What changed? How did this get published?(13:51) - The research and writing process(18:01) - Examples: Holocaust, Fidel Castro, Vietnam, Atomic Bomb… (30:45) - Who is responsible for the failures?(34:45) - Is misreporting happening in other legacy media companies?(39:15) - Like a real-life ‘Succession’(43:15) - Do people know about these lies?(46:04) - Ashley’s broad personal perspective(52:10) - How Ashley reads the news(54:27) - The future of legacy media(57:07) - Building Alitheum to solve these problems(1:04:58) - Final thoughtsTo 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>> Or at least give the podcast a positive review to help us reach new listeners!

Links: Domo.soGrace on TwitterMitchell on TwitterDomo on TwitterJorgenson’s Soundbox #38 with AthenaJorgenson’s Soundbox #52 with Zach Pettet  Sponsor: Athenago.comGivewell.org  Topics: (5:21) - Introducing Grace and Mitchell(5:58) - Who are your heroes?(8:27) - How did you discover there was a need for Domo?(17:22) - How are you thinking about incorporating fiat-based companies with Domo?(21:18) - Who are the customers for this and how would you get accounting done for this?(25:41) - What kind of real world applications do you envision for Domo?(31:49) - Is invoicing one of the bigger features?(32:22) - How did you start the company?(36:44) - DAO Tooling(37:43) - Domo’s ability to build horizontally or vertically(40:53) - The decades outlook for crypto & blockchain(54:03) - How differently do these chains behave?(58:32) - Has anything gotten measurably harder at the end of 2022 vs. the beginning?(1:00:35) - Are you getting inbound interest from accountants?(1:03:57) - What is the next step to getting crypto bookkeeping to the ideal person?(1:08:20) - Grace’s experience hiring with Athena(1:13:10) - Manifesting the crypto future(1:15:18) - How can people reach you?   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 

Links: Ambiologix Rolling Fun SBIR requirements Participating governmental agencies State funds for SBIR  Topics: (6:00) - Maria’s origin story & the founding of Orbis(12:03) - What is this technology?(13:46) - What was Corey’s breakthrough?(16:06) - How many months of burn did you have from the seed round?(17:42) - What was the process of running down your first 4 contracts?(18:49) - When did grant funding come into the picture and how do people go about getting this type of funding?(27:51) - What happens to your options when you secure a phase 1 grant?(30:10) - What was your experience pursuing these sources of funding?(34:00) - What are some of the technologies you see coming into contact with grant funding?(35:44) - How and where are you submitting requests for grants?(37:03) - How are proposals filtered through the acceptance process?(37:55) - How often is the motivation for funding so that agencies can become customers?(39:38) - How much of your funding came from equity investors and then from grants?(44:47) - How long does it take from start to finish in order to secure grant funding?(48:15) - How many times the funding in a deck come down to minute details within a proposal?(49:58) - What process do you walk entrepreneurs through when they want to work with you about securing grant funding?(55:56) - How do you think about acquisition coaching?(1:01:35) - What was your experience being acquired?(1:05:27) - How can other founders position themselves for a sale?(1:07:07) - How do you think about managing a team through an acquisition?(1:08:59) - How did the licensing inflection point tie into the acquisition?(1:11:58) - What are some facts from your industry that would blow people’s minds?(1:13:55) - How far can this technology go?(1:14:47) - What happens to an IP of a technology like Orbis? 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 

Links:Rolling Fun #1Rolling Fun #2Rolling Fun #3PortfolioAl on TwitterBo on TwitterPositive Food Co.OmellaTonic AudioStell EngineeringNSIONGently.comGlyphTerran RoboticsTopics:(5:34) - Crypto has imploded, thanks FTX! What’s the long-term play?(21:00) - Life and news updates(23:20) - Q4 Investment updates(1:01:00) - Elon and Twitter(1:06:22) - Discussing the pros and cons of an uncapped Convertible Note and investment philosophies(1:31:27) - Fund Growth Updates>> 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