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Ep 93: Cold War II & the Race for Technological Supremacy with CrowdStrike Co-Founder Dmitri Alperovitch
He predicted Vladimir Putin would attack Ukraine months before it happened. Now he believes similar signals foreshadow China invading Taiwan. What si…
1 year, 6 months ago
Ep 92: High-Power Microwave & the Rise of Electronic Shields with Epirus CEO Andy Lowery
Electronic shields are iconic elements of Star Trek, Star Wars, and other great American sci-fi. Once a fantasy, we are now building versions of thes…
1 year, 6 months ago
Ep 91: "I whooped his ass!" Legendary Investor & Home Depot Founder Ken Langone on Leadership, Courage & Defeating the Bad Guys
Ken Langone's father was a plumber and his mother a cafeteria worker — neither made it past 8th grade — yet Ken became a multi-billionaire investor, …
1 year, 7 months ago
Ep 90: Ethan Penner on Choosing Greatness & Pioneering New Markets on Wall Street
Is greatness a choice? If so, why doesn't everyone choose greatness? And more broadly, what are the prerequisites for a great society?
This week, I'm…
1 year, 9 months ago
Ep 89: Coleman Hughes on "The End of Race Politics" & the Worst Ideas Done in the Name of Diversity
At Columbia University's freshman orientation, Coleman Hughes and his classmates were separated into groups by skin color to discuss the effects of r…
1 year, 9 months ago
Ep 88: A Conversation with MLK's Attorney & Speechwriter: Dr. Clarence Jones
Dr. Clarence Jones is a giant of the civil rights movement. As the personal attorney and speechwriter for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., he risked every…
1 year, 9 months ago
Ep 87: Dr. Cliff Winston — Deregulate Lawyers, Deregulate Airlines, and Let Markets Correct Themselves
Are government programs and interventions superior to market corrections? According to Dr. Cliff Winston, the evidence to support such a claim doesn’…
1 year, 9 months ago
Ep 86: How to Design a STEM Curriculum for the 21st Century with Dr. David Ruth
STEM (science, technology, engineering & math) education is the backbone of the innovation economy. Yet at many schools, it's become stodgy and irrel…
1 year, 10 months ago
Ep 85: The Path to Regime Change in Iran with Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi
In 1979, Crown Prince of Iran Reza Pahlavi was attending fighter pilot school in Lubbock, Texas when the Islamic Revolution overthrew his father's re…
1 year, 10 months ago
Ep 84: Sri Ganesan on Freshworks' Big Win, Building Rocketlane & India's Tech Boom
India’s tech ecosystem has hit an indisputable inflection point in recent years. For decades, American corporations outsourced basic services to Indi…
1 year, 10 months ago