Media
Podcasts, videos, and things I read — articles, letters, blog posts — mostly founders, ambition, and how big bets get made.
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VideoThe Best Time in History to Start a Company | Patrick Collison & Amjad Masad
Replit
VideoBuilding NeXT from the Ground Up - Steve Jobs on Vision and Survival, 1986
Steve Jobs Archive
PodcastGavin Baker - Watts and Wafers
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
VideoStripe Sessions 2026 | Indexing the economy
Stripe
VideoWhat we learned about resilience from Y Combinator
Disasterproof
VideoSimon Eskildsen on scaling Shopify, building turbopuffer, and the future of databases
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VideoNat Friedman and Daniel Gross in conversation with John and Patrick Collison
Stripe
LetterStripe’s 2025 annual letter
Stripe
VideoInside Stripe's $1.1B Bet on Stablecoins
Rex Salisbury
PodcastUncapped #45 | Ron Conway from SV Angel
Uncapped with Jack Altman
PodcastJosh Kushner - Concentration and Conviction
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
PodcastWTF is happening at xAI | Sulaiman Ghori
Relentless
PodcastUncapped #38 | Ben Horowitz from a16z
Uncapped with Jack Altman
VideoJohn Schulman on dead ends, scaling RL, and building research institutions
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Video10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)
Acquired
PodcastJames Dyson, Dyson
David Senra
PodcastMichael Ovitz, Creative Artists Agency (CAA)
David Senra
PodcastUncapped #33 | Vlad Tenev from Robinhood
Uncapped with Jack Altman
VideoPixar's Early Days - A Never-Before-Seen Interview With Steve Jobs, 1996
Steve Jobs Archive
VideoDesign is how it works | Apple
Apple
PodcastUncapped #27 | Vince Hankes from Thrive Capital
Uncapped with Jack Altman
VideoPatrick Collison on programming languages, AI, and Stripe's biggest engineering decisions
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PodcastThe Future of Media with Noah Smith and Chris Best, CEO of Substack
Moment of Zen
PodcastUncapped #12 | Marc Andreessen from a16z
Uncapped with Jack Altman
VideoA conversation with Jony Ive
Stripe
LetterStripe’s 2024 annual letter
Stripe
VideoA 28-year-old Steve Jobs gives a talk at the 1983 International Design Conference in Aspen
Steve Jobs Archive
VideoWhat Stripe's $1.1B Acquisition of Bridge means for Future of Stablecoins! (Zach Abrams Interview)
Rex Salisbury
VideoIs Stripe’s $1.1 Billion Acquisition Their Instagram Moment? - Rex & Simon Talk Fintech #6
Rex Salisbury
LetterStripe’s 2023 annual letter
Stripe
Podcast#345 George Lucas
Founders
PodcastPatrick Collison — Why Silicon Valley's most talented should leave
Dwarkesh Podcast
- Podcast
Balaji Srinivasan and Nathan Labenz on How AI Will Shape the Future & AI Gods
Moment of Zen
- Podcast
How Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, and George Soros Reshape Society
Moment of Zen
- Podcast
Who Is Beff Jezos? Beff on Being Doxxed, the e/acc movement, and Crypto & AI Crossover
Moment of Zen
PodcastPatrick Collison & John Collison - A Business State of Mind
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
- Podcast
Noah Smith on YIMBYism, California Land Use, and the Best-Run City
Moment of Zen
PodcastJosh Kushner - Building Thrive Capital
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
PodcastNaval Ravikant: The Angel Philosopher (2017)
The Knowledge Project
- Podcast
#304: Sol Price (The Founder Who Taught Jim Sinegal, Sam Walton, Jeff Bezos, Bernie Marcus)
Founders
LetterStripe’s 2022 annual letter
Stripe
VideoBuilding Ramp w/ Founder & CEO, Eric Glyman
Rex Salisbury
- Podcast
Nic Carter on Balaji's Bet, Operation Chokepoint 2.0, and the Fed's financial crisis
Moment of Zen
- Podcast
Effective Accelerationism and the AI Safety Debate with Bayeslord, Beff Jezoz, and Nathan Labenz
Moment of Zen
- Podcast
Why is ChatGPT so woke, the arc of tech is centralization, and explaining the cathedral w/ Brian Chau
Moment of Zen
- Podcast
The AI moment, AI vs crypto: a heated debate with Amjad Masad, Flo Crivello, and Nathan Labenz
Moment of Zen
- Podcast
The Realignment on Silicon Valley & DC, Trump vs DeSantis, and the future of media & politics
Moment of Zen
- Podcast
USA vs Europe, Zeihan & Fukuyama, Reforming institutions vs starting new ones, and why we started "Moment of Zen"
Moment of Zen
- Podcast
Marc Andreessen on Elon, Nietzsche, and America's Thousand Year Empire
Moment of Zen
- Podcast
Moment of Zen E1 w/ Marc Andreessen on SBF/FTX, Twitter, and Open AI/Chat GPT
Moment of Zen
- Podcast
#283 Andrew Carnegie
Founders
LetterStripe 2021 business update
Stripe
VideoCelebrating Steve | October 5 | Apple
Apple
VideoSteve Jobs President & CEO, NeXT Computer Corp and Apple. MIT Sloan Distinguished Speaker Series
MIT Video Productions
VideoBlitzscaling 11: Patrick Collison on Hiring at Stripe and the Role of a Product-Focused CEO
Greylock
VideoSteve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address (with intro by President John Hennessy)
Stanford