Smart Friends
Casual conversations with founders, technologists, investors, and artists about building a brighter future, together. Welcome to our digital living room.With science, technology and entrepreneurship we can *continue* to create unfathomable leaps in quality of life. We show you how to find, apply, build, and invest in technologies to change your life and the world.
When we have smart friends, we do smart things. When we do smart things, we save the world.
No matter who, where, or when you are – now you have smart friends, too.
Outside this podcast, I’m the author of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant and The Anthology of Balaji. Connect at ejorgenson.com
Laugh and learn with people like Balaji Srinivasan, Naval Ravikant, Andrew Wilkinson, Austen Allred, David Senra, Josh Storrs Hall, Ashley Rindsberg, Zach Pettet, Bret Kugelmass, Omar ElNaggar, Grace Guo, Brett Kopf, Max Olson, Chris Williamson, Shane Mac, Tim Hwang, David Perell, Jason Hitchcock, Natalia Karayaneva, Sebastian Marshall, Taylor Pearson, Mitchell Baldridge and more.
Join conversations with my partners in early-stage tech investing, Bo Fishback and Al Doan. Our Rolling Fun Episodes cover our investments and escapades as angel investors and startup helpers. We invest in startups creating the *next* industrial revolution. Learn more at rolling.fun
“Surround yourself with people who remind you more of your future than of your past.” www.ejorgenson.com
🎧 Podcast episodes
Listen to 77 episodes
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2 months ago
#068 Behind the Scenes of a Nuclear Microreactor Startup with Matt Loszak, Founder CEO of Aalo Atomics
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3 months ago
#067 Room-Temperature Superconductors and Nuclear Fusion with Andrew Cote
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4 months ago
#066 World-Changing Potential of Next-Gen Batteries with Eli Dourado and Ethan Loosbrock (Ouros Energy)
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5 months ago
#065 David Senra + Mitchell Baldridge #3: Recap Capital Camp, Lunch with Sam Zell
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5 months ago
#064 The Synthesis of Media and Ecommerce with Kevin Espiritu of Epic Gardening
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7 months ago
#063 Turning Discoveries Into Companies with Sam Arbesman of Lux Capital
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7 months ago
#062 Meeting Charlie Munger and Starting RE Costseg with David Senra and Mitchell Baldridge
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8 months ago
#060 Making Data Honest (and Valuable) with Omar ElNaggar (Weavechain) and Zach Pettet (Money20/20)
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8 months ago
#059 Rolling Fun #5: Investing in Nuclear, Ecommerce Data, and AI Productivity
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9 months ago
#058 Scaling Nuclear Energy, Saving The World – Bret Kugelmass of Last Energy
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9 months ago
#057 Startup To Scale, What CEOs Learn - Austen Allred (Bloomtech) and Al Doan (Missouri Star Quilt Co)
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11 months ago
#054 Engineering an Acquisition, Grant Funding, and Nanotech Pharma with Maria Flynn
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11 months ago
#053 Rolling Fun #4: Q4 Portfolio Recap, Crypto Long-view, Uncapped Notes, and Fund Growth
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11 months ago
#052 Money 20/20, Fintech Innovations, and Interviewing Legends with Zach Anderson Pettet
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1 year ago
#051 AI Evolution: ComputerVision, Olfactory Computation, and Neural Nets with Max Olson
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1 year ago
#048 Balaji’s Most Epic, Personal, In-Depth Interview Ever (Transhumanism, Investing, and more)
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1 year ago
#047 Track Zach Marshall #4: The Services Trap, Firing Customers, Chicken-and-Egg Problems
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1 year ago
#046 Finding Your Peak of Productivity: Ultraworking with Sebastian Marshall
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1 year ago
#045 The Future of Nuclear Energy: Politics, Culture, and Technology with Mark Nelson
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1 year ago
#042 Black Swans, The End of Jobs, and Long Volatility with Taylor Pearson of Mutiny Fund
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1 year ago
#040 Customer-Driven Products: How Brett Kopf built “Slack for Schools” and launched Omella
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1 year ago
#034 The Next Industrial Revolution w/ J. Storrs Hall: Nuclear Energy, AI and Nanotechnology
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1 year ago
#031 I’m Building an Early-Stage Fund with Al Doan and Bo Fishback (Rolling Fun #1)
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1 year ago
#030 Self-reinvention & building leverage in podcasts with Chris Williamson
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1 year ago
#029 Bringing Real Estate onto the Blockchain with Natalia Karayaneva & Adam Brown of Propy
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1 year ago
#028 Finding an edge in HR & Culture for growing Startups, with Jeannine Seidl of Density
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1 year ago
#025 Shane Mac: Building Messaging Protocol for Web3 (XMTP), Company Culture, and Scaling Trust
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