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With Bitcoin, it feels like a lot of the early adoption around that was as a counter to what was happening in the United States economically with the financial crash and fiat currency being used by the government to prop certain people up and not others. And I think when people are struck with a real sense of unfairness, they start to get motivated to take action --- Mike SHOW NOTES 02:54 - Introduction and how the invisible hand of the market guided my IPO 06:02 - Bitcoin and the unfairness of capitalism  08:03 - The chaos of the early internet brought people together 13:01 - Are we not going to teach people philosophy?  17:05 - NFTs are certificates of authenticity for an idea 22:35 - DAOs are online Co-ops 27:00 - Growing up in a town of population 10  30:16 - Experiencing community after a decade of isolation 33:00 - Deconstructing the military machine 37:31 - Oregon, counter-culture and small businesses vs Walmart 41:49 - Plato and sandwich 43:43 - Daily routine  46:08 - Leveraging the wisdom of the crowds 49:38 - How to operate in the fringes of technology ------------------------------------------------------------- You can connect with Mike here (https://www.mike-merrill.com/) My DMs are open for conversations (https://twitter.com/AbhishekLpd) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/intellectual-software/message

What really makes me pause at this point is not that someone has that unique of a thought process, it's that they've been able to distill it in a really memorable way, like Dawkins memetics. Like the idea of being on your deathbed and having no regrets; that's a very basic concept. I feel like a lot of people throughout history have had that idea, but Jeff Bezos put it into The Regret Minimization Framework and that sticks. -- John Coogan SHOW NOTES 03:32 - Introduction 04:40 - Big tobacco and the end of cigarettes 07:00 - Society needs Einstein's as well as generalists and those building different knowledge sets 11:10 - From high school rivals to co-founders   14:17 - Fake it till you make it in silicon valley 18:02 - Distilling complex ideas like Jeff Bezos and Paul Graham 21:30 - I had an empty calendar and read books for weeks in YC 24:57 - America should have a very high customer satisfaction rate 30:17 - At what point did Theranos become a fraud? 35:25 - The main Marxist critique is capitalists are well off than workers 40:16 - We don't have enough founders working on multi-decade problems 43:21 - The second-order effects of building tech infrastructure 45:21 - There's lack of fragmentation in the college education market 51:40 - 3 books that will have a huge impact on civilization  ------------------------------------------------------------- You can connect with John here (https://twitter.com/johncoogan) Check out his Youtube here --> https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnCooganPlus My DMs are open for conversations (https://twitter.com/AbhishekLpd) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/intellectual-software/message

I've known Dave for a few months now and It was good to finally have him on the show. We talked about a bunch of stuff ( mentioned in the show notes ) from media in the past to where it's going and everything in between. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.  SHOW NOTES 03:19 - Bleacher report became my lifeline when I was stuck in the drudgery of a full-time job 09:14 - Lessons from my failure at Inverse and building Audience Builders from first principles 12:40 - Building distribution networks in legacy media brands 17:47 - Deep work and blocking your calendar like Jerry Seinfeld 23:21 - People who shaped my worldview - Kubrick, Scorsese, Lucas, Jake Lodwick, Kevin Rose 29:00 - Taking advantage of platform growth mechanics while building an original voice  30:55 - Sam Parr is successful because he is a student of history 34:18 - Building a media empire like Pomp  37:31 - Self-censorship 41:02 - Great brands create an entire world to build deeper fan experiences 45:12 - The promise of the creator economy 49:30 - Creators will start to look more like media companies and media companies will become more like record labels 52:00 - Bringing novelty into interview podcasts  You can connect with Dave here (https://twitter.com/davenemetz) My DMs are open for conversations (https://twitter.com/AbhishekLpd) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/intellectual-software/message

Steal My Marketing is back after a long break of self-reflection and doubt. This conversation with Jonathan was recorded a few months back and has everything that I love about podcasting. It allows this 26-year-old to talk to someone I've never met about things I'm deeply interested in. The world is a fascinating place. It feels good to be back :) SHOW NOTES 01:30 - The accidental entrepreneur 04:30 - Why I bought a 1-way ticket to China right after college 10:00 - Entrepreneurship in China in 1994 13:19 - Business schools teach you working for companies, not entrepreneurship  16:57 - How we rebuilt our business after the 2008 financial meltdown 23:10 - The markets are the same, the channels have shifted 25:20 - No country matches China's combination of infrastructure & efficiency 28:43 - The miracle of McDonald's is that fries taste the same in London or Beijing  39:24 - Untangled Coaching 46:15 - Why American capitalism will always triumph over Chinese capitalism You can connect with Jonathan here (https://untangled-coaching.com/about-jonathan/) My DMs are open for conversations (https://twitter.com/AbhishekLpd) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/intellectual-software/message

Chris Hladczuk has interviewed billionaires, built a loyal following of thousands from his awesome Twitter threads, and built atomics habits like reading 365 days in a row, deep work, and sacred hours. In this episode, he shares his exact method of connecting and strengthening his relationship with billionaires, his sources for Twitter threads and how to craft threads that pick up millions of impressions, and building systems for success. It's the same mindset that brought him on the radar of Shaan Puri and other successful entrepreneurs. I loved how candidly he spilled all his secrets. Let him know what you learned from this :) Here are the show notes :) 02:00 - How I started working with Shaan Puri and lessons on creating 100X content  08:06 - My schedule for writing tweet threads, engineering social proof, and why you should spend 50% of your time writing headlines 13:05 - How you can reach out to millionaires and billionaires 16:24 - Building a world-class network with ASS framework  18:43 - Crushing it on zoom calls with strangers 21:50 - How to strengthen your relationship with extremely busy people 24:07 - The exact system I use to keep track of my network  26:01 - How I built my atomic habit for reading daily, deep work, and my sacred hours  34:52 - Why First Principles is useless to most people - Michael Seibel 37:27 - How to never run out of tweet ideas again 42:25 - Why I've bookmarked Sam Altman's essay on how to be successful for the past 2 years You can also follow me on Twitter for similar stuff. My DMs are open (https://twitter.com/AbhishekLpd) Chris on Twitter (https://twitter.com/chrishlad) Yale Speaker Series (https://open.spotify.com/show/0KUKSQ65nhZsB9fSFfD8Dv) Chris' website (https://chrishlad.com/) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/intellectual-software/message

Sachit Gupta is THE best super-connector I know. He started with nothing almost 8 years back and has since worked with Tim Ferriss, Seth Godin, and Andrew Warner. His show Conscious Creators reached #1 in entrepreneurship last year and he led the On Deck Podcasting Fellowship. I wanted to bring him on the show to learn his strategies of finding third doors to network with the biggest names in any industry. He shared how he started working with Andrew, told a beautiful story of writing a letter to Tim Ferriss and the exact email he's going to send to Chris Sacca. He's also hosted a ton of poker nights for these influencers and shared his tips on hosting your own poker nights or dinners to increase your network. I also asked him how one could do these on Zoom. And he told us what you should do to connect with someone like Tim or Andrew if they're speaking at a conference. In short, he shared a TON of secrets.  Here are the show notes :) 05:08 - Cold emailing Mark Cuban, Chris Guillebeau, and Jonathan Fields 09:00 - How I’ll email Chris Sacca and lessons from 1000s of cold emails 14:18 - Standing out in the crowd of 100s of people trying to get attention from your heroes 19:34 - What I learned from Seth Godin, Tim Ferriss, and Andrew warner 22:12 - One starts to build an audience when one gives up the need to build an audience 23:55 - Conversations that are casual and intimate are functions of production, not editing. 27:27 - A cold outreach strategy that will change your life 32:10 - How to connect with your heroes hosting poker nights/dinners 36:44 - Writing a letter Tim Ferriss and a hack to connect with speakers in conferences 43:55 - How to reach out to big publications for collaborations I share all the articles/podcasts/books I consume during researching my guests as well as other stuff I find interesting in the newsletter (https://stealmymarketing.substack.com) You can also follow me on Twitter for similar stuff. My DMs are open (https://twitter.com/AbhishekLpd) Sachit on Twitter (https://twitter.com/sachitgupta) Conscious Creators Show (http://www.creators.show/) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/intellectual-software/message

Danny Miranda is an inspiration and the host of the Danny Miranda podcast. He's gone from 0 to 55,000 downloads in the past 6 months, published 87 awesome conversations, and has shared countless stories of his hustle on Twitter. This conversation goes beyond what Danny has done with his podcast and captures his overall personality, his habits, and his worldview. He's done a lot in 6 months, but I cannot imagine the places he'll go in 6 years and beyond. Hope you can learn from him as much as I did.  Here are the show notes :) 02:14 - Getting a reply from Mark Cuban 03:32 - Tyler Cowen and my heavy focus on research 06:39 - 75 hard and how I started thinking long term 08:38 - Making friends on the internet is a superpower 09:46 - The role of my parents in my success 10:30 - Gary vee, Kanye West, and Rick Ross 11:50 - Failing in public and Shooting your shots 13:12 - Spotting trends and people early 14:09 - Consistency and my relationship with my audience 15:02 - Setting internal goals 16:39 - Podcasts are you reviewing a person 18:11 - I studied Larry king and Tim Ferriss to learn the skill of interviewing 19:25 - The radical Shopify course I made 21:05 - Happiness comes from struggle 23:11 - I'd love someone to help me with video clips 23:48 - Meditation is letting thoughts go through me 24:32 - My first million YouTube game 25:22 - Having phone calls with my 8k followers 28:39 - Sharing your authentic journey online 31:15 - 3 guests I'd love to interview in stadiums I share all the articles/podcasts/books I consume during researching my guests as well as other stuff I find interesting in the newsletter (https://stealmymarketing.substack.com) You can also follow me on Twitter for similar stuff. My DMs are open (https://twitter.com/AbhishekLpd) Danny on Twitter (https://twitter.com/heydannymiranda) The Danny Miranda Podcast (https://dannymiranda.com/podcast) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/intellectual-software/message

This conversation is led by Bleacher Report founder Dave Nemetz, featuring Polina Marinova (The Profile Dossier), Jonathan Hunt (Complex), and Brian Morrissey (Digiday Media). The lessons compressed in this conversation are wide-ranging and if there's anything you need to learn about content-led growth, this is it. It was originally held on Clubhouse for Dave's awesome show, The Audience Builders, and I reached out to him requesting to post this on Steal My Marketing 2 days back. And BOOM. Enjoy the conversation :) And btw, I spent last night reading through some of the best essays I've read in a while on Dave's blog. Tons of material on the early days of Bleacher Report. Check it out - (https://davenemetz.com/essays) Here are the show notes :) 02:17 - How I scaled The Profile Dossier to tens of thousands of subscribers 08:51 - Convincing Morning Brew newsletter with 2.5 million subscribers to collaborate with me 10:44 - Complex: the convergence of culture and how we built a business around it 16:15 - Going full time with your creative projects and the systematic bias toward strong networks 20:44 - Substack severely lacks creator tools and how to improve it 27:16 - Retaining talent in the media space after they become stars 29:18 - Paid podcasts marketplaces in China and funding creators like startups 36:12 - Every couple of years, someone proclaims that websites are dead. They’re not. 40:35 - Why publishing everything at midnight gives Digiday a leverage 44:17 - Creating evergreen content and the power of long-tail 47:07 - Evergreen Profiles by Polina: Elon Musk and Charlie Munger I write a few awesome emails a month here (https://stealmymarketing.substack.com) You can also follow me on Twitter for similar stuff. My DMs are open (https://twitter.com/AbhishekLpd) Dave Nemetz (https://twitter.com/davenemetz) Polina Marinova (https://twitter.com/polina_marinova) Jonathan Hunt (https://twitter.com/jonathan_h) Brian Morrissey (https://twitter.com/bmorrissey) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/intellectual-software/message

Darius Mirshahzadeh is a serial entrepreneur and a bestselling author. He spent his childhood in Iran and the US and learned the core principles of business from watching his dad run gas stations. I loved the stories of him selling candy in school to starting a nightclub business in college. Although the nightclub failed, it taught him valuable lessons. We also talked about Tony Hsieh ( and Holacracy), Elon Musk ( and luck), wresting (and staying in the game), and the interesting story behind his book.   Here are the show notes :) 02:20 - My Story 03:12 - Culture, Leadership and Navy Seals 06:07 - Tony Hsieh, Holacracy and why it failed  9:28 - Iranians being the Italians of the middle east and childhood 11:22 - Lessons from my dad  13:09 - Running a candy business in school and a failed nightclub business in college 16:47 - Why I'd never start a nightclub business 18:43 - A good market hides all the dead bodies 23:00 - Wrestling is a sport where you get your ass kicked until you're good  25:08 - Elon Musk - luck and staying in the game long enough  29:17 - A keynote that turned into a book and why books are a 5-year time investment 31:31 - The Greatness Machine and podcasting  I write a few awesome emails a month here (https://stealmymarketing.substack.com) You can also follow me on Twitter for similar stuff. My DMs are open (https://twitter.com/AbhishekLpd) Darius on Twitter (https://twitter.com/kingdarius) Darius' Website (https://therealdarius.com) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/intellectual-software/message

Austen Allred is the founder of Lambda School and one of the smartest entrepreneurs trying to fix education. We talked about Austen's fascination with reading history in the context of business, his deep interest in shareholder letters and internal memos of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, Disney, and other great companies, and his thoughts on first principles thinking. He also shared how a Mormon mission he went to at age 19 in Eastern Ukraine has shaped Lambda, how he built his network in silicon valley, and putting 100% of his net worth in Tesla. He put out his bear and bull case for Clubhouse and why he thinks it's a $400 billion company. I thoroughly enjoyed discussing topics like Peloton replacing religion in America, the death of silicon valley, democratizing angel investing, and raising a $30 million fund without even intending to do so. It was a fun conversation. Here are the show notes :) 02:42 - Why I love reading biographies of The Wright Brothers and John D Rockefeller 04:56 - Amazon's shareholder letters are the best business writing ever 05:41 - Thinking in first principles can be taught 07:10 - Spending 2 years in Eastern Ukraine at the age of 19 and how that has shaped Lambda School 09:16 - I'm used to a lot less dopamine than most people  11:36 -  People are way more open to cold emails than most people assume 12:46 - How I built my network in silicon valley from scratch 15:01 - How the world will look like if Lambda school succeeds  17:05 - Why I put 100% of my net worth in Tesla 18:38 - Clubhouse will be a $400 Billion company 21:06 - Twitter Spaces lacks the magical experience of Clubhouse and why it will fail 23:08 - Lambda school is priced low even though it feels high to a lot of people 25:25 - How I'd grow a podcast really, really fast 26:13 - If I wasn't doing Lambda School, I'd probably work for Roam Research 27:10 - Peloton is replacing religion in America 28:24 - CEO-COO relationship and the common thing among all great silicon valley companies 30:22 - Giving away free services for hyper-growth  31:36 - Why startups are now taking less than $5000 angel investments 34:30 - Silicon valley is dying 37:17 - Raising a $30 million fund without intending to I share all the articles/podcasts/books I consume during researching my guests as well as other stuff I find interesting in the newsletter (https://stealmymarketing.substack.com) You can also follow me on Twitter for similar stuff. My DMs are open (https://twitter.com/AbhishekLpd) Austen on Twitter (https://twitter.com/austen) Lambda School (https://lambdaschool.com/) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/intellectual-software/message

Mubs has been making things since he was about 8 years old. Selected as ProductHunt's maker of the year for 2016, Mubs has worked on 100+ side projects. He's collaborated with Nathan Latka on Founderpath and done tons of cool things. We talked about some of his successful early projects, Product Hunt, podcasts, no-code, Nathan Latka, and more.   Here are the show notes :) 00:50 - My first side project tracking football games as a Liverpool fan 02:33 - It took weeks to set up servers back in 2000 04:07 - A side project that got 4 million pages views in its first week and others 10:01 - Looking for ideas and validating them 14:10 - How Product Hunt has evolved over the years 16:33 -  An idea I thought would never get traction but is now used by corporations 18:53 - Why Podhunt is rethinking podcast recommendation systems 23:03 - Taking multiple small bets vs solving 1 big problem  24:55 - Working with Nathan Latka and what it's like 28:14 - Think of how your product serves the Product Hunt audience and how we did it with Founderpath 31:42 - Thoughts on no-code tools  33:56 - The most interesting people I've met on PH and Indiehackers  34:57 - Josh Pigford and my definition of success 36:22 - My advice to young entrepreneurs I share all the articles/podcasts/books I consume during researching my guests as well as other stuff I find interesting in the newsletter (https://stealmymarketing.substack.com) You can also follow me on Twitter for similar stuff. My DMs are open (https://twitter.com/AbhishekLpd) Mubs' Twitter (https://twitter.com/mubashariqbal) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/intellectual-software/message

I read Richa's Indiehackers story when it first came out and sent her a DM on Twitter. I was surprised by how much she knows about Youtube's algorithm and I've never met anyone who understands Youtube SEO to the core, as much as Richa does. We talked about how she left her job at Microsoft to start Coach Viva, meeting her cofounder, and their road to 6 figures. Along the way, Richa has mastered Youtube ( her main customer acquisition channel), copywriting ( their landing page converts at a mind-boggling 17%), and the psychological barriers that were stopping customers from trying out Coach Viva. We also talked about going from a 1-on-1 consulting agency to SaaS and a super-smart book summary startup idea. More in the show notes below :) 00:56 - Why I left Microsoft to start Coach Viva 03:17 - What holds your customers back is the psychological piece, not the strategic piece 04:25 - User interview to validate my idea 06:46 - Building an MVP with Facebook Messenger and Google Sheets 07:36 - Finding a cofounder  08:29 - Our first customers came from our personal network 09:18 - Youtube SEO as our main customer acquisition channel  10:44 - Moving from an agency model to a productized service 13:20 - Youtube wants it to be easy to categorize your videos 17:54 - The exact tools we use to nail Youtube 21:15 - Most marketing advice is geared towards companies that have some cash to burn 23:23 - Copywriting the landing page that converts at 17% 26:32 - Understanding the beliefs of your customer at an intimate level 28:44 - Our sales shot up when we started pitching our product in every video 32:00 - Selling to customers outside the tech crowd is very difficult the lean startup way  35:03 - Why you should share 'Why and What' content instead of 'How' content in emails 37:06 -  Riding on keywords that people are already searching for 38:19 - A unique book summary idea and making unknowns into knowns I share all the articles/podcasts/books I consume during researching my guests as well as other stuff I find interesting in the newsletter (https://stealmymarketing.substack.com) You can also follow me on Twitter for similar stuff. My DMs are open (https://twitter.com/AbhishekLpd) Coach Viva (https://coachviva.com) Richa's Twitter (https://twitter.com/arichaprasad) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/intellectual-software/message