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Vivek Ramaswamy is a 2024 Republican presidential candidate who founded biotech company Roivant Sciences, now public. He has written books about what he sees as the excesses of woke capitalism and started an asset management firm called Strive, meant to be a right-wing competitor with BlackRock. With his presidential campaign,…
Joe Lonsdale is the founder of Palantir, 8VC, a number of other unicorns he’s incubated, and Cicero Policy Institute. In this episode we focus mostly on his policy, breaking down what are the real problems in healthcare, education, crime/police, homelessness and what are the solutions he recommends to fix them.…
David Sacks is known as a CEO/investor in multiple unicorns, and most recently a media mogul with All-In. In this episode, we trace David’s intellectual and political history from his days fighting student activism at Stanford to now. We cover the political and cultural changes in the last 30 years…
Ezra Klein, journalist, political analyst, and podcaster, sits with Erik Torenberg to go deeper into the intellectual movement of supply-side progressivism and what Silicon Valley misses about politics. This conversation was recorded in early February 2023, but is even more relevant today. Check out the other podcasts we run: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY0OE_54Viqx_qtXuh-85VA…
Balaji tells Erik that "Nuclear war might just be the price we pay for freedom." on Episode 2 of Upstream with Erik Torenberg. Full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN0f7... Upstream with Erik Toreneberg Main channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoPT... Support our sponsors: Secureframe | Mercury | MarketerHire - Secureframe: https://secureframe.com/ Sign up for a free demo…
Balaji on how the media manipulates headlines to favor their agendas. Full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN0f7... Upstream with Erik Toreneberg Main channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoPT... Support our sponsors: Secureframe | Mercury | MarketerHire - Secureframe: https://secureframe.com/ Sign up for a free demo and mention Upstream during your demo to get 20% off your first…
Balaji Srinivasan, author of The Network State and co-founder of Counsyl, talks to Erik Torenberg about his past and future predictions, the future of the left and right, and why tech will never be able to escape politics. CLIPS PLAYLIST: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEK9Wx_NiDzqZYSq2DDt45g PODCAST INFO: Upstream Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1678893467 Upstream Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0bYfnuju3PhHFtSGgiMmoz…
Marc Andreessen of a16z sits with Erik Torenberg to go deeper into his intellectual and political journey, and his quest to find out how the world works. PODCAST INFO: Apple Podcasts: bit.ly/3z8TldL Spotify: bit.ly/40letd0 Podcast website: bit.ly/40BAjbH SOCIAL LINKS: Erik’s Twitter: @eriktorenberg Marc’s Twitter: @pmarca Podcast Twitter: @Upstream__Pod Erik’s Substack:…
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