David Perell
person on 11 shows · 13 statements across 3 episodes · said 80 times in 28 episodes since 2021
Founder's Journal 27 
TBPN 14 
My First Million 12 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 8 
American Optimist 6 
Founders 5 
Acquired 3 
Lenny's Podcast 2 
Sourcery 1 
Top Founders 1 
20VC 1
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Founder's Journal 27TBPN 14My First Million 12the Startup Ideas Podcast 8American Optimist 6Founders 5Acquired 3Lenny's Podcast 23 more shows
2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2024 44 mentions in 11 episodes 4 per episode
- Imitate, Then Innovate
- How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- The Biography of Tiger Woods
- Lessons from CMOs, Great Storytelling, Freelance vs. Full-time, Follow Your Energy
- CHRISTIANITY: Why it's making a comeback (ep23)
- Figma UI Design Tutorial: Design your app in 40 Minutes!
- How To Build A Million-Dollar Media Empire | Erik Torenberg
- Zuck Just Killed the Apple Vision Pro (ep2)
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2023 11 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- Favorite Finds: McDonald's Employee Goes Viral, Pelosi's Finances & How To Close A Deal (#498)
- Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- Redefining success, money, and belonging | Paul Millerd (The Pathless Path)
- How Founders Should Be Integrating AI To Their Business
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2022 14 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Reviving a Culture of Innovation with Tyler Cowen · Joe Lonsdale
- Building the Right Product, At the Right Time, For the Right People - with Jack Butcher
- Kyle Harrison: Why 75% of Active Investors Will Disappear in the Next Few Years | 20VC #940 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Persuasive communication and managing up | Wes Kao (Maven, altMBA, Section4)
- How FTX Scaled A $30 Billion Company With Only 30 Engineers!
- The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
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13 statements about David Perell, every show
David Perell shut down his Write of Passage program in November
“And I shut down, write a passage, November 11th, and then I went to Argentina in December.”
David Perell: AI will generate all utility writing by 2027
“But what I do believe is that basically any form of writing that is driven on pure utility. So we're talking business memos. We're talking emails that your lawyer sends you that are fairly standard, pure utility, not about the art of writing. And not about bas…”
David Perell: Humans must develop distinct writing voices to outcompete AI
“We're going to have to learn to write with voice and really show off our distinctiveness in writing as almost a Adaptive way to say, hey, this isn't written by LLMs.”
David Perell: AI interaction mirrors management workflows, accelerating manager adoption
“My working theory is that the way that you work with AI is basically like a manager. So if you think of what do you do as a manager, you set a vision, you delegate the task, you say, hey, do this, you expect it's not gonna be good enough, you're giving feedbac…”
David Perell: AI tools will spark a historical renaissance in writing
“From that we got the renaissance, a renaissance in painting, and the same thing's gonna happen with writing.”
David Perell: Internet culture will soon flip toward authenticity and forgiveness
“And then we're going to get a big flip into realness, into authenticity. And here's the other one. Into forgiveness.”
Puri: Building a 'binge bank' of content beats a resume or portfolio
“This idea of create a binge bank, I think is so much more valuable than a resume or a portfolio. It's like, people will come knocking, they will get curious about you, and like, give them a way to just binge your content like it's a Netflix show. And by, after…”
Perell: Writers should address one individual reader rather than a crowd
“People consume your content alone. And when you're writing, you are writing to one person in one place at one moment in time. And you have to remember that.”
Perell: People hate writing because they suppress genuine curiosity
“So many people are like, oh, I hate writing. And most of the time, it's that they associate writing with doing things that they don't want to do. And then when they think about, well, it's time to write, they Subconsciously don't allow them to write about the …”
Perell: The internet fundamentally transforms education economics and class sizes
“And I saw how the internet was going to change the, had changed the economics of education forever. We were going to go from teachers teaching at minimum, at most, 40 students at a time to now teaching thousands, hundreds of thousands, and that the internet wa…”
Perell: Write of Passage launched with a $20,000 Emergent Ventures grant
“And right around then I got a 20,000 dollar grant from Tyler Cowen's Merchant Ventures program, took that 20,000 dollars, hired a Hollywood film crew, flew them down to Mexico City.”
Perell: Write of Passage cohort has 438 students across 41 countries
“So right now we have five week program, 438 students from 41 countries. I have 38 people who are helping me run this in some capacity.”
Perell: Write of Passage aims to build physical hubs like Disneyland
“I basically want Rite of Passage to be like Disneyland for writing. I eventually want to have houses around the world where people can come in and have conversations that embody the Rite of Passage spirit, test them out to greatness.”