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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Gladiator comes up on the Knowledge Project, All-In, WTF is with Nikhil Kamath, Startup Acquisition Stories, the Pitch
7 things Bezos, MrBeast & Thiel do that you don’t
- ▶ 12:42 Shaan Puri Cheese instead of Gladiator.
Open Source Wins, AGI Is Here, and Scorsese’s AI Toolkit with CEOs of Cerebras & Black Forest Labs
- ▶ 50:40 Jason Calacanis They do storyboards, and some of the great directors, Ridley Scott of Aliens and Gladiator, was known for making his own.
The Secret Economics Controlling OpenAI, Anthropic, and the AI Boom
- ▶ 21:43 Jordi Hays Rainy day substitute gladiator in class.
How To Build Self-Discipline For 2026 (5 Step Routine) | Ryan Holiday
- ▶ 1:04:20 Ryan Holiday Yeah, that's, that's one of the most famous people who, who ever lived in their own life, and he's mostly forgotten, and if the movie Gladiator didn't exist, he'd be even more forgotten.
Elon Musk: A Different Conversation w/ Nikhil Kamath | Full Episode | People by WTF Ep. 16 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 13:09 Nikhil Kamath You know, when, when I, I was watching this movie recently called The Gladiator. 2 times in the scene
Brex’s Road to IPO and The Golden Age of M&A · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Cash Business vs. Wealth Business: Most Founders Mix Them Up
- ▶ 23:58 Jeff Sauer I'm a Maximus from the gladiator or whatever.
#115 Gemist: The Crown Jewel of Venture
- ▶ 26:35 Josh Muccio You know that scene in Gladiator when the emperor gives the thumbs up or thumbs down to determine whether the gladiator would live or die?
E173: Google buying HubSpot? FTX depositors not made whole, AI job fears, Ukraine joining NATO
- ▶ 58:53 David Sacks Well, first of all, Jason, to quote Senator Grakus from Gladiator, I may not be a man of the people, but I do try to be a man for the people.
E147: TED goes woke, Canada's Nazi blunder, AI adds vision, plus: who owns OpenAI?
- ▶ 1:26:30 Jason Calacanis I'm just glad that the rest of the world is, is catching up to our obsession with Gladiator.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Sukh Sidhu, Founder and CEO of Stridist
- ▶ 25:35 Andrew Gazdecki Gladiator is my favorite movie, so when we got through there.
Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
- ▶ 1:31:35 Shane Parrish It reminds me of that scene in the gladiator where he looks up and Maximus goes, are you not entertained, right?
#129 Marc Andreessen: Interview with an Icon
- ▶ 44:16 Marc Andreessen You know, that either, you know, does the, does the Gladiator, Joaquin Phoenix thing, you know, thumbs up or thumbs down.
#69 Stephen Schwarzman: What It Takes
- ▶ 28:29 Stephen Schwarzman Those are people looking at you, saying, like in Gladiator, the Emperor puts his hand up, and the thumb's in the air, and he just puts it down, and you're looking at it.
#11 Ryan Holiday: The Stoic Whisperer
- ▶ 2:39 Ryan Holiday Uh, Marcus Aurelius was there, who I'd always liked the movie Gladiator, so I was like, oh, I'll get that too.