John Lennon
person on 17 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes · said 91 times in 31 episodes since 2017
David Senra 25 
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2026 30 mentions in 5 episodes 6 per episode
- Jimmy Iovine: Building Interscope Records & Beats by Dre
- Jimmy Iovine on AI: “The Great Artists Will Show the World How to Use It”
- How to Dominate for Decades | Doug Leone, Sequoia Capital
- Rick Rubin on Finding Your Life’s Work
- Max Levchin: “The Net IQ of the World Is About to Go Up 50 Points” · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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2025 26 mentions in 7 episodes 4 per episode
- Jimmy Iovine: Founder of Interscope Records & Legendary Record Producer
- Incubating Brain Co: Elad Gil’s AI Bet with Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Magnolia: Chip & Joanna Gaines. From House Flipping to Household Name
- I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson
- 37 - Cultivating Innovation: BoodleBox's France Hoang on AI, Culture, and Customer-Centric Strategies
- 6 under-the-radar trends (+ our business ideas)
- Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI
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2024 8 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- 10 Cheat Codes I Learned While Scaling to $400M with Yext and Roam Founder Howard Lerman
- Big Fed rate cuts, AI killing call centers, $50B govt boondoggle, VC's rough years, Trump/Kamala
- Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Trump assassination attempt, Secret Service failure, Inside the RNC, VC liquidity problem
- Michael Milken – Innovations in Finance, Medicine, and Education (EP.371)
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2022 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2021 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- E58: November's CPI, preparing for a downturn, macro outlook, Better.com's botched layoffs & more
- Frameworks to Become a Billionaire with HubSpot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah | My First Million #197
- E47: Facebook's week from hell, Ellen Pao on sexism in Elizabeth Holmes coverage, Newsom wins & more
- MFM #169: How One Man Has Built 5, Billion Dollar Companies
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2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 3 mentions in 1 episode
2018 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
- 20VC: Behind The Scenes of a $Bn IPO Process, What Startups Can Learn From Teddy Roosevelt's "Five Minute Meetings" and What John Lennon Teaches Founders About Storytelling with Howard Lerman, Founder & CEO @ Yext
- 20VC: The Commonalities In The Makings Of Truly Great People, How Silicon Valley Will Become The Home For Crypto and Frontier Tech Once Again & Why Games Are Such A Good Tool To Understand Human Motivation with Daniel Gross, Founder & Pioneer, Head of AI
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2017 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
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5 statements about John Lennon, every show
Iovine: First Five Conversations With Jobs Were About Lennon and Dylan
“Steve, my first five conversations with Steve Jobs was about John Lennon and Bob Dylan.”
Lessin: The new AI Beatles track is primarily a PR stunt
“They could have done the Beatles album years ago. It's just a good PR moment.”
Iovine began audio engineering with John Lennon after the Beatles dissolved
“I'm going to the studio and I walk into this studio and the record plant was like really dark, really moody. And you know, lights were really low and the guy at the console turns around and says, hello, James. And it's John Lennon. And you know, this is only t…”
Lerman: Memorizing Speeches Orally Forces Shorter, More Memorable Delivery
“When you memorize a line, you craft it as you write it. If it's a line you say out loud, it will be better than a line that you've written down. If it's a line that you say out loud, if you want to remember it, each time you try to memorize it, you're going to…”
Wenner: Rolling Stone gained breakout attention by publishing banned Lennon-Ono nude cover
“Well, the first time we got a lot of attention was on the first year anniversary. We printed the cover, the band Two Virgins cover of the album that John Yoko, John Lennon and Yoko Ono did together. One that shot them in backsides and then a picture of them co…”