Mario
other on 16 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes · said 49 times in 34 episodes since 2016
Acquired 9 
How I Built This 8 
My First Million 6 
TBPN 6 
Latent Space 4 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 3 
Top Founders 3 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 2 
the a16z Podcast 2 
the Knowledge Project 1 
the Neon Show 1 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 1 
Capital Allocators 1 
the MAD Podcast 1 
20VC 1 
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2026 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2025 12 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- 3 Product-Led Strategies I Used to Generate $1B In Self-Serve Revenue For My Clients, Wes Bush
- Weekly Recap: Casey Neistat, OpenAI Cracks Math, The Future of ChatGPT, Apple x F1, Intel Layoffs
- CASEY NEISTAT on Why Analog Is The Future
- How to go from founder to CEO (without imploding)
- Chobani: Hamdi Ulukaya (2022)
- ⚡️Anthropic vs Cognition on Multi-Agents: A Breakdown with Dylan Davis
- Business as a sport, Surge AI, and Waymo vs. Robotaxi
- Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO @Snowflake: Deepseek is Not a Threat to OpenAI & OpenAI Beats Anthropic|E1258 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2024 7 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath
- Billionaires XMAS list (ep21)
- Zuck Just Killed the Apple Vision Pro (ep2)
- American Giant: Bayard Winthrop
- YouTube Creator and Cookbook Author: Rosanna Pansino
- I can't believe he gave away these GENIUS 3 AI startup ideas (watch this)
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2023 13 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- The Tetris Company: Henk Rogers
- Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- RAG is a hack - with Jerry Liu of LlamaIndex
- Spotify CEO Daniel Ek · Acquired
- Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming · Acquired
- #1 WTF is Metaverse? WTF is with Nikhil Kamath ft. Tanmay Bhat, Umang Bedi & Aprameya Radhakrishna · Nikhil Kamath
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2022 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2021 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2019 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2018 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
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3 statements about Mario, every show
Bundling Tetris, instead of Mario, made the Game Boy a universal device
“If you want little boys to buy your Game Boy, then include Mario, but if you want everyone to buy your Game Boy, include Tetris.”
The NFL Is the Single Largest Media Property in the World
“It's that the NFL is the single largest media property by value, and the funny thing is, if you go look at the, because we did this for the Nintendo episode, you go look at the largest media Media properties. They list Mario, they list Pokemon, and they, and t…”
Clayton: Early-stage startup founders must be generalists across 20 disciplines
“And so I think like in startup land and starting a business, it pays to be Mario. You know, if you got to jump in there and write some copy, if you need to be writing a blog post every day, if you need to be doing like a hundred journalist outreach pitches a d…”