Plato
person on 22 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes · said 89 times in 56 episodes since 2016
the Knowledge Project 19 
Founders 13 
20VC 8 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 6 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 5 
Capital Allocators 5 
All-In 5 
BigDeal 4 
the a16z Podcast 4 
My First Million 3 
American Optimist 2 
Lenny's Podcast 2 
the Neon Show 2 
the MAD Podcast 2 
TBPN 2 
David Senra 2 
Another Podcast 1 
No Priors 1 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 1 
Invest Like the Best 1 
Top Founders 1 
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2026 9 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Yuval Noah Harari: Stories, Power & Why Truth Doesn't Matter | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of
- Ivanka Trump on Building an Authentic Life
- Bruce MacDonald – The Playbook for Building a Mid-Sized Endowment from Scratch (EP.495)
- Marc Andreessen: The World Is More Malleable Than You Think
- Ray Dalio: "AI Is Eating Everything - and It Might Eat Itself"
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2025 18 mentions in 14 episodes 1 per episode
- Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- AI Expert: What Scares Me Most (Here's What I Found): Brendan McCord
- Matthew Dicks – Storytelling Mastery (EP.477)
- Elon Musk: A Different Conversation w/ Nikhil Kamath | Full Episode | People by WTF Ep. 16 · Nikhil Kamath
- The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots & why world models are next | Dr. Fei-Fei Li
- Don't Die CEO Bryan Johnson on Living Forever, AI & His $60M Blueprint For Immortality
- 5 AI Tools I’d Use to Make $1M (w/o employees, money, or time)
- My AI Videos Hit 1M+ Views (Veo3 + Sora 2 Demo)
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2024 20 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- The Biography of Brunello Cucinelli
- 3 AI app ideas that are goldmines (and how to grow them)
- Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant
- Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
- You are NOT a Lottery Ticket (Peter Thiel Breakdown)
- Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- Ben Hunt - The Stories that Drive Markets (EP.393)
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2023 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2022 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- The Reasons Why Entrepreneurs Fail! Ft. Manan Khurma, Founder - Cuemath | 100x Entrepreneur
- Don't Ban CRT; Win With Better Ideas. Thomas Chatterton Williams Talks Race & Liberalism · Joe Lonsdale
- How many metaverses?
- #AIS: Antonio Garcia Martinez & Glenn Greenwald debate Ukraine, moderated by David Sacks
- 20VC: Why the Traditional Seed Fund Model No Longer Works, Why Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed Bring Signaling Risk but also Less Pressure, The One Criteria All Potential Sales Hires Need to Have and The Clear Signs of 10x Sales Hires with Jason Lemki
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2021 8 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- #126 Nancy Sherman: Soldiers and Stoics
- Private Equity Masters 1: John Toomey – HarbourVest Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.200)
- #104 Nir Eyal: Mastering Indistraction
- #127 Best of 2021: Conversations of the Year
- 20VC: Bill Gurley and Howard Marks: What Happened In 2020? What Can We Expect Looking Forward to 2021?
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2020 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: What Is Founder Narrative Fit and How to Detect and Invest In It, How To Avoid Consensus Thinking When Investing, Price Sensititivity; When To Pay Up vs Stay Disciplined & From New York Times To General Catalyst; Why Venture and Journalism are Not S
- RightMessage Hits $360k Revenue, Co-Founders Going All In
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2019 10 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- #61 Jonathan Haidt: When Good Intentions Go Bad
- #55 Scott Page: Becoming a Model Thinker
- #67 Jim Collins: Keeping the Flywheel in Motion
- Rebooting AI // Gary Marcus, Robust AI (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- a16z Podcast | Ancient Dreams of Technology, Gods & Robots
- a16z Podcast | Centers of Power, War, and History
- a16z Podcast | Startups as Science Experiments -- Can VC Disrupt Academia?
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2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 7 mentions in 1 episode
2016 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Why You Have To Be A Good Long Term Actor To Succeed in VC & How Owning An Esports Team Could Be A $Bn Outcome with Clinton Foy, General Partner @ Crosscut Ventures
- #9 Maestro Alexander Shelley: The Architecture of Music
- 20VC: Arielle Zuckerberg @ Kleiner Perkins: A Review Of My First 6 Months in Venture
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4 statements about Plato, every show
Berman: VCs dismissing introspection ignore thousands of years of philosophical history
“We live in a world where at least one prominent VC believes that introspection is worthless and an indulgent product of the 1910 rather than timeless, going back to Socrates, to Plato, and even Jesus Christ himself.”
Haidt: Fear of reputational damage is a primary driver of moral behavior
“And I was referring back to the story of the Ring of Gyges from Plato's Republic, in which Plato asks, if a man had the mythical Ring of Gyges, in which if you turn the stone, the, you know, the gem inwards on your hand, it makes you invisible. He asks what ma…”
The world's first flying automaton was a 4th-century BC mechanical dove
“The very first automaton that could fly was created by a friend of Plato named Architas. He was just a polymath, a brilliant inventor, engineer, and a general, and he created an artificial bird In the shape of a dove that could fly several yards.”