Socrates
person on 23 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes · said 70 times in 50 episodes since 2015
the Knowledge Project 12 
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20VC 7 
the a16z Podcast 5 
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Lenny's Podcast 3 
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2026 9 mentions in 7 episodes 1 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
- Open Source Wins, AGI Is Here, and Scorsese’s AI Toolkit with CEOs of Cerebras & Black Forest Labs
- Anthropic's Digital God, Pope vs AI, Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?
- How We Grew Koch Industries to $150 Billion Without Going Public: Charles & Chase Koch
- Marc Andreessen: The World Is More Malleable Than You Think
- Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google & Amazon
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2025 15 mentions in 12 episodes 1 per episode
- He Who Masters Self Masters Chaos: Ted Santos on Why Jobs Went to India
- The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1
- This Idea is Destroying American Universities · Joe Lonsdale
- The App That’ll Be Bigger Than TikTok
- I quit my job to make $6M/year with AI apps
- Alpha School's Disruptive Vision for the Future of Education · Invest Like The Best
- How to build a team that can “take a punch” | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product, Whoop)
- Revolutionizing Education with VR and AI: Inside Optima’s Journey with Adam Mangana
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2024 22 mentions in 13 episodes 2 per episode
- Alain De Botton: Why Status is Making You Miserable & Why Parents Want Their Kids to Fail · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Ryan Holiday: How to Win the War with Yourself
- The Autobiography of Christian Dior
- Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack)
- Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities
- The Terrifying Truth AI Researchers Don’t Understand · Joe Lonsdale
- Li Lu and Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett
- The $70M/yr Sports Bar + Sleepy Industries Worth $100M
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2023 6 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- How Short Term Pain Can Bring Long Term Success
- Dr. Gio Valiante (Part 2): Failure and Success
- No Priors Ep. 28 | With Khan Academy’s Creator Sal Khan (Japanese Version)
- Adam Robinson: Positioning Yourself For Success
- Unlock Your Super-Learning Potential: Learn from Emerson Spartz, Founder of Dose and MuggleNet
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2022 7 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- Jonathan Haidt: Why Social Media Makes Our Society Stupid
- The Reasons Why Entrepreneurs Fail! Ft. Manan Khurma, Founder - Cuemath | 100x Entrepreneur
- Hadi Partovi: How I Became an Advisor to Mark Zuckerberg; Lessons from Steve Ballmer | 20VC #961 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Bootstrapping Through A Bear Market with Noah Kagan
- Don't Ban CRT; Win With Better Ideas. Thomas Chatterton Williams Talks Race & Liberalism · Joe Lonsdale
- Joe Lonsdale and Pano Kanelos on Building a New World-Class University · Joe Lonsdale
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2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
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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.”