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2026 13 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
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- War with Iran + Pentagon vs Anthropic with Under Secretary of War Emil Michael
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2025 38 mentions in 20 episodes 2 per episode
- Trump vs Harvard, Nvidia export controls, how DEI killed Hollywood with Tim Dillon
- DOGE updates + Liberation Day Tariff Reactions with Ben Shapiro and Antonio Gracias
- I Quit My Job & Accidentally Built A $10M Business
- Is China Behind Pakistan's Military Moves? | US Tariffs Hitting India’s Economy w/ Rajiv Sikri
- How to Think Like a CEO & Build Like a Fighter | Shiv Shivakumar, Ex-CEO Nokia & Pepsico
- 80% Growth During COVID Came From the Brands Everyone Else Ignored
- Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
- $200B in UPI,1.3B Aadhaar Users, 943M on ID Platform: Why More Indians Must Know about DPI
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2024 14 mentions in 11 episodes 1 per episode
- Building a $136M Fintech and becoming a leader in Neo Banking in India | Vinay Bagri, Founder, Niyo
- SaaS apps that will print profits
- Sheryl Sandberg, plus open-source AI gene editing explained
- NDA Vs UPA, Tax System, Kolkata's Fall, GDP Growth & More ft. Former CEA: Ashok Lahiri | Neon Show
- Policybazaar Founder On IPO, India 1,2,3, Sanjeev Bikhchandani, & Insurance Market | Neon Show
- Rajiv Sikri Former MEA Secretary On India-US Relations, Pakistan's Decline & Bangladesh
- Biden chaos, Soft landing secured? AI sentiment turns bearish, French elections
- Reverse Brain Drain, Reality Of Venture Capital And India’s Next 10 Year Explained By Top Indian VCs
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2023 19 mentions in 12 episodes 2 per episode
- Ep #9 | WTF is Venture Capital? Ft. Nikhil, Nithin, Rajan A., Prashanth P. & Karthik R. · Nikhil Kamath
- PM Modi’s Economic Advisor On Kolkata’s Decline, Amrit Kaal & $10 Trillion Economy I Sanjeev Sanyal
- Lessons from Jeff Bezos
- Paul Assaiante: Learning to Face Your Fears
- American Venture Capitalist Explains India’s BRIGHT FUTURE by 2030 | Bhaskar Ghosh | Neon Show
- Ep# 12 | WTF is The Restaurant Game? Nikhil w/ Pooja Dhingra, Zorawar Kalra & Riyaaz Amlani · Nikhil Kamath
- 8 Businesses I'm Bullish On
- E139: Recapping Chamath's wedding, VC surplus, unions vs Hollywood, room-temp superconductors & more
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2022 67 mentions in 14 episodes 5 per episode
- E87: Emerging markets, Sri Lanka, 9.1% CPI, market sentiment, NASA's Webb telescope & more
- E76.5: Food shortage, China's grand plan, inflation, French election plus an All-In Summit preview
- E75: Fast shuts down, board culpability, Elon buys 9% of Twitter, deplatforming's evolution & more
- How She Landed $13m Valuation with $1.8m in ARR Last Week for SMB SaaS
- How bad will Europe's gas crisis get?
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- Elon Musk: Twitter's bot problem, SpaceX's grand plan, Tesla stories & more
- E95: Winter is Coming, Europe's energy crisis, Kim Kardashian's new PE firm & more
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2021 17 mentions in 13 episodes 1 per episode
- E52: Trump's SPAC, peak venture liquidity, tech as an economic ladder, Dems overplaying their hand
- Jeremy Grantham – GMO (Manager Meetings, EP.01)
- E31: Post-vaccination virtue signaling, pandemic lessons, immigration, Caitlyn Jenner for CA & more
- Billionaire Founder of KIND & Shark Tank Star Daniel Lubetzky · Joe Lonsdale
- E57: Understanding Omicron, tech stocks plummet, VC's great resignation, Jack Dorsey's departure
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- Balaji Srinivasan: role of decentralization, China/US breakdown & more
- E37: NYC rejects far-left candidates, new developments in lab leak theory, App Store breakup & more
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2020 10 mentions in 8 episodes 1 per episode
- E14: Salesforce acquires Slack, DeepMind’s AlphaFold breakthrough, Trust Fund Socialists & more
- 1665 How He's Using Government Loans to Build $50k MRR Visual Communication Tool for Construction Teams
- Chamath Palihapitiya – The Social Capital Flywheel (Capital Allocators, EP.167)
- E12: Biden wins, Pfizer vaccine, markets rip, Trump's next act, COVID endgame scenarios & more
- E11: Election Night Special featuring Phil Hellmuth, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner & more!
- Vita Coco: Michael Kirban
- How I Built Resilience: Taha Bawa of Goodwall
- 20VC: Chamath Palihapitiya on Why IPOs and Direct Listings Are Broken, Turning Social Capital Into A Combination of Berkshire Hathaway, Koch Industries and The Red Cross, Why Forecasts Are Worthless, What Creates True Defensibility & Why You Have To Be Pr
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10 statements about Sri Lanka, every show
Grunwald: Sri Lanka's Agrochemical Ban Immediately Crashed Crop Yields
“Well, we saw what happened in Sri Lanka, where they banned them, and immediately farm yields crashed. Sri Lanka could no longer feed itself. And essentially started outsourcing not only its food production, but the pollution and emissions from that production.”
Mitrova: Sri Lanka asked Putin for energy aid amid anti-Western alignment
“Sri Lanka has already called Putin to help, to start supplies of energy, and this is part of the bigger geopolitical strategy of building anti-Western bloc where energy will be an essential part bringing together very different countries, because they are lack…”
Chamath: Singapore GDP reached $360B in 2022 compared to Sri Lanka's $80B
“Jamaica's GDP is about thirteen billion. Singapore's GDP has grown to about three hundred and sixty billion and Sri Lanka's GDP is eighty billion.”
Chamath: Sri Lanka spent 2.5x more on defense than during wartime
“They spent two and a half times more on defense as of last year than they did when they were in war time.”
Chamath: Sri Lanka's organic fertilizer mandate cut large farm yields by 20-30%
“The problem with going organic and organic fertilizer was all of the small farms shut down, all of the large farms had 20 to 30% crop yield reductions, the prices of food went crazy,”
Chamath abandoned Google Loon Sri Lanka project due to political infighting
“I went there and I offered to bring Google Loon, myself and Google. We offered to bring internet access to the entire country, like guaranteed internet access. This was like five years ago. And we set up an entity and the government tried to do the right thing…”
Sacks: Sri Lanka had a 98 ESG score, beating Sweden and US
“He mentions that Sri Lanka has a near perfect score of 98, higher than Sweden, which is 96, and the U.S. Is a 51.”
Chamath: El Salvador, Ghana, and Pakistan are next closest to sovereign default
“If you if you look at bond prices, the three countries that are the next closest to defaulting. So Russia has defaulted, but that was more a vagary of, you know, foreign currency controls that, that didn't allow them to pay. But Sri Lanka has officially defaul…”
Friedberg: Global food crisis will hit Sri Lanka and Africa hard
“The United States is going to be fine. Western Europe will be fine. China will be fine. Sri Lanka is gonna be a mess. Northern and Eastern Africa is gonna be a mess.”
Checked brought software development fully in-house to Norway from offshore teams
“We started up with the offshoring in India, moved it to Sri Lanka to another company, which was Norwegian, but with the people in Sri Lanka, and now like the third, we are now in version three point zero, and that is fully made in Norway with our in-house team…”