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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where TED comes up on All-In, How I Built This, My First Million, the a16z Podcast, Lenny's Podcast
Tony Hawk inspiring us for 72 minutes straight
Eric Weinstein: The State of American Science, Breakthrough Coverups, and the Danger of Physics
- ▶ 1:14:14 Eric Weinstein There's a marvelous demonstration around 2003 at a Ted talk.
How to Solve Problems Better Than 99% of People | Seth Godin
- ▶ 59:46 Seth Godin So one thing I found, I used to go to TED a lot, um, people don't believe it, but most TED speakers are introverts. 2 times in the scene
Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders
How to Speak Better Than 99% of People (5 Frameworks)
- ▶ 11:04 Codie Sanchez He does this brilliantly in his TED talk about spaghetti sauce, of all things.
Anthropic's Digital God, Pope vs AI, Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?
- ▶ 5:39 Bill Gurley Two, two other, so I did a TED talk, which will come out soon.
- ▶ 6:12 Bill Gurley Well, I, you know, I started the book before this happened and I've been asked the question a lot and it, it came up in the Ted talk.
SpaceX’s $2T Case, Nvidia’s Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?
- ▶ 42:14 Chamath Palihapitiya Uh, end of my TED talk. 3 times in the scene
Steph Smith: “This opportunity is totally overlooked”
Promote Giving – A New Model for Performance-Driven Giving (EP.496)
- ▶ 17:55 Joel Holsinger And Ted over there became that person who said, this is what I want to do.
Software Stocks Implode, Claude's Hit List, State of the Union Reactions, Trump's Tariff Pivot
- ▶ 1:18:37 Jason Calacanis Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
From selling ACs to becoming the tourism king of Jamaica
Scott Galloway: Why I'm selling my American stocks
- ▶ 4:52 Scott Galloway He's literally wider than Ted, the Ted conference.
FULL INTERVIEW: Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic’s Attack Ads, Live on TBPN
- ▶ 10:47 unnamed speaker Ted Talks. 2 times in the scene
Moltbook goes viral, $100B OpenAI-Nvidia deal stalled, SpaceX merges with xAI | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:08 John Coogan I was biased against people who gave Ted talks.
The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of
- ▶ 22:06 Shaan Puri Have you ever seen the Tony Robbins TED talk he gave? 3 times in the scene
It took him 4 years to launch—then he hit $1M ARR in 30 days. | Siqi Chen, Founder of Runway · PMF Show
“I like being scared”: Molly Graham’s frameworks for rapid career growth | Molly Graham
- ▶ 23:46 Molly Graham I actually gave a Ted talk about this one a couple of years ago because I am so passionate about it.
Khan Academy: Sal Khan. From Tutoring His Cousins to Teaching the World For Free (September 2020)
The Secret Marketing Strategy That Built a16z: From Zero to Legendary VC Firm
- ▶ 45:49 Margit Wennmachers Like, you can make anybody do a TED talk if you really, really are hell-bent on doing it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:11 Ben Horowitz You know, like the people who do TED Talks aren't characters and vice versa. 10 times in the scene
The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots & why world models are next | Dr. Fei-Fei Li
- ▶ 33:59 Dr. Fei-Fei Li I gave a Ted talk about spatial intelligence at world models.
I Did Nothing For 2 Weeks. It Made Me Better At Everything.
- ▶ 24:08 Shaan Puri Just like, as I wander through the idea, and you start to go down different little rabbit holes, and you hit little bumps and bruises, you sort of need something to come back to, and mine for this is create, create the TED for books. 7 times in the scene
20VC: Tim Ferriss: Why I Walked Away From Angel Investing After Uber | How I Accidentally Lost $150 Million | Money Fixed My Problems—Then Made Me Miserable
- ▶ 7:38 Tim Ferriss Otherwise, it could be the thousand people who are return attendees to TED.
Brian Chesky's secret mentor who scaled Airbnb (after dying 9 times & building a hotel empire)
- ▶ 55:05 Chip Conley And I, and I gave a Ted talk in 2010 about this topic as well.
- ▶ 1:11:35 Chip Conley Um, her Ted talk in 2009 was about the fact that genius is not about being the genius yourself.
Weekly Recap: Elon's Starship Explodes, OpenAI's Defense Contract, Nvidia's Robots, We Test Cluely
- ▶ 52:05 Jordi Hays The Muff, Ted goes, the Muffin Man?
Calm: Alex Tew and Michael Acton Smith
Money Making Expert: How to Turn Attention into $$$
- ▶ 41:47 Rory Vaden Um, you know, my, my Ted talk that went viral was called how to multiply time.
- ▶ 48:25 Rory Vaden So, so one of, this is actually from the, my, my how to multiply time, the TED talk.
Snap: Evan Spiegel
The AI Coding Agent Revolution, The Future of Software, Techno-Optimism | Amjad Masad, CEO, Replit
- ▶ 43:25 Matt Turck because you had a ted talk in 2023 where you said uh that some of the stuff that you're actually doing today was possibly not going to be uh possible for a decade right is that is
The END of TikTok?
- ▶ 11:03 Jordi Hays We've been preparing a Ted talk, uh, by looking at the data.
Victor Riparbelli, CEO @Synthesia: OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai - Who Wins and Why | E1246 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:54 Victor Riparbelli And I think, um, I did a TED talk like a few months back where I should talk about this. 2 times in the scene
Could Your AI Agent Also Be Your Lover? — With Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda
- ▶ 16:24 Alex Kantrowitz Because I, I was watching your TED talk
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars Fast (ep13)
- ▶ 1:17:32 John Coogan Really, really dumb version of Ted.
How the US is SABOTAGING Young People’s Future | Scott Galloway
- ▶ 0:53 Codie Sanchez I saw, I think, one of the best TED Talks I've ever seen from you recently about stealing from the youth to give to the old in this country.
6 startup ideas from the Tech Warren Buffett (make $120k/mo)
- ▶ 48:10 Greg Isenberg And this is a guy who like, I'm pretty sure he was like a moderator for Ted.
Advice Line: Growing Beyond Your Niche
Language Agents: From Reasoning to Acting — with Shunyu Yao of OpenAI, Harrison Chase of LangGraph
- ▶ 1:05:47 Shunyu Yao Shout out to my, uh, co-first author, Ted, who made figure one.
Communication Expert: Master the Secret Art of Charisma & Influence | Vanessa Van Edwards
- ▶ 2:24 Codie Sanchez You guys might know her because she has one of the most popular TED Talks of all time on communication and the
- ▶ 58:07 Vanessa Van Edwards Um, we at our lab, I analyzed thousands of hours of Ted talks with my team looking for patterns. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:26 Vanessa Van Edwards So that was like, okay, so is there a way in your, like, for example, if I say I'm a recovering awkward person, I have a Ted talk about being awkward, right? 2 times in the scene
Peter Diamandis — Embracing AI, Befriending Elon, And Living Forever
- ▶ 38:08 Alex Kantrowitz So in preparation for this conversation, I went back and watched your 2012 TED talk. 2 times in the scene
5 essential questions to craft a winning strategy | Roger Martin (author, advisor, speaker)
- ▶ 1:02:10 Roger Martin So they try things like, uh, Continental Light or TED that do half the things that, uh, that Southwest does, and then you're what?
The Besties Take Napa | All-In Special
- ▶ 17:30 Jason Calacanis And then after I sold my first company, I was at Ted at the billionaire's dinner with my book agent, John Brockman.
What most people miss about marketing | Rory Sutherland (Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK, author)
- ▶ 54:15 Rory Sutherland It's my friend Ted, who was a biochemist at Penn, I think at the time.
Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity | Ami Vora (CPO at Faire, ex-WhatsApp, FB, IG)
- ▶ 1:18:03 Lenny Rachitsky Reminds me of an episode of Matthew Dix, who has a TED talk about saying yes to everything.
Advice Line with Sarah Kauss of S'well
Special Forces Sniper: Surviving ISIS, the F.B.I, and Modern Masculinity | Tim Kennedy
- ▶ 1:11:35 Tim Kennedy I was listening to a Ted talk and, and they're talking about kids becoming successful after college and they're looking for a characteristic of
How To Master Storytelling ft. David Perell
- ▶ 1:27:02 Shaan Puri So for example, I used to love TED, TED back in the TED Talks. 5 times in the scene
Harvard Professor: THIS is the Secret to Human Wealth & Happiness | Arthur Brooks
- ▶ 5:04 Codie Sanchez I remember that Ted talk from that guy who showed the, the dot chart of how poverty had changed over time. 2 times in the scene
Tom Hulme: Lessons from a 24x Angel Track Record, 275x on Robinhood & Making Billions on Uber |E1150 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:33 Harry Stebbings But have you heard my TED talk, by the way?
Google fires protestors, NPR chaos, Humane's AI Pin, Startup tax crisis, sports betting scandal
- ▶ 36:42 Jason Calacanis There's an interesting clip of her talking at TED, talking about how truth is a bit of a distraction that prevents people from getting things done.
“Beaming” people anywhere in the world with David Nussbaum of Proto
Nicolai Tangen: Managing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund in the World | E1122 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:31 Harry Stebbings Where does it go back to, like, I saw your talk, I think it was a TED talk, where every Norwegian's a millionaire.
3 Niche Business Ideas We Thought Would Fail… But Actually Crushed It
How We Got Our First 100 Customers (No Bulls**t, Specific Details) (#534)
Gary Sernovitz - Inside the CIO Seat (EP.357)
- ▶ 34:30 Gary Sernovitz The one thing I'm really fascinated is the need to make this a philosophy, to make this a structure, to make this a long LinkedIn post, to make this a TED talk about what investing is, what meaning is, and to analogize to science when, in…
How to tell better stories | Matthew Dicks (Storyworthy)
- ▶ 1:15:46 Matthew Dicks And I have a Ted talk about it that I go on for 17 minutes about.
- ▶ 1:24:44 Lenny Rachitsky Reminds me a friend of mine gave a Ted talk and he shared that they give you this advice that people are different kinds of learners.
- ▶ 1:29:19 Matthew Dicks So we say yes with the acknowledgement that we can say no eventually, but a yes can lead to extraordinary things, and if you watch my TED talk on saying yes, you'll see that yeses just lead to these extraordinary chains where you said yes…
Radical Candor: From theory to practice with author Kim Scott
From $0 to $100 Million In 3 Years Selling Cold Plunges (#527)
- ▶ 54:24 Shaan Puri She's like, I literally hired a biology tutor and I started watching podcasts and Ted talks
From High School Dropout To $952 Million At 33 | Jess Mah Interview (#526)
- ▶ 18:10 Shaan Puri In biology in school, and then, like, you know, you're like, I hired a tutor to, like, as an adult to, like, learn about this, and I watched TED Talks and podcasts, and then I flew out, and I met the scientists and talked to them.
- ▶ 28:59 Shaan Puri And, um, it reminded me of, um, there's this Tony Robbins Ted talk. 2 times in the scene
Crafting a compelling product vision | Ebi Atawodi (YouTube, Netflix, Uber)
- ▶ 13:55 Lenny Rachitsky At TED, their mission is to spread ideas.
Andrew Wilkinson's $20,000 to $260,000,000 story (#521)
- ▶ 38:39 Andrew Wilkinson Um, I remember when I was first starting my company, I would watch Ted talks back when they were like really early 4 times in the scene
The Secrets Of Ray Dalio And His Dot Collector Transparency Software
- ▶ 1:40 Rob Copeland He's the, he's millions of people have viewed his TED Talk.
Jesse Itzler's Exact Playbook For Creating HIT AFTER HIT (#504)
- ▶ 39:32 Jesse Itzler I heard about a conference in Monterey, California that was just getting some traction called Tent. 4 times in the scene
E147: TED goes woke, Canada's Nazi blunder, AI adds vision, plus: who owns OpenAI?
- ▶ 1:22 Jason Calacanis There was a really weird, uh, moment last week, Ted threw one of its speakers under the bus. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:29 Jason Calacanis Do you want to talk about the substance of the talk, or maybe dig into the culture of TED? 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:35 Jason Calacanis Coleman, let me ask you, what was the reaction from people of color, people who've experienced racism, perhaps, to your talk, because you must have gotten a tremendous amount, and I did look at the comments, to Ted's credit, the comments… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:38 Jason Calacanis The dictator himself, Chamath Palihapitiya, and Rain Man, yeah, definitely Burn Baby, David Sachs, and the Sultan of Science, the Queen of Kinoa, the Prince of Panic Attacks, and the heir to the Ted throne, the creator of the world's… 3 times in the scene
Tim Urban: How "Wait But Why" Grew to 600k Readers; AI's Revolutionary Impact on Media | E1048 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Powering cars with solar energy with Steve Fambro of Aptera Motors
When AI is your personal tutor with Sal Khan of Khan Academy
Storytelling with Nancy Duarte: How to craft compelling presentations and tell a story that sticks
- ▶ 0:59 Lenny Rachitsky Including Apple, Ted, Google, the World Bank, and famously Al Gore on his inconvenient truth presentation.
- ▶ 17:13 Nancy Duarte That was in my Ted talk from 2011.
Cultivating a creative community with Tina Roth-Eisenberg of CreativeMornings
- ▶ 28:44 Tina Roth-Eisenberg Ted does that really well. 2 times in the scene
Why You Should Start Measuring Psychological Safety Today
- ▶ 9:53 Susan Hunt Stevens If you've not watched her TED talk on psychological safety, I highly recommend it.
- ▶ 13:27 Susan Hunt Stevens Oh, Amy Edmondson, the professor from Harvard, did a TED talk about psychological safety.
The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- ▶ 3:05 Salim Ismail The great example is TED, which is just a nice conference, a thousand people a year. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:53 Salim Ismail So Ted uses community.
Mastering paid growth | Jonathan Becker (Thrive Digital)
- ▶ 7:44 Jonathan Becker In 2013, I got invited to go down to the TED conference, which was in Long Beach, California, and my friend Andrew Wilkinson asked me to join him at a dinner that night. 3 times in the scene
How we bootstrapped to $20m ARR using asynchronous work
- ▶ 10:37 Liam Martin I don't know if you guys know Simon Sinek, the Find Your Why talk, which is, I think, one of the most famous talks on TED.
The ultimate guide to OKRs | Christina Wodtke (Stanford)
- ▶ 41:56 Christina Wodtke And if you look at Ted, like everybody loves a Ted talk, like they're mostly all just stories, right?
E115: The AI Search Wars: Google vs. Microsoft, Nordstream report, State of the Union
- ▶ 30:21 David Friedberg Ted's not one of it now.
How I Built Whoop Into A $3.6 BILLION Company (#411)
How to be the best coach to product people | Petra Wille (Strong Product People)
- ▶ 46:54 Petra Wille That's sad, but he gave great Ted talks, really data heavy Ted talks because they often hear from product people. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:03 Petra Wille And 80 minutes is the length of an average TED talk.
HIBT Lab! Goodr: Jasmine Crowe-Houston
- ▶ 7:07 Guy Raz I want to just step back for a second and ask you in general about the problem of hunger in the U.S., because you've given a TED Talk about this and
- ▶ 41:57 Jasmine Crowe-Houston I mean, it's, it's funny cause you talked about my TED talk. 3 times in the scene
AI and the Creator Economy with Karen X Cheng
- ▶ 3:45 Steph Smith You also then, I think around a year later, you did a TED talk where you kind of used that framework of a hundred days to go and learn dance, and you shared that, and it was fascinating.
Category creation and brand building | Barbra Gago (Pando, Miro, Greenhouse, Culture Amp)
- ▶ 54:13 Lenny Rachitsky I remember learning about her when, when Al Gore did his TED talk and her whole agency was
ButcherBox: Mike Salguero
HIBT Lab! Yolélé: Pierre Thiam
The rituals of great teams | Shishir Mehrotra, Coda, YouTube, Microsoft
- ▶ 25:49 Shishir Mehrotra And then he has a group of editors, the same group that actually edits Ted.
How To Come Up With Billion Dollar Business Ideas | Hubspot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah
- ▶ 1:24:11 Shaan Puri It's like, no, go fail at this so that you taste defeat and then you will actually learn this lesson. 2 times in the scene
Chris Voss – Listening, Human Nature, and Negotiations (Capital Allocators, EP.252)
- ▶ 39:02 Chris Voss I think his TED Talk is The Happy Secret to Better Work. 3 times in the scene
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