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2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 3, 2020 by Mike Maples Jr. · said 17 times in 8 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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2026 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode

Excellence Is the Capacity to Take Pain Jul 21, 2026 · 2 mentions · from 26:36
Michael Ovitz: The Psychology of Power Feb 3, 2026 · 1 mention · from 1:16:00
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2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode

Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World May 13, 2025 · 1 mention · from 1:09:17
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash Jan 21, 2025 · 1 mention · from 1:38:45
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2022 9 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode

Reid Hoffman: Better Decisions, Fewer Mistakes Sep 20, 2022 · 5 mentions · from 2:19
Best of 2022: Conversations of the Year Dec 27, 2022 · 2 mentions · from 54:30
#128 Ryan Holiday: A Stoic Life Jan 11, 2022 · 2 mentions · from 25:20
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2020 3 mentions in 1 episode

#77 Mike Maples: Living in the Future Mar 3, 2020 · 3 mentions · from 1:07:03
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Mar 3, 2020 neutral

Assertion Contradicted

Maples: PayPal mafia members were not established in tech before PayPal

“So, for example, if you look at the PayPal mafia, none of them were established in tech before they joined PayPal.”

Mike Maples Jr. Mar 3, 2020 ▶ 1:07:03 #77 Mike Maples: Living in the Future

Jan 21, 2025 positive

What-if

Investors who sat out the 1999 bubble missed Google and Salesforce

“And if you decided not to invest in that time, you would have missed out on Google, Salesforce, PayPal, Zappos, OpenTable. There are a lot of great companies that were still founded during that time, and Paying market prices for those investments would have be…”

Alfred Lin Jan 21, 2025 ▶ 1:38:45 How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash

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