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The Knowledge Project

Shane Parrish

The Knowledge Project

Shane Parrish

Uncovering the timeless principles that drive success. Hosted by Shane Parrish (entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and author), the goal of each episode is simply to master the best of what other people have already figured out. Learn More: Timeless insights into business and life in 5 minutes a week: https://fs.blog/newsletter Shane's Books: https://fs.blog/books

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What 12 Years of Failure Taught Steve Jobs About Success

We all know the Steve Jobs who came back in the late 1990s and saved Apple from becoming a footnote. And we've all heard the story of how, in 1985, he was pushed out of the company he'd created. What we don't know is what happened in between. Geoffrey Ca...

What 12 Years of Failure Taught Steve Jobs About Success

Aug 18

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Make Better Decisions by Fixing Yourself First

David Baszucki is the co-founder and CEO of Roblox, a platform built around a simple idea: give people the tools and incentives to create together. In this short conversation we discuss how a health decision saved his son's life and how it changed how he ...

Make Better Decisions by Fixing Yourself First

Aug 04

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The Mindset Behind Building a Great Little Business | Brad Jacobs

This summer, I’m revisiting one of my favorite episodes. If you haven’t heard it, now is the time. If you have, it’s a classic and worth listening to again. Brad Jacobs has built eight billion-dollar companies, completed more than 500 acquisitions, and cr...

The Mindset Behind Building a Great Little Business | Brad Jacobs

Jul 28

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John D. Rockefeller: The Principles Behind The Greatest Fortune in History

John D. Rockefeller became the richest man the world had ever known by thinking differently about business, competition, and family. This episode isn’t just the story of Standard Oil. It’s about the principles that built one of history’s greatest busines...

John D. Rockefeller: The Principles Behind The Greatest Fortune in History

Jul 21

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Excellence Is the Capacity to Take Pain

No company decides to fail. It drifts there one comfortable lie at a time. Kaz Nejatian took over Opendoor when it was just months away from bankruptcy and set out to rebuild it from the ground up. What happened next shocked everyone. Most turnaround sto...

Excellence Is the Capacity to Take Pain

Jul 07

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The Mindset That Unlocks Your Full Potential | Dr. Gio Valiante

Steve Cohen and Jack Nicklaus shared the same performance coach. For the next hour, he’s yours too. Dr. Gio Valiante is the world’s leading performance psychologist. We discuss why most people never reach their potential, how confidence and fear shape pe...

The Mindset That Unlocks Your Full Potential | Dr. Gio Valiante

Jun 23

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How to Repair and Nourish Your Gut | Dr. Giulia Enders

Dr. Giulia Enders has changed the way millions of people think about the human body. As a physician, microbiome researcher, and bestselling author, she has spent years studying the surprising role the gut plays in everything from digestion and immunity to...

How to Repair and Nourish Your Gut | Dr. Giulia Enders

Jun 09

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Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley

Bill Gurley spent years on Wall Street, built his career as a partner at Benchmark, worked through Uber’s hypergrowth era, and now serves on the board of the Santa Fe Institute, where he studies complexity and systems thinking. In this episode, Bill share...

Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley

Jun 02

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You Don’t Need To Innovate To Be Successful | FarmVille Creator

Mark Pincus is the creator behind Farmville and Words with Friends. He built Zynga into one of the biggest gaming companies in the world and helped shape the early era of social products on the internet. In this conversation, he breaks down how great foun...

You Don’t Need To Innovate To Be Successful | FarmVille Creator

May 19

The Hyundai Founder Who Put a Country on His Back

Chung Ju-yung built Hyundai because he refused to be stopped. He is known for turning Hyundai into an industrial force that helped transform South Korea. The company built highways, ships, cars, and entire industries. At its peak, Hyundai accounted for 16...

The Hyundai Founder Who Put a Country on His Back

May 12

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Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions | Winston Weinberg

Winston Weinberg is the CEO and co-founder of Harvey, the AI platform built for the legal industry. In this episode, Winston explains how AI is reshaping legal work, why judgment becomes more valuable as routine work gets automated, and how to build the p...

Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions | Winston Weinberg

Apr 22

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Ai Goes Parabolic | OpenAI Co-Founder Greg Brockman

The AI race, the future of AGI, and the inside story of OpenAI. Greg Brockman is the co-founder of OpenAI. This is the most detailed first-person account he has given of the 72 hours after Sam Altman was fired, how OpenAI started, and the future. Greg e...

Ai Goes Parabolic | OpenAI Co-Founder Greg Brockman

Apr 14

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The Magic of Thinking Big | XPO CEO Mario Harik

Mario Harik is the CEO of XPO, one of the largest trucking companies in the world, and leads a team of 40,000 people across a multi‑billion‑dollar operation. He started as employee #3, trained under Brad Jacobs (who’s built eight multibillion‑dollar comp...

The Magic of Thinking Big | XPO CEO Mario Harik

Mar 31

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Alpha School: AI and The Future of Education | Joe Liemandt

Joe Liemandt quietly built one of the most successful software empires you’ve never heard of—then reappeared with a $1 billion bet that AI can make kids learn ten times faster and love school more than vacation. At Alpha School, students spend just two h...

Alpha School: AI and The Future of Education | Joe Liemandt

Mar 24

Harrison McCain: The Potato Farmer who Went Big

Harrison McCain learned salesmanship by talking his way into a pharmaceutical job at 22, then spent five formative years under K.C. Irving, absorbing lessons in vertical integration, relentless deal-capture, and "management by suggestion." He quit with n...

Harrison McCain: The Potato Farmer who Went Big

Mar 17

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Beating the Market: Connor Teskey, CEO Brookfield Asset Management

Connor Teskey is the CEO of Brookfield Asset Management, one of the world’s largest investors, managing about a trillion dollars across infrastructure, power, real estate, private equity, and credit. In this exclusive interview, his first as CEO, we expl...

Beating the Market: Connor Teskey, CEO Brookfield Asset Management

Mar 10

An Unlikely Empire | J.W. Marriott

The world's largest hotel company spent its first 30 years without a hotel. It started as a root beer stand in 1927. The first room didn't open until 1957. The man behind it was J. Willard Marriott. In this episode of Outliers, we explore how Marriott t...

An Unlikely Empire | J.W. Marriott

Mar 03

The Near Death Experience of RobinHood | Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder

In January 2021, Vlad Tenev made a decision that nearly destroyed Robinhood. Wall Street called it betrayal. Customers called it cowardice. He has never fully explained what happened — until now. Vlad Tenev built Robinhood into a financial titan, navigate...

The Near Death Experience of RobinHood | Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder

Feb 24

The Obsession That Built Nike | Phil Knight

Phil Knight is the founder of Nike, the brand that reshaped sports and became one of the most powerful companies in the world. What would you do if your bank, your supplier, and your government all turned against you at the same time? Phil Knight didn’t h...

The Obsession That Built Nike | Phil Knight

Feb 17

The $2 Trillion Mind | Nicolai Tangen

Nicolai Tangen is the CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund. He is responsible for managing $2.1 trillion. That's roughly 1.7% of every listed company on earth. In this episode, we explore the intersection of ...

The $2 Trillion Mind | Nicolai Tangen