Jeremy Stern discusses his profiles of Mark Zuckerberg, Palmer Luckey, Scott Wu, and Josh Kushner, focusing on identity, competitiveness, historical context, authenticity, and the forces that drive people to build. He explains Zuckerberg’s fascination with Augustus, Meta’s potential advantages in AI, and why some founders seem unable to stop building. He describes how a defense-technology question became a life story of Palmer Luckey, why Scott Wu stood out as an unusually trustworthy AI leader, and how the Kushner family’s Holocaust history informed his portrait of Josh Kushner. The conversation closes with Stern’s Russian professor, whose belief that gifts create obligations became a lasting moral and professional lens.