| 1 | Dec 19, '23 | 30th employee, 4 years in Paid 10% profit share, no equity That amount became crazy, and when they flipped from partnership to corporation, Balmer took 8% equity to cancel the prof | 35.8× | 2.1M | 3.1k | 198 | 873 |
| 2 | Aug 26, '25 | This is the definitive conversation on Alpha School with @jliemandt, who is the school’s principal and backer. What if kids could learn in two hours a day, test in the top 1% natio | 33.2× | 1.9M | 2.9k | 425 | 6k |
| 3 | Aug 12, '23 | My definition of “Life’s Work:” “A lifelong quest to build something for others that expresses who you are” 3 parts to the definition, all important… “A LIFELONG QUEST” reflects th | 14.1× | 809k | 1.3k | 197 | 1.5k |
| 4 | Jul 15, '25 | In it’s heyday, Goldman’s special situations group was the navy SEALs of money making. Today’s guest, Alan Waxman, used to run that group before leaving to build Sixth Street, now | 13.4× | 770k | 3.4k | 238 | 6.7k |
| 5 | Apr 15, '25 | My conversation with Neil Mehta, one of my generation's best investors. His firm, Greenoaks, has posted legendary returns and he’s still so young he may be just getting started. He | 12× | 689k | 1.6k | 145 | 2.6k |
| 6 | Mar 13, '25 | Buffett selling Apple right before the world decided its corporate soul is cooked is really something | 11.7× | 673k | 5.8k | 95 | 354 |
| 7 | Feb 8, '23 | #goals | 11.4× | 652k | 2.4k | 164 | 92 |
| 8 | Jan 17, '25 | David Lynch | 9.5× | 546k | 10k | 1.1k | 4.3k |
| 9 | Aug 20, '21 | Have been lucky to meet with or study hundreds of companies in 2021. Here's an ongoing list of company attributes that I find interesting... | 9.4× | 0 | 4.6k | 790 | 3.9k |
| 10 | Jun 2, '22 | What’s the most mind blowing presentation / talk you’ve ever seen? Bonus if there’s a YouTube or recording available | 9.2× | 0 | 3.9k | 514 | 4.3k |
| 11 | Aug 7, '22 | 5,000 people applied for this | 9.2× | 0 | 11k | 925 | 503 |
| 12 | Oct 2, '23 | The best class at Notre Dame, in my humble opinion, is the Art of Investing I first met its professors, Rick Buhrman and Paul Buser, during their decade+ long tenure helping manage | 8.4× | 480k | 1.2k | 113 | 798 |
| 13 | Apr 21, '24 | Some books I wish everyone read and internalized: Lessons of history (will and Ariel Durant) Upanishads (Easewaran translation) Path of least resistance (Fritz) Emerson’s collected | 8.3× | 474k | 1.9k | 217 | 5.7k |
| 14 | Aug 26, '23 | There should be a new button on zoom If one party presses the button nothings happens If both press it, the zoom simply shuts down immediately No hard feelings, just tons of saved | 8.1× | 465k | 2.1k | 121 | 74 |
| 15 | Jul 1, '20 | Most influential essays I've ever read: 1. Walking by Thoreau 2. Self-Reliance by Emerson 3. Katha Upanishad What are yours? | 8.0× | 0 | 3.9k | 453 | 3.6k |
| 16 | Nov 22, '23 | The most powerful thing I am aware of is to spend your time doing what you want to do. I've been on a multi-year mission to make as much of my calendar filled with things I actuall | 7.8× | 450k | 1.5k | 151 | 1.2k |
| 17 | Mar 23, '21 | What’s the last 10/10 book you read? | 6.9× | 0 | 3.3k | 321 | 2.5k |
| 18 | Aug 19, '23 | Just before he stepped down as CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos wrote his final shareholder letter. He closed it out with a section he titled, “Differentiation is Survival and the Univers | 6.9× | 395k | 1.4k | 242 | 862 |
| 19 | Nov 28, '20 | Tony Hsieh on similarities between poker and business (from his book) “Look for opportunities beyond the game you sat down to play. You never know who you’re going to meet, includi | 6.2× | 0 | 4.8k | 883 | 1.4k |
| 20 | Feb 6, '22 | This book is really f**king me up | 6.1× | 0 | 4.5k | 220 | 2.1k |
| 21 | Mar 3, '22 | What is the best speech of all time? | 5.6× | 0 | 2.7k | 405 | 1.7k |
| 22 | Nov 28, '21 | Every interesting outcome in my life was unpredictable and was the result of good habits, strictly practiced. This is the opposite of “vision” “big, hairy, audacious goals” and “ac | 5.3× | 0 | 4.2k | 536 | 1.4k |
| 23 | Sep 25, '25 | “In 1993, he launched Interactive Brokers to give ordinary investors the same technological advantages he had built for himself. That business is now worth over $100 billion, and P | 5.1× | 294k | 1.4k | 78 | 852 |
| 24 | Oct 17, '25 | "America gets a much better McKinsey, and China gets a much better Foxconn." Dan Wang explains how each country will use AI: The U.S. will automate services, while China will autom | 5.0× | 285k | 1.5k | 285 | 790 |
| 25 | Mar 19, '21 | What’s the last 10/10 movie you’ve seen? | 4.7× | 0 | 1.9k | 158 | 1.5k |
| 26 | May 27, '24 | Best books I’ve read this year | 4.6× | 266k | 1.1k | 57 | 2.5k |
| 27 | Dec 1, '23 | The team at Stripe Press showing us how to make something beautiful (out Tuesday!) As had been planned for a while, we will also be releasing a podcast with Charlie on Tuesday, a l | 4.5× | 261k | 1.4k | 79 | 227 |
| 28 | Jan 28, '21 | A plane just flew down South Beach with the message “Buy GameStop stock WSB” trailing behind it. | 4.5× | 0 | 5.7k | 455 | 43 |
| 29 | Aug 26, '25 | The key to happiness is high standards | 4.2× | 240k | 4.7k | 375 | 4.6k |
| 30 | Sep 5, '21 | This series is an absolute mind bender. What if the obesity epidemic (which has accelerated) is entirely caused by human synthesized compounds and has nothing to do with diet, carb | 4.2× | 0 | 2.6k | 376 | 1.2k |
| 31 | May 30, '21 | What’s the best YouTube video you’ve ever seen? | 4.1× | 0 | 1.9k | 199 | 1.7k |
| 32 | Jan 7, '25 | Claude projects are truly incredible My favorite is a version of “morning pages.” I could never sit and write for 30 min so instead I do it with Claude as an audio note and have it | 4.0× | 229k | 1.7k | 80 | 3.5k |
| 33 | Nov 9, '21 | Why don’t universities have venture capital / investment divisions that fund students? | 3.9× | 0 | 4k | 449 | 161 |
| 34 | Aug 12, '21 | In my early 20s, having been mostly an entitled little shit but facing an existential crisis, I was trying to reform myself. I made a little list to read each morning. Funny to stu | 3.9× | 0 | 3k | 299 | 1.1k |
| 35 | Nov 26, '24 | Jump. It’s not as wide as you think. | 3.6× | 204k | 2.6k | 263 | 1.9k |
| 36 | Feb 2, '21 | My conversation with @chamath. We discuss: - personal finance - inequality - value investing - health care - climate change - lessons from Social Capital Chamath is a central figur | 3.4× | 0 | 2.8k | 242 | 763 |
| 37 | Dec 19, '20 | Interview principles: - prepare with context, not questions - optimize for novelty - ask for clarification if needed - set a high energy level - laugh easily - search for “secrets” | 3.4× | 0 | 2.7k | 190 | 985 |
| 38 | Sep 7, '20 | What’s the best article on business that you’ve read this year (or ever)? | 3.3× | 0 | 1.6k | 190 | 1.5k |
| 39 | Jan 27, '21 | We are really in a Billions episode | 3.3× | 0 | 4.2k | 360 | 22 |
| 40 | Apr 15, '21 | 36 today...weird age! One of the only ages where you feel simultaneously very old and very young. I’m insanely fortunate to do what I love with people I admire. Seems a good opport | 3.3× | 0 | 2.7k | 191 | 860 |
| 41 | Jun 2, '21 | What is the best investment you’ve ever made? | 3.0× | 0 | 1.5k | 101 | 312 |
| 42 | Aug 6, '20 | What’s the single best podcast episode you’ve listened to in 2020? | 2.9× | 0 | 1.5k | 151 | 1.1k |
| 43 | May 30, '21 | Every year, I respect marketing, messaging, sales, and communications more Best books: - Pitch Anything (Klaff) - Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t (Pressfield) - Positioning (Ries, T | 2.9× | 0 | 1.7k | 151 | 1.2k |
| 44 | Feb 19, '21 | We wanted flying cars and all we got was satellite internet blanketing the world, supersonic jets, 2-day vaccine development, a budding genomics revolution, a $1T self organizing i | 2.9× | 0 | 3.3k | 378 | 130 |
| 45 | Oct 13 | My conversation with David Vélez (@velez_david), founder and CEO of Nubank. The last time we did this was five years ago, and Nubank had 35 million customers. Today it has over 140 | 2.9× | 164k | 681 | 100 | 501 |
| 46 | Oct 3, '18 | Sorry in advance because I hate these lists, but years in, these strategies have really paid off: - don’t read the news - don’t discuss politics - don’t opine without lots of perso | 2.9× | 0 | 2.8k | 568 | 125 |
| 47 | Nov 17, '24 | It’s true | 2.8× | 163k | 1.5k | 146 | 794 |
| 48 | Aug 4, '19 | Moats are actually loops. Fun exercise—try to draw this for whatever business you work in or a company you love. From @maxolson | 2.8× | 0 | 2k | 439 | 687 |
| 49 | Nov 24, '20 | Bezos on experimental vs operational failure. Simple and elegant comparison. | 2.8× | 0 | 2.6k | 362 | 420 |
| 50 | May 11, '22 | What is a stock/company that you know well that you can’t believe is down as much as it is? | 2.7× | 0 | 1.5k | 90 | 670 |
| 51 | Jun 21, '20 | What is the best explainer video that you’ve ever seen? | 2.7× | 0 | 1.3k | 175 | 1.1k |
| 52 | Jan 15, '22 | My son (just turned 8) has expressed some interest in programming and engineering. What are the best ways for young kids to mess around with core concepts, or even more formal kid- | 2.6× | 0 | 1.2k | 117 | 1.1k |
| 53 | Jul 8, '21 | This was one of the books that may permanently change my behavior. Don’t find those often. Reminded me of Born to Run. After reading Born to Run, I never ran the same again. After | 2.5× | 0 | 1.7k | 101 | 889 |
| 54 | Jan 20, '19 | Starter kit for learning about strategy: 1) @benthompson 2) Modern Monopolies 📖 3) @AnnieDuke 4) 7 Powers 📖 5) @BrentBeshore 6) Let My People Go Surfing 📖 7) @mjmauboussin 8) Bi | 2.5× | 0 | 1.7k | 221 | 789 |
| 55 | Jul 9, '20 | What is the most interesting business essay you’ve read in 2020? | 2.4× | 0 | 1.2k | 147 | 1.1k |
| 56 | Dec 2, '16 | I’m often asked how I read so much and how I choose books. So, my I’ll try my first tweet storm... | 2.4× | 0 | 1.6k | 406 | 434 |
| 57 | Dec 20, '24 | The secret service affectionately called @jaredkushner “the Mechanic” because he was constantly fixing problems behind the scenes. That’s the theme of our convo: - Affinity Partner | ⚡ 2.3× | 1.9M | 1.5k | 219 | 637 |
| 58 | Feb 15, '21 | If you were building a school which only taught investing, what courses would you include? 101 through graduate level ideas welcome. (we may build this someday so your ideas may co | 2.3× | 0 | 1.3k | 87 | 666 |
| 59 | Jul 12, '20 | Enough educational content for the next year below @ScarrottKalani built compilations based on everyone’s answer to: Best essay: Best business essay: Best explainer video: | 2.3× | 0 | 1.2k | 171 | 1k |
| 60 | Mar 13, '22 | I’d like to meet a 5, 6, F and hear their entire life story | 2.2× | 0 | 2.4k | 107 | 68 |
| 61 | May 29, '21 | “Positioning” is one of the most important books I’ve read. “The basic idea is not to create something new and different, but to manipulate what’s already in the mind, to retie the | 2.1× | 0 | 1.4k | 79 | 832 |
| 62 | Jul 24, '20 | A book I wish existed: A huge collection of 2-3 page summaries of now large company's initial go to market strategies, across as many industries as possible. Ditto for many spectac | 2.0× | 0 | 1.9k | 108 | 393 |
| 63 | Dec 1, '19 | What is the best book you read in 2019? For me: The Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz | 1.9× | 0 | 1.2k | 81 | 609 |
| 64 | Aug 13, '22 | These two books should be required reading in high school There is so much about the world that needs fixing, and those issues get their due attention But there are so many REMARKA | 1.9× | 0 | 1.2k | 93 | 718 |
| 65 | Dec 30, '18 | The power of owning demand: Google paid Apple $9B to continue to be default search on iOS. Microsoft's Bing, by contrast, generated $1.7B in revenue. So Apple's "search business" 5 | 1.8× | 0 | 1.7k | 404 | 107 |
| 66 | Feb 6, '20 | “According to Chick-fil-A, 60k people apply to be operators every year — and only ~80 are selected. With a 0.13% acceptance rate, it’s harder to become a Chick-fil-A franchisee tha | 1.8× | 0 | 1.7k | 336 | 152 |
| 67 | Nov 24, '20 | Bezos on trust and experiments | 1.8× | 0 | 1.6k | 183 | 368 |
| 68 | Feb 5, '21 | What would be on your Mt. Rushmore of businesses to study in depth to replace an MBA? Mine: 1. Berkshire 2. Amazon 3. Costco 4. IBM Honorable mentions: Nike, Intel, Visa, Tencent, | 1.8× | 0 | 1.2k | 62 | 334 |
| 69 | Jun 9, '21 | This might be the best slide deck advice that I’ve seen. | 1.7× | 0 | 1.4k | 127 | 507 |
| 70 | Jul 17, '21 | When hiring, what qualities do you think are most interesting to look for regardless of the role? I have 2 1) evidence of some sort of mastery (describe something excellent you’ve | 1.7× | 0 | 1.2k | 84 | 541 |
| 71 | Dec 12, '20 | My favorite western philosopher is Arthur Schopenhauer. His most approachable collection is “The Wisdom of Life.” His key idea: health and curiosity drive happiness. “Riches are li | 1.7× | 0 | 1.4k | 140 | 471 |
| 72 | Nov 28, '18 | Two strategies I've heard for teaching kids about money. 1. Allowance, then 1/3 gets saved/invest, 1/3 get spent, 1/3 given away 2. Allowance, then 20% interest paid on money not s | 1.7× | 0 | 1.4k | 178 | 213 |
| 73 | Aug 21, '21 | Robin Dunbar (of Dunbars number fame) has new work on friendship Takes ~200 hours to move someone from stranger to close friend 7 factors for friendship compatibility are: language | 1.7× | 0 | 1.3k | 199 | 404 |
| 74 | Mar 23, '20 | This is the standard of communication that we need. Wish we could clone this general and have the clone army handle all messaging. - fast - clear - SIMPLE - high energy - numbers, | 1.7× | 0 | 1.6k | 306 | 119 |
| 75 | Sep 13, '21 | Today is a special day for me: the 5-year anniversary of the podcast. No one is luckier than me. It has been such an honor to learn from more than 300 guests and reach 30 million p | 1.7× | 0 | 1.8k | 62 | 167 |
| 76 | Sep 16, '21 | One of my favorite business stats today is that Tesla has never spent money on advertising. | 1.6× | 0 | 2k | 126 | 39 |
| 77 | Feb 4, '21 | Today’s young people with some money to invest are interested in so many more things than I was in my 20s. - crypto - collectibles - art - angel investing - active stock picking - | 1.6× | 0 | 1.6k | 140 | 249 |
| 78 | Nov 6, '21 | This is 8-dimensional chess | 1.6× | 0 | 2k | 121 | 65 |
| 79 | Mar 25, '18 | 1/x A week ago, I had a thoroughly bizarre experience that not many people do: For 20 minutes, I thought I was going to die. As evidence: I wrote my wife Lauren a goodbye note. Her | 1.6× | 0 | 1.3k | 343 | 97 |
| 80 | Jun 17, '20 | Excel is the premier "no code" programming tool. Loved this passage from @collision: | 1.6× | 0 | 1.5k | 191 | 160 |
| 81 | Feb 14, '21 | Looking for people with these qualities: - doing their life’s work - working on one thing for a long time - hard to stump (domain knowledge) - have been beaten up and continued on | 1.5× | 0 | 1.2k | 73 | 359 |
| 82 | Sep 30, '21 | Very excited to announce that OSAM, together with the Canvas platform, is being acquired by Franklin Templeton This has been an incredible journey thus far, and we couldn’t be happ | 1.4× | 0 | 1.7k | 33 | 40 |
| 83 | Mar 31, '18 | Two things I learned today 1. “Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins” 2. “Basic survival goods are cheap, whereas narcissistic self-stimu | 1.4× | 0 | 1.3k | 330 | 52 |
| 84 | Oct 21, '18 | Fun exercise: review every book you’ve read and ask “did this permanently change me?” For me, roughly 1 in 100 did Of the “99,” I hardly finished any Reading strategy—keep reading | 1.4× | 0 | 1.4k | 188 | 75 |
| 85 | May 22, '18 | My conversation with @samhinkie on -the long view -applied innovation -data science, machine learning -his time at the Rockets, remaking the 76ers -the importance of hiring and rec | 1.3× | 0 | 1.2k | 216 | 112 |
| 86 | Nov 7, '20 | This is so f-ing great. Watch until the end. | 1.3× | 0 | 1.3k | 132 | 182 |
| 87 | Jun 8, '20 | If we take one investing lesson away from this period, it’s that we should completely disregard ANY investor’s short term market views, no matter their track record or net worth. | 1.3× | 0 | 1.5k | 151 | 45 |
| 88 | Apr 23, '20 | Bitcoin getting crushed at the halving would be a very appropriate 2020 thing. | 1.2× | 0 | 1.6k | 79 | 16 |
| 89 | Oct 8, '22 | MJ 😂 | 1.2× | 0 | 1.5k | 92 | 90 |
| 90 | Jan 8, '21 | Hoping now for an American Renaissance, where America: - welcomes top global talent with open arms - leads the world’s research in biology, AI, energy, and transportation - renews | 1.2× | 0 | 1.4k | 102 | 35 |
| 91 | Sep 11, '21 | "Stop crying. I have to get these people out safely. If something should happen to me, I want you to know I've never been happier. You made my life." (thanks @BrianNorgard) | 1.1× | 0 | 1.2k | 153 | 51 |
| 92 | Sep 4, '20 | 🚨 🚨 🚨 Very excited to announce a new initiative. After years of building, operating, and investing in software, we are launching Positive Sum, an early stage equity investing fi | 1.1× | 0 | 1.2k | 50 | 136 |
| 93 | May 7, '21 | Ethereum is so much more interesting than Bitcoin* *not a price or investing opinion, about which I have no clue! | 1.1× | 0 | 1.3k | 82 | 33 |
| 94 | May 12, '21 | Smart people make you feel dumb. Very smart people make you feel smart. H/t @BlasMoros | 1.1× | 0 | 1.2k | 123 | 76 |
| 95 | Jan 25, '21 | Soon... | 1.0× | 0 | 1.5k | 10 | 9 |
| 96 | Dec 25, '20 | Merry Christmas from my fam to yours! | 1.0× | 0 | 1.5k | 4 | 2 |
| 97 | Oct 19, '21 | If Tolkien’s estate minted one ring (to rule them all) as an NFT, what would it sell for? | 1.0× | 0 | 1.1k | 119 | 22 |
| 98 | Mar 31, '19 | Woods thread to be added to the rest of the year. Hopefully these will cause a few people go to the woods that wouldn’t have otherwise. Found a tree down over the river. Great spot | 0.9× | 0 | 1.1k | 32 | 50 |
| 99 | May 21, '20 | All work calls now taken in the woods. A large % of people on the other end of the line are also walking, with birds chirping. Calls somehow go better knowing the other person is o | 0.9× | 0 | 1.2k | 59 | 27 |
| 100 | May 23, '21 | The west loop in Chicago with good weather is one of the best vibes in the US. | 0.9× | 0 | 1.1k | 42 | 20 |
| 101 | May 24, '20 | Today, @jposhaughnessy turns 60 There’s nobody who smiles and laughs more He remains the most generous person I’ve met. He gives time, money, energy, love...and GIFs...freely, with | 0.9× | 0 | 1.2k | 10 | 6 |
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