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Truth Over Feelings: Inside Opendoor’s Massive Turnaround

Most companies don’t fail overnight. They fail one decision, one compromise, and one comfortable lie at a time. Kaz Nejatian knows what it looks like from the inside. He took over Opendoor when it was just months away from bankruptcy and set out to rebuild it from the ground up. What followed wasn’t a traditional … The post Truth Over Feelings: Inside Opendoor’s Massive Turnaround appeared first on Farnam Street

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The Best Summary of Atlas Shrugged

A brief, no-fluff, summary of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. If you want to learn how capitalist countries become socialist, this book will help you. Let’s dive in. Atlas Shrugged: The Simple Version The world depends on a relatively small number of people who build, invent, and produce. They are the entrepreneurs, engineers, scientists, industrialists, … The post The Best Summary of Atlas Shrugged appeared first on Farnam Street

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

Steve Cohen and Rory McIlroy share the same performance coach. For the next 90 minutes, 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 performance, and what separates those who consistently excel from those who stay stuck. He … The post The Mindset That Unlocks Your Full Potential | Dr. Gio Valiante appeared first on Farnam Street

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Dr. Giulia Enders: How to Nourish Your Gut (And Keep It Thriving for Life)

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 mood, sleep, metabolism, and long-term health. Public Release: June 23. Members have access now.Join … The post Dr. Giulia Enders: How to Nourish Your Gut (And Keep It Thriving for Life) appeared first on Farnam Street

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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. Public Release: June 9. Members have access now.Join us. Coming Soon: YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts … The post Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley appeared first on Farnam Street

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Proven, Better, New: Mark Pincus on the Rules of Product Innovation

Mark Pincus built Zynga into one of the biggest gaming companies in the world and helped shape the early era of social products on the internet. Public Release: June 2. Members have access now.Join us. Coming Soon: YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Transcript In this conversation, he breaks down how great founders spot … The post Proven, Better, New: Mark Pincus on the Rules of Product Innovation appeared first on Farnam Street

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Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions

Winston Weinberg is the CEO and co-founder of Harvey, the AI platform built for the legal industry. Available Now: YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Transcript 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 prioritization muscle … The post Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions appeared first on Farnam Street

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[Outliers] Chung Ju-yung: 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% of South Korea’s economic output. This episode explores how Chung built Hyundai, how he … The post [Outliers] Chung Ju-yung: The Hyundai Founder Who Put a Country on His Back appeared first on Farnam Street

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Greg Brockman: Inside the 72 Hours That Almost Killed OpenAI

The AI race, the future of AGI, and the inside story of OpenAI. Greg Brockman is the co-founder and President of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and GPT-5. He was the first engineer at Stripe before leaving in 2015 to help start OpenAI. In this rare conversation, Greg goes inside the moments that built, and nearly … The post Greg Brockman: Inside the 72 Hours That Almost Killed OpenAI appeared first on Farnam Street

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Mario Harik: Playing to Win

How does one engineer run 40,000 people with 10 daily numbers, zero hobbies, and a $1 billion bet he made in his first year as CEO? Mario Harik is the CEO of XPO, one of the largest trucking companies in the world. He started as employee #3, learned from Brad Jacobs (who built eight multibillion-dollar … The post Mario Harik: Playing to Win appeared first on Farnam Street

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Joe Liemandt: Alpha School and the Future of Education

Joe Liemandt is the principal of Alpha School and the founder of Trilogy Software and ESW Capital. Liemandt dropped out of Stanford to build Trilogy, made the cover of Forbes twice before thirty, became the youngest member of the Forbes 400, then vanished from public life for twenty-five years. But he didn’t stop building. Through … The post Joe Liemandt: Alpha School and the Future of Education appeared first on Farnam Street

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[Outliers] Harrison McCain: How to Create Demand for Something Nobody Wants

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.” Public Release: March 24. Members have access now.Join us. Coming Soon: YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Transcript He quit with … The post [Outliers] Harrison McCain: How to Create Demand for Something Nobody Wants appeared first on Farnam Street

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