Writer, editor, and founder of The Elysian, Elle Griffin joins me on Infinite Loops to discuss her vision for participatory capitalism, a world where ownership, reputation, and creativity are shared more broadly across society. We explore the evolution of capitalism from the industrial era to the networked age, how broad-based…
"A lot of low agency people track the inputs...'I put this amount of effort hours in, I should get this amount of stuff out.' [But] high agency people focus on the outputs." ~ Jay Yang echoes Naval: "The only true test of intelligence is whether you get what you want…
"Here, I made this for you because I've been loving your work for the last few years. If you like it, let's work together. If not, no harm, no foul." ~ Jay Yang's approach to working with people he admires... Full video: https://youtu.be/ihntSCqmxQ0
"If you're constantly thinking, 'Oh, I can't just do things,' or 'Someone else, they're just lucky,' or 'Things don't go my way'—are those really the thoughts that you want in your head?" ~ Jay Yang on rewiring our mental software... Full video: https://youtu.be/ihntSCqmxQ0
"Obsession isn't what you want to do. Obsession is what you can't not do." ~ Jay Yang on the core factor of agency... Full video: https://youtu.be/ihntSCqmxQ0
What if the biggest barrier between you and your dreams isn't talent, connections, or luck— but simply the belief that you need permission to act? Jay Yang joins Infinite Loops to challenge one of the most limiting assumptions of our time: that opportunities must be handed to us rather than…
We’re heading toward organizations where more AI agents will work for us than humans. The challenge is learning how to direct, manage, and sometimes overrule them. ~ Jim O’Shaughnessy on the leadership mindset of the future. Full Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/DJqDGrKzxvo #AI #leadership #technology #InfiniteLoops
Shifting from Product-Led Growth to Sales-Led Growth isn’t a simple pricing change — it’s a complete organizational transformation. ~ Jeff Bussgang on how great companies scale beyond the PLG plateau. Full Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/DJqDGrKzxvo
If AI is doing the technical work, how will young people know what excellence looks like? It’s time for the Revenge of the Liberal Arts — to master taste, judgment, and the art of discernment. ~ Jeff Bussgang on the timeless skills AI can’t replace. Full Youtube video: https://youtu.be/DJqDGrKzxvo #AI…
We have two ways that we define clock speed… one is the ability to make decisions rapidly, the other is raw intelligence. The best founders have both. ~ Jeff Bussgang @bussgang on what separates exceptional founders from the rest 👇 Full Youtube video: https://youtu.be/DJqDGrKzxvo #startups #founders #AI #entrepreneurship #InfiniteLoops
Jeff Bussgang — entrepreneur, venture capitalist, Harvard Business School professor, and co-founder of Flybridge Capital — joins Infinite Loops to explore how AI is transforming the operating systems of startups. We dive into Jeff’s framework from his new book The Experimentation Machine, why AI compresses the cost and time of…
"A lot of the VCs are much more interested in tweeting than governing..." ~ Dan Wang on why very few modern versions of Admiral Rickover exist today Full video: https://youtu.be/NShAtq8WROM #fullvideo #vcs #government #progress #bureaucracy #musk
"Lawyers used to be creative dealmaking types...and then the lawyers decided to shift away from being deal-makers into regulators..." ~ Dan Wang on a shift in the attitude of Lawyers since the 60s...👇
"[People] don't necessarily appreciate how their communities could get a lot better if they were not frozen in amber. New developments feels good." ~ Dan Wang on his experience of NIMBYism in the U.S... Full video: https://youtu.be/NShAtq8WROM
"What we're getting right now is authoritarianism without the good stuff. Authoritarianism without the highly functional trains that authoritarians are legendary for." ~ Dan Wang on America's current state of affairs Full video: https://youtu.be/NShAtq8WROM
Dan Wang, author of "Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future," joins me to explore why China builds while America blocks, how lawyers strangled U.S. infrastructure, and why Connecticut trains run slower than they did in 1914. Dan lived through China's trade war, Zero COVID, and the exodus of 15,000+…
"The point of [writing] is to give you power." ~ Alex Danco explains his role, and the impact great writing can have for founders... Full video: https://youtu.be/1y7KpHPuQO0
"She does speeches on a regular basis that have quite tremendous impact, you know, a long time later, and it's not because she's trying to reach a large number of people. It's because she's trying to reach a very specific group of people" ~ Alex Danco on how top execs…
"[The elite class] largely communicated, particularly through speeches... [which] is a medium that communicates the notion that I am in service to you..." ~ Alex Danco on the power of the right medium 👇 Full video: https://youtu.be/1y7KpHPuQO0
"The point of VC is to give founders legitimacy... I think legitimacy is fundamentally how you get capitalized." ~ Alex Danco on VCs as legitimacy banks... Full video: https://youtu.be/1y7KpHPuQO0
It’s Alex Danco’s landmark 10th appearance on Infinite Loops! He joins the show to discuss his move from Shopify to a16z (where he'll be building out their editorial operations), the power dynamics between VCs and founders (the kings and priests of our era), communication theory and the power of speechwriting,…
"The fact that everybody can execute means that something else is going to have value...just because execution is cheap and easy and just because you can see output...you remain blinded to what now becomes valuable." ~ Sangeet Paul Choudary on the vibe coding paradox... Full video: https://youtu.be/puMSLID_rsc
"This idea of the bundled degree, bundled education, bundled job ... all of that will have to be completely unbundled." ~ Sangeet Paul Choudary on the slow 'clock speed' of our institutions, and what we'll have to do in the age of AI... Full video: https://youtu.be/puMSLID_rsc
"When answers become cheap (as they do with an LLM and we can generate answers on the fly), asking the right question is the new scarcity." ~ Sangeet Paul Choudary's words of wisdom for knowledge workers... Full video: https://youtu.be/puMSLID_rsc