The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

  • Steve Wozniak: The Engineer Who Built Apple [Outliers]

    Steve Wozniak is the engineer who built Apple. Then he did something Silicon Valley still doesn’t understand: he gave millions of his own money away to early employees, walked away from power, and refused to…

  • Anthony Scilipoti: The Bubble No One is Talking About

    Anthony Scilipoti is one of the sharpest minds in investing. He’s the President and CEO of Veritas Group of Companies. He called the collapses of both Valeant Pharmaceuticals and Nortel before they happened, and now…

  • Jim Clayton: Turning Competitors’ Mistakes Into $1.7B [Outliers]

    This week on Outliers, I explore the incredible story of Jim Clayton. When the bank forced him into bankruptcy at 27, they literally seized everything, including his accountant’s calculator. He started over and rebuilt following…

  • Tracy Britt Cool: Brick by Brick

    This week I sat down with Warren Buffett’s former financial assistant Tracy Britt Cool. In this exclusive interview, you’ll learn how she went from writing a cold letter to Buffett to being sent in to…

  • Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street [Outliers]

    Hetty Green was the richest woman you’ve never heard of. In the late 1800s, she built a fortune worth billions today in a world designed to stop her. Women couldn’t vote, couldn’t own property, and…

  • Barry Diller: Building IAC

    My guest this week is Barry Diller, one of America’s most successful businessmen. At 83, he chose to publish a deeply personal book and open up about his successes and failures. With surprising candor he…

  • Ed Stack: Lessons from Dick’s Sporting Goods [Outliers]

    Ed Stack built Dick’s Sporting Goods from a struggling family store into an empire of more than 800 stores and billions in sales. Along the way he nearly lost everything. Multiple times. This episode is…

  • Lulu Cheng Meservey: How To Build A Cult

    Lulu Cheng Meservey is one of the sharpest minds in communications and strategy. She has helped some of the best leaders through their hardest moments. We talk about why trust and conviction are contagious, how…

  • Fred Smith: The Story of FedEx [Outliers]

    Fred Smith founded FedEx on an idea everyone told him would fail and built it into an $88 billion empire that changed how the world moves. In this episode, we dive into how he built…

  • Benedict Evans: The Patterns Everyone Else Misses

    Benedict Evans has been calling tech shifts for decades. Now he says forget the hype: AI isn’t the new electricity. It’s the biggest change since the iPhone, and that’s plenty big enough. We talk about…

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