The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

  • OpenAI Co-Founder: AI Goes Parabolic! Here’s What’s Next | Greg Brockman

    The AI race, the future of AGI, and the inside story of OpenAI. Greg Brockman is the co-founder of OpenAI. This is the most detailed first-person account he has given of the 72 hours after…


  • 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…


  • 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…


  • [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.” He quit…


  • Connor Teskey: Inside Brookfield’s Culture, Capital Allocation, and Competitive Edge

    Connor Teskey is the new CEO of Brookfield Asset Management, one of the world’s largest investors, managing about a trillion dollars across infrastructure, power, real estate, private equity, and credit.  In this exclusive in-depth interview,…


  • [Outliers] J.W. Marriott: Building an Empire Without a Master Plan

    Bill Marriott built the largest hotel company in the world. But he didn’t open his first hotel until he was 55 and he fought against it the whole way. In fact, the man that would…


  • Inside the Mind of Robinhood Co-Founder Vlad Tenev

    Robinhood’s co-founder reveals the brutal reality of surviving an 80% market crash, going “founder mode” to cut corporate bloat, and what actually happened during GameStop. Vlad Tenev is the co-founder and CEO of Robinhood. Not…


  • [Outliers] Phil Knight: The Obsession That Built Nike

    Phil Knight is the founder of Nike, the brand that reshaped sports and became one of the most powerful companies in the world. What would you do if your bank, your supplier, and your government…


  • Nicolai Tangen: The $2 Trillion Mind

    Nicolai Tangen is the CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund. He is responsible for managing $2.1 trillion. That’s roughly 1.7% of every listed company on earth. In this episode,…


  • Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

    Michael Ovitz co-founded CAA and helped reshape Hollywood, then took the same playbook into tech investing and advising founders. In this conversation, he breaks down the operating rules that kept CAA from losing clients, and…


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