John Collison

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6,048 appearances 22 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2025 last heard 5 Feb

John Collison’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 10 in all, peaking in Oct 2025 with 5.

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Cheeky Pint · Casey Handmer of Terraform Industries on solar maximalism, hard tech, and reclaiming the Salton Sea · 28 Oct 2025 podcast

But yeah, who else should we be looking at and saying we should be doing more of that kind of thing here? voice-verified

But isn't it hard to rely on producing premium products like voice-verified

Well that's where you voice-verified

People in tech follow Elon a lot and you know have read the Walter Isaacson book and they're familiar with the OV and uh you know know much about how he works. voice-verified

Um Ashley's book is good too. voice-verified

Ashley's book is very good as well. voice-verified

What do you think uh never mind kind of people at a distance or uh you know people are very bothered by Elon or something like that, people in tech who kind of follow this stuff, what do you think they still misunderstand about the Elon production function? voice-verified

edgedness is not uh an incidental trait. voice-verified

You think it's definitely success. voice-verified

But there are lots of people who are very successful and generally are regarded as pretty nice people. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

Okay. voice-verified

So s so so so so so that's one thing. voice-verified

You have to be somewhat hard edged. voice-verified

What else? voice-verified

how uh many SpaceX alumni voice-verified

have gone on to start rocket companies that are essentially just trying to build Falcon One. voice-verified

Uh and despite the fact that, you know, SpaceX was kinda doing that for the first time and had to learn lots of hard lessons, they got to work at SpaceX and they knew all the lessons and they'd seen everything and still a lot of them have struggled. voice-verified

I haven't heard you espouse a theory as to why they've struggled. voice-verified

What advice do you have for highly tech technical um youngsters, say, you know, someone who's in college listening to this? voice-verified

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