LABOSS PODCAST
Episodes
#58 - Miles Grimshaw
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Miles Grimshaw is a Partner at Thrive Capital, an investment firm that builds and invests in internet, software, and technology-enabled companies. Thr...
#57 - Kevin Hartz
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Hartz is Co-Founder and General Partner at A*, a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments. Before establishing A*, Kevin co-...
#56 - Amjad Masad
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amjad Masad is the co-founder and CEO of Replit, a programming environment for everyone that allows anyone to write and deploy code, regardless of exp...
#55 - Katherine Boyle
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Katherine Boyle is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and cofounder of the firm’s American Dynamism practice, which invests in companies suppo...
#54 - Keith Rabois
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Keith Rabois is a Managing Partner at Khosla Ventures and the CEO of OpenStore, which acquires small direct-to-consumer businesses. Keith co-founded O...
#53 - Elad Gil
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur, executive, and one of the greatest tech investors of all time, with early stakes in something like 40 billion-plus ...
#52 - Erik Torenberg
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Erik Torenberg is a technology entrepreneur and investor. Presently, he’s the founder of Turpentine. Previously, he was the chairman of On Deck, co-...
#51 - Bryan Johnson
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bryan Johnson is the world's most measured human. Johnson sold his company, Braintree Venmo, to PayPal for $800m in 2013. Through his Project Blue...
#50 - Anthony Pompliano
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano is an entrepreneur and technology investor. He runs his family office which makes private investments, along with owning ...
#49 - Bryan Caplan
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a New York Times Bestselling author. He’s the author of 8 books, including T...
#48 - Delian Asparouhov
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Delian Asparouhov is the co-founder, President and Chairman of Varda Space Industries, a company building spacecraft to manufacture materials in micro...
#47 - Robin Hanson
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Robin Hanson is a professor at George Mason University and researcher at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford. 0:00 - Intro 2:42 - Intelligent L...
#46 - Chris Mason
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Mason is a professor of Genomics, Physiology, and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine. He is also one of the founding Directors of the WorldQ...
#45 - Keith Rabois
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Keith Rabois is a General Partner at Founders Fund and the CEO of OpenStore, which acquires small direct-to-consumer businesses. Keith co-founded Open...
#44 - Bradley Tusk
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bradley Tusk is a venture capitalist, political strategist, philanthropist and writer. He is the CEO and co-founder of Tusk Ventures, the world’s fi...
#43 - Jeff Morris Jr.
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Morris Jr is the Managing Partner at Chapter One, an early stage venture capital fund. He’s formerly the VP of Product and Revenue at Tinder, w...
#42 - Sari Azout
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On founding versus Investing, parenting, indexing knowledge, collective intelligence, and good questions.
#41 - Jason Crawford
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On optimism, progress in technology, drivers of stagnation, and how to think about innovation.
#40 - Samo Burja
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On Immortal societies, civilizational decline, the longevity of information, and academia.
#39 - John List
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On apologies, academia, quitting, critical thinking, and scaling great ideas.
#38 - Renée DiResta
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On the internet’s biggest problems, social networks as open protocols, and pseudonymity online.
#37 - Kyle Samani
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On risk, thesis-driven investment, and what Kyle thinks people aren’t thinking about enough.
#36 - Matt Galligan
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On falling into tech, communication protocols, pseudonymity and reputation.
#35 - Anthony Pompliano
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On conviction, decentralization, and writing online.
#34 - Adam Jackson
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On marketplaces, community-owned networks, and the future of work.
#33 - Nadia Eghbal
20 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On academia, how open source works, code as a public good, and journalism.
#32 - Rory Sutherland
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On good storytelling, the brilliance of irrationality, the dangers of institutional behavior, and air fryers.
#31 - Roneil Rumburg
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On dorm room crypto mining, Layer 2 Bitcoin, Web3 disruption, and much more.
#30 - Peter Diamandis
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On curiosity, finding purpose in life, the future of longevity science, and the importance of space.
#29 - Agnes Callard
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On status games, paths in life, persuasion, good parenting, privacy, and God.
#28 - Albert Wenger
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On climate tech, crypto regulation, and writing in public.
#27 - Vijay Boyapati
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On decentralization, geo-politics, and power
#26 - Sam Corcos
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On metabolic health, running a remote company, bio-observability and more.
#25 - Gaby Goldberg
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On forced reflection, breaking into VC, modern friendships, and the new logic of the internet
#24 - Tyler Cowen
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On podcasting, the end of the great stagnation, academia, antitrust, and more.
#23 - Chris Blattman
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On sampling in life, Colombian gangs, and the perpetuation of peace
#22 - Daniel Gross
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On predicting success, angel investing, remote work, and more.
#21 - Gary Taubes
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On navigating education, what good science means, and why we get fat.
#20 - Blake Robbins
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On cold emails, the state of VC, time as wealth, and more.
#19 - Jude Gomila
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The CEO of Golden talks investing, indexing knowledge, and important problems.
#18 - Jake
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The pseudonymous figure talks fame, life decisions, and podcasting.
#17 - Eric Jorgenson
26 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Jorgenson talks sandwiches, book writing and leverage.
#16 - Delian Asparouhov
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On immigrant beginnings, unconventional paths, and space factories.
#15 - Amjad Masad
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On when startups become corporations, the future of open source, and doing what makes the best story.
#14 - Peter McCormack
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On volcanoes, discovering bitcoin, and anarchism.
#13 - Rolf Potts
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The travel writer and essayist talks time as wealth, why we travel, and the role of social media.
#12 - Aubrey de Grey
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Aubrey de Grey on the ultimate human problem, why we age, and how we can stop it.
#11 - Robin Hanson
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Robin Hanson on hidden motives, emulating brains, and life in the universe.
#10 - Eli Dourado
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On the great stagnation, transformational technologies, and the future of crypto with Eli Dourado.
#9 - Beth Comstock
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On risk, corporate culture and the necessity of conflict with Beth Comstock, author and former CMO and vice chair at General Electric.
#8 - Annie Duke
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Annie Duke on “right” decisions, when to quit, and hedging your bets.
#7 - Patri Friedman
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Talking poker, cities on the ocean, and anarcho capitalism with the founder of The Seasteading Institute.
# 6 - Troy Osinoff
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On starting young, unconventional paths, and the future of marketing with Troy Osinoff, co-founder of Juice, an award winning digital marketing agency...
#5 - Bradley Tusk
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On politicians, saving Uber, and mobile voting with Bradley Tusk, a man doing everything at once.
#4 - Ryan Delk
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lessons in building, the state of education, and defining success with the CEO of Primer.
#3 - Mark Lutter
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On building cities from scratch, good governance, and how we’ll live in 2050 with the Founder and Executive Director of the Charter Cities Institute...
#2 - Megan Smith
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Talking personal journey, sustainable development and entrenched biases with the former US CTO and Google VP, now CEO and founder of people-forward in...
#1 - Raghuram Rajan
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The esteemed economist and former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India talks community, COVID, and inequality.