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Great @Fortune piece on @davidsenra today. Years ago, David kept texting me and @karimatiyeh to back a podcast with fewer than 1,000 listeners. "Trust me on this one." We did. That podcast became @tbpn. It sold to OpenAI this April and along the way did more for @tryramp's profile than any ad money could buy. What the piece gets right about David and mostly leaves between the lines: he's read 415 biographies of the people who got it right and he turned that discipline into a place the rest of us go to study. @FoundersPodcast isn't a podcast so much as a school for builders. It's why the founders I asked didn't describe it, they revered it. When you've studied the greats that obsessively, you can tell the sublime from the merely great — and you'll bet everything on the difference before the rest of us can see it at all. David earned that audience one obsessed listener at a time. Summarizing a book a week, alone in a room, scraping by for years before anyone was listening. The fame didn't change him. Neither did the money: he turned down $50M buyout offers to keep Founders his, and he takes no equity in the bets he sends others. For David, great work itself is always the point. The lesson I keep relearning from him: when you find talent like that, don't hedge. Back them completely. The returns aren't linear. Nothing better than watching a friend succeed. Grateful to be in business with him too — Founders Podcast, the new show, whatever comes next.

Fable Unbanned, Lab Nationalization, End of Paper-Based Retirement, SpaceX Phone x.com/i/broadcasts/1RKZzzmDr…

Amble cofounder Julian Hoenig says they've received 1,000 preorders for its premium, street-legal electric golf cart in their first 3 days. Hoenig previously worked in design at Apple under Jony Ive, plus Audi and Lamborghini. Amble's CTO came from F1.

MetaCloud, Bending Spoons IPO with Founder Luca Ferrari, Fabel Freed, TML Cooking, Fertility Breakthrough, Karp Stuns, Amble Founder Joins x.com/i/broadcasts/1yKAPPpMv…

Etched Founder Joins, AI Creates Jobs, It's OVER for Peptides, Tristan Thompson in the Ultradome, Grant and Ian from Cantos IRL x.com/i/broadcasts/1qKVmmOEP…

Open-Source AI Battle, Google Throttles Meta, Micron Margins Moon, Rocket Lab buys Iridium, Comcast Splits x.com/i/broadcasts/1jxXggOvO…

I am pleased to be the face of French cigarettes, and to remind smokers to always follow with a good night's sleep.

We went to Cannes Lions to make amends with France, but were disappointed to get mixed messages from Macron on squashing our beef. He likely sabotaged the AC on our connecting flight and banned nicotine pouches in the country, among other insults. Jordi on what happened:

Cannes Recap, Meta Gambling Goggles, AI Restrictions, Apple Price Hikes x.com/i/broadcasts/1pKkOOLvw…

We’re live in the Ultradome with @jakepaul right now:

Midjourney Medical, AI Talent Wars 2.0, G7 Recap, Jake Paul Joins x.com/i/broadcasts/1DxLddjlp…

Snap Specs, Taste, Midjourney Hardware, Lunchtime for AI Leaders x.com/i/broadcasts/1lJQRRAqV…

YC Demo Day Lightning Round, New Snap AR Glasses, SpaceX Rips x.com/i/broadcasts/1yKAPPoNX…

America 250 Recap with Bo Nickal, Gavin Baker Joins, Anthropic in Washington, Le Chaton Fat Tops Benchmarks x.com/i/broadcasts/1qKDzzAZY…

SpaceX IPO Gigastream x.com/i/broadcasts/1vJpPPqPA…

So you're telling me there's a chance

Bezos AI Play, Future of Airports, Trucking is Back, CAA Fund x.com/i/broadcasts/1aJbddXll…

Facebook gets a movie, Anthropic gets a Fable, Vinod Khosla, Matthew Prince, Bret Taylor x.com/i/broadcasts/1mxPaaDoZ…

Siri AI, Fable Launch, China Wakes Up, Rivian CEO Joins, IPO Filings, Learn to Weld? x.com/i/broadcasts/1yKAPPbqA…

WWDC, Jobs Up Stocks Down, VC Horror Stories, Cars and Planes x.com/i/broadcasts/1lJQRRjYN…