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Ben Patrick, better known as “Kneesovertoesguy” (@TheKneesovertoesguy) is the founder of Athletic Truth Group (ATG), an online and brick-and-mortar training system rooted in rehabilitative strength and joint health. After years of debilitating knee and shin pain (including multiple surgeries), he rebuilt his body and performance, going from a sub-20″ vertical to a documented 42″ leap.
My workout with Ben: youtube.com/watch?v=xpM4V6O9f6w
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Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 900 million downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running.
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Ben Patrick, better known as “Kneesovertoesguy” (@TheKneesovertoesguy) is the founder of Athletic Truth Group (ATG), an online and brick-and-mortar training system rooted in rehabilitative strength and joint health. After years of debilitating knee and shin pain (including multiple surgeries), he rebuilt his body and performance, going from a sub-20″ vertical to a documented 42″ leap.
My workout with Ben: youtube.com/watch?v=xpM4V6O9f6w
This episode is brought to you by:
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David Protein Bars 28g of protein, 150 calories, and 0g of sugar: davidprotein.com/tim (Buy 4 cartons, get the 5th free.)
Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 900 million downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running.
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![The AI Frontier and How to Spot Billion-Dollar Companies Before Everyone Else — Elad Gil
Elad Gil is CEO of Gil & Co, a multi-stage investment firm, holding company, and operating company working on the world’s most advanced technologies. Elad is a serial entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to private companies, including AirBnB, Anduril, Coinbase, Figma, Instacart, OpenAI, SpaceX, and Stripe. He was previously VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter and started mobile at Google. He was the founder and CEO of Mixerlabs and Color. Elad is the author of the bestseller High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People.
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[00:00] Preview.
[00:31] Whats the AI personal IPO that just quietly happened across Silicon Valley?
[03:41] What top AI pay packages actually look like.
[04:59] The compute ceiling: Why Korean memory fabs are the unlikely bottleneck throttling every AI lab on earth.
[09:25] The fastest revenue ramps in the history of capitalism.
[12:15] The dot-com survival rate was one in 100. Buckle up, AI founders.
[15:30] Your value-maximizing window: Why the next 12–18 months may be as good as it gets.
[16:27 Durable advantage — and why the AI market is an oligopoly (for now).
[19:08] Exit options for AI founders: labs, hyperscalers, vertical players, and the underrated merger of equals.
[23:13] Math, biology, and intuitive leaps: Elads pre-investing background.
[24:49] Elads revisionist genesis story.
[25:55] Go where the cluster is: 91% of global AI private market cap lives in a 10x10 mile square.
[28:35] The accidental investor: Patrick Collison walks, Airbnb intros, and deals that just happened.
[29:55] Want money? Ask for advice. Want advice? Ask for money.
[30:19] The High Growth Handbook: Tactical guide, not bedtime reading.
[31:02] Market first, team second (usually)
[33:00] AlexNet and the transformative GPT-3 moment.
[37:53] AI cold-reading: Feeding photos to the model and getting eerily accurate personality reads.
[41:40] A retrospective on Elads own investing.
[44:55] Power laws are terrifying: 10 companies, 80% of returns, two decades.
[48:40] Avoiding science projects, and how SPACs accidentally saved hard tech investing.
[52:03] The one-belief framework: Coinbase = crypto index. Stripe = e-commerce index. Thats the whole memo.
[53:40] Due diligence theater vs. the one question that actually matters.
[54:59] The four-year vest is a relic: How venture capital ate growth investing.
[59:56] Boards as in-laws: You cant fire them, so choose wisely.
[01:02:30] Valuation is temporary. Control is forever. — Naval Ravikant
[01:04:16] How great companies actually grew: toolbars, name-targeted ads, and billions in distribution spend.
[01:08:24] Selling software vs. selling labor hours: The real shift generative AI made.
[01:11:33] Spotting a great market: regulatory shifts, technology shifts, and Hashi getting bought by IBM.
[01:14:22] Fake TAM, real TAM, and the Coke CEO who realized he wasnt in the soda business.
[01:15:46] Right now, consensus is just correct. Save the contrarianism for later.
[01:18:24] Market entry vs. market disruption: SpaceX launched rockets, then disrupted the internet.
[01:19:23] The four ways Elad learns
[01:20:23] Deep dive: ADHD, autism, and why diagnostic rates soared without more people actually having it.
[01:26:50] Longevity for realists: sleep, creatine, and maybe rapamycin when the real drugs arrive.
[01:33:52] Ibogaine, anesthesia, and the next frontier of bioelectric medicine.
[01:38:57] Elads first-ever 10-year plan — and why making one changes everything.
[01:40:38] Parting thoughts.
Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded one billion downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running.
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![Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and More — Jack Canfield
Jack Canfield is the coauthor of more than two hundred books, including, The Success Principles and the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, which includes forty New York Times bestsellers and which has sold more than 600 million copies in 50-plus languages around the world.
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[00:00] Preview
[00:42] How a single “yes” from Jack shaped my career.
[03:47] A contract lesson: How Chicken Soup for the Soul sold millions in China with zero royalties.
[05:38] Jack’s background: From poverty to Harvard.
[08:35] Discovering Chinese history and the “easy A” that changed everything.
[10:00] Winning “Teacher of the Year” teaching Black history.
[13:38] High praise from Sammy Davis Jr.
[14:13] W. Clement Stone: The $600 million mentor who turned motivation into a science (and insurance).
[18:08] Stone’s challenge: Take 100% responsibility and stop watching TV (a 14-month year hack).
[19:14] From visualizing $100,000 to a million.
[22:17] Chicken Soup origins.
[24:06] Mark Victor Hansen joins.
[25:45] 144 rejections later.
[27:56] The ABA miracle.
[30:32] The Rule of Five.
[32:31] Selling The Soul and splurging on sweaters.
[33:55] The Soup sourced from the universe.
[35:58] The big break.
[37:46] Word-of-mouth magic.
[40:46] Lessons from live feedback.
[42:41] The burnout years.
[44:48] Life after Chicken Soup.
[46:32] Late-night typing marathons and pun-laden chapter transitions that led to The Success Principles.
[49:35] How Jack’s love of transformation beats any royalty check.
[50:38] Retirement reflections.
[54:59] Jack’s longevity formula: Laughter, organic food, love, and letting go.
[57:38] An ayahuasca awakening.
[59:05] The story of Rythmia Life Advancement Center and how it’s affected Jack.
[01:02:03] Breaking belief loops and understanding community as medicine.
[01:05:27] E + R = O and strategies for taking 100% responsibility of one’s life.
[01:17:47] Why “clean up your messes” is first in Jack’s list of productivity tips.
[01:24:57] Where to begin if you’re unfamiliar with Jack’s work.
[01:26:38] Ken Blanchard: “Feedback is the breakfast of champions.”
[01:27:44] Parting thoughts.
Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 900 million downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running.
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![From 9th-Grade Dropout to DCs Longest-Serving Police Chief — Cathy Lanier
Cathy Lanier is the Chief Security Officer of the National Football League, where she oversees security across the league office and all 32 clubs. Before the NFL, she served as Chief of Police of Washington, D.C., from 2007 to 2016 — the first woman in the role and the longest-serving chief in the forces history — where her strategies helped cut violent crime by 21 percent even as the citys population grew 15 percent.
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[00:00] Preview.
[00:48] Cathy Lanier: from Tuxedo to the top.
[02:28] Dad vanishes; Mom holds the line (and takes shorthand to the TV).
[07:15] Bused into DC: straight-A student turns chronic truant.
[09:48] Married at 15, signed over for $100 off child support.
[12:07] The baby-in-the-crib wake-up call.
[14:09] GED by a single point; secretary by day, waitress by night.
[17:07] The Washington Post ad that changed everything.
[17:29] 1990 MPD: into the crack cocaine wars.
[20:35] Grandmas gospel: no excuses, damned for doing.
[18:17] Mount Pleasant riots: trial by brick, and a better-way epiphany.
[30:23] Donny Exums nudge — and sergeant at 26.
[36:02] Being a woman on the 90s force: harassment and the 90-day dodge.
[44:33] Marion Barry exits, Chuck Ramsey enters.
[46:09] Lieutenant: the sweet spot. Captain: the desk (but keep the cuffs).
[52:05] 9/11 and the surprise transfer to Special Ops.
[53:26] Mentors lend confidence — and a counterterrorism bureau built from scratch.
[55:20] Live Sarin, VX, and training with bioweapons legends.
[57:40] Text the 50, get the 411: the tip line gambit.
[58:58] Cultivating sources: the white Escalade payoff.
[1:04:31] Attention to detail: OCD as a superpower.
[1:06:32] Teletubby pagers to smartphones — and the Thomas Maslin reckoning.
[1:10:58] NFL security: the scope of everything.
[1:12:57] Red teaming, explained.
[1:14:43] NFL vs. MPD: diversity and complexity that goes to 11.
[1:17:16] The book club: The Tipping Point and Blink.
[1:19:26] Decisions under pressure — and with incomplete information.
[1:24:40] Billboard wisdom: its not what happens, its what you do.
[1:27:55] Parting thoughts.
Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded one billion downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running.
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