The James Altucher Show
Tom Bilyeu: What to Do If AI Threatens Your Career
James talks with Impact Theory founder Tom Bilyeu about what happens when AI eliminates technical moats, compresses months of work into hours, and begins reshaping entire careers. Tom explains how he uses AI to test business ideas, why he always asks “Why will this fail?”, what mid-career workers sh...
Carlos Gutierrez: ADHD Diagnosed at 65, Career Lessons
James talks with former Kellogg CEO and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez about his new memoir, Sheer Will: Learning to Lead When There Is No Path. Carlos reflects on being diagnosed with ADHD at 65, rising from selling cereal in Mexico City to running Kellogg, learning to make decisions t...
David Rubenstein: Why Owners Care About Winning, Not Money
James talks with Carlyle cofounder and Baltimore Orioles owner David Rubenstein about his new book, Inside the Owner’s Box: Conversations on Power and Leadership in Sports. David explains why buying a sports team is unlike buying a normal business, why spending more doesn’t guarantee winning, what m...
Bill O'Reilly on Brokering a Secret Hostage Release Deal
James talks with Bill O’Reilly about his new book, Confronting America: What Has to Change, and more than five decades spent around presidents, politicians, media executives, and major historical events. They discuss O’Reilly’s account of helping connect the Biden and Trump teams during Gaza hostage...
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Annie Duke on Why We Judge Decisions by Results, Not Logic [From the Archive]
In this From the Archive episode, James talks with former professional poker player and decision strategist Annie Duke about Thinking in Bets. Annie explains why good decisions can produce bad outcomes, why winning can make it harder to learn, how to “borrow” someone else’s 10,000 hours, and why thr...
The Friendliest Store in the Mall | Ron Johnson Built the Apple Store
James talks with Ron Johnson, the retail executive who created the Apple Store with Steve Jobs and helped transform Target through design. Ron shares the thinking behind the Genius Bar, Apple’s radically simple stores, its hospitality-first hiring strategy, Steve Jobs’ leadership style, why physical...
Jon Morrow: The Man Who Changed the Rules [From the Archive]
In this From the Archive episode, James talks with Jon Morrow about spinal muscular atrophy, disability, expectations, technology, writing, entrepreneurship, Smart Blogger, Unstoppable, and how to build a life when the usual rules do not work for you. Jon explains how he escaped the Medicaid income ...
Carlo Rovelli: Nothing Exists Alone
James talks with theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli about On the Equality of All Things, quantum mechanics, time, free will, consciousness, uncertainty, and why reality may be made less of objects than relationships. Carlo explains why there is no view from outside the universe, why science grows b...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Becoming Kareem, the Skyhook, and the Search for a Self [From the Archive]
In this From the Archive episode, James talks with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about Becoming Kareem, identity, race, religion, mentorship, basketball, writing, and the long process of figuring out who you are. Kareem reflects on John Wooden, Bruce Lee, Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, the skyhook, Sherlock Holmes,...