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Tom Bilyeu's Trick for Making AI Tell You Why You'll Fail
"Before building anything, Bilyeu says you can find out in about a day whether people care about the problem, and he explains how to run that test with AI. " Tom Bilyeu explains how he uses AI to test a business idea in about a day, and how to make it tell you why you'll fail instead of cheering you...
What Almost Went Wrong in My First Year as Kellogg CEO | Carlos Gutierrez
Carlos Gutierrez, former Kellogg CEO and U.S. Commerce Secretary, explains why the first year as CEO is hard and how he learned to trust his gut. James Altucher talks with Gutierrez about his book Sheer Will: Learning to Lead When There is No Path. They cover his relentless refusal to be average, hi...
Orioles Owner: Why I'm Bad at Firing People | David Rubenstein
David Rubenstein, owner of the Baltimore Orioles and founder of The Carlyle Group, explains why he fired a Manager of the Year and what spending more on players really buys. David Rubenstein joins James Altucher to talk about what he learned interviewing sports team owners for his book Inside the Ow...
The Secret Call that freed four hostages, Per Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly joins me to reveal how he helped broker a discussion between Jake Sullivan's team and President-elect Trump that led to four hostages being released from Gaza. O'Reilly, author of Confronting America: What Has to Change, also lays out his blunt case for why corporate media has merged w...
Steve Jobs Hired Target Guy to Build Apple Stores | Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson built the Apple Store as Apple's SVP of Retail, and is the author of Shop Different: How Retail Revealed Apple's Genius. Apple told its staff never to hurry a customer. It assumed four or five visits before anyone bought a Mac. Ron Johnson built the Apple Store as Apple's SVP of Retail a...
No Atom Exists Alone. Not You | Carlo Rovelli, Theoretical Physicist
Nothing exists on its own. Not an atom, not a galaxy, not you — and a physicist spends this hour proving it. Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist working on loop quantum gravity and the author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, The Order of Time and Helgoland. James opens by trying to compress R...
Washington Married for Money — and 4 Other Rules That Still Work | Joseph Moore
George Washington got rich the old-fashioned way. He married the richest widow in Virginia. Historian Joseph Moore spent years reading dead people's mail — the letters, ledgers, and get-rich books ordinary Americans actually bought — to work out what has really built wealth in this country since 170...
Charles Duhigg: How GLP-1s Quiet "Food Noise" and Rewire Your Habits for Good
Charles Duhigg lost 45 pounds on a GLP-1 — but he says the drug isn't what makes the weight loss last. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power of Habit breaks down why GLP-1s like Ozempic, Zepbound, and tirzepatide quiet the "food noise" in your head, and why that silence opens a rare window ...
Frank Miller on the Skill That Matters More Than Talent
Frank Miller changed Batman forever. With The Dark Knight Returns, he took a campy TV character and turned him back into a dark, mythic legend — and in this conversation, he explains exactly how he did it, and what it cost. I sat down in person with the legendary creator of The Dark Knight Returns, ...