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Uncovering the timeless principles that drive success. Hosted by Shane Parrish (entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and author), the goal of each episode is simply to master the best of what other people have already figured out. Learn More: Timeless insights into business and life in 5 minutes a week: https://fs.blog/newsletter Shane's Books: https://fs.blog/books

• 2026-09-29 Bill Ackman: The Biggest Fight of His Life Bill Ackman is the founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, one of the most closely watched investment firms in the world. In this conversation, he breaks down how he tells the difference between real innovation from hype, what he looks f Transcript →
• 2026-09-15 Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuable Shopify founder and CEO Tobi Lütke joins Shane Parrish to discuss AI agents, better decision-making, and the future of work. He explains how he uses an AI council to examine his hardest decisions and why taste, judgment, and responsibility become more Transcript →
• 2026-09-01 The 12 Years that Changed Steve Jobs We all know the Steve Jobs who came back in the late 1990s and saved Apple from becoming a footnote. And we've all heard the story of how, in 1985, he was pushed out of the company he'd created. What we don't know is what happened in between. Geoffrey Transcript →
• 2026-08-18 Make Better Decisions by Fixing Yourself First David Baszucki is the co-founder and CEO of Roblox, a platform built around a simple idea: give people the tools and incentives to create together. In this short conversation we discuss how a health decision saved his son's life and how it changed how Transcript →
• 2026-08-04 The Mindset Behind Building a Great Little Business | Brad Jacobs This summer, I’m revisiting one of my favorite episodes. If you haven’t heard it, now is the time. If you have, it’s a classic and worth listening to again. Brad Jacobs has built eight billion-dollar companies, completed more than 500 acquisition Transcript →
• 2026-07-28 John D. Rockefeller: The Principles Behind The Greatest Fortune in History John D. Rockefeller became the richest man the world had ever known by thinking differently about business, competition, and family. This episode isn’t just the story of Standard Oil. It’s about the principles that built one of history’s greate Transcript →
• 2026-07-21 The Price of Excellence Most People Won’t Pay | Kaz Nejatian No company decides to fail. It drifts there one comfortable lie at a time. Kaz Nejatian took over Opendoor when it was just months away from bankruptcy and set out to rebuild it from the ground up. What happened next shocked everyone. Most turnaround Transcript →
• 2026-07-07 The Mindset That Unlocks Your Full Potential | Dr. Gio Valiante Steve Cohen and Rory McIlroy share the same performance coach. For the next hour, he’s yours too. Dr. Gio Valiante is the world’s leading performance psychologist. We discuss why most people never reach their potential, how confidence and fear sha Transcript →
• 2026-06-23 How to Repair and Nourish Your Gut | Dr. Giulia Enders Dr. Giulia Enders has changed the way millions of people think about the human body. As a physician, microbiome researcher, and bestselling author, she has spent years studying the surprising role the gut plays in everything from digestion and immunity Transcript →
• 2026-06-09 Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley Bill Gurley spent years on Wall Street, built his career as a partner at Benchmark, worked through Uber’s hypergrowth era, and now serves on the board of the Santa Fe Institute, where he studies complexity and systems thinking. In this episode, Bill Transcript →
• 2026-06-02 You Don’t Need To Innovate To Be Successful | FarmVille Creator Mark Pincus is the creator behind Farmville and Words with Friends. He built Zynga into one of the biggest gaming companies in the world and helped shape the early era of social products on the internet. In this conversation, he breaks down how great f Transcript →
• 2026-05-19 The Hyundai Founder Who Put a Country on His Back Chung Ju-yung built Hyundai because he refused to be stopped. He is known for turning Hyundai into an industrial force that helped transform South Korea. The company built highways, ships, cars, and entire industries. At its peak, Hyundai accounted for Transcript →
• 2026-05-12 Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions | Winston Weinberg Winston Weinberg is the CEO and co-founder of Harvey, the AI platform built for the legal industry. In this episode, Winston explains how AI is reshaping legal work, why judgment becomes more valuable as routine work gets automated, and how to build th Transcript →
• 2026-04-22 Greg Brockman: How to Stay Valuable as AI Gets Smarter The AI race, the future of AGI, and the inside story of OpenAI. Greg Brockman is the co-founder and President of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and GPT-5. He was the first engineer at Stripe before leaving in 2015 to help start OpenAI. In this ra Transcript →
• 2026-04-14 The Magic of Thinking Big | XPO CEO Mario Harik How does one engineer run 40,000 people with 10 daily numbers, zero hobbies, and a $1 billion bet he made in his first year as CEO? Mario Harik is the CEO of XPO, one of the largest trucking companies in the world. He started as employee #3, learned fr Transcript →
• 2026-03-31 Alpha School: AI and The Future of Education | Joe Liemandt Joe Liemandt is the principal of Alpha School and the founder of Trilogy Software and ESW Capital. Liemandt dropped out of Stanford to build Trilogy, made the cover of Forbes twice before thirty, became the youngest member of the Forbes 400, then vani Transcript →
• 2026-03-24 Harrison McCain: The Potato Farmer who Went Big Harrison McCain learned salesmanship by talking his way into a pharmaceutical job at 22, then spent five formative years under K.C. Irving, absorbing lessons in vertical integration, relentless deal-capture, and "management by suggestion." He quit wit Transcript →
• 2026-03-17 Beating the Market: Connor Teskey, CEO Brookfield Asset Management Connor Teskey is the new CEO of Brookfield Asset Management, one of the world’s largest investors, managing about a trillion dollars across infrastructure, power, real estate, private equity, and credit. In this exclusive in-depth interview, his fi Transcript →
• 2026-03-10 An Unlikely Empire | J.W. Marriott Bill Marriott built the largest hotel company in the world. But he didn’t open his first hotel until he was 55 and he fought against it the whole way. In fact, the man that would go on to build the world’s largest hotel chain started with a nine-se Transcript →
• 2026-03-03 The Near Death Experience of RobinHood | Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder Robinhood's co-founder reveals the brutal reality of surviving an 80% market crash, going "founder mode" to cut corporate bloat, and what actually happened during GameStop. Vlad Tenev is the co-founder and CEO of Robinhood. Not only did he navigate the Transcript →