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Ep 85: The Path to Regime Change in Iran with Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi
Listen now | In 1979, Crown Prince of Iran Reza Pahlavi was attending fighter pilot school in Lubbock, Texas when the Islamic Revolution overthrew his…
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Ep 84: Sri Ganesan on Freshworks' Big Win, Building Rocketlane & India's Tech Boom
Listen now | India’s tech ecosystem has hit an indisputable inflection point in recent years. For decades, American corporations outsourced basic…
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Ep 83: A New Cancer Breakthrough with Ivan Dimov of Orca Bio
Listen now | Every year, more than 20,000 Americans receive a bone marrow transplant — a Nobel prize-winning procedure that saves many lives but also…
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March 2024

Ep 82: Whitney Baker's Masterclass on Macro Investing & the State of the Economy
Listen now | What are the forces behind the scenes that drive financial markets? How do bubbles form — and are we in one now? What do the world's best…
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Florida's Homelessness Revolution
Governor DeSantis signs a bold new law; and homelessness goes to the Supreme Court.
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The Policy Fight for the Future of American Prisons
Private, public, non-profit, for-profit, and everything in between.
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Ep 81: How Palantir Star Tyler Scriven Is Helping Small Businesses Compete Against Amazon
Listen now | U.S. e-commerce sales eclipsed $1 trillion last year and are expected to double or triple over the next decade. As online demand increases…
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Ep 80: Leonard Leo's Winning Strategy to Rebuild Institutions, Accelerate Innovation, and Save Our Country
Listen now | Leonard Leo is one of the most effective agents of legal and cultural change in America today. What's his playbook? How can we apply it to…
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February 2024

Ep 79: Bjorn Lomborg and the 12 Best Policies to Help the World
Listen now | What are the single most effective policies for helping the world's poor? And what are we doing right now that's ineffective and should be…
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OpenGov: a Changing Guard, a Continuing Mission
An exciting update about a company I founded over a decade ago
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Time to Take Out the Regulatory Trash
We need new ideas and tools to clean up our growing bureaucratic mess.
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Jonathan Wolfson
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Ep 78: Emil Michael — the Master Dealmaker Behind Uber's Global Dominance
Listen now | By the summer of 2012, ride-sharing had arrived: Uber launched its everyman product, UberX, and Lyft debuted hot on its heels. Today…
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