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The Sane Asylum
A love letter to a new kind of company.
Written by Brie Wolfson
Read by Suzanne Elise Freeman
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The Many Failures of Larry David
Why the creator of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm is one of history’s purest founders.
Written by Blake J. Harris
Read by Scott Brick
Read ‘The Many Failures of Larry David’ here.
Selected material from this article appears in the book EMPEROR OF NOTHING: The Making of Larry David by Blake J. Harris. Copyright © 2026 by Blake J. Harris. To be published on October 20, 2026, by Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Excerpted by permission.
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AI Will Not Make You Rich
Written by Jerry Neumann
Read by Scott Brick
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Coming to America: David Vélez and Nubank
Written by Gabi Marques
Read by Scott Brick
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Mark Zuckerberg
Written by Jeremy Stern
Read by Scott Brick
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White Collar PEDs
One writer’s experimental high and crash through the not quite legal, sort of effective, occasionally heart-pounding medicine cabinet of Wall Street and Silicon Valley’s productivity optimizers
Written by Park MacDougald
Read by Scott Brick
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Michael Moritz: The Wretched Refuse
The following is an exclusive excerpt adapted from the author’s new book, Ausländer: One family's story of escape and exile, out in North America today.
Written by Michael Moritz
Read by Scott Brick
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3G Capital: Built to Own
How 3G Capital, the lean and secretive private equity firm, created some of the world's largest companies.
Written by Dom Cooke
Read by Scott Brick
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Class Dismissed: Joe Liemandt and Alpha School
Written by Jeremy Stern
Read by Scott Brick
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Kevin Kelly: Flounder Mode
Written by Brie Wolfson
Read by Suzanne Elise Freeman
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The Long and Inventive History of Guinness
Guinness used to be an old man's pint, poured in old men's pubs. Now the world is drinking less, yet the Irish stout is selling faster than ever.
Written by Alex Bilmes
Read by Scott Brick
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Sarah’s Wager: Sarah Guo and Conviction
The investor closest to the AI frontier is betting against the ambitions of its biggest companies
Written by Dom Cooke
Read by Scott Brick
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A Suicide
Written by Jeremy Stern
Read by Scott Brick
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Invisible Companies: The fortunes hiding in plain sight
AI Rollups, the latest fad to take venture capital by storm, point to a different source of excess returns that is only becoming more valuable
Written by Jay Barney, Haiyang Zhang, and Jerry Neumann
Read by Scott Brick
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The Making of a Market Maker: Thomas Peterffy and Interactive Brokers
How Thomas Peterffy built the machines that killed the trading floor and made Interactive Brokers into a $100 billion business
Written by Dom Cooke
Read by Scott Brick
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The Wu Tapes: An afternoon with Cognition founder and nerd emperor Scott Wu
Written by Jeremy Stern
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The New World: Joshua Kushner, Thrive Capital, and the American dream
Written by Jeremy Stern
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Beyond the Sky: In Singapore with Jeffrey Yan and Hyperliquid
Jeffrey Yan turned down $100 million, airdropped billions to strangers, and can’t travel without a bodyguard. The story of how he built Hyperliquid, a blockchain and crypto trading exchange, into the most profitable startup per employee on earth.
Written by Dom Cooke
Read by Scott Brick
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