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The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
Deep conversations with the best founders and business leaders that go beyond the usual advice to uncover the timeless principles that drive success. Master the best of what other people have already figured out. If you enjoy the show, please hit the follow button.
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Tracy Britt Cool: Brick by Brick
This week I sat down with Warren Buffett's former financial assistant Tracy Britt Cool. In this exclusive interview, you'll learn how she went from wr...
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Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street [Outliers]
Hetty Green was the richest woman you've never heard of.
In the late 1800s, she built a fortune worth billions today in a world designed...
Barry Diller: Building IAC
My guest this week is Barry Diller, one of America's most successful businessmen. At 83, he chose to publish a deeply personal book and open up about...
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Ed Stack: Lessons from Dick’s Sporting Goods [Outliers]
Ed Stack built Dick’s Sporting Goods from a struggling family store into an empire of more than 800 stores and billions in sales.
Along...
Lulu Cheng Meservey: How To Build A Cult
Lulu Cheng Meservey is one of the sharpest minds in communications and strategy. She has helped some of the best leaders through their hardest moments...
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Fred Smith: The Story of FedEx [Outliers]
Fred Smith founded FedEx on an idea everyone told him would fail and built it into an $88 billion empire that changed how the world moves.
Benedict Evans: The Patterns Everyone Else Misses
Benedict Evans has been calling tech shifts for decades. Now he says forget the hype: AI isn't the new electricity. It's the biggest change since the...
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Small Town Billionaire: How John Bragg Built 3 Empires [Outliers]
One man controls half the world's wild blueberries, built North America's largest private telecom, and did it all without ever leaving his hometown of...
The Science of Lasting Love with Dr. Sue Johnson
This conversation will change how you handle your relationship starting tonight. The late Dr. Sue Johnson basically gave me a cheat code for relations...
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Sol Price: The Retail Legend Who Taught Bezos & Walmart Their Secret Playbook [Outliers]
The most influential retailer you’ve never heard of. How Sol Price invented the warehouse club and a philosophy that still runs Costco and Amazon.
Ryan Petersen: How to Build a Global Logistics Engine
Build the system behind the system. Flexport founder Ryan Petersen shows how to turn messy, multi‑party operations into a simple, scalable system that...
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Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers]
When Katharine Graham took over the Washington Post in 1963, she was a shy socialite who'd never run anything. By retirement, she'd taken down a presi...
Daniel Kahneman: Algorithms Make Better Decisions Than You
Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize for proving we're not as rational as we think. In this timeless conversation we discuss how to think clearly in a...
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Les Schwab: Why Real Ownership Outperforms Experience, Capital, and Credentials [Outliers]
They weren’t employees. They were partners. Les Schwab didn’t build a company. He built a culture.
This episode reveals how one small-to...
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year
Shopify’s Harley Finkelstein reveals the one standard that actually scales your career and your family.
Harley shares why stepping down a...
Jimmy Pattison: Building a $16B Empire Without Connections, Capital, or Credentials [Outliers]
Jimmy Pattison still runs his $16 billion empire personally at 96 years old.
He’s built The Pattison Group over the last 63 years without...
Indra Nooyi: Lessons from the Top of PepsiCo—and the Cost of Getting There
On her first day as CEO of PepsiCo, Indra Nooyi fired her general counsel. Then rehired him before dinner. It wasn’t a stunt. It was a signal.
...
Anna Wintour: Vogue [Outliers]
The job was editor-in-chief. The goal was to become the platform. And she did.
Once she made it to the top, she didn’t just edit Vogue....
Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment
How do you build a high-performance culture without turning your company into the Hunger Games? Reed Hastings, co-founder and former CEO of Netflix, s...
Harvey Firestone: Men and Rubber [Outliers]
Harvey Firestone built one of America’s great industrial empires from scratch, transforming from a farm boy to Henry Ford’s key partner. This episode...
Bill Belichick: 8x Super Bowl Champion on Winning, Leadership, and Discipline
Eight Super Bowl rings. Six with the Patriots. And a mindset that goes far deeper than football. In this rare, wide-ranging conversation, Bill Belichi...
Andy Grove: Only The Paranoid Survive [Outliers]
Most people protect their identity. Andy Grove would rewrite his, again and again. He started as a refugee, became a chemist, turned himself into an e...
Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
What if the world’s most connected tech investor handed you his mental playbook? Elad Gil, an investor behind Airbnb, Stripe, Coinbase and Anduril, fl...
Rose Blumkin: Women of Berkshire Hathaway [Outliers]
Rose Blumkin didn’t just build a business. She revolutionized retail. After fleeing Russia with $66 in her purse, she opened a basement furniture stor...
Garry Tan: How Y Combinator Turns Ambitious Misfits Into Billion-Dollar Founders
Most accelerators fund ideas. Y Combinator funds founders—and transforms them. With a 1% acceptance rate and alumni behind 60% of the past decade’s un...
Henry Singleton: The CEO Who Bought Back 90% of His Company's Shares [Outliers]
If Warren Buffett is the king of capital allocation—Henry Singleton is the ghost. Singleton built one of the most successful conglomerates in American...
Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
What happens when one of the most legendary minds in tech delves deep into the real workings of modern AI? A 2-hour long masterclass that you don’t wa...
Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada
Pierre Poilievre, leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, reveals a roadmap for restoring opportunity and unity across the country. From unleashing inn...
Cornelius Vanderbilt: The First Tycoon [Outliers]
Cornelius Vanderbilt was a force in 19th century America, playing a pivotal role in transitioning the U.S. economy from rural mercantilism to industri...
Bruce Flatt on Value, Discipline, and Durability
Brookfield CEO Bruce Flatt reveals the investment philosophy behind building one of the world's largest alternative asset managers with over a trillio...
James Dyson: Against the Odds [Outliers]
How do you turn 5,127 failures into a multi-billion-dollar empire? James Dyson turned dust into possibility, failure into discovery, and frustration i...
Logan Ury: The Dating Myths You Need to Stop Believing
Most people date the wrong way. They chase the spark, mistake attraction for compatibility, and expect their partners to read their minds. Then they w...
Estée Lauder: A Success Story [Outliers]
Most people hear "Estée Lauder" and think of cosmetics—lipstick, perfume, face cream. But the real story isn’t just about makeup—it’s about a woman be...
Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI
While Silicon Valley chases unicorns, Josh Wolfe hunts for something far more elusive: scientific breakthroughs that could change civilization. As co-...
Andrew Mellon – America’s Secret Banker [Outliers]
He was the strangest titan America ever produced: a whisper-quiet banker who turned systematic thinking into a superpower, building an industrial empi...
David Heacock: A Logistics Genius Who Built an Empire on Air Filters
Imagine leaving a six‐figure Wall Street salary behind to chase a single, daring idea. In this episode, David Heacock shows you how he turned a basic...
Timothy Eaton: How to Build an Empire (And Why It Crumbled) [Outliers]
I’ve learned as much from reading biographies as from interviewing amazing people. That’s why we’re starting 'Lessons from Outliers.'
Ev...
Mickey Drexler: The Art of Selling with Retail's Merchant Prince
This episode will transform how you think about style, aspiration, and the art of knowing what people want before they know it themselves. From workin...
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
Alfred Lin shares strategies for navigating startup challenges, building resilient teams, and creating long-lasting value. Lin explores lessons from c...
Codie Sanchez: Your Blueprint to Financial Freedom
Whether you’re looking to increase your income, start a side business, or completely transform your financial future, Codie Sanchez will break down ex...