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The Rational Optimist
Matt Ridley ISBN 9780061452055
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Matt Ridley ISBN 9780061452055
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This book by Matt Ridley has come up 2 times on Tim Ferriss. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Bill Gurley, Naval Ravikant. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-06-24 and the most recent from 2023-01-26. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Genome" and "The Red Queen" offers a provocative case for an economics of hope, arguing that the benefits of commerce, technology, innovation, and change--cultural evolution--will inevitably increase human prosperity.
“I think Ridley's two books, The Rational Optimist and How Innovation Works, they're just fantastic and spectacular.”— Bill Gurley
The guest here is Bill Gurley: General partner at Benchmark for 20+ years (eBay, Uber, OpenTable, GrubHub, Stitch Fix, Zillow); former top-ranked Wall Street sell-side analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston; trustee at the Santa Fe Institute. Legendary VC Bill Gurley on mental models, network effects, the brutal valuation reset, open source as corporate strategy, and regulatory capture.
“genome the Red Queen the origins of virtue the rational optimist they're all great”— Naval Ravikant
The guest here is Naval Ravikant, Susan Cain, and Yuval Noah Harari: A compilation of three Tribe of Mentors profiles. Naval Ravikant is CEO and co-founder of AngelList and a prolific angel investor; Susan Cain is the bestselling author of Quiet and co-founder of Quiet Revolution; Yuval Noah Harari is a historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and author of Sapiens and Homo Deus. Tim Ferriss introduces Tribe of Mentors, then shares profiles of Naval Ravikant, Susan Cain, and Yuval Noah Harari.
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