This product by Signal Foundation has come up 4 times across 2 different shows: Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. 4 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Alex Gladstein, Jason Calacanis, Matt Mullenweg, guest. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2021-10-16 and the most recent from 2023-12-29. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Every time it came up
How to Thrive in an AI World, Tips for Life’s Darkest Hours, & The Art of Sabbaticals (4K)
“He's running Signal, which is an open source nonprofit messaging app, which is amazing. Signal, very philosophically aligned.”— Matt Mullenweg
The guest here is Matt Mullenweg: Co-founder of WordPress (runs over a third of all websites) and founder/CEO of Automattic, the open-source company behind WooCommerce, Tumblr, Day One, and the Texts messaging app. Matt Mullenweg on open-source freedom, an AI-shaped future, his first-ever sabbatical, and tools for life's darkest hours.
Jason Calacanis on Brooklyn Grit, Big Asks, The Magic of Thinking Big, and More
“Signal is desktop and mobile now. Yeah, it's pretty great. And it's not owned by the Russians”— Jason Calacanis
The guest here is Jason Calacanis: Angel investor (300+ startups), Sequoia's first scout, author of Angel, and host of the This Week in Startups and All-In podcasts. Jason Calacanis tells Tim Ferriss his rise from a Brooklyn bar to media and venture success, plus the craft behind All-In.
Nicole Perlroth: Cybersecurity and the Weapons of Cyberwar | Lex Fridman Podcast #266
“and then signal came along and and signal made it wicker you know they made it a lot easier to send someone an encrypted text message”— guest
The guest here is Nicole Perlroth: Former New York Times cybersecurity journalist and author of 'This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race.' She advises CISA at the DHS and has interviewed hundreds of hackers, dissidents, and government officials. Cybersecurity journalist Nicole Perlroth on the shadowy zero-day market, mutually assured digital destruction, and how to defend yourself online.
Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights | Lex Fridman Podcast #231
“it's fantastic that tens of millions of people are downloading signal and using it um you should try to be onboarding more and more of your conversations onto signal”— Alex Gladstein
The guest here is Alex Gladstein: Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation and the Oslo Freedom Forum. He focuses on how Bitcoin and encryption can empower people living under authoritarian regimes. Human rights strategist Alex Gladstein argues Bitcoin is a Trojan horse that smuggles financial freedom into authoritarian regimes through greed.
