Bradley Tusk is a cofounder of Tusk Venture Partners, which invests in early-stage technology companies operating in highly regulated industries.Bradley was also Uber's first political advisor and instrumental in developing their strategy to di

Ep. 82: Alex Tabarrok Interviews Próspera CEO, Erick Brimen, on Crafting A Regulatory Platform to Unlock Entrepreneurship

Apr 20th, 2024 48m 47s

What if you could choose the set of laws under which your company is regulated?Honduran reformers have developed a model to facilitate collaboration between foreign capital and local institutions in Honduras, leveraging external resources and e

Ep. 81: Vitalik Buterin on the Crypto-Longevity Nexus, Network States & Pop-Up Cities

Apr 6th, 2024 54m 21s

In this conversation, we're discussing with Vitalik the connection between longevity and Ethereum, what he's looking to build, frontier technologies, and how pop-up or startup cities can supercharge the longevity movement.In the early days, whe

Ep. 80: Naval Ravikant On Why The Future Is Brighter

Mar 6th, 2024 48m 45s

“What’s more important than living forever?” At Vitalia, Naval Ravikant outed himself as a longevity maximalist. This is a compilation article with 7 key takeaways from the Fireside Chat with Niklas Anzinger at the AI & Technological Progress C

Ep. 79: Fireside Chat with Bryan Johnson, Aubrey De Grey, and Laurence Ion – Challenges In The Longevity Movement

Feb 21st, 2024 1h

How compatible are two very different giants in the longevity movement? Aubrey de Grey, the iconic and highly academically decorated bioscientist, paved the way for the early stages of scientific development, and Bryan Johnson, the software mog

Ep. 78: Fireside Chat with Balaji Srinivasan & Niklas Anzinger – Longevity As The Ultimate Technology

Feb 12th, 2024 31m 49s

In this fireside chat with Balaji Srinivasan and Niklas Anzinger at the Startup Societies & Crypto Cities Conference in Vitalia, they discussed the importance of longevity and its impact on technologies, as well as a strategy to breakthrough ex

Ep. 77: Tyler Cowen – Unearthing the GOAT, Technological Progress in the Post-Great Stagnation Era and Special Economic Zones

Jan 5th, 2024 58m 28s

Tyler Cowen is a professor at George Mason University, creator of the Marginal Revolution blog, founder of the Emergent Ventures grant program, podcast host of "Conversations with Tyler," and author of numerous books, including "The Great Stagn

Ep. 76: Iyinoluwa Aboyeji - Africa's Tech Mogul is a Policy Entrepreneur and City Builder

Dec 15th, 2023 37m 19s

* Iyinoluwa (“E”) Aboyeji had an outsized influence on the startup landscape in Africa with Andela and Flutterwave (both top-10 unicorns in Africa)* Surprisingly, to become a successful startup entrepreneur he had to become a policy entrepreneu

Ep. 75: Commons & Contracts, The Evolution of Peer-to-Peer and Community Governance w/ Michel Bauwens and Max Borders

Dec 9th, 2023 51m 29s

In this episode, we debate with two major thinkers with different philosophies but also commonalities about governance and social evolution. Max Borders, author of “The Decentralist,” "The Social Singularity," and “After Collapse,” (a previous

Ep. 74: David Luftglass on the Promise of Uruguay SEZs for Export-Focused Industries, and Scaling A Global Cannabis Business

Nov 25th, 2023 34m 13s

Ever wondered where SEZs in Latam are already a backbone of the economy? It’s in Uruguay, a country with stable governance, clear legal frameworks and many other advantages for export-focused businesses. Uruguay did many things right to create

Ep. 73: Matthew Queen on Pillars of Modern Risk Management: Insurance, the Impact of Regulation and New Domiciles

Nov 22nd, 2023 54m 31s

If you’re not excited *yet* about insurance regulation, this episode is for you!Matthew Queen and I uncover the often underestimated impact of insurance regulation on the global economy. In this podcast, we learn the importance of the legal str

Ep. 72: Magatte Wade on the Bureaucratic Obstacles for African Entrepreneurs, Misguided Development and Startup Cities as the Solution

Nov 8th, 2023 1h 43m

Magatte Wade is an entrepreneur, author and promoter for African entrepreneurship. Magatte shares her impactful personal journey of migration, education, and entrepreneurship and calls attention to the economic difficulties in African countries

Ep. 71: Richard Hanania on the Legal Origins of Woke, Nietzschean Liberalism and the Public Choice Approach to International Relations

Oct 25th, 2023 58m 7s

Richard Hanania is the founder and president of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, and author the books “The Origins of Woke” and “Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy”.This is a far-ranging conversation w

Ep. 70: Energy from the Stars - Andrew Côté on Nuclear Fusion’s Path to Unleash Material Superabundance for Humanity

Oct 17th, 2023 1h 8m

Andrew Côté is a nuclear fusion engineer at Stellerator Systems and a scout at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). He has a Substack called "Ulysses".Right in time with the release of Marc Andreessen's "The Techno-Optimist Manifesto", this episode has

Ep. 69.2: Enter Vitalia - A Zuzalu-Inspired Network Society to Accelerate Longevity

Oct 10th, 2023 23m 41s

This is a two-part episode - in the first part Janine Leger, one of the driving forces behind Zuzalu talks about community development and Zuzalu's future.In the second part, Niklas introduces Vitalia - a Zuzalu-inspired network society that ai

Ep. 69.1: Janine Leger on Zuzalu's Future, Community Development & Overcoming the Loneliness Epidemic

Oct 10th, 2023 47m 11s

Ep. 68: Jim Pethokoukis on How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised, Conservative Futurism and the Genesis Clock for Technological Progress

Oct 4th, 2023 57m 4s

Jim Pethokoukis is a policy analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, and writes the Faster, Please! newsletter on Substack.The subject of this conversation is Jim's new book "The Conservative Futurist - How to Create the Sci-Fi World We We

Ep. 67: Bob Haywood on 50+ Years of Creating Opportunity Zones in 174 Countries, Solution-Oriented Legal Engineering to Achieve China's Economic Miracle, Dubai's Rise & Fighting Poverty

Sep 26th, 2023 1h 23m

Bob is the world’s greatest expert on special economic zones or "opportunity zones" as he likes to call them, having worked in setting them up in 174 countries.Max Borders said about Bob: “I would argue no living human being is responsible for

Ep. 66: The World’s Greatest Living Regulatory Economist - Sam Peltzman’s Intellectual Legacy, Bill Gurley’s Tirade Against Washington and Regulatory Capture Revisited

Sep 20th, 2023 1h 16m

Sam Peltzman is professor emeritus at the University of Chicago.Sam is was a graduate student to Milton Friedman and a contemporary to George Stigler, the famous economist who coined the term "regulatory capture".Regulatory capture is an import

Ep. 65: "Most Drugs Are Bad for You" - Robin Hanson & Sebastian Brunemeier Return, The Crisis of Health Outcomes, Sclerosis of Science and Special Jurisdictions as Solutions

Sep 14th, 2023 1h 14m

Two of the most popular previous guests are back: Sebastian Brunemeier, the General Partner of Healthspan Capital and CEO of ImmuneAGE Pharma, and Robin Hanson, Professor of Economics at George Mason University and iconic thinker.Sebastian prev

Ep. 64: Olivier Roland on Escaping the Tyranny of Place, History Lessons About Technical Disruption for the Internet Age and the Staggering Ineffectiveness of AML-KYC

Sep 5th, 2023 1h 9m

Olivier is an entrepreneur, investor, and independent author. He wrote “The Way of the Intelligent Rebel” and blogs at Disruptive Horizons.The blog is about the disruption of the nation states by the internet and globalization and how to transf

Ep. 63: David Friedman on his Intellectual Legacy - Search for Truth, the Economics of Different Legal Systems and Market-Driven Governance Innovation

Aug 29th, 2023 1h 19m

David Friedman is an economist, physicist, legal scholar, and author.His father is the legendary economist Milton Friedman, and his son is the founder of the Seasteading Institute and Pronomos Capital, Patri Friedman (appeared on episode 32).Hi

Ep. 62.2: The Past, Present & Future of Living (2/2) - Jackson Steger on the Governance of Co-Living, and the Technology Shifts that Enable New Ways of Community

Aug 25th, 2023 50m 15s

This is a double-feature episode about the past, present and future of living.In the first episode, Thibault Serlet gives a historical view of migration patterns and labor mobility. In the second episode, Jackson Stegers gives an overview of mo

Ep. 62.1: The Past, Present & Future of Living (1/2) - "Mobility is Threatening to State Authority”: Thibault Serlet on Historical Patterns of Labor Mobility and the Genesis of Passports

Aug 22nd, 2023 34m 45s

Ep. 61: Dwarkesh Patel & Niklas Debate Existential Risk of AI, Technical Possibilities & Limitations and the Influence of Political Authority

Aug 15th, 2023 1h

Dwarkesh Patel is a podcaster.The Dwarkesh Podcast (YouTube | Spotify | Apple) interviews intellectuals, scientists, historians, economists, and founders about their big idea. The themes of Dwarkesh are similar to this podcast: frontier technol