#386 – Marc Andreessen

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #386:

  1. When Reason Goes on Holiday: Philosophers in Politics by Neven Sesardic
  2. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
  3. Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror by Victor Sebestyen
  4. The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome by Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

Marc Lowell Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, venture capital investor, and software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser with a graphical user interface; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Wikipedia


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#385 – Jimmy Wales

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #385:

  1. Eureka Manifesto by Yuri Milner

Jimmy Donal Wales, also known on Wikipedia by the nickname Jimbo, is an American–British Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, and former financial trader. He is a co-founder of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the for-profit wiki hosting service Fandom. Wikipedia


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#384 – Matthew McConaughey

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #384:

  1. Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

Matthew David McConaughey is an American actor. He had his breakout role with a supporting performance in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused. After a number of supporting roles, his first success as a leading man came in the legal drama A Time to Kill. Wikipedia


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#383 – Mark Zuckerberg

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Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American business magnate, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is known for co-founding the social media website Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms, of which he is the executive chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder. Wikipedia

Other appearances: #267, #398


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#382 – Bert Kreischer

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #382:

  1. Life of the Party: Stories of a Perpetual Man-Child by Bert Kreischer

Bert Kreischer, nicknamed “The Machine”, is an American stand-up comedian, podcaster, reality television host and actor. In 1997, he was featured in an article in Rolling Stone while attending Florida State University. The magazine named Kreischer “the top partyer at the Number One Party School in the country.” Wikipedia


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#381 – Chris Lattner

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #381:

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Christopher Arthur Lattner is an American software engineer, former Google and Tesla employee and co-founder of LLVM, Clang compiler, MLIR compiler infrastructure and the Swift programming language. As of 2022, he is the co-founder and CEO at Modular AI, an artificial intelligence platform for developers. Wikipedia

Other appearances: #21, #131


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#380 – Neil Gershenfeld

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #380:

  1. Build Your Own Metal Working Shop From Scrap by David Gingery

Neil Adam Gershenfeld is an American professor at MIT and the director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, a sister lab to the MIT Media Lab. Wikipedia


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#379 – Randall Kennedy

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #379:

  1. Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy
  2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  3. Race, Crime, and the Law by Randall Kennedy
  4. The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe by Heather Mac Donald
  5. The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency by Randall Kennedy
  6. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans by John Hope Franklin
  7. For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law by Randall Kennedy

Randall LeRoy Kennedy is an American law professor at Harvard University and author. He is the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law and his research focuses on the intersection of racial conflict and legal institutions in American life. Wikipedia


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#378 – Anna Frebel

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #378:

  1. Searching for the Oldest Stars: Ancient Relics from the Early Universe by Anna Frebel

Anna Frebel is a German astronomer working on discovering the oldest stars in the universe. Wikipedia


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#377 – Harvey Silverglate

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #377:

  1. The Shadow University: The Betrayal Of Liberty On America’s Campuses by Alan Charles Kors, Harvey A Silverglate
  2. Free Speech for Me–But Not for Thee: How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other by Nat Hentoff
  3. Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
  4. Get Trump: The Threat to Civil Liberties, Due Process, and Our Constitutional Rule of Law by Alan Dershowitz
  5. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent by Harvey Silverglate

Harvey Allen Silverglate is an attorney, journalist, writer, and co-founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Wikipedia


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