How to Get Started, Doing Things that Don't Scale, and Press (How to Start a Startup 2014: 8)

I certainly remember the day I got shot down: the 6th of June, 1964. The ocean government had requested a show of support from the United States. We were tasked to go in and fly some missions over there as a kind of a show of force. The last pass, the la…

When young entrepreneurs ask me for advice, I generally tell them to optimize for their alumni network. Your future determinant of success will be most determined by who you are surrounded with. These people will force you to up your game. They’ll be your…

Today, on the main function, we’re hanging out with Carl, the founder of Nothing. He built a smartphone company that launched two years ago, and in those two years, they’ve gotten to $600 million in annualized revenue. So we’re going to talk about that an…

Hey, it’s me, Destin. Welcome back to Smarter Every Day. If you’re just joining this nuclear submarine deep dive series, boy have I got a treat for you. We have covered a ton of stuff that happens on board nuclear submarines. We looked at sonar, we looked…

I’m at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, and I’m here to see the first drone that’s gonna fly on another planet. It’s the Mars helicopter. Come on! So this is our baby. No way! Yeah. That thing right there is the actual machine that is going …

There are other human beings on Mars now. Coexistence may prove just as challenging as it does on Earth. ELON MUSK: Mars civilization ultimately looks like an advanced version of Earth. SUSAN WISE BAUER: Industry is going to be absolutely vital to that …