Sat down with @ErikTorenberg, founder of @turpentinemedia, and formerly co-founder/founding team ODF, Village Global, and @producthunt

We spoke about the future of media, creating more startups, how to build community, deterministic and probabilistic mindsets, the…

In honor of Turpentine's 1-year anniversary, we're releasing the Turpentine master plan.

1-pager here: bit.ly/turpentinemast…

Our goal is to create media that guides *investing* & *purchasing* decisions, and then build other products on top (e.g. investing, data) that…

Introducing a show we've been working on a long time: Company Breakdowns. We dive into S-1s and series B and beyond companies, interviewing founders and investors to break down the companies.

Early episodes are with CJ Gustafson Tomasz Tunguz Alex Clayton Tanay Jaipuria Vinny Pujji

Reach out if…

.Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 on the one thing he believes that very few others believe: 'The decline and fall of the United States is completely overblown. The 21st century will be another American century.'

For fun, my brother @rtorenberg021 & I and our friend Frak (the De'aaron Fox of battle rap) have started an NBA podcast for the playoffs, alongside special guest Barto’s Basketball World of IMG Academies.

First episode is in comments. We give our playoff predictions and say what…

New episode from Moment of Zen Podcast!

Bryan Johnson /dd on living forever, AI, and new religions.

1. Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) confesses to using Bryan’s olive oil
2. Bryan on how longevity will render every pre-existing ‘game’ pointless
3. If “Don’t die” is big enough to fill the God-shaped hole

Incrementally shortening my life after interviewing Bryan Johnson /dd for Moment of Zen Podcast.

(Also shortening my life by taking a redeye to Paris. I’ll miss this bar.)

Certified Banger, coming soon cc Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) Bryan Johnson /dd

Excited to announce a new incubation under the Turpentine Umbrella, with Sean Linehan as CEO (and majority owner): Squad Squad.

Sean Linehan, former VP of product at Flexport, built his last company with remote engineers and realized the labor arbitrage was a massive…

Baby steps...

Excited to add another CFO show to Turpentine with the excellent Sasha Orloff, complimenting CJ Gustafson's excellent 'Run the Numbers' podcast.

We're locked in on adding more shows for enterprise buyers—we're looking for hosts to interview CTOs, CMOs, CROs, CPOs, etc. Any…

.Variant co-founder Li Jin on the Moment of Zen Podcast discusses how L1 blockchains are like quasi-religious movements.

-Each one has a community
-Unique values and mission
-Skilled storytellers and meme pushers
-Follow the 'attention is upstream of everything' hypothesis

'I…

Excited to announce that Turpentine is now teaming up with Rudyard on his flagship show, Whatifalthist, which has nearly 600K YT subscribers and is now available as a podcast.

Rudyard joins our roster of hosts including Samo Burja Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 & Byrne Hobart

Links below:

Just recorded our most unhinged episode to date.

A few months ago, I thought Turpentine would be one among several projects I start and find CEOs for, but I'm feeling so much momentum with it that now I'm just all in on building Turpentine and will remain CEO of it indefinitely.

Excited to introduce our newest Turpentine podcast, 'History 102' featuring the epic Whatifalthist

First episode is out and it’s on WW1. The rest of the season will cover classical Greece, early America, the Vikings, medieval Islam, ancient China, the fall of the Roman Empire,…

On today’s episode of Moment of Zen:
Erik Torenberg and Dan Romero chat about building a company in 2024, selecting ideas to work on, and finding product-market fit (Dan quotes Marc Andreessen's definition of the term).

They also cover Dan's experience at Coinbase and building…

With Turpentine I'm feeling the most momentum I've felt since a few years ago. I'm excited to be growing and building a team from scratch again.

Bring your YouTube channels onchain.

Love seeing Dan Romero Erik Torenberg and Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) bring Moment of Zen onchain.

63 episodes, and new ones will show up here each week!