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- Aug 18, 2026
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- Apple #189 · US
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- Jul 3, 2026
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You Can't Buy Back Your 20’s — with Jack Raines (opens the original)
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#740: Jack Raines turned $6,000 into $400,000 trading blank-check stocks during the 2020–2021 bubble — and he says it was some of the least fun money he's ever made. Jack Raines is a writer and investor at Slow Ventures, and the author of the new book Young Money: A Field Guide to Wealth and Purpose in Your Twenties. In this episode, we discuss: Why "golden handcuffs" are almost always a choice, not a trap How to tell if you're staying in a job for the right reasons, or just fear Why the same de
How Hackers Are Stealing Your Retirement $50 at a Time, with former CIA hacker Dr. Eric Cole (opens the original)
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#616: Two school teachers in Ohio saved their entire lives for one dream — buying a farm. When they inherited $1.3 million and found the perfect property for $1.2 million, everything seemed perfect. Five days before closing, they received what looked like a legitimate email from their closing company with wire transfer instructions. They sent the money and showed up at closing, only to discover they'd been scammed. The email was fake, sent by hackers who had infiltrated the closing company's ser
He Tried 30+ Side Hustles Before 3 Actually Paid Off, with Cody Berman (opens the original)
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#735: Cody Berman failed at more than 30 side hustles — from a disc golf manufacturing company to sweaty bike deliveries in the Australian heat — before three of them got him to financial independence at 25. Cody is the bestselling author of Retire by 30, who reached financial independence at 25 by stacking income from real estate, digital products, and the stock market. In this episode, we discuss: How a nest-egg approach to financial independence differs from a cash-flow one A simple framework
The Hidden Math Behind Every Venture Capital Fund, with former Wharton Prof. David Bell (opens the original)
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#733: Venture fund managers can collect years of fees before a single dollar comes back to investors — and the bar to hand over your money is lower than you'd think. David Bell spent 20 years as a chaired professor at Wharton before co-founding the venture firm Idea Farm Ventures, where he's backed early-stage brands like Bonobos, Warby Parker, and Jet.com. In this episode, we discuss: How venture funds actually make money, and why nearly every one runs on the same fee formula Why fund managers
Your Zip Code Is Quietly Deciding What You Buy, with former Wharton Prof. David Bell (opens the original)
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#732: Where you live is already deciding what you'll buy today, before you've even made up your mind. And it turns out the customers your local stores ignore completely are often a brand's most valuable ones. David Bell spent twenty years as a Wharton marketing professor before becoming one of the earliest investors in Warby Parker, Bonobos, and Diapers.com. He's now co-founder of the consumer venture studio Idea Farm Ventures. In this episode, we discuss: Why the same person makes different pur
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