Tim Ferriss's second episode with Balaji was great. It was around 4-5 hours, and Tim just steps aside letting Balaji brain dump on all sorts of interesting topics and ideas.
I find myself disagreeing with quite a lot of what he’s saying (to the extent that I’m educated enough on some of the topics to even have an opinion), but will keep listening as it’s interesting to hear a viewpoint that’s perhaps slightly outside of my normal bubble.
It was when he was sort of an a16z partner, but also had a bitcoin startup (hardware to mine cryptocurrency) funded by them, then he made a bid to be a part of the Trump administration and scrubbed his entire Twitter timeline. This was probably 6 years ago now. He seemed disingenuous then. Don't know about him now.
I really enjoyed that interview on Tim's podcast and I've been working my way through some of Balaji's other interviews and videos online.
I'm currently watching this one someone posted of his coursera course from 2012 all pasted together into one video over 7 hours long. I have come to like this format more and more on youtube becuase you just resume and don't have to worry about finding the next video etc.
Anyway, watching this in the context of it being from 2012 is pretty mindblowing and the advice has seemed like it would have been quite good back then (some of it still now too I'm sure.)
The name of the course was Startup Engineering. I don't believe it's available on Coursera or anywhere else anymore.