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"Hard Work, Grit, Tenacity and Not Giving Up" - Robinhood Co-Founder Baiju Bhatt on His Life Lessons
Apr 30, 2026
25m 59s
Robinhood & Aetherflux Co-Founder Baiju Bhatt: It's Time To Commercialise Space
Apr 23, 2026
34m 07s
Rebuild Your Life Around Friendship (Before It's Too Late): Vivek Murthy's Life Lessons
Apr 16, 2026
26m 00s
Former US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy: Is Technology Fuelling a Loneliness Epidemic?
Apr 9, 2026
33m 51s
“Ambition Without Execution is Delusion", Form Energy CEO Mateo Jaramillo on Starting Form Energy
Apr 2, 2026
11m 39s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 4/30/26 |  "Hard Work, Grit, Tenacity and Not Giving Up" - Robinhood Co-Founder Baiju Bhatt on His Life Lessons | In this episode of Giant Ideas, Cameron sits down with the co‑founder of Robinhood to talk about where it all began, and what founders today can learn. They discuss: - The origin story & friendship of the co-founders of Robinhood: Growing up as children of immigrant and meeting at Stanford - 75 VC rejections: Why investors said young people would never invest, and what those VCs fundamentally missed - Founder mindset: Changing your mind as a superpower, “gradient descent” as a way to ... | 25m 59s | ||||||
| 4/23/26 |  Robinhood & Aetherflux Co-Founder Baiju Bhatt: It's Time To Commercialise Space | Baiju Bhatt, the co-founder & CEO of Robinhood, has a vision that the Earth will one day be like Saturn - with rings in outer space. Baiju's latest company is Aetherflux: building solar panels in space, with energy harvested continuously from the sun, and transmitting it back to Earth or directly to AI infrastructure in orbit, via laser. The economics of space-based energy are becoming interesting, and the target metric is straightforward: get cost per GPU hour competitive with Eart... | 34m 07s | ||||||
| 4/16/26 |  Rebuild Your Life Around Friendship (Before It's Too Late): Vivek Murthy's Life Lessons | In episode two with former US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, he reflects on the hidden epidemic of loneliness through the story of his own life. Moving from a tight‑knit immigrant family, to the healing power of nature, to the weight of taking the oath as Surgeon General, he shares how meaning and resilience are rooted in relationships rather than status or achievement. Vivek shares how forming a Moai (a small, committed circle of friends) transformed his life, why success in any caree... | 26m 00s | ||||||
| 4/9/26 |  Former US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy: Is Technology Fuelling a Loneliness Epidemic? | In this episode, former US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy explains why loneliness has become a defining problem of modern life. He explains why: - The crucial difference between being alone and feeling lonely, - How mobility, social media, and the decline of traditional communities have eroded our sense of belonging - Why young men are emerging as one of the most vulnerable groups. - How loneliness isn’t just emotionally painful: it carries health risks comparable to smoking and obesity, and ... | 33m 51s | ||||||
| 4/2/26 |  “Ambition Without Execution is Delusion", Form Energy CEO Mateo Jaramillo on Starting Form Energy | Cameron sits down with Mateo Jaramillo, the former Tesla exec building one of the most ambitious climate companies in the world: Form Energy. In this bonus episode, they dive into WHY he started the company, why one challenge coin in West Virginia changed everything, the three photographs that defined his life so far... Building a purpose driven company? Read more about Giant Ventures at www.Giant.vc. Music credits: Bubble King written and produced by Cameron McLain and Stevan Cablayan ... | 11m 39s | ||||||
| 3/26/26 |  Form Energy CEO Mateo Jaramillo: Building the Largest Battery System in the World | Cameron sits down with Matteo Jaramillo, the former Tesla exec building one of the most ambitious climate companies in the world: Form Energy. They dive into long-duration energy storage, the AI-driven demand boom, and what it takes to scale hard tech from idea to gigawatt-hours. - Why Matteo left a path toward the priesthood after Yale Divinity School - Simple breakdown of iron-air batteries - Why 100-hour duration matters for grid reliability and extreme weather - How iron-air can be ~10x ... | 34m 37s | ||||||
| 3/19/26 |  "Mothers Can Do it All. They Just Shouldn't Do it On Their Own" - Former NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's Life Lessons | In this episode of Giant Ideas, former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern returns to explore the person behind the public role. Invited to choose three photographs that define her life, Jacinda reflects on a childhood shaped by New Zealand, parents who modelled service and fairness, and the early experiences that forged her lifelong commitment to tackling inequality and child poverty. She shares a candid glimpse into the emotional weight of leadership, including the lasting impact of M... | 12m 39s | ||||||
| 3/12/26 |  Former NZ Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern: How to Lead with Compassion When Everything’s on Fire | Today on the podcast we are joined by Jacinda Ardern - former Prime Minister of New Zealand, and the world's youngest female head of government. This is a conversation for anyone who wants to lead with kindness, and learn how to deal with high pressure situations. As PM, Jacinda became famous worldwide for her unique leadership style: leading with compassion and empathy. A 'different kind of power’ as she puts it. Her time in office was marked by her handling of major crises. She rush... | 25m 08s | ||||||
| 3/5/26 |  "They Haven’t Got a Clue How Remorseless the Pressure Is", Former Meta President Nick Clegg on His Life Lessons | Former UK Deputy Prime Minister and ex‑President of Global Affairs at Meta Nick Clegg returns for a deeply personal conversation. Nick reflects on the three “photographs” that define his life: a chaotic, international childhood; the unexpected joy of being locked down with his wife Miriam and their three sons on a remote ranch in Montana; and the searing public failures of losing power and his parliamentary seat. Along the way, he shares what it takes to sustain a high‑pressure dual‑career ma... | 24m 59s | ||||||
| 2/26/26 |  Former Meta President & Deputy PM, Nick Clegg: Is Social Media Driving Us Apart? | Nick Clegg is the former UK Deputy Prime Minister and former President, Global Affairs at Meta. He has had a front seat to two of the biggest power structures globally: Westminster and Silicon Valley. At Meta, he became the company’s chief policy decision-maker, meeting with world leaders, governments and policymakers around the globe. He has written two best-selling books, Politics: Between the Extremes and How To Stop Brexit (And Make Britain Great Again). His latest book: "How to S... | 40m 37s | ||||||
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| 2/19/26 |  "Ego Destruction and Humility…": US Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang on Running for President | Andrew Yang joins the Giant Ideas podcast again, this time offering a deeper dive behind the person behind his giant ideas. Andrew ran for president in 2020, and is the founder of a nonprofit called Humanity Forward, and the Forward Party, a new political party in America aiming to bridge partisan divides. Today his focus is on his new company - launched in late 2025. With Noble Mobile, aiming to cut out the middle man and make mobile data cheaper for Americans. In this episode we talk about:... | 17m 26s | ||||||
| 2/12/26 |  Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang: AI Needs Universal Basic Income | Today on the Giant Ideas podcast we are joined by Andrew Yang. When Andrew Yang, a political outsider, ran for US President in 2020 his campaign hinged on a warning: he predicted that a huge number of jobs would be lost by automation. His solution was a monthly universal basic income (UBI) of $1,000, designed to offset the job losses. Now, six years later, it appears Yang might have been onto something. Dario Amodei, CEO of AI Giant Anthropic, has predicted that half of entry level whit... | 33m 03s | ||||||
| 1/29/26 |  'Sometimes People Get Confused Between Ego and Rigour': PsiQuantum Co-Founder, Jeremy O'Brien's Wisdom | We welcome back Jeremy O'Brien, co-founder and CEO of PsiQuantum, a quantum computing company on a mission to deliver the first commercially useful quantum computers to tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges. O’Brien has dedicated 25 years to this mission and was previously a Professor of Physics & Electrical Engineering at Stanford and Bristol University. This is an episode for anyone curious to understand the person behind the technology with a goal is to unlock problems that a... | 19m 55s | ||||||
| 1/15/26 |  PsiQuantum Co-Founder, Jeremy O'Brien: Quantum Is Sooner Than You Think | Today on the Giant Ideas podcast we welcome Jeremy O'Brien, co-founder and CEO of PsiQuantum, a quantum computing company on a mission to deliver the first commercially useful quantum computers to tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges. O’Brien has dedicated 25 years to this mission and was previously a Professor of Physics & Electrical Engineering at Stanford and Bristol University. This is an episode for anyone curious to peer into the fascinating world of quantum computing, to... | 32m 02s | ||||||
| 1/8/26 | Succession and HBO-hit Industry Writers Talk with Henry Mance about Writing, Power, and Corruption | Welcome back to Giant Ideas! Happy new year. We return to normal scheduling next week, but this week we are sharing an exclusive conversation with some of the best television writers in the world right now: Succession writer Lucy Prebble, and the creators of the HBO hit Industry, Micky Down and Konrad Kay. This was conversation was recorded last year - chaired by the legendary Henry Mance, the FT's chief features writer - and was one of my favourites from our Giant Ideas event in London last... | 24m 44s | ||||||
| 12/18/25 |  "A BILLION dollars came in to Mercury in a few hours" Mercury CEO on Lessons from SVB's Failure & How To Lead Through a Crisis | Immad Akhund is the Co-founder & CEO at Mercury - one of the most widely used business banking platforms globally. He is also an active investor in Silicon Valley - as an active investor in 350 startups at their earliest stages including Airtable, Substack, and Rappi. In this episode we talk about the three photographs that define Immad's life so far, the fateful weekend of the Silicon Valley Bank failure, and his leadership lessons learnt in a time of crisis. Building a purpose dr... | 17m 12s | ||||||
| 12/11/25 |  Immad Akhund, CEO at Mercury: The Reality of Building a Unicorn (and Why it's Worth the Pain) | Immad Akhund is the Co-founder and CEO at Mercury - one of the most widely used business banking platforms globally. He is also an active investor in Silicon Valley - as an active investor in 350 startups at their earliest stages including Airtable, Substack, and Rappi. This year he announced that Mercury raised $300 million at $3.5 billion valuation. He also announced his $26 million fund to back early-stage startups. In this episode we talk about why founders make the best ven... | 30m 06s | ||||||
| 12/4/25 |  Bjarke Ingels Wisdom: Your Home Should Be a Portrait of You | Today on the Giant Ideas podcast we welcome back visionary architect Bjarke Ingels, founder of @BIGSOLUTIONS (Bjarke Ingels Group), whose work includes Google’s Silicon Valley campus, the Danish Maritime Museum, and 2 World Trade Center. In this episode, Bjarke shares his philosophy on how your home should be a portrait of who you are. He also reflects on the three photographs that have defined his life, how his early love of drawing shaped his path to becoming an architect, and... | 16m 28s | ||||||
| 11/27/25 |  Turning Architectural Dreams Into Reality, with Global Architect & Founder Bjarke Ingels | Today on the Giant Ideas podcast we welcome visionary architect Bjarke Ingels, founder of BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), whose work includes Google’s Silicon Valley campus, the Danish Maritime Museum, and 2 World Trade Center. In this episode, Bjarke shares his philosophy of “utopian pragmatism,” the inseparable link between form and function in architecture, and his thoughts on why architecture matters. Bjarke also discusses collaborations with fellow visionary Thomas Heatherwick, the eco... | 26m 14s | ||||||
| 11/20/25 |  Doug Bernauer Wisdom: SpaceX & Elon Musk's Secret to Ambitious Leadership | Doug Bernauer, founder of Radiant (one of Giant’s most exciting growth investments) joins us again on the Giant Ideas podcast. We backed Radiant in their Series C round to mass produce portable nuclear reactors. The founder, Doug, worked with Elon Musk for 12 years at SpaceX - including their reusable rocket prototype and the Mars Colonisation project. In this episode, he shares the 3 photographs that define his life, what he learnt from SpaceX, and why good companies need 'unreasonable' lea... | 10m 26s | ||||||
| 11/14/25 |  Nuclear Reactors In A Box (Radiant Founder, Doug Bernauer) | Today we are joined by Doug Bernauer, founder of Radiant – one of Giant’s most exciting growth investments. We backed Radiant in their Series C round. Their vision is to mass produce portable nuclear reactors. But their vision goes far beyond that. They want to first manufacture nuclear reactors for Earth - giving clean energy to remote areas. And they then want to use this profit to develop a reactor for Mars, to send it on a Starship to power the potential future civilisation of Mars. It’s... | 39m 06s | ||||||
| 11/6/25 |  Halle Tecco Wisdom: Choosing a Life Partner & Prioritising Adventure | What are the moments that defined you? Last week we had an in depth conversation with star investor Halle Tecco about creating massively better healthcare in the US. Today, she joins us to talk about the 3 moments that defined her and the wisdom gained so far in life. From choosing a life partner, to deciding whether to have children, to choosing to leave your home town and prioritise adventure. About Halle Tecco: Halle Tecco is an entrepreneur and investor passionate about fixing the hea... | 11m 48s | ||||||
| 10/30/25 |  Massively Better Healthcare (Star Investor Halle Tecco) | Today on the podcast, we are excited to be joined by Halle Tecco - an entrepreneur and investor passionate about fixing the healthcare system. Halle is the co-founder of Co-fertility - a company rewriting the egg freezing and egg donation experience. She is also the founder of Natalist and Rock Health, one of the pioneering digital health early-stage venture funds. Now, as Course Director at Harvard Medical School and Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, she supports future healthc... | 27m 13s | ||||||
| 10/16/25 |  Infosys Co-Founder, Narayana Murthy: India’s Rising Status as a Tech Superpower | Today on the podcast we have Narayana Murthy - Founder and former CEO of Infosys - a giant which reached $100BN, one of the largest companies in history, and transformed India’s economy. Infosys - founded in 1981 - offers consulting, IT, and outsourcing services across the globe. Starting with a small loan, 18 years later it became the first ever Indian company to be listed on NASDAQ. Murthy has been listed among the 12 greatest entrepreneurs of our time by Fortune magazine. He has akso... | 39m 00s | ||||||
| 10/2/25 |  Ikoyi Co-Founder, Jeremy Chan: What It Takes to Build a Global Top 50 Restaurant | Today on the podcast we welcome Jeremy Chan. Jeremy is a British-Canadian chef who grew up between London and Hong Kong, and is the Co-founder of Ikoyi restaurant. In 2017, Chan joined forces with Iré Hassan-Odukale – a friend who had just left a career in insurance - and together they decided to build Ikoyi. Ikoyi is now a two-Michelin-starred restaurant in London, and it has recently been voted one of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants. But Chan has not always been a chef. In fact he s... | 48m 13s | ||||||
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