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Ed Catmull, Co-founder of Pixar
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| 6/21/26 | ![]() Ed Catmull, Co-founder of Pixar | David Senra: Read the notes at at podcastnotes.org. Don't forget to subscribe for free to our newsletter, the top 10 ideas of the week, every Monday --------- Ed Catmull is the co-founder of Pixar and the former president of Disney Animation. He grew up in 1950s Utah wanting to animate for Disney. Convinced he couldn't draw well enough, he studied physics and computer science at the University of Utah instead, landing in one of the great talent incubators in computing history. In 1972, he animated his own left hand—one of the first 3D computer renderings ever made. Since childhood he had carried a single ambition: to make the first feature film animated entirely by computer. Reaching it took more than 20 years. George Lucas hired Catmull in 1979 to build a computer division at Lucasfilm. When Lucas needed cash, Steve Jobs bought that division in 1986 for $5 million and spun it out as Pixar. For years it sold imaging computers and lost money while Catmull and John Lasseter made short films to keep the dream alive. Jobs sank roughly $50 million of his own money into it. In 1995, Pixar released Toy Story, the first feature animated entirely by computer, and went public days later. Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, WALL-E, and Up followed. Disney bought Pixar in 2006 for $7.4 billion and put Catmull in charge of both studios; he revived a faltering Disney Animation with films like Frozen. Catmull cared about the conditions that let creative work survive its own fragility. Every original idea, he argues, starts out ugly and broken, and management exists to protect it long enough to get good. At Pixar that meant the Braintrust: a room where directors got blunt feedback with no authority attached and the conversation stayed on the problem, never on who was right. He laid it all out in Creativity, Inc. Show notes: https://www.davidsenra.com/episode/ed-catmull Made possible by Ramp: https://ramp.com AppLovin: https://axon.ai/senra Deel: https://deel.com/senra Chapters (00:00:00) Most Companies Are Full Of Shit (00:04:28) The Brain Trust Mechanism (00:10:13) Why Steve Jobs Was Banned From The Braintrust (00:17:48) Your Job Is To Manage The Dynamics (00:23:27) Betting The Company On Toy Story (00:24:35) Engineering Eisner's Worst Nightmare (00:36:51) Bob Iger's Crappy Hand (00:38:44) Why Disney Never Asked What Pixar Was Doing (00:43:48) Take The Hard Problem (00:44:38) The Director Can't Lose The Team (00:48:48) Quality Is The Best Business Plan (00:52:32) What Walt Disney Taught Him (00:59:25) George Lucas And The Motion Blur Problem (01:08:48) Now What's The Point Of My Life (01:13:31) How Much Of This Was Me (01:16:10) George Lucas Wanted The Whole Industry Healthy (01:25:11) Refusing To Let Anyone Feel Second Class (01:32:38) The Truck In The Building Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | — | ||||||
| 6/21/26 | ![]() [Outliers] The Hyundai Founder Who Put a Country on His Back | Knowledge Project: Read the notes at at podcastnotes.org. Don't forget to subscribe for free to our newsletter, the top 10 ideas of the week, every Monday --------- Chung Ju-yung built Hyundai because he refused to be stopped. He is known for turning Hyundai into an industrial force that helped transform South Korea. The company built highways, ships, cars, and entire industries. At its peak, Hyundai accounted for 16% of South Korea’s economic output. This episode explores how Chung built Hyundai, how he helped power South Korea’s rise, and how hunger, guilt, discipline, and relentless persistence shaped a man who refused to stop when the path disappeared. ------ Timestamps: (00:00) Introduction (02:40) Running Away from Home (12:15) A Lesson from Bedbugs (17:36) His First Auto Repair Shop (21:22) The Beginning of Hyundai (26:09) The Impact of the Korean War (30:12) The Goryeong Bridge (37:20) Trust and the Korean Government (49:31) Competence Over Connections (55:13) Building a Nation (01:03:00) Building During the Vietnam War (01:10:00) Soyang River Dam (01:14:55) Building an Expressway (01:23:14) Time to Start Making Cars… (01:34:24) …And Ships (01:47:04) The Secret Bid for Jubail (01:57:35) The 1988 Olympics (02:01:33) The Chung Family Dynamic (02:05:00) The Government Crackdown (02:10:00) Crossing the DMZ (02:12:06) Diligence Will Overcome all Difficulties ------ Newsletter: The Brain Food newsletter delivers actionable insights and thoughtful ideas every Sunday. It takes 5 minutes to read, and it’s completely free. Learn more and sign up at fs.blog/newsletter ------ Follow Shane Parrish: X: https://x.com/shaneparrish Insta: https://www.instagram.com/farnamstreet/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shane-parrish-050a2183/ ------ Thank you to the sponsors for this episode: +CoinShares: Delivering Reason to Digital Asset Investing. https://coinshares.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | — | ||||||
| 6/12/26 | ![]() Alex Sacerdote - How to Invest Through Technology Cycles - [Invest Like the Best, EP.477]✨ | investment strategiestechnology cycles+3 | Alex Sacerdote | AnthropicWhale Rock Capital Management+1 | — | investmenttechnology+3 | RampCODE | — | |
| 6/10/26 | ![]() Touch Grass: Andrew Yang Returns To Talk Phone Addiction, AI's Cognitive Toll, & The Fight For Your Attention✨ | phone addictionAI impact+3 | Andrew Yang | Voicing Change Media | — | phone addictionAI+4 | PlantPower Meal PlannerRICHROLL20 | — | |
| 6/7/26 | ![]() The Simple Genius of Rick Rubin✨ | music productionentrepreneurship+3 | — | Def Jam Recordings | — | Rick RubinDef Jam+3 | Ramp | — | |
| 6/7/26 | ![]() 4.2M Q&A - Sleeping With An Ex, Harambe & Settling Down - #1104✨ | YouTube growthpersonal development+3 | — | ChatGPT | — | YouTube subscriberssettling down+3 | Whoopmodernwisdom | — | |
| 5/28/26 | ![]() Mostly Wise: Matt McCusker, Andrew Huberman & Tom Segura - #1102✨ | healthentrepreneurship+3 | Matt McCuskerAndrew Huberman+1 | tadalafilCialis+5 | — | tadalafilCialis+6 | Eight Sleepmodernwisdom | — | |
| 5/24/26 | ![]() #419 Kelly Johnson: Skunk Works✨ | engineeringorganizational design+3 | Kelly Johnson | SpaceX | — | Skunk WorksKelly Johnson+5 | Ramp | — | |
| 5/23/26 | ![]() 19 Lessons From 1100 Episodes - #1100✨ | lessons from episodesself-awareness+4 | — | Modern Wisdom | — | obsessionself-awareness+5 | LMNT | — | |
| 5/17/26 | ![]() Winston Weinberg: Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions✨ | AI in lawdecision-making+3 | Winston Weinberg | HarveyGPT-3 | — | AIlegal industry+5 | — | — | |
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| 5/15/26 | ![]() America's Top Principal: AI and The Future of Education✨ | AI in educationK-12 reform+3 | Joe Liemandt | Alpha SchoolTrilogy Software+2 | Stanford | AIeducation+5 | — | — | |
| 5/7/26 | ![]() Everything You Know is About to Collapse - David Friedberg - #1084✨ | AIfuture of technology+5 | David Friedberg | Modern WisdomAnthropic+1 | — | AIfuture+6 | MomentousCODE | — | |
| 5/2/26 | ![]() A Return to Code✨ | codingAI+3 | — | AppleNaval's Podcast | — | codingAI+5 | — | — | |
| 5/1/26 | ![]() Paul Tudor Jones - Lessons From 50 Years in Markets - [Invest Like the Best, EP.470]✨ | tradingrisk management+5 | Paul Tudor Jones | BitcoinAI+1 | — | Paul Tudor Jonestrading+6 | — | — | |
| 4/26/26 | ![]() Martin Shkreli on AI, Pharma, and What Actually Matters✨ | AIPharma+4 | Martin Shkreli | OpenAIAnthropic+5 | — | AIPharma+5 | — | — | |
| 4/23/26 | ![]() Alex Karnal - The Trillion-Dollar Health Revolution - [Invest Like the Best, EP.467]✨ | health stackdefensive health strategy+3 | Alex Karnal | GLP-1 medicinesPCSK9 inhibitors+4 | — | health revolutioninvestment+3 | — | — | |
| 4/23/26 | ![]() Alex Karnal - The Trillion-Dollar Health Revolution - [Invest Like the Best, EP.468] | Invest Like the Best: Read the notes at at podcastnotes.org. Don't forget to subscribe for free to our newsletter, the top 10 ideas of the week, every Monday --------- My guest today is Alex Karnal. Alex is the co-founder and managing partner of Braidwell, a life sciences investment firm he built after spending 15 years at Deerfield Management. The frame we use throughout the episode is the health stack. Alex talks about how most of the diseases that will claim most of our lives are already addressable with medicines that exist today. We work through the five layers of what a defensive health strategy looks like, why GLP-1 medicines represent the first commercial proof that people are ready to be proactive about their health, and why PCSK9 inhibitors may ultimately be the more important drug class even though they get far less attention. We also get into the science and business of drug discovery itself — why most of the published literature that AI companies are training on cannot be replicated, what it would mean to have a truly agentic scientific lab running 24 hours a day, and why Alex believes we are now on a deterministic curve toward scientific superintelligence in biology. For the full show notes, transcript, and links to mentioned content, check out the episode page here. ----- Become a Colossus member to get our quarterly print magazine and private audio experience, including exclusive profiles and early access to select episodes. Subscribe at colossus.com/subscribe. ----- Ramp’s mission is to help companies manage their spend in a way that reduces expenses and frees up time for teams to work on more valuable projects. Go to ramp.com/invest to sign up for free and get a $250 welcome bonus. ----- Trusted by thousands of businesses, Vanta continuously monitors your security posture and streamlines audits so you can win enterprise deals and build customer trust without the traditional overhead. Visit vanta.com/invest. ----- WorkOS is a developer platform that enables SaaS companies to quickly add enterprise features to their applications. Visit WorkOS.com to transform your application into an enterprise-ready solution in minutes, not months. ----- Rogo is the AI platform for finance. They're building agents for Wall Street that are trained to understand how bankers and investors actually do work: from diligence and modeling, to turning analysis into deliverables. To learn more, visit rogo.ai/invest. ----- Ridgeline has built a complete, real-time, modern operating system for investment managers. It handles trading, portfolio management, compliance, customer reporting, and much more through an all-in-one real-time cloud platform. Visit ridgelineapps.com. ----- Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (https://thepodcastconsultant.com). Timestamps: (00:00:00) Welcome to Invest Like the Best (00:02:29) Intro: Alex Karnal (00:03:15) State of the Union: GLP1s and Life Sciences (00:07:01) The Health Stack Framework (00:12:49) Breaking Down the 5 Defensive Layers (00:21:18) GLP-1: What's Driving the Inflection (00:28:28) Diet vs. Drugs: Is Food Enough? (00:31:15) Barriers to Access: Complexity, Cost & Compliance (00:35:04) PCSK9: The Closest Thing to a Free Lunch (00:44:10) Alzheimer's & Neurodegenerative Disease (00:46:59) Cancer: Early Detection & New Treatments (00:54:49) Body Imaging & Diagnostic Trade-offs (00:56:31) How Drugs Are Discovered (01:02:39) AI in Drug Discovery (01:10:57) The Automated Lab of the Future (01:13:05) Peptides & Citizen Pharmacology (01:16:45) Alex's Background (01:28:25) Braidwell's Investment Approach (01:30:39) The Kindest Thing | — | ||||||
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| 3/14/26 | ![]() #414 How SpaceX Works✨ | SpaceXrockets+3 | — | SpaceX | — | SpaceXrockets+5 | Ramp | — | |
| 3/11/26 | ![]() Andrew Huberman: Peptides, Sleep Tech, and the End of Obesity✨ | healthneurobiology+5 | Andrew Huberman | Stanford Universitya16z+3 | — | Andrew Hubermanpeptides+5 | — | — | |
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