Los mejores podcasts de John Collison (2024)

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Ron Conway, Founder, SV Angel 1:13:00

3d ago1:13:00

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Ron Conway has been close to the center of things for longer than anyone else in Silicon Valley, from the point when he started his career at National Semiconductor in the early 70s to the AI conference he organized last month. He's the embodiment and the transmitter of Silicon Valley culture. He knows all the stories, usually because he was person…

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Interview with Blaine Collison, Executive Director of the Renewable Thermal Collaborative 30:35

6d ago30:35

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Renewable Thermal Collaborative is the leading coalition for organizations committed to scaling up renewable heating and cooling at their facilities and cutting carbon emissions.Por Scott Amyx

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John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) - Reasoning, RLHF, & Plan for 2027 AGI 1:36:30

10d ago1:36:30

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Chatted with John Schulman (cofounded OpenAI and led ChatGPT creation) on how posttraining tames the shoggoth, and the nature of the progress to come... Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Read the full transcript here. Follow me on Twitter for updates on future episodes. Timestamps (00:00:00) - Pre-t…

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Interview with Tim Weiss CEO of Optera 28:43

12d ago28:43

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Kyle Vogt, Founder of Cruise Automation 1:08:29

18d ago1:08:29

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Today we catch up with Kyle Vogt, whose self-driving car company, Cruise, was funded by Y Combinator in 2014 and acquired by GM in 2016. Before that he was a co-founder of Twitch and its predecessor, Justin.tv. Learn how his love of building hard things started at a young age, and why he’s nowhere near done building yet.…

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Interview with Kimberly Ann Flynn, President at XA Investments 27:41

20d ago27:41

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XA Investments LLC is a Chicago-based investment manager to pursue a single goal: provide investors with access to institutional-caliber alternative investments.Por Scott Amyx

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Yuri Sagalov, Co-Founder of AeroFS 1:00:45

1M ago1:00:45

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Today we are talking to Yuri Sagalov. His company AeroFS, which did enterprise file syncing and sharing, was funded by Y Combinator in summer 2010. Yuri went on to work at Y Combinator before starting his own fund, Wayfinder Ventures.Por Jessica Livingston

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Mark Zuckerberg - Llama 3, Open Sourcing $10b Models, & Caesar Augustus 1:17:54

1M ago1:17:54

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Mark Zuckerberg on: - Llama 3 - open sourcing towards AGI - custom silicon, synthetic data, & energy constraints on scaling - Caesar Augustus, intelligence explosion, bioweapons, $10b models, & much more Enjoy! Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Human edited transcript with helpful links here. Timest…

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Interview with Alison Malmqvist, Director, Sexual & Reproductive Health, Climate Health Lead, PSI Global 34:58

1M ago34:58

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Today I am joined by Alison Malmqvist, Director, Sexual & Reproductive Health, Climate Health Lead, PSI Global. She has 20 years of experience developing and leading integrated public health programs in Africa and the Caribbean with a focus on designing, implementing, managing and monitoring social marketing and health communication programs for se…

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Interview with Stefan Schwab, CEO of Enlighted 26:54

2M ago26:54

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Enlighted, a Siemens company, integrates cognitive environmental IoT sensors and lighting controls connecting to intelligent workplace experience apps, offering a scalable, interoperable solution to address a spectrum of building, space, and productivity needs.Por Scott Amyx

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Interview with Dr. John J. Berger, Environmental Science and Policy Specialist 33:28

2M ago33:28

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Dr. John J. Berger, Ph.D. is an environmental science and policy specialist, prize-winning author, and journalist.Por Scott Amyx

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Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken - How to Build & Understand GPT-7's Mind 3:12:21

2M ago3:12:21

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Had so much fun chatting with my good friends Trenton Bricken and Sholto Douglas on the podcast. No way to summarize it, except: This is the best context dump out there on how LLMs are trained, what capabilities they're likely to soon have, and what exactly is going on inside them. You would be shocked how much of what I know about this field, I've…

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Interview with Osprey Orielle Lake, Executive Director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network 31:45

2M ago31:45

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Osprey Orielle Lake, Executive Director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), released her new book The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis. The dominant cultural worldview is based upon extraction and exploitation practices that have brought us to the precipice of social, enviro…

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Interview with Michael Azlen, CEO of Carbon Cap Management 29:15

3M ago29:15

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Carbon Cap Management is an alternative asset management firm operating in the global carbon and environmental markets. Their mission is to provide solutions directly related to the capping and reduction of carbon dioxide emissions.Por Scott Amyx

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Interview with Dr. Ethan Cohen-Cole, CEO of Capture6 32:28

3M ago32:28

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Capture6 is a technology that removes CO₂ from the atmosphere while producing additional freshwater for local communities.Por Scott Amyx

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Demis Hassabis - Scaling, Superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, Rogue Nations Threat 1:01:34

3M ago1:01:34

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Here is my episode with Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind We discuss: * Why scaling is an artform * Adding search, planning, & AlphaZero type training atop LLMs * Making sure rogue nations can't steal weights * The right way to align superhuman AIs and do an intelligence explosion Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any oth…

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Patrick Collison (Stripe CEO) - Craft, Beauty, & The Future of Payments 1:54:47

3M ago1:54:47

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We discuss: * what it takes to process $1 trillion/year * how to build multi-decade APIs, companies, and relationships * what's next for Stripe (increasing the GDP of the internet is quite an open ended prompt, and the Collison brothers are just getting started). Plus the amazing stuff they're doing at Arc Institute, the financial infrastructure fo…

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Interview with Elizabeth Whitlow, Executive Director at Regenerative Organic Alliance 35:15

3M ago35:15

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Regenerative Organic Alliance manages the Regenerative Organic Certified program, a groundbreaking certification for food, fiber, and personal care products. Integrating USDA Organic, Fair Trade, and high-bar animal welfare standards, it surpasses current criteria, setting global benchmarks for soil health, animal welfare, and social fairness.…

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Interview with Frank Pao, Chair of Industrial Advisory Board on Center of Energy Harvesting Material & Systems 26:47

3M ago26:47

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Frank Pao, Chair of Industrial Advisory Board on Center of Energy Harvesting Material & Systems, The National Science Foundation.Por Scott Amyx

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Interview with Jan Skjoldhammer, CEO of NoviOcean 27:47

4M ago27:47

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NoviOcean is a wave energy developer that uses ocean waves to generate electricity.Por Scott Amyx

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Tyler Cowen - Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, Animal Spirits, Anarchy, & Growth 1:42:22

4M ago1:42:22

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It was a great pleasure speaking with Tyler Cowen for the 3rd time. We discussed GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time and Why Does it Matter?, especially in the context of how the insights of Hayek, Keynes, Smith, and other great economists help us make sense of AI, growth, animal spirits, prediction markets, alignment, central planning,…

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Jessica & Carolynn Announce Season 3! 6:59

4M ago6:59

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Announcing Season 3 of The Social Radars!Por Jessica Livingston

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Interview with Stéphane Germain, President & CEO of GHGSat 31:26

4M ago31:26

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GHGSat monitors emissions from space, using its satellites and aircraft sensors to measure greenhouse gas emissions directly from industrial sites, providing actionable insights to businesses, governments, and regulators.Por Scott Amyx

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Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro [Narration] 36:32

4M ago36:32

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This is a narration of my blog post, Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro. You read the full post here: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/lyndon-johnson Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Follow me on Twitter for updates on future posts and episodes. Get full access to Dwarkesh Podcast at www.dwarkesh…

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Will scaling work? [Narration] 25:43

4M ago25:43

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This is a narration of my blog post, Will scaling work?. You read the full post here: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/will-scaling-work Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Follow me on Twitter for updates on future posts and episodes. Get full access to Dwarkesh Podcast at www.dwarkeshpatel.com/subscribe…

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Adora Cheung, Co-founder of Homejoy & Instalab 1:01:16

5M ago1:01:16

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Today we chat with Adora Cheung, Co-founder of Homejoy (YC summer 2010) and now InstaLab, an at-home blood testing service that helps you optimize your health by measuring over 60 biomarkers. Our conversation is wide-ranging: from how to clean homes efficiently to how she helped defeat Trump in 2020 by getting hundreds of thousands of votes in swin…

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Trevor Blackwell, Co-founder Y Combinator; Founder, Anybots 1:12:49

5M ago1:12:49

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Today we have another insider episode: we're talking to Trevor Blackwell, who was my cofounder at Y Combinator. But that's not all he's done. He was also the founder of Anybots, where he created the first dynamically balancing biped robot, and also worked on Viaweb with Paul Graham and Robert Morris.…

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Parker Conrad, Founder of Zenefits & Rippling 1:18:25

6M ago1:18:25

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Today we're talking with Parker Conrad, who founded two startups that went on to become unicorns: Zenefits in 2013, and Rippling in 2016. Parker’s story is one the more dramatic ones you’ll hear on this podcast. In fact this episode is two stories: his misadventures at Zenefits, and the ambitious ideas he has implemented at Rippling.…

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Jung Chang - Living through Cultural Revolution and the Crimes of Mao 1:31:15

6M ago1:31:15

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A true honor to speak with Jung Chang. She is the author of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (sold 15+ million copies worldwide) and Mao: The Unknown Story. We discuss: - what it was like growing up during the Cultural Revolution as the daughter of a denounced official - why the CCP continues to worship the biggest mass murderer in human histor…

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Emmett Shear, Co-Founder of Twitch 1:18:36

6M ago1:18:36

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Today we talk with Emmett Shear, who was in the very first YC batch in 2005 with a startup called Kiko. But you know him better as the co-founder of Twitch, which YC funded in 2007. Learn how Twitch grew from one guy walking around with a camera on his head to one of the biggest communities on the internet. It's a crazy story even by startup standa…

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Andrew Roberts - SV's Napoleon Cult, Why Hitler Lost WW2, Churchill as Applied Historian 1:18:49

6M ago1:18:49

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Andrew Roberts is the world's best biographer and one of the leading historians of our time. We discussed * Churchill the applied historian, * Napoleon the startup founder, * why Nazi ideology cost Hitler WW2, * drones, reconnaissance, and other aspects of the future of war, * Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea, Ukraine, & Taiwan. Watch on YouTube. Listen on…

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Dominic Cummings - COVID, Brexit, & Fixing Western Governance 2:34:13

6M ago2:34:13

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Here is my interview with Dominic Cummings on why Western governments are so dangerously broken, and how to fix them before an even more catastrophic crisis. Dominic was Chief Advisor to the Prime Minister during COVID, and before that, director of Vote Leave (which masterminded the 2016 Brexit referendum). Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcast…

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Patrick & John Collison, Co-Founders of Stripe 1:11:34

6M ago1:11:34

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In this episode we catch up with Patrick and John Collison, two brothers from Ireland who founded Stripe in 2009. Since then we've watched Stripe grow from a two-man show to one of the great powers of the tech worldPor Jessica Livingston

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Interview with Ryan Lupberger, CEO of Cleancult 34:25

7M ago34:25

34:25

Cleancult is a zero plastic waste packaging household cleaning brand.Por Scott Amyx

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Paul Christiano - Preventing an AI Takeover 3:07:01

7M ago3:07:01

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Paul Christiano is the world’s leading AI safety researcher. My full episode with him is out! We discuss: - Does he regret inventing RLHF, and is alignment necessarily dual-use? - Why he has relatively modest timelines (40% by 2040, 15% by 2030), - What do we want post-AGI world to look like (do we want to keep gods enslaved forever)? - Why he’s le…

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Interview with Joseph Kane, a Fellow at Brookings Metro 32:07

7M ago32:07

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Today I am joined by Joseph Kane, a Fellow at Brookings Metro, a program of The Brookings Institution. His work focuses on a wide array of built environment issues, including transportation and water infrastructure. Within these areas of research, Kane has explored infrastructure’s central economic role across different regions as well as its relat…

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Bill Clerico, Co-Founder & CEO of WePay 54:43

7M ago54:43

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Today we're talking with Bill Clerico, co-founder of WePay which Y Combinator funded in 2009. WePay was one of the first of what are now called "FinTech" startups. In 2017, J.P. Morgan acquired WePay for $400M. Listen in to the adventures of an early fintech pioneer.Por Jessica Livingston

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Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) - 2028 AGI, New Architectures, Aligning Superhuman Models 44:19

7M ago44:19

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I had a lot of fun chatting with Shane Legg - Founder and Chief AGI Scientist, Google DeepMind! We discuss: * Why he expects AGI around 2028 * How to align superhuman models * What new architectures needed for AGI * Has Deepmind sped up capabilities or safety more? * Why multimodality will be next big landmark * and much more Watch full episode on …

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Interview with Dr. Joe Romm Senior Research Fellow University of Pennsylvania 32:03

7M ago32:03

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Dimitri Dadiomov, Co-Founder & CEO of Modern Treasury 53:13

7M ago53:13

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Today we're talking with Dimitri Dadiomov of Modern Treasury, a startup Y Combinator funded in 2018. Dimitri works in a very important world whose existence is hidden from most people: the movement of money into and out of companies. Listen in as we follow the money!Por Jessica Livingston

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Interview with Robert Koenen Chief Revenue Officer Boxed Water Is Better 30:40

7M ago30:40

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Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) - Past, Present, & Future of Mathematics 1:31:20

8M ago1:31:20

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I had a lot of fun chatting with Grant Sanderson (who runs the excellent 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel) about: - Whether advanced math requires AGI - What careers should mathematically talented students pursue - Why Grant plans on doing a stint as a high school teacher - Tips for self teaching - Does Godel’s incompleteness theorem actually matter - W…

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Sarah C. M. Paine - WW2, Taiwan, Ukraine, & Maritime vs Continental Powers 2:24:33

8M ago2:24:33

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I learned so much from Sarah Paine, Professor of History and Strategy at the Naval War College. We discuss: - how continental vs maritime powers think and how this explains Xi & Putin's decisions - how a war with China over Taiwan would shake out and whether it could go nuclear - why the British Empire fell apart, why China went communist, how Hitl…

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Brian Armstrong, Co-Founder & CEO of Coinbase 1:07:08

8M ago1:07:08

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Today we're talking with Brian Armstrong of Coinbase, a startup YC funded in 2012 and is now a publicly traded company. Coinbase is truly in the middle of the exciting new world of cryptocurrency. It's particularly interesting to explore this world with Brian, who was unusually candid, even for Silicon Valley.…

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Interview with Mary Alice Lee, Director, NYC Playgrounds Program, Trust for Public Land 27:03

8M ago27:03

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Since 1996, Trust For Public Land—alongside countless partners—has helped transform well over 200 schoolyards into thriving parks and playgrounds, getting the absolute most of the space available and giving the gift of social connection and nature play back to the communities.Por Scott Amyx

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Brian Chesky, Co-Founder & CEO of Airbnb 1:14:14

9M ago1:14:14

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In today's episode, we're talking once again with Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of Airbnb. YC funded Airbnb in 2009, when the company was at death's door. During YC we watched the founders work frantically to get growth started and turn Airbnb into the rocketship that it is today. Today we pick up where we left off in Brian's incredible story of…

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Interview with Sanchali Pal founder CEO of Commons 29:25

9M ago29:25

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Interview with Maria Korsnick, Nuclear Energy Institute, President & CEO 34:44

9M ago34:44

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The Nuclear Energy Institute is the policy organization of the nuclear technologies industry, based in Washington, D.C.Por Scott Amyx

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Interview with Scott Sabin, CEO of Plant With Purpose 32:57

9M ago32:57

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Plant With Purpose works at the nexus of poverty and environmental degradation to transform the lives and land of farming communities through environmental restoration, economic empowerment, and spiritual renewal.Por Scott Amyx

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Interview with Diz Petit, Founder and CEO of LiquiDonate 32:08

9M ago32:08

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LiquiDonate provides the simplest donation method for retailers, businesses, downsizing organizations, and anyone with excess items.Por Scott Amyx

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