Smart Friends
Hosted by Eric Jorgenson and ejorgenson · Eric Jorgenson
4.9from 110 ratings
- 126
- Episodes
- 43
- Transcribed
- 110
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
- 63K
- YouTube views
About Smart Friends
Casual conversations with founders, technologists, investors, and artists about building a brighter future, together. Welcome to our digital living room. With science, technology and entrepreneurship we can *continue* to create unfathomable leaps in quality of life. We show you how to find, apply, build, and invest in technologies to change your life and the world. When we have smart friends, we do smart things. When we do smart things, we save the world. No matter who, where, or when you are – now you have smart friends, too. Outside this podcast, I’m the author of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant and The Anthology of Balaji. Connect at ejorgenson.com Laugh and learn with people like Balaji Srinivasan, Naval Ravikant, Andrew Wilkinson, Austen Allred, David Senra, Josh Storrs Hall, Ashley Rindsberg, Zach Pettet, Bret Kugelmass, Omar ElNaggar, Grace Guo, Brett Kopf, Max Olson, Chris Williamson, Shane Mac, Tim Hwang, David Perell, Jason Hitchcock, Natalia Karayaneva, Sebastian Marshall, Taylor Pearson, Mitchell Baldridge and more. Join conversations with my partners in early-stage tech investing, Bo Fishback and Al Doan. Our Rolling Fun Episodes cover our investments and escapades as angel investors and startup helpers. We invest in startups creating the *next* industrial revolution. Learn more at rolling.fun “Surround yourself with people who remind you more of your future than of your past.”
- Publisher
- Eric Jorgenson
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 16 Jan 2021
- Latest episode
- 1 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
43 of 126 episodes have a transcript.
1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
#106 130 Million Meals made by Robots: Rajat Bhageria of Chef Robotics
16 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
#105 Inside the Underground Meme Marketing World: Jason Levin of Memelord
2 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
#104 The Elite Private High School Where Students Earn A Million Dollars: [Nat Eliason of Founder School (via Alpha)]
Inside a recent episode
#106 130 Million Meals made by Robots: Rajat Bhageria of Chef Robotics
Published 1 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And obviously they are, right? No doubt about it. But in terms of like number of humans who do the job, like the most common jobs are retail salespeople and nursing and then food number three. Globally, actually, it's a little bit different. Globally, it's agriculture number one. And then food is number two, which kind of makes sense. I mean, like the most it's like Maslow's hierarchy of needs, right? It kind of makes sense. That's where you spend time and money. Yeah. Demand for food is absolutely inelastic. You know, when you get to the the marginal hungry person, that's a job we all keep doing. […]
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- Rajat Bhageria
- Jason Levin
- Nat Eliason
- Sean Devine
- Zack Kass
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- YouTube views
- 62,720
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 110 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 82 / 100
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- Quality
- 93
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 85
- Engagement
- 95
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Eric Jorgenson and ejorgenson host the show. Published by Eric Jorgenson.
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