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Harper Reed

Topics Discussed:

  • The world’s most impressive bio
  • The smell of Las Vegas
  • Dan and Queen
  • Dan’s girlfriend is in love with Harper
  • “What’s your pandemic plan?”
  • Discipline? Punishment? Cause and Effect
  • Zebra striping the car and the parents reaction
  • Laying the groundwork to sell to PayPal
  • Just for the Hack of It
  • Cooking with Harper
  • “How MUCH IS A LITTLE BIT?”
  • “I’m sorry, what were we talking about?”
  • Harper and the House of Cards story
  • The Obama Work
  • “Rewarding” work
  • Tools used against us
  • Would you do anything differently?
  • Ad Agencies, “Oh no, we never actually did any of that stuff. You guys actually did it.”
  • “Pandora’s box was cracked open, we  just happened to be the ones that opened it all the way.”
  • “We put too much weight on founders to have a strong perspective on the ethical stance of their thing.”
  • But … VC’s want to hear conviction(?)
  • Jim, McCoy, Spock and the crew of the NCC-1701
  • Responsible for Brexit?
  • Red voters
  • Talking shit about the EU, this is not a surprise result
  • A whole boatload of racism
  • “I’m not sure my absentee ballot arrived in time.”
  • “My shit was in the post MONTHS ahead of time.”
  • “Sex, Politics, Religion and Money.”
  • Listening to the other side
  • Veiled racism? I don’t have time for it.
  • Identity politics
  • “When you’re accustomed to privilege equality feels like oppression.” – Franklin Leonard
  • “When I looked at my historic returns, the women I invested in had much greater returns  than then men.”
  • The LIGHTNING ROUND
  • BREAK

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  • Aaaaaaand we’re back!
  • Zooooom.us
  • Galactic.io. Go get in on this shit NOW!
  • Hopin. “They’re not screwing around”
  • The return of Anna. Again.
  • My castle
  • Dan’s recorded an audio book. NDA’s damn. Coming soon …
  • Dressing in black
  • “I don’t miss airport security”
  • Harper and Community
  • Gen X. Me and Al Gore
  • What is a community?
  • You want to be a good actor in
  • You can trust me
  • Establishing trust
  • Authenticity
  • The accidental dissolution of trust
  • Harper’s adult body
  • The antithese answers the question
  • I didn’t split the episode. If Joe Rogan can go 3.5 hours a day, let’s see if YOU stick around for an hour and a half
  • Harper’s COVID work
  • “I was bored. I needed something to do.”
  • People peopled
  • I have to start wearing a hat
  • Dress like Harper Reed Glasses day
  • The photo didn’t do it justice
  • Read bitches!
  • A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
  • Harper’s in the basement
  • “All of my friends getting the COVID vaccine. It creates hope.”
  • I’m priority “The End”
  • You bes’ check yoself befo’ you wreck yo’self

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