If competition is an extreme sport, then Amazon is winning. Journalist Brad Stone examines the relentless entrepreneur Jeff Bezos and his company.

Jeff Bezos and Extreme Competition

On this episode of "Speaking of Bitcoin", join hosts Adam B. Levine, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Stephanie Murphy and Jonathan Mohan for a discussion about loans in the world of crypto.
HODL. It's crypto-land philosophy for not selling your preferred token even when things look their most bleak. But where philosophy intersects with real-world concerns like shelter, food and the niceties of life, tactics have emerged offering both opportunities and risks. From smart contracts to bitcoin collateralized mortgages, the hosts discuss their experiences with loans in the world of crypto.
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Stranger Things ROCKS "Master of Puppets"!

Listen to an excerpt from I'M GLAD MY MOM DIED by Jennette McCurdy, read by the author.

I'M GLAD MY MOM DIED Audiobook Excerpt

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T.O., Rob, Alonzo and Roy are BACK with boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard on this week's show! The guys as the champ about his training, process of intimidation and whether or not Roy has a shot a boxing career at the Y in Burbank!

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This is a series about what happens when someone who knows nothing about business starts one. It's called StartUp.  In episode one, Alex Blumberg botches his pitch to Silicon Valley billionaire Chris Sacca.

#1 How Not to Pitch a Billionaire

Carl Frampton v Kiko Martinez II dominates the podcast with the Northern Irishman, Frampton, bidding to win his 19th bout in a row.
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In this episode I spoke with Ion Stoica, cofounder and chairman of Databricks. Stoica is also a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley, where he serves as director of the new RISE Lab (the successor to AMPLab). Fresh off the incredible success of AMPLab, RISE seeks to build tools and platforms that enable sophisticated real-time applications on live data, while maintaining strong security. As Stoica points out, users will increasingly expect security guarantees on systems that rely on online machine learning algorithms that make use of personal or proprietary data.

Data is Only as Valuable as the Decisions it Enables

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Our methodology is simple: we draw from the wisdom of the alpha geeks in our midst, paying attention to what’s interesting to them, amplifying these weak signals, and seeing where they fit into the innovation ecology. Add to that the original research conducted by our Research team, and you start to get a good picture of what the technology world is thinking about.

Data is Only as Valuable as the Decisions it Enables

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