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Why the creator of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm is one of history’s purest founders. Written by Blake J. Harris Read by Scott Brick Read ‘The Many Failures of Larry David’ here. Selected material from this article appears in the book EMPEROR OF NOTHING: The Making of Larry David by Blake J. Harris. Copyright © 2026 by Blake J. Harris. To be published on October 20, 2026, by Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Excerpted by permission. Become a Colossus member to receive our quarterly print magazine. Subscribe here⁠. Presented by Ramp And by: Vanta WorkOS Cognition Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Written by Jerry Neumann Read by Scott Brick Read ‘AI Will Not Make You Rich’ here. Become a Colossus member to receive our quarterly print magazine. Subscribe here⁠. Presented by Ramp And by: Vanta WorkOS Cognition Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Written by Gabi Marques Read by Scott Brick Read ‘Coming to America’ here. Become a Colossus member to receive our quarterly print magazine and private audio experience, including exclusive profiles and early access to select episodes. Subscribe here⁠. Presented by Ramp And by: Vanta WorkOS Cognition Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Written by Jeremy Stern Read by Scott Brick Read ‘Mark’ here. Become a Colossus member to receive our quarterly print magazine and private audio experience, including exclusive profiles and early access to select episodes. Subscribe here⁠. Presented by Rogo And by: Ramp Vanta WorkOS Cognition Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

One writer’s experimental high and crash through the not quite legal, sort of effective, occasionally heart-pounding medicine cabinet of Wall Street and Silicon Valley’s productivity optimizers Written by Park MacDougald Read by Scott Brick Read ‘White Collar PEDs’ here. Become a Colossus member to receive our quarterly print magazine and private audio experience, including exclusive profiles and early access to select episodes. Subscribe here⁠. Presented by Rogo And by: Ramp Vanta WorkOS Cognition Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.

The following is an exclusive excerpt adapted from the author’s new book, Ausländer: One family's story of escape and exile, out in North America today. Written by Michael Moritz Read by Scott Brick Read ‘The Wretched Refuse’ here. Become a Colossus member to receive our quarterly print magazine and private audio experience, including exclusive profiles and early access to select episodes. Subscribe here⁠. Presented by Rogo And by: Ramp Vanta WorkOS Cognition Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.

How 3G Capital, the lean and secretive private equity firm, created some of the world's largest companies. Written by Dom Cooke Read by Scott Brick Read ‘Built to Own’ here. Become a Colossus member to receive our quarterly print magazine and private audio experience, including exclusive profiles and early access to select episodes. Subscribe here⁠. Presented by Rogo And by: Ramp Vanta WorkOS Cognition Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.

Written by Jeremy Stern Read by Scott Brick Read ‘Class Dismissed’ here. Become a Colossus member to receive our quarterly print magazine and private audio experience, including exclusive profiles and early access to select episodes. Subscribe here⁠. Presented by Rogo And by: Ramp Vanta WorkOS Cognition Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.

Written by Brie Wolfson Read by Suzanne Elise Freeman  Read ‘Flounder Mode’ here. Become a Colossus member to receive our quarterly print magazine and private audio experience, including exclusive profiles and early access to select episodes. Subscribe here⁠. Presented by Rogo And by: Ramp Vanta WorkOS Cognition Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.

Guinness used to be an old man's pint, poured in old men's pubs. Now the world is drinking less, yet the Irish stout is selling faster than ever. Written by Alex Bilmes Read by Scott Brick Read ‘Lovely Day for the Black Stuff’ here. Become a Colossus member to receive our quarterly print magazine and private audio experience, including exclusive profiles and early access to select episodes. Subscribe here⁠. Presented by Rogo And by: Ramp Vanta WorkOS Cognition Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.

The investor closest to the AI frontier is betting against the ambitions of its biggest companies Written by Dom Cooke Read by Scott Brick Read ‘Sarah’s Wager’ here. Become a Colossus member to receive our quarterly print magazine and private audio experience, including exclusive profiles and early access to select episodes. Subscribe here⁠. Presented by Rogo And by: Ramp Vanta WorkOS Cognition Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Written by Jeremy Stern Read by Scott Brick Read ‘A Suicide’ here. Become a Colossus member to receive our quarterly print magazine and private audio experience, including exclusive profiles and early access to select episodes. Subscribe here⁠. Presented by Rogo And by: Ramp Vanta WorkOS Cognition Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

AI Rollups, the latest fad to take venture capital by storm, point to a different source of excess returns that is only becoming more valuable Written by Jay Barney, Haiyang Zhang, and Jerry Neumann Read by Scott Brick Read ‘Invisible Companies’ here. Become a Colossus member to receive our quarterly print magazine and private audio experience, including exclusive profiles and early access to select episodes. Subscribe here⁠. Presented by Rogo And by: Ramp Vanta WorkOS Cognition Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

How Thomas Peterffy built the machines that killed the trading floor and made Interactive Brokers into a $100 billion business Written by Dom Cooke Read by Scott Brick Read ‘The Making of a Market Maker’ here. Become a Colossus member to receive our quarterly print magazine and private audio experience, including exclusive profiles and early access to select episodes. Subscribe here⁠. Presented by Rogo And by: Ramp Vanta WorkOS Cognition Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Written by Jeremy Stern Read by Scott Brick Read ‘The Wu Tapes’ here. Become a Colossus member to receive our quarterly print magazine and private audio experience, including exclusive profiles and early access to select episodes. Subscribe here⁠. Presented by Rogo And by: Ramp Vanta WorkOS Cognition Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Written by Jeremy Stern Read by Scott Brick Read ‘The New World’ here. Become a Colossus member to receive our quarterly print magazine and private audio experience, including exclusive profiles and early access to select episodes. Subscribe here⁠. Presented by Rogo And by:RampVantaWorkOSCognition Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.

Jeffrey Yan turned down $100 million, airdropped billions to strangers, and can’t travel without a bodyguard. The story of how he built Hyperliquid, a blockchain and crypto trading exchange, into the most profitable startup per employee on earth. Written by Dom Cooke Read by Scott Brick Read ‘Beyond the Sky’ here. Become a Colossus member to receive our quarterly print magazine and private audio experience, including exclusive profiles and early access to select episodes. Subscribe here⁠. Presented by Rogo And by: Ramp Vanta WorkOS Cognition Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant.