Smart Friends

Eric Jorgenson

eric@ejorgenson.com

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Booking Overview

Smart Friends is a founder- and technologist-forward show where the host explores how science, entrepreneurship, and emerging tech can improve quality of life. It’s a strong platform for guests who can explain products/ideas clearly—especially AI, identity, and the “future” mindset—while linking them to real-world building and investment.

Metrics

Episodes: 123

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 3.6k subscribers

Contact Information

eric@ejorgenson.com

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Host

Eric Jorgenson - Author and early-stage tech investor. Runs his Smart Friends podcast and is the creator/author of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant and The Anthology of Balaji. Also invests through early-stage angel ...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Founders/CEOs, technologists, and investors with credible experience building or backing frontier technologies; authors/speakers who can articulate a clear thesis about technology’s real-world impact (often with a futurist or mission-driven framing).
Required Achievements:  
built or launched a notable product/initiative in tech, published a well-known book or public body of work, earned recognition for thought leadership in AI/tech/business building, raised/allocated capital as an investor or advised early-stage teams

Recent Guest Discussions

Zack Kass - AI Reality Vs Hype; Translating Tech For Broader Audiences; Identity Transformation; Writing/ideas For A “next Renaissance.”

Recent Topics

Entrepreneurship, Artificial Intelligence, Startups, Investment, Technology

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Smart Friends
:

#103 How to Destroy Bad Ideas Without Killing Relationships [The Dionysus Program with Sean Devine​]

May 19, 2026

Topics: (00:00:00) - Intro (00:01:23) - Reading the forward to Sean’s new book (00:09:30) - What problem were you experiencing that sparked these ideas? (00:12:30) - Sean’s early arrival to AI (00:23:15) - Identity (00:27:55) - Defining Apollo and Dionysus (00:34:47) - Understanding and uncertainty (00:38:26) - Tools to deal with uncertainty (00:50:27) - Tools for metabolism (01:03:25) - Ritual time and run time (01:11:30) - Building trust to have hard conversations (01:13:40) - T...

#102 ​The Next Renaissance, AI Reality vs Hype, and a Movement of Hope with Zack Kass

May 05, 2026

Topics: (00:00:00) - Intro (00:02:40) - Being the “tech for middle America” translator (00:06:00) - Who are your heroes? (00:13:40) - Zack’s unique approach to AI (00:57:35) - The market for identity transformation (01:11:08) - Writing the next renaissance (01:15:31) - Using AI in the writing process (01:18:25) - Final thoughts Links: The Next Renaissance by Zack Kass - https://a.co/d/07VwLrg4 Zack’s website - https://www.zackkass.com/ To support the costs of producing this po...

The Book of Elon - Part 4

April 07, 2026

Welcome to the free audiobook of The Book of Elon: A Guide to Purpose and Success. This is Part 1 of 4. I’ve made all of my books available for free. This is the third book I’ve published, and like the others, it’s available in all formats—PDF, EPUB, and audio—and in dozens of languages. More than 5 million people have read the free version of The Almanack of Naval, and I wanted to do the same here. You can find the full book and bonus content on my website. I do this because I believe tha...

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