Smart Friends

Eric Jorgenson

Booking Overview

An interview-led business and technology show featuring founders, technologists, investors, authors, and other practitioners discussing entrepreneurship, emerging technology, investing, and ways to improve quality of life. Credible pitches include startup founders, AI and robotics experts, technology investors, and authors with substantive frameworks or firsthand experience; booking difficulty is medium because guests generally need a meaningful company-building, investing, or subject-matter track record.

Metrics

Episodes: 125

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 7.5k subscribers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

eric@ejorgenson.com

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Host

Eric Jorgenson - Entrepreneur, angel investor, and author of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant and The Anthology of Balaji.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Founders and executives with firsthand company-building experience, technologists developing emerging products, investors with relevant market expertise, or authors and public thinkers with substantive frameworks in technology, entrepreneurship, or society.

Required Achievements:

Founded or led a technology or startup company, Built or commercialized an emerging technology, Developed expertise in artificial intelligence, robotics, or technology investing, Published a book or developed a distinctive framework

Recent Guest Discussions

Rajat Bhageria - Food Manufacturing Robotics, Labor Shortages, Robotics Commercialization, Startup Strategy, And The Future Of Automation.

Jason Levin - Meme Marketing, Internet Distribution, AI Agents, B2b Marketing, Virality, Fundraising, And Founder Leverage.

Nat Eliason - Entrepreneurship Education, AI Tutoring, Student Businesses, Sales Training, Education Models, And Scaling Specialized Schools.

Sean Devine - Decision-making, Uncertainty, Organizational Learning, Trust, Difficult Conversations, And Applying Philosophical Frameworks To Organizations And Investing.

Zack Kass - Artificial Intelligence, AI Adoption, Public Understanding Of Technology, Identity Transformation, And The Future Of Work And Society.

Recent Topics

Business, Entrepreneurship, Artificial Intelligence, Startups, Venture Capital

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Smart Friends

#106 130 Million Meals made by Robots: Rajat Bhageria of Chef Robotics

September 01, 2026

(00:00:00) - Intro (00:03:54) - Rajat's heroes and influences (00:05:21) - Introducing Chef Robotics (00:07:22) - Why food manufacturing is a massive opportunity (00:08:11) - Industry graveyard: why previous food robots failed (00:13:24) - Manufacturing over restaurants as go-to-market (00:14:50) - Current customers and what the robots make (00:16:07) - High-mix vs low-mix manufacturing (00:18:52) - Labor shortage and the reality of the job (00:20:55) - The research phase before star...

#105 Inside the Underground Meme Marketing World: Jason Levin of Memelord

June 16, 2026

Topics: (00:00:00) - Intro (00:03:34) - The most effective meme and the midwit curve (00:08:11) - Memes as memetic warfare and communication (00:10:04) - Jason's internet kid origin story (00:13:09) - Building MemeLord and AI agents for memes (00:16:47) - Working with B2B and boring companies (00:17:50) - The arbitrage in funny B2B marketing (00:21:38) - Running multiple meme accounts for distribution (00:25:01) - Owning the distribution with owned pages (00:27:30) - The coming robo...

#104 The Elite Private High School Where Students Earn A Million Dollars: [Nat Eliason of Founder School (via Alpha)]

June 02, 2026

Topics: (00:00:00) - Intro (00:03:27) - Nat joins Alpha School to launch Founder School (00:04:11) - The million-dollar business guarantee (00:04:44) - Why no program like this exists yet (00:09:09) - How AI tutors compress academics into three hours (00:13:00) - Teenagers are capable of real work (00:15:27) - The Alpha School platform and expansion model (00:25:35) - Founder School's September 2026 launch (00:29:21) - Reproducing Stanford's entrepreneurial advantages (00:38:00) - Y...

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