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Shane Parrish

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The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Joe Liemandt is the principal of Alpha School and the founder of Trilogy Software and ESW Capital. 

Liemandt dropped out of Stanford to build Trilogy, made the cover of Forbes twice before thirty, became the youngest member of the Forbes 400, then vanished from public life for twenty-five years. But he didn’t stop building. Through ESW Capital, he quietly became one of the most prolific acquirers of software businesses in the world. 

Now he’s back with a $1 billion bet that AI can make kids learn ten times faster, and that school as we know it isn’t just inefficient, it’s broken.

At Alpha School, students spend two hours a day on AI-driven instruction and score in the top 1% on standardized tests. The rest of the day is devoted to what Liemandt calls life skills: leadership, entrepreneurship, teamwork, and real projects that kids actually care about. 

There are no lectures, and kids don’t move forward until they master the material. 

He argues the traditional classroom was designed for a narrow slice of students and wastes everyone else’s time. The fix isn’t more money or better teachers; it’s rebuilding from scratch around mastery, motivation, and AI.

This conversation covers his full arc from sleeping on the floor at Trilogy to being mentored by Jack Welch, to deciding that “kids must love school more than vacation” was a non-negotiable design principle. 

He explains how Timeback works under the hood, why he’s comfortable streaming student screens to AI in real time, and how he plans to scale it for a billion kids.

I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(00:08) Is the Current Education System Broken?

(07:01) Alpha School: What is it?

(11:01) Alpha School: Results

(14:55) Ad Break

(16:55) Selection and Affordability

(23:20) Current Classroom Struggles

(26:40) What Does Mastery Mean?

(35:37) Can You Change the System?

(39:19) Teaching Through AI

(44:27) How Do You Solve Motivation?

(57:01) What Makes A Good Guide?

(01:01:04) Coaching Kids

(01:05:17) Teaching Life Skills

(01:08:18) You Can Do Hard Things

(01:13:25) AI Monitoring 

(01:21:08) Effort vs. IQ

(01:23:36) Physics for High Schoolers

(01:24:40) What Happens After Alpha School?

(01:37:08) Investing in Yourself

(01:38:21) Conversations with Jack Welch

(01:45:49) Trilogy IPO: The Choice to Not Go Public

(01:51:40) Physical vs Virtual 

(02:03:18) Paying Kids To Learn 

(02:11:01) What Is Success For You?

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Joe Liemandt: Alpha School and the Future of Education

Harrison McCain learned salesmanship by talking his way into a pharmaceutical job at 22, then spent five formative years under K.C. Irving, absorbing lessons in vertical integration, relentless deal-capture, and "management by suggestion." 

He quit with no plan, two newborn kids, and no income. His brother Bob noticed that New Brunswick potato farmers were shipping raw potatoes to Maine for processing into frozen fries, then buying the finished product back. The McCains pooled $100,000 in family money, assembled capital from five different sources without giving up equity, and built a plant on a cow pasture in Florenceville.

The company's core strategy was to avoid competition entirely: enter markets where frozen fries didn't exist, prove the market by exporting first, hire locals, and only build a factory after the numbers justified it. 

The U.S. was the one market that scared Harrison, and he patiently waited 16 years before a $500 million acquisition of Ore-Ida's foodservice division finally cracked it. Along the way, Harrison nearly destroyed his most important customer relationship with McDonald's by telling their buyer he didn't need to tour his plant, a mistake that took years to repair. 

By the time he died in 2004, McCain Foods operated 57 factories across six continents, sold in 160 countries, and processed a million pounds of potato products every hour. 

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(01:03) The Offer

(04:35) Learning From the Best

(12:30) Time to Build

(19:45) Going Global

(27:57) The McDonald’s Mistake

(31:17) The Operating Principles 

(33:24) Florenceville: I Like it Here

(36:10) Characteristics of an Entrepreneur

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[Outliers] Harrison McCain: Single-Minded Purpose

Connor Teskey is the CEO of Brookfield Asset Management, one of the world’s largest investors, managing about a trillion dollars across infrastructure, power, real estate, private equity, and credit. 

In this exclusive interview, his first as CEO, we explore his approach to capital allocation, isolating variables, and building a business designed for long-term growth.

Discover why effective investing begins with minimizing losses, how waiting for perfect information can result in missed opportunities, the strategies Brookfield uses to manage market risk while maintaining upside potential, and the key insights he gained working alongside Bruce Flatt.

This discussion goes beyond investment strategies, offering a glimpse into Connor's perspective on decision-making in an uncertain environment, mentorship, culture, positioning, and talent.

It's a rare inside look at the operations of one of the world's most tight-lipped firms.

Enjoy! 

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(00:05) State of the Union for Brookfield

(04:14) Nature of Investing

(07:24) The Rise to Brookfield

(12:06) Your Work Ethic is in Your Control 

(17:30) Ad Break

(19:00) Data Center Deep Dive

(22:22) How Does a Deal Come to Be?

(29:34) Taking Bets Against Consensus 

(32:00) What Happens Post Business Acquisition?

(40:44) Ad Break 

(41:55) Lived Experience Through Crashes

(43:44) Where Does Talent Matter the Most at Brookfield?

(47:10) Identifying Talent

(58:18) Using AI to Increase Value Not Cut People

(01:01:58) When Was Brookfield the Underdog?

(01:03:38) Personal Ambition Over the Next 20 Years

(01:10:34) Behind The Scenes of Oaktree

(01:15:17) Work and Life Harmony 

(01:17:54) Time Allocation 

(01:19:58) The Most Fun Deal to Work On

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Connor Teskey: The 90% Rule, AI Infrastructure, and the Future of Investing

Bill Marriott built the largest hotel company in the world. But he didn’t open his first hotel until he was 55 and he fought against it the whole way.

In fact, the man that would go on to build the world’s largest hotel chain started with a nine-seat root beer stand in Washington, DC and a simple goal: serve people well and build something that lasts. 

In this episode of Outliers, we explore how Marriott turned that single stand into huge hotel empire without a master plan. In fact, before hotels, he even made a detour to start the airline catering industry.

We break down his obsession with downside risk, how he isolated variables like location, and why his refusal to rely on forces he couldn’t control allowed him to expand during the Great Depression while his competitors folded.

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Approximate Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction 

(03:58) Ice Cold Root Beer

(10:35) The Hot Shoppe Expansion 

(12:07) Building the Machine

(20:07) The Airport Expansion

(24:20) The Marriott Lessons

(26:22) The Hotel Empire

(30:53) Handing Over the Presidency 

(35:01) The End of an Era

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[Outliers] J.W. Marriott: Building an Empire Without a Master Plan

Robinhood's co-founder reveals the brutal reality of surviving an 80% market crash, going "founder mode" to cut corporate bloat, and what actually happened during GameStop.

Vlad Tenev is the co-founder and CEO of Robinhood. Not only did he navigate the unprecedented GameStop crisis, but he completely re-engineered the fintech giant to thrive.

He breaks down the brutal transition from bloated hyper-growth to a lean machine, why a "juicy falsehood is more powerful than a boring truth", and the 3 distinct phases of AI integration separating the winners from the dead.

Believe it or not, GameStop was not his hardest moment.

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Approximate Timestamps:

(00:00) The Unprecedented Crisis
(00:33) The Truth About GameStop
(09:30) Why False Narratives Win
(10:39) Surviving an 80% Market Crash
(16:02) Firing the Nice Founder & Going Founder Mode
(24:25) Rules for High Performance
(28:50) The Young Talent Advantage
(35:13) First Principles Storytelling
(39:07) 3 Phases of AI Integration
(50:03) Building AI That Reasons
(01:02:59) Fixing Private Market Access
(01:20:04) Deciding What to Build Next
(01:22:05) Surviving 1800% Inflation
(01:31:22) How Robinhood Makes Money
(01:39:51) Redesigning the Modern Bank
(01:47:47) The Definition of Success

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Inside the Mind of Robinhood Co-Founder Vlad Tenev

Phil Knight is the founder of Nike, the brand that reshaped sports and became one of the most powerful companies in the world.

What would you do if your bank, your supplier, and your government all turned against you at the same time? Phil Knight didn’t have to imagine it. He lived on the edge of insolvency for nearly two decades. 

This Outliers episode explores belief, trust, fear, and the price of growth through the story of Nike’s founding.

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Approximate Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(02:07) Lessons From Phil Knight

(11:25) How It All Began

(15:56) The Waiting Game

(22:26) The Darker Times

(32:56) The End of the Customs War

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[Outliers] The Obsession That Built Nike | Phil Knight

Nicolai Tangen is the CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund. He is responsible for managing $2.1 trillion. That's roughly 1.7% of every listed company on earth.

In this episode, we explore the intersection of massive wealth, high-speed decision-making, and the psychological traits required to survive the AI revolution.

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Approximate Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction 

(01:09) What Are You Leaning Against?

(03:17) Tech Sector Evolution

(04:15) The AI Bubble

(05:44) Will AI Replace Humans in Investing?

(06:24) Lessons on Listening

(09:15) American vs. European Mindset

(12:09) Prime Minster For a Day

(14:27) Most Important Data

(16:00) Speed and Agility

(17:05) Ad Break

(18:35) Using Urgency as a Tool

(20:12) Can You Teach People to Change Their Minds?

(22:14) Positive and Negative Comments

(22:56) Testing Assumptions Before a Big Investment 

(25:07) Attitude Towards Risk

(28:33) What’s Gotten Harder in Investing?

(29:07) The Rise of Passive Investing 

(33:42) Why Did You Take This Job?

(35:04) Ad Break

(36:14) Sovereign Wealth Funds

(38:24) Voting Against Elon Musk’s Pay Package

(39:08) Building Long-Term Thinking

(43:17) Slowing Down Decisions 

(45:13) Seeking Out Disagreement

(48:08) Hiring Checklist

(49:15) 140 Conversations To Prepare For A Huge Role

(53:33) CEO Evaluation 

(01:01:25) What is Success For You?

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The $2 Trillion Mind | Nicolai Tangen

Michael Ovitz co-founded CAA and helped reshape Hollywood, then took the same playbook into tech investing and advising founders.

In this conversation, he breaks down the operating rules that kept CAA from losing clients, and the personal disciplines that kept him grounded when the stakes got massive.

You’ll learn how to build momentum, tell the truth without hesitation, read for context instead of noise, hire people who raise the standard, and package ideas into outcomes.

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Approximate Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction 

(00:58) Learning Machine

(03:41) You Don't Know Everything

(08:17) How People Go Wrong

(16:42) Don’t Fight Your Job

(18:28) Managing Relationships 

(20:46) Hiring Top Performers 

(26:47) Never Get High on Your Own Supply

(30:27) Identifying Greatness

(33:28) Meeting Marc Andreessen

(43:42) On Failure

(47:48) The Smartest Person I Ever Met

(52:49) The Genius of Patrick Collison

(57:51) A Good Idea Taken Too Far

(01:01:30) Information Consumption

(01:14:13) Business Education Curriculum 

(01:16:28) Momentum

(01:18:16) Packaging

(01:24:43) What Would You Tell Your Younger Self?

(01:26:30) The Importance of Trust

(01:29:15) What is Success For You?

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The Psychology of Power | Michael Ovitz

Ray Kroc turned McDonald’s from a single roadside restaurant into a system built to scale.

At 52, after decades selling paper cups and milkshake machines, he opened the first McDonald’s in 1955 and helped grow it to nearly 8,000 restaurants worldwide.

This Outliers episode breaks down how standards, execution, franchising, and real estate created a business machine built to last.

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Approximate Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction 

(01:46) Turning Dreams Into Action 

(10:05) The Multimixer

(15:51) America's Roadside Revolution

(22:58) Building the Machine 

(32:14) What Ray Kroc Really Built

(43:12) Epilogue: Grinding it Out

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[Outliers] How McDonald’s Took Over America | Ray Kroc

Morgan Housel breaks down the exact framework he uses to build wealth, minimize financial stress, and buy freedom.

While most financial advice focuses on how to get rich, Morgan explains why the skills needed to stay rich are completely different. 

You will learn why "boring" investing beats complex strategies, how to avoid the social traps that destroy wealth, and the specific equation for finding contentment.

Morgan Housel is a partner at Collaborative Fund and the bestselling author of The Psychology of Money.

Enjoy!

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Approximate Timestamps:

(00:00) Trailer/Introduction

(00:58) What Drives You?

(04:50) What Can Money Do For Us?

(07:22) Happiness vs. Satisfaction

(11:45) Becoming Financially Independent 

(14:40) Survival and Contrast

(20:16) Ad Break

(21:05) Investing: Can You Beat the Market?

(22:32) When Is The Right Time To Buy a House?

(26:45) Housing Affordability and Equity

(28:39) Step by Step Investing

(35:08) Eras of Life and Spending In Those Eras

(43:50) Raising Kids With Money

(48:46) Social Media: Expectations and Comparison 

(55:46) Lessons From the Vanderbilts

(01:01:21) Learning From Others Spending Habits

(01:07:51) Lessons From History: Depressions, Panics, Downturns

(01:11:40) Net Worth in Cash

(01:14:20) Passive Income and Financial Independence 

(01:25:58) Massive Success: Doing It All Again

(01:32:27) What Should You Optimize For?

(01:38:24) What Do You Splurge On?

(01:40:38) What Can History Teach Us About Inflation?

(01:47:46) Index Funds Allocation 

(01:53:36) What Is Success For You?

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This episode of the Knowledge Project is for informational purposes only. The views and opinions expressed by Shane Parrish or our guests are solely their own. Nothing in this conversation should be considered investment advice, financial guidance, or a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Always do your own due diligence or consult with a qualified financial advisor before making investment decisions. It's time to listen and learn.

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