Warren Hogarth
Partner at Sequoia

Our wives made us start this podcast

They were sick of hearing us talk about niche accounting software for hotels.They refused to let Stew ruin another movie night by recounting the history of the Comedy Cellar in painstaking detail.At one dinner, Alex’s wife told him point-blank, “if you bring up Gifford Pinchot one more time, you’ll be living in the forest.”(Gifford Pinchot was the guy who helped Teddy Roosevelt start the National Forest Service. Alex had just read a book about him. It was a clever threat.)Our mutual quest to discover life’s endless and infinite games had led us to a losing game: boring our spouses. We knew we had to choose a new game to play…We needed a theater where the depths of our curiosity could be unleashed.We needed a space to host people who have figured out worthwhile games to play.We needed a medium conducive to impromptu, rich conversation.We needed a podcast.If you’re new here, the premise of the show is simple:We call up billionaires, best-selling authors, standup comedians, up-and-coming entrepreneurs, and the Mormon clergymen that Alex skis with and ask them to ditch their typical script and tell us about the game they’re playing.We go deep and download our guests’ entire brain, nerding out on minute details, asking personal questions, and making sure we deeply understand the game our guest is choosing to play in life.At the end of each episode, we seek to open a door to an entirely new game you could choose to play in life.Ready to ditch your significant other and join us?Great. We recommend subscribing on Spotify here (or Apple here, if you must).