#149 - DOOMBERG

Doomberg is the pseudonymous group behind the #1 Finance Newsletter on Substack, Doomberg. The team’s background is in heavy industry, private equity, and the hard sciences. Read Doomberg at doomberg.substack.com. [0:16] - How Doomberg reinvented itself from a group of consultants to produce the #1 Finance Newsletter on Substack [4:28] - Leaving a steady and reliable career to pursue creative and entrepreneurial interests [9:15] - Replacing meetings with complete asynchronous communications, and polyphasic sleeping to write at 3am [15:11] - Why Doomberg chooses to remain pseudonymous [18:24] - Doom scrolling and defensive pessimism [21:33] - Public misunderstandings relating to energy [26:01] - Doomberg’s opinion on the optimal energy strategy [32:31] - Countering arguments against nuclear energy development [36:31] - Countries that most successfully embracing nuclear energy [38:57] - The politics around nuclear energy in The United States [42:41] - Doomberg’s perspective on the European energy crisis [47:30] - Why Doomberg predicts fossil fuel consumption will be greater in 2040 than it is today [51:28] - How energy proliferation can advance the development of humanity For more episodes, go to ⁠⁠podofjake.com⁠⁠. Previous guests include ⁠⁠Mark Cuban⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Vitalik Buterin⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Brian Armstrong⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Balaji Srinivasan⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Keith⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Rabois⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Ali Spagnola⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Anthony Pompliano⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Raoul Pal⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Julia Galef⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Jack Butcher⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Tim Draper⁠⁠, and over 100 others alike. Learn from founders and CEOs of companies like ⁠⁠OpenAI⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Coinbase⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Solana⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Polygon⁠⁠, ⁠⁠AngelList⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Oura⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠Replit⁠⁠, and investors from ⁠⁠Founders⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Fund⁠⁠, ⁠⁠a16z⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Union Square Ventures⁠⁠, and many more. I appreciate your support and hope you enjoy. Thanks to ⁠⁠⁠Chase Devens⁠⁠⁠ for the show notes and ⁠⁠⁠Yiction⁠⁠⁠ for the music. Lastly, I love hearing from fans of the pod. Feel free to email me any time at ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠. Thank you!