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Rishabh Jain is the co-founder of Labour Law Advisor, one of India's largest legal and employment-content channels. Anant Ladha, a CFA, runs Invest Aaj For Kal, a personal-finance education channel. Both join Raj Shamani to trade ten practical rules for getting ahead in life.
Raj Shamani is an Indian entrepreneur, content creator and the host of Figuring Out, one of India's leading podcasts, where he interviews founders, celebrities and leaders about business, money and life.
Figuring Out with Raj Shamani
Raj Shamani with Gita Gopinath (former IMF Chief Economist, Harvard professor) on how money is created, central banks and inflation, why the US can borrow $38 trillion, dollar dominance and the yuan, tariffs and China's rerouting, the 'great gamble' of AI plus geopolitics, why she expects an AI correction, the IMF's Pakistan lending logic, global debt risk, and her advice to young people on learning in the AI age. FULL COVERAGE: notes span the entire episode (full audio transcribed, ~1:41:07). Sponsor: ASUS ExpertBook (read in intro). All economic claims, statistics and forecasts are the guest's views as of November 2026, attributed to her; nothing here is financial or investment advice.
Figuring Out with Raj Shamani
Raj Shamani with Mel Robbins (best-selling author, The Let Them Theory) on the five-second rule and the knowledge-action gap, why motivation is garbage, her climb out of nearly a million dollars of debt, gratitude and joy as tools for hard chapters, the Let Them theory of control, energy and reciprocity, purpose as what happens in other people, her rules for powerful speaking, and the biggest personal-brand and business mistakes. FULL COVERAGE: notes span the entire episode (full audio transcribed, ~1:43:10). Title sponsor: Porter; styling partner: Levi's (both read in intro). Research and expert references (Dr. K, Kelly McGonigal, Daniel Amen, Angela Duckworth, Seth Godin) are the guest's citations as of November 2026, attributed to her; nothing here is medical, psychological or financial advice.
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Sam Altman sits with Raj Shamani for a conversation that is less about AI products and more about how his mind works: the bets, the insecurities, the culture, and the costs. FULL COVERAGE: notes span the entire episode (transcript 0:03 to 1:07:42 of 1:08:00). Sponsor: Levi's is named as the episode's styling partner in the intro; the mushroom drink at the end is a host gift moment, not a stated sponsorship. Everything Altman says about markets, user numbers, OpenAI and other people is his claim as spoken on November 3, 2026; nothing here is business, investment or life advice. He says India is OpenAI's biggest market in the world by users, bigger than the US, and links India's optimism about AI to fast-growing economies that need products and services. He walks through the one insight he has reapplied his whole career - scale produces surprising superlinear returns - and how seeing neural networks improve with scale, years before scaling laws existed, led to starting OpenAI in 2015 when it was an extremely low-status thing to do. He takes Raj inside the August 2022 decision to bet the company on compute after GPT-4 finished training, months before the world saw it, and admits he would not have had the conviction if the model had been even a little less smart. He confirms he launched ChatGPT against the mood of his own leadership team, armed with two YC lessons: be embarrassed by your first version, and a small number of people who love the product beats a crowd that merely likes it (the internal prototype's retention was around 5%, but those users loved it). On power, he names two ways this goes wrong - loss of control to far more capable systems, or one actor concentrating too much power - and argues for pluralism: many competing AI efforts. He calls not taking equity in OpenAI a mistake in hindsight because it confused people about his motives, describes the culture that made roughly 700 employees threaten to resign when he was fired, explains why co-founders and colleagues left to build their own efforts (when stakes feel existential, people only trust themselves), and closes with what he wants to build next: AI that discovers new science, and why he is comfortable with his kids growing up in the world he is helping create.
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Raj Shamani sits down with Bryson DeChambeau - 2024 US Open champion, YouTube creator and golf-equipment builder - for a two-and-a-half-hour breakdown of the elite-athlete mindset. DeChambeau traces the wiring: a nine-year-old accused of cheating after winning his first tournament, abandonment issues and a fear of not being accepted, role-playing games like The Elder Scrolls that taught him progression, and the 2009 housing crash that pushed a 15-year-old to raise $2,000 door-to-door for tournament fees - including one stranger's $800 'angel check' he later tried to repay. He explains his lifelong hunt for 'distinct advantages': single-length irons he prototyped at 15 by grinding wedge heads to exchange head mass for shaft length, the strokes-gained logic (three yards farther beats six yards offline) behind his 2019 body transformation, speed training at 120 balls a session until his nervous system shook him awake at night, and the curved-face driver that preceded his 58 in 2023. He is candid about the costs: bulking to three times the heart-attack risk before losing 24 lbs in 30 days on a sensitivity-based whole-food diet, a broken hamate from overtraining in the cold, 14 missed cuts in a row in 2017, the lonely morning after winning the US Open, and becoming golf's villain in 2022 - then rebuilding his image by showing who he is on YouTube instead of telling. He closes with the death of his father in November 2022, the final putt at Pinehurst on Father's Day week, and a whiteboard framework for the next year: passion, three daily questions, health-mind-spirit, and outworking everyone. All figures, health claims and views are the speakers' own, not verified by us. FULL COVERAGE: the captions appear to cover the entire episode. Sponsor: a styling partner is named in the intro (auto-captions render it as 'Levice', likely Levi's). Nothing here is medical, investment, legal or financial advice.
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Annie Jacobsen - investigative journalist and bestselling author of Nuclear War: A Scenario, Area 51 and Biological War - walks Raj Shamani through how civilization could end in 72 minutes. She explains fission versus fusion ('a thermonuclear bomb is so powerful, it uses an atomic bomb inside of itself as the fuse'), the numbers (about 12,500 nuclear weapons on the planet, 1,700 American ones on ready-for-launch, some airborne 60 seconds after a presidential order), and sole presidential authority: one person can authorize nuclear war without asking Congress, the defense secretary or anyone. She takes us minute by minute through her scenario - the six-minute decision window, launch on warning, the black book, the doomsday plane, the universal unlock code, 44 interceptor missiles with a 40-55% success rate, why US missiles aimed at North Korea must overfly Russia, and how that misunderstanding ends the world. Then the second half: why biological war scares the Pentagon more - 3,600 BSL-3/4 labs worldwide, no inspections because the weapons are illegal, a Soviet defector's confession that the plan was to 'kill everyone in the West and leave the infrastructure intact,' and the classified Devolution Plan to reconstitute the government after everyone dies. FULL COVERAGE: the captions appear to cover the entire episode. All accounts and claims are the guest's own reporting, not independently verified. Sponsor: Porter (title sponsor). Nothing here is professional or safety advice.
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Arunabha Ghosh - founder-CEO of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) and one of India's leading voices on climate and energy - explains to Raj Shamani why 98 of the world's 100 hottest cities are now in India and what that costs. His institute's district-level research: 8 out of 10 Indians live where extreme flood, cyclone or drought risk has jumped; 75% of India's 734 districts are now extreme-weather hotspots; and 40% of districts are swapping trends - flood-prone turning drought-prone and back. The economics: roughly $180 billion in heat-stress losses by 2030 (more than the entire IT industry earns), 30-40 million man-days lost when outdoor labor stops from noon to 4 pm, and an 8x rise in cooling demand by 2040 - the AC trap, where the fix heats the city further. He covers the energy-security shock (90% of India's oil imports, much through the Strait of Hormuz, and a budget built on $65 oil meeting $115-120 reality), who actually emits (power first, then steel/cement/aluminium; cumulatively the US, then Europe, then China), geoengineering's promise and danger, what Medellin, Singapore, Paris and Beijing got right, and three concrete opportunities for young founders - recycling, the bioeconomy and next-generation energy hardware. (This episode is in Hindi; all notes are in English and translated quotes are marked.) FULL COVERAGE: the captions appear to cover the entire episode. All figures and claims are the guest's and his institute's research, not independently verified. Sponsor: none stated in the episode. Nothing here is financial or professional advice.
Figuring Out with Raj Shamani
Robert J. O'Neill, the former SEAL Team 6 operator who says he fired the shots that killed Osama bin Laden, sits down with Raj Shamani in New York for his most detailed account of the Abbottabad raid. He describes the three weeks of training after a CIA analyst - a woman who had worked the target for years, seven days a week - told 28 senior operators 'this is as close as we've ever been'; the handwritten letters to his daughters on a mission he treated as one-way; the stealth helicopter that lost lift and crash-landed in the compound's front yard; the fake door that confirmed bin Laden was inside; walking up the last flight of stairs behind a point man who tackled two people he thought were suicide bombers; and the moment in the bedroom. Then the aftermath: 47 minutes on target, a 90-minute flight counting down to Afghanistan, breakfast sandwiches next to the body while President Obama announced it on TV, and a hard transition to civilian life - no degree, no plan, healthcare ending at midnight - that became a second career as a speaker and author. His closing advice: don't quit today, quit tomorrow. FULL COVERAGE: the captions appear to cover the entire episode. All accounts, figures and claims are the guest's own, not independently verified; his claim to have fired the fatal shots is his own publicly stated account. Sponsor: Porter (title sponsor). Nothing here is professional advice.
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Ayyoub El Osrouti, a 27-year-old ultra runner from a Moroccan family in Germany, joins Raj Shamani after running 93 loops - about 623 kilometers - in a Backyard Ultra, a race of 6.7 kilometers every hour on the hour where only the last man standing finishes. He explains why his body, not his mind, ended the race: a swollen right side, an inner thigh inflamed from loop 40 and an Achilles problem from loop 87, and how four years of training taught him the line between discomfort and damage. He describes sleeping about 60 minutes across 93 hours in four-to-five-minute naps between loops, the hallucinations that come when sleep slips, and the David Goggins books and podcasts that turned him from a self-described black sheep who worked in his father's supermarket from age ten into a professional ultra runner coached by world record holder Sam Harvey. He also walks through his full training week of easy runs, intervals at 85 to 90 percent of race pace, long weekend sessions and three gym days. PARTIAL COVERAGE: this summary is built from the first portion of the episode's captions, roughly the first hour of a nearly three-hour conversation. All claims are the guest's own, not independently verified. Sponsor: ASUS ExpertBook. Nothing here is medical or training advice.
Figuring Out with Raj Shamani
Rob Henderson, author and social scientist known for his luxury beliefs idea, joins Raj Shamani in New York for a wide conversation on status, class and money. They cover why people lie in the first minutes of a conversation and how the dark triad of traits peaks in the late teens and early twenties, whether the rich or the poor crave status more, how status symbols moved from luxury goods to cultural capital, why education now drives who marries whom, and why the affluent adopt beliefs that signal status while others pay the cost. Henderson also gives his own 12-month plan to move from low to high status and explains the data on male risk-taking and violence. FULL COVERAGE: the captions appear to cover the entire episode. All claims are Henderson's own views and the research he cites, not independently verified. Sponsor: none stated in the episode description. Nothing here is medical, legal or financial advice.
Figuring Out with Raj Shamani
Organizational psychologist and author Adam Grant sits down with Raj Shamani for a long conversation on how to read people, build trust and choose better friends. Grant explains why we judge people wrongly from first impressions, why deep talk builds closeness faster than small talk, why a first Zoom date can beat a bad in-person one, how personality overlaps even in twins raised apart, why we sometimes trust people we do not like, and why pay-it-forward networks open more doors than trading favors. He also covers the story of Abraham Lincoln's team of rivals, how our assumptions turn small data points into harsh judgments, how to fight loneliness by forming your own group, and why he thinks 'follow your passion' is advice nobody should follow. FULL COVERAGE: the captions appear to cover the entire episode. All claims are Grant's views and the research he cites, not independently verified. Sponsor: Urban Platter. Nothing here is medical, legal or financial advice.
Figuring Out with Raj Shamani
Raj Shamani's Figuring Out episode FO575, sponsored by Porter, in which Raj speaks with Barbara Butcher, a veteran New York death investigator who says she has investigated more than 5,500 deaths over two decades. Butcher explains how she reads a death scene: taking in the whole room before touching the body, using rigor mortis, lividity and body temperature to estimate time of death while insisting there is no precise method, and spotting staged crime scenes, moved bodies and faked suicides. She describes the difference between business and personal killings, recounts cases including a jealous husband, a staged burglary, a faked hanging and the 9/11 recovery work that left her shut down, and closes with the lessons death taught her about gratitude and living fully. FULL COVERAGE: the captions appear to cover the entire episode, and this summary highlights the investigation methods, cases and life lessons discussed. Butcher's accounts are her own recollections and opinions, not independently verified. This episode describes forensic investigation for general interest only; nothing here is medical, legal or safety advice.
Figuring Out with Raj Shamani
Raj Shamani and Karan Gupta discuss how to evaluate an education choice: course fit, faculty, prestige, student outcomes, root causes and adviser incentives. Selected non-policy decision-making passages only, not a full-episode summary. Visa, immigration, licensing, salary, loan, political, AI and mental-health claims omitted; consult current official sources for those subjects. Quotes reproduce YouTube's auto-generated English transcript, which may contain recognition errors. Untimed editorial topics are not video chapters. Source and transcript: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScYnbG_PiL8
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Saurabh Mukherjea discusses knowing a core strength, developing leaders, mentoring and gaining perspective through varied work. Selected leadership passages only, not a full-episode summary or investment advice. Crisis forecasts, stocks, gold, portfolios, inflation, debt, political, AI, health and extreme-work claims omitted. Company examples are the guest's account, not current policies. Quotes reproduce Wave's third-party machine transcript; recognition errors and audio-video edit differences are possible. Untimed topics are not video chapters. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61_ouz8Rr4s Transcript: https://pod.wave.co/podcast/raj-shamanis-figuring-out-ae16fa52-2d44-4d97-9190-2a80ee902de7/top-investors-warning-global-crisis-coming-for-your-wealth-saurabh-mukherjea-fo573-raj-shamani
Figuring Out with Raj Shamani
Raj Shamani asks neuroscientist Nikolay Kukushkin how learning changes the brain, why memories can be unreliable, and how sleep, attention and repetition shape memory. The discussion includes memory palaces and the difference between rumination and useful reflection. General educational information, not medical advice or a replacement for mental-health care.
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Scott Galloway joins Raj Shamani to discuss the middle class, opportunity, isolation, comparison, luck and risk-taking. He challenges the idea that success is purely individual and asks how young people can build relationships and take useful risks. Economic claims and personal strategies are his views, not investment advice or clinical treatment.
Figuring Out with Raj Shamani
David Bickford, the former legal director of both MI5 and MI6 - the man whose signature a real James Bond would have needed - sits down with Raj Shamani for a rare inside account of how British intelligence actually works. He explains why integrity tops the recruitment list for people paid to lie, why blackmailing an informant is fatal, and why MI5 officers cannot arrest anyone. He walks through the oversight machine he helped build: judicial warrants instead of ministers, a parliamentary committee with its own investigators, and a complaints route for any citizen who thinks they are being followed. Then the stories: writing the Turks and Caicos tax laws that accidentally built a money-laundering hub, then being sent back to dismantle it with an FBI sting that took down government ministers; forcing open the Caymans' secret bank accounts through a mutual legal assistance agreement; catching a Czech spy mid-transmission with his one-time pad after blocking his drains; and trapping a traitor selling submarine stealth tiles with a fake Russian embassy officer. His diagnosis of Britain: a democracy that muddles through, no written constitution, seven prime ministers in ten years, civil servants who treat risk as gambling - while America decentralized innovation and won. FULL COVERAGE: the captions appear to cover the entire episode. All accounts and claims are the guest's own, not independently verified. Sponsor: TapTap Send. Nothing here is legal or professional advice.
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Sumant Sinha on renewable electricity costs, storage, grids and the solar manufacturing chain. Edited partial transcript coverage; political, geopolitical and AI-demand passages omitted. Figures, forecasts and company claims are his account, unverified here. Not investment advice. Untimed editorial topics are not video chapters.
Figuring Out with Raj Shamani
Asish Mohapatra discusses underserved customers, testing ideas, building trust and listening before selling. Selected practical passages only, not a full-episode summary. Financial, regulatory, political, AI, bribery, dismissal and extreme-work claims omitted. Business anecdotes are the guest's account, not independently verified facts. Quotes reproduce Wave's third-party machine transcript; recognition errors and audio-video edit differences are possible. Untimed topics are not video chapters. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhZgfEfz8og Transcript: https://pod.wave.co/podcast/raj-shamanis-figuring-out-ae16fa52-2d44-4d97-9190-2a80ee902de7/how-to-100x-your-money-in-boring-businesses-spot-hidden-opportunities-asish-mohapatra-fo567-raj-sham
Figuring Out with Raj Shamani
JR Airlines founder Abhinav Tripathi explains the business of private jets and helicopters to Raj Shamani: brokers, charter pricing, ownership costs, utilization, maintenance and customer pressure. Original English notes based on the full available Hindi auto-caption page. Short quotes are translated caption excerpts, not audio-verified English quotations. Source: https://youtubetotranscript.com/transcript?v=pbLFmU1p-7A. Fleet counts, prices, taxes, safety statements and regulatory claims are the guest's account at recording, not current verified rules or aviation advice. Check qualified operators and official authorities before acting.
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Raj Shamani asks author Robert Greene how presence, restraint and absence shape influence. Greene discusses the psychology of attraction, the difference between loving a fantasy and knowing a real person, and the years of effort behind his books. These notes describe his ideas about power and human behavior, not universal rules or a license to manipulate others.
Figuring Out with Raj Shamani
David Sinclair joins Raj Shamani to discuss aging, the epigenome, exercise, body composition and daily habits. He presents his longevity theories and personal routines, including ideas that remain debated or preliminary. This is a summary of his views, not medical advice; animal findings and proposed treatments should not be read as proven human age reversal.
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Raj Shamani, nervous and openly a fan, sits down with Bill Gates in India. They talk about what has changed in India, why Indian engineers lead global tech firms, Gates’s philanthropy and family wealth philosophy, what he would build if starting today, mistakes, and what he fears.
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Raj Shamani asks cognitive neuroscientist Dr Sahar Yousef about focus, habit change, cravings, chronotypes, recovery and digital habits. She links practical behavior changes with the emotions that drive them, while discussing her own struggles and the cost of ambition. Educational summary, not medical advice. Persistent addiction or burnout deserves qualified professional care.
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Frank-Steffen Walliser talks with Raj Shamani about car design, clay prototypes, sensory details, door acoustics and brand heritage. The Bentley executive offers a commercial and personal perspective on craftsmanship and emotion, not an independent product comparison or verified safety assessment.
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Andrew Huberman joins Raj Shamani to discuss stress regulation, morning routines, attention and the need for recovery. He connects mental strength with being able to shift between focused effort and rest without turning routines into another source of anxiety. Health claims and techniques are his educational views, not personal medical advice.
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Ian Bremmer explains his G-Zero and geopolitical-recession lens, argues for shared governance and proposes expert-led coordination on AI risks. He discusses Europe and the difference between controlling events and controlling his response. These are his August 2026 interpretations and proposals, not settled geopolitical facts or an existing AI-governance institution.
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Gaurav Mehta tells Raj Shamani how coin collecting led to Jaipur Watch Company, and how manufacturing obstacles and retailer rejection shaped its early years. He discusses resourceful suppliers, cash pressure, alternative retail channels and watch design. This summary focuses on the founder story supported by the third-party transcript; personal and business claims remain his account.
