The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Every founder is being told to build an AI company. Alex Hormozi says almost all of them will be gone within months, that the best move is the exact opposite of what the market is saying, and that in a world of AI the only moat left will be reality and your reputation.
Alex Hormozi is a entrepreneur, investor and author. He is the co-founder of Acquisition.com, a portfolio of 16+ companies generating over $250 million a year, and the author of the $100M series: '$100M Offers', '$100M Leads' and '$100M Money Models', whose 2025 launch sold 2.9 million copies in a single day and broke the Guinness World Record for the fastest-selling non-fiction book in history.
He explains:
◼ Why the practical businesses, like plumbing, are the real opportunity, not the ones built on top of AI models
◼ Why delegating your hardest thinking to a machine makes you weak
◼ Why reality and reputation are the only moats AI can't erode
◼ Why revenue retention matters more than marketing or sales
◼ Why marrying his wife Leila was the best financial decision he ever made, and how the right partner changes your odds
◼ He opens up about one of the hardest years of his life, in the same year he made more money than ever
The views expressed are those of the guest, and this conversation is intended for general informational purposes only. This podcast and its associated materials should not be used as a substitute for professional financial, legal or business advice.
Chapters

00:00:00 Intro
00:02:12 How To Use AI As An Entrepreneur
00:04:40 Where Will Value Come From In An AI World?
00:06:52 How To Generate Great Ideas In The Age Of AI
00:08:16 Why Long-Term Thinking Wins In Business
00:13:18 Why Most Businesses Never Reach $10 Million
00:18:10 How To Price Your Product Or Service
00:19:27 The Biggest Hiring Mistakes Founders Make
00:22:44 Why Starting Feels So Hard
00:25:13 What Alex Would Do Differently Starting Again
00:30:10 What To Do When You Feel Uncertain In Business
00:33:15 Why Alex Delayed Starting His Business
00:35:59 The Lessons Alex Learned From His Father
00:39:16 How To Know If Entrepreneurship Is Right For You
00:41:02 How To Beat Decision Fatigue
00:42:29 Is It Easier To Start A Business Today?
00:44:08 Ads
00:46:07 Is Doing Hard Things Always Worth It?
00:46:52 How To Succeed As A Content Creator
00:49:19 How Alex Is Adapting His Content For The Future
00:52:24 Why Credibility Is Your Biggest Competitive Advantage
00:55:42 The Value Equation Explained
01:01:17 Why Delayed Gratification Pays Off
01:03:48 How To Know You're On The Right Path
01:04:35 Does Your Business Need To Be Scalable?
01:09:09 Why Unscalable Businesses Can Be Great Opportunities
01:10:41 How To Know When It's Time To Quit
01:11:35 Ads
01:12:35 Why Self-Awareness Is A Business Superpower
01:17:04 Stop Planning And Start Doing
01:19:55 How To Incentivise People And Find The Right Audience
01:23:01 Business Ideas You Could Start Today
01:26:03 Why You Should Sell To People With More Money
01:32:12 Why Employees And Customers Deserve The Same Treatment
01:38:03 Why Hiring Is Everything
01:38:51 How To Choose The Right Romantic Partner
01:44:18 What If Your Partner Doesn't Support Your Business?
01:47:00 How To Figure Out What You Really Want In Life
01:50:09 Becoming A Dad: How Alex Feels About Fatherhood
01:57:09 How Alex Thinks About Death
02:09:02 Are You Actually Happy?
02:18:20 What Happens If Superintelligence Arrives In Just A Few Years?

Alex Hormozi:
◼ Acquisition.com -https://link.thediaryofaceo.com/6QgE53x (https://www.acquisition.com/)
◼ YouTube -https://link.thediaryofaceo.com/BEwaKl4 (https://www.youtube.com/@AlexHormozi)
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◼ LinkedIn -https://link.thediaryofaceo.com/2Vqmjxe (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexhormozi/)
◼ Skool -https://link.thediaryofaceo.com/DLi0vBN (https://www.skool.com/)
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What if the secret to better conversations is something most of us never think to do?
Alison Wood Brooks is a Harvard Business School professor, behavioural scientist and bestselling author of ‘Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves’.
In this moment, Alison Wood Brooks introduces the research-backed framework that can transform the way you communicate in every area of your life. She explains the subtle habits that quietly damage your likability, why people often leave conversations feeling unheard, and the small changes that can make every interaction feel more natural, engaging and memorable.
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1,700 Americans will die from cancer today. 70 every single hour. Professor Thomas Seyfried says it doesn't have to be this way, and that mainstream oncology has misunderstood cancer for 100 years.

Thomas Seyfried, PhD, is a professor of biology at Boston College and one of the world's leading researchers on the metabolic origins of cancer. He is author of the book 'Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: On the Origin, Management, and Prevention of Cancer' and co-developer of the Glucose Ketone Index (GKI) and the “press-pulse” therapeutic strategy. 

He explains:

◼ Why he believes cancer is a mitochondrial metabolic disease, not a genetic one

◼ Why cancer cells feed on two fuels and the strategy his team uses to starve tumors 

◼ How a ketogenic diet could lower your GKI and make chemo and immunotherapy work better

◼ The environmental drivers quietly damaging your mitochondria

◼ How his team is keeping glioblastoma patients alive for years, and why almost no patient is ever told this option exists

The views expressed are those of the guest, and this conversation is intended for general informational purposes only. This podcast and its associated materials should not be used as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

Chapters

00:00:00 Intro
00:02:22 The New Discovery About Cancer
00:03:23 What Role Do Mitochondria Play in Cancer?
00:07:52 ATP & Fermentation: How Your Cells Make Energy
00:14:40 The Oncogenic Paradox Finally Explained
00:19:59 Ghost Mitochondria: Cancer Under the Microscope
00:24:59 Glucose & Glutamine: The Fuels That Feed Cancer
00:26:12 Why Do Children & Babies Get Cancer?
00:29:05 Why Wealthy Countries Have More Cancer
00:32:35 Is Cancer Genetic?
00:37:38 The Prescription: The Glucose Ketone Index
00:40:03 How Stress & Poor Sleep Fuel Cancer
00:44:34 What's Inside the Confidential Envelope?
00:45:38 The Patient Who Inspired the Discovery
00:50:05 Measuring Your Glucose Ketone Index Live
00:52:41 The 'Red Zone' Link To Cancer
00:57:42 The Man Who Survived Glioblastoma for 10 Years
00:58:35 Using the Keto Diet to Supercharge Chemo
01:07:12 The Experiment That Could Prove Cancer Isn't Genetic
01:08:10 1,700 Cancer Deaths a Day: Seyfried's Warning
01:13:21 Seyfried's Plan to End the Cancer Epidemic
01:16:05 What Foods You Should Actually Eat
01:21:38 Fasting Protocols & Hitting 'The Wall'
01:26:28 Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy & Cancer
01:28:10 Microplastics & 'Forever Chemicals'
01:30:27 How Cancer Spreads: Metastasis Explained
01:37:07 The #1 Actionable Takeaway
01:39:25 Energy, Hope & Final Words

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Ex-OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo walked away from $2 million rather than stay silent, and now reveals why he believes there's a 70% chance AI leads to human extinction, why superintelligence could arrive before the end of the decade, and the one plan he thinks could still save us all!

Daniel Kokotajlo is a former OpenAI researcher and one of the world's leading AI forecasters. He is the founder of the AI Futures Project and the lead author of 'AI 2027', the widely-read scenario mapping the trajectory of artificial intelligence. His follow-up, 'AI 2040: Plan A', sets out how the world could still navigate superintelligence safely.

He explains:
■ What he saw inside OpenAI that made him walk away

■ Why the people building AI privately believe it's coming even sooner than the public is being told
■ What happens if AI becomes powerful enough that humans can no longer control it, and why he puts the odds of catastrophe as high as 70%
■ Why almost every job could be automated, and what that means for the next generation
■ The plan he believes could still lead to abundance and a future worth living in

Chapters

00:00:00 Intro
00:02:14 Why This AI Mission Could Affect Everyone
00:04:01 Why the Average Person Should Care About AI
00:08:09 Are AI Experts Overreacting or Sounding the Alarm?
00:09:46 Why He Joined OpenAI—and What He Saw Inside
00:13:04 Why He Left OpenAI
00:15:33 What It Was Like Inside OpenAI During ChatGPT's Launch
00:16:56 The $2 Million NDA Controversy Explained
00:19:10 Is Full AI Automation Coming Faster Than We Think?
00:23:59 The AI 2027 Forecast That Changed the Conversation
00:26:13 AGI vs. Superintelligence: The Difference That Matters
00:26:57 How Robots Could Soon Become Part of Everyday Life
00:30:03 Why AI Works More Like the Human Brain Than You Think
00:35:54 Can AI Ever Be Truly Creative?
00:40:55 What Are the Real Odds of Human Extinction From AI?
00:47:38 What AI Will Do to Jobs
00:54:25 The Skills That Will Still Matter in an AI World
01:00:01 AI 2040: What the Future Could Look Like
01:04:16 The Different Futures AI Could Create
01:09:13 Will AI Become Earth's Apex Species?
01:12:58 How AI CEOs Really Make Decisions
01:15:17 Will AI Decide the 2028 Election?
01:18:38 Is There a Safe Path to Accelerating AI?
01:21:51 By 2031, AI Could Do 20% of Cognitive Work
01:24:55 Should Everyone Receive AI Dividends?
01:32:21 What It Will Feel Like to Live Through the AI Revolution
01:33:51 How People Find Purpose After AI Replaces Jobs
01:45:52 Would He Shut Down AI Forever If He Could?
01:49:36 What Can We Actually Do About AI?
01:57:05 Is It Already Too Late to Change Course?

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AI risk reading list:
https://blog.redwoodresearch.org/p/ai-futurism-reading-list

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Your gut symptoms might not be caused by gluten.
Dr Will Bulsiewicz is a leading gastroenterologist and gut health expert specialising in the microbiome, digestion and the science of food.
In this moment, Dr Will Bulsiewicz reveals why bloating, gas and constipation are often misunderstood, and why the real trigger behind your symptoms might not be gluten. Learn how your microbiome is quietly shaping your digestion, inflammation and long-term health. 
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