James Altucher

Ron Johnson built the Apple Store as Apple's SVP of Retail, and is the author of Shop Different: How Retail Revealed Apple's Genius. Apple told its staff never to hurry a customer. It assumed four or five visits before anyone bought a Mac. Ron Johnson built the Apple Store as Apple's SVP of Retail a...

Nothing exists on its own. Not an atom, not a galaxy, not you — and a physicist spends this hour proving it. Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist working on loop quantum gravity and the author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, The Order of Time and Helgoland. James opens by trying to compress R...

George Washington got rich the old-fashioned way. He married the richest widow in Virginia. Historian Joseph Moore spent years reading dead people's mail — the letters, ledgers, and get-rich books ordinary Americans actually bought — to work out what has really built wealth in this country since 170...

Charles Duhigg lost 45 pounds on a GLP-1 — but he says the drug isn't what makes the weight loss last. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power of Habit breaks down why GLP-1s like Ozempic, Zepbound, and tirzepatide quiet the "food noise" in your head, and why that silence opens a rare window ...

Frank Miller changed Batman forever. With The Dark Knight Returns, he took a campy TV character and turned him back into a dark, mythic legend — and in this conversation, he explains exactly how he did it, and what it cost. I sat down in person with the legendary creator of The Dark Knight Returns, ...

Harvard geneticist David Sinclair returns to explain how his lab's age-reversal technology has moved from mice and primates into FDA-cleared human trials — starting with an attempt to reverse vision loss from glaucoma, a condition considered permanent. Sinclair breaks down the science of Yamanaka fa...

Zynga founder Mark Pincus joins the show to break down why he believes consumer tech is "uninvestable" right now — and why building a "failure machine" was the secret behind FarmVille and Zynga's biggest hits. Mark shares the internal Zynga mantra "all new fails," explains his 90/10 rule for evaluat...

Description: What if you could make 22% annual returns on something that's practically a sure thing? In this episode, James breaks down how prediction markets like Kalshi work — and more importantly, how to find the unfair edges most bettors completely ignore. James walks through three live bets he ...

Ben Mezrich — the bestselling author behind The Social Network and Bringing Down the House — spent a year embedded in the world of elite chess to uncover the full, untold story of the most explosive scandal in chess history. In this episode, Ben joins me (a chess master and commentator for Norway Ch...

What if one of the most powerful organizations in the world was hiding in plain sight — operating within the Catholic Church, grooming recruits, running shell companies, and influencing governments? In this episode, investigative journalist and author Gareth Gore exposes the shocking truth about Opu...