Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Garry Tan, President and CEO of Y Combinator and former founder/investor, shares his journey from early computing to shaping startups. He talks about YC’s founder-first approach, the rise of personal AI and open-source models, building tools like Gbrain, and how tech revolutions reshape opportunity. He also reflects on founder traits, selection signals, and balancing mission with personal life.

Michael Shawn Crahan, Slipknot co-founder, percussionist, visual artist, and director, gets into grief, intensity, and the chaos that shaped the band. He revisits Kiss and Pink Floyd as blueprints for spectacle. He talks masks, numbers, and building a collective identity. There is also fatherhood, loss, AI art, and a Minecraft world born from his mother’s writing.

Chris Best, tech entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of Substack, talks about turning frustration with media into a new model for writer independence. He gets into email over algorithms, why free posts help paid subscriptions grow, speech battles and platform controversies, creator-owned audiences, and building tools for podcasts, video, and publishing.

Brian Hoyer, environmental health consultant and founder of Shielded Healing, gets into EMFs, flickering lights, dirty electricity, and why bedrooms can make or break recovery. He talks home testing, shielding, grounding, urban vs. rural exposure, appliance hot spots, travel strategies, and what healthier homes might look like.

GT Dave, founder of GT’s Living Foods and the entrepreneur who helped bring kombucha into the American mainstream, shares how a family health crisis gave the drink deep personal meaning. He talks about dropping out as a teen, hand-delivering early bottles, resisting pasteurization, shaping Synergy, surviving regulation drama, and growing a living foods empire without losing the culture.

Jeff Harmon, co-founder and Chief Content Officer of Angel Studios, talks about reinventing entertainment through audience votes and fan-powered funding. He gets into Dry Bar Comedy, The Chosen, and Sound of Freedom. The conversation also covers clean comedy at scale, YouTube marketing experiments, AI in creativity, and the challenge of giving ordinary people real power.

Jonah Hill, actor, writer, and filmmaker behind Superbad, Moneyball, Mid90s, and Stutz, gets into fame’s weird aftershocks, quitting social media, surfing and meditation, grief and family, and the emotional roots of Outcome. He also talks about directing icons, the blur between sincerity and performance, and how writing, acting, and fatherhood now shape his creative life.

Anne Lamott, bestselling novelist behind Bird by Bird, joins Neal Allen, former journalist turned spiritual coach. They dig into how a writing guide became a creative duet. Expect lively talk on bad drafts, sharp sentences, strong verbs, cliches, editing, compassion on the page, and following intuition instead of outlines.

Adam Neumann, WeWork co-founder and Flow founder, traces his path from kibbutz life to building companies around belonging. He gets into spirituality and Kabbalah, the late-night naming of WeWork, hypergrowth with SoftBank, the 2019 collapse, media backlash, and why Flow is built around community, technology, and Shabbat as a weekly reset.

Kelly Wearstler, acclaimed Los Angeles designer and creative director, blends materiality, place, and collaboration in bold hospitality and residential projects. She discusses large-scale coordination, reviving vintage materials, cross-disciplinary artist collaborations, balancing maximalism with restraint, acoustic and lighting strategies, and designing site-specific programs like casinos and hotels.