Hello, world. Today's guest is Ben Mesrick. Ben is a major international New York Times bestselling author.

He likes to write books about young prodigies who make tons of money. Many of his projects have been turned into feature films such as the social network and 21.

One of his latest projects is called Bitcoin Billionaires, which is about the Winklevoss twins,

the two brothers who founded the Harvard Connection website that Mark Zuckerberg stole and eventually turned into Facebook.

Anyways, this podcast is eye-opening and gives a unique perspective on Zuckerberg and the way he does business.

That's my sales pitch for this podcast.

Please welcome Ben Mezzrick.

So cool, man.

I mean, let's just jump right into it.

So you've authored many super interesting books, lots of which have been turned into feature movies

like the movie 21 um the social network and didn't you write for the x files at one point

yeah so early early early in my career um i worked for The X-Files. I wrote a book for

them. So it was like a standalone thriller starring Mulder and Scully. So this was a long time ago.

But yeah, I started off my career writing techno thrillers, medical thrillers, you know,

I wanted to be Michael Crichton.

That was kind of my goal.

And nobody read those.

So they didn't do very well.

And it wasn't until I started writing nonfiction that my career kind of took off.

But, but yeah, the X-Files is one of the first things that I worked for.

Yeah.

That's amazing.

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