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The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Divya Narendra: 7/28/15

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

Tv & Film

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2015

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

After being embroiled in a lawsuit with Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook, Divya Narendra, the founder and CEO of the investor community SumZero, joins Brian this week to discuss Narendra’s early success creating Harvard Connection, the reason he became an entrepreneur, and the lessons he took away from the Facebook lawsuit. Also, Brian and Divya talk about startups, Divya’s portrayal in The Social Network, and what can and cannot be taught in schools. Plus, the tech exec explains how he cultivated his mind and never lost a minute of sleep throughout the case against Facebook. People discussed on today’s show include: Divya Narendra Cameron Winklevoss Tyler Winklevoss Mark Zuckerberg Max Minghella Armie Hammer Elon Musk Warren Buffett Carl Icahn Alec Berg Aaron Sorkin David Fincher Jesse Eisenberg Topics discussed on today’s show include: SumZero Facebook The Social Network Harvard Connection (ConnectU) Hot or Not website created by Mark Zuckerberg Harvard University Northwestern University Snapchat Silicon Valley "Chris Sacca On Being Different and Making Billions" – The Tim Ferriss Show (5/30/15) David and Goliath a book by Malcolm Gladwell Twitter: @BrianKoppelman Email: themomentbk@gmail.com Rate us on iTunes: itunes.com/themoment This episode of the Moment is sponsored by Braintree. If you’re working on a mobile app and searching for a simple payments solution, check out Braintree. With one simple integration, you can offer your customers every way to pay. Period. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/moment To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This episode of the moment is sponsored by Braintree.

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If you're working on a mobile app and searching for simple payment solutions,

0:05.8

check out Braintree with one simple integration you can offer your customers every way to pay, period.

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To learn more and for your first 50,000 in transactions, fee-free, go to Braintree Payments.com

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slash moment.

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And we just wanted to give you the listeners a quick heads up, Slates Culture Gabfest is coming to Chicago. the compelling cultural happenings of the week with a Q&A to follow.

0:32.7

And I'll also say Dana is known as one of the nicest people on earth.

0:35.0

So if you have a Q&A that might slightly make her have to answer in a way that she'd have to be snarky,

0:39.6

that would be really fun and that's what I would be preparing. The event will be recorded for an

0:43.7

upcoming episode of the podcast. It's all happening Tuesday, September 22nd

0:47.1

at the Music Box Theater in Chicago. Doors open at 7 and the show starts at

0:50.8

730. A very limited number of tickets will be made available for a pre-show

0:54.9

cocktail hour. Tickets are on sale now. Slate plus members get 30% off their ticket purchase.

1:00.5

That's Culture Gapfest, live in Chicago, from 22nd at 730 p.m.

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For more information, noted by tickets,

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go to Slate.com slash CultureShi.

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That's Slate.com slash C-U-L-T-U-R-E-C-H-I.

1:17.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

1:20.0

Hey, this is Brian, the podcast will start in a second. I just want to quickly introduce my guest this week,

1:24.0

Divia, Nurengra. Divia is probably best known. He's an entrepreneur, a serial entrepreneur,

1:28.9

which is a good thing. Most time you hear somebody's a serial something, it's bad, but serial entrepreneur I think is great.

1:34.3

And Divia is one of the people who started Harvard Connect, which was the rival social network to Facebook.

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