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Episode 52: James Altucher

HOME Podcast

Laura McKowen & Holly Whitaker

Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2016

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

James Altucher is an entrepreneur and writer. He's founded 20 companies, ranging from hedge funds to dating websites, most of which he says failed. Following a bottom where he "saw my account go from $15 million to $143 in a matter of months; I lost my house, my friends, my sanity and considered killing myself" he started a blog where he wrote honestly about his experience. The blog became a huge success (post titles include: "I Want My Kids to be Drug Addicts" and "I Want to Die"). Today he's the author of a dozen books, including "Choose Yourself," which Business Week named one of the 12 best business books of all time and a podcaster with guests like Seth Godin and Wayne Dyer. He talks to the girls (live in NYC, with Laura) about his own experience with addiction, why he recently sold off all his belongings, his awkwardness, depression, the efficiency of his 4:00 a.m. haircuts, marriage, divorce, the importance of surrender and the compounding nature of ideas. More about James on his website: www.jamesaltucher.com.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There is hope for us yet.

0:07.6

I am Laura McCown.

0:09.9

And I am Cali David Brown.

0:13.0

And this is. And I am Polly Bittipan.

0:17.0

And this is Home Podcast. Hey.

0:19.0

Harry Pet Hey.

0:20.0

Hey.

0:22.0

And maybe you go on your papers.

0:26.7

So lesson from today, we never watch that video

0:30.2

before we report.

0:31.7

Never. Never. I was going to take only three minutes to be able to speak.

0:40.0

It's not just any cat video. It's a really funny cat video. You know,

0:44.0

it's one of the good ones. Okay.

0:47.0

Um, so hey, girl.

0:50.0

Hi. Hey, you just got back from...

0:52.0

I can't stop saying hey like the cat. Okay, you just got back from Nantucket. How was your weekend?

0:58.4

It was great. It was with my dad and my daughter and you're friends too. You were with friends.

1:06.4

You had friends there. Yeah, it was well my one friend Kate who lives out there.

1:11.0

Nice.

1:12.0

Saw her a bunch and yeah it was great. It was strange to return to Nantucket.

1:18.0

That was a place where I saw a lot of drinking a lot.

1:25.0

And what is that?

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