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The James Altucher Show

The Redemption Arc of the Silicon Valley Porn Star with Jason Portnoy

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

No matter how successful you're, or how rich you are, everyone has their own personal struggle that they are dealing with or had dealt with. Sometimes your issues and addiction get magnified when you get wealthier!In this episode, one of the PayPal Mafia, Jason Portnoy, Entrepreneur, venture capitalist, one of PayPal's first employees, and author, came on to talk about his origin story, his time with PayPal, and his addiction to porn, and sex. We also explore, why as successful as he is, would result in an affair with other women? How did he reconcile with his wife, and his recovery journey with his life coach, Melissa?Did he manage to redeem himself? Listen and find out!Visit Notepd.com to read more idea lists, or sign up and create your own idea list!My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book!Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotify Follow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

0:06.8

This is the James Altiger Show.

0:12.8

Today on the James Altiger Show.

0:16.9

Silicon Valley porn star.

0:18.9

Man, when this guy first contacted me, I was like, oh no, is this going to be just some

0:23.4

other business self-help book about how this guy made millions of dollars and blah, blah,

0:28.7

blah.

0:29.7

But when I had Jason Portonet on the author of Silicon Valley porn star, I could not believe

0:37.6

how personal he revealed all the things that were going on in his life.

0:42.5

And I really admire him for that, what he went through and what he's been through, his

0:47.1

addictions, and how he survived them and where he is now.

0:51.1

And just to honest, he talks about everything.

0:54.6

So let's get right into it.

1:04.4

Jason Portonet.

1:05.8

First off, I was intrigued by your story because you were part of the so-called PayPal Mafia.

1:10.9

You were one of the original employees of PayPal where Peter Teal and Elon Musk made their

1:16.5

first dips into wealth, which I'm sure you did as well.

1:19.5

And then you were the CFO of Palantir Technologies, which was Peter Teal's biggest company

1:24.2

that he started.

1:25.2

And on and on, you've been very involved in the whole Silicon Valley thing.

1:28.6

But that's not what your book is about.

1:31.0

So your book was definitely not what I expected.

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