Michael Malice is a political thinker, podcaster, author, and anarchist.
Elon Musk is CEO of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and The Boring Company.
Ray Dalio is an investor, author, and founder of Bridgewater Associates.
Peter Wang is the co-founder & CEO of Anaconda and one of the most impactful leaders and developers in the Python community.
Albert Bourla is the Chairman and CEO of Pfizer.
Norman Naimark is a historian at Stanford, specializing in the history of genocide.
Jamie Metzl is an author specializing in topics of genetic engineering, biotechnology, and geopolitics.
Peter Woit is a theoretical physicist, mathematician, critic of string theory, and author of the popular science blog Not Even Wrong.
Tom Brands is an Olympic and World Champion in freestyle wrestling and the head wrestling coach at the University of Iowa.
Robert Crews is a historian at Stanford, specializing in Afghanistan, Russia, Islam, Central Asia, and South Asia.
Kevin Systrom is the co-founder and former CEO of Instagram.
Ben Askren is a wrestler and MMA fighter, former Bellator and ONE Championship welterweight champion, a two-time NCAA wrestling champion and four-time finalist.
Boris Sofman is the Senior Director Of Engineering and Head of Trucking at Waymo, formerly the Google Self-Driving Car project. He was also the CEO and co-founder of Anki, a home robotics company.
Neal Stephenson is a sci-fi writer (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and new book Termination Shock), former Chief Futurist at Magic Leap and first employee of Blue Origin.
Niall Ferguson is a historian at Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Francis Collins is the director of the NIH and former head of the Human Genome Project.
Steve Viscelli is a former truck driver and now an economic sociologist at University of Pennsylvania studying freight transportation, including autonomous trucks.
Jimmy Pedro is a judo competitor and coach, world champion, 3x world medalist, 2x Olympic medalist.
Michael Mina is an immunologist, epidemiologist, and physician at Harvard.
Stephen Wolfram is a computer scientist, mathematician, and theoretical physicist.
Carl Hart is a psychologist at Columbia University.
Brian Greene is a theoretical physicist.
Alex Gladstein is the Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation and the Oslo Freedom Forum.
Kelsi Sheren is a veteran, artillery gunner, and founder of Brass and Unity. Note from Lex: I'm aware that Jocko temporarily took down his conversation with Kelsi to remove the names of some of the people involved in order to protect their and their family's privacy. I did the same.
Richard Wrangham is a biological anthropologist at Harvard, specializing in the study of primates and the evolution of violence, sex, cooking, culture, and other aspects of ape and human behavior.