Podcast appearances and mentions of ben david

In today's Podcast we have the one and only Billy Carson, a true multidimensional force, an author, a scholar, a truth seeker, and one of the most brilliant minds walking the planet right now. Billy Carson is the founder of Forbidden Knowledge, a bestselling author of The Woke Doesn't Mean Broke and the compendium of the Emerald Tablets, and one of the leading voices in ancient civilizations consciousness, quantum reality and suppressed history.He's been featured on Gaia History Channel, Patrick, Ben David, Joe Rogan. But what really sets Billy apart is his ability to bridge spirituality, science, and sovereignty in a way that speaks to both the soul and the intellect.

Joshua meets a person outside the walls of Jericho. This person has him remove sandals and bow. In this message we look at who this is and why his holiness changes us.

The Transfiguration is not only about seeing Jesus changed but how we become changed when we truly see him. Luke shows us why and how this happens to Peter and to us.

in the face of darkness and despair, Paul gives us a message of hope by talking about Death's defeat and how through this truth we can face anything!

In this sermon on John chapter 1, the Gospel author's use of words becomes pivotal in understanding what is being said about Jesus and how people respond to him. After grasping what John intended to say, the sermon concludes by explaining how verse 14 answers those who reject God.

Christmas evokes feelings of coziness and family for many. However, the story of Luke 2 is anything but cozy. Amidst the difficulties of the story, Luke points the reader to Jesus and his power to overcome these trials back then and even today

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HESPED POR LA RABANIT SARA BEN DAVID ZL by Rab Shlomo Benhamu

Shalom, y'all, this week we look at how, in the Scripture, we see many prophetic implications. We will explore the life of Yosef (Joseph) as a foreshadowing of Yeshua. We will see a picture of a suffering servant and a ruler of all the earth. While we can talk about many areas in Yosef's life spiritually and metaphorically, let us not forget that he was also a real person with real experiences. All of this together should increase our faith and encourage us to believe that one person makes a difference in the lives of others and the Kingdom of YHWH.   Also, Check out our main website at www.Ruachonline.com  If these have been a blessing to you, please consider donating to help us continue to put these teachings out. You can donate at https://www.ruachonline.com/donate

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There has been a dramatic rise in the number of foreign-born Israelis, mostly Ukrainians and Russians, leaving the country. According data from the Central Bureau of Statistics, in the first nine months of 2023, 35,000 non-native-born Israelis left the country while only 7,000 returned, much higher percentage than native-born Israelis. Prof. Dan Ben David, president of The Shoresh Institution for Social Economic Research and economist at Tel Aviv University, said it wasn't easy living here. Ben-David told reporter Arieh O'Sullivan that the numbers of those leaving, coupled with the judicial reforms plans and later the war were a wake-up call for the nation to get its act together. (photo: Tomer Neuberg/flash90)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Aryeh Ben David plumbs the diaries of the epochal thinker Rav Kook. He finds the imperative of love.

This is rebroadcasting of an episode with Juditta Ben-David.This is what it's about--passion, heart and helping others. And today, my guest exudes all of those elements. Today, I'm speaking with Juditta Ben-David, SEP M.A., founder of The Mindfulness in Arabic project (MiA).MiA has built a website that offers an eight-week Mindfulness course in Arabic, designed for refugees and people in transition. Any person with internet access may enter the website, free of charge, anywhere around the world. The course provides practical tools and exercises tailored specifically to support a shaken population that suffered traumas of fear, death and extreme violence.​ Juditta's website also provides tools for therapists, social workers, welfare workers, and volunteers who are currently working with refugee populations, so that they may use mindfulness-based tools for their own needs in coping with work stress and related DP camp difficult experiences, as well as passing them on to their clients.MiA developed out of the work of our founder, Juditta Ben-David, SEP M.A, in refugee camps in Turkey. Working there with refugees and their supporters/counselors and social-workers the request for additional tools led to a crowdfunding campaign raising one-half of the funds needed to launch our 8-week course. MiA is thankful to be supported by leading Mindfulness instructors like Jon Kabat Zinn, Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, Christopher Titmuss and Patricia Genoud-Feldman as well as Mindfulness providers like Headspace and Mindful Magazine. In This EpisodeJuditta's websiteContact JudittaMIA on FacebookDonate to The Mindfulness in Arabic projectElaine Miller-KarasPeter Levine---If you'd like to support The Trauma Therapist Podcast and the work I do you can do that here with a monthly donation of $5, $7, or $10: Donate to The Trauma Therapist Podcast.Click here to join my email list and receive podcast updates and other news.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-trauma-therapist--5739761/support.

Wer Kaninchen aus dem Zylinder zieht, verzaubert heute nicht mehr sein Publikum. Eher wird er ausgebuht und kassiert noch dazu eine Anzeige von Tieren, sagt Ben David. Der Zauberkünstler aus Heilbronn nimmt an der Deutschen Meisterschaft der Zauberkunst in Lübeck teil. Im Gespräch mit SWR Aktuell-Moderator Gerald Pinkenburg hat Ben David einen Einblick gegeben, was die Zuschauer heute begeistert: "In meinen Augen sind das absolut wahnsinnige Vorhersagen, wie zum Beispiel einer Lottonummer. Sechs große Luftballons gehen ins Publikum, damit die Wahl der Freiwilligen nicht beeinflusst werden kann. Jeder darf eine Zahl aufschreiben. Dafür gibt's ne Box in die Hand des Zuschauers, damit auch nichts mehr ausgetauscht werden kann. Und im besten Fall ist die Lottovorhersage komplett richtig." Wie lange er dafür braucht, einen Zaubertrick zu entwickeln, erklärt Ben David im Audio.

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Today we have a conversation with Benjamin David. Ben David has served as an elected District Attorney since 2004. He is a past president of the NC Conference of District Attorneys and currently holds executive office in the National District Attorneys Association, chairing the commission on community outreach. Ben is now moving on to help CPAs and Accountants think like a prosecutor to help fight white collar crime through education and CPE training. https://pageraftstaging.nxtbook.com/the_ygs_group/vscpa/disclosures_summer_2024/disclosures_summer_2024_fraud.html   https://www.vscpa.com/report-fraud-every-time   https://www.vscpa.com/follow-money-highest-criminal-charge   https://www.theiia.org/en/products/learning-solutions/on-demand/why-internal-auditors-should-think-like-a-prosecutor/

Greek has two common words for “life.” Day-to-day, living organisms all exhibit “bios” (where we get the words “biology” and “biography”). But humans especially were made to experience something more fulfilling–a rich and unending kind of life that Jesus calls “Zoē” (later adapted as a common girl's name). The “life” that Jesus offers us is the latter kind, and good it is for us to find it in his own self-giving love! Readings: Psalm 34:9-14; Ephesians 5:15-20; John 6:51-58

The speech of Jesus in John 6 contains many shocking statements, including the perplexing promise and warning: "No one can come to me unless the Father first draws him" (6:44). No one likes to be told they can't, and yet that's Jesus' response to the grumbling crowd. However as we move past what appears at first to be insulting we find in his words the love, grace and sheer beauty of God our Saviour. Readings: Psalm 130; Ephesians 4:25–5:2; John 6:35, 41–51

Like clouds and waves at sea, doubts often leave us disoriented, unsure of where to go or whether we even began going the right way. Rather than avoid them with shame, we can embrace them as defining moments: opportunities to rid ourselves of false assurances and better engage reality as it is. As Christians, we can always look to the living example of Jesus in those moments, and entrust our future selves with Him–like wayward sailors who set a course and trust that their boat will arrive back on shore. Readings: Psalm 73, Ephesians 1:3-14, Mark 6:14-29

When thinking and speaking about the Kingdom of Heaven, we often imagine it as unimaginable–totally alien to this broken world. But Jesus' many parables help us to consider it in familiar terms. And something about it–a Kingdom we have yet to experience in its fullness–begins to feel like home. Readings: Ezekiel 31:1–14; Psalm 92; 2 Corinthians 5:1–10; Mark 4:26–34

The ups and downs of US arms deliveries to Israel is not new. It's been going on for over 50 years as the US became Israel's main weapons supplier. The latest conflagration involves, as far as we know, shipments of 2,000 pound and 500 pound bombs with JDAM kits (joint Direct Attack Munitions) that provide dumb bombs with precision guidance.  To give us some insight into this we turned to Lenny Ben David, director of American Institute at the Jerusalem Center for Foreign Affairs, and former deputy Israeli ambassador to Washington. Ben David also spent 25 years working with AIPAC. (photo: Ofer Zidon/flash90)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Eviatar Aron is a patent attorney in the US and Israel who specializes in Hi-Tech, Software, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and other areas. Barak Hullman sat down with Eviatar in the offices of JMB Davis Ben-David in Jerusalem to discuss what he has learned from helping clients to get patents over the past 10 years. In this episode we discuss what to do before getting a patent, how to avoid costly mistakes, the benefits of getting a patent for your business, tips for startup founders and much more. Do you have a great innovation? We'd love to hear from you. Contact us by going to https://jmbdavis.com/startup/contact. Learn more at https://jmbdavis.com and https://jmbdavis.com/startup. Also available at https://soundcloud.com/jmbdavis/eviatar-aron. Listen to all of the episodes at https://jmbdavis.com/podcast.

Amidst some of the highest praise and evident joy in all of his writings, Paul in Romans chapter 8 guides us through Gospel resources in the face of suffering. He posits that our suffering is felt alongside Creation, and that the Holy Spirit Himself knows this suffering well and communicates it on our behalf to the Father. Readings: John 16:4-15; Romans 8:18-27

Heather of the Hot Mess Espresso podcast joins The Shakedown to discuss Mental Health and Criminal Justice. We get into addiction, toxic masculinity, coping strategies, and even...Ben David? Heather and the Hot Mess Espresso podcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hotmess.espresso The Hot Mess Espresso Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@hotmessespresso https://open.spotify.com/show/3ZtgmIbVyIHMa914qzni3A https://tr.ee/QiSv9zWB8P About the Colorado Center for Dependency, Addiction, and Rehabilitation: https://www.cedarcolorado.org/ Support The Shakedown at: https://www.patreon.com/TheShakedown More about The Shakedown at: https://shakedown.show Find Shakedown merch and support us at: https://wayword.press The Shakedown on IG, Threads, FB, or TikTok: @gettheshakedown More about Nina the Pitbull at: @nina_is_a_pitbull Ryan/Rainforest on IG: @lorax4life Malone on IG: @they_call_me_malone Dave on IG: @sociallydistorted1 00:00 - About The Shakedown 01:02 - Meet Heather and the Hot Mess Espresso 01:53 - Mental Health and Incarceration 04:04 - Lightbulb's Story 05:32 - Mental Health and Recidivism 07:09 - Asking for help with mental health issues 09:27 - The cost of living and mental health 10:08 - Mental health "services" in prison 13:07 - The advantages of addiction treatment 17:48 - Mentally being prepared for release from prison 20:04 - More about addiction

Hope with Me in the Coming of the King | Rev. Yoel Ben David by Christ Church Jerusalem

Dana Ben David is Co-Founder and Creative Director of Healthybud, a brand reinventing the pet wellness category focusing on functional treats, meal-toppers and healthy and nutritional food for dogs. The Montreal-based company is leveraging superfoods that are usually more familiar to humans than dogs, such as ashwagandha, goji berries, or reishi medicinal mushrooms. A multi-passionate professional, Dana has an interesting background that gave her the knowledge she needed to start her company alongside her husband and their business partner. Before becoming an entrepreneur, she studied architecture, audio production, and voice acting, and as a trained vocalist and pianist, Dana also ventured into the music industry. In a tail-wagging twist on pet adoption, Healthybud unleashed an irresistible offer this last fall: a year's supply of free dog treats to anyone adopting a senior dog. That's just one of Healthybud's fun plays on building a community dedicated to pet wellness, a growing trend in North America. In this episode you'll hear about:-Dana's passion for branding, which she applies to Healthybud's cheeky market positioning-How Dana's multihyphenate experience in the music industry taught her skills she applies as an entrepreneur-The brand's commitment to (re)inventing the pet wellness category with superfood, quality ingredients-The future of the pet food & health category.This season of our podcast is brought to you by TD Canada Women in Enterprise. TD is proud to support women entrepreneurs and help them achieve success and growth through its program of educational workshops, financing and mentorship opportunities! Please find out how you can benefit from their support! Visit: TBIF: thebrandisfemale.com // TD Women in Enterprise: td.com/ca/en/business-banking/small-business/women-in-business // Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/thebrandisfemale

Ben David has served as District Attorney for New Hanover and Pender counties since 2004. Next year, he'll leave office, setting up an election for his replacement. WHQR News Director Ben Schachtman sat down with David to talk about why he's leaving, how he sees his legacy, and what comes next.

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Everything in this corner of the world has changed since Saturday, October 7. All around us, friends, family, colleagues, people have died. People are missing. People have been kidnapped. There's a lot of uncertainty and we're all involved in dozens of initiatives but we're also going to bring you some voices and testimonies that try to paint a picture of these devastating times. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Learning-theoretic agenda reading list, published by Vanessa Kosoy on November 9, 2023 on The AI Alignment Forum. Recently, I'm receiving more and more requests for a self-study reading list for people interested in the learning-theoretic agenda. I created a standard list for that, but before now I limited myself to sending it to individual people in private, out of some sense of perfectionism: many of the entries on the list might not be the best sources for the topics and I haven't read all of them cover to cover myself. But, at this point it seems like it's better to publish a flawed list than wait for perfection that will never come. Also, commenters are encouraged to recommend alternative sources that they consider better, if they know any. General math background "Introductory Functional Analysis with Applications" by Kreyszig (especially chapters 1, 2, 3, 4) "Computational Complexity: A Conceptual Perspective" by Goldreich (especially chapters 1, 2, 5, 10) "Probability: Theory and Examples" by Durret (especially chapters 4, 5, 6) "Elements of Information Theory" by Cover and Thomas (especially chapter 2) "Lambda-Calculus and Combinators: An Introduction" by Hindley "Game Theory: An Introduction" by Tadelis AI theory "Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms" by Shalev-Shwarz and Ben-David (especially part I and chapter 21) "Bandit Algorithms" by Lattimore and Szepesvari (especially parts II, III, V, VIII) Alternative/complementary: "Regret Analysis of Stochastic and Nonstochastic Multi-armed Bandit Problems" by Bubeck and Cesa-Bianchi (especially sections 1, 2, 5) "Prediction Learning and Games" by Cesa-Bianchi and Lugosi (mostly chapter 7) "Universal Artificial Intelligence" by Hutter Alternative: "A Theory of Universal Artificial Intelligence based on Algorithmic Complexity" (Hutter 2000) Bonus: "Nonparametric General Reinforcement Learning" by Jan Leike Reinforcement learning theory "Near-optimal Regret Bounds for Reinforcement Learning" (Jaksch, Ortner and Auer, 2010) "Efficient Bias-Span-Constrained Exploration-Exploitation in Reinforcement Learning" (Fruit et al, 2018) "Regret Bounds for Learning State Representations in Reinforcement Learning" (Ortner et al, 2019) "Efficient PAC Reinforcement Learning in Regular Decision Processes" (Ronca and De Giacomo, 2022) "Tight Guarantees for Interactive Decision Making with the Decision-Estimation Coefficient" (Foster, Golowich and Han, 2023) Agent foundations "Functional Decision Theory" (Yudkowsky and Soares 2017) "Embedded Agency" (Demski and Garrabrant 2019) Learning-theoretic AI alignment research agenda Overview Infra-Bayesianism sequence Bonus: podcast "Online Learning in Unknown Markov Games" (Tian et al, 2020) Infra-Bayesian physicalism Bonus: podcast Reinforcement learning with imperceptible rewards Bonus materials "Logical Induction" (Garrabrant et al, 2016) "Forecasting Using Incomplete Models" (Kosoy 2017) "Cartesian Frames" (Garrabrant, Herrman and Lopez-Wild, 2021) "Optimal Polynomial-Time Estimators" (Kosoy and Appel, 2016) "Algebraic Geometry and Statistical Learning Theory" by Watanabe Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.

This is a book about love, about how to become a more loving human being. It has been inspired by the writings of the contemporary mystic, Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook (1865-1935). Author Aryeh Ben David says, "Though this may not be what we learned in school or synagogue, becoming a more loving human being is really what Judaism is all about. And even more than becoming more loving human beings in our personal relationships—don't we sense that the larger world today is in desperate need of more love? The brokenness and anger present in Jewish life seems irreparable. Jews from different religious denominations and ideological views cannot sit together, much less respect each other's positions and love each other. Our political arena has become toxic and awash with animosity."

This is a book about love, about how to become a more loving human being. It has been inspired by the writings of the contemporary mystic, Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook (1865-1935). Author Aryeh Ben David says, "Though this may not be what we learned in school or synagogue, becoming a more loving human being is really what Judaism is all about. And even more than becoming more loving human beings in our personal relationships—don't we sense that the larger world today is in desperate need of more love? The brokenness and anger present in Jewish life seems irreparable. Jews from different religious denominations and ideological views cannot sit together, much less respect each other's positions and love each other. Our political arena has become toxic and awash with animosity."

For nearly 25 years, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) have been a popular passive investment vehicle for both household and professional investors due to their low transaction costs and high liquidity. But what are the pros and cons? How can you diversify your portfolio to avoid volatility? Today, we are joined by Professor Itzhak Ben-David, one of the world's foremost academic experts on ETFs, the Neil Klatskin Chair in Finance and Real Estate at The Ohio State University (OSU) Fisher College of Business, and the Academic Director of the OSU Center for Real Estate. In this episode, we look at the current ETF market and the impact that ETFs have on underlying securities and investor outcomes. We discuss Morningstar ratings, the change that happened in 2002, and some mind-blowing data regarding hedge fund fees. We also dive into the correlation between miscalibrated CFOs and overconfidence; the unnecessary mental accounting people do when it comes to tax refunds, and so much more. This conversation makes for an incredibly diversified overview of a variety of topics that are relevant to financial decision-making at the household level. Finance experts will certainly find value here, too! Regardless of your level of experience, tune in today to learn more.   Key Points From This Episode:   (0:03:27) Professor Ben-David's take on the current state of the ETF market.  (0:07:37) Ways that investors are affected by a broader variety of ETF options.  (0:16:46) Advice for investors who have been lured in by a sector or thematic ETF.  (0:17:53) Mutual or hedge funds versus ETFs and their impact on underlying securities.  (0:26:38) Reflections on the behaviour of mutual fund investors (learning versus luck).  (0:33:01) How we can learn what investors care about from mutual fund flows.  (0:37:15) Why investors typically put their money where the Morningstar ratings are.  (0:38:46) Morningstar's rewiring of the “star” system in 2002 and its repercussions.  (0:48:54) The effect of Morningstar ratings on mutual fund flow and momentum.  (0:52:40) Hedge fund investor behaviour versus mutual fund and ETF investors.  (0:54:46) The “two-and-20" hedge fund fee that sets it apart from mutual funds.  (1:00:53) What happens after investors pull their money from a hedge fund after a loss.   (1:02:19) How hedge fund incentive fees correlate with hedge fund performance. (1:04:09) Key lessons for investors who might be considering allocating to hedge funds.  (1:07:15) How people treat tax refunds differently from other income and expenses  (1:13:20) Defining miscalibration and the behavioural bias that overconfidence presents.  (1:19:26) How CFO miscalibration responds to rising market uncertainty (and how to avoid it).  (1:22:58) Professor Ben-David's definition of success in relation to failure.    Links From Today's Episode:   Rational Reminder on iTunes — https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-rational-reminder-podcast/id1426530582. Rational Reminder Website — https://rationalreminder.ca/  Shop Merch — https://shop.rationalreminder.ca/ Join the Community — https://community.rationalreminder.ca/ Follow us on X — https://twitter.com/RationalRemind Follow us on Instagram — @rationalreminder Benjamin on X — https://twitter.com/benjaminwfelix Cameron on X — https://twitter.com/CameronPassmore Cameron on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronpassmore/ Itzhak Ben-David — https://u.osu.edu/ben-david.1/ Itzhak Ben-David on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/ibendavi/  Financial Markets and Human Behavior - https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/u.osu.edu/dist/d/7877/files/2023/08/202308_Rational_Reminder_podcast.pdf ‘Do ETFs Increase Volatility?' – http://ssrn.com/abstract=1967599 ‘Mutual Fund Flows and Performance in Rational Markets' – https://ssrn.com/abstract=383061 ‘The Performance of Hedge Fund Performance Fees' – https://ssrn.com/abstract=3630723 ‘Paper on how people treat their tax refunds' — https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6261.2007.01232.x ‘Managerial Miscalibration' — http://ssrn.com/abstract=1640552 ‘The Persistence of Miscalibration' — https://ssrn.com/abstract=3462107  

As an Orthodox Jew, Yoel Ben David was challenged to study the Old Testament in addition to the Talmud — this led to questions and more questions. By the time he got to Isaiah 53, all bets were off. It didn't take long for him to meet Jesus.  Today, Yoel serves as the training director for Jews for Jesus in Israel. On today's episode of the Great Stories Podcast, you'll hear how prayer, patience, and God's Word can change the course of someone's life. Recorded in 2015 shortly after terrorists killed 130 people and wounded 494 in Paris, Charles Morris also speaks to Yoel about how Christians and Jews respond to extremist groups like ISIS. 

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Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #Jerusalem. December 11, 1917 and the liberation from 400 years of Ottoman brutality. Lenny Ben-David. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 Lenny Ben-David is the Director of the Institute for U.S.-Israel Relations at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He is the author of the book American Interests in the Holy Land Revealed in Early Photographs, and he is completing his next book, Secrets of World War I in the Holy Land Revealed in Early Photographs. He worked for AIPAC for 25 years in Washington and Jerusalem. In 1997, he left to open an independent consulting firm, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tapped him to serve as Deputy Chief of Staff in Israel's Washington Embassy. https://jcpa.org/the-first-jerusalem-liberation-day-in-the-modern-era-in-1917/

In today's episode, Josh Benadiva sits down with Omry Ben David from Viola Ventures to discuss how Omry identifies top entrepreneurs and how to think about investing in early-stage FinTech companies. Josh and Omry delve into the future of embedded FinTech, the next generation of InsurTech, and so much more. Omry is a General Partner at Viola Ventures. He joined the fund in 2017, bringing with him 15 years of technology-focused experience across investment banking, startup operations, and both institutional and private venture investments. Omry's areas of investment at Viola Ventures include FinTech, Enterprise/SMB Software, and Vertical AI. Omry was a Captain and Company Commander in an elite combat unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Management from Tel Aviv University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. Viola Ventures is one of the leading Israel-based funds focused on early-stage investments. With a portfolio of over 90 companies, Viola Ventures has backed a substantial share of Israel's exits to date, including Actimize, RedBend, ECI, Optimal+, Samanage, and more.

You may think you know the Nintendo story: a plumber named Mario, a princess named Zelda… and didn't they buy the Seattle Mariners at some point? We thought we knew it too. And then we started researching and were blown away. The lovable Disney-like Nintendo that we know today is a 130 year-old a playing card company (i.e. gambling), forged in the shadowy world of the Yakuza and shaped by a four-generation cycle of bitter family betrayal. And its unlikely transformation into a global multi-billion dollar media monopoly was led by an iron-fisted patriarch who — amazingly — never played a video game in his life! Get ready for one of our favorite stories Acquired has ever told — we couldn't make this one up if we tried. ACQ2 Show + LP Program: Subscribe to the shiny new ACQ2! Become an LP and support the show. Help us pick episodes, Zoom calls and more. Sponsors: Thanks to our fantastic partners, any member of the Acquired community can now get: Pilot: 20% off your company's first six months of service Vanta: $1,000 off any compliance audit product …in touch with Tiny! (just tell them Ben & David sent you) Links: Our Atari episode with Nolan Bushnell Video of id Software's legendary PC “port” of Super Mario Brothers 3 Episode sources Carve Outs: Everything Everywhere All At Once Michael Lewis on Tim Ferriss and on CSPAN

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1907 @Batchelorshow #Jerusalem:  And Egypt. And Lebanon. And Turkey. Calev Ben-David, anchor, i24NEWS. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-and-abdullah-meet-in-jordan-signaling-they-want-to-move-past-tensions/

S2 E3 Podcast Title: District Attorney Ben David Speaks  On July 30, 2006, 34-year-old Allison Jackson Foy is last seen in Wilmington, North Carolina leaving the Junction Billiards Sports Bar where she spent the night drinking with a friend. The bartender calls a cab for Allison, the cab driver shows up at the pub around 2:00 am. Foy never returns home and has not been heard from since. In April 2008, two years after she originally went missing, Allison's body was found in a ravine on a road called Carolina Beach Road.  In this episode of Zone 7, Crime Scene Investigator, Sheryl McCollum, talks with the District Attorney, Ben David, on his experience with the cases of Allison Foy, and “Angela”.  He goes into extensive detail about Michelle's success story regarding the same suspect in Allison's Foy's and Angela's case, and why it took old school police work to do the job. Ultimately, DA Ben David gives much detail as to why it's easy to point the finger at who isn't doing their job…but it takes just enough evidence to prove without a reasonable doubt.  Shownotes:  [0:00] Welcome back to Zone 7, episode three regarding the unsolved case of Allison Foy.  [3:25] Sheryl McCollum gives the listeners a recap of Allison and Angela's unsolved cases  [4:24] Sheryl introduces District Attorney, Ben David to the listeners [4:00] “Your victim today is your suspect, Tomorrow. And your suspect today is your victim, Tomorrow.” John Cross [7:19] Question: Can you walk me through when you first learned about Allison and Angela and how you started piecing it together and what you thought immediately? [8:18] DA Ben David details out another case involving the only suspect, Timothy Ioni and a woman named Sonya (name has been changed for this episode) [9:24] Adverse Childhood Experiences[ [12:35] What is the Al Capone Method?  [14:09] Once Ben David knew what was going on with Timothy Ioni, what were his first action steps? [16:52] DA Ben David tells about the break in the case with suspect Timothy Ioni, and the story of 24 year old Michelle [21:42] The Survivors Act [23:18] “That is old school, boots on the ground, hands on every piece of evidence, type of police work that is just extraordinary.” Sheryl McCollum [24:23] What is Y-STR testing? [39:09] Question: Can you tell us about the verdict in Michelle's case? [40:27] “I've done my best to raise my two boys and get on with my life, he took a piece of me in those woods that I can't give to anyone else anymore.”  Michelle [47:58] “You alone can make the difference in solving a case or getting justice for the victim.” Alice, The Prosecutor's Podcast  [48:17] I'm Cheryl McCollum, and this is Zone 7 Thanks for listening to another episode! If you're loving the show and want to help grow the show, please head over to Itunes and leave a rating and review! How to Leave an Apple Podcast Review: First, Open the podcast app on your iPhone, Mac, or iPad. Then, hit the “Search” tab at the bottom right-hand corner of the page and search for Zone 7. Select the podcast, scroll down to find the subheading “Ratings & Reviews”. and select “Write a Review.” Next, select the number of stars you'd like to leave. Please choose 5 stars! Using the text box which says “Title,” write a title for your review. Then in the text box, write the review itself. The review can be up to 300 words long, but doesn't need to be much more than: “Love the show! Thanks!” or Once you're done select “Send” in the upper right-hand corner.   --- Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award winning CSI, a writer for CrimeOnLine, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. She is the co-author of the textbook., Cold Case: Pathways to Justice. Sheryl is also the founder and director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute, a collaboration between universities and colleges that brings researchers, practitioners, students and the criminal justice community together to advance techniques in solving cold cases and assist families and law enforcement with solvability factors for unsolved homicides, missing persons, and kidnapping cases.   You can connect and learn more about Sheryl's work by visiting the CCIRI website https://coldcasecrimes.org Social Links: Email: coldcase2004@gmail.com Twitter: @ColdCaseTips Facebook: @sheryl.mccollum   -----------------------------DO NOT POST PAST THIS POINT----------------------------See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ben Thompson joins Acquired to discuss the business of Stratechery itself and celebrate 10 years (!) of the internet's best strategy analysis destination. Even beyond Stratechery's enormous impact itself on business and tech over the years, Ben's work inspired a whole generation of business content creators — this show very much included — and it was super special for us to give the Acquired treatment to one of our own heroes. We cover the full history of Ben pioneering the subscription internet media business model (indeed SubStack's seed round pitch was “Stratechery-in-a-box”), and how + why he's evolved the business since and is now doubling down both on podcasting and a broader vision of the Stratechery Plus bundle… including for the first time content not made by Ben himself! Tune in and enjoy. If you want more Acquired, you can follow our public LP Show feed here in the podcast player of your choice (including Spotify!). Sponsors: Thank you to our presenting sponsor for all of Season 11, Fundrise. If you're considering raising a growth round of capital in the next year, you should definitely explore raising some of it with the Fundrise Innovation Fund. Just email notvc@fundrise.com, and tell them Ben & David sent you. And if you're an individual looking for exposure to private growth-stage technology companies, you can invest in the Innovation Fund here. Thank you as well to Pilot and Tiny! Links: John Gruber's Daring Fireball Ben's very first Stratechery post Subscribe to Stratechery Plus ‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

The FTX fraud has dominated headlines now for weeks, during which we've debated if and how Acquired could uniquely add to the conversation. Then we realized there was an angle so perfect that we had to drop everything and enter Acquired research overdrive: Enron. Travel back with us to the granddaddy fraud of them all, 2001's then-largest bankruptcy in US history and the impetus for the famous Sarbanes-Oxley Act. So much of Enron's history parallels FTX that the uncanniness is almost unbelievable — right down to the same CEO running the two bankruptcies. Sit back and enjoy this crazy tale of villainy, greed, and the nature of humans and money. Maybe just don't take notes on this one… If you want more Acquired, you can follow our public LP Show feed here in the podcast player of your choice (including Spotify!). Sponsors: Thank you to our presenting sponsor for all of Season 11, Fundrise. If you're considering raising a growth round of capital in the next year, you should definitely explore raising some of it with the Fundrise Innovation Fund. Just email notvc@fundrise.com, and tell them Ben & David sent you. And if you're an individual looking for exposure to private growth-stage technology companies, you can invest in the Innovation Fund here. Thank you as well to Vanta. Vanta is the leader in automated security compliance – making SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, and more a breeze for startups and organizations of all sizes. Everyone in the Acquired community can get 10% off using this link. And finally thank you also to Pilot! Links: Book Andy Fastow as a speaker for your next corporate event!

Qualcomm, or “Quality Communications” — despite being one of the largest technology companies in the world, few people know the absolutely amazing technological and business history behind it. Seriously, this story is on par with Nvidia, TSMC and all the great semiconductor giants. Without this single fabless company based in San Diego, there's almost no chance you'd be consuming this episode on whatever device you're currently listening on — a fact that enables them to earn an incredible estimated $20 for every new phone sold in the world. We dive into this story live at the perfect venue: our first-ever European live show at Solana's Breakpoint conference in beautiful Lisbon, Portugal! If you want more Acquired, you can follow our public LP Show feed here in the podcast player of your choice (including Spotify!). Links: The Qualcomm Equation Principles of Communications Engineering by Irwin Jacobs and John Wozencraft Episode sources Sponsors: Thank you to our presenting sponsor for all of Season 11, Fundrise! If you're considering raising a growth round of capital in the next year, you should definitely explore raising some of it with the Fundrise Innovation Fund. Just email notvc@fundrise.com, and tell them Ben & David sent you. And if you're an individual looking for exposure to private growth-stage technology companies, you can invest in the Innovation Fund here. Thank you as well to Pilot and to Brex. If you sign up for Brex using this link, Brex and we will send you a free Acquired t-shirt! :) Note: New and existing Brex customers are eligible for this promotion. Promotion runs through December 31, 2022, at 11:59pm PT. To receive an Acquired t-shirt, you must create a free Brex account via brex.com/acquired. Brex terms and conditions apply. If you're an existing customer, send your t-shirt request to helloinfo@acquired.com from your work email. T-shirts will be mailed within 30 days to the address on the Brex account. ‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

Last year reports emerged that the Orthodox Jewish community in Israel anointed Rabbi Yehuda Ben David as the Messiah. Christians have labeled him as the Antichrist. So, according to Bible prophecy, is Yehuda Ben David the Messiah, the Antichrist, or neither?

We sit down with all five current Benchmark GPs for one of their legendary weekly dinners, during which we ask all of the unresolved burning questions from Part 1. How do THEY think about Benchmark v3? What are their day-to-day emotions trying to keep the equal partnership “bending toward greatness? Why is there no growth fund? What does it take to become the next Benchmark GP? Why is there a secret Principal program? We cover all these and much, much more. We also recorded the whole thing on video — which we highly recommend watching even if you normally only listen to the audio feed! If you want more Acquired, you can follow our public LP Show feed here in the podcast player of your choice (including Spotify!). Sponsors: Thank you to our presenting sponsor for all of Season 11, Fundrise! If you're considering raising a growth round of capital in the next year, you should definitely explore raising some of it with the Fundrise Innovation Fund. Just email notvc@fundrise.com, and tell them Ben & David sent you. And if you're an individual looking for exposure to private growth-stage technology companies, you can invest in the Innovation Fund here. Thank you as well to Pilot. ‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

Benchmark Capital. We tell the tale of the legendary equal partnership that accomplished something no other venture firm can claim: twice it has produced the highest returning fund of its cycle, each time with a 100% different GP lineup. If ever there were a playbook for successful generational transfer of a generational-defining venture firm, this is it. We spend 3.5+ hours digging into how the dotcom “eBay eBoys” transformed into the rockstar Fab Four of the Uber, Instagram and Snap mobile gold rush (spoiler: not by a straight line!), and what the future holds for Benchmark's next GP generation. If you're a student of the venture game from any angle — founder, GP, LP, etc — this is a story you need to tune in for! If you want more Acquired, you can follow our public LP Show feed here in the podcast player of your choice (including Spotify!). Sponsors: Thank you to our presenting sponsor for all of Season 11, Fundrise! If you're considering raising a growth round of capital in the next year, you should definitely explore raising some of it with the Fundrise Innovation Fund. Just email notvc@fundrise.com, and tell them Ben & David sent you. And if you're an individual looking for exposure to private growth-stage technology companies, you can invest in the Innovation Fund here. Thank you as well to Pilot and NZS Capital! You can register for the next NZS Talkback here. Links: Benchmark's website circa 1997 Benchmark's website circa 2000 Benchmark's website today Episode sources Carve Outs: Bill Gurley's Runnin' Down a Dream talk Smartless Podcast Mitch Lasky on Invest like the Best Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle ‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

So, how DID an online book retailer end up building the infrastructure layer that powers the entire internet? (Or at least 39% of it, per latest market share data.) While many myths, legends, and some downright falsehoods exist, the real answer to that question deserves a full Acquired episode of its very own. So here it is: the story of Amazon Web Services. Who's got the truth? Tune in and find out. :) If you want more Acquired, you can follow our newly public LP Show feed here in the podcast player of your choice (including Spotify!). Sponsors: Thank you to our presenting sponsor for all of Season 11, Fundrise! If you're considering raising a growth round of capital in the next year, you should definitely explore raising some of it with the Fundrise Innovation Fund. Just email notvc@fundrise.com, and tell them Ben & David sent you. And if you're an individual looking for exposure to private growth-stage technology companies, you can invest in the Innovation Fund here. Thank you as well to Pilot and NZS Capital! You can register for the next NZS Talkback here. Links: Steve Yegge's Platforms Rant (so good!) Ben Thompson on AWS and Snowflake Episode sources Carve Outs: Moon Knight John Carmack on The Lex Fridman Podcast ‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

Amazon. No company has impacted the internet — and all of modern life — more than this one. We've waited seven years to do this episode, and are so, so excited to finally dive into every nook and cranny of this legendary company. And of course because we're Acquired and this is Amazon, we couldn't contain it all to just one episode… even a 4+ hour one! So today we focus on Amazon.com the retail business, and we'll have another full episode on AWS coming soon. And because all great series are trilogies, to fully understand Amazon we highly recommend starting first with our previous episode on Walmart, which truly is the giant's shoulder that Jeff Bezos stood upon. Let's go!! If you want more Acquired, you can follow our newly public LP Show feed here in the podcast player of your choice (including Spotify!). Sponsors: Thank you to our presenting sponsor for all of Season 11, Fundrise! If you're considering raising a growth round of capital in the next year, you should definitely explore raising some of it with the Fundrise Innovation Fund. Just email notvc@fundrise.com, and tell them Ben & David sent you. And if you're an individual looking for exposure to private growth-stage technology companies, you can invest in the Innovation Fund here. Thank you as well to Pilot and NZS Capital! You can register for the NZS Talkback here. Links: Jeff's first public Amazon interview Our early-Acquired-days interview with Tom Alberg Episode sources Carve Outs: Rick Rubin on the Lex Fridman Podcast Ursula Le Guin Dissect Season 2 on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Elden Ring (again) ‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

We kick off Season 11 with the incredible story of the retail “granddaddy of them all” Walmart, and its founder Sam Walton. Once you study Walmart, you realize just how deep its heritage runs through Amazon and so many iconic modern companies we cover on Acquired. This episode was an absolute blast, and we even uncovered a new addendum to the hallowed “focus on what makes your beer taste better” playbook theme! If you want more Acquired, you can follow our newly public LP Show feed here in the podcast player of your choice (including Spotify!). Sponsors: Thank you to our presenting sponsor for all of Season 11, Fundrise! If you're considering raising a growth round of capital in the next year, you should definitely explore raising some of it with the Fundrise Innovation Fund. Just email to notvc@fundrise.com, and tell them Ben & David sent you. And if you're an individual looking for exposure to private growth-stage technology companies, you can invest in the Innovation Fund here. Thank you as well to Pilot and NZS Capital! You can register for the NZS Talkback here. Links: Walmart's 1972 Annual Report Episode sources Carve Outs: Ted Weschler on the Nebraska Furniture Mart podcast!!! Mario Puzo's The Godfather (the book) ‍ Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.