Divot
by Derek Andersen
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About this podcast
Divot brings you weekly conversations with the people building the future—founders, creators, athletes, and visionaries pushing the limits of business, technology, sports, and entertainment.
We go beyond success stories to explore the real moments that define a journey—the risks, the failures, the breakthroughs, and the lessons that can help you on your path.
Stories of people making their mark, and how you can too.
New episodes every Wednesday.
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Episodes
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- The Cost of Living for Other People’s Approval & How to Find Your Own Direction · 49 minPatrick Drake is a chef, entrepreneur, and former Clifford Chance lawyer who traded corporate law for professional kitchens. He worked at Heston Blumenthal’s The Fat Duck and…
- Blackbox AI’s Bet: Cheaper AI Without Giving Up Privacy · 1 h 5 minRobert and Richard Rizk co-founded Blackbox AI with their brother Roger, taking a coding search engine into enterprise AI infrastructure. The engineers are tackling a problem…
- The $1B Startup Betting on Software’s Next Users: AI Agents · 1 h 1 minIvan Burazin is the co-founder and CEO of Daytona, the AI infrastructure company building computers for AI agents. His 16-person engineering team rebuilt its product with a…
- Ex-Facebook Engineer & Former Dropbox CTO: Is the Superintelligence Era Here? · 50 minAditya Agarwal helped build early Facebook and scaled Dropbox’s engineering team from 25 to 1,000. The former Dropbox CTO is now a General Partner at South Park Commons, a…
- Steve Young: Why Super Bowls Don’t Define His Legacy & How He Measures a Successful Life · 1 h 7 min · Season 2 Episode 51Steve Young is a Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback, two-time NFL MVP, and Super Bowl MVP who threw six touchdown passes to lead the San Francisco 49ers to victory in Super…
- How Google X Makes Radical Innovation Repeatable by Rewarding Intelligent Failure · 56 min · Season 2 Episode 50Astro Teller is the entrepreneur, AI scientist, and Captain of Moonshots who has led X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory, for more than 15 years. Under his leadership, X helped…
- From His Darkest Moment to 50M Followers: How MDMotivator Turned Pain Into Purpose · 1 h 12 min · Season 2 Episode 49Zachery Dereniowski, better known as MDMotivator, left medical school after the pandemic, a devastating breakup, a torn ACL, and crushing isolation pushed him to the lowest point…
- The Lean Startup's Creator on Why Good Companies Go Bad & How to Make Yours Incorruptible · 45 min · Season 2 Episode 48Eric Ries created the Lean Startup methodology and wrote "The Lean Startup," a New York Times bestseller that has sold more than a million copies in over 30 languages, teaching a…
- The Modern Dating Problem No One Is Actually Talking About Honestly - Shark Tank Dating Coach · 1 h 27 min · Season 2 Episode 47Blaine Anderson is the Shark Tank dating coach for men who built Dating by Blaine from a COVID-forced career pivot into a company with 7,000 clients and over 1 million followers…
- #61: He Built Apple's First Computers for $3 an Hour. Steve Jobs Never Gave Him Stock · 59 min · Season 2 Episode 46Daniel Kottke met Steve Jobs at Reed College in 1972, traveled with him to India, and spent the summer of 1976 hand-assembling the very first Apple computers in the Jobs family…
- #60: Grant Cardone: The Mindset That Built $4 Billion From Zero & Why Ambition Is a Moral Obligation · 1 h 13 min · Season 2 Episode 45Grant Cardone grew up in the bayous of Louisiana with no money, no connections, and no plan, and spent a decade battling drug addiction before rebuilding from scratch. Today, his…
- #59: Mark Manson: 20 Million Books, an AI Startup, and Why Most Therapists Don't Actually Help · 1 h 27 min · Season 2 Episode 44Mark Manson is a three-time NYT number one bestselling author whose book "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck" has sold more than 20 million copies across 65 languages, hitting…
- #58: Greg Isenberg on AI Co-Founders, the Multi-Preneur, and Why Anyone Can Build a Startup Now · 1 h 1 min · Season 2 Episode 43Greg Isenberg is the entrepreneur and AI strategist behind Late Checkout, a portfolio of AI-native businesses powered by agents and online communities. He founded FiveBuy…
- #57: Choose Rich’s Nick O’Neill on Cancer, Crypto, Going Viral & Building a Million-Dollar Brand · 1 h 0 min · Season 2 Episode 42Nick O’Neill is the entrepreneur, software developer, and creator behind Choose Rich, the provocative online character that transformed crypto commentary, luxury satire, and…
- #56: Pixar’s Ed Catmull on Steve Jobs, Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Up & Building Creative Teams · 1 h 50 min · Season 2 Episode 41Ed Catmull co-founded Pixar and helped build the creative engine behind some of the most beloved films of the last 30 years, including Toy Story, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles…
- #55: The Best Lessons From 50+ Divot Conversations | Special Recap · 31 min · Season 2 Episode 40After more than 50 episodes of Divot, Derek Andersen celebrates conversations that have inspired, educated, and reached millions. This special recap features Doug Leone, former…
- #54: The Human Data Engine Training Smarter AI Models | Micro1 CEO · 55 min · Season 2 Episode 39Ali Ansari is the founder and CEO of Micro1, the human data engine helping AI labs train foundational models and enterprises build better AI agents. With more than 5M people…
- #53 Part 2: Charlie Rocket on Manifesting Backwards, Winning Streaks & Making Impossible Dreams Real · 40 min · Season 2 Episode 38Charlie Rocket believes your dream may already be done; time just has not caught up yet. In Part 2 of this conversation, the Dream Machine Foundation founder explains how the…
- #53: Brain Tumor, Losing 120 Pounds & Becoming a Nike Athlete: Charlie’s Delusional Optimism Formula · 1 h 1 min · Season 2 Episode 37Charlie Rocket helped create major cultural moments in hip hop, working with artists like 2 Chainz, contributing to Grammy-winning campaigns, winning an Emmy, and managing some…
- #52: He Built a 22M Media Empire by Interviewing Tom Cruise, Shaq, Brady & 52 Billionaires · 23 min · Season 2 Episode 36James Dumoulin built School of Hard Knocks into a 22M-follower business media empire by turning street interviews into a new form of financial education. By 23, he had…
