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Joe Lonsdale: American Optimist
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Today: #164 in Technology on our combined chart.
Today: #134 in Technology, Japan on our combined chart.
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts | Castbox |
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| Oct 21 | #134 | #142 | #98 |
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American Optimist, hosted by Joe Lonsdale: entrepreneur, investor, and founder of four multi-billion dollar companies and other mission-driven organizations. American Optimist is an alternative to the fear, cynicism, and zero-sum thinking in mainstream media. Learn from the innovators and leaders who are solving our nation’s most pressing challenges, and doing it in a way that will lift everyone up. Hope should dominate our discourse, and American Optimist will show you why.
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