Eli Rapport
Hi, I’m Eli.
and .
- Wrote lots. Taught 9 year olds and won awards.
- Took freekicks. Played left wing for the PSG Academy.
- Met strangers. Played local + national MTG tournaments.
- Started coding. Hosted hackathons, built community apps.
- Graduated in three years.
- Loved Adversarial ML, Graph Theory, and User Security.
- Started sculpting and making art.
- Did product, swe, and ops at some startups.
Finished school early to build .
- Launched a consumer app: 100k users, 30 states, 5 mos.
- Novel RE tooling.
- Ops tooling.
- Designed office + did lots of physical labor.
Keen to expand abundance + collective knowledge.
Currently learning about deep-tech in LA.
Say hi :) LinkedIn
- Write a book
- Visit Vietnam
- Sell a sculpture
- Be recognized on the street
- Run a marathon
- Do a backflip
- Go to culinary school
- Dunk
- Go to a Beyoncé concert with my dad
![David Friedberg: Entrepreneurship Gives Life Meaning [Entire Talk] — Stanford eCorner](/inspiration/david-friedberg-entrepreneurship-gives-life-meaning-entire.webp)
- Etched - Building AI Hardware to Make Inference Faster and Cheaper — Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy (1h 34m)
- Short Stuff: Artificial Banana Flavor — Stuff You Should Know (13 min)
- 386. How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War — Freakonomics Radio (40 min)
- 677. Can Backgammon Save Us from Ourselves? — Freakonomics Radio (59 min)
- 647. China Is Run by Engineers. America Is Run by Lawyers. — Freakonomics Radio (1h 2m)
- The Prince
- #362 Li Lu — Founders (38 min)
- Trader Joe’s — Acquired (3h 28m)
- IKEA — Acquired (3h 20m)
- Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense — Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy (1h 15m)
- Marc Andreessen - The Battle For Tech Supremacy — Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy (1h 24m)
- Scott Wu - Building Cognition — Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy (1h 12m)
- Gabe Whaley - Building MSCHF — Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy (1h 16m)
- The Insane Productivity of Andrew Ross Sorkin — ACQ2 by Acquired (1h 17m)
- How ARM Became The World’s Default Chip Architecture (with ARM CEO Rene Haas) — ACQ2 by Acquired (1h 14m)
- 20VC Exclusive: Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures — The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) (1h 6m)
- 20VC: Lime's CEO on Going from Losing $3 on Every $1 to $90M in EBITDA — The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) (1h 6m)
- 20VC: Cognition CEO Scott Wu on Acquiring Windsurf: The Process, The Deal, The Rationale — The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) (48 min)
- 20VC: Scaling to $1BN+ in Revenue with No Funding: Surge AI — The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) (1h 6m)
- Max Hodak: Average Is Not Good Enough — Y Combinator
- Why Hardware-Software Co-Design Is AI's Real 100x: Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis — Training Data (1h 10m)
- Inside Zipline's Autonomous System: 140M Miles, Zero Incidents — Training Data (55 min)
- Simulating Humans at Scale: Simile's Joon Sung Park — Training Data (39 min)
- Andrej Karpathy: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering — Training Data (30 min)
- How End-to-End Learning Created Autonomous Driving 2.0: Wayve CEO Alex Kendall — Training Data (42 min)
- OpenAI Researcher Dan Roberts on What Physics Can Teach Us About AI — Training Data (42 min)
- Birthrates Are Plummeting Worldwide. Why? — The Ezra Klein Show (1h 1m)
- What Xi Jinping Wants — The Ezra Klein Show (1h 44m)
- Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space” — Dwarkesh Podcast (2h 50m)
- Episode 85: Introduction to Quantum Field Theory — The Science of Everything Podcast (1h 6m)
- All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
- Lecture 14 - How to Operate (Keith Rabois) — YC Root Access
- Claire Hughes Johnson: Former COO of Stripe — Molly Mielke McCarthy (43 min)
- Cheeky Pint
- Peter Thiel: Going from Zero to One — Chicago Ideas
- David Friedberg: Entrepreneurship Gives Life Meaning [Entire Talk] — Stanford eCorner
- Keith Rabois on How to Find and Grow Talent — Lattice
- The First Principles Method Explained by Elon Musk — Innomind
- 3X Your Referral Rates — Sequoia Capital (4 min read)
- A Little Bit of Slope Makes Up For a Lot of Y-Intercept — John Ousterhout
- Can You Choose Your Personality? — John Ousterhout
- For Major (Non-Technical) Decisions, Trust Your Gut — John Ousterhout
- Do Your Disasters Make You Weaker or Stronger? — John Ousterhout
- The Reasonable Person Principle — John Ousterhout
- Does Truth Matter? — John Ousterhout
- Simplicity — John Ousterhout
- The Most Important Component of Evolution is Death — John Ousterhout
- Scar Tissue Makes Relationships Wear Out — John Ousterhout
- Fear is More Dangerous than Evil — John Ousterhout
- Sumer Sao
- Sohan Vichare
- Baltazar Josue Boleto
- Daisy Dai
- Tobias Worledge
- Aden Solomon
- Diego Scanlon
- Colin Flaherty
- Oscar Chen
- Adam Aldad
- E1084: David Sacks on his foolproof operating philosophy: “The Cadence” — This Week in Startups
- Jedd Horowitz
- Andrew Scott Cohen
- Jake Taylor
- Josh Messitte
- Robotics' End Game: Nvidia's Jim Fan — Sequoia Capital
- Roller Coasters! | Max Levchin & Keith Rabois — Khosla Ventures
- How To Live Longer Than 99% Of Humanity. — Bryan Johnson
- AlphaGo - The Movie | Full award-winning documentary — Google DeepMind
- Paul Graham On Startups, Ambition, and Great Founders — Y Combinator
- Inside Shopify's AI strategy with CTO Mikhail Parakhin — Claude
- Blitzscaling 11: Patrick Collison on Hiring at Stripe and the Role of a Product-Focused CEO — Greylock
- Patrick Collison on Claude Code at Stripe — Claude
- Sam Altman in conversation with Patrick Collison — Stripe
- AI agents: it's the harness, not the model — Mark Ajzenstadt (2 min read)
- What product looks like when coding is solved — Lenny's Podcast
- How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI — Lenny's Podcast
- Art Direction Techniques You Can Use — Jason Murray
- Lessons on Creativity with Rick Rubin — Glo
- Kendrick Lamar & Rick Rubin Have an Epic Conversation — GQ
- How to run your product team like a research lab — Lenny's Podcast
- Vercel CEO reveals his Agentic Engineering Workflow — David Ondrej
- When to Build Your Own Agent Harness — Sequoia Capital
- Rick Rubin on Finding Your Life’s Work — David Senra
- The Courage to Design — Bob Baxley
- 30 Years of Business Advice in 13 Minutes (from a Billionaire) — Chamath Palihapitiya
- Oklou
- MSCHF
- Vsauce
- Lenny's Podcast
- Do these 3 things and your year will be different — Jesse Itzler
- comma.ai leaderboard — comma.ai
- Scale by Geoffrey West
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
- The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
- The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
- The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
- In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
- The Usual Suspects by Bryan Singer
- Argo by Ben Affleck
- Knives Out by Rian Johnson
- Coraline by Henry Selick
- Fantastic Mr. Fox by Wes Anderson
- Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino
- The Nightmare Before Christmas by Henry Selick
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off by John Hughes
- Moneyball by Bennett Miller
- hi: its jason :)
- ethan: hey there