From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) — Cyan Banister

Icahn: The Restless Billionaire

HBO (inferred)

“if somebody wants a great documentary watch icon the Restless billionaire if you want to see what like super Hardball activist investing looks like”— Tim Ferriss

Magic Glasses

Frank Harris (inferred)

“a weird short story called magic glasses by Frank... so I highly recommend reading this story it's fantastic”— Cyan Banister

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera (inferred)

“it features quite heavily in the unbearable lightness of being by Milan Kera who which I highly highly recommend to folks”— Tim Ferriss

The Matrix

“it's the same concept that was explored in The Matrix and in in lots of different Fiction it's just to wake up”— Cyan Banister

The Dharma Bums

Jack Kerouac (inferred)

“he read Jack carak or something I was just gonna say like Dharma bums or something yeah he probably just read Dharma bums”— Tim Ferriss

Buffalo Exchange

“I would go in and find items that I could sell to Buffalo Exchange or I could take to a bookstore”— Cyan Banister

Ingress

Niantic (inferred)

“Chris Collins that met me and showed me a computer started playing a game called Ingress and Ingress was this early game that came out of Google”— Cyan Banister

Zendesk

“she didn't have anybody to help her set up her support system and I knew how to set up Zen desk so I went in and set it up”— Cyan Banister

AngelList

“I went to angelist had just started and we they were allowing syndications and I wanted to Syndicate this deal”— Cyan Banister

Tesla

“we've seen this play out with Tesla in terms of launching higher priced vehicles and then using that to subsidize the development of the lower cost Vehicles”— Tim Ferriss

Twitch

“after that twitch took off but they didn't have the right tools or the right anything to be a twitch”— Cyan Banister

Discord

“twitch didn't exist Discord didn't exist none of that stuff existed there were webcam sites”— Cyan Banister

Myspace

“let's put this in perspective there was Myspace was a thing still Facebook came out and was sort of On The Rise”— Cyan Banister

HQ Trivia

“I learned this interestingly with another company HQ trivia which would I would argue is a much bigger disaster and failure”— Cyan Banister

OnlyFans

“zivid actually which only fans has figured out and a lot of these other platforms figured out is it's about not about the content at all”— Cyan Banister

Patreon

“later on patreon figured out it's called patronage and Kickstarter figured out it's called backing somebody”— Cyan Banister

Kickstarter

“later on patreon figured out it's called patronage and Kickstarter figured out it's called backing somebody”— Cyan Banister

Suicide Girls

“a competitor which became a friendly competitor of mine called suicide girls that had launched and I tried to start zivid before suicide girls even”— Cyan Banister

OpenTable

“maybe we we hone in on a talian like... we basically put Italian into Open Table we roll the dice whatever it lands on we committed”— Cyan Banister

My Life and Loves

Frank Harris (inferred)

“he wrote one of the smuttiest books of the time called my life and loves which was banned worldwide and it was an account of every single sexual encounter”— Cyan Banister

Random

Penn Jillette (inferred)

“my friend pendulette who's who's a magician wrote a book called random at the exact same time and that book is a bit graphic”— Cyan Banister

The Razor's Edge

W. Somerset Maugham (inferred)

“I started watching this movie called The Razor's Edge which is based off of a novel by Somerset mom”— Cyan Banister

The Razor's Edge

Bill Murray (inferred)

“there's a version that Bill Murray did... it explores all of these ideas around gf's philosophy around suffering and what suffering is”— Cyan Banister

Ghostbusters II

“I believe that he agreed to make Ghostbusters too in exchange for them making this movie that he wrote The Razor's Edge”— Cyan Banister

Groundhog Day

“Alinsky wrote a book called I think it's called The Curious Case of Ivan oin which is what Groundhog Day is based off of”— Cyan Banister

Caddyshack

“I hadn't seen groundhog Bay I hadn't seen catty Shack I hadn't seen any of these movies”— Cyan Banister

What About Bob?

“What About Bob I hope I so what about Bob oh are these hands shocked”— Cyan Banister

The Man Who Knew Too Little

“The Man Who Knew Too Little Broken flowers like I watched them all and I realized that this is an artist”— Cyan Banister

Broken Flowers

“The Man Who Knew Too Little Broken flowers like I watched them all and I realized that this is an artist”— Cyan Banister

American Beauty

“another movie that actually really helped me in my life was the movie American Beauty with Kevin spacy”— Cyan Banister

Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

G. I. Gurdjieff (inferred)

“There's a book that he has called Basel buubs Tales to his grandson”— Cyan Banister

The Curious Case of Ivan Osokin

P. D. Ouspensky (inferred)

“alinsky's the uh The Curious Case of Ivan oakin is about a guy who falls in love with a girl but he has to pursue his career”— Cyan Banister

In the Air Tonight

Phil Collins (inferred)

“this song comes on over the loudspeakers... it was Phil Collins I Can Feel It In the Air Tonight”— Cyan Banister