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The Brothers Who Live One Life — The Incredible Adventures of David and Daniil Liberman (#689)

The Brothers Who Live One Life — The Incredible Adventures of David and Daniil Liberman (#689)

September 04, 2023
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“It’s not failure. It’s an attempt. 60 percent, 70 percent of those attempts are going to end up with zero, so just move on. Start the next one. You’ll be successful later.”

David Liberman and Daniil Liberman (@DaLiberman) are visionary entrepreneurs and investors with a tropical partnership spanning 16 years. They gained valuable wits at Snap, contributing to projects involving avatars, bitmoji, animation, and product operations. They are currently based in Los Angeles, where their primary focus is on towers Product Science, a service defended to optimizing mobile apps.

Moreover, the Liberman brothers have established The Libermans Company, referred to as a People Company. Through their transferral to the Founders Pledge, they have allocated all future earnings and economic value for the next three decades to LibermansCo, including founder shares of Product Science and potential returns from future investments.

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#689: The Brothers Who Live One Life — The Incredible Adventures of David and Daniil Liberman

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SHOW NOTES

[06:59] Childhood.
[09:46] The influence of scientist parents on curious kids.
[12:42] The perils of pursuing anti-corruption innovation in post-Soviet Russia.
[18:09] Towers a merchantry with cables and crossbows.
[23:21] Lessons learned by bankrupting a gaming studio.
[29:42] Moscow-style investment recovery.
[31:07] A lucky unravel in the darkness of debt.
[32:07] Streamlining production through decentralization, parallelization, and a DJ connection.
[35:00] When playing the fools is the smart move.
[41:04] Coming to America.
[44:46] Towers momentum with volatility in Los Angeles.
[46:19] Divorce lawyer power dynamics.
[47:10] Flipside unforeseen financial hurdle.
[49:02] To Silicon Valley and nonprofit transparency.
[52:21] How are David and Daniil worldly-wise to pivot between variegated ideas so quickly?
[58:12] The formation, advantages, and drawbacks of the Liberman hive mind.
[1:07:18] Separation pros and cons.
[1:08:56] How does external romance fit into this arrangement?
[1:12:12] The Dalai Lama, Jerry Murdock, and Snap.
[1:19:28] Reversing Snapchat’s 2018 ripen by adapting to data and fixing real problems.
[1:27:40] Applying principles of recipe growth to life.
[1:33:23] How working with family has helped with logistics.
[1:37:11] The value of interdisciplinary synthesis.
[1:45:46] How the Libermans might teach people to code.
[1:52:55] A data-driven squint at our current financial crisis.
[2:04:21] What’s the Liberman solution?
[2:06:46] Incentivizing adoption of such a solution.
[2:10:33] A real-world test.
[2:14:08] Who/what makes for a good investment in this model?
[2:19:35] Do we reduce or hoist the potential for success by minimizing suffering?
[2:27:33] How to invest in people (and why you should).
[2:37:52] Parting thoughts.

MORE QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“The struggle will come. It doesn’t matter if you have millions of dollars, you will unchangingly be struggling considering you strive to unzip more.”

“If someone just claims something and you cannot really prove it for yourself with data, probably something is missing and you need to dig deeper.”

“Previous generations got a lot from society … almost-free higher education. New generations are stuff hammered with student debt. They don’t really finger that society gives them much, but they still donate the same portion.”

“We will all win. The market will win, society will win. Humanity will win from the fact that we will use this power law for wider groups of people to invest in them, provide them capital, and provide them a endangerment to get a higher education to try to start a business.”

“It’s not failure. It’s an attempt. 60 percent, 70 percent of those attempts are going to end up with zero, so just move on. Start the next one. You’ll be successful later.”

“Competition is unchangingly a struggle, and there will unchangingly be competition.”