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Ray Dalio
Hedge Fund Billionaire
Ray Dalio appears on the Lex Fridman Podcast across artificial intelligence, startups & business, politics. Lex describes Ray Dalio as hedge fund billionaire.
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2025
1 appearance
Nikhil Kamath / December 20, 2025 / Episode #5
WTF Is Wealth? Ray Dalio Breaks It Down w/ Nikhil Kamath | WTF is Finance Ep 2
Wealth can be created easily — but that doesn’t mean it’s real.
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What actually counts as a store of wealth (beyond gold & crypto)
What actually counts as a store of wealth (beyond gold & crypto)
2021
1 appearance
Lex Fridman Podcast / December 25, 2021 / Episode #251
Ray Dalio: Money, Power, and the Collapse of Empires
Ray Dalio is an investor, author, and founder of Bridgewater Associates.
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Collapse of the American Empire
Ray Dalio and Lex Fridman discuss collapse of the american empire.
2019
1 appearance
Lex Fridman Podcast / December 2, 2019 / Episode #0
Ray Dalio: Principles, the Economic Machine, Artificial Intelligence & the Arc of Life
Ray Dalio is the founder, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world's largest and most successful investment firms that is famous for the principles of radical truth and transparency that underlie its culture. Ray is one of the wealthiest people in the world, with ideas that extend far beyond the specifics of how he made that wealth. His ideas, applicable to everyone, are brilliantly summarized in his book Principles.
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Ray Dalio is the founder, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world's largest and most successful investment firms that is famous for the principles of radical truth and transparency that underlie its culture. Ray is one of the wealthiest people in the world, with ideas that extend far beyond the specifics of how he made that wealth. His ideas, applicable to everyone, are brilliantly summarized in his book Principles.
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Ray Dalio
Hedge Fund Billionaire
Ray Dalio appears on the Lex Fridman Podcast across artificial intelligence, startups & business, politics. Lex describes Ray Dalio as hedge fund billionaire.
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3
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December 2, 2019 to December 20, 2025
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