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Loic Le Meur is a seven-times entrepreneur. He has invested in one hundred startups. Loic is the co-founder of PAUA, a conscious conference, and community. He is a Sundancer who trained with the Yawanawa tribe in the Amazon forest.

What we talked about…

• Loic’s Newsletter & Podcast. loic.substack.com
• On becoming a father again at fifty.
• Growing up in Southern France near Spain. 
• Loic was inspired by his parents, who sold sailboats. He’s worked for himself since he was twenty-three when he started a website agency in 1996. 
• On managing one hundred employees.
• He started the LeWeb conference in 2003 about blogging.
• The early days of online communication from bulletin board systems (BBS) to CB radios.
• All Marketers Are Liars by Seth Godin.
• Lying by Sam Harris.
• On honesty in business and life.
• Seesmic, Loic’s early video social network. 
• PAUA community and conference, at the crossroads of business, consciousness, and spirituality.
• What Loic learned on a one-year, solo, silent retreat in the Amazon forest and his experiences with ayahuasca. 
• On worrying and stress. 
• Read The Mysticism of Sound and Music by Hazrat Inayat Khan and Not in His Image by John Lamb Lash.
• Contact Loic at loic.substack.com

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