Episode · This Week in Startups · 2026-06-27
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Lon Harris discussed The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Vampire Lestat
Discussed“and then Anne Rice later wrote a novel where it was like Lasat the vampire that Tom Cruz played in the movie uh he survives because he's a vampire so he's alive forever.”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Thinking in Bets
“So, when he gets dragged in front of Congress, he said, "Oh, I was just teaching people how to think in bet." Shout out Andy Duke. Great book, great philosophy.”
Passing Interview With the Vampire
“They had a show on AMC the last few years. So they did two seasons where they adapted Anne Rice's classic Interview with the Vampire”
Passing The Queen of the Damned
“It's crazy like the the the journey that this show has made from doing the original vampire interview with the vampire stuff like the movie to now being this like rock and roll band touring but they're vampires like it it they made a movie Queen of the Damned out of this book many years ago, but now they're redoing”