Patrick O'Shaughnessy

How should one think about managing a career in the AI era?

So much of the theme here has been identifying a superpower, having one in the first place, evaluating one, matching it to a problem with a leader and so on.

With your investor hat on and your new firm Marathon, how do you assess the capacity or existence of a superpower in a person?

How have you learned to do that well?

Are there any other questions that you love to ask in a first meeting learning about a company other than tell me your origin story?

The dimension we haven't talked about is the role that, not just the role, but the perspective that being on boards offers.

You're on lots of interesting boards.

The big ones are Coinbase, Pinterest, and Trade Desk.

Maybe from those three, what lessons have you gleaned from being a member of those boards, watching how boards operate, the role that they play, anything else that comes to mind from that unique experience?

I think the only thing we haven't talked about in this grand art of company building and product creation is the job of acquiring the customer, positioning the product, marketing the way it presents itself to the outside world.

What's the dispatch from the cutting edge that you're seeing of how people do this?

I think you might know my traditional closing question that I ask everybody.

What is the kindest thing that anyone's ever done for you?

Koko, this was incredibly fun.

Thank you so much for your time.

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