Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Talk to me about thought experiments and the role of thought experiments in your life.

What formative experience comes most easily to mind prior to age 16?

Yeah, you're doing my job for me.

You got to tell us about the electric meetings.

What are the components?

This is what they're made of.

This is their DNA.

What, if anything, about business are you interested in that you feel like you haven't yet figured out?

And I would like to get better at it.

A related question is the key to getting the most out of someone.

Everyone has something to offer.

It varies person to person, both in type and degree.

What is the best way to get the most out of people?

in business, how about paying them well?

People will do things they didn't even know they were capable of doing.

What do you want now?

You're someone that has done a lot of thinking big, a lot of moving fast, had a lot of success as a result of those two things across a lot of industries.

You strike me as someone that's not going to stop or slow down.

So what do you want?

What do you still want?