Cliff Sosin - Investing in Carvana - [Invest Like the Best, EP.421]
Tue, 29 Apr 2025
My guest today is Cliff Sosin. Cliff is the founder of CAS Investment Partners, a fund he started wi...
Cyan Banister - Investing for a Higher Purpose - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]
Fri, 25 Apr 2025
Welcome to this classic episode. Classics are my favorite episodes from the past 10 years, published...
Matt Huang - Investing At The Frontier - [Invest Like the Best, EP.420]
Tue, 22 Apr 2025
My guest today is Matt Huang, co-founder of Paradigm, a leading crypto investment firm with over $12...
Neil Mehta - Finding Future S&P 500 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.419]
Tue, 15 Apr 2025
Today's guest is Neil Mehta, founder of Greenoaks Capital. In 2012, aged 27, Neil left D.E. Shaw to ...
Michael Ovitz - Turning Potential into Prominence - [Invest Like the Best, EP.418]
Tue, 08 Apr 2025
My guest today is Michael Ovitz. Michael is the legendary talent agent and Co-Founder of CAA or Crea...
Darren Farber - The Business of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, EP.417]
Tue, 01 Apr 2025
My guest today is Darren Farber. Darren is a Managing Partner of Albion River, a private direct inve...
Josh Kushner - Building Thrive Capital - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]
Fri, 28 Mar 2025
Welcome to this classic episode. Classics are my favorite episodes from the past 10 years published ...
Gili Raanan - Cybersecurity Investment Playbook - [Invest Like the Best, EP416]
Tue, 25 Mar 2025
My guest today is Gili Raanan. Gili is the founder of Cyberstarts, a VC firm focused on cybersecurit...
Alex Wiltschko - Giving Computers A Sense Of Smell - [Invest Like the Best, EP.415]
Tue, 18 Mar 2025
My guest today is Alex Wiltschko. Alex is the founder and CEO of Osmo, a science and technology comp...
Kelly Granat - Investing At Lone Pine - [Invest Like the Best, EP.414]
Tue, 11 Mar 2025
My guest today is Kelly Granat. Kelly is the Co-Chief Investment Officer and Managing Director at Lo...
Devon Zuegel: How To Create A New Town - [Invest Like the Best, EP.413]
Tue, 04 Mar 2025
Devon Zuegel: How To Create A New Town - [Invest Like the Best, EP.413] My guest today is Devon Zueg...
Doug Leone - Lessons from a Titan - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]
Fri, 28 Feb 2025
Welcome to this classic episode. Classics are my favorite episodes from the past 10 years published ...
Chris Pedregal - Building Granola - [Invest Like the Best, EP.412]
Tue, 25 Feb 2025
My guest today is Chris Pedregal. Chris is the founder and CEO of Granola, an AI-powered notepad tha...
Ravi Gupta - AI or Die - [Invest Like the Best, EP.411]
Tue, 18 Feb 2025
My guest today is Ravi Gupta. Ravi is a Partner at Sequoia Capital and a host on Glue Guys, a podcas...
Marc Andreessen - The Battle For Tech Supremacy - [Invest Like the Best, EP.410]
Tue, 11 Feb 2025
My guest today is Marc Andreessen. Marc is a co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Va...
Graham Duncan - Talent Whisperer - [Invest Like the Best, EP.409]
Tue, 04 Feb 2025
My guest today is Graham Duncan. This conversation will make you think about your life in new ways. ...
Blake Hall - Combat, Service, and Innovation - [Invest Like the Best, EP.408]
Tue, 28 Jan 2025
My guest today is Blake Hall. Blake is the co-founder and CEO of ID.me, a secure digital identity ne...
Dylan Field - Designing The Future - [Invest Like the Best, EP.407]
Tue, 21 Jan 2025
My guest today is Dylan Field. Dylan is the co-founder and CEO of Figma and last joined me on Invest...
Tal Zaks - Bridging Science, Medicine, and Returns - [Invest Like the Best, EP.406]
Tue, 14 Jan 2025
My guest today is Tal Zaks. Tal is a physician-scientist turned biotech executive and investor who s...
Gaurav Misra & Dwight Churchill - Building Captions - [Invest Like the Best, EP.405]
Tue, 07 Jan 2025
My guests today are Dwight Churchill and Gaurav Misra, co-founders of Captions, which uses AI to gen...
Jack Kokko - Building AlphaSense - [Invest Like the Best, EP.404]
Tue, 31 Dec 2024
My guest today is Jack Kokko. Jack is the CEO and Founder of AlphaSense, an AI-powered search engine...
Jared Kushner - The Mechanic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.403]
Fri, 20 Dec 2024
My guest today is Jared Kushner. Jared has lived more lives than just about anyone I know his age. H...
Scott Wu - Building Cognition - [Invest Like the Best, EP.402]
Tue, 17 Dec 2024
My guest today is Scott Wu. Scott is the co-founder and CEO of Cognition, which is an applied AI lab...
Micky Malka - Building Ribbit - [Invest Like the Best, EP.401]
Tue, 10 Dec 2024
My guest today is Micky Malka. Micky is the founder of Ribbit Capital, a global venture capital firm...
Chetan Puttagunta and Modest Proposal - Capital, Compute & AI Scaling - [Invest Like the Best, EP.400]
Fri, 06 Dec 2024
My guests today are Chetan Puttagunta and Modest Proposal. Chetan is a General Partner at venture fi...
Ronnie Fieg - Building Kith - [Invest Like the Best, EP.399]
Tue, 03 Dec 2024
My guest today is Ronnie Fieg, founder and CEO of Kith. At age 13, Ronnie started working at David Z...
Gabe Whaley - Building MSCHF - [Invest Like the Best, EP.398]
Tue, 26 Nov 2024
My guest today is Gabe Whaley, the founder and CEO of MSCHF. What began with viral internet pranks i...
Brad Jacobs - Think Big and Move Fast - [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]
Fri, 22 Nov 2024
Today, we are replaying my conversation with Brad Jacobs. Brad’s resumé is remarkable. He has fou...
Ernie Garcia - Leading Through Crisis - [Invest Like the Best, EP.397]
Tue, 12 Nov 2024
My guest today is Ernie Garcia. Ernie is the co-founder and CEO of Carvana. Ernie joined me on Found...
Andrew Homan & Chris Miller - Redefining Semiconductor Progress - [Invest Like the Best, EP.396]
Tue, 05 Nov 2024
My guests today are Andrew Homan and Chris Miller. Andrew has spent two decades at Maverick Capital ...
Boyd Varty - Becoming A Meaning Maker - [Invest Like the Best, EP.395]
Tue, 29 Oct 2024
My guest today is Boyd Varty. Boyd is a lion tracker, life coach, and storyteller who grew up in the...
Tobi Lütke - Building Islands of Innovation - [Invest Like the Best, EP.394]
Tue, 22 Oct 2024
My guest today is Tobi Lutke, the co-founder and CEO of Shopify. I have spoken to Tobi on this podca...
Matt Perelman & Alex Sloane - The Art of Franchise Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.393]
Tue, 15 Oct 2024
My guests today are Matt Perelman and Alex Sloane, Co-founders and Managing Partners of Garnett Stat...
Kareem Zaki - Small Ideas Attract Competition - [Invest Like the Best, EP.392]
Tue, 08 Oct 2024
My guest today is Kareem Zaki. Kareem is a General Partner at Thrive Capital and has been at the fir...
Ray Ozzie - The Future of Intelligent Machines - [Invest Like the Best, EP.391]
Tue, 01 Oct 2024
My guest today is Ray Ozzie, one of the great technologists, software developers, and entrepreneurs ...
Ted Seides - Investment Industry Paradigms - [Invest Like the Best, EP.390]
Thu, 26 Sep 2024
My guest today is Ted Seides. Ted is the host of the Capital Allocators podcast and an investment in...
Lulu Meservey - Transforming Company Narrative - [Invest Like the Best, EP.389]
Tue, 24 Sep 2024
My guest today is Lulu Meservey. Lulu is the Founder and CEO of Rostra, a company that partners with...
Ric Elias - The Art of Living Well - [Invest Like the Best, EP.388]
Tue, 17 Sep 2024
My guest today is Ric Elias. Ric is the CEO and co-founder of Red Ventures, which has a portfolio of...
Alex Smith, Shane Battier, & Ravi Gupta - What Makes A Glue Guy? - [Invest Like the Best, EP.387]
Tue, 10 Sep 2024
This week's episode is special because it marks the launch of a new Colossus show: Glue Guys. My gu...
Bret Taylor - The Agent Era - [Invest Like the Best, EP.386]
Tue, 03 Sep 2024
My guest today is Bret Taylor. His resume is absurd. He built google maps--famously rewriting the wh...
Gavin Baker - AI, Semiconductors, and the Robotic Frontier - [Invest Like the Best, EP.385]
Tue, 27 Aug 2024
My guest this week is Gavin Baker. Gavin is the managing partner and CIO of Atreides Management, and...
A Conversation with Charlie Munger & John Collison - [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]
Tue, 20 Aug 2024
Today, we’re replaying a conversation between John Collison and Charlie Munger that we first aired...
Vlad Tenev - Navigating Robinhood's Evolution - [Invest Like the Best, EP.384]
Tue, 13 Aug 2024
My guest today is Vlad Tenev. Vlad is the CEO and co-founder of Robinhood. It was such a treat to si...
Sarah Guo - The Power of Conviction - [Invest Like the Best, EP.383]
Tue, 06 Aug 2024
My guest today is Sarah Guo. Sarah is the founder and CEO of Conviction, an early-stage venture capi...
Hemant Taneja - Engineering Global Resilience - [Invest Like the Best, EP.382]
Wed, 31 Jul 2024
My guest today is Hemant Taneja. Hemant is the CEO and Managing Director of General Catalyst, the gl...
Jeremy Giffon - Special Situations in Private Markets - [Invest Like the Best, Replay]
Tue, 23 Jul 2024
Today we are replaying one of our most popular episodes from last year with Jeremy Giffon. I spend a...
David Senra - Passion & Pain - [Invest Like the Best, Replay]
Tue, 16 Jul 2024
Today, we are replaying what we call a forever episode, which are the few episodes of our show that ...
Martin Casado - Entering Uncharted AI Territory - [Invest Like the Best, EP.381]
Tue, 09 Jul 2024
My guest today is Martin Casado. Martin is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and first joined me on I...
Modest Proposal - AI Commoditization and Capital Dynamics - [Invest Like the Best, EP.380]
Tue, 02 Jul 2024
My guest today is Modest Proposal, joining me for our third conversation and the first in a few year...
Robert Greene - Optimizing Your Reality - [Invest Like the Best, EP.379]
Tue, 25 Jun 2024
My guest today is Robert Greene, author of many books but perhaps most famous for his books "48 Laws...
Pat Grady - Relentless Application of Force - [Invest Like the Best, EP.378]
Tue, 18 Jun 2024
My guest today is Pat Grady, a longtime growth investor at Sequoia and one of the firms senior leade...
Frank Blake - Leading By Example - [Invest Like the Best, EP.377]
Tue, 11 Jun 2024
My guest today is Frank Blake. Frank is the former chairman and CEO of Home Depot. I recently interv...
Adam Sandow - The Power of Print Media - [Invest Like the Best, EP.376]
Tue, 04 Jun 2024
My guest today is Adam Sandow. Adam is the chairman and CEO of SANDOW Companies and the executive ch...
Howie Liu - Building Airtable - [Invest Like the Best, EP.375]
Tue, 28 May 2024
My guest today is Howie Liu. Howie is the co-founder and CEO of Airtable, a no-code app platform tha...
Mark Groden - The Future of Flying - [Invest Like the Best, EP.374]
Tue, 21 May 2024
My guest today is Mark Groden. Mark is the Founder and CEO of Skyryse, a company on a mission to mak...
Dev Ittycheria - The Database Evolution - [Invest Like the Best, EP.373]
Tue, 14 May 2024
My guest today is Dev Ittycheria. Dev is the CEO of MongoDB, the developer data platform with tens o...
Nico Wittenborn - Finding the Adjacent Possible - [Invest Like the Best, EP.372]
Tue, 07 May 2024
My guest today is Nico Wittenborn. Nico is the founder of Adjacent, a venture firm that looks for wh...
Mitch Rales: The Art of Compounding - [Art of Investing, Forever Episode]
Thu, 02 May 2024
We are excited to share a great conversation with Mitch Rales, the co-founder of Danaher and one of ...
Marc Lasry - Making Bucks in Credit and Sports - [Invest Like the Best, EP.371]
Tue, 30 Apr 2024
My guest this week is Marc Lasry. Marc is a pioneer of distressed debt investing and the CEO of Aven...
Bill Gurley & Michael Mauboussin - Putting Theory into Practice - [Invest Like the Best, EP.370]
Tue, 23 Apr 2024
My guests today are Bill Gurley and Michael Mauboussin. Bill is a General Partner at Benchmark, and ...
Tim Ferriss - Curating Curiosities - [Invest Like the Best, EP.369]
Tue, 16 Apr 2024
My guest today is Tim Ferriss. Tim is a writer, podcaster, and investor. He has written five best-se...
Ken Langone - The American Dream - [Invest Like the Best, EP.368]
Tue, 09 Apr 2024
My guest today is Ken Langone. Ken is a legendary American businessman best known for his co-foundin...
Robin Dunbar - Optimizing Human Connection (Dunbar's Number) - [Invest Like the Best, EP.367]
Tue, 02 Apr 2024
My guest today is Robin Dunbar. Robin is a biological anthropologist, evolutionary psychologist, and...
Sean Feeney - Reinventing the Restaurant Business - [Invest Like the Best, EP.366]
Tue, 26 Mar 2024
My guest today is Sean Feeney. Sean is the co-founder of Grovehouse Hospitality Group and the owner ...
Dave Fontenot - The Monastery of Code - [Invest Like the Best, EP.365]
Tue, 19 Mar 2024
My guest today is Dave Fontenot, founder of HF0. Born out of Dave’s experiences in monasteries acr...
Anne-Marie Peterson - The Capital System - [Invest Like the Best, EP.364]
Tue, 12 Mar 2024
My guest today is Anne-Marie Peterson. Anne-Marie is an equity portfolio manager at Capital Group, a...
Aravind Srinivas - Building An Answer Engine - [Invest Like the Best, EP.363]
Tue, 05 Mar 2024
My guest today is Aravind Srinivas. He is the founder and CEO of Perplexity, a startup that he descr...
Ali Hamed - Building an Investment Firm - [Invest Like the Best, EP.362]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
My guest today is Ali Hamed. Ali was first on Invest Like the Best six years ago. He was 26 at the t...
Cyan Banister - Investing for a Higher Purpose - [Invest Like the Best, EP.361]
Tue, 20 Feb 2024
My guest today is Cyan Banister. Cyan’s life story is remarkable. She was homeless at a young age,...
Danny Meyer - The Power of Hospitality - [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]
Tue, 13 Feb 2024
Today, we're replaying my conversation with Danny Meyer. He is the founder and CEO of Union Square H...
Chuck Akre - The Three Legged Stool - [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]
Tue, 06 Feb 2024
Today, we're running a replay of my 2019 conversation with legendary investor Chuck Akre. Chuck foun...
Alex Telford - Unlocking Innovation in Pharma - [Invest Like the Best, EP.360]
Tue, 30 Jan 2024
My guest today is Alex Telford. Alex is the founder of Convoke, a software platform to help streamli...
Madhavan Ramanujam - How to Price Products - [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]
Tue, 23 Jan 2024
My guest today is Madhavan Ramanujam. Madhavan quite literally wrote the book on how to price produc...
Daryl Morey - Systems Thinking in Sports - [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]
Tue, 16 Jan 2024
This week, we are running a replay of my conversation with Daryl Morey from last year. Daryl is the ...
Michael Ovitz - Knowledge Is Power - [Invest Like the Best, EP.359]
Tue, 09 Jan 2024
My guest today is Michael Ovitz. Michael is the legendary talent agent and co-founder of CAA, or Cre...
Erik Serrano - Investing in Investment Firms - [Invest Like the Best, EP.358]
Tue, 02 Jan 2024
My guest today is Erik Serrano. Erik is the CEO of Stable Asset Management, which he started 14 year...
Doug Leone - Lessons from a Titan - [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]
Tue, 26 Dec 2023
This week we are replaying our episode with Doug Leone. Doug led one of the world’s most successfu...
Justin Ishbia - Lessons from Acquiring 586 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.357]
Tue, 19 Dec 2023
My guest today is Justin Ishbia. Justin is the Founding Partner of Shore Capital. Shore is a private...
Gavin Uberti - Real-Time AI & The Future of AI Hardware - [Invest Like the Best, EP.356]
Tue, 12 Dec 2023
Today, my guest is 21-year-old Gavin Uberti, who dropped out of Harvard to build Etched, which is o...
A Conversation with Charlie Munger & John Collison - [Invest Like the Best, EP.355]
Tue, 05 Dec 2023
Today, we’re releasing a conversation between John Collison and Charlie Munger. We've had this int...
Peter Fenton & Victor Lazarte - Purpose and Partnership - [Invest Like the Best, EP.354]
Tue, 28 Nov 2023
My guests this week are Peter Fenton and Victor Lazarte. Peter and Victor are both General Partners...
Lior Susan - Leave the World Better than You Found It - [Invest Like the Best, EP.353]
Tue, 21 Nov 2023
Today's episode is a conversation with Lior Susan, the Founder of Eclipse Ventures, whose mission is...
Brad Jacobs - Think Big and Move Fast - [Invest Like the Best, EP.352]
Tue, 14 Nov 2023
My guest today is Brad Jacobs. Brad’s resumé is remarkable. He has founded seven companies, all o...
Elizabeth Zalman & Jerry Neumann - Founder vs Investor - [Invest Like the Best, EP.351]
Tue, 07 Nov 2023
My guests this week are Elizabeth Zalman and Jerry Neumann. Jerry has been on this show two times be...
Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, EP.350]
Tue, 31 Oct 2023
My guest today is Palmer Luckey. Palmer is the founder of Defense company Anduril Industries, which ...
Aswath Damodaran - Making Sense of the Market Pt. 2 - [Invest Like the Best, EP.349]
Tue, 24 Oct 2023
Today’s guest is Aswath Damodaran, who is joining us for a second time on Invest Like the Best. As...
Patrick Collison & John Collison - A Business State of Mind - [Invest Like the Best, EP.348]
Tue, 17 Oct 2023
My guests this week are the co-founders of Stripe, Patrick and John Collison. My conversation with J...
Strauss Zelnick - Playing to Your Strengths - [Invest Like the Best, EP.347]
Tue, 10 Oct 2023
My guest this week is Strauss Zelnick, the CEO of leading game publisher Take-Two Interactive. Maybe...
Rick Buhrman & Paul Buser - Find Your X, Nurture Your N - [Invest Like the Best, EP.346]
Tue, 03 Oct 2023
My guests this week are Rick Buhrman and Paul Buser. Rick and Paul spent over a decade managing the ...
Jack Altman & Miles Grimshaw - Building and Investing in Lattice - [Invest Like the Best, EP.345]
Tue, 26 Sep 2023
My guests today are Jack Altman and Miles Grimshaw. Jack is the co-founder and CEO of Lattice, an HR...
Michael Simanovsky - A Platform Approach to Real Estate - [Invest Like the Best, EP.344]
Tue, 19 Sep 2023
My guest today is Michael Simanovsky. Mike is the Managing Partner of Conversant Capital, a real est...
David Senra - In Service of Founders - [Invest Like the Best, EP.343]
Tue, 12 Sep 2023
My guest today is David Senra, the creator and host of Founders Podcast. With an incredible appetite...
Will England - A Primer on Multi-Strategy Hedge Funds - [Invest Like the Best, EP.342]
Tue, 05 Sep 2023
My guest today is Will England, the CEO and Co-CIO of Walleye Capital. Walleye is a multi-strategy h...
James Cameron - The Futurist - [Founders, Forever Episode]
Tue, 29 Aug 2023
Almost exactly a year ago, Colossus entered into a partnership with David Senra and the Founders pod...
Lee Ainslie - Hedge Fund Maverick - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 341]
Tue, 22 Aug 2023
My guest today is Lee Ainslie, the founder of Maverick Capital. Lee started his investing career at ...
Nick Kokonas - Know What You Are Selling – [Founder’s Field Guide, Forever Episode]
Tue, 15 Aug 2023
Today, we are running a special episode from our show Founder's Field Guide. In this conversation, N...
Des Traynor - Real Talk about AI and Software - [Invest Like the Best, EP.340]
Tue, 08 Aug 2023
My guest today is Des Traynor. Des is the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Intercom - a cust...
Samo Burja - The Great Founder Theory of History - [Invest Like the Best, EP.339]
Tue, 01 Aug 2023
My guest today is Samo Burja. Samo is the founder of consulting firm, Bismark Analysis, and has dedi...
Chris Paik - Venture Investing Frameworks - [Invest Like the Best, EP.338]
Tue, 25 Jul 2023
My guest today is Chris Paik, who is a General Partner at early-stage venture firm, Pace Capital. Be...
Josh Kushner - Building Thrive Capital - [Invest Like the Best, EP.337]
Tue, 18 Jul 2023
My guest today is Josh Kushner, founder and managing partner of venture firm, Thrive Capital. Josh ...
Jeremy Giffon - Special Situations in Private Markets - [Invest Like the Best, EP.336]
Tue, 11 Jul 2023
My guest today is Jeremy Giffon. I spend all my time trying to find people who have some “singular...
Dave Yuan - A Primer on Vertical Market Software - [Invest Like the Best, EP.335]
Tue, 04 Jul 2023
My guest today is Dave Yuan. Dave is the Founder and Partner of Tidemark Capital, which he started i...
Kevin Kelly - Be Generous and Unique - [Invest Like the Best, EP.334]
Tue, 27 Jun 2023
My guest today is Kevin Kelly. Kevin co-founded Wired magazine and has published a number of seminal...
Justin Mares - The US Health Crisis - [Invest Like the Best, EP.333]
Tue, 20 Jun 2023
My guest this week is Justin Mares. Justin is the founder of TrueMed and has previously founded thre...
Scott Goodwin - Know The Names - [Invest Like the Best, EP.332]
Tue, 13 Jun 2023
My guest this week is Scott Goodwin. Scott is the co-founder and managing partner of Diameter Capita...
Rolex: Timeless Excellence - [Business Breakdowns, Forever Episode]
Tue, 06 Jun 2023
Today, we are running a special episode from our show Business Breakdowns. In this conversation, Ben...
Kieran Goodwin - Imagination, Volatility, and the Pursuit of Alpha - [Invest Like the Best, EP.331]
Tue, 30 May 2023
My guest today is Kieran Goodwin. Kieran spent over two decades at the frontier of credit investing....
Henry Schuck - Building ZoomInfo - [Invest Like the Best, EP.330]
Tue, 23 May 2023
My guest today is Henry Schuck, the founder and CEO of ZoomInfo. I’ve gotten to know Henry over th...
Karen Karniol-Tambour - Macro Headwinds vs. Tech Tailwinds - [Invest Like the Best, EP.329]
Tue, 16 May 2023
Today’s conversation was recorded during last week’s Sohn Conference. I sat down with Karen Karn...
Fidji Simo - Creating Delightful Consumer Experiences - [Invest Like the Best, EP.328]
Tue, 09 May 2023
My guest this week is Fidji Simo, the CEO of Instacart. Fidji grew up in a small town in the South o...
Bessemer Venture Partners - Building a VC Firm that Lasts Centuries - [Invest Like the Best, EP.327]
Tue, 02 May 2023
My guests this week are Jeremy Levine, Kent Bennett, and Brian Feinstein. They are partners at one o...
Alexis Rivas - A New Blueprint for Homebuilding - [Invest Like the Best, EP.326]
Tue, 25 Apr 2023
My guest this week is Alexis Rivas. Alexis is the co-founder and CEO of Cover, which is pioneering a...
Dr. Peter Attia - The Portfolio to Live Longer - [Invest Like the Best, EP.325]
Tue, 18 Apr 2023
My guest this week is Dr. Peter Attia. I’ve had Peter on the show twice before but it’s been ove...
Scott Davis & Rob Wertheimer - Lessons from the Industrial Titans - [Invest Like the Best, EP.324]
Tue, 11 Apr 2023
My guests today are Scott Davis and Rob Wertheimer. Scott and Rob head up Melius Research and are th...
Sam Hinkie, Boyd Varty, Charlie Songhurst - Trail Magic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.323]
Tue, 04 Apr 2023
Today’s episode is a little different. Rather than share a new conversation, I have put together a...
David Senra - Passion & Pain - [Invest Like the Best, Forever Episode]
Fri, 31 Mar 2023
Hello everyone. A few days ago, we discussed what we call forever episodes, which are the few episod...
David Einhorn - The Long and Short of Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.322]
Tue, 28 Mar 2023
My guest today is David Einhorn. David is the President of Greenlight Capital, a long-short hedge fu...
Avi Goldfarb - The Economic Impact of AI - [Invest Like the Best, EP.321]
Tue, 21 Mar 2023
My guest today is Avi Goldfarb. Avi is a Professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School o...
Auren Hoffman - A Deep Dive on Data - [Invest Like the Best, EP.320]
Tue, 14 Mar 2023
My guest this week is Auren Hoffman. Auren is the CEO of Safegraph, which curates data on physical ...
Trae Stephens - Find Good Quests - [Invest Like the Best, EP.319]
Tue, 07 Mar 2023
My guest this week is Trae Stephens. Trae is a partner at Founders Fund and co-founder and Executive...
Doug Leone - Lessons from a Titan - [Invest Like the Best, EP.318]
Tue, 28 Feb 2023
My guest this week is Doug Leone. Doug led one of the world’s most successful venture firms, Sequ...
Tim Urban - Idea Labs and High-Rung Thinking - [Invest Like the Best, EP.317]
Tue, 21 Feb 2023
I’m excited to share this conversation with Tim Urban. Tim is, in my opinion, one of the best and...
Dan Rose - How Stunning Founders Operate - [Invest Like the Best, EP.316]
Tue, 14 Feb 2023
My guest today is Dan Rose. Dan is the chairman of Coatue Ventures and has one of the most interest...
Jeff Green - Modernizing Advertising - [Invest Like the Best, EP.315]
Tue, 07 Feb 2023
My guest today is Jeff Green, the CEO and co-founder of advertising platform, The Trade Desk. The Tr...
Carl Kawaja - Dealing with Regime Change - [Invest Like the Best, EP.314]
Tue, 31 Jan 2023
My guest this week is Carl Kawaja. It’s the second time I’ve had Carl on the show and my first c...
Daryl Morey - Systems Thinking in Sports - [Invest Like the Best, EP.313]
Tue, 24 Jan 2023
My guest this week is Daryl Morey, who is President of basketball operations for the Philadelphia 76...
Miles Grimshaw - The DNA of Software Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.312]
Tue, 17 Jan 2023
My guest today is Miles Grimshaw. Miles is in his early thirties and is a General Partner at Benchma...
John Fio - Creating Magic for Consumers - [Invest Like the Best, EP.311]
Tue, 10 Jan 2023
My guest today is John Fiorentino. John is a product inventor and entrepreneur who, in the space of...
Amjad Masad - The Future of Software Creation - [Invest Like the Best, EP.310]
Tue, 03 Jan 2023
My guest today is Amjad Masad. Amjad is the founder and CEO of Replit, whose mission is to bring th...
Rebecca Lynn - Finding Your Customers - [Invest Like the Best, EP.309]
Tue, 27 Dec 2022
My guest this week is Rebecca Lynn. Rebecca co-founded early-stage investor Canvas Ventures in 2013 ...
Michael Mauboussin - Sharpening Investor & Executive Toolkits - [Invest Like the Best, EP.308]
Tue, 20 Dec 2022
My guest this week is Michael Mauboussin. Many of you will know Michael and his work well. He’s He...
Jeremiah Lowin: Explaining the New AI Paradigm - [Invest Like the Best, EP.307]
Tue, 13 Dec 2022
My guest this week is Jeremiah Lowin. Jeremiah has been on the podcast a number of times over the ye...
Bill Lenehan: Investing in Commercial Real Estate - [Invest Like the Best, EP.306]
Tue, 06 Dec 2022
My guest today is Bill Lenehan. Bill is the CEO of Four Corners Property Trust, a listed REIT and on...
Ron Howard and Brian Grazer - Box Office Business - [Invest Like the Best, EP.305]
Tue, 29 Nov 2022
Today I’m joined by two Hollywood greats, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. They have produced, directe...
Shane Battier - The No-Stats All-Star - [Invest Like the Best, EP.304]
Tue, 22 Nov 2022
Today’s episode is a special one, in a format that may turn into a series. It is a conversation be...
Parker Conrad - Building a Compound Company - [Invest Like the Best, EP.303]
Tue, 15 Nov 2022
My guest today is Parker Conrad, co-founder and CEO of Rippling. I wanted to speak to Parker because...
Bob Elliott - A Macro Tour - [Invest Like the Best, EP.302]
Tue, 08 Nov 2022
My guest today is Bob Elliott, the CEO and CIO of Unlimited, which creates low-cost index ETFs for ...
Kirsten Green - Investing in Consumer Change - [Invest Like the Best, EP.301]
Tue, 01 Nov 2022
My guest today is Kirsten Green, founder and managing partner at Forerunner Ventures. Kirsten launch...
Jason Droege - Building Uber Eats - [Invest Like the Best, EP.300]
Tue, 25 Oct 2022
My guest today is Jason Droege, a venture partner at Benchmark. Jason’s had a long entrepreneurial...
Paul Orfalea - It’s About the Money - [Invest Like the Best, EP.299]
Tue, 18 Oct 2022
My guest today is Paul Orfalea. Paul founded Kinkos, the popular copy chain, in 1970. He started wit...
Madhavan Ramanujam - How to Price Products - [Invest Like the Best, EP.298]
Tue, 11 Oct 2022
My guest today is Madhavan Ramanujam. Madhavan quite literally wrote the book on how to price produc...
Scott Wilson - Non-Traditional Endowment Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.297]
Tue, 04 Oct 2022
My guest today is Scott Wilson. Scott is the CIO of Washington University’s endowment, which manag...
Julio Vasconcellos & Mate Pencz - Investing in Latin America - [Invest Like the Best, EP.296]
Tue, 27 Sep 2022
My guests today are Julio Vasconcellos and Mate Pencz, who are partners at Canary and Atlantico, le...
Trina Spear - Billion Dollar Scrubs - [Invest Like the Best, EP.295]
Tue, 20 Sep 2022
My guest today is Trina Spear, a former investor at Blackstone and the co-founder and CEO of FIGS. F...
Gabriel Leydon - How Web3 Onboards a Billion Users - [Web3 Breakdowns, EP.37]
Thu, 15 Sep 2022
Today, we are sharing an episode of Web3 Breakdowns with you. My Invest Like the Best conversation w...
Harley Finkelstein - Building the Entrepreneurship Company - [Invest Like the Best, EP.294]
Tue, 13 Sep 2022
My guest today is Harley Finkelstein. Harley is the President of Shopify and has been with the compa...
Mitch Lasky - The Business of Gaming - [Invest Like the Best, EP.293]
Tue, 06 Sep 2022
My guest today is Mitch Lasky. Mitch is a partner at Benchmark and one of the leading figures in the...
David Senra - Passion & Pain - [Invest Like the Best, EP.292]
Tue, 30 Aug 2022
My guest today is David Senra. David has studied history’s great founders and entrepreneurs in mor...
Robert Smith - Investing in Enterprise Software - [Invest Like the Best, EP.291]
Tue, 23 Aug 2022
My guest today is Robert Smith, the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Vista Equity Partners. An engineer...
Katherine Boyle - Investing for America - [Invest Like the Best, EP.290]
Tue, 16 Aug 2022
My guest today is Katherine Boyle, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Katherine started her c...
Ravi Gupta - Focus - [Invest Like the Best, EP.289]
Tue, 09 Aug 2022
My guest today is Ravi Gupta. Ravi spent a decade in private equity at KKR before joining Instacart ...
Will Thorndike - The Power of Long Holding Periods - [Invest Like the Best, EP.288]
Tue, 02 Aug 2022
My guest today is Will Thorndike. I first spoke to Will in 2017 about his excellent book The Outside...
Alok Vasudev - Searching for White Space - [Invest Like the Best, EP.287]
Tue, 26 Jul 2022
My guest today is Alok Vasudev. Alok is an early-stage investor who has been in the crypto space for...
Matthew Ball - A Manual to The Metaverse - [Invest Like the Best, EP.286]
Tue, 19 Jul 2022
My guest today is Matthew Ball. Matt is an investor, the former head of strategy at Amazon studios, ...
TransDigm: Foundations with Nick Howley [50X, EP.1]
Thu, 14 Jul 2022
Today we are dropping a special episode in the Invest Like the Best feed. You will hear the first ep...
Alice Bentinck - Building a Start-Up Machine - [Invest Like the Best, EP.285]
Tue, 12 Jul 2022
My guest today is Alice Bentinck, co-founder of Entrepreneur First. Entrepreneur First, or EF, inves...
Jess Lee - Designing Investment Products - [Invest Like the Best, EP.284]
Tue, 05 Jul 2022
My guest today is Jess Lee. Jess is a partner at Sequoia Capital as well as their Chief Product Off...
Kenneth Stanley - Greatness Without Goals - [Invest Like the Best, EP.283]
Tue, 28 Jun 2022
My guest today is Ken Stanley. Ken is a Professor in Computer Science and a pioneer in the field of ...
Lydia Jett - Investing in E-commerce - [Invest Like the Best, EP.282]
Tue, 21 Jun 2022
My guest today is Lydia Jett, Managing Partner of SoftBank Investment Advisers. Lydia leads the team...
Josh Wolfe & Chris Power - Factories of the Future - [Invest Like the Best, EP.281]
Tue, 14 Jun 2022
My guests today are Josh Wolfe and Chris Power. Josh will be a familiar voice to many of you and is ...
Martin Casado - The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Infrastructure - [Invest Like the Best, EP.280]
Tue, 07 Jun 2022
My guest today is Martin Casado. Martin is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he focuse...
Aswath Damodaran - Making Sense of the Market - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 279]
Tue, 31 May 2022
My guest today is Aswath Damodaran, a Professor of Finance at NYU’s Stern School of Business. Aswa...
Anduril: Building the Future of Defense - [Business Breakdowns, EP. 59]
Thu, 26 May 2022
Today, we are running a special episode of Business Breakdowns. With geopolitics playing an increasi...
Tobi Lütke - Embrace the Unexpected - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 278]
Tue, 24 May 2022
My guest today is Tobi Lütke, co-founder and CEO of Shopify. Having first spoken to Tobi at the beg...
Tyler Cowen & Daniel Gross - Identifying Talent - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 277]
Tue, 17 May 2022
My guests today are Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross. Tyler is an economics professor and creator of one...
Jeff Jordan - Building & Investing in Marketplaces - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 276]
Tue, 10 May 2022
My guest today is Jeff Jordan, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Jeff has one of the most inte...
Eric Glyman - Reimagining Corporate Finance - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 275]
Tue, 03 May 2022
My guest today is Eric Glyman, co-founder and CEO of Ramp. Ramp is best known for its corporate card...
Dmitry Balyasny - Building a Better Model - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 274]
Tue, 26 Apr 2022
My guest today is Dmitry Balyasny. Dmitry is the Managing Partner and CIO of Balyasny Asset Manageme...
Henry Ward - Transforming Private Markets - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 273]
Thu, 21 Apr 2022
My guest today is Henry Ward, co-founder and CEO of Carta. Started in 2012, Carta helps companies an...
Alexandr Wang - A Primer on AI - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 272]
Tue, 12 Apr 2022
My guest today is Alexandr Wang, the CEO and founder of Scale AI. Alexandr founded Scale in 2016, ha...
Antonio Gracias - Pro-Entropic Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 271]
Tue, 05 Apr 2022
My guest today is Antonio Gracias, founder, CIO, and CEO of Valor Equity Partners. Antonio is perhap...
David Rubenstein - Life, Leadership, and LBOs - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 270]
Tue, 29 Mar 2022
My guest today is David Rubenstein, co-founder of The Carlyle Group - one of the largest private eq...
Gaurav Kapadia - Everything Compounds - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 269]
Tue, 22 Mar 2022
My guest today is Gaurav Kapadia, founder of investment firm XN. Gaurav is a veteran of the investin...
Marko Papic - A Multi-Polar World - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 268]
Tue, 15 Mar 2022
My guest today is Marko Papic, partner and chief strategist at Clocktower Group, where he leads the ...
Garry Tan - Unwrapping the Gift - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 267]
Tue, 08 Mar 2022
My guest today is Garry Tan, founder and managing partner of early-stage venture firm, Initialized ...
Eric Mandelblatt - Investing in the Industrial Economy - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 266]
Tue, 01 Mar 2022
My guest today is Eric Mandelblatt, founder and CIO of Soroban Capital, a $10 billion investment fir...
Sebastian Kanovich - Powering Emerging Markets Payments - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 56]
Thu, 24 Feb 2022
My guest today is Sebastian Kanovich, CEO of payments company dLocal. Sebastian founded dLocal in 20...
Frank Slootman - Narrow the Focus, Increase the Quality - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 265]
Tue, 22 Feb 2022
My guest today is Frank Slootman, Chairman and CEO of cloud platform Snowflake. Frank has become one...
Tim Flannery - Simplifying Fund Closing - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 55]
Thu, 17 Feb 2022
My guest today is Tim Flannery, co-founder of venture fund administrator Passthrough. Passthrough is...
Joey Levin - Building an Anti-Conglomerate - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 264]
Tue, 15 Feb 2022
My guest today is IAC’s CEO, Joey Levin. IAC is a unique business in that it’s a holding company...
Peter Chernin - Betting on Passion - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 263]
Tue, 08 Feb 2022
My guest today is Peter Chernin, who’s had a Hall of Fame career in the entertainment business. Pe...
John Pfeffer - Adapt and Evolve - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 262]
Tue, 01 Feb 2022
My guest today is entrepreneur and investor, John Pfeffer. John was a partner at private equity firm...
Geoffrey Moore - Building Gorilla Businesses - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 261]
Thu, 27 Jan 2022
My guest today is the renowned tech author, consultant, and venture partner at Wildcat Ventures, Geo...
Gavin Baker - The Cyclone Under the Surface - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 260]
Tue, 25 Jan 2022
My guest today is past guest Gavin Baker, managing partner and CIO of Atreides Management. Gavin’s...
Sam Englebardt and Richard Kim - Investing in Immersive Worlds - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 259]
Thu, 20 Jan 2022
Today, my guests are Sam Englebardt and Richard Kim, general partners at venture fund, Galaxy Intera...
Ricky Sandler - Building an Investment Compass - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 258]
Tue, 18 Jan 2022
My guest today is Ricky Sandler, founder of Eminence Capital. Ricky is a hedge fund veteran managing...
Orlando Bravo - The Art of Software Buyouts - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 257]
Tue, 28 Dec 2021
My guest today is Orlando Bravo, co-founder and Managing Partner of leading private equity firm, Th...
Nick Saltarelli - One Foot in Front of the Other - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 54]
Thu, 23 Dec 2021
My guest today is Nick Saltarelli, co-founder of the functional chocolate bar business, Mid-Day Squa...
Jenny Johnson - Seven Decades of Investing Expertise - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 256]
Tue, 21 Dec 2021
My guest today is Jenny Johnson, President and CEO of one of the world’s largest asset managers, F...
Doug Colkitt - The Evolution of Markets - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 255]
Tue, 14 Dec 2021
My guest today is Doug Colkitt. Doug has spent his career searching for and trading inefficient mark...
Bill Gurley and Philip Rosedale - Back to the Future - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 254]
Tue, 07 Dec 2021
My guests today are Philip Rosedale and Bill Gurley. Philip created Second Life in the early 2000s a...
Francis Davidson - Design-led Hospitality - [Invest Like the Best, EP.253]
Tue, 30 Nov 2021
My guest today is Francis Davidson, founder and CEO of the hospitality brand Sonder. Francis launche...
Niraj Shah - Developing Every Skill - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 252]
Tue, 23 Nov 2021
My guest today is Niraj Shah, the CEO and co-founder of Wayfair. Wayfair started life in 2002 as a c...
Bored Ape Yacht Club - [Web3 Breakdowns, EP. 1]
Thu, 18 Nov 2021
Today, I am excited to share our newest show, Web3 Breakdowns. Similar to our Business Breakdowns se...
Will Marshall - Indexing the Earth - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 251]
Tue, 16 Nov 2021
My guest today is Will Marshall, the co-founder and CEO of Planet. Will founded Planet in 2010 with ...
Roelof Botha - Sequoia’s Crucible Moment - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 250]
Fri, 05 Nov 2021
My guest today is Roelof Botha, a partner at one of the world’s oldest and most successful venture...
Sarah Friar - Building the Local Graph - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 249]
Tue, 02 Nov 2021
My guest today is Sarah Friar, the CEO of Nextdoor, which connects people in local neighborhoods tog...
Universal Music Group: The Gatekeepers of Music - [Business Breakdowns, EP. 32]
Thu, 28 Oct 2021
Today, we are running a special episode of Business Breakdowns on our Invest Like the Best feed. Whe...
Alex Rampell - Investing in Operating Systems - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 248]
Tue, 26 Oct 2021
My guest today is Alex Rampell, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Alex has a long history in f...
Sam Bankman-Fried - Creating a Perfect Market - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 247]
Tue, 19 Oct 2021
My guest today is Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and CEO of leading cryptocurrency exchange, FTX. In a l...
Nick Neuman - Becoming Your Own Bank - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 246]
Tue, 12 Oct 2021
My guest today is Nick Neuman, CEO and co-founder of Casa. Casa helps bitcoin investors and owners k...
Devin Finzer - An Everything Store for Digital Assets - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 53]
Thu, 07 Oct 2021
My guest today is Devin Finzer, co-founder and CEO of OpenSea, the world’s largest NFT marketplace...
Jenny Lefcourt - The Go-to-Market Motion - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 245]
Tue, 05 Oct 2021
My guest today is Jenny Lefcourt, an equal General Partner at seed-stage venture firm Freestyle Capi...
Dave Girouard - Making Better Loans - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 52]
Thu, 30 Sep 2021
My guest today is Dave Girouard, co-founder and CEO of Upstart, a lending platform that leverages A...
Jay Hoag - Calibrating Market Adoption - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 244]
Tue, 28 Sep 2021
My guest today is Jay Hoag, co-founder of TCV. If you look at Jay’s investment track record, it’...
Gina Bianchini - Helping Creators Build Communities - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 51]
Thu, 23 Sep 2021
My guest today is Gina Bianchini, founder and CEO of Mighty Networks, which gives creators a platfor...
David Fialkow - Paint Outside the Lines - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 243]
Tue, 21 Sep 2021
My guest today is David Fialkow, co-founder of General Catalyst. If you are looking for a dose of fu...
Justin Waldron - The Future of Social Gaming - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 50]
Thu, 16 Sep 2021
My guest today is Justin Waldron, co-founder and President of Playco. Justin is a pioneer of the soc...
Daniel Ek - Enabling Creators Everywhere - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 242]
Tue, 14 Sep 2021
Today is a special episode because it marks five years since I released the first episode of Invest ...
Gabby Dizon - Mapping the Metaverse Economy - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 49]
Thu, 02 Sep 2021
My guest today is Gabby Dizon, co-founder of Yield Guild Games or YGG. In 2020, Gabby and his co-fou...
Scott Malpass - Building a Great Endowment - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 241]
Tue, 31 Aug 2021
My guest today is Scott Malpass. Scott was the CIO of Notre Dame's endowment for 32 years and has al...
Mike Maples, Jr. - A Playbook for Startups - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 48]
Thu, 26 Aug 2021
My guest today is Mike Maples, co-founder and partner of Floodgate. As a child of the computer revo...
Renata Quintini and Roseanne Wincek - Investing at the Supercritical Stage - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 240]
Tue, 24 Aug 2021
My guests today are Renata Quintini and Roseanne Wincek, co-founders and managing directors of Reneg...
Max Simkoff - Redesigning the Home Buying Experience - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 47]
Thu, 19 Aug 2021
My guest today is Max Simkoff, Founder and CEO of Doma. Max founded Doma in 2016 after experiencing ...
Suzanne Ciani - Exploring the Creative Process - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 239]
Tue, 17 Aug 2021
The intro music you just heard is from my guest today, Suzanne Ciani, an early pioneer of electronic...
Sameer Shariff - Breaking Language Barriers - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 46 ]
Thu, 12 Aug 2021
My guest today is Sameer Shariff, co-founder and CEO of Cambly. After starting his career at Google,...
Sridhar Ramaswamy - The Past, Present, and Future of Search - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 238]
Tue, 10 Aug 2021
My guest today is Sridhar Ramaswamy, co-founder and CEO of Neeva and Venture Partner at Greylock. Af...
Ernie Garcia - Disrupting the Auto Buying Experience - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 45]
Thu, 05 Aug 2021
My guest today is Ernie Garcia, co-founder and CEO of online used car platform, Carvana. Ernie launc...
Karen Karniol-Tambour - All Things Macro - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 237]
Tue, 03 Aug 2021
My guest today is Karen Karniol-Tambour, Partner and Co-CIO for Sustainability at Bridgewater Associ...
Sebastian Mejia - Mastering On-Demand Convenience - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 44]
Thu, 29 Jul 2021
My guest today is Sebastian Mejia, co-founder and president of Rappi. Founded in Bogota, Colombia in...
Carl Kawaja - Wisdom from Decades of Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 236]
Tue, 27 Jul 2021
Today’s conversation is one of my all-time favorites, with someone I’ve come to respect deeply i...
Stewart Butterfield - We Don’t Sell Saddles Here - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 43]
Thu, 22 Jul 2021
My guest today is Stewart Butterfield, founder and CEO of Slack. Stewart’s 2014 essay “Why We Do...
Steve Mandel - Investing Behind Change - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 235]
Tue, 20 Jul 2021
My guest today is Steve Mandel, founder of Lone Pine Capital, one of the most successful hedge fund ...
Spenser Skates - Challenging Big Ideas - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 42]
Thu, 15 Jul 2021
My guest today is Spenser Skates, CEO and co-founder of Amplitude Analytics. Spenser founded Amplitu...
David Sacks - How to Operate a SaaS Startup - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 234]
Tue, 13 Jul 2021
My guest today is David Sacks, General Partner at Craft Ventures and founding COO of PayPal. During...
David Vélez - Building the Branchless Bank - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 41]
Thu, 08 Jul 2021
My guest today is David Vélez, founder and CEO of Nubank, the world’s largest digital bank with o...
Balaji Srinivasan - Optimizing Your Inputs - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 233]
Tue, 06 Jul 2021
My guest today is Balaji Srinivasan, a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. Balaji is known to c...
Michael Mayer - Business Boss Battles - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 40]
Thu, 01 Jul 2021
My guest today Michael Mayer, is the founder and CEO of Bottomless, a company that automatically rep...
Marc Andreessen - Making the Future - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 232]
Tue, 29 Jun 2021
My guest today is Silicon Valley icon, Marc Andreessen. Before co-founding the legendary venture ca...
Will Ahmed - Optimizing Human Performance – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 39]
Thu, 24 Jun 2021
My guest today is Will Ahmed, founder of fitness wearable company WHOOP. What started as a business...
Howard Marks - Embracing the Psychology of Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 231]
Tue, 22 Jun 2021
My guest today is Howard Marks, co-founder of Oaktree Capital, a leading investment manager, and one...
Christina Cacioppo - Building the New Standard in Security – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 38]
Thu, 17 Jun 2021
My guest today is Christina Cacioppo, founder of Vanta, a security and compliance software business ...
John Harris - Resilience and Imagination - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 230]
Tue, 15 Jun 2021
My guest today is John Harris, Managing Partner of Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb, where the flagship Seq...
Florian Hagenbuch and Mate Pencz - Everything Will Be Bought Online – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 37]
Thu, 10 Jun 2021
My guests today are Florian Hagenbuch and Mate Pencz, co-founders of Loft. Based in Sao Paulo, Brazi...
Gabriel Leydon - Designing Digital Economies - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 229]
Tue, 08 Jun 2021
My guest is Gabe Leydon, who is the co-founder and former CEO of MZ, also known as Machine Zone, the...
Assaf Wand - Innovation in Static Industries – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 36]
Thu, 03 Jun 2021
My guest today is Assaf Wand, CEO, and co-founder of Hippo, a homeowner insurance startup founded in...
Dennis Lynch - Delivering Alpha in Adapting Markets - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 228]
Tue, 01 Jun 2021
My guest today is Dennis Lynch, Head of Counterpoint Global, where he oversees over $100bn in AUM an...
Henrique Dubugras - Building the Financial Center of Gravity – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 35]
Thu, 27 May 2021
My guest today is Henrique Dubugras, co-founder and CEO of Brex, an all-in-one finance account for b...
Justin Fishner-Wolfson - Secondary Investing in Private Markets - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 227]
Tue, 25 May 2021
My guest today is Justin Fishner-Wolfson, founder of 137 Ventures, a venture capital fund focused on...
Peter Reinhardt - Learning How to Sell – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 34]
Thu, 20 May 2021
My guest today is Peter Reinhardt, co-founder and CEO of Segment, the market-leading data customer d...
Brent Beshore - Learnings from a Year of Unexpected Events - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 226]
Tue, 18 May 2021
My guest today is Brent Beshore. For those that don’t know Brent from his frequent appearances on ...
Jeremy Cai - Manufacturer to Customer – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 33]
Thu, 13 May 2021
My guest today is Jeremy Cai, founder, and CEO of Italic, a subscription marketplace for consumer go...
Eli Dourado - Frontiers for Productivity - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 225]
Tue, 11 May 2021
My guest today is Eli Dourado, economist and senior research fellow at the Center for Growth and Opp...
James Reinhart – Lessons in Process Power – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 32]
Thu, 06 May 2021
My guest today is James Reinhart, founder, and CEO of thredUP, an online thrift marketplace. thredUP...
Andrew Sugrue - Investing in Paradigm Shifts - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 224]
Tue, 04 May 2021
My guest today is Andrew Sugrue, co-founder, and partner at Avenir Growth Capital. Avenir is a growt...
Alyssa Ravasio - Supply, Demand, and the Outdoors - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 31]
Thu, 29 Apr 2021
My guest today is Alyssa Ravasio, co-founder and CEO of Hipcamp, a platform to discover and book you...
Josh Buckley - Identifying Legendary Start-ups - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 223]
Tue, 27 Apr 2021
My guest today is Josh Buckley. Josh is the new CEO of Product Hunt and an investor in many breakout...
Thomas Tull - New Physics of Business - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 30]
Thu, 22 Apr 2021
My guest today is Thomas Tull, the founder of Tulco LLC, an investment holding company that invests ...
Paul Enright - The Buy Side Primer - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 222]
Tue, 20 Apr 2021
My guest today is Paul Enright, managing partner at Krainos Capital, his family office. Before runni...
Trevor McFedries - Building Web 3.0 - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 29]
Thu, 15 Apr 2021
My guest today is Trevor McFedries, the founder of technology startup Brud and the creator of virtua...
Chris Dixon - The Potential of Blockchain Technology - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 221]
Tue, 13 Apr 2021
My guest today is Chris Dixon, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Chris is a prolific investo...
Shopify: The E-commerce On-Ramp - [Business Breakdowns, EP. 01]
Fri, 09 Apr 2021
Welcome to the first episode of our newest show, Business Breakdowns, featuring deep-dive conversati...
Tony Xu - A Human and Math Problem - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 28]
Thu, 08 Apr 2021
My guest today is Tony Xu, co-founder, and CEO of DoorDash. Tony started DoorDash 7.5 years ago, and...
Mike Kerns and Jesse Jacobs - Content to Commerce - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 220]
Tue, 06 Apr 2021
My guests this week are Jesse Jacobs and Mike Kerns, co-founders and partners at The Chernin Group, ...
Business Breakdowns - Trailer
Mon, 05 Apr 2021
Welcome to Business Breakdowns, a new Colossus podcast featuring deep-dive conversations on individu...
Jesse Pujji - A Primer on Performance Marketing - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 27]
Thu, 01 Apr 2021
My guest today is Jesse Pujji, the Founder & CEO of Gateway X, a holding company that builds, buys, ...
Kanyi Maqubela - Dawn of the 21st Century - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 219]
Tue, 30 Mar 2021
My guest today is Kanyi Maqubela, co-founder of seed-stage VC firm Kindred Ventures, which he starte...
Roxanne Petraeus - Modernizing Compliance - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.26]
Thu, 25 Mar 2021
My guest today is Roxanne Petraeus, co-founder and CEO of Ethena, a modern compliance platform for b...
Jesse Walden - A Primer on NFTs - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 218]
Tue, 23 Mar 2021
My guest today is Jesse Walden, the founder of Variant, an early-stage venture firm investing in cry...
Jonathan Goldberg - Capturing Carbon - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 25]
Thu, 18 Mar 2021
My guest today is Jonathan Goldberg, the founder, and CEO of Carbon Direct, a company focused on adv...
Marissa King - The Science of Social Networks - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 217]
Tue, 16 Mar 2021
My guest this week is Marissa King, a professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Man...
Jonathan Neman - Building the Modern Restaurant - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 24]
Thu, 11 Mar 2021
My guest this week is Jonathan Neman, the co-founder and CEO of Sweetgreen. Sweetgreen is a fast-cas...
Josh Wolfe and Tony Thomas - The Past, Present, and Future of Defense – [Invest Like the Best, EP. 216]
Tue, 09 Mar 2021
My guests today are Josh Wolfe and Tony Thomas, better known as T2. Josh is the co-founder and Gener...
Matteo Franceschetti – Modernizing Sleep – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 23]
Thu, 04 Mar 2021
My guest today is Matteo Franceschetti, the founder and CEO of Eight Sleep, a smart mattress company...
Jack Clark - Grateful for Everything, Entitled to Nothing – [Invest Like the Best, EP. 215]
Tue, 02 Mar 2021
My guest today is Jack Clark, head coach of the University of California Varsity Rugby team. Jack ha...
Ryan Petersen - Where There Is Mystery, There Is Margin – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 22]
Thu, 25 Feb 2021
My guest today is Ryan Petersen, founder and CEO of Flexport. Flexport is a technology platform for...
Jeremy Grantham - A Historic Market Bubble – [Invest Like the Best, EP.214]
Tue, 23 Feb 2021
My guest today is Jeremy Grantham. Jeremy is the Long-Term Investment Strategist and Co-Founder at G...
Carlos Brito – Creating an Ownership Culture – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 21]
Thu, 18 Feb 2021
My guest today is Carlos Brito, CEO of Anheuser-Busch InBev. AB InBev is the world’s largest brewe...
Scott Belsky - Focus on the First Mile – [Invest Like the Best, EP. 213]
Tue, 16 Feb 2021
My guest today is Scott Belsky. Scott was the co-founder and CEO of Behance, the world's largest cre...
Matt Mullenweg – The Past, Present, and Future of the Internet – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.20]
Thu, 11 Feb 2021
My guest today is Matt Mullenweg, co-founder and CEO of Automattic, the company on top of the open-s...
Michael Dempsey – Investing in Bleeding Edge Technology – [Invest Like the Best, EP.212]
Tue, 09 Feb 2021
My guest today is Michael Dempsey, General Partner at Compound. Michael invests in a broad range of ...
Dustin Moskovitz – Eliminating Work About Work – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 19]
Thu, 04 Feb 2021
My guest today is Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder and CEO of Asana, a team-centric product management t...
Chamath Palihapitiya – The Major Problems Facing the World – [Invest Like the Best, EP.211]
Tue, 02 Feb 2021
My guest today is Chamath Palihapitiya, the founder and CEO of Social Capital, whose mission is to a...
Ali Ghodsi – The Past, Present, and Future of Big Data – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.18]
Thu, 28 Jan 2021
My Guest today is Ali Ghodsi, founder and CEO of Databricks, a data analytics platform for data scie...
Joost van Dreunen – Unlocking Value in Gaming – [Invest Like the Best, EP.210]
Tue, 26 Jan 2021
My guest today is Joost van Dreunen, an investor in the gaming space, professor at NYU's Stern Schoo...
Ilkka Paananen – Superpowering Teams – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.17]
Thu, 21 Jan 2021
My guest today is Ilkka Paananen, Founder and CEO of Supercell, a mobile game developer based in Fin...
Claire Cormier Thielke – The Future of Cities and Real Estate – [Invest Like the Best, EP.209]
Tue, 19 Jan 2021
My guest today is Claire Cormier Thielke, Managing Director of Asia Pacific for Hines, the largest p...
Oliver Hughes – The Secret FinTech Giant – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.16]
Thu, 14 Jan 2021
My guest today is Oliver Hughes, the CEO of Tinkoff, the leading online commercial bank based in Rus...
Zack Fuss – Breaking Down the Food Ecosystem – [Invest Like the Best, EP.208]
Tue, 12 Jan 2021
My guest today is Zach Fuss, an investor at Continental Grain, a 200-year-old family owned business ...
Carlos Cashman – Lessons from the Amazon Ecosystems – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.15]
Thu, 07 Jan 2021
My guest today is Carlos Cashman, co-founder and co-CEO of Thrasio an acquirer of third-party Am...
Ram Parameswaran - Internet Scale Businesses – [Invest Like the Best, EP.207]
Tue, 05 Jan 2021
My guest today is Ram Parameswaran, founder of Octahedron Capital. Ram started Octahedron this year ...
Dylan Field - The Growing Importance of Design – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.14]
Thu, 31 Dec 2020
Dylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of Figma, a collaborative, online design tool which has taken ...
Tracy Graham - Investing in Overlooked Businesses – [Invest Like the Best, EP.206]
Tue, 29 Dec 2020
My guest today is Tracy Graham, founder and managing principal of Graham Allen Partners, a private e...
Zach Perret – The Future of Financial Services – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.13]
Thu, 24 Dec 2020
Zach Perret is the founder and CEO of Plaid. Plaid helps companies build fintech solutions by crea...
Mario Cibelli - Cornerstone Investing Insights - [Invest Like the Best, EP.205]
Tue, 22 Dec 2020
My guest today is Mario Cibelli. Mario is the managing partner of Marathon Partners Equity Managemen...
Bob Pittman - Lessons from Building Media Empires – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.12]
Thu, 17 Dec 2020
My guest today, Bob Pittman, has had one of the most interesting careers I’ve ever come across. To...
Sam Hinkie – Find Your People - [Invest Like the Best, EP.204]
Tue, 15 Dec 2020
My guest today is Sam Hinkie. Sam worked for more than a decade in the NBA with the Houston Rockets ...
Michelle Zatlyn – Protecting the Internet – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.11]
Thu, 10 Dec 2020
My guest today is Michelle Zatlyn. Michelle is the co-founder and COO of Cloudflare, a now $25 billi...
Danny Meyer – The Power of Hospitality - [Invest Like the Best, EP.203]
Tue, 08 Dec 2020
My guest today is Danny Meyer, the founder and CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group, which compromi...
Zac Bookman – How Government Works – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.10]
Thu, 03 Dec 2020
My guest today is Zac Bookman. Zac is the Founder and CEO of OpenGov a budgeting and financial mana...
Daniel Gross – Finding Undiscovered Talent - [Invest Like the Best, EP.202]
Tue, 01 Dec 2020
My guest today is Daniel Gross. Daniel is the founder of Pioneer, an extremely unique company which ...
Emmett Shear - The New Language of the Internet – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.9]
Thu, 26 Nov 2020
My guest today is Emmett Shear, founder and CEO of Twitch. Twitch is the world's leading live strea...
RRE Ventures - RRE Ventures - Raju Rishi, Nikita Singareddy, Jason Black - [Invest Like the Best, EP.201]
Tue, 24 Nov 2020
My guests today are Raju Rishi, Nikita Singareddy, and Jason Black of RRE Ventures. RRE is a New Yor...
Nick Kokonas - Know What You Are Selling – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.8]
Thu, 19 Nov 2020
My guest today is Nick Kokonas, the co-founder of the 3 of the best restaurants and bars in America ...
Niki Scevak - Wild Hearts and Wild Ideas - [Invest Like the Best, EP.200]
Tue, 17 Nov 2020
My guest today is Niki Scevak, co-founder and partner at Blackbird Ventures. Blackbird is a leading ...
Todd McKinnon - Creating and Defining a New Market Category - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.7]
Thu, 12 Nov 2020
My guest today is Todd McKinnon, co-founder and CEO of Okta, the leading provider of identity manage...
Jason Karp and Rohan Oza – The Power of Brand - [Invest Like the Best, EP.199]
Tue, 10 Nov 2020
My guests today are Jason Karp and Rohan Oza. Jason is the founder and CEO of HumanCo, a holding com...
John Chambers - Pattern Matching, Playbooks, and Winning Product Categories - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.6]
Thu, 05 Nov 2020
My guest this week is John Chambers. John was the CEO of Cisco from 1995 to 2015 where he helped gro...
Anu Hariharan – Lessons in Growth Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.198]
Tue, 03 Nov 2020
My guest this week is Anu Hariharan. Anu is a partner at Y-Combinator's Continuity Fund where she f...
Laura Behrens Wu - When Digital and Physical Worlds Converge - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.5]
Thu, 29 Oct 2020
My guest today is Laura Behrens Wu, co-founder and CEO of Shippo. Shippo started in 2014 after Laura...
Brad Gerstner and Rich Barton – Thriving in Changing Markets - [Invest Like the Best, EP.197]
Tue, 27 Oct 2020
My guests today are Rich Barton and Brad Gerstner. Brad is the founder of Altimeter Capital and is o...
Jason Citron - Building the Third Place - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.4]
Thu, 22 Oct 2020
My guest today is Jason Citron, founder and CEO of Discord. Discord is one of the largest and fastes...
Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal of Acquired - Lessons on Early Stage Investing and Getting Acquired - [Invest Like the Best, EP.196]
Tue, 20 Oct 2020
My guests today are Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal. Ben and David are investors but also the duo be...
Leore Avidar - Creating and Selling Superpowers - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.3]
Thu, 15 Oct 2020
My guest today is Leore Avidar. Leore is the co-founder and CEO of Lob, a company which makes it ...
Jacqueline Novogratz – Investing in Dignity and Character - [Invest Like the Best, EP.195]
Tue, 13 Oct 2020
My guest today is Jacqueline Novogratz. Jacqueline is the founder and CEO of Acumen, a non-profit g...
Justin Singer - How Regulation Unlocks Opportunity - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.2]
Thu, 08 Oct 2020
My guest today is Justin Singer, the founder and CEO of Caliper Foods and Stillwater Brands, two lea...
Jesse Livermore - Upside Down Markets - Understanding Fiscal and Monetary Policy - [Invest Like the Best, EP.194]
Tue, 06 Oct 2020
My guest today is Jesse Livermore. I’ve worked with Jesse as part of our research partners program...
Rahul Vohra - Using Emotion to Design Great Products - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.1]
Thu, 01 Oct 2020
Today’s episode represents a new chapter for Invest Like the Best, so requires a longer introducti...
Modest Proposal – Better, Cheaper, Faster: Why Companies that Reduce Friction Win - [Invest Like the Best, EP.193]
Tue, 29 Sep 2020
Before getting to this week’s guest, an announcement: starting Thursday we will be introducing a n...
Lauren Taylor Wolfe – The Modern Activist Toolkit - [Invest Like the Best, EP.192]
Tue, 22 Sep 2020
My guest this week is Lauren Taylor Wolfe. Lauren is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Impactiv...
Rory Sutherland – Moonshots and Marketing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.191]
Tue, 15 Sep 2020
My guest today is Rory Sutherland. Rory is the Vice Chairman of Ogilvy & Mather Group, which is one ...
Michael Seibel – Lessons from Thousands of Startups - [Invest Like the Best, EP.190]
Tue, 08 Sep 2020
My guest this week is Michael Seibel. Michael is a Partner at Y Combinator, and the CEO of YC's star...
Michael Mauboussin – Great Migration Public to Private Equity - [Invest Like the Best, EP.189]
Tue, 01 Sep 2020
My guest this week is Michael Mauboussin, the head of consilient research at Counterpoint Global. Mi...
Chetan Puttagunta and Jeremiah Lowin – Open Source Crash Course - [Invest Like the Best, EP.188]
Tue, 25 Aug 2020
My guests this week are Jeremiah Lowin and Chetan Puttagunta. Jeremiah is the founder of Prefect.io...
Katrina Lake – The Next Wave of E-Commerce - [Invest Like the Best, EP.187]
Tue, 18 Aug 2020
My guest today is Katrina Lake, the co-founder and CEO of Stitch Fix. Stitch Fix is a multi-billion-...
Brian Armstrong – The Future of Crypto - [Invest Like the Best, EP.186]
Tue, 11 Aug 2020
My guest this week is Brian Armstrong, the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase. The topic of our conversa...
Matt Ball - The Future of Media: Movies, the Metaverse, and More - [Invest Like the Best, EP.185]
Tue, 04 Aug 2020
My guest today, Matthew Ball, is a long time coming. He’s the former head of strategy at Amazon St...
Kat Cole – How to Operate: Lessons in Brand, Distribution, and Leadership - [Invest Like the Best, EP.184]
Tue, 28 Jul 2020
My guest today is Kat Cole, the COO and president of North America for Focus Brands, which owns famo...
Eric Vishria – The Past, Present, and Future of SaaS and Software - [Invest Like the Best, EP.183]
Tue, 21 Jul 2020
My guest this week is Eric Vishria, a general partner at Benchmark Capital. Eric joined Benchmark af...
Turner Novak – The Past, Present, and Future of Consumer Social Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.182]
Tue, 14 Jul 2020
My guest this week is Turner Novak, a partner at Gelt VC. Many of the largest companies in the world...
Charlie Songhurst – Lessons from Investing in 483 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.181]
Tue, 07 Jul 2020
My guest this week is Charlie Songhurst, the former head of strategy at Microsoft and a prolific inv...
Blake Robbins – Investing in Gaming - [Invest Like the Best, EP.180]
Tue, 30 Jun 2020
My guest today is Blake Robbins, a partner at Ludlow Ventures. We talk about all things video games,...
Brad Gerstner – Public and Private Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.179]
Tue, 23 Jun 2020
My guest today is Brad Gerstner, the founder and CIO of Altimeter Capital, a multi-billion dollar te...
John Collison – Growing the Internet Economy - [Invest Like the Best, EP.178]
Tue, 16 Jun 2020
My guest today is John Collison, the Co-Founder of the digital payments company Stripe. Stripe’s m...
Jeremy Grantham – An Uncertain Crisis - [Invest Like the Best, EP.177]
Tue, 09 Jun 2020
My guest today is Jeremy Grantham. Jeremy is the co-founder and chief investment strategist of Grant...
Ben Thompson – Platforms, Ecosystems, and Aggregators - [Invest Like the Best, EP.176]
Tue, 02 Jun 2020
My guest today is Ben Thompson. Ben is the author of my favorite business strategy newsletter called...
Shishir Mehrotra – The Art and Science of the Bundle - [Invest Like the Best, EP.175]
Tue, 26 May 2020
My guest today is Shishir Mehrotra and the topic of our conversation is the bundle: offering access ...
Hamilton Helmer – Power + Business - [Invest Like the Best, EP.174]
Tue, 19 May 2020
My guest today is Hamilton Helmer, the Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Strategy Capital a...
Tobi Lutke – Building a Modern Business - [Invest Like the Best, EP.173]
Tue, 12 May 2020
My guest today is Tobi Lutke, the co-founder, and CEO of Shopify. This is both a timely and evergr...
Ali Hamed – An Update on Private Credit - [Invest Like the Best, EP.172]
Tue, 05 May 2020
My guest today is popular past guest Ali Hamed, who joins us for an update on private credit. We dis...
Chris Bloomstran - An Update on Public Markets - [Invest Like the Best, EP.171]
Thu, 30 Apr 2020
My guest today for a flash update is Chris Bloomstran, the founder and CIO of Semper Augustus and a ...
Josh Kopelman - The Past, Present, And Future Of Seed Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.170]
Tue, 28 Apr 2020
My guest today is Josh Kopelman, the founder of famed venture capital firm First Round Capital. Prio...
Manny Stotz - Frontier Markets Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.169]
Tue, 21 Apr 2020
My guest today is Manny Stotz, the founder of Kingsway Capital. Manny is one of the leading investor...
Sarah Tavel - Consumer & Marketplace Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.168]
Tue, 07 Apr 2020
My guest this week is Sarah Tavel, a general partner at Benchmark, working alongside past guests Bil...
[BONUS] Boyd Varty - 40 Days and 40 Nights
Sun, 05 Apr 2020
In the midst of the worldwide quarantine, my friend Boyd Varty decided to begin an adventure he has ...
Gavin Baker – Investing Through a Bear Market - [Invest Like the Best, EP.167]
Thu, 02 Apr 2020
My guest today is with past guest Gavin Baker, the founder and CIO of Atreides Management, LP. We di...
D.A. Wallach – Investing in Healthcare - [Invest Like the Best, EP.166]
Tue, 31 Mar 2020
My guest today is D.A. Wallach, one of the more interesting investors I’ve come across. He is the ...
Chad Cascarilla – Update on Tail Risk - [Invest Like the Best, EP.165]
Wed, 25 Mar 2020
My guest today is Chad Cascarilla, here to discuss some of the tail risks in the economy and markets...
Brent Beshore – Update on Small Business and Private Equity - [Invest Like the Best, EP.164]
Fri, 20 Mar 2020
My conversation today is with my close friend Brent Beshore. Brent is a private equity investor who ...
Dan Rasmussen – Investing Through a Crisis - [Invest Like the Best, EP.163]
Mon, 16 Mar 2020
My guest this morning is Dan Rasmussen of Verdad Capital. Like me, Dan and his firm focus on quantit...
Bill Gurley and Chetan Puttagunta – An Update on Consumer & Enterprise Venture Capital - [Invest Like the Best, EP.162]
Fri, 13 Mar 2020
My guests today are Bill Gurley and Chetan Puttagunta, both partners at benchmark capital. We review...
Bryan Krug – An Update on Corporate Credit - [Invest Like the Best, EP.161]
Fri, 13 Mar 2020
My guest in this flash podcast is Bryan Krug of Artisan partners. We discuss what has happened so fa...
Deep Basin – Oil Price War and Its Implications - [Invest Like the Best, EP.160]
Wed, 11 Mar 2020
This week, I’ll be recording and immediately releasing a series of conversations on business and m...
Peter Zeihan - Dis-United Nations - [Invest Like the Best, EP.159]
Tue, 10 Mar 2020
My guest this week is Peter Zeihan, the author of a new book, the Disunited Nations. Peter was an...
Jeff Lawson – How to Build a Platform - [Invest Like the Best, EP.158]
Tue, 03 Mar 2020
My guest this week is Jeff Lawson, the Founder, and CEO of Twilio. Twilio is a 15-billion-dollar com...
Niko Canner – Become a Perfect Instrument - [Invest Like the Best, EP.157]
Tue, 25 Feb 2020
Niko Canner is the founder of Incandescent where he and his team help the leaders of large companies...
[REPLAY] What You Learn About Business Deals After: 12,000 Deals Reviewed, 1,500 Deep Dives, 125 Site Visits, and 7 Portfolio Companies with Brent Beshore - [Invest Like the Best, EP.100]
Tue, 04 Feb 2020
For the 100th episode, I’ve brought back my good friend Brent Beshore. Brent was the 10th guest on...
Chetan Puttagunta – Go Slow to Go Fast: Software Building and Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.156]
Tue, 28 Jan 2020
My guest this week is a good friend and a business mentor of mine. Chetan Puttagunta is a general pa...
Rebecca Kaden – Thesis Driven Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.155]
Tue, 21 Jan 2020
My guest today is Rebecca Kaden, a partner at famed venture firm union square ventures. USV is known...
Matt Clifford – Investing Pre-Company - [Invest Like the Best, EP.154]
Tue, 14 Jan 2020
My guest today is Matt Clifford. He’s the co-founder of Entrepreneur First, the world’s leading ...
Peter Buffett – Finding Your Note - [Invest Like the Best, EP.153]
Tue, 07 Jan 2020
My guest today is Peter Buffett. Peter is a musician, composer, author, and philanthropist. Peter is...
Ben Savage – All Things Fintech Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.152]
Tue, 17 Dec 2019
My guest today is Ben Savage, a partner at Clocktower ventures. Ben is focused on financial technolo...
Jeff Ma – Making Decisions with Data - [Invest Like the Best, EP.151]
Tue, 10 Dec 2019
My guest this week is Jeff Ma. Jeff was on the famous MIT Blackjack team from the book Bringing Down...
Vaughn Tan – Quality and Innovation - [Invest Like the Best, EP.150]
Tue, 03 Dec 2019
My guest today is Vaughn Tan, who studies quality, innovation, and organizational behavior. His resu...
Gavin Baker – Tech and Consumer Growth Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.149]
Tue, 26 Nov 2019
My guest this week is Gavin Baker, the founder, and manager of Atreides Management. I met Gavin in t...
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger – How to Build a Great Product
Tue, 19 Nov 2019
My guests this week are Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the co-founders of Instagram. I met Kevin a...
Daniel Ek – The Future of Audio - [Invest Like the Best, EP.147]
Tue, 12 Nov 2019
My guest this week is Daniel Ek, the founder and CEO of Spotify. In my conversations with Daniel, I...
George Rzepecki – Investing in Africa - [Invest Like the Best, EP.146
Tue, 05 Nov 2019
My guest this week is George Rzepecki, the found and managing partner Raba, an Africa focused invest...
Chad Cascarilla – The Future of Blockchain and Financial Services - [Invest Like the Best, EP.145]
Tue, 29 Oct 2019
My guest today is Chad Cascarilla, the CEO and co-founder of Paxos, which describes itself as a fina...
Bill Gurley – Direct Listing vs. IPO - [Invest Like the Best, EP.144]
Tue, 24 Sep 2019
My guest this week is Bill Gurley, general partner at Benchmark Capital. Our conversation is about o...
[REPLAY] Albert Wenger - World After Capital - [Invest Like the Best, EP.80]
Tue, 17 Sep 2019
My guest this week is Albert Wenger, a managing partner at Union Square Ventures and the author of t...
[REPLAY] Deep Basin – Earning Alpha in Energy - [Invest Like the Best, EP.81]
Wed, 11 Sep 2019
My guest this week are Matt Smith and Ian singer of Deep Basin Capital, a hedge fund specializing in...
[REPLAY] Pat Dorsey - Buying Companies With Economic Moats - [Invest Like the Best, EP.51]
Tue, 27 Aug 2019
My guest this week is Pat Dorsey, who was the longtime director of equity research at Morningstar, w...
Joe McLean – How to be a Pro’s Pro - [Invest Like the Best, EP.143]
Tue, 20 Aug 2019
My guest this week is Joe McLean, the founder of Intersect Capital, which provides financial advisor...
Zack Kanter – All Things Business - [Invest Like the Best, EP.142]
Tue, 13 Aug 2019
This week’s guest is, Zack Kanter, the founder and CEO of the Stedi. Zack and I decided not to t...
Chris Bloomstran – What Makes a Quality Company - [Invest Like the Best, EP.141]
Tue, 06 Aug 2019
My guest this week is Chris Bloomstran, the president and chief investment officer of Semper Augustu...
Brian Christian – How to Live with Computers - [Invest Like the Best, EP.140]
Tue, 30 Jul 2019
My guest this week is Brian Christian, the author of two of my favorite recent books: Algorithms to...
Eric Sorensen - How Quant Evolves - [Invest Like the Best, EP.139]
Tue, 23 Jul 2019
My guest this week is Eric Sorensen, the CEO of Panagora asset management, which manages more than $...
Jane McGonigal – How Games Make Life Better - [Invest Like the Best, EP.138]
Tue, 16 Jul 2019
Jane McGonigal, PhD is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games — or, games that are d...
Bill Gurley – All Things Business and Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.137]
Tue, 02 Jul 2019
My guest this week is Bill Gurley, a general partner at Benchmark Capital and one my favorite invest...
Jesse Livermore – The Search for the Truth with the Anonymous Master - [Invest Like the Best, EP.136]
Tue, 25 Jun 2019
This week I have a very special guest years in the making. Like another favorite episode, with anony...
Chuck Akre – The Three-Legged Stool - [Invest Like the Best, EP.135]
Tue, 18 Jun 2019
My guest today is Chuck Akre, a now widely famous investor who founded Akre Capital Management in 19...
Jerry Neumann – Why Venture is Hard - [Invest Like the Best, EP.134]
Tue, 11 Jun 2019
My guest this week is Jerry Neumann. Jerry is one of the most thoughtful early stage investors that ...
[REPLAY] Sam Hinkie – Data, Decisions, and Basketball - [Invest Like the Best, EP.88]
Tue, 04 Jun 2019
I came across this week’s guest thanks to the overlap of three passions of mine: data informed inv...
David Epstein – Wide or Deep? - [Invest Like the Best, EP.133]
Tue, 28 May 2019
My guest this week is David Epstein. David is a writer and researcher extraordinaire and the author ...
Priya Parker – The Art of Gathering - [Invest Like the Best, EP.132]
Tue, 21 May 2019
This week I’m hosting an investor retreat and so thought it fitting to release this conversation w...
[REPLAY] Tim Urban - Grand Theft Life - [Invest Like the Best, EP.59]
Tue, 14 May 2019
This week’s conversation is about artificial intelligence and interplanetary travel. Its about con...
Stephanie Cohen – The Evolution of M&A and Corporate Strategy - [Invest Like the Best, EP.131]
Tue, 07 May 2019
My guest this week is Stephanie Cohen, who is the chief strategy officer for Goldman Sachs and a mem...
[REPLAY] Will Thorndike - How Skilled Capital Allocators Compound Capital - [Invest Like the Best, EP.36]
Tue, 30 Apr 2019
This week’s guest is Will Thorndike, an author and investor whose book The Outsiders is an all-t...
Josh Wolfe – The Tech Imperative - [Invest Like the Best, EP.130]
Tue, 23 Apr 2019
My guest this week is Josh Wolfe, co-founder and managing partner at Lux Capital. I had Josh on the ...
Katherine Collins – Impact and ESG Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.129]
Tue, 16 Apr 2019
My guest this week is Katherine Collins, who is the head of sustainable investing at Putnam Investme...
Geoffrey Batt – The Nature of Transformational Returns - [Invest Like the Best, EP.128]
Tue, 09 Apr 2019
My guest this week Geoffrey Batt and the topic of our conversation is how to earn transformational r...
Brian Singerman – Investing in the Best Founders - [Invest Like the Best, EP.127]
Tue, 02 Apr 2019
My guest this week is Brian Singerman, a partner at the venture capital firm Founders Fund. Founder’...
Michael Mauboussin – The Four Sources of Alpha - [Invest Like the Best, EP.126]
Tue, 26 Mar 2019
My guest this week for the third time is Michael Mauboussin. If there is a major question about mark...
Annie Duke – Wanna Bet? - [Invest Like the Best, EP.125]
Tue, 19 Mar 2019
My guest this week is with Annie Duke, and the topic of our discussion is how to improve decision ma...
Michael Mayer – Pseudonymous Social Capital and Bottomless Coffee - [Invest Like the Best, EP.124]
Tue, 12 Mar 2019
My guest this week is unique and so requires a short story. I met our guest Michael Mayer because o...
Peter Zeihan – The Future of Geopolitics - [Invest Like the Best, EP.123]
Tue, 05 Mar 2019
Peter is a geopolitical strategist who combines expertise in demography, economics, energy, politics...
Michael Kitces – The Past, Present & Future of Financial Advice - [Invest Like the Best, EP.122]
Tue, 26 Feb 2019
My guest this week is Michael Kitces, who is one of our industries go-to experts on all things finan...
Alex Danco – Scarcity, Abundance and Bubbles - [Invest Like the Best, EP.121]
Tue, 12 Feb 2019
My guest this week is Alex Danco. Alex is a member of the Discover Team at Social Capital, has a bac...
Keith Wasserman – Real Estate Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.120]
Tue, 05 Feb 2019
My guest this week is Keith Wasserman, co-founder of the real estate investment firm Gelt. This was...
Alex Mittal – Early Stage Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.119]
Tue, 29 Jan 2019
My guest this week is Alex Mittal, co-founder of Funders Club. Following past guest Jeremiah Lowin, ...
Eugene Wei – Tech, Media, and Culture - [Invest Like the Best, EP.118]
Tue, 22 Jan 2019
My guest this week, Eugene Wei, has one of the most interesting backgrounds of anyone I’ve had on ...
Michael Duda – Investing In Brands - [Invest Like the Best, EP.117]
Tue, 15 Jan 2019
My guest this week is Michael Duda, and the topic of our conversation is the role that brand plays i...
Abby Johnson – Future of Finance - [Invest Like the Best, EP.116]
Tue, 08 Jan 2019
Over the summer. I spent time with Abby Johnson, who is the chairman and CEO of Fidelity Investments...
Keith Rabois - If You Can’t Sell Them, Compete with Them - [Invest Like the Best, EP.115]
Tue, 18 Dec 2018
My guest this week is Keith Rabois. Keith is currently an investment partner at Khosla Ventures, but...
Bryan Krug – High Yield Credit Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.114]
Tue, 11 Dec 2018
My guest today is Bryan Krug, who manages the Artisan Partners Credit Team and overseas more than $3...
Maureen Chiquet – Leadership Through Hard Conversations - [Invest Like the Best, EP.113]
Tue, 04 Dec 2018
My guest this week is Maureen Chiquet, the former longtime CEO of Chanel. Maureen also spent much of...
Hunter Walk – Building Picks and Shovels - [Invest Like the Best, EP.112]
Tue, 27 Nov 2018
My guest this week is Hunter Walk, the co-founder of Homebrew, a unique venture capital firm. Hunter...
[REPLAY] Alex Moazed – Building Modern Monopolies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.25]
Tue, 20 Nov 2018
[REPLAY] Modern Monopolies: What It Takes to Dominate the 21st Century Economy, which explores the...
Cliff Asness – The Past, The Present & Future of Quant [Invest Like the Best, EP.111]
Tue, 13 Nov 2018
My guest this week is Cliff Asness, the managing and founding principal at AQR Capital Management. 2...
[REPLAY] Peter Attia, M.D. - How to Live a Longer, Higher Quality Life - [Invest Like the Best, EP.27]
Tue, 06 Nov 2018
[REPLAY] My guest this week is Peter Attia, M.D., whose mission is to understand and improve human ...
Ryan Caldbeck – Quant in Private Markets - [Invest Like the Best, EP.110]
Tue, 30 Oct 2018
My guest this week is Ryan Caldbeck, a private equity investor who wants to bring quantitative rigor...
Howard Lindzon – Fintech and Trend Following - [Invest Like the Best, EP.109]
Tue, 23 Oct 2018
My guest this week aspires to be the Larry David of investing, and we discuss why. Howard Lindzon is...
CoVenture Credit - Esoteric Credit with Ail Hamed, Brian Harwitt, and Marc Porzecanski - [Invest Like the Best, EP.108]
Tue, 16 Oct 2018
My guests this week are Ali Hamed, Brian Harwitt and Marc Porzecanski who work together at CoVenture...
Saifedean Ammous – The Bitcoin Standard - [Invest Like the Best, EP.107]
Tue, 09 Oct 2018
My guest this week is Saifedean Ammous, author of the book the Bitcoin Standard. This was one of the...
Jeremiah Lowin – Machine Learning in Investing – [Invest Like the Best, EP.105]
Tue, 25 Sep 2018
My guest this week is one of my best and oldest friends, Jeremiah Lowin. Jeremiah has had a fascinat...
Trail Magic - Lessons from Two Years of the Podcast [Invest Like the Best, EP.104]
Tue, 18 Sep 2018
This week, to mark the two-year anniversary of the podcast, I offer a quick summary looking back and...
Kathryn Minshew - How Employers and Employees Should Build Careers - [Invest Like the Best, EP.103]
Tue, 11 Sep 2018
My guest this week is Kathryn Minshew, the co-founder and CEO of the Muse, and the co-author of The ...
Richard Craib - Crowdsourcing Predictive Algorithms - [Invest Like the Best, EP.102]
Tue, 04 Sep 2018
I intentionally avoid the world of quantitative investing on this podcast. The whole point of this f...
Elad Gil – How to Identify Interesting Markets - [Invest Like the Best, EP.101]
Tue, 28 Aug 2018
My guest this week has a fascinating background. He has a PhD in biology but has split his time as b...
What You Learn About Business Deals After: 12,000 Deals Reviewed, 1,500 Deep Dives, 125 Site Visits, and 7 Portfolio Companies with Brent Beshore - [Invest Like the Best, EP.100]
Tue, 21 Aug 2018
For the 100th episode, I’ve brought back my good friend Brent Beshore. Brent was the 10th guest on...
Boyd and Bronwyn Varty – Track Your Life - [Invest Like the Best, EP.99b]
Wed, 15 Aug 2018
Today’s conversation is a continuation of my discussion on applying the lessons of tracking animal...
Boyd Varty – Live Like a Tracker - [Invest Like the Best, EP.99a]
Tue, 14 Aug 2018
An interesting question that I think about a lot: how do you balance exploring the new with savoring...
Ryan Selkis - The Crypto Barbell and Token Curated Registries - [Invest Like the Best, EP.98]
Tue, 07 Aug 2018
Ryan Selkis - The Crypto Barbell and Token Curated Registries - [Invest Like the Best, EP.98] This ...
Cathie Wood – Investing in Innovation - [Invest Like the Best, EP.97]
Tue, 31 Jul 2018
My guest this week is Cathie Wood, the founder of ARK invest. Cathie and her team believe that disru...
Bethany McLean - Business Gone Bad and the Art of Persistence - [Invest Like the Best, EP.96]
Tue, 24 Jul 2018
I’ve often heard that good investors are a bit like journalists: doggedly collecting evidence and ...
Modest Proposal – Value is Dead, Long Live Value - [Invest Like the Best, EP.95]
Tue, 17 Jul 2018
A very short introduction today because my guest is anonymous. Suffice it to say he manages a large ...
[REPLAY] Eric Maddox – The Ace of Spades - [Invest Like the Best, EP.15]
Tue, 10 Jul 2018
With Patrick out of the country this week, we thought we'd play an old favorite that many of you hav...
Niel Robertson – The Future of Media - [Invest Like the Best, EP.94]
Tue, 03 Jul 2018
This week’s episode covers a new set of topics. The conversation, with Niel Robertson, covers medi...
Eric Balchunas – The Past, Present & Future of ETFs - [Invest Like the Best, EP.93]
Tue, 26 Jun 2018
My guest this week is Eric Balchunas, the senior ETF analyst for Bloomberg and the author of the Ins...
New Angles on Crypto - Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain - [Invest Like the Best, EP.92]
Tue, 19 Jun 2018
My guests this week are Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain, both managing partners at Multicoin Capital. I...
Michael Recce – Tim Cook’s Dashboard - [Invest Like the Best, EP.91]
Tue, 12 Jun 2018
My guest this week is Michael Recce, the chief data scientist for Neuberger Berman. The topic of our...
Ash Fontana – Investing in Artificial Intelligence - [Invest Like the Best, EP.90]
Tue, 05 Jun 2018
My guest this week is Ash Fontana, a managing partner at venture capital firm Zetta, who invests in ...
Mike Zapata – The Darkest Night: Lessons from Battle and Value Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.89]
Tue, 29 May 2018
My guest this week is remarkable. He now applies his talents on Wall Street, searching for smaller c...
Sam Hinkie – Data, Decisions, and Basketball - [Invest Like the Best, EP.88]
Tue, 22 May 2018
I came across this week’s guest thanks to the overlap of three passions of mine: data informed inv...
Tren Griffin – Pulling the Thread - [Invest Like the Best, EP.87]
Tue, 15 May 2018
My guest this week is a bundle of curiosity, and that is one of the nicest things I could say about ...
Jason Karp – Opportunities in Public and Private Markets - [Invest Like the Best, EP.86]
Tue, 08 May 2018
I believe that any investment strategy that will deliver strong returns in the future must evolve. A...
Chris Douvos – A Value Investor Lost in the Valley - [Invest Like the Best, EP.85]
Tue, 01 May 2018
My guest this week is Chris Douvos, a managing partner at Venture Investment Associates, which alloc...
Arianna Simpson – The Crypto Landscape - [Invest Like the Best, EP.84]
Tue, 24 Apr 2018
My guest today is Arianna Simpson, who has spent her career in an around the world of technology wor...
Shark Tank with Thatcher Bell and Taylor Greene - [Invest Like the Best, EP.83]
Tue, 17 Apr 2018
We’ve always found that even in public equities, you learn more once you have a live portfolio. On...
Nikhil Kalghatgi – Moonshot Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.82]
Tue, 10 Apr 2018
My guest this week helps me complete the first trilogy of guests on the podcast. His name is Nikhil ...
Live EP.01 – Peter Attia, M.D. [Invest Like the Best]
Tue, 27 Mar 2018
This week’s episode was the first one that I’ve recorded live. It was the second dinner in what ...
[REPLAY] Boyd Varty – The Art of Tracking - [Invest Like the Best, EP.32]
Tue, 20 Mar 2018
[After talking to the brilliant string of guests the past several weeks, Patrick’s brain needed a ...
Albert Wenger - World After Capital - [Invest Like the Best, EP.80]
Tue, 13 Mar 2018
My guest this week is Albert Wenger, a managing partner at Union Square Ventures and the author of t...
Savneet Singh - The Berkshire of Software - [Invest Like the Best, EP.79]
Tue, 06 Mar 2018
My guest this week is another in a recent series of people that makes me want to work harder, learn ...
Dan Rasmussen - Private Equity Returns in Public Markets - [Invest Like the Best, EP.78]
Tue, 27 Feb 2018
It has been a while since we discussed private equity on the show, so I was excited for this week’...
Pat Dorsey Returns - The Moat Portfolio - [Invest Like the Best, EP.77]
Tue, 20 Feb 2018
My guest this week, back for a second conversation, is Pat Dorsey. Pat ran equity research at Mornin...
Josh Wolfe - This is Who You Are Up Against - [Invest Like the Best, EP.76]
Tue, 13 Feb 2018
Long-time listeners will have heard me joke before that this podcast should really be called “this...
Harvey Sawikin - Emerging Market Opportunities - [Invest Like the Best, EP.75]
Tue, 06 Feb 2018
My guest this week is Harvey Sawikin, a co-founder and lead portfolio manager at Firebird Management...
Anthony Pompliano - Full Tilt Investing- [Invest Like the Best, EP.74]
Tue, 30 Jan 2018
My guest this week is Anthony Pompliano. Pomp began his career in the military, and has since been a...
Dr. Ben Hunt - The Three-Body Portfolio - [Invest Like the Best, EP.73]
Tue, 23 Jan 2018
My guest this week is Dr. Ben Hunt, the chief investment strategist at Salient and the author of the...
Preston Byrne - Crypto-pocalypse - [Invest Like the Best, EP.72]
Tue, 16 Jan 2018
My guest this week is Preston Byrne. Preston is vocal critic of crazy prices and projects in the wor...
Ali Hamed – Creative Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.71]
Tue, 09 Jan 2018
I have a special request this week: share this episode with every curious person in your life. Th...
Sheel Tyle - The Future of Venture Capital - [Invest Like the Best, EP.70]
Tue, 02 Jan 2018
My guest this week is Sheel Tyle, who at just 26 years old has already had a successful career in ve...
Chris Dixon – The Future of Tech - [Invest Like the Best, EP.69]
Tue, 26 Dec 2017
My guest this week is Chris Dixon, who has written some of my favorite essays on technology and vent...
Sorin Capital – Retail Contrarians - [Invest Like the Best, EP.68]
Tue, 19 Dec 2017
So far I’ve spent no time in the podcast discussing real estate, so I was excited to get the chanc...
Franklin Foer – World Without Mind - [Invest Like the Best, EP.67]
Tue, 12 Dec 2017
My guest this week is Franklin Foer, the author the recently published book “World Without Mind.”...
Adam Ludwin - A Sober View on Crypto - [Invest Like the Best, EP.66]
Tue, 05 Dec 2017
My guest this week is Adam Ludwin, the founder and CEO of Chain, a blockchain technology company tar...
Joanne Wilson - Angel Investing and Trend Spotting - [Invest Like the Best, EP.65]
Tue, 28 Nov 2017
My guest today is Joanne Wilson, a New York City based angel investor, writer, podcaster, trend spot...
Connor Leonard - Capital Light Compounders & Reinvestment Moats - [Invest Like the Best, EP.64]
Tue, 21 Nov 2017
This week’s conversation is an ode to old school, fundamental public market investing. My conversa...
Dhani Jones - Adventures in Sports, Business, and Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.63]
Tue, 14 Nov 2017
My guest this week is unique. As you will hear early and often, he is programmed to go his own way, ...
Chris Burniske - How to Value a Cryptoasset - [Invest Like the Best, EP.62]
Tue, 07 Nov 2017
This episode is a continuation of the Hash Power series. It is the first of what we will call a Hash...
Brad Katsuyama - What Happens When You Hit “Buy” - [Invest Like the Best, EP.61]
Tue, 31 Oct 2017
My guest this week is Brad Katsuyama, the founder of the IEX exchange and protagonist of Michael Lew...
Brett Maloley - Ladder: The Fitness Marketplace - [Invest Like the Best, EP.60]
Tue, 24 Oct 2017
This week’s episode is part of an experiment and so requires a longer than normal introduction. I’...
Tim Urban - Grand Theft Life - [Invest Like the Best, EP.59]
Tue, 17 Oct 2017
This week’s conversation is about artificial intelligence and interplanetary travel. Its about con...
Hash Power – Ep. 3 - Funding, Forking, and a Creative Future
Tue, 10 Oct 2017
In episodes one and two of Hash Power, we explored blockchain technology and cryptocurrency investin...
Hash Power – Ep. 2 - Investing in Cryptocurrencies
Tue, 03 Oct 2017
In episode 1 of Hash Power, we explored blockchains as a technology—how they work, why tokens (als...
Hash Power – Ep. 1 - Understanding Blockchains
Tue, 26 Sep 2017
Welcome to the first episode of Hash Power, an audio documentary that explores the world of blockcha...
David Tisch - Tech Investing Outside of Silicon Valley - [Invest Like the Best, EP.55]
Tue, 19 Sep 2017
My guest this week is David Tisch, who was instrumental in building and fostering venture capital i...
David Gardner - Finding Companies That Break the Rules - [Invest Like the Best, EP.54]
Tue, 12 Sep 2017
The investment strategy discussed in this week's episode is diametrically opposed to my own value te...
Meb Faber - Factors, Dividends, and Angel Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.53]
Thu, 07 Sep 2017
My guest this week is Meb Faber, who started a podcast similar to this one right before mine and was...
Team Ritholtz - The Wu Tang Clan of Finance - [Invest Like the Best, EP.52]
Tue, 29 Aug 2017
My guests this week don't need to be introduced. In celebration of the one year anniversary of inves...
Pat Dorsey - Buying Companies With Economic Moats - [Invest Like the Best, EP.51]
Tue, 22 Aug 2017
My guest this week is Pat Dorsey, who was the longtime director of equity research at Morningstar, w...
Jason Zweig and Morgan Housel - Business vs. Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.50]
Tue, 15 Aug 2017
My guests this week are both veterans of the podcast, Jason Zweig and Morgan Housel. They are two of...
Brad Stulberg - Just Manageable Challenges - [Invest Like the Best, EP.49]
Tue, 08 Aug 2017
This week's conversation is about performance. More specifically, it is about the ins and outs of st...
Leigh Drogen - Sink or Swim--How to Combine Quant and Traditional Asset Management Techniques - Invest Like the Best, EP.48]
Tue, 01 Aug 2017
Several weeks ago my conversation with Leigh Drogen on quant investing proved timely and popular--be...
Wes Gray - Compound Your Face Off - [Invest Like the Best, EP.47]
Tue, 25 Jul 2017
My guest this week is a version of me—a funnier, cooler version who has a PhD and served as an act...
Rishi Ganti - Esoteric Assets - [Invest Like the Best, EP.46]
Tue, 18 Jul 2017
My guest this week is Rishi Ganti, who invests in what he calls esoteric assets. I'm not sure what t...
Jerry Neumann - The Deployment Age, Power Laws, and Venture Capital - [Invest Like the Best, EP.45]
Tue, 11 Jul 2017
I am drawn to a group of investors that I call practitioner philosophers. These are people who have ...
Top Ten Lessons After Almost a Year - [Invest Like the Best, EP.44]
Wed, 05 Jul 2017
A future guest just told me, every band has a song about being in a band, so today I give you my ver...
Scott Norton - Seek to Learn That Which Cannot be Taught - [Invest Like the Best, EP.43]
Tue, 27 Jun 2017
If you told me a year ago that I’d be learning critical life and business lessons from the founder...
Andy Rachleff - Building Something People Want to Buy - [Invest Like the Best, EP.42]
Tue, 20 Jun 2017
My guest this week is Andy Rachleff, who is the CEO of the automated investing platform Wealthfront....
Leigh Drogen - Quant vs Traditional Investors and How Alphas Become Betas - [Invest Like the Best, EP.41]
Tue, 13 Jun 2017
I’ve often joked that this show should be called “this is who you are up against,” because I a...
Ira Judelson - Bail Street, with NYC's Leading Bail Bondsman - [Invest Like the Best, EP.40]
Tue, 06 Jun 2017
This week’s episode is very unique. It is the first episode devoted to bonds, just not the kind of...
David Chilton - The Human Blitzkrieg - [Invest Like the Best, EP.39]
Tue, 30 May 2017
This week's conversation was especially fun. I have a long history with my guest, Dave Chilton, but ...
David Salem - The Art of Asset Allocation - [Invest Like the Best, EP.38]
Tue, 23 May 2017
My guest this week is David Salem. David was the founding president and CIO for The Investment Fund ...
Michael Mauboussin - Man + Machine, Moats, and Power of the Outside View - [Invest Like the Best, EP.37]
Tue, 16 May 2017
My guest today is Michael Mauboussin, who is the head of global financial strategies at Credit Suiss...
Will Thorndike - How Skilled Capital Allocators Compound Capital - [Invest Like the Best, EP.36]
Tue, 09 May 2017
This week’s guest is Will Thorndike, an author and investor whose book The Outsiders is an all-t...
Ted Seides - The Bet with Buffett – Hedge Funds vs. The S&P 500 - [Invest Like the Best, EP.35]
Tue, 02 May 2017
This coming weekend is the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting in Omaha. That means this w...
Danny Moses - The Big Short and Beyond - [Invest Like the Best, EP.34]
Tue, 25 Apr 2017
My guest this week is Danny Moses, who was directly in the middle of the biggest trades in market hi...
Royce Yudkoff and Rick Ruback – REALLY Private Equity - [Invest Like the Best, EP.33]
Tue, 18 Apr 2017
In this episode, I continue to pull on one of the most interesting threads that I have uncovered whi...
SPECIAL EPISODE: Introducing Capital Allocators Podcast with Host Ted Seides
Thu, 13 Apr 2017
SPECIAL EPISODE: Introducing Capital Allocators Podcast with Host Ted Seides This is a special epis...
Boyd Varty – The Art of Tracking - [Invest Like the Best, EP.32]
Tue, 11 Apr 2017
This week’s episode is the most unique to date. My guest is Boyd Varty, who grew up in the South A...
Khe Hy – Quant Hedge Funds and the Fear of Death - [Invest Like the Best, EP.31]
Tue, 04 Apr 2017
My guest this week is Khe Hy. Khe has a very interesting, two-part story. We start with Khe's career...
Ted Seides and Brent Beshore – The Future of Asset Management - [Invest Like the Best, EP.30]
Tue, 28 Mar 2017
This week, my good friends Ted Seides and Brent Beshore join me to discuss the future of asset manag...
Jim O’Shaughnessy - Premeditated Success - [Invest Like the Best, EP.29]
Tue, 21 Mar 2017
My guest this week is my father, Jim O’Shaughnessy. He was a pioneer in quantitative equity resear...
Trish and James Higgins of Chenmark Capital - Permanent Equity - [Invest Like the Best, EP.28]
Tue, 14 Mar 2017
My guests this week are Trish and James Higgins, who run Chenmark Capital Management. In this epis...
Peter Attia, M.D. - How to Live a Longer, Higher Quality Life - [Invest Like the Best, EP.27]
Tue, 07 Mar 2017
My guest this week is Peter Attia, M.D., whose mission is to understand and improve human lifespan a...
John Rogers – Slow and Steady Wins the Race - [Invest Like the Best, EP.26]
Tue, 28 Feb 2017
My guest this week is John Rogers, founder, CEO and CIO of Ariel investments, one of the longest sta...
Alex Moazed – Building Modern Monopolies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.25]
Tue, 21 Feb 2017
My guest this week is Alex Moazed, the co-author of Modern Monopolies: What It Takes to Dominate th...
Ian Cassel – Investing In Tiny Stocks - [Invest Like the Best, EP.24]
Tue, 14 Feb 2017
My guest this week is Ian Cassel, a microcap investor who is always on the lookout for small compani...
Joe Mansueto – Lessons From the Founder of Morningstar - [Invest Like the Best, EP.23]
Tue, 07 Feb 2017
My guest this week is Joe Mansueto, the founder, longtime CEO and current executive chairman of Morn...
Brent Beshore Returns – Private Equity, Venture Capital, and the Future of Money Management - [Invest Like the Best, EP.22]
Tue, 31 Jan 2017
Brent Beshore and I spoke for 10 hours about all things investing and business, and decided to recor...
Brian Koppelman – Chasing Curiosity - [Invest Like the Best, EP.21]
Tue, 24 Jan 2017
My guest this week is writer, director, producer, and podcast host Brian Koppelman, who’s film cr...
Jeremiah Lowin – Machine Intelligence and Risk Management - [Invest Like the Best, EP.20]
Tue, 17 Jan 2017
Jeremiah Lowin is probably the smartest guy I know, and that is saying something. He is an expert in...
Lauren Loktev, Kanyi Maqubela, & Craig Shapiro - Watching a Venture Fund at Work - [Invest Like the Best, EP.19]
Tue, 10 Jan 2017
This week’s episode features the partners of the Collaborative Fund, a venture-capital firm based ...
Dan Egan – Designing Better Decisions - [Invest Like the Best, EP.18]
Tue, 03 Jan 2017
My guest today is Dan Egan, who is the managing director of Behavioral Finance and Investing at Bett...
Shane Parrish – Mastering Mental Models - [Invest Like the Best, EP.17]
Tue, 27 Dec 2016
My guest this week is Shane Parrish, who created the extremely popular Farnam Street—a website ded...
Jeff Ptak – The Prospects for Active Management - [Invest Like the Best, EP.16]
Tue, 20 Dec 2016
Joining me on the podcast this week is Jeff Ptak, head of global manager research at Morningstar. ...
Eric Maddox – The Ace of Spades - [Invest Like the Best, EP.15]
Tue, 13 Dec 2016
This week we explore a rare and underappreciated skill through the lens of an incredible story. My g...
Josh Brown – The Reformation - [Invest Like the Best, EP.14]
Tue, 06 Dec 2016
My guest this week is one of the reasons that this podcast exists. Josh Brown is a financial advis...
Christopher Cole – Small Bets, Huge Payoffs - [Invest Like the Best, EP.13]
Tue, 29 Nov 2016
My guest this week is Christopher Cole, founder and managing partner at Artemis Capital Management. ...
Kevin Simler – Exploring the Frontier - [Invest Like the Best, EP.12]
Tue, 22 Nov 2016
Today’s episode features one of my favorite thinkers and writers: Kevin Simler. Kevin has a back...
Craig Shapiro – Better for You, Better for the World - [Invest Like the Best, EP.11]
Mon, 14 Nov 2016
This week Patrick takes a deep dive in the world of Venture Capital with Craig Shapiro, founder and ...
Brent Beshore – Cultivating a Disaster Resistant, Compound Interest Machine - [Invest Like the Best, EP.10]
Tue, 08 Nov 2016
This week’s guest is Brent Beshore, Founder and CEO of adventur.es, a family of companies that inv...
Jon Stein – The State of Automated Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.09]
Tue, 01 Nov 2016
Would you be comfortable with a robo-advisor running your entire investment portfolio? That’s th...
Kiley Adams – An Internal Locus of Control - [Invest Like the Best, EP.08]
Fri, 28 Oct 2016
This episode is a major departure from the norm. My guest, Kiley Adams, is only 21 years old. She ...
Ted Seides – A Deep Dive into Hedge Funds - [Invest Like the Best, EP.07]
Tue, 25 Oct 2016
This week’s guest has forgotten more about hedge funds than most people will ever know. This episo...
Humble Giants – Vanguard’s Gerry O’Reilly and Jim Rowley - [Invest Like the Best, EP.06]
Tue, 18 Oct 2016
There is a good chance that this week’s guests manage your money. This episode is a rare and fasci...
Christian Rudder – The Quantified Self - [Invest Like the Best, EP.05]
Tue, 11 Oct 2016
In this episode Patrick talks to Christian Rudder, who is the co-founder of dating service OK Cupid,...
Morgan Housel – Walking and Thinking - [Invest Like the Best, EP.04]
Tue, 04 Oct 2016
In this week’s episode, Patrick and Morgan Housel explore the differences between private and publ...
Jason Zweig – The Power of Serendipity - [Invest Like the Best, EP.03]
Tue, 27 Sep 2016
In this episode, Patrick and Jason Zweig reflect on investing, financial advice, books, and life in ...
Michael Mauboussin – Active Asset Management - [Invest Like the Best, EP.02]
Tue, 20 Sep 2016
Michael Mauboussin, Managing Director and Head of Global Financial Strategies at Credit Suisse, join...
Jeff Gramm – Activist Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.01]
Mon, 12 Sep 2016
Hedge Fund Manager and author Jeff Gramm talks with Patrick O'Shaughnessy about the history and curr...