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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...