Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

By Colossus

Technology Business Investing

What's Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy about?

Exploring the ideas, methods, and stories of people that will help you better invest your time and money. Learn more and stay-up-to-date at InvestorFieldGuide.com

4.8

1,798 ratings

Download our free app to listen on your phone

LAST EPISODE

Chris Dixon - The Potential...

04.13.2021

My guest today is Chris Dixon, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Chris is a prolific investor and thinker, having been an entrepreneur, angel investor, and is now focused on investing in the crypto and blockchain space for Andreessen. Our ...

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy episodes:

04.13.2021 Chris Dixon - The Potential of Blockchain Technology - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 221] My guest today is Chris Dixon, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Chris is a prolific investor and thinker, having been an entrepreneur, angel investor, and is now focused on investing in the crypto and blockchain space for Andreessen. Our ...
04.09.2021 Shopify: The E-commerce On-Ramp - [Business Breakdowns, EP. 01] Welcome to the first episode of our newest show, Business Breakdowns, featuring deep-dive conversations on individual businesses. In each episode, we will dissect a new company with investors and operators that know it best. We’ve already released the first three ...
04.08.2021 Tony Xu - A Human and Math Problem - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 28] My guest today is Tony Xu, co-founder, and CEO of DoorDash. Tony started DoorDash 7.5 years ago, and today it is one of the largest food delivery and logistics platforms globally, with operations in the US, Canada, Australia. In our ...
04.06.2021 Mike Kerns and Jesse Jacobs - Content to Commerce - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 220] My guests this week are Jesse Jacobs and Mike Kerns, co-founders and partners at The Chernin Group, TCG, a multi-stage investment firm dedicated to building consumer businesses. Many think of TCG as some of the best media investors in the ...
04.05.2021 Business Breakdowns - Trailer Welcome to Business Breakdowns, a new Colossus podcast featuring deep-dive conversations on individual businesses. In each episode, we will dissect a new company with investors and operators that know it best. We believe every business has secrets and lessons to ...
04.01.2021 Jesse Pujji - A Primer on Performance Marketing - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 27] My guest today is Jesse Pujji, the Founder & CEO of Gateway X, a holding company that builds, buys, and invests in companies that are driving the direct-to-consumer landscape. Prior to Gateway X, Jesse was the CEO and co-founder of ...
03.30.2021 Kanyi Maqubela - Dawn of the 21st Century - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 219] My guest today is Kanyi Maqubela, co-founder of seed-stage VC firm Kindred Ventures, which he started with his partner Steven Jang in 2019. Before founding Kindred Ventures, Kanyi was a general partner at Collaborative Fund. In our conversation, we discuss ...
03.25.2021 Roxanne Petraeus - Modernizing Compliance - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.26] My guest today is Roxanne Petraeus, co-founder and CEO of Ethena, a modern compliance platform for businesses. Roxanne’s background is pretty incredible, before starting Ethena she was a Rhodes Scholar, served in the US Army, and worked at McKinsey. In ...
03.23.2021 Jesse Walden - A Primer on NFTs - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 218] My guest today is Jesse Walden, the founder of Variant, an early-stage venture firm investing in crypto networks and platforms building the ownership economy. With all the hype surrounding NFTs, I wanted to talk to Jesse about them, given his ...
03.18.2021 Jonathan Goldberg - Capturing Carbon - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 25] My guest today is Jonathan Goldberg, the founder, and CEO of Carbon Direct, a company focused on advising and investing in carbon removal at scale. Jonathan started his career in the commodities division of Goldman Sachs and then went on ...
03.16.2021 Marissa King - The Science of Social Networks - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 217] My guest this week is Marissa King, a professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management. I was fascinated by Marissa's work after coming across her book, Social Chemistry: Decoding the Elements of Human Connection, earlier this year. ...
03.11.2021 Jonathan Neman - Building the Modern Restaurant - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 24] My guest this week is Jonathan Neman, the co-founder and CEO of Sweetgreen. Sweetgreen is a fast-casual restaurant chain that Jonathan co-founded in 2007 during their senior year at Georgetown when he realized they couldn't find a healthy, affordable, and ...
03.09.2021 Josh Wolfe and Tony Thomas - The Past, Present, and Future of Defense – [Invest Like the Best, EP. 216] My guests today are Josh Wolfe and Tony Thomas, better known as T2. Josh is the co-founder and General Partner at Lux Capital. T2 is now a venture partner alongside Josh at Lux Capital, after serving for almost 40 years ...
03.04.2021 Matteo Franceschetti – Modernizing Sleep – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 23] My guest today is Matteo Franceschetti, the founder and CEO of Eight Sleep, a smart mattress company. I’m a customer of Eight Sleep and this was one of the most unique founder conversations I’ve had on the show, in both ...
03.02.2021 Jack Clark - Grateful for Everything, Entitled to Nothing – [Invest Like the Best, EP. 215] My guest today is Jack Clark, head coach of the University of California Varsity Rugby team. Jack has one of the highest winning percentages not only at the collegiate level but in sports history, winning an incredible 90% of games ...
02.25.2021 Ryan Petersen - Where There Is Mystery, There Is Margin – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 22] My guest today is Ryan Petersen, founder and CEO of Flexport. Flexport is a technology platform for global trade. In this conversation, Ryan takes us through the fragmented world of international freight shipping, and we dive deep into the history ...
02.23.2021 Jeremy Grantham - A Historic Market Bubble – [Invest Like the Best, EP.214] My guest today is Jeremy Grantham. Jeremy is the Long-Term Investment Strategist and Co-Founder at GMO. Jeremy has an encyclopedic knowledge of the history of markets, which made it such a pleasure to have him back on the show. In ...
02.18.2021 Carlos Brito – Creating an Ownership Culture – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 21] My guest today is Carlos Brito, CEO of Anheuser-Busch InBev. AB InBev is the world’s largest brewer of beer and maintains a portfolio of hundreds of beer brands across the globe. Our conversation focuses on AB InBev’s culture of ownership, ...
02.16.2021 Scott Belsky - Focus on the First Mile – [Invest Like the Best, EP. 213] My guest today is Scott Belsky. Scott was the co-founder and CEO of Behance, the world's largest creative network, and a prolific angel investor, having made early-stage investments in Pinterest, Uber, Carta, and Airtable. His company was acquired by Adobe ...
02.11.2021 Matt Mullenweg – The Past, Present, and Future of the Internet – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.20] My guest today is Matt Mullenweg, co-founder and CEO of Automattic, the company on top of the open-source project WordPress that Matt helped start. Today, WordPress powers 40% of all the websites in the world. Our wide-ranging conversation covers the ...
02.09.2021 Michael Dempsey – Investing in Bleeding Edge Technology – [Invest Like the Best, EP.212] My guest today is Michael Dempsey, General Partner at Compound. Michael invests in a broad range of areas but has a unique talent for combining brand building and direct customer relationships with technically demanding sectors. Our conversation covers the rise ...
02.04.2021 Dustin Moskovitz – Eliminating Work About Work – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP. 19] My guest today is Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder and CEO of Asana, a team-centric product management tool used by over 1.3 million users around the world. Dustin started Asana in 2008, 4 years after co-founding Facebook. In this conversation, we dive ...
02.02.2021 Chamath Palihapitiya – The Major Problems Facing the World – [Invest Like the Best, EP.211] My guest today is Chamath Palihapitiya, the founder and CEO of Social Capital, whose mission is to advance humanity by solving the world's hardest problems. I didn't know where this conversation would take us given Chamath's wide-ranging activities and interests ...
01.28.2021 Ali Ghodsi – The Past, Present, and Future of Big Data – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.18] My Guest today is Ali Ghodsi, founder and CEO of Databricks, a data analytics platform for data scientists and developers. He's also the founder of Apache Spark, the open-source project that Databricks is built on, and is an accomplished researcher ...
01.26.2021 Joost van Dreunen – Unlocking Value in Gaming – [Invest Like the Best, EP.210] My guest today is Joost van Dreunen, an investor in the gaming space, professor at NYU's Stern School of Business, and former CEO and co-founder of SuperData Research, a data-driven gaming firm that was acquired by Nielsen. He also recently ...
01.21.2021 Ilkka Paananen – Superpowering Teams – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.17] My guest today is Ilkka Paananen, Founder and CEO of Supercell, a mobile game developer based in Finland. Supercell has built hugely successful games like Clash of Clans and Clash Royale that have reached over 100 million daily active users. ...
01.19.2021 Claire Cormier Thielke – The Future of Cities and Real Estate – [Invest Like the Best, EP.209] My guest today is Claire Cormier Thielke, Managing Director of Asia Pacific for Hines, the largest private real estate investment, development and management firm in the world with over $144 billion in assets under management. Claire responsible for acquisitions, development, ...
01.14.2021 Oliver Hughes – The Secret FinTech Giant – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.16] My guest today is Oliver Hughes, the CEO of Tinkoff, the leading online commercial bank based in Russia. I found this conversation fascinating and think it will be essential for anyone who wants to understand online financial services or the ...
01.12.2021 Zack Fuss – Breaking Down the Food Ecosystem – [Invest Like the Best, EP.208] My guest today is Zach Fuss, an investor at Continental Grain, a 200-year-old family owned business that is focused on investing and operating businesses throughout the food and agriculture ecosystem with assets across the US, Latin America, and Asia. Prior ...
01.07.2021 Carlos Cashman – Lessons from the Amazon Ecosystems – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.15] My guest today is Carlos Cashman, co-founder and co-CEO of Thrasio an acquirer of third-party Amazon sellers. In a surprising departure for a high growth company, Thrasio has been profitable since its founding in 2018 and was most recently valued ...
01.05.2021 Ram Parameswaran - Internet Scale Businesses – [Invest Like the Best, EP.207] My guest today is Ram Parameswaran, founder of Octahedron Capital. Ram started Octahedron this year after more than 5 years as a partner at Altimeter Capital where he made investments in Square, Bytedance, Pinduoduo, and Udaan. In our conversation we ...
12.31.2020 Dylan Field - The Growing Importance of Design – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.14] Dylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of Figma, a collaborative, online design tool which has taken the world by storm. With a most recent valuation of more than $2B and bakers like Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, and Greylock, ...
12.29.2020 Tracy Graham - Investing in Overlooked Businesses – [Invest Like the Best, EP.206] My guest today is Tracy Graham, founder and managing principal of Graham Allen Partners, a private equity firm that specializes in acquiring and building technology-enabled businesses. In our conversation we discuss how Tracy ended up playing football at Notre Dame, ...
12.24.2020 Zach Perret – The Future of Financial Services – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.13] Zach Perret is the founder and CEO of Plaid. Plaid helps companies build fintech solutions by creating APIs that allow people to connect their financial data to apps and services. In this conversation, we dive into Zach's philosophy on building ...
12.22.2020 Mario Cibelli - Cornerstone Investing Insights - [Invest Like the Best, EP.205] My guest today is Mario Cibelli. Mario is the managing partner of Marathon Partners Equity Management, a long-biased, concentrated investment firm that he's run for over 20 years. In our conversation, we discuss how his firm figured out Blockbuster's DVD ...
12.17.2020 Bob Pittman - Lessons from Building Media Empires – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.12] My guest today, Bob Pittman, has had one of the most interesting careers I’ve ever come across. Today, he’s the CEO of iHeartMedia, the country’s largest operator of radio stations and podcasts. Bob also created MTV, was the CEO of ...
12.15.2020 Sam Hinkie – Find Your People - [Invest Like the Best, EP.204] My guest today is Sam Hinkie. Sam worked for more than a decade in the NBA with the Houston Rockets and then as the President and GM of the Philadelphia 76ers. And now, after years of personal investing, he has ...
12.10.2020 Michelle Zatlyn – Protecting the Internet – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.11] My guest today is Michelle Zatlyn. Michelle is the co-founder and COO of Cloudflare, a now $25 billion dollar business which she helped take public last year. Cloudflare helps businesses make their websites faster and more secure, and over 25 ...
12.08.2020 Danny Meyer – The Power of Hospitality - [Invest Like the Best, EP.203] My guest today is Danny Meyer, the founder and CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group, which compromises some of the most acclaimed restaurants in New York like Gramercy Tavern and Union Square Café. He’s also the founder and chairman of ...
12.03.2020 Zac Bookman – How Government Works – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.10] My guest today is Zac Bookman. Zac is the Founder and CEO of OpenGov a budgeting and financial management software for local governments. Before he founded OpenGov Zac was an Advisor to U.S. Army General H.R. McMaster in Afganistan, a ...
12.01.2020 Daniel Gross – Finding Undiscovered Talent - [Invest Like the Best, EP.202] My guest today is Daniel Gross. Daniel is the founder of Pioneer, an extremely unique company which he describes as a “fully remote startup generator” that helps talented people around the world figure out if their idea has legs. You ...
11.26.2020 Emmett Shear - The New Language of the Internet – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.9] My guest today is Emmett Shear, founder and CEO of Twitch. Twitch is the world's leading live streaming platform for gamers, which was acquired by Amazon in 2014. We talk about how Twitch empowers streamers to monetize their audience, the ...
11.24.2020 RRE Ventures - RRE Ventures - Raju Rishi, Nikita Singareddy, Jason Black - [Invest Like the Best, EP.201] My guests today are Raju Rishi, Nikita Singareddy, and Jason Black of RRE Ventures. RRE is a New York-based VC firm investing in early-stage start-ups with more than 400 investments over its 25 year history. Raju, Nikita, and Jason focus ...
11.19.2020 Nick Kokonas - Know What You Are Selling – [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.8] My guest today is Nick Kokonas, the co-founder of the 3 of the best restaurants and bars in America - Alinea, Next, and The Aviary as well as the co-founder and CEO of Tock, a comprehensive booking system for restaurants. ...
11.17.2020 Niki Scevak - Wild Hearts and Wild Ideas - [Invest Like the Best, EP.200] My guest today is Niki Scevak, co-founder and partner at Blackbird Ventures. Blackbird is a leading VC firm in Australia and New Zealand and has invested in companies like graphic design platform Canva and autonomous vehicle company Zoox. Our conversation ...
11.12.2020 Todd McKinnon - Creating and Defining a New Market Category - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.7] My guest today is Todd McKinnon, co-founder and CEO of Okta, the leading provider of identity management for enterprises. Todd started Okta in 2009 after realizing that enterprises would need a robust solution for identity management in a world where ...
11.10.2020 Jason Karp and Rohan Oza – The Power of Brand - [Invest Like the Best, EP.199] My guests today are Jason Karp and Rohan Oza. Jason is the founder and CEO of HumanCo, a holding company focused on building businesses that help people live healthier lives. Jason formerly ran the hedge fund Tourbillon Capital and was ...
11.05.2020 John Chambers - Pattern Matching, Playbooks, and Winning Product Categories - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.6] My guest this week is John Chambers. John was the CEO of Cisco from 1995 to 2015 where he helped grow Cisco from $70 million to $40 billion in annual revenue. In this conversation we discuss the best business lesson ...
11.03.2020 Anu Hariharan – Lessons in Growth Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.198] My guest this week is Anu Hariharan. Anu is a partner at Y-Combinator's Continuity Fund where she focuses on growth investing. Before YC, Anu was an Investment Partner at Andreesen Horowitz where she worked with portfolio companies Airbnb, Instacart, Medium ...
10.29.2020 Laura Behrens Wu - When Digital and Physical Worlds Converge - [Founder’s Field Guide, EP.5] My guest today is Laura Behrens Wu, co-founder and CEO of Shippo. Shippo started in 2014 after Laura realized with her own e-commerce start-up that shipping was an incredibly difficult task for most merchants, so she set out to fix ...

Older episodes