Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

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Conversations with the best investors and business leaders in the world. We explore their ideas, methods, and stories to help you better invest your time and money. Hear stock market and boardroom insights you can't find anywhere else. If you're a professional investor, CEO, entrepreneur, or business strategist, this is for you. Explore all our episodes and learn more at https://www.joincolossus.com

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Kieran Goodwin - Imaginatio...

05.30.2023

My guest today is Kieran Goodwin. Kieran spent over two decades at the frontier of credit investing. During the global financial crisis, he was a Partner and Head of Trading at King Street Capital, which grew from $4 billion to ...

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy episodes:

05.30.2023 Kieran Goodwin - Imagination, Volatility, and the Pursuit of Alpha - [Invest Like the Best, EP.331] My guest today is Kieran Goodwin. Kieran spent over two decades at the frontier of credit investing. During the global financial crisis, he was a Partner and Head of Trading at King Street Capital, which grew from $4 billion to ...
05.23.2023 Henry Schuck - Building ZoomInfo - [Invest Like the Best, EP.330] My guest today is Henry Schuck, the founder and CEO of ZoomInfo. I’ve gotten to know Henry over the past year by virtue of him being on the board of Tegus, where I’m a board observer. I meet a lot ...
05.16.2023 Karen Karniol-Tambour - Macro Headwinds vs. Tech Tailwinds - [Invest Like the Best, EP.329] Today’s conversation was recorded during last week’s Sohn Conference. I sat down with Karen Karniol-Tambour, Co-CIO at Bridgewater Associates. I hosted Karen on this show two years ago and if you listened to that, you’ll remember she has a rare ...
05.09.2023 Fidji Simo - Creating Delightful Consumer Experiences - [Invest Like the Best, EP.328] My guest this week is Fidji Simo, the CEO of Instacart. Fidji grew up in a small town in the South of France and was the first person in her family to graduate from high school. Since then, she has ...
05.02.2023 Bessemer Venture Partners - Building a VC Firm that Lasts Centuries - [Invest Like the Best, EP.327] My guests this week are Jeremy Levine, Kent Bennett, and Brian Feinstein. They are partners at one of the oldest and most storied venture firms in the world, Bessemer Venture Partners. Our conversation is split into two parts. First, we ...
04.25.2023 Alexis Rivas - A New Blueprint for Homebuilding - [Invest Like the Best, EP.326] My guest this week is Alexis Rivas. Alexis is the co-founder and CEO of Cover, which is pioneering a new way of building homes. It’s no surprise to anyone that aspects of our housing market is broken. The market is ...
04.18.2023 Dr. Peter Attia - The Portfolio to Live Longer - [Invest Like the Best, EP.325] My guest this week is Dr. Peter Attia. I’ve had Peter on the show twice before but it’s been over 5 years since his last appearance. In that period, his work has exploded and today he’s one of the clear ...
04.11.2023 Scott Davis & Rob Wertheimer - Lessons from the Industrial Titans - [Invest Like the Best, EP.324] My guests today are Scott Davis and Rob Wertheimer. Scott and Rob head up Melius Research and are the authors of a great book called Lessons from the Titans. The book explains what the industrial giants of old can teach ...
04.04.2023 Sam Hinkie, Boyd Varty, Charlie Songhurst - Trail Magic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.323] Today’s episode is a little different. Rather than share a new conversation, I have put together a few of my favourites from the past six and a half years of doing this show. I often listen back to these for ...
03.31.2023 David Senra - Passion & Pain - [Invest Like the Best, Forever Episode] Hello everyone. A few days ago, we discussed what we call forever episodes, which are the few episodes of our show that we think will be as popular a decade from now as they are today. When I re-listened to ...
03.28.2023 David Einhorn - The Long and Short of Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.322] My guest today is David Einhorn. David is the President of Greenlight Capital, a long-short hedge fund that he co-founded in 1996. He is a prominent value investor with a reputation for rigorous security analysis. In 2002, he revealed a ...
03.21.2023 Avi Goldfarb - The Economic Impact of AI - [Invest Like the Best, EP.321] My guest today is Avi Goldfarb. Avi is a Professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, the Rotman Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare, as well as the co-author of two bestselling books on AI and its ...
03.14.2023 Auren Hoffman - A Deep Dive on Data - [Invest Like the Best, EP.320] My guest this week is Auren Hoffman. Auren is the CEO of Safegraph, which curates data on physical locations. He also founded LiveRamp, a public data connectivity business. Auren knows more about data businesses than almost anyone I know and ...
03.07.2023 Trae Stephens - Find Good Quests - [Invest Like the Best, EP.319] My guest this week is Trae Stephens. Trae is a partner at Founders Fund and co-founder and Executive Chairman of Anduril. Trae’s philosophy can be boiled down to finding good quests, which has led him to investing in businesses that ...
02.28.2023 Doug Leone - Lessons from a Titan - [Invest Like the Best, EP.318] My guest this week is Doug Leone. Doug led one of the world’s most successful venture firms, Sequoia, for over 25 years after he was given responsibility for the firm by its founder, Don Valentine, in 1996. Alongside Mike Moritz, ...
02.21.2023 Tim Urban - Idea Labs and High-Rung Thinking - [Invest Like the Best, EP.317] I’m excited to share this conversation with Tim Urban. Tim is, in my opinion, one of the best and most engaging writers of our era. He’s tackled many of the most interesting topics in the world from AI to procrastination. ...
02.14.2023 Dan Rose - How Stunning Founders Operate - [Invest Like the Best, EP.316] My guest today is Dan Rose. Dan is the chairman of Coatue Ventures and has one of the most interesting collections of experiences of anyone I’ve talked to. He spent 20 years at Amazon and Facebook in their early days, ...
02.07.2023 Jeff Green - Modernizing Advertising - [Invest Like the Best, EP.315] My guest today is Jeff Green, the CEO and co-founder of advertising platform, The Trade Desk. The Trade Desk is the second advertising exchange Jeff has built, having sold his first venue to Microsoft in 2007. He started The Trade ...
01.31.2023 Carl Kawaja - Dealing with Regime Change - [Invest Like the Best, EP.314] My guest this week is Carl Kawaja. It’s the second time I’ve had Carl on the show and my first conversation with him is one I go back to often. Carl is a portfolio manager at Capital Group, where he’s ...
01.24.2023 Daryl Morey - Systems Thinking in Sports - [Invest Like the Best, EP.313] My guest this week is Daryl Morey, who is President of basketball operations for the Philadelphia 76ers. Daryl is a computer science graduate but has become one of the NBA’s most successful General Managers during his time with the Houston ...
01.17.2023 Miles Grimshaw - The DNA of Software Companies - [Invest Like the Best, EP.312] My guest today is Miles Grimshaw. Miles is in his early thirties and is a General Partner at Benchmark. His experience and success belie his age. He was an early investor in Segment, Benchling, and Airtable, all before they had ...
01.10.2023 John Fio - Creating Magic for Consumers - [Invest Like the Best, EP.311] My guest today is John Fiorentino. John is a product inventor and entrepreneur who, in the space of a few years, has bootstrapped four products; Gravity Blanket, Moon Pod, Moon Pals, and Birthdate Candles which have collectively sold hundreds of ...
01.03.2023 Amjad Masad - The Future of Software Creation - [Invest Like the Best, EP.310] My guest today is Amjad Masad. Amjad is the founder and CEO of Replit, whose mission is to bring the next billion software creators online. Replit has built a browser-based coding environment that makes coding more fun, collaborative, and approachable. ...
12.27.2022 Rebecca Lynn - Finding Your Customers - [Invest Like the Best, EP.309] My guest this week is Rebecca Lynn. Rebecca co-founded early-stage investor Canvas Ventures in 2013 and is regularly featured as one of the best VCs in the market. She has deep positioning and go-to-market experience, which she honed during her ...
12.20.2022 Michael Mauboussin - Sharpening Investor & Executive Toolkits - [Invest Like the Best, EP.308] My guest this week is Michael Mauboussin. Many of you will know Michael and his work well. He’s Head of Consilient Research at Counterpoint Global, one of the sharpest investment minds I know, and a frequent guest on this show. ...
12.13.2022 Jeremiah Lowin: Explaining the New AI Paradigm - [Invest Like the Best, EP.307] My guest this week is Jeremiah Lowin. Jeremiah has been on the podcast a number of times over the years. He’s one of my oldest friends who has been a sounding board for me throughout my career. Today he is ...
12.06.2022 Bill Lenehan: Investing in Commercial Real Estate - [Invest Like the Best, EP.306] My guest today is Bill Lenehan. Bill is the CEO of Four Corners Property Trust, a listed REIT and one of the leading owners of restaurant real estate in the US. Their portfolio is made up of 982 properties across ...
11.29.2022 Ron Howard and Brian Grazer - Box Office Business - [Invest Like the Best, EP.305] Today I’m joined by two Hollywood greats, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. They have produced, directed, written, and acted in a number of the most popular films and tv shows ever made, including Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, 24, and ...
11.22.2022 Shane Battier - The No-Stats All-Star - [Invest Like the Best, EP.304] Today’s episode is a special one, in a format that may turn into a series. It is a conversation between Ravi Gupta and Shane Battier. Ravi is a partner at Sequoia, one of our most popular past guests, and a ...
11.15.2022 Parker Conrad - Building a Compound Company - [Invest Like the Best, EP.303] My guest today is Parker Conrad, co-founder and CEO of Rippling. I wanted to speak to Parker because he is building Rippling in a way that we don’t come across often. Rather than focus narrowly on one product, he is ...
11.08.2022 Bob Elliott - A Macro Tour - [Invest Like the Best, EP.302] My guest today is Bob Elliott, the CEO and CIO of Unlimited, which creates low-cost index ETFs for alternative investment strategies. Prior to co-founding Unlimited, Bob was a senior investment executive at Bridgewater Associates where he served on their investment ...
11.01.2022 Kirsten Green - Investing in Consumer Change - [Invest Like the Best, EP.301] My guest today is Kirsten Green, founder and managing partner at Forerunner Ventures. Kirsten launched Forerunner in 2012 and has built it into a leading consumer-focused venture firm with early investments in consumer brands like Dollar Shave Club, Bonobos, Faire, ...
10.25.2022 Jason Droege - Building Uber Eats - [Invest Like the Best, EP.300] My guest today is Jason Droege, a venture partner at Benchmark. Jason’s had a long entrepreneurial career, which most recently culminated in building and leading Uber Eats. He joined Uber in 2014 with a blank piece of paper to grow ...
10.18.2022 Paul Orfalea - It’s About the Money - [Invest Like the Best, EP.299] My guest today is Paul Orfalea. Paul founded Kinkos, the popular copy chain, in 1970. He started with a single photocopy shop in California and grew the business into a $2 billion multinational operation over the course of his 30 ...
10.11.2022 Madhavan Ramanujam - How to Price Products - [Invest Like the Best, EP.298] My guest today is Madhavan Ramanujam. Madhavan quite literally wrote the book on how to price products, it’s called “Monetizing Innovations” and his concepts have been used by companies across the world like Porsche, Uber, LinkedIn, and SuperHuman. Our conversation ...
10.04.2022 Scott Wilson - Non-Traditional Endowment Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.297] My guest today is Scott Wilson. Scott is the CIO of Washington University’s endowment, which manages over $13 billion. In this conversation we discuss WashU’s non-traditional endowment model and cover a variety of asset classes and geographies. We talk about ...
09.27.2022 Julio Vasconcellos & Mate Pencz - Investing in Latin America - [Invest Like the Best, EP.296] My guests today are Julio Vasconcellos and Mate Pencz, who are partners at Canary and Atlantico, leading early-stage investment firms in Latin America. They’re also both successful entrepreneurs. Mate is the co-founder and CEO of Brazilian real estate unicorn, Loft. ...
09.20.2022 Trina Spear - Billion Dollar Scrubs - [Invest Like the Best, EP.295] My guest today is Trina Spear, a former investor at Blackstone and the co-founder and CEO of FIGS. FIGS is a multi-billion-dollar public company that built a category-leading brand selling scrubs to healthcare professionals. It was a problem hiding in ...
09.15.2022 Gabriel Leydon - How Web3 Onboards a Billion Users - [Web3 Breakdowns, EP.37] Today, we are sharing an episode of Web3 Breakdowns with you. My Invest Like the Best conversation with Gabe Leydon last year was one of my favorites and became one of our most popular. Since that conversation, Gabe has become ...
09.13.2022 Harley Finkelstein - Building the Entrepreneurship Company - [Invest Like the Best, EP.294] My guest today is Harley Finkelstein. Harley is the President of Shopify and has been with the company since its early years. He is a lawyer by training but an entrepreneur by calling and that is the focus of our ...
09.06.2022 Mitch Lasky - The Business of Gaming - [Invest Like the Best, EP.293] My guest today is Mitch Lasky. Mitch is a partner at Benchmark and one of the leading figures in the video game industry. Over the last 30 years, he has built, led, and invested in a number of the best ...
08.30.2022 David Senra - Passion & Pain - [Invest Like the Best, EP.292] My guest today is David Senra. David has studied history’s great founders and entrepreneurs in more depth than anyone I’ve ever met, and I’d wager more than anyone else alive. In this conversation, we cover many of the most common ...
08.23.2022 Robert Smith - Investing in Enterprise Software - [Invest Like the Best, EP.291] My guest today is Robert Smith, the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Vista Equity Partners. An engineer by training, Robert started Vista at the turn of the millennium and built it into one of the world's most successful software-focused investment ...
08.16.2022 Katherine Boyle - Investing for America - [Invest Like the Best, EP.290] My guest today is Katherine Boyle, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Katherine started her career as a reporter for The Washington Post before moving into VC at General Catalyst. She now leads a practice at a16z called American Dynamism, ...
08.09.2022 Ravi Gupta - Focus - [Invest Like the Best, EP.289] My guest today is Ravi Gupta. Ravi spent a decade in private equity at KKR before joining Instacart as their first CFO and COO. He navigated them through a critical moment in their history and returned to investing in 2019 ...
08.02.2022 Will Thorndike - The Power of Long Holding Periods - [Invest Like the Best, EP.288] My guest today is Will Thorndike. I first spoke to Will in 2017 about his excellent book The Outsiders and his career in private equity. I titled that conversation: How Skilled Capital Allocators Compound Capital. In many ways this conversation ...
07.26.2022 Alok Vasudev - Searching for White Space - [Invest Like the Best, EP.287] My guest today is Alok Vasudev. Alok is an early-stage investor who has been in the crypto space for a very long time. Before co-founding Standard Crypto, he was an investor at Benchmark and S28 Capital. Given Alok's experience and ...
07.19.2022 Matthew Ball - A Manual to The Metaverse - [Invest Like the Best, EP.286] My guest today is Matthew Ball. Matt is an investor, the former head of strategy at Amazon studios, and one of the brightest minds in the media industry. Through his essays and now his book, which launches today, Matt has ...
07.14.2022 TransDigm: Foundations with Nick Howley [50X, EP.1] Today we are dropping a special episode in the Invest Like the Best feed. You will hear the first episode of 50X – a new series from Will Thorndike and the team at Compounding Labs, in partnership with Colossus. Will’s ...
07.12.2022 Alice Bentinck - Building a Start-Up Machine - [Invest Like the Best, EP.285] My guest today is Alice Bentinck, co-founder of Entrepreneur First. Entrepreneur First, or EF, invests pre-company by systematizing the way that talented individuals find co-founders, develop ideas, and scale into companies. They’re an incubator of teams and ideas on a ...

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