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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Peter Fenton & Victor Lazar...

11.28.2023

My guests this week are Peter Fenton and Victor Lazarte. Peter and Victor are both General Partners at Benchmark. Of the six equal partners at the storied venture firm, Peter is the longest serving and Victor is the newest, having ...

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy episodes:

11.28.2023 Peter Fenton & Victor Lazarte - Purpose and Partnership - [Invest Like the Best, EP.354] My guests this week are Peter Fenton and Victor Lazarte. Peter and Victor are both General Partners at Benchmark. Of the six equal partners at the storied venture firm, Peter is the longest serving and Victor is the newest, having ...
11.21.2023 Lior Susan - Leave the World Better than You Found It - [Invest Like the Best, EP.353] Today's episode is a conversation with Lior Susan, the Founder of Eclipse Ventures, whose mission is to unlock solutions to age-old physical industry problems through the intersection of bits and atoms. Lior is Israeli, and served in Israel's special forces ...
11.14.2023 Brad Jacobs - Think Big and Move Fast - [Invest Like the Best, EP.352] My guest today is Brad Jacobs. Brad’s resumé is remarkable. He has founded seven companies, all of which are billion-dollar or multibillion-dollar businesses. He has done 500 M&A transactions and raised $30 billion dollars of debt and equity capital. Currently, ...
11.07.2023 Elizabeth Zalman & Jerry Neumann - Founder vs Investor - [Invest Like the Best, EP.351] My guests this week are Elizabeth Zalman and Jerry Neumann. Jerry has been on this show two times before. He’s an early-stage Venture Capitalist, an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship, and an excellent writer. Liz is a two-time founder, most recently ...
10.31.2023 Palmer Luckey - Inventing the Future of Defense - [Invest Like the Best, EP.350] My guest today is Palmer Luckey. Palmer is the founder of Defense company Anduril Industries, which makes next-generation military technology for the US and its allies. Since bringing the company to life in 2017, Palmer and Anduril have disrupted the ...
10.24.2023 Aswath Damodaran - Making Sense of the Market Pt. 2 - [Invest Like the Best, EP.349] Today’s guest is Aswath Damodaran, who is joining us for a second time on Invest Like the Best. Aswath is a Professor of Finance at NYU’s Stern School of Business and is often referred to as the Dean of Valuation ...
10.17.2023 Patrick Collison & John Collison - A Business State of Mind - [Invest Like the Best, EP.348] My guests this week are the co-founders of Stripe, Patrick and John Collison. My conversation with John in 2020 is still one of our most popular. A key theme that emerged from that first discussion was John’s boundless curiosity for ...
10.10.2023 Strauss Zelnick - Playing to Your Strengths - [Invest Like the Best, EP.347] My guest this week is Strauss Zelnick, the CEO of leading game publisher Take-Two Interactive. Maybe most well-known for its hugely successful Grand Theft Auto game, Take-Two is a sophisticated, top-tier developer, publisher, and marketer of interactive entertainment that owns ...
10.03.2023 Rick Buhrman & Paul Buser - Find Your X, Nurture Your N - [Invest Like the Best, EP.346] My guests this week are Rick Buhrman and Paul Buser. Rick and Paul spent over a decade managing the public equity portfolio at Notre Dame’s Endowment before leaving in 2020 to set up a permanent capital vehicle called Sator Grove. ...
09.26.2023 Jack Altman & Miles Grimshaw - Building and Investing in Lattice - [Invest Like the Best, EP.345] My guests today are Jack Altman and Miles Grimshaw. Jack is the co-founder and CEO of Lattice, an HR software platform. Miles is a General Partner at Benchmark, an early investor and Board Director at Lattice, as well as a ...
09.19.2023 Michael Simanovsky - A Platform Approach to Real Estate - [Invest Like the Best, EP.344] My guest today is Michael Simanovsky. Mike is the Managing Partner of Conversant Capital, a real estate investment firm he founded in early 2020. Conversant aims to be the most flexible capital provider in real estate, investing across public and ...
09.12.2023 David Senra - In Service of Founders - [Invest Like the Best, EP.343] My guest today is David Senra, the creator and host of Founders Podcast. With an incredible appetite for biographies, David has delved into the lives of over three hundred entrepreneurs, extracting invaluable wisdom that he shares with his audience each ...
09.05.2023 Will England - A Primer on Multi-Strategy Hedge Funds - [Invest Like the Best, EP.342] My guest today is Will England, the CEO and Co-CIO of Walleye Capital. Walleye is a multi-strategy hedge fund headquartered in Minnesota that manages around $5 billion. Our conversation is a primer on multi-strategy hedge funds, which have become a ...
08.29.2023 James Cameron - The Futurist - [Founders, Forever Episode] Almost exactly a year ago, Colossus entered into a partnership with David Senra and the Founders podcast to join the Colossus network. The show has since exploded with more devoted fans than any podcast that I've encountered. With that in ...
08.22.2023 Lee Ainslie - Hedge Fund Maverick - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 341] My guest today is Lee Ainslie, the founder of Maverick Capital. Lee started his investing career at Tiger Management where he worked for Julian Robertson. In 1993, he left to start Maverick and has built the firm into one of ...
08.15.2023 Nick Kokonas - Know What You Are Selling – [Founder’s Field Guide, Forever Episode] Today, we are running a special episode from our show Founder's Field Guide. In this conversation, Nick Kokonas shares his experience of bringing a business mindset to the restaurant industry. It is one of our favorites at Colossus and there ...
08.08.2023 Des Traynor - Real Talk about AI and Software - [Invest Like the Best, EP.340] My guest today is Des Traynor. Des is the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Intercom - a customer service solution that helps businesses answer product questions, offer instant support, and automate sales. The business was founded in 2011 and ...
08.01.2023 Samo Burja - The Great Founder Theory of History - [Invest Like the Best, EP.339] My guest today is Samo Burja. Samo is the founder of consulting firm, Bismark Analysis, and has dedicated his life’s work to understanding why there has never been an immortal society. His research focuses on institutions, the founders behind them, ...
07.25.2023 Chris Paik - Venture Investing Frameworks - [Invest Like the Best, EP.338] My guest today is Chris Paik, who is a General Partner at early-stage venture firm, Pace Capital. Before Pace, Chris spent eight years building and investing alongside last week’s guest, Josh Kushner, at his firm Thrive Capital. During that time, ...
07.18.2023 Josh Kushner - Building Thrive Capital - [Invest Like the Best, EP.337] My guest today is Josh Kushner, founder and managing partner of venture firm, Thrive Capital. Josh started Thrive in 2010 and launched its first institutional fund in 2011. That first institutional fund was $40 million and, in it, Thrive led ...
07.11.2023 Jeremy Giffon - Special Situations in Private Markets - [Invest Like the Best, EP.336] My guest today is Jeremy Giffon. I spend all my time trying to find people who have some “singularity” to them. People who seem like they can do an N of 1 something. Having spent many days with Jeremy recently, ...
07.04.2023 Dave Yuan - A Primer on Vertical Market Software - [Invest Like the Best, EP.335] My guest today is Dave Yuan. Dave is the Founder and Partner of Tidemark Capital, which he started in 2021 after 15 years as a General Partner at Technology Crossover Ventures. Dave has been investing in vertical market software as ...
06.27.2023 Kevin Kelly - Be Generous and Unique - [Invest Like the Best, EP.334] My guest today is Kevin Kelly. Kevin co-founded Wired magazine and has published a number of seminal books and essays on technology over the past three decades. I have devoured everything Kevin has put out into the world and many ...
06.20.2023 Justin Mares - The US Health Crisis - [Invest Like the Best, EP.333] My guest this week is Justin Mares. Justin is the founder of TrueMed and has previously founded three different health food brands that collectively do $100M+ in annual revenue. Every time I speak with him, he makes me reflect on ...
06.13.2023 Scott Goodwin - Know The Names - [Invest Like the Best, EP.332] My guest this week is Scott Goodwin. Scott is the co-founder and managing partner of Diameter Capital Partners, which he started as a credit hedge fund in 2017 and has expanded into a $13 billion investment firm that covers all ...
06.06.2023 Rolex: Timeless Excellence - [Business Breakdowns, Forever Episode] Today, we are running a special episode from our show Business Breakdowns. In this conversation, Ben Clymer does an incredible job breaking down what makes Rolex so special. If you enjoy this episode, follow Business Breakdowns for more discussions like ...
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 ...

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