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Episode List & Show Notes
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Ep.197 Brad Gerstner and Rich Barton – Thriving in Changing Markets
Ep.195 Jacqueline Novogratz – Investing in Dignity and Character
Ep.194 Jesse Livermore – Upside Down Markets – Understanding Fiscal and Monetary Policy
Ep. 193 Modest Proposal – Better, Cheaper, Faster: Why Companies that Reduce Friction Win
Ep. 192 Lauren Taylor Wolfe – The Modern Activist Toolkit
Ep.191 Rory Sutherland – Moonshots and Marketing
Ep.190 Michael Seibel – Lessons from Thousands of Startups
Ep.189 -Michael Mauboussin – Great Migration Public to Private Equity
Ep.188 – Chetan Puttagunta and Jeremiah Lowin – Open Source Crash Course
Ep.187 – Katrina Lake – The Next Wave of E-Commerce
Ep.186 – Brian Armstrong – The Future of Crypto (transcript here)
Ep.185 – Matt Ball – The Future of Media: Movies, the Metaverse, and More (transcript here)
Ep.184 – Kat Cole – How to Operate: Lessons in Brand, Distribution, and Leadership (transcript here)
Ep.183 – Eric Vishria – The Past, Present, and Future of SAAS Software (transcript here)
Ep.182 – Turner Novak – The Past, Present, and Future of Consumer Social Companies (transcript here)
Ep.181 – Charlie Songhurst – Lessons from Investing in 483 Companies (transcript here)
Ep.180 – Blake Robbins – Investing in Gaming
Ep.179 – Brad Gerstner – Public and Private Investing
Ep.178 – John Collison – Growing the Internet Economy
Ep.177 – Jeremy Grantham – An Uncertain Crisis
Ep.176 – Ben Thompson – Platforms, Ecosystems, and Aggregators
Ep.175 – Shishir Mehrotra – The Art and Science of the Bundle
Ep.174 – Hamilton Helmer – Power + Business
Ep.173 -Tobi Lutke – Building a Modern Business
Ep.172 – Ali Hamed – An Update on Private Credit
Ep.171 – Chris Bloomstran – Update on Public Markets
Ep.170 – Josh Kopelman – The Past, Present, And Future Of Seed Investing
Ep.169 – Manny Stotz – Frontier Markets Investing
Ep.168 – Sarah Tavel – Consumer & Marketplace Investing
Ep.167 – Gavin Baker – Investing Through a Bear Market
Ep.166 – D.A. Wallach – Investing in Healthcare
Ep.164 – Brent Beshore – Update on Small Business and Private Equity
Ep.163 – Dan Rasmussen – Investing Through a Crisis
Ep.162 – Bill Gurley and Chetan Puttagunta – An Update on Consumer & Enterprise Venture Capital
Ep.161 – Bryan Krug – An Update on Corporate Credit
Ep.160 – Deep Basin Capital – Oil Price Wars
Ep.159 – Peter Zeihan – Dis-United Nations
Ep.158 – Jeff Lawson – How to Build a Platform
Ep.157 – Niko Canner – Become a Perfect Instrument
Ep.156 – Chetan Puttagunta – Go Slow to Go Fast
Ep.155 – Rebecca Kaden – Thesis Driven Investing
Ep.154 – Matt Clifford – Investing Pre-Company
Ep.153 – Peter Buffett – Finding Your Note
Ep.147 – Kevin Systrom Mike Krieger
Ep.108 – Team CoVenture Credit
Ep.107 – Saifedean Ammous – the Bitcoin Standard
Ep.106 – Danny Moses – Pot Stocks, Tesla, and the “Wild Bill” Rule for Quant
Ep.105 – Jeremiah Lowin – Machine Learning in Investing
Ep.104 – Trail Magic – Lessons from Two Years on the Podcast
Ep.103 – Kathryn Minshew – How Employers and Employees Should Build Careers
Ep.102 – Richard Craib – Crowdsourcing Predictive Algorithms
Ep.101 – Elad Gil – How to Identify Interesting Markets
Ep.100 – Brent Beshore – 100th Episode Special
Ep.99 – Boyd Varty – Live Like a Tracker
Ep.98 – Ryan Selkis – The Crypto Barbell
Ep.97 – Cathie Wood – Investing in Innovation
Ep.96 – Bethany McLean – Busines Gone Bad
Ep.95 – Modest Proposal – Value is Dead, Long Live Value
Ep.94 – Niel Roberston – The Future of Media
Ep.93 – Eric Balchunas – The Past, Present, and Future of ETFs
Ep.92 – Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain – New Angles on Crypto
Ep.91 – Michael Recce – Tim Cook’s Dashboard
Ep.90 – Ash Fontana – Investing in AI
Ep.89 – Mike Zapata – The Darkest Night
Ep.88 – Sam Hinkie – Data, Decisions, and Basketball
Ep.87 – Tren Griffin – Pulling the Thread
Ep.86 – Jason Karp – Opportunities in Public and Private Markets
Ep.85 – Chris Douvos – A Value Investor Lost in the Valley
Ep.84 – Arianna Simpson – The Crypto Landscape
Ep.83 – Shark Tank, with Thatcher Bell and Taylor Greene
Ep.82 – Nikhil Kalghatgi – Moonshot Investing
Ep.81 – Peter Attia, ILtB Live Ep.01
Ep.80 – Albert Wenger – World After Capital
Ep.79 – Savneet Singh – The Berkshire of Software
Ep.78 – Dan Rasmussen – Private Equity Returns in Public Markets
Ep.77 – Pat Dorsey – The Moat Portfolio
Ep.76 – Josh Wolfe – This Is Who You Are Up Against
Ep.75 – Harvey Sawikin – Emerging Market Opportunities
Ep.73 – Dr. Ben Hunt – The Three-Body Portfolio
Ep.71 – Ali Hamed – Creative Investing
Ep.70 – Sheel Tyle – The Future of Venture Capital
Ep.69 – Chris Dixon – The Future of Tech
Ep.68 – Sorin Capital – Retail Contrarians
Ep.67 – Franklin Foer – World Without Mind
Ep.66 – Adam Ludwin – A Sober View on Crypto
Ep.65 – Joanne Wilson – Angel Investing and Trend Spotting
Ep.64 – Connor Leonard – Capital Light Compounders and Reinvestment Moats
Ep.63 – Dhani Jones – Adventures in Sports, Business, and Investing
Ep.62 – Chris Burniske – Cryptoasset Valuation
Ep.61 – Brad Katsuyama – What Happens When You Hit “Buy
Ep.60 – Brett Maloley – Ladder: The Fitness Marketplace
Ep.59 – Tim Urban (Wait But Why) – Grand Theft Life
Eps.56-58 – Hash Power – A Deep Dive into Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains
Ep.55 – Dave Tisch – Venture Capital in New York
Ep.54 – David Gardner – Rule Breakers
Ep.52 -Team Ritholtz – The Wu Tang Clan of Finance
Ep.51 – Pat Dorsey – Buying Companies With Economic Moats
Ep.50 – Jason Zweig and Morgan Housel – Business vs. Investing
Ep.49 – Brad Stulberg – Just Manageable Challenges
Ep.48 – Leigh Drogen – Sink or Swim–How to Combine Quant and Traditional Asset Management Techniques
Ep.47 – Compound Your Face Off, with Wes Gray
Ep.46 – Esoteric Assets with Rishi Ganti
Ep.45 – Jerry Neumann – The Deployment Age, Power Laws, and Venture Capital
Ep.44 – Ten Lessons From Almost One Year of Podcasting
Ep.43 – Scott Norton – Seek to Learn that which Cannot Be Taught
Ep.42 – Andy Rachleff – Building Something People Want to Buy
Ep.41 – Leigh Drogan – Quant vs Traditional Investors and How Alpha Becomes Beta
Ep.40 – Ira Judelson – Bail Street
Ep.39 – David Chilton – the Human Blitzkrieg
Ep.38 – David Salem – the Art of Asset Allocation
Ep.37 – Michael Mauboussin – Man + Machine, Moats, and the Power of the Outside View
Ep.36 – Will Thorndike – How Skilled Capital Allocators Compound Capital
Ep.35 – Ted Seides – The Bet with Buffett
Ep.34 – Danny Moses – The Big Short and Beyond
Ep.33- Royce Yudkoff and Rick Ruback – REALLY Private Equity
Ep.32 – Boyd Varty – The Art of Tracking
Ep.31 – Khe Hy – Quant Hedge Funds and the Fear of Death
Ep.30 – Ted Seides and Brent Beshore — The Future of Asset Management
Ep.29 Jim O’Shaughnessy — Premeditated Success
Ep.28 Chenmark Capital– Permanent Equity
Ep.27 Peter Attia, M.D. — How to Live a Longer, Higher Quality Life
Ep.26 Ariel’s John Rogers — Slow and Steady Wins the Race
Ep.25 Alex Moazed — Building Modern Monopolies
Ep.24 Ian Cassel — Investing In Tiny Stocks
Ep.23 Joe Mansueto — Lessons From Morningstar’s Founder
Ep.22 Brent Beshore Returns — Private Equity, Venture Capital, and the Future of Money Management
Ep.21 Brian Koppelman — Chasing Curiosity
Ep.20 Jeremiah Lowin — Machine Intelligence and Risk Management
Ep.19 Lauren Loktev, Kanyi Maqubela, & Craig Shapiro — Watching a Venture Fund at Work
Ep.18 Dan Egan — Designing Better Decisions
Ep.17 Shane Parrish — Mastering Mental Models
Ep.16 Jeff Ptak — The Prospects for Active Management
Ep.15 Eric Maddox — The Ace of Spades
Ep.14 Josh Brown — The Reformation
Ep.13 Chris Cole — Small Bets, Huge Payoffs
Ep.12 Kevin Simler — Exploring the Frontier
Ep.11 Craig Shapiro — Better for You, Better for the World
Ep.10 Brent Beshore — Cultivating a Compound Interest Machine
Ep.9 Jon Stein — Automated Investing
Ep.8 Kiley Adams — An Internal Locus of Control
Ep.7 Ted Seides — A Deep Dive into Hedge Funds
Ep.6 Gerry O’Reilly and Jim Rowley — Humble Giants of Vanguard
Ep.5 Christian Rudder — The Quantified Self
Ep.4 Morgan Housel — Thinking and Walking
Ep.3 Jason Zweig — The Power of Serendipity