Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'S...
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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Kirsten Green - Investing in Consumer Change - ...
My guest today is , 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,...
69 min
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Jason Droege - Building Uber Eats - [Invest Lik...
My guest today is , 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 the business beyond ride...
64 min
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Paul Orfalea - It’s About the Money - [Invest L...
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 years in charge. Paul...
46 min
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Madhavan Ramanujam - How to Price Products - [I...
My guest today is . 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...
56 min
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Scott Wilson - Non-Traditional Endowment Invest...
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...
56 min
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Julio Vasconcellos & Mate Pencz - Investing in ...
My guests today are and , 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. Julio...
61 min
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Trina Spear - Billion Dollar Scrubs - [Invest L...
My guest today is , 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 plain...
49 min
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Gabriel Leydon - How Web3 Onboards a Billion Us...
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 one of the most...
59 min
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Harley Finkelstein - Building the Entrepreneurs...
My guest today is . 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 discussion. We discuss the different dimensions of...
65 min
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Mitch Lasky - The Business of Gaming - [Invest ...
My guest today is . 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 gaming companies in the world, including Activision, EA,...
73 min
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David Senra - Passion & Pain - [Invest Like the...
My guest today is . 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 themes he’s discovered...
83 min
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Robert Smith - Investing in Enterprise Software...
My guest today is , 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 firms. We discuss...
56 min
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Katherine Boyle - Investing for America - [Inve...
My guest today is , 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, investing in...
54 min
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Ravi Gupta - Focus - [Invest Like the Best, EP....
My guest today is Ravi Gupta. 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 as a partner at Sequoia. Our...
77 min
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Will Thorndike - The Power of Long Holding Peri...
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...
59 min
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Alok Vasudev - Searching for White Space - [Inv...
My guest today is . 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 the prevailing mood right now...
71 min
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Matthew Ball - A Manual to The Metaverse - [Inv...
My guest today is . 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 established himself as the foremost...
80 min
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TransDigm: Foundations with Nick Howley [50X, E...
Today we are dropping a special episode in the Invest Like the Best feed. You will hear the first episode of – a new series from Will Thorndike and the team at Compounding Labs, in partnership with Colossus. Will’s book, The Outsiders, is...
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Alice Bentinck - Building a Start-Up Machine - ...
My guest today is , 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...
63 min
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Jess Lee - Designing Investment Products - [Inv...
My guest today is . Jess is a partner at Sequoia Capital as well as their Chief Product Officer. Before becoming an investor, Jess co-founded fashion app, Polyvore, and was an early product manager for Google Maps. Most recently, she founded All...
58 min
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Kenneth Stanley - Greatness Without Goals - [In...
My guest today is . Ken is a Professor in Computer Science and a pioneer in the field of neuroevolution. He is also the co-author of a book called, Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned, which details a provocative idea that setting big, audacious goals can...
73 min
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Lydia Jett - Investing in E-commerce - [Invest ...
My guest today is , Managing Partner of SoftBank Investment Advisers. Lydia leads the team’s consumer, internet, and e-commerce investments and has worked with many of the most significant consumer platforms in the world, including as a board member...
67 min
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Josh Wolfe & Chris Power - Factories of the Fut...
My guests today are and . Josh will be a familiar voice to many of you and is the co-founder and General Partner of Lux Capital. Chris is the founder and CEO of advanced manufacturing start-up, Hadrian. Most of our discussion centers on the need to...
69 min
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Martin Casado - The Past, Present, and Future o...
My guest today is . Martin is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he focuses on digital infrastructure. Before joining a16z, Martin pioneered software-defined networking and co-founded Nicira, which was bought by VMware for $1.3 billion in...
54 min
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Aswath Damodaran - Making Sense of the Market -...
My guest today is , a Professor of Finance at NYU’s Stern School of Business. Aswath is one of the clearest teachers of investing and finance in our industry and through his blog, books, and YouTube has open-sourced his wisdom for decades. This...
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