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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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
84 min
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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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Anduril: Building the Future of Defense - [Busi...
Today, we are running a special episode of Business Breakdowns. With geopolitics playing an increasingly important role in society again, this episode with Anduril’s CEO offers an inside look at the state of the defense industry and how it is...
70 min
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Tobi Lütke - Embrace the Unexpected - [Invest L...
My guest today is , co-founder and CEO of Shopify. Having first spoken to Tobi at the beginning of the pandemic, just two months into it, this felt an opportune moment to revisit Shopify and the world through Tobi’s eyes. Among many things, we...
85 min
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Tyler Cowen & Daniel Gross - Identifying Talent...
My guests today are and . Tyler is an economics professor and creator of one of the most popular economics blogs on the internet. Daniel is the founder of start-up accelerator Pioneer, having previously been a director at Apple and a partner at Y...
79 min
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Jeff Jordan - Building & Investing in Marketpla...
My guest today is , General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Jeff has one of the most interesting set of experiences of guests that I’ve had on the show. As an operator, he has been the General Manager of eBay.com, President of PayPal, and CEO of...
80 min
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Eric Glyman - Reimagining Corporate Finance - [...
My guest today is , co-founder and CEO of Ramp. Ramp is best known for its corporate cards but it has a range of software products to help finance teams save money and time. Since its founding in 2019, the business has grown rapidly and was last...
61 min
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Dmitry Balyasny - Building a Better Model - [In...
My guest today is Dmitry Balyasny. Dmitry is the Managing Partner and CIO of Balyasny Asset Management, otherwise known as BAM. BAM runs a multi-strategy, multi-PM model that aims to produce consistent absolute returns. Since its founding in 2001, it...
72 min
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Henry Ward - Transforming Private Markets - [In...
My guest today is , co-founder and CEO of Carta. Started in 2012, Carta helps companies and investors manage their cap tables, equity plans, and ownership. Last year, they launched CartaX, a platform for private companies and their employees to access...
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Alexandr Wang - A Primer on AI - [Invest Like t...
My guest today is , the CEO and founder of Scale AI. Alexandr founded Scale in 2016, having been inspired to accelerate the development of AI through his work at Quora and his studies at MIT. Specifically, Alexandr realized there was a lack of...
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