Featuring
Founders
Ep.375
#375: The Single Biggest Individual Financier In The World. The Richest Woman In America: Hetty Green
David Senra is the host of Founders, where he studies history's greatest entrepreneurs. This is what he learned from reading Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America’s First Female Tycoon by Charles Slack and The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age by Janet Wallach.
01.06.2025
Invest Like The Best
Ep.403
The Mechanic
Jared Kushner is the founder of Affinity Partners. We cover his formative experiences as a real estate investor, the major accomplishments from his time in government, and the people who have shaped his investing and geopolitical worldviews.
12.20.2024
Business Breakdowns
Ep.200
Arm: The Silicon Blueprint
Jay Goldberg is the CEO and lead analyst at D2D Advisory. We cover Arm's role in the semiconductor value chain, why it chose the model of licensing architecture over making its own chips, and why its ecosystem is source of a competitive advantage.
01.08.2025
Glue Guys
Ep.20
Coach K: Get On The Right Bus
Mike "Coach K" Krzyzewski was the coach of Duke University's basketball team for 42 years, and led the US men's team to three Olympic gold medals. We cover his ability to get the most out of anyone who played for him, the importance of adapting your leadership style to the team in front of you, and the idea that being worthy of winning is more important than any one result when defining success.
01.09.2025
Invest Like The Best
Ep.405
Building Captions
Gaurav Misra and Dwight Churchill are the co-founders of Captions. We cover the idea of solving bounded versus unbounded problems, the process of building a business model and setting pricing for a generative AI product, and the most salient point investors in this space are missing.
01.07.2025
The Latest Issue: Issue #1
Colossus Review
November 2024Our new print and digital magazine + private audio experience.
We're going deep on the people and ideas shaping our fast-changing world and codifying what we learn as concisely and usefully as possible for you.
Issue #1 features a profile of Graham Duncan, an investing firm case study of Garnett Station Partners, and an in-depth exploration of whether Space is Investable. Issue #2 is already underway.
Invest Like The Best
Ep.398
Building MSCHF
Gabe Whaley is the founder and CEO of MSCHF. We cover what it was like to build a business around unbridled creativity, the decision-making process behind some of their most successful ideas, and why subverting rules and cultural norms can be a noble pursuit.
11.26.2024
Founders
Ep.333
#333 Red Bull’s Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Mateschitz
David Senra is the host of Founders, where he studies history's greatest entrepreneurs. This is what he learned from reading The Red Bull Story by Wolfgang Fürweger.
01.08.2024
Joys of Compounding
Ep.18
The Art of Compounding
Mitch Rales is the co-founder of Danaher. We cover the formula behind four decades of compounding success, why benchmarking and continuous adaptation are essential to building a winning organization, and the fishing trip that inspired his philanthropy.
04.29.2024
Business Breakdowns
Ep.161
AMETEK: Industrial Excellence
Nael Fakhry is the Co-CIO of the Osterweis Capital Management Growth and Income Strategy. We cover AMETEK's growth model, what Constellation Software was able to learn from it, and how its decentralized operating structure differs from other industrial conglomerates.
05.01.2024
Founders
Ep.326
#326 Anna Wintour
David Senra is the host of Founders, where he studies history's greatest entrepreneurs. This is what he learned from reading Anna: The Biography by Amy Odell.
11.06.2023
Invest Like The Best
Ep.355
A Conversation with Charlie Munger & John Collison
Charlie Munger was the vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. In this conversation with Stripe's John Collison, recorded last year, he shares the ingredients for long-term business success, his thoughts on American society writ large, and what makes Berkshire special.
12.05.2023
Invest Like The Best
Ep.399
Building Kith
Ronnie Fieg is the founder and CEO of Kith. We cover how his passion as a collector formed the building blocks for the founding of Kith, the story behind the famous Jerry Seinfeld campaign, and the best lessons he's learned from the greatest cultures and designers across the globe.
12.03.2024