Founder’s Field Guide

Founder's Field Guide is a series of conversations with founders, CEOs, and operators who are building great businesses.

Patrick O'Shaughnessy Host Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Patrick is the Founder and CEO of Positive Sum. He founded Colossus in 2020 to build on the success of Invest Like the Best.

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Founder’s Field Guide

Ep.26

Modernizing Compliance

Roxanne Petraeus is the co-founder and CEO of Ethena, a modern compliance platform. We cover the lessons Roxanne ported from her military career to building a business, how she’s trying to make compliance training not suck, and the woeful state of funding female founders in VC today.

03.25.2021

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Founder’s Field Guide

Ep.25

Capturing Carbon

Jonathan Goldberg is the founder and CEO of Carbon Direct, a company focused on advising and investing in carbon removal at scale. We cover the state of the carbon problem today, the importance of global carbon standards and carbon taxes, and the future of carbon capture.

03.18.2021

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Founder’s Field Guide

Ep.24

Building the Modern Restaurant

Jonathan Neman is the co-founder and CEO of Sweetgreen. We cover the origins of Sweetgreen and how it builds a direct relationship with its customers, how Jonathan thinks restaurants should work with marketplaces, and the economics of operating restaurants.

03.11.2021

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Founder’s Field Guide

Ep.23

Modernizing Sleep

Matteo Franceschetti is the founder and CEO of Eight Sleep, a smart mattress company. We cover which biometrics matter, how hard it is to start a hardware company and launch manufacturing overseas, and the massive potential for preventative health companies.

03.04.2021

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Ep.22

Where There Is Mystery, There Is Margin

Ryan Petersen is the founder and CEO of Flexport, a technology platform for global trade. We cover the past, present, and potential future issues in the global supply chain, the role Flexport plays in the supply chain, and lessons he's learned building a global business.

02.25.2021

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Founder’s Field Guide

Ep.21

Creating an Ownership Culture

Carlos Brito is the CEO of Anheuser-Busch InBev. We cover AB InBev’s culture of ownership, how Carlos balances organic growth with acquisitions and managing disruption as an industry incumbent.

02.18.2021

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Founder’s Field Guide

Ep.20

The Past, Present, and Future of the Internet

Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder and CEO of Automattic, the company on top of the open-source project WordPress. We cover the state of the internet, the symbiotic relationship between open source and proprietary projects, and how the best companies are master world builders.

02.11.2021

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Ep.19

Eliminating Work About Work

Dustin Moskovitz is the co-founder and CEO of Asana, the team-centric work management tool he started after co-founding Facebook. We cover Dustin's belief about the diminishing returns of hard work, Asana's quest to eliminate "work about work", and Dustin's investment strategy.

02.04.2021

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Founder’s Field Guide

Ep.18

The Past, Present, and Future of Big Data

Ali Ghodsi is the founder and CEO of Databricks, a data analytics platform for data scientists and developers. We cover the history of distributed computing, best practices for using data, and the lessons he has learned as CEO of Databricks and working at UC Berkley AMPLab.

01.28.2021

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Founder’s Field Guide

Ep.17

Superpowering Teams

Ilkka Paananen is the Founder and CEO of Supercell, a mobile game developer based in Finland. We cover how Supercell hires and designs teams, why they incorporate as little process as possible, and the rise of global, social games.

01.21.2021

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