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Conversations with the best investors and business leaders in the world. Patrick explores their ideas, methods, and stories to help you better invest your time and money.

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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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

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Ep.361
Investing for a Higher Purpose
Cyan Banister is a partner at Long Journey Ventures. We cover why spirituality is an increasingly investable area, the power of staying curious in the face of adversity, and her best life and investing stories about everything from Uber to Bill Murray.
02.20.2024

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Ep.382
Engineering Global Resilience
Hemant Taneja is the CEO and Managing Director of General Catalyst. We cover the motivation behind GC's focus on critical industries such as healthcare, the value of a long-term approach to building deals and relationships, and how to be successful at succession.
07.31.2024
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Ep.409
Graham Duncan: Talent Whisperer
Graham Duncan is the co-founder of East Rock Capital. We cover the pivotal moments of ignition in his career, his frameworks for pricing talent and matching the perfect person to a role, and how mindset and intensity separate masters from professionals in any field.
02.04.2025

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Ep.408
Combat, Service, and Innovation
Blake Hall is the CEO and co-founder of ID.me. We cover what his time in the military taught him about leadership and service, the staggering true cost of identity fraud, and his frameworks for building trust and culture in organizations.
01.28.2025

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Ep.407
Designing The Future
Dylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of Figma. We cover the hardest part of building in private, his principles for avoiding common design pitfalls, and why human creativity is still as relevant as ever despite the growing capabilities of AI models.
01.21.2025

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Ep.406
Bridging Science, Medicine, and Returns
Tal Zaks is a Partner at OrbiMed. We cover the challenges that make investing in biotech different from fields like software, the importance of seeking lessons in your successes as well as failures, and why the pursuit of returns makes large-scale capital flows into science and innovation possible.
01.14.2025

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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

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Ep.404
Building AlphaSense
Jack Kokko is the CEO and founder of AlphaSense. We cover the evolution of language models and how they've enabled product builders, the role of M&A as a tool to help business owners realize their vision, and why he's motivated by improving the research experience for investors.
12.31.2024

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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

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Ep.402
Building Cognition
Scott Wu is the co-founder and CEO of Cognition. We cover the history of programming from punch cards to LLMs, how AI agents like Devin can 10x a software engineer's productivity, and why he's optimistic about the future of jobs in the industry.
12.17.2024

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Ep.401
Building Ribbit
Micky Malka is the founder of Ribbit Capital. We cover the founding principles behind Ribbit's mission to innovate financial services, the exciting possibilities enabled by the intersection of crypto and AI, and why there's no such thing as having too much conviction when a team is aligned.
12.10.2024

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Ep.400
Capital, Compute & AI Scaling
Chetan Puttagunta is a General Partner at Benchmark and Modest Proposal is a money manager who is one of the most respected thinkers in financial markets. We cover the current scaling challenges of frontier AI models, the incredible proliferation of open source models, and the investing implications across private and public markets.
12.06.2024