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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.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

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Ep.394
Building Islands of Innovation
Tobi Lütke is the co-founder and CEO of Shopify. We cover the biggest changes he's observed in the wider tech ecosystem with the advent of AI, his unique way of interpreting and implementing "founder mode" at Shopify, and how we can promote more entrepreneurs to build on "islands of innovation" away from the mainstream.
10.22.2024
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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 at the intersection of crypto and AI, and why there's no such thing as 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

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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

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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

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Ep.397
Leading Through Crisis
Ernie Garcia is the co-founder and CEO of Carvana. We cover his strategies for staying calm and leading the team through a period of significant volatility and drawdown, how the acquisition of ADESA shaped Carvana's growth trajectory, and the legendary project management methodology used at the firm.
11.12.2024

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Ep.396
Redefining Semiconductor Progress
Andrew Homan is a Managing Partner at Maverick Silicon and Chris Miller is the author of Chip War. We cover the geopolitical implications of the race for superior chip technology, how venture capital is playing the AI-driven boom in the industry, and where innovation is happening beyond just Nvidia.
11.05.2024