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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.427
The Gift and The Curse of Staying Private
Bill Gurley is a former General Partner at Benchmark Capital. We cover the breakdown of incentives that created over a thousand "zombie unicorn" companies, how late-stage venture firms have largely eliminated the need to go public to access funding and liquidity, and the investing implications if AI turns out to be the single greatest platform shift of our lifetime.
06.10.2025

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Ep.414
Investing At Lone Pine
Kelly Granat is the co-CIO and Managing Director of Lone Pine Capital. We cover the building blocks behind Lone Pine's investment decisions, why the market frequently misprices the ability to execute, and the investing industry's problems with aligning incentives and duration.
03.11.2025

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Ep.99
The Art of Presence
Boyd Varty is a lion tracker, life coach, and storyteller. Bronwyn is a 4th generation custodian of Londolozi Game Reserve in South Africa. We cover life lessons from being in the wild, running a game reserve as a business, and the idea of restoration.
08.15.2018

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Ep.99
Live Like a Tracker
Boyd Varty is a lion tracker, life coach, and storyteller. We cover our shared experience called “Track Your Life”, stories and reflections from living in the wild, and the importance and power of silence.
08.14.2018

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Ep.98
The Crypto Barbell and Token Curated Registries
Ryan Selkis is the co-founder of Messari, which helps investors, regulators and the public make sense of the cryptoeconomy. We cover the need for better transparency around decentralized projects, Token-Curated Registries, and how people should form investment opinions about this space.
08.07.2018

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Ep.97
Investing in Innovation
Cathie Wood is the founder of ARK Invest. We cover why disruptive innovation is so inefficiently priced in today's public markets, the 5 technologies that ARK believes will be the most disruptive, and how she grew ARK to over $6B+ AUM.
07.31.2018

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Ep.96
Business Gone Bad and the Art of Persistence
Bethany McLean is a nonfiction writer and journalist. We cover what it takes to be a good investigative journalist, the intersection of ethics and business, and the various businesses and scandals she has covered in her career.
07.24.2018

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Ep.95
Value is Dead, Long Live Value
Modest Proposal is an anonymous guest who manages a large pool of private capital. We discuss how difficult the market has become for active investors, thematic investment opportunities, and the potential sources of market mispricings.
07.17.2018

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Ep.94
The Future of Media
Niel Robertson is the co-founder and CEO of influence.co. We cover the current media landscape, the role the largest media platforms will play, and future opportunities in the industry.
07.03.2018

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Ep.93
The Past, Present & Future of ETFs
Eric Balchunas is the senior ETF analyst at Bloomberg and the author of the Institutional ETF toolbox. We cover Eric’s favorite ETF tickers, the pros and cons of ETFs versus other investment vehicles, and the largest areas of opportunities for new ETFs.
06.26.2018

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Ep.92
New Angles on Crypto
Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain are managing partners at Multicoin Capital. We cover store-value vs utility-value of cryptocurrencies, factors for evaluating a cryptocurrency, and why blockchains may not matter at all in ten years.
06.19.2018

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Ep.91
Tim Cook’s Dashboard
Michael Reece is the chief data scientist for Neuberger Berman. We cover the advantages of data in the investment process, machine learning, and the shift from being data-informed to data-driven.
06.12.2018