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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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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.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

Invest Like The Best
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

Invest Like The Best
Ep.62
How to Value a Cryptoasset
Chris Burniske is a partner at venture capital firm Placeholder. We cover concepts of utility-value of crypto assets, the differences between cryptocurrencies, crypto commodities, and crypto tokens, and the pros and cons of centralized vs decentralized networks.
11.07.2017

Invest Like The Best
Ep.61
What Happens When You Hit Buy
Brad Katsuyama is the founder of the IEX exchange and the protagonist of Michael Lewis’s famous book, Flash Boys. We cover the business model of the financial exchanges, what IEX is and the problem they are solving, and what it was like to be the topic of a best-selling book.
10.31.2017

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Ep.60
Ladder: The Fitness Marketplace
Brett Maloley is a founder of Ladder, a fitness market platform. We cover origins of the health clubs, the differences between franchise vs. license models, and fixing the commercial fitness industry by changing it.
10.24.2017

Invest Like The Best
Ep.59
Grand Theft Life
Tim Urban runs the blog "Wait, But Why" and Andrew is his business partner. We cover what it means to be a cook and not a chef, what he learned from writing about Elon Musk, and what human progress implies about the future of our species.
10.17.2017

Invest Like The Best
Ep.58
Hash Power – Part 3
With various investors and players in crypto as our guides, we cover regulation and storage of cryptos, forking in blockchains, and the need for increased security in cryptos.
10.10.2017

Invest Like The Best
Ep.57
Hash Power – Part 2
The founders of Polychain, Metastable, and Blocktower Capital are our primary guides as we cover why we need bitcoin and blockchains, investing in cryptocurrencies and ICOs, and the lifecycle of a token.
10.03.2017

Invest Like The Best
Ep.56
Hash Power – Part 1
We cover the potential of blockchains, the idea of scarcity in digital assets, and hashing. Our guides are leaders in this field such as Naval Ravikant, Olaf Carlson-Wee, Fred Ehrsam, Ari Paul among others.
09.26.2017

Invest Like The Best
Ep.55
Tech Investing Outside of Silicon Valley
David runs Box Group, a seed-stage VC firm. We cover the tech accelerator model, how things have changed for tech startups over the last 20 years, and the biggest mistakes David sees startups make.
09.19.2017

Invest Like The Best
Ep.54
Finding Companies That Break the Rules
David Gardner is the co-founder of the Motley Fool. We cover how to find and invest in companies breaking the rules, the Motley Fool business, and his stock evaluation process.
09.12.2017

Invest Like The Best
Ep.53
Factors, Dividends, and Angel Investing
Meb Faber is a quantitative researcher at the investment firm Cambria. We cover Meb's process for investing in early stage companies, investor behavior and asset management fee structures, and what he enjoys most about having his own podcast.
09.07.2017