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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.33
REALLY Private Equity
Royce Yudkoff and Rick Ruback are Harvard Business School professors. We cover how students in their class practically learn to search for, acquire, and run a small business directly after graduation.
04.18.2017

Invest Like The Best
Ep.32
The Art of Tracking
Boyd Varty is a lion tracker, life coach, and storyteller. We cover tracking and how the same strategy for pursuing animals in the wild can be applied to all aspects of our lives, the dangers of a goal-oriented mindset, and what he learned from spending time with Nelson Mandela.
04.11.2017

Invest Like The Best
Ep.31
Quant Hedge Funds and the Fear of Death
Khe Hy rose to be one of the youngest MDs at Blackrock. We cover the hedge fund landscape, what investors should look for in hedge fund managers, and the four pillars that he lives by.
04.04.2017

Invest Like The Best
Ep.30
The Future of Asset Management
Ted Seides is the Founder of Capital Allocators and Brent Beshore is the CEO and founder of adventur.es. We cover the future of hedge fund fees, the role of industry dynamics in investment decision making, and setups conducive to a true long term investing strategy.
03.28.2017

Invest Like The Best
Ep.29
Premeditated Success
Jim O’Shaughnessy is the Founder, Chairman, and Co-Chief Investment Officer of O’Shaughnessy Asset Management. We cover the importance of removing emotion from investing, the books that Jim would prescribe to everyone, and the biggest lessons he's learned running businesses.
03.21.2017

Invest Like The Best
Ep.28
Permanent Equity
Trish and James Higgins run Chenmark Capital Management, a firm that acquires small businesses. We cover the process for evaluating businesses they are looking to acquire, what a search fund is and why they are becoming more popular, and their feelings on having skin in the game.
03.14.2017

Invest Like The Best
Ep.27
How to Live a Longer, Higher Quality Life
Peter Attia, M.D. is a physician whose interest is in maximizing human longevity. We cover the relationship between healthspan and lifespan, the ideas that he hopes become mainstream over the next 50 years, and how he guards himself from getting too attached to his old beliefs.
03.07.2017

Invest Like The Best
Ep.26
Slow and Steady Wins the Race
John Rogers is the Founder, CEO and CIO of Ariel Investments. We cover Ariel’s investment process and its evolution over the years, lessons from John’s basketball career, and asset management’s diversity problem.
02.28.2017

Invest Like The Best
Ep.25
Building Modern Monopolies
Alex Moazed is the co-author of Modern Monopolies: What It Takes to Dominate the 21st Century Economy, and the founder and CEO of Applico. We cover the shift from linear to platform business models, modern monopolies and their importance to consumers, and investing in platforms.
02.21.2017

Invest Like The Best
Ep.24
Investing In Tiny Stocks
Ian Cassel is a micro-cap investor and co-founder of MicroCap Club. We cover the idea of an intelligent fanatic, the due diligence process Ian follows when identifying micro-cap companies, and his life philosophy as an investor that lives off of the performance of his portfolio.
02.14.2017