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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.6
Vanguard’s Gerry O’Reilly and Jim Rowley
Gerry O'Reilly is the portfolio manager and Jim Rowley is a senior investment analyst at Vanguard. We cover the particulars that make Vanguard and its funds tick, how buybacks play into re-balancing, and factor investing.
10.18.2016

Invest Like The Best
Ep.5
The Quantified Self
Christian Rudder is the co-founder of OKCupid and the best-selling author of Dataclysm. We cover interesting and unsettling trends in OKCupid's dating data, artificial intelligence, and his favorite book recommendations.
10.11.2016

Invest Like The Best
Ep.4
Walking and Thinking
Morgan Housel is a prolific writer, researcher, and partner at the Collaborative Fund. We cover the differences in investing in private vs public markets, why the timing of innovation matters, and advice that Morgan would give to young investors.
10.04.2016

Invest Like The Best
Ep.3
The Power of Serendipity
Jason Zweig is the Intelligent Investor columnist for the Wall Street Journal and author of several books, including his recent Devil's Financial Dictionary. We cover investing and financial advice, impactful books, and life in general.
09.27.2016

Invest Like The Best
Ep.2
Active Asset Management
Michael Mauboussin is a Managing Director and Head of Global Financial Strategies at Credit Suisse. We cover the current state of the asset management business, stages of the investment process, and edges that may still exist for those trying to beat the market.
09.20.2016

Invest Like The Best
Ep.1
Activist Investing
Jeff Gramm is the founder and portfolio manager at Bandera Partners, an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, and the author of Dear Chairman. We cover the history and current state of shareholder activism, his investment strategy, and share buybacks.
09.11.2016