My guest today is Miles Grimshaw. Miles is in his early thirties and is a General Partner at Benchmark. His experience and success belie his age. He was an early investor in Segment, Benchling, and Airtable, all before they had 30 employees. I have learned a ton from Miles about software investing and that’s why I was excited to have him on the show. We disc ... Show More
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William Hockey - Building the Operating System for the Dollar and Silicon Valley Heresy - [Invest Like the Best, EP.463]
William Hockey is the co-founder of Plaid and the founder and CEO of Column, a software company that owns a bank and powers Ramp, Wise, Bilt, Mercury, and others. He funded Column by borrowing against his Plaid shares and has never raised outside capital. William talks about what ... Show More
1h 10m
Mar 10
Shyam Sankar - Celebrating Heretics - [Invest Like the Best, EP.462]
My guest today is Shyam Sankar, the CTO of Palantir Technologies. In this conversation, we explore the ideas that shape how Shyam thinks about technology, talent, and national power. We discuss the origins of Palantir’s forward-deployed engineering model and the lessons he learne ... Show More
1h 21m
Mar 4
John Arnold - China, Energy Markets and Fixing America's Systems - [Invest Like the Best, EP.461]
My guest today is John Arnold. John is probably the most famous energy trader of all time and certainly the most successful. One of the things John talks about is cultivating the best seat in your industry – the seat with the best perspective, the most information, the best syste ... Show More
1h 15m
Jan 2024
Visma: Mission Critical European Software - [Business Breakdowns, EP.145]
This is Zack Fuss. Today we are breaking down the largest privately-owned software business in Europe, Visma. Visma is a software company with over 15,000 employees offering accounting, payroll, and HR software products for customers across the Nordic, Benelux, and Baltic regions ... Show More
46m 4s
Apr 2024
Chris Hansen - The Long & Short of Investing - [Art of Investing, EP.16]
Our teacher today is Chris Hansen, founder of Long Short Equity investor, Valiant Capital. Chris spun off from his early career at Blue Ridge to start Valiant and pursue his own unique investment thesis.
We cover Chris's foray into investing in India, the training, temperament, a ... Show More
1h 31m
Mar 2024
Arcadea Group - Permanent Capital Investing in Vertical SaaS - [Art of Investing, EP.14]
Our teachers today are Daniel Eisen and Paul Yancich, co-founders of Arcadea Group. Arcadea is a private market, long-duration investor building a permanent home for high-quality, vertical market software companies.
Today, we sit down with an example of next-generation talent in ... Show More
1h 37m
Feb 2024
TIP610: Mastermind Q1, 2024 w/ Tobias Carlisle and Hari Ramachandra
In today's episode, Stig Brodersen speaks to Tobias Carlisle and Hari Ramachandra. Stig only owns five individual stocks, and in this episode, he outlines why he is still bullish on Spotify. Hari’s pick, Disney, has recently been extremely volatile, and Tobias pitches Mueller Ind ... Show More
1h 26m
Feb 2024
TIP609: Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb
On today’s episode, Clay reviews Nassim Taleb’s book – Fooled by Randomness.
Nassim Taleb is a Lebanon-born American mathematician and statistician whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty. He’s very well known for his popular books, including The ... Show More
1 h
<p></p><p><strong>I've just launched a </strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdNXaHHVnVntg5gpveB-5_Q"><strong>new YouTube channel</strong></a><strong>!! The concept? </strong>I take real businesses struggling to stand the f*ck out, provide my positioning/branding/lea ... Show More
