This is Zack Fuss. Today we are breaking down the Mitsubishi Corporation. In Japan, the business model of a trading company is prominent. The big five trading companies caught the attention of global investors in 2020, when Berkshire Hathaway disclosed a major stake in all of them: Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Itochu, Marubeni, and Sumitomo. Today's Berkshire stake i ... Show More
Jul 27
Applied Intuition: A Billion Intelligent Machines - [Business Breakdowns, EP.248]
Today, we are breaking down Applied Intuition. Our guests are co-founders Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig, who started the company in 2017 with a mission to make a billion machines intelligent. The simplest way to understand Applied Intuition is that it builds the brains for machin ... Show More
47m 13s
May 29
Toast: Sticky SaaS - [Business Breakdowns, EP.247]
Today, we are breaking down Toast, a name we have covered before but are revisiting because the story has changed enough to be worth telling again. Most listeners will have tapped a Toast terminal without thinking much about the business behind it. Our guest is Sean Barrett, foun ... Show More
49m 24s
May 15
Auto1: EU-sed Car Marketplace - [Business Breakdowns, EP.246]
Today, we are breaking down Auto1, and this is an interesting episode because we are tackling a business that most US listeners will not be familiar with, even though it resembles names they already know well. Our guest is Harrison Moot, co-founder and CIO of Sandstone, who walks ... Show More
1h 5m
Feb 2025
Trading Insights: Evolution of the markets structuring business
<p>In this episode, Eloise Goulder, head of the Data Assets and Alpha Group at J.P. Morgan, sits down with Rui Fernandes, global head of Markets Trading Structuring at J.P. Morgan, to explore the evolution of the trading and structuring businesses. They delve into the key driver ... Show More
26m 23s
Feb 2021
Japanese Stocks: The Ultimate Undervalued Investment Opportunity (w/ Andrew McDermott & David Salem)
The Interview: Recorded on December 14, 2020. David Salem, managing partner of Windhorse Capital Management, welcomes Andrew McDermott, president of Mission Value Partners, an investment firm that invests almost exclusively in Japanese equities. McDermott argues that Japan is a h ... Show More
1h 24m
Aug 2023
Best Businesses in the World A to Z (List)
<p>In this episode of the Canadian Investor, Simon and Braden provide the best businesses in the world for every letter of the Alphabet</p> <p>Symbols of stocks discussed: AAPL, BRK-B, DE, META, HD, JNJ, LMT, MA, PEP, INTU, ROP, SPGI, TSM, UH, UNH, V, WMT, GOOG, ASML, ETSY, DIS, ... Show More
52m 22s
May 2023
The Markets: Why European stocks are beating US equities
Breaking down this week’s economic data and events from the Euro area, Japan, China and the U.S., Luke Barrs, global head of client portfolio management in Fundamental Equity within Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management, joins our latest episode of The Markets, a new weekly pod ... Show More
9m 48s
Apr 2021
Mike Kerns and Jesse Jacobs - Content to Commerce - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 220]
My guests this week are Jesse Jacobs and Mike Kerns, co-founders and partners at The Chernin Group, TCG, a multi-stage investment firm dedicated to building consumer businesses. Many think of TCG as some of the best media investors in the world, and in this discussion, you’ll qui ... Show More
1h 13m
Feb 2023
Jeff Green - Modernizing Advertising - [Invest Like the Best, EP.315]
My guest today is Jeff Green, the CEO and co-founder of advertising platform, The Trade Desk. The Trade Desk is the second advertising exchange Jeff has built, having sold his first venue to Microsoft in 2007. He started The Trade Desk in 2009 and has built it into a $30 billion ... Show More
1h 7m