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Michael Moritz - Lessons From 40 Years of Investing and Writing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.491]
Michael Moritz led Sequoia Capital for nearly two decades and backed some of the defining companies of the internet era. In his new memoir, Ausländer, he turns his attention to his own family, Jewish refugees who fled Nazi Germany and rebuilt their lives in Wales. We discuss the ... Show More
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Walter Russell Mead - How America Keeps Winning - [Invest Like the Best, EP.490]
My guest today is Walter Russell Mead. Walter is a columnist at the Wall Street Journal and the author of Special Providence and God and Gold, two of the best books written on American power. He has spent decades studying how the United States came to dominate the world, and our ... Show More
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Sarah Guo - Funding the Frontier - [Invest Like the Best, EP.489]
My guest today is Sarah Guo, founder and managing partner of Conviction, the venture firm she built to back AI-native companies from their earliest days. Sarah has become one of the most sought-after early-stage investors in AI, often the first check into the companies defining t ... Show More
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