My guest today is Rory Sutherland. Rory is the Vice Chairman of Ogilvy & Mather Group, which is one of the largest and most renowned advertising agencies in the world. He’s also the author of one of my favorite recent books called Alchemy: The surprising power of ideas that don’t make sense. In this conversation, we explore many of his counterintuitive ideas ... Show More
Aug 18
Ben Thompson on Big Tech, China, and the AI Boom Running Out of Money - [Invest Like the Best, EP.487]
My guest today is Ben Thompson, the founder and author of Stratechery. Ben is one of my favorite business thinkers and I love talking to him about everything happening in markets and technology. We go through every important company, including OpenAI, Nvidia, Intel, Apple, Micros ... Show More
1h 16m
Aug 11
Eric Vishria - A Decade of Lessons Investing in Software & Hardware - [Invest Like the Best, EP.486]
My guest today is Eric Vishria, a General Partner at Benchmark. Eric has spent his career in software and cloud, and few people know the history of these markets as well as he does. What makes him special is his ability to use that history to make sense of today. We discuss what ... Show More
1h 5m
Aug 4
Gavin Baker - AI Market Jitters - [Invest Like the Best, EP.485]
My guest today is Gavin Baker, founding partner and CIO of Atreides Management. This is our seventh conversation, and just two months after Gavin's last appearance. It's about the gap between what the market is doing and what companies are seeing. It's been a tough month or so fo ... Show More
1h 5m
Oct 2023
Top Advertising Exec on the Tricks and Psychology of Good Marketing | Rory Sutherland
<p>In this episode, I spoke with Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman of Ogilvy, the massively successful advertising company behind brands like American Express, Sears, Ford, IBM and more. We spoke about what makes people spend money on luxury goods, the personality traits that make a ... Show More
1h 31m
May 2025
The Day Rory Sutherland Became a Marketing Genius
What if the biggest breakthroughs in business don’t come from logic, but from noticing what others overlook?In this episode, Rory Sutherland unpacks the moment a late-night scroll through economics blogs led him to Nudge, sparking a fascination with behavioral science that would ... Show More
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