My guest today is Ram Parameswaran, founder of Octahedron Capital. Ram started Octahedron this year after more than 5 years as a partner at Altimeter Capital where he made investments in Square, Bytedance, Pinduoduo, and Udaan. In our conversation we cover the potential for internet scale businesses, explore the common characteristics of these businesses, an ... Show More
Jun 27
Charlie Songhurst – Lessons from Investing in 483 Companies - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]
Welcome to this classic episode. Classics are my favorite episodes from the past 10 years, published once a month. These are N of 1 conversations with N of 1 people. Charlie Songhurst is a brilliant strategist, accomplished executive, and prolific angel investor. This episode is ... Show More
1h 8m
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
Jun 2024
TIP639: Buffett's Favorite Business Book w/ David Fagan
On today’s episode, Clay is joined by David Fagan to discuss Don Keough’s book, The Ten Commandments of Business Failure.
Don Keough was the President and COO of Coca-Cola. During Keough’s and Roberto Goizueta’s leadership, Coca-Cola’s stock compounded at 27% per annum from 1981 ... Show More
1h 6m
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, an ... Show More
1h 31m
Apr 2022
EP107 "Do Your Homework" | Kareem Anabtawi On Strategic Investing In MENA's VC Space
The days of "spray and pray" investing are done, at least according to Kareem Anabtwai, the Chief Investment Officer for Annex Investments. Kareem believes the future of the VC space lies in collaboration, conscious, considered alignments between startups and investors, and, abov ... Show More
35m 19s
May 2022
EP112 "MENA's Time Is Now" | Venture Capitalist Suneel Gokhale On Investing In Early-Stage Startups
In the latest episode of The Change Officer Podcast, we spoke to Suneel Gokhale, one of the founding partners of VentureSouq, a MENA-based investment firm focused on high growth early-stage technology companies. VentureSouq began as a side hustle when Suneel, his wife and two of ... Show More
58m 45s
Mar 2024
D.R. Horton: Building a New Model - [Business Breakdowns, EP.154]
This is Matt Reustle. Today, we are breaking down D.R. Horton, America’s largest homebuilder. Our guest is Ed Wachenheim, Founder of Greenhaven Associates. Ed takes us through an incredible discussion of D.R. Horton and homebuilders broadly, including how much has changed with th ... Show More
1h 5m