Special: Invest Like the Best on Acquired

On this special episode of Acquired, we're joined by a master
interviewer himself, Patrick O'Shaughnessy from Invest Like the
Best. We turn the tables and cover the most fascinating story
he's never told on ILTB... his own! What is O’Shaughnessy Asset
Management, and how are they bringing "AWS-level" innovation to
the sleepy wealth management industry? How did he go from Notre
Dame philosophy major to quant researcher to (arguably)
technology CEO and now also an early-stage venture investor...
all while simultaneously building one of the world's top new
business media empires? Acquired is here to explore it all. 





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Playbook Special! Patrick’s Favorite Themes from 5 Years of ILTB:


Chetan Puttagunta (#1): Go slow to go fast —
http://investorfieldguide.com/chetan/

Chetan Puttagunta (#2): Open source isn’t about saving on
R&D, it’s about building differentiated distribution among
developers —
 http://investorfieldguide.com/chetan-puttagunta-and-jeremiah-lowin-open-source-crash-course-invest-like-the-best-ep-188/

Bill Gurley: Healthy marketplace opportunities have
increasing marginal value to demand from incremental supply
penetration — http://investorfieldguide.com/gurley/

Matthew Ball: The key to unlocking the Metaverse isn’t about
building Ready Player One, it’s about creating interoperable
systems that will move value and information between experiences
—
 http://investorfieldguide.com/matt-ball-the-future-of-media-movies-the-metaverse-and-more-invest-like-the-best-ep-185/

Charlie Songhurst: The best place to look for talent is in
less-competitive markets —
http://investorfieldguide.com/songhurst/

Katrina Lake: The past of e-commerce was about price,
convenience and selection; the future is about personalization
and curation —
 http://investorfieldguide.com/katrina-lake-the-next-wave-of-e-commerce-invest-like-the-best-ep-187/

Daniel Ek: Company scaling as “seeing around corners” —
http://investorfieldguide.com/ek/

Kat Cole: Inversion as a tool to deal with difficult people —
 http://investorfieldguide.com/kat-cole-how-to-operate-lessons-in-brand-distribution-and-leadership-invest-like-the-best-ep-184/

Sarah Tavel: Hierarchy as a framework —
http://investorfieldguide.com/tavel/

Josh Wolfe: The “directional arrow of progress” and the
simple power of extrapolating trend lines —
http://investorfieldguide.com/wolfe2/



Links:


Invest Like the Best: http://investorfieldguide.com/podcast/

Founder's Field Guide:
http://investorfieldguide.com/founders-field-guide/

OSAM and Canvas: https://www.osam.com