Podcasts

Barry Ritholtz interviews Charlie Ellis, who has written classics of the investing world including "Winning the Loser's Game" about what rules enhance the odds of investing success

Sarah Paine, Professor of History and Strategy at the Naval War College sat down for a conversation on Taiwan, Ukraine, Great Naval Powers, lessons from prior conflicts and other topics. Highly interesting in the context of the world we live in today.

Philip Tetlock, who focuses his research on forecasting and wrote interesting books such as Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction, sat down with Tyler Cowen to discuss what makes good forecasters

rofessor Foerster dives into the groundbreaking work of financial pioneers like Harry Markowitz, Bill Sharpe, Gene Fama, and others, unpacking their remarkable contributions to portfolio management, risk assessment, and market efficiency as we know it today

Herb Kelleher was a legend who launched Southwest Airlines and completely transformed the airline industry in the US and across the world. A larger than life character with incredible drive.

The renowned researcher and author Jim Collins sat down to discuss topics such as trust, living a great life, how to build strong relationships

Dan Gilbert discusses the science behind happiness and explains why our minds worry about things we needn’t worry about (and fail to worry about things we really should worry about).

Rory Sutherland, author and Chairman at Ogilvy, discusses the psychology of advertising. Fascinating and applicable in every day life.

Brad Jacobs the legendary company builder behind some of the best performing stocks of all time. He has founded seven companies, all of which are billion-dollar or multibillion-dollar businesses. He has done 500 M&A transactions and raised $30 billion dollars of debt and equity capital.

Marc Rowan interviewed by Nicolai Tangen. Good insights into the trends in the private lending space and how firms like Apollo build an origination engine that is not just focused on lev loans, but much more broad scope

Conversation with the great Michael Mauboussin on everything from skill vs. luck, corporate moats, improving decision making and more.

Fascinating conversation with Robert Cialdini, who wrote the must read book on the science of persuasion titled Influence.

Nick Howley, who built Transdigm into one of the best performing listed firms of all times sat down walked through his thinking and playbook on building compounding machines.

Seth Klarman, the legendary manager of Baupost and author of the Margin of Safety, sat down with Ted Seides for a conversation on value investing.

Arthur C. Brooks, Professor at HBS and columnist at The Atlantic, where he writes the popular “How to Build a Life” column on how to lead a happier life.

The Acquired team sat down with Charlie Munger for a great conversation reflecting on his incredible career and life

Charley Ellis is the legendary founders of Greenwhich Associates and the author of great books and articles on investing. His conversations are always recommended.

Sit down with Bruce Flatt who built Brookfield into a major alternatives player, by employing a unique value creation play book.

Michael Ovitz is the legendary talent agent and co-founder of CAA, or Creative Artists Agency which he started in 1975 and built into a media powerhouse. Incredibly fascinating look behind the scenes of media.

Fascinating conversation with the legendary venture capitalist Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital. Great look at what it takes to be an outstanding VC investor.

Ken French, who worked extensively with Eugene Fama on asset pricing models and is a board member of Dimensional Fund Advisors sat down for a conversation with Meb, on topics like setting an investment plan, what long-term means and much more.

John McQuown was the original inventor of the index fund which was then popularised by Jack Bogle at Vanguard. Nice background on the inception of that financial innovation

Tyler sat down with Stephen Jennings to discuss his project to build multi-use developments in Kenya. Stephen was a co-founder of Renaissance in Russia and is now CEO of Rendeavour