Invest Like the Best
, subject: Interview series about investing, business building, and decision-making, 2016
Invest Like the Best features conversations on customer obsession, power-law people, and why knowing a craft's history supports exceptional performance.
About this work
Launched in 2016, the series ranges across investing, company building, technology, and decision-making, using long-form conversations to help listeners invest their time as well as their money.
Why explore it
Best if you want conversations on customer obsession, power-law people, the sacrifice extreme ambition demands, and how knowing a craft's history supports exceptional work.
Key themes
- Power-law people and total sacrifice
- Mastery through a craft's history
- Customer obsession as a thesis
Evidence and original sources
Sources: official Founders episodes — #266, #272, #289, #295, #296, #310, #312, #320, #329, #333, #335, #344, #373, #413
episode #373 reuses discussion from episode #335. For each evidence type, the strongest qualifying component counts once per discussion. Source publication and scoring origin are separate.
This record is supported by 15 public evidence rows linked to original Founders episodes.
- Henry Ford's Autobiography — David identifies an Invest Like the Best interview with Ravi Gupta and uses its customer-obsession thesis to explain Henry Ford's operating decisions.
- Kobe Bryant (The Life) — David reads a quote from Sam Hinkie's Invest Like the Best appearance and develops it into a warning about the destructive force of ruthless people.
- Brunello Cucinelli — David tells listeners to follow Invest Like the Best, one of his favorite podcasts.
- I had dinner with Charlie Munger — David draws on Sam Hinkie's Invest Like the Best discussion of Robert Caro to reinforce Charlie Munger's lesson about the total sacrifice demanded by extreme ambition.
- Bernard Arnault (The Richest Man in the World) — David cites Doug Leone’s discussion on Invest Like the Best to describe Bernard Arnault’s determination to get things done.
- Walt Disney and Picasso — David recommends Kevin Kelly’s episode 334 of Invest Like the Best after discussing its resourcefulness lesson.