A Wealth of Common Sense. Investor, author, and host of Animal Spirits podcast, focuses on simplifying finance for everyone; has backed over 200 companies.
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Markets are constantly evolving.
There are better products, services, research tools and technology. Our knowledge of the past impacts how you invest for the future.
In this sense, market cycles are always different.
But human nature doesn’t change.
People are emotional. You get stressed out, anxious, greedy, nervous, scared, excited and all of the other feelings money brings about.
In this sense, market cycles are...
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On today’s show, we discuss:
The three A’s driving markets: asset prices, AI, and the affluent consumer
The broadening out we are seeing in the market
How to think about valuing the largest companies in the world
Is AI the tool that levels the playing field for small and...
PayPal is one of the great technology stories of the past 30 years.
The payments company was founded in the dot-com bubble. The PayPal Mafia of founders and employees who struck it rich when the company was sold to eBay in 2002 includes Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, Max Levchin and more.
EBay spun out PayPal as its own public company in 2015. The seperation was a spectacular success for those who hung onto the sha...
Jim Simons created perhaps the greatest market-beating machine ever constructed at Renaissance Technologies.
The Medallion Fund returned a preposterous 66% per year for 30 years.
The fund traded a lot and I’m still not quite sure what signals the code-breakers and rocket scientists used. But in Greg Zuckerman’s book The Man Who Solved the Market, one of the partners at the firm said they were only right abou...
