#108 Jim Simons (Money Printer)

This episode discusses Joseph Wechsberg’s 1966 book, The Merchant Bankers. Rather than recounting the histories of families like the Rothschilds, Barings, Hambros, Warburgs, and Lehman Brothers, I wanted to extract the principles they shared. Merchant banking is fascinating. It's ...  Show more

What I learned from reading Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters (for the 3rd or 4th time) Made possible by: Ramp: ⁠ https://ramp.com⁠ Applovin: ⁠ https://www.applovin.com/⁠ Vanta: ⁠ https://vanta.com/founders 

Jim Simons joins Lawrence for fascinating new and different take on the life of a man best known to the public for becoming a billionaire by using techniques from mathematics and statistics to revolutionize investing, but who has had numerous other careers, as a brilliant mathema ...  Show more

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: 02:00 - The 4 horsemen of the investing apocalypse, according to Jim. 12:01 - How and why certain factors change over time. 18:27 - The best approach to using discounted cash flow models. 26:32 - Whether or not GDP and therefore Market Cap to GDP ra ...  Show more

Author and friend-of-the-show Jimmy Soni returns to discuss the future of publishing, the changing world of book marketing, the courage of creative risk, and MUCH more!

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