#111 Joel Greenblatt: Investing Made Simple

The AI race, the future of AGI, and the inside story of OpenAI. Greg Brockman is the co-founder of OpenAI. This is the most detailed first-person account he has given of the 72 hours after Sam Altman was fired, how OpenAI started, and the future. Greg explains how the original Na ...  Show more

Mario Harik is the CEO of XPO, one of the largest trucking companies in the world, and leads a team of 40,000 people across a multi‑billion‑dollar operation. He started as employee #3, trained under Brad Jacobs (who’s built eight multibillion‑dollar companies from scratch), and h ...  Show more

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN: 10:18 - How to take positions in the market with a $5 upside and a $1 downside. 13:14 - How to make money in spin-offs. 26:45 - How to make money in risk arbitrage and merger securities. 45:57 - How call options work. BOOKS AND RESOURCES Join the ex ...  Show more

On today’s episode, Clay Finck reviews Joel Tillinghast’s book, Big Money Thinks Small, and does analysis on two companies built around acquisitions - Brown and Brown Insurance and Constellation Software. Joel is an incredible long-term investor as he has consistently outperforme ...  Show more

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz speaks with Joel Greenblatt, who serves as managing principal and co-chief investment officer of Gotham Asset Management. Greenblatt is also an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, where he teaches value and special situation i ...  Show more

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN: How Joel Greenblatt crushed the market by making big, bold bets on cheap stocks. How a freak investment disaster taught him never to forget that bad things happen. Why he believes that the greatest investors tend to have “a screw loose.” How he hand ...  Show more