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My guest today is Alex Karnal. Alex is the co-founder and managing partner of Braidwell, a life sciences investment firm he built after spending 15 years at Deerfield Management. The frame we use throughout the episode is the health stack. Alex talks about how most of the disease ...  Show more

Scott Nolan spent 12 years at Founders Fund looking for the most important problems that no one else was funding. Then he found a problem so critical, and so ignored, that he couldn't find a company to back. So he started one. General Matter is rebuilding US uranium enrichment. T ...  Show more

My guest today is Howard Lindzon. It’s impossible to summarize Howard’s resume, but he’s best known for founding StockTwits and as a private and public market investor. We start this conversation with a hilarious story of his early career at CBS. We then talk about a variety of o ...  Show more

Our teacher today is Jan Mohr. Jan is an investor turned operator who is currently CEO of Chapters Group, a publicly traded holding company building Europe's home for mission-critical businesses. This class is first and foremost about a young aspiring value investor who embodies ...  Show more

Our teacher today is Chris Hansen, founder of Long Short Equity investor, Valiant Capital. Chris spun off from his early career at Blue Ridge to start Valiant and pursue his own unique investment thesis. We cover Chris's foray into investing in India, the training, temperament, a ...  Show more

Our teachers today are Daniel Eisen and Paul Yancich, co-founders of Arcadea Group. Arcadea is a private market, long-duration investor building a permanent home for high-quality, vertical market software companies.  Today, we sit down with an example of next-generation talent in ...  Show more