#81 - Blake Johnson: Entrepreneurship, Bootstrapping, Resilience
Blake is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist who has founded and sold businesses exceeding $1.1 billion. He shares his journey from small-town beginnings to building Byte into a billio...
29 Jul 202553min
#80 - Andrew Metrick: Master Class in Financial Crises & Bank Runs
Andrew is the Janet Yellen Professor of Finance and Management at the Yale School of Management and Director of the Yale Program on Financial Stability, specializing in financial crises. He discusses ...
22 Jul 20251h 27min
#79 - Jon Gray: Leadership, Scaling Blackstone, Market Trends
Jon is President and COO of Blackstone—one of the world’s largest and most highly valued investment firms, managing over $1.1 trillion in assets (as of 3/31/25). He shares his career journey, insights...
15 Jul 202559min
#78 - Leonard Kleinrock: Internet Creation, AI Future
Dr. Leonard Kleinrock, a distinguished professor of computer science at UCLA, helped invent the Internet and supervised the sending of its first message in 1969. In this episode, he shares stories fro...
8 Jul 20251h 38min
#77 - Charlie Ruffel: Asset Management Industry Evolution, Alternatives
Charlie is founder, Chairman and Managing Partner of Kudu Investment Management and a board director of Charles Schwab. Drawing on decades of experience as a financial journalist, asset management exe...
1 Jul 202557min
#76 - Jeff Huber: Innovation, Google, GRAIL, Triatomic
Jeff is the founder of Triatomic Capital and former Google SVP. He shares lessons from building Google Maps, Ads, and Gmail, founding GRAIL for early cancer detection, and leading transformative teams...
24 Jun 20251h
#75 - Liz Ann Sonders: Investing Principles, Inflation, Instability, Diversification
Liz Ann is the long-time Chief Investment Strategist at Charles Schwab, with over 25 years at the firm and frequent appearances on CNBC, Bloomberg, CNN, and CBS News. She shares insights on the core p...
17 Jun 202544min
#74 - Alan Waxman: Sixth Street, Leadership, Outlook
As Co-Founding Partner and CEO of Sixth Street, Alan has guided the firm from its founding to a leading global investment firm — an achievement that followed his early success as one of Goldman Sachs’...
10 Jun 20251h 3min
