Podbrain 
What How I Built This with Guy Raz Says About Investing
11 episodes about investing
<p>Guy Raz interviews the world’s best-known entrepreneurs to learn how they built their iconic brands. In each episode,...
Key Insights on Investing
Investment matching is crucial - if she's at level 3 and you're acting like level 9, you look anxious and needy
- FM Investments grew from $0 to $10 billion in assets under management in just over five years by focusing on simple, low-cost Treasury and bond ETFs.
- FM Investments built an anti-hallucination large language model trained on 1,784 documents to simulate Fed candidate Kevin Warsh's policy positions.
- Profitability in AI comes from accurately predicting demand rather than underinvesting, with inference margins exceeding 50%
- The Louisiana Purchase, bought for $340 million in today's money, is now worth at least $60 trillion—a 17,640,000% return on investment
- Chucky agent acts as an interactive portfolio representative for AI builders, inspired by the job interview scene from Good Will Hunting
- "First 10 respondents were all no" when asked if they have 25% of crypto portfolio in DeFi after recent hacks
- Technology earnings up 18% but stocks down 12%, representing 25% multiple compression as AI investments shift companies from asset-light to asset-heavy models
Episodes
Build-A-Bear: Maxine Clark. A Former Shoe Executive Launches a Stuffed Animal Empire
Advice Line with David Neeleman of JetBlue
Shep and Ian Murray: Vineyard Vines. A Stale Product Transforms into a Lifestyle Brand.
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method returns
Advice Line with Angie & Dan Bastian of Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP
diapers.com: Marc Lore. The ecommerce visionary who lost to Amazon but still made billions (2021)
Advice Line with Marcia Kilgore of Beauty Pie (June 2025)
Bobo’s: Beryl Stafford. A Single Mom Turns a Baking Project into a $100M Business
Netflix: Reed Hastings. “We’re Not a Family.” The Provocative Idea That Helped Build a Streaming Giant
Advice Line with Jon Stein of Betterment
La Colombe Coffee Roasters: Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberti. A Brotherhood Built on Coffee (2020)
Books on investing
.svg)