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Michael Moritz - Lessons From 40 Years of Investing and Writing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.491]

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Michael Moritz - Lessons From 40 Years of Investing and Writing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.491]

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

8 HOURS AGO
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

8 HOURS AGO
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Michael Moritz led Sequoia Capital for nearly two decades and backed some of the defining companies of the internet era. In his new memoir, Ausländer, he turns his attention to his own family, Jewish refugees who fled Nazi Germany and rebuilt their lives...

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Michael Moritz joins Patrick O'Shaughnessy to discuss family history, moral courage, obsessive achievement, venture investing, leadership, writing, parenting, and the difficulty of becoming fully oneself.
02:54
Writing revealed who he was
05:54
The instinct to survive
11:57
Antisemitism is a permanent fact of life
16:57
Children may live the lives their parents could not
21:20
The question that reveals people
24:47
Courage in rural Bavaria
27:36
Most people stay silent
34:37
The profile that ended the relationship
38:44
He took only one day off each year
42:23
Don Valentine took a risk on an unconventional hire
47:09
Only as good as the next investment
50:55
Support when it matters
54:08
Great people can make the impossible possible
59:56
Extraordinary writing has an unmistakable voice
1:02:48
A leader who stops leading should get out of the way.
1:04:57
The mission of local journalism
1:07:15
The line between human and beast
1:09:27
Distill ideas to their essence
1:12:33
AI built for Wall Street

Chapters

Welcome to Invest Like The Best
00:00
Where Does One Person End?
02:16
The State of the World Today
11:15
The Unlived Life of Parents
15:08
Lee Iacocca, Eternal Outsider
17:33
His Most Revealing Question
21:03
Resisters, the Silent, and Collabos
26:03
The Profile of Steve Jobs
33:30
Frank Auerbach's Total Obsession
38:04
Why Don Valentine Hired Michael
41:04
Building Sequoia
46:44
What Michael Learned from Alex Ferguson
49:49
The Great Man Theory
52:57
Defining Extraordinary Writing
1:00:36
Stepping Back From Sequoia
1:03:40
A Philosophy of Parenting
1:06:54
The Next Book: Iran
1:09:00
The Kindest Thing
1:11:44

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