Almost 10 years ago I hosted Royce Yudkoff and Rick Ruback for one of the first ILtB episodes They are back, to teach us all about entrepreneurship through acquisition Royce was a legendary PE investor, and now with Rick has built the most popular class at HBS So fun. Enjoy!

Charles Schulz drew every Peanuts strip—over 17,000—by hand. No assistants. No breaks. 6 days a week. 50 years straight. The final strip ran the day after he died.

My conversation with Gustav Söderström on how Spotify builds its exceptional product This is like a builder version of “this is who you are up against.” IMO, Gustav sets a standard for operating excellence. We discuss everything: product, applying AI, leadership, company building, and a

Talk is cheap…do more of it

Turning Spotify profitable

why exclusive podcasts didn’t work

Spotify's execution team has a 3-hour meeting every Tuesday. That meeting has an important rule: You can’t say ‘Offline’ or ‘Later’. Here’s why:

Spotify’s Gustav Söderström reflects on a product decision that didn’t go as planned—and the lessons that followed.

My conversation with Graham Weaver, the founder of Alpine Investors. Graham built this large private equity firm by buying companies and handing them over to ~27-year-old CEOs. He tells the entire story of the firm here. Enjoy! Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:37 Alpine's Three North

Follow your compass.

The more you give, the more comes back to you.

What it means to be smarter than your competition.

My conversation with John Zito, co-president at Apollo, on how they are building one of the most interesting businesses in finance and investing. We cover all aspects of markets and investing. John is one of the smartest, funniest, and most creative people I’ve met in this

Da Avocado Guy Or, why there’s always room for great

Unique. Special. Solves a problem. Da Avocado Guy.

Michael Ovitz tells the story of Bill Murray’s fire escape.

This was really well done by Bill Gurley. I do think there is a lingering interesting debate to be had about the circular, causal relationship between rising illiquid private market premiums, declining paths to liquidity, and liquid day 1 price movements. open.spotify.com/episode/3coA5P…

Jay Hoag's take on modesty in the venture business.