Personable

Alix Pasquet, Managing Partner of Prime Macaya Capital Management and former backgammon player, joins Personable to explain why investing is a very predatory business, why the goal is not to be right but to make money, and why you should only ever play against weaker players. In this episode, Alix goes back to learning from the first backgammon neural nets in college, landing his first job at a fa...

Brian Feroldi, Motley Fool investor, author of Why Does the Stock Market Go Up?, and co-founder of Long-Term Mindset, joins Personable to explain the simple math that turns $100 into millions, why 99% of people should start and stop with index funds, and why the only edge individual investors have over Wall Street is time. In this episode, Brian goes back to the copy of Rich Dad, Poor Dad his dad...

Vincent Lee, co-founder of Sticky Jams and a former New Jersey state champion wrestler who wrestled at Duke before medically retiring, joins Personable to explain how a high school project became a sports audio brand with more than 10 million views a month, why the product matters more than the person promoting it, and why you should take the risk while you're young. In this episode, Vincent g...

Noah Kann, the 22-year-old co-founder of Venari Asset Management, a licensed multi-strategy hedge fund he runs with his twin brother Ethan while finishing his senior year at Emory University, joins Personable to explain why he'd rather fail on his own terms than succeed on someone else's dreams, why you can't build anything great on your own, and how he researches and picks investments...

Jim Rogers, co-founder of the Quantum Fund with George Soros, which returned 4,200% from 1973 to 1980 while the S&P gained about 47%, joins Personable to explain why the market is a cruel teacher, why the crowd moves prices more than the truth does, and why you should never accept that the sky is blue until you've looked out the window yourself. In this episode, Jim goes back to growing up...

Pat Fry, Chief Technical Officer of Williams Racing, with more than 35 years in Formula 1 across Benetton, McLaren, Ferrari, Manor, Alpine and now Williams, joins Personable to explain why you cannot win if people are afraid to fail, and why culture is as important as the car itself. In this episode, Pat goes back to joining Benetton as employee number 72 when electronics barely existed on an F1 c...

Tara VanDerveer, Hall of Fame Stanford coach, three-time national champion and 1996 Olympic gold medal coach, joins Personable to explain why you are either coaching the standard or you are allowing it, why championships are built in the little things, and why there is no shortcut to becoming great. In this episode, Tara goes back to falling into coaching after Title IX, how she built the Stanford...

Aswath Damodaran, Professor of Finance at NYU Stern and the Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education, widely known as the Dean of Valuation, joins Personable to explain why 90 percent of people should stop trying to beat the market, and why he still teaches after more than 40 years. In this episode, Aswath goes back to the first class he walked into as a TA in 1981, why valuation is a craft you...

Sharon Marcil, Managing Director, Senior Partner and North America Chair of Boston Consulting Group, formerly BCG's Chief Marketing Officer, Board Member of Duke University, named one of the Top 25 Most Influential Consultants by Consulting Magazine, former Goldman Sachs mergers and acquisitions professional, Harvard MBA and Duke economics graduate, joins Personable to reveal why getting the right...

Scott Bok, former CEO and Chairman of Greenhill, former Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, senior business advisor to Mizuho, author of Surviving Wall Street, Wharton and Penn Law graduate, and former Chair of the UPenn Board of Trustees, joins Personable to reveal how he scaled from lawyer to CEO of one of Wall Street's most respected independent advisory firms, what it really takes to build a...

Michael Dempsey, Managing Partner at Compound, former analyst at Crane Partners and CB Insights, NYU graduate, and one of the most respected research driven investors in frontier technology, joins Personable to reveal how he has 5X every fund he has ever run, why he wrote the first check into Runway ML before anyone knew what it was, and how sitting out the biggest bull run in venture history in 2...

Kirk McKeown, former Head of Proprietary Research at Point72, former Head of Proprietary Research at Glenview Capital, analyst at Tudor Investment Corporation and Hunter Global Advisors, co-founder of Carbon Arc, and holder of degrees from Harvard and MIT, joins Personable to reveal what it actually takes to reach the top of Wall Street, why he never picked a single stock in his entire career, and...

Rob Carver, former Head of Fixed Income at AHL Man Group, independent systematic futures trader, visiting lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, research advisor to Stylus Capital, and author of Systematic Trading, Smart Portfolios and Leveraged Trading, joins Personable to reveal how AHL made a billion dollars in a single day during the 2008 financial crisis without changing a single line o...

Joseph Mezrich, founder of Metafoura, former Managing Director and Head of Quantitative Equity Research at Nomura, former Managing Director and Head of US Quantitative and Derivatives Research at UBS, former Head of Quantitative Strategies at Morgan Stanley, former Deputy Head of Equity Portfolio Analytics at Salomon Brothers, and holder of a PhD in Mathematical Psychology and degrees from Michiga...

Alex Monahan, former quantitative trader at Susquehanna International Group, Stanford graduate, and founder of OddsJam, joins Personable to reveal how he walked away from one of the most prestigious quant firms in the world, turned a sports betting edge into the Bloomberg Terminal for sports betting, and sold it for $160M at just 28 years old. In this episode, Alex opens up about what SIG taught h...

Emmet Savage, Chief Investor and Co-Founder of MyWallSt, joins Personable to reveal the common set of rules he discovered after the dot com crash wiped him out, how he went on to generate returns of 57,000% on Netflix and 250 fold on Tesla, and why the six golden rules shared by every great investor in history are embarrassingly simple and almost nobody follows them. In this episode, Emmet opens u...

John Fareed, Global Chairman of Horwath HTL, former professional magician, former Marine, and author of From Invisible to Icon, joins Personable to reveal how he went from growing up on food stamps in a small town in Georgia to advising some of the wealthiest individuals on the planet, why being interested will always beat being interesting, and what three completely different careers taught him a...

Dave Kitson, former Premier League striker with over 400 professional appearances, anonymous author behind The Secret Footballer, the groundbreaking Guardian column and bestselling books that exposed the realities of elite football, twice named Reading Player of the Year, 5.5 million pound club record signing for Stoke City, and now motivational speaker and manager of Maidenhead United Women, join...

Lauren Barnwell, content creator with over 500,000 followers across platforms, filmmaker, former junior and senior class president, state championship volleyball player, and one of the fastest sprinters in her school's history, joins Personable to reveal why most people never reach their potential, how she built a massive audience from a small town where nobody believed in her, and why the only re...

Rachel Carrell, Founder and CEO of Koru Kids, Rhodes Scholar, DPhil from Oxford, former McKinsey consultant, and mother of three, joins Personable to reveal how having a baby exposed a broken childcare system, why she raised £600k before hiring a single engineer, and what it really takes to build a business that keeps five million hours of children safe. In this episode, Rachel opens up about leav...

Luke Knight, co-founder and co-host of ETN, former private client executive at Rockpool Investments, former private client associate at Fisher Investments UK, and University of Nottingham graduate, joins Personable to discuss the rise of new media, entrepreneurship, and why narrative is everything in business. In this episode, Luke explains why he left finance to build ETN full time at 23 years ol...

Ed Tiryakian, NIL insider, Duke University and Fuqua School of Business graduate, former Managing Director at Paine Webber and UBS, Chairman of Legends Sports Group, Managing Director at PE firm Argentum Group, and advisor to NBA and NFL athletes, joins Personable to reveal why NIL has become the biggest financial mess in the history of college sports, what the University of Utah's $500 million pr...

Annanay Kapila, former HFT quant at Flow Traders and Tower Research Capital, Cambridge Mathematics graduate, and founder of QFEX, joins Personable to reveal why he walked away from one of the highest paying jobs in finance, what the trading world does not want you to know about how your money is being handled, and why tenacity will always beat talent in the long run. In this episode, Annanay opens...

Seth Yakatan, Co-Founder of Katan Associates International, serial entrepreneur who has raised over $1 billion and sold 22 businesses, and one of the most distinctive voices in cannabis and capital markets on LinkedIn, joins Personable to challenge everything you think you know about entrepreneurship, raising money, and what success actually looks like. In this episode, Seth reflects on growing up...

Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance at London Business School, PhD from MIT as a Fulbright Scholar, and former investment banker at Morgan Stanley, joins Personable to challenge everything you think you know about business, universities, and how to think clearly in a world full of misleading data. In this episode, Alex reflects on losing his father to cancer, being the first in his family to attend...