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In today’s episode, Trey Lockerbie sits down with Bing Gordon. Bing is a legend in the silicon valley world, having first been a co-founder of Electronic Arts (EA), then went on to be a director at Zynga, Audible, Zume, Duolingo, and others. For the last 18 years, he’s also sat on the board at Amazon. He’s now sitting on the other side of the table, as a partner at the prestigious VC firm, Kleiner...

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: 03:58 - Dave and Greg's thoughts on the bond market resolving its potential mispricing 12:27 - Thoughts on the current bull market in bonds despite high inflation 15:34 - How Dave views markets moving forward in the next ten years 42:01 - What are Dave's reservations about Bitcoin? 43:55 - Dave's thoughts on large investors and entities entering Bitcoin 57:56 - Think...

In today’s episode, Trey Lockerbie sits down with Brad Stone, the Senior Executive Editor for Global Technology at Bloomberg. Brad is also a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of titles such as The Everything Store, The Upstarts as well as his new book Amazon: Unbound.  IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN: (02:07) Why his first book on Amazon deserved a sequel  (11:05) A...

In today’s episode, Trey Lockerbie welcomes back Ben Claremon and Eugene Robin from Cove Street Capital. They quickly touch on the performance of Lumen Technologies, a stock they pitched on our show back in December 2020, whose price subsequently has risen 50% in Q1. But for this episode, Claremon and Robin mainly discuss the Race to Space and their position in Viasat. If you only follow the headl...

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: 04:02 - Jack Mallers' recent El Salvador announcement and what it all means 15:12 - Creating equity versus always being an employee 27:08 - What is the user interface like in El Salvador for Strike users? 32:53 - How is Jack going to bring near-zero exchange fees for buying Bitcoin to Strike? 42:35 What impact do near-zero fees have on other exchanges that offer Altc...

In today’s episode, Trey Lockerbie sits down with Chief Investment Officer and New York Times bestselling author, Robert Hagstrom. Robert has written multiple books, especially on Warren Buffett including The Warren Buffett Way, The Warren Buffett Portfolio, Investing The Last Liberal Art, and his latest book Warren Buffett: Inside The Ultimate Money Mind.  IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN: (05:...

In today’s episode, Trey Lockerbie sits down with one of his favorite portfolio managers, Andrew Walker from Rangeley Capital. Trey took the opportunity to dig deeper on SPACs with Andrew, who is currently running a SPACs focused fund. This episode has been recorded in early June and a few weeks later, Pershing Square announced a 10% SPACquisition of Universal Music Group, which was not listed in...

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: 01:33 - Why Tuur's account became more private 05:54 - What are the main changes in the Bitcoin space since 2017? 06:14 - Tuur's thoughts on mining 10:11 - The 28% difficulty adjustment and China 38:41 - The Bitcoin reformation article 01:00:09 - Ethereum vs. Bitcoin 01:00:41 - PoS vs. PoW 01:12:26 - Defi in general and on Bitcoin 01:16:02 - Stable coins and tether 0...

On today’s show, Stig Brodersen speaks with the CEO of AcreTrader Carter Malloy about Farmland investing. With rising inflation and Bill Gates being America’s top farmland owner with a $690 million investment, we want to understand the nuts and bolts of the $9 Trillion asset class.  IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN: (01:45) Why Farmland investing is hedging your inflation exposure (14:52) What a...

In today’s episode, Trey Lockerbie sits down with Ross Gerber, the CEO of Gerber Kawasaki - a financial advisory firm which currently manages over $1.9 billion. Ross helped pioneer the popularity of what we now know as Fintwit - essentially using Twitter and other social media platforms for financial content and discussion. He’s a regular on Bloomberg and CNBC as well as a contributor to Forb...

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: 01:53 - Learn about Jason's first company that he sold for 300 million 08:24 - Jason's thoughts about growing a business to a national level 15:51 - Jason's thoughts on leadership 32:28 - How Jason started his Bitcoin mining business 40:40 - Jason's thoughts on Bitcoin mining and China 41:50 - China's hash rate migration to other domains 47:32 - Jason's thoughts on E...

For this week’s Mastermind discussion, Stig Brodersen has invited Tobias Carlisle from Acquirer's Fund, Jake Taylor from Farnam Street Investments, and Dr. Wes Gray from Alpha Architect. The topic of the week is how they can best help the TIP Community. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN: (01:41) How to think about cycles in value investing (19:54) How to create your own free MBA (34:27) The tax advant...

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: 04:25 - How Alyse Killeen got started in Bitcoin and Venture Capital 13:45 - What Alyse looks for when finding a great company in the Bitcoin space 15:20 - What the board room conversations sound like today 20:21 - Alyse thoughts on Defi and smart contracts on Bitcoin 25:07 - How Lighting will evolve in the coming 5 years 33:11 - How stable coins will evolve moving f...

In today’s episode, Trey Lockerbie welcomes back Bill Nygren and Mike Nicolas from Oakmark Funds, which currently manages over $60B in assets. When Bill and Mike were on the show last time back in April of 2020, we discussed Bank of America. Since then, BOA’s stock price has risen over 100%, so Trey takes the opportunity to discuss how they value the stock today. But, the main point of today's dis...

In today’s episode, Trey Lockerbie sits down with Chamath Palihapitiya. Chamath is the founder and CEO of Social Capital, his conglomerate focused on solving climate change and inequality, which he has referred to as Berkshire Hathaway 2.0. Chamath was an early executive at Facebook and then went on to become a super successful Venture Capitalist, with early investments into Amazon, Tesla, Slack,...

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: Why Blockchain technology doesn't work for CBDC The difference between Public and Private keys What is XPub? What is multi-sig, and why is it important? Seed Storage Security concerns that people might have overlooked Firmware updates on hardware wallets Why the taproot upgrade is important BOOKS AND RESOURCES Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in...

In this week’s episode, Trey Lockerbie sits down with NYT best-selling author and investor, Marin Katusa. Marin is a contrarian value investor who specializes in gold, uranium, rare earth, and most recently, carbon credits. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN: 00:01:45 - How we should view the recent performance of gold and silver, as inflation starts to rise 00:07:16 - How uranium is an asymmetric oppo...

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: Learn why Jack Dorsey is so bullish on Bitcoin What surprised Alex the most in his interview with Jack Jack's thoughts on other crypto tokens Alex's thoughts on the PetroDollar system El Salvador's announcement on Bitcoin being legal tender Sovereign game theory BOOKS AND RESOURCES Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing di...

In today’s episode, Stig Brodersen speaks to Tobias Carlisle and Hari Ramachandra for the Mastermind Discussion of Q2 2021. Together, they discuss where they see value in the financial markets. They try and shoot holes in each other’s stock picks and help each other as much as possible. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN: Whether now is the time to invest in gold miners Why Hari is long Splunk Technolo...

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: When will Bitcoin's volatility potentially impact the broader global economy? The current on-chain analytics China Mining update Bitcoin derivatives and how they impacted the sell-off Proof of Work versus Proof of Stake Security tradeoffs Are institutional investors still putting Bitcoin on the balance sheet? BOOKS AND RESOURCES Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Comm...

In today’s episode, Trey Lockerbie sits down with Morgan Housel, who is a partner at Venture Capital and PE firm Collaborative Fund. He’s a former columnist at The Motley Fool and Wall Street Journal, and also the author of the international best-selling book, The Psychology of Money. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN: How time is the biggest factor in Warren Buffett’s success How Ben Graham wouldn’t...

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: What is Fold all about Will Reeves' background in tech How Will built Fold from the ground up How rewards programs work with vendors for discount gift cards How Fold is using the lightning network for processing some payments How Fold and Strike worked interoperably without any permissions How Fold will service all Bitcoin rewards for Visa customers moving forward BO...

In today’s show, Stig and Trey discuss the 2021 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders meeting. They play the most insightful responses from Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger and explain the implications to stock investors.    IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN: Why Buffett wasn’t greedy when others were fearful during the pandemic  Why Buffett sold Apple stocks, and whether Munger agree...

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: What Elon Musk's impact will be w/ Bitcoin Bitcoin energy concerns Bitcoin centralization concerns Bitcoin Payment times Stanley Druckenmiller's comments on the dollar losing global reserve status How are corporate boards viewing the Bitcoin volatility How Bitcoin helps fix an inflationary monetary system Ethereum's bull run versus Bitcoin's bull run BOOKS AND RESOUR...

On today’s episode, Trey Lockerbie sits down with internet entrepreneur Scott Lynn, who most recently founded the company Masterworks, which allows smaller investors to invest in multi-million dollar pieces of art.  IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN: Why you should consider Art as part of your portfolio What are the risks involved, but also, the potential rewards Where to start when examining the...