Episode · Invest Like the Best · 2023-03-07
Patrick O'Shaughnessy & Trae Stephens: books mentioned on Invest Like the Best #319
Trae Stephens - Find Good Quests - [Invest Like the Best, EP.319]
My guest this week is Trae Stephens. Trae is a partner at Founders Fund and co-founder and Executive Chairman of Anduril.
Patrick O'Shaughnessy recommended Skunk Works by Leo Janos and others, and discussed The Upanishads by Swami Paramananda. Trae Stephens discussed Zero to One by Peter Thiel and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Skunk Works
Recommended“or go read Skunk Works. There's lots of literature out there about a golden era of the defense primes.”
Where to get it
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Zero to One
Discussed“And one of the insights that he pointed out in his book, Zero to One, is that a lot of the founders of the most impactful companies, technology companies of our generation, are slightly off socially.”
Where to get it
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The Upanishads
Discussed“different texts hit different people in different ways. The ones that hit me most were the Indian ones, the early Vedic stories like the Upanishads. But the stories are kind of all the same in all of them”
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