Balaji Srinivasan - Optimizing Your Inputs - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 233]

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Colossus

Investing, Business, Technology

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Balaji Srinivasan, a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. Balaji is known to challenge conventional wisdom, and he lives up to his reputation in this conversation. We discuss a wide variety of topics, including advancements in health tracking, ways to evaluate your own information diet, and how technology is driving decentralization and what that could mean for countries, corporations, and individuals.

Before we transition to the episode, if you enjoy this conversation with Balaji, I’d recommend the Ethereum episode on our newest show, Business Breakdowns. You can find that episode and more on your favorite podcast player or at joincolossus.com. Please enjoy my conversation with Balaji Srinivasan.

For the full show notes, transcript, and links to the best content to learn more, check out the episode page here.

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Show Notes

[00:03:30] - [First question] - Thoughts on information diets and how they influence individuals

[00:21:37] - Ways to optimize your diet by reading the source material and consuming less news

[00:26:40] - Understanding the informational supply chain and tracing data back to the origin

[00:41:07] - Modern cities, the nature of a group of individuals, and what sovereignty may mean in the coming years

[00:53:52] - Key ingredients and main components needed for a successful startup city

[01:11:35] - Social impacts from everyone becoming an investor and how it ties into everything

[01:25:49] - Recommendations and a personal prescription for longevity, health, and wealth

[01:37:32] - The kindest thing anyone has ever done for him

Transcript

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0:00.0	This episode of Invest Like The Best is sponsored by Cannellist.
0:03.4	Cannellist is the leading destination for public company data and analysis.
0:07.6	I'd heard of Cannellist over the past few years and became more interested after meeting
0:11.4	the founder and CEO last year to pick his brain about SaaS businesses.
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0:37.4	If you've been scrambling to keep up with the deluge of IPOs and SPACs these days, Cannellist
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1:06.7	If you're curious to hear more about Cannellist, stay tuned at the end of the episode where
1:10.3	I talk to Cannellist customer Ryan Cope from American Century Investments to discuss Cannellist
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