Ep. 863: Alex Osterwalder Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Business, Investing

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Alexander Osterwalder, one of the world's most influential strategy and innovation experts, a leading author, entrepreneur, and in-demand speaker whose work has changed the way established companies do business and how new ventures get started. Ranked No. 4 of the top 50 management thinkers worldwide, Osterwalder is known for simplifying the strategy development process and turning complex concepts into digestible visual models. Together with Yves Pigneur, he invented the Business Model Canvas, Value Proposition Canvas, and Business Portfolio Map – practical tools that are trusted by millions of business practitioners.

The topic is his book The Invincible Company: How to Constantly Reinvent Your Organization with Inspiration From the World's Best Business Models (The Strategyzer Series).

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Diversified Portfolio
Quarterly Return
Predictability in your Execution Business
Experimentation and Adaptation
Strategic Exploration Capability
Business Models
Leadership System
Exploration and Execution
The Invincible Company
Innovation
Building Fundamentals
Creating Value

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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

To start? I'd like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Coval.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.4	My guest today is Alexander Osterwalder.
0:37.0	He has written a bunch of really cool business books, not only from the content, but from the
0:45.1	design perspective.
0:47.4	And now along with his co-authors, they have another one, the invincible company, how to constantly reinvent your organization
0:56.1	with inspiration from the world's best business models.
0:59.9	I really like that perspective.
1:02.8	What's the business model?
1:05.7	Don't necessarily tell me about the product of the service or whatever.
1:10.4	Talk about the model. What's a good model?
1:14.0	Who has the good models? Why do they work? That to me seems like a hell of a smart direction
1:22.3	to go in. And not surprisingly to you, probably, especially for those of you that have seen my books.
1:30.8	Even though Alex and his team are going into businesses, this conversation to me starts to sound a lot like trend following.
1:42.0	Models for business, models for trend following, a bunch of small losses
1:47.1	and a few big winners. Without any further delay, let me jump right into my conversation with
1:54.1	Alexander Osterwalder.
1:55.5	Thank you. So here's where I want to jump in, Alex.
2:09.8	Something about me briefly.
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