TIP128: Edward Thorp - Investing Legend, Math Genius (Business Podcast)
The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires) - The Investor’s Podcast Network
Stig Brodersen
4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2017
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We study billionaires and this is episode 128 of The Investors Podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | Broadcasting from Bel Air, Maryland. This is The Investors Podcast. |
| 0:13.9 | They'll read the books and summarize the lessons. They'll test the waters, tell you what it's called. |
| 0:19.4 | They'll give you actionable investing strategies. Your host, Preston Pish, and Stig Broderson. |
| 0:26.5 | Hey, how's everybody doing out there? This is Preston Pish and I'm your host for The Investors Podcast. |
| 0:32.8 | And as usual, I'm a company by my co-host Stig Broderson, out in Seoul, South Korea. |
| 0:38.3 | And folks, we have an incredible guest with us today. |
| 0:43.2 | Absolute legend to be honest with you. And his name is Edward Thorpe. |
| 0:48.8 | And I want to start off by telling a quick story about Dr. Thorpe before we begin this episode. |
| 0:53.9 | So about a year ago, we had a really famous author on our show. His name is Jack Schwagger. |
| 0:59.7 | And he's the author of the Market Wizard series books. And for anyone that's |
| 1:03.5 | not familiar with these books, Jack Schwagger goes around the world and interviews the smartest |
| 1:07.7 | investors on the planet. Most of them are billionaires. And then he outlines the key aspects of |
| 1:13.5 | their investing approach. So we had the honor of interviewing Jack Schwagger on our show, like I said |
| 1:19.4 | about a year ago. And during that interview, one of the questions that I asked Jack was, |
| 1:25.5 | you know, you've interviewed all these famous investors, these people like Ray Dalio, |
| 1:30.8 | you name it, he's interviewed them. But I said, who is the person that you would say |
| 1:37.3 | is the smartest person that you've ever talked to? And before I could even finish that sentence, |
| 1:43.6 | Jack interrupted me and he says, Oh, this one's easy. It's hands down at Thorpe. He said, |
| 1:50.1 | the guy is on a completely different level than anyone else I've ever interviewed. And so Dr. |
| 1:54.8 | Thorpe, I wanted to start off this episode embarrassing you a little bit with that story. But also |
| 2:00.2 | to be in all sincerity, just to tell our audience the company that we're with today and to let you |
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