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Sam Zell, a self-made real estate magnate, paired contrarian investing with a rigorous understanding of risk and supply and demand. His example shows how distress can become opportunity when independent judgment remains anchored in fundamentals rather than consensus.
Annie Duke, a former professional poker player and decision-making author, teaches people to think in bets. Her key distinction separates decision quality from outcome quality, helping us account for luck, embrace uncertainty, and learn without judging choices solely by results.
Mark Suster, a two-time entrepreneur turned venture capitalist at Upfront Ventures, offers founders candid, practical, and often contrarian guidance on startup life, illuminating the realities of entrepreneurship from his view on both sides of the table.
Morgan Housel, an author and partner at The Collaborative Fund, connects personal finance and investing with human behavior, showing how cognitive biases and emotional states shape financial decisions—and why wealth and happiness deserve to be examined together.
William H. “Bill” Janeway is a venture capitalist and economist working across technology, finance, and public policy. His three-player model studies innovation as an unstable interaction among a mission-driven state, financial speculators, and entrepreneurs operating through markets.
Rex Salisbury, solo general partner at Cambrian, brings experience in software engineering, investment banking, and venture capital to pre-seed and seed-stage fintech. His perspective connects the future of financial technology with the work of building a tech career.
Sheel Mohnot, a fintech investor and co-founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures, offers a focused lens on fintech and investing, making the relationship between emerging financial technology and investment judgment the central question worth examining.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, an essayist, statistician, and risk analyst, examines uncertainty, randomness, and resilience through Incerto. His idea of antifragility distinguishes systems that merely withstand disorder from those that can grow stronger through volatility, randomness, and stress.