Patrick O'Shaughnessy
22 statements across 1 episodes · 10 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 21, 2025 by Patrick O'Shaughnessy · said 13 times in 8 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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2026 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- The Man Behind Grand Theft Auto 6: Strauss Zelnick
- Jason Fried: Your Only Competition Is Your Costs
- Building One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies | Mati Staniszewski, ElevenLabs
- The Company Apple Couldn't Kill | Spotify Co-CEO Gustav Söderström
- John Mackey: The Dropout Who Changed How America Eats
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2025 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about Patrick O'Shaughnessy, oldest first
Dec 21, 2025 bullish
O'Shaughnessy: Jesse Beyroutey will be one of history's greatest investors
“A gentleman I spend a ton of time with now named Jesse Beirutti, who I am with basically every day, who also I think has no interest in fame or accolades or recognition, but I think is one of the great, will go down, I would predict as one of the great investo…”
Dec 21, 2025
O'Shaughnessy: Success typically pulls creators into branching into multiple businesses
“Most people that have achieved a level of success in their field or in their job that you have begin to The world, when that happens, pulls you into this branching exercise where you end up doing lots of different stuff. And that, you know, you end up monetizi…”
Dec 21, 2025 positive
O'Shaughnessy: The best story wins, defined by originality, hardship, and transformation
“The best story always wins. And I actually spent the last couple of months, like, really trying to figure out what do I think best story means? And the best principles for a great story that I could come up with were originality, hardship, and transformation.”
Dec 21, 2025 neutral
O'Shaughnessy: I dropped intense introspection after discovering my life's direction
“Once I have clicked into, I think, understanding what I want to do, I don't think about it at all. And now I have very little introspection left in my life. I used to be so obsessed with all of these personality tests and what they mean and psychology and seek…”
Dec 21, 2025 positive
O'Shaughnessy: Creating one truly amazing thing unlocks outsized opportunities via the internet
“If you create a single thing, not, it'll be 10 things, just one thing that people are amazed by. Put it, pour a year of your life into making one amazing thing that people are amazed by, and amazing things will happen, I promise you. Like the internet is amazi…”
Dec 21, 2025
O'Shaughnessy: Personal principle is fostering unrealized potential into existence
“It is trying to see enormous, like, not yet realized potential. And my principle is that is, when I do, it is my obligation. With nothing, maybe I invest, maybe, maybe I end up benefiting, but that's not the point. That it's my obligation to tell people about …”
Dec 21, 2025 negative
O'Shaughnessy: Dirty fuel generates success but consumes people from within
“Dirty fuel works really well, but it consumes the person in a way that I would far rather die, you know, nobody knowing who I am with no worldly, you know, success, but having people that Could count on me, rely on me. I was faithful to, that I was loyal to.”
Dec 21, 2025 negative
O'Shaughnessy: Setting explicit goals blinds talented people to unexpected opportunities
“One of the reasons I don't like goals is I think very talented people, when they set a goal, they tend to do it. And that's why goals are interesting to lots of people is it's a great way to make progress. But I find it unexciting because the second you set so…”
Dec 21, 2025 neutral
Two-thirds of podcast guests say early bets were ultimate kindness
“Some person on Twitter or something went and compiled every answer, there's 500 answers or whatever, and categorized them and like made a pie chart of like what people say, and something like two-thirds of the answer to this question were the same, which was t…”
Dec 21, 2025 negative
O'Shaughnessy: Personal career accolades bring zero emotional gratification
“If I look back on my life, The sort of like wins that I've had, the things that if you were to write like a Wikipedia article about me would be like the accolades or the accomplishments. I don't care about those things. I don't think about them. When they happ…”
Dec 21, 2025
Dec 21, 2025 positive
O'Shaughnessy: Compounding career success stems from building on naturally high repetition counts
“What is the thing where you naturally have a lot of reps because you just like it? And find some, build off that, because there's this learning by doing concept, like, you get better at something just through being prolific in the thing, and most people have a…”
Dec 21, 2025 negative
O'Shaughnessy: Online content is junk food and audiences crave crafted work
“The world is so sick of this crap just all day, every day. It's just crap. And it's, everyone makes the junk food comparison because it's a perfect comparison. Like junk food got to where it was because it's been optimized for us to want the most of it possibl…”
Dec 21, 2025 neutral
Dec 21, 2025 positive
Dec 21, 2025 positive
O'Shaughnessy: Devotion to a small circle rivals Elon Musk's business success
“And that is every bit as successful in my mind and in my book as Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos or, you know, pick the people that we all worship. In the business world, I'm amazed by them too, but there are flavors of success, and to me, that sort of devotion, even …”
Dec 21, 2025
O'Shaughnessy: I cannot visualize mental images in my mind's eye
“If you close your eyes and try to visualize something, a red cardinal or something, there's a degree of how spec, how visually sharp that thing looks in your mind's eye when you close your eyes. For me, it's just black. I can't visualize anything. I can't see …”
Dec 21, 2025 positive
O'Shaughnessy: Brett Victor's instant feedback principle drove asset management software growth
“I took his principle, not my own, but his principle of instant feedback and applied it as the primary design principle to software that I built in my last business, which worked really well. The software itself worked really well. The business grew a lot becau…”
Dec 21, 2025 positive
Senra: Read late-life autobiographies because elderly subjects have no incentive to lie
“And this is why I like autobiographies and biographies so much, because in many cases, the person's, like, long past dead, or they're older, and they're just like, I'm writing this book when I'm 80, like, I have no, I'm not incentivized to lie, and, like, here…”
Dec 21, 2025
Dec 21, 2025 positive
Dec 21, 2025 positive
O'Shaughnessy: Architecting life around picking and championing specific people
“I also kind of like picking sides. I like saying I like this person and by extension, I like them more than the other available options in this field or this industry or whatever. And I just get tremendous joy out of that. So now I'm architecting my life to ju…”