Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
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- StandardSummaries onlyKrishna Rao - Anthropic's CFO on Managing Compute, Scaling to $30B ARR, and the Returns to Frontier Intelligence
Published May 13, 2026
My guest today is Krishna Rao, the CFO of Anthropic. The center of our conversation is how he navigates the decision around procuring and allocating compute, which he describes as the canvas on which everything else gets built. We talk about what he calls the cone of uncertainty, the three chip platforms Anthropic uses fungibly across Trainium, TPUs, and GPUs, and the daily meetings they run to allocate compute between model development, internal use, and serving customer demand. He explains why
- StandardSummaries onlyDylan Patel - The Infinite Demand for Tokens, Claude Mythos, and Supply Constraints
Published Apr 23, 2026
This is my second conversation with Dylan Patel. Dylan is the founder and CEO of SemiAnalysis, where he tracks the semiconductor supply chain and AI infrastructure buildout. This conversation is about the supply and demand of tokens. On demand, Dylan describes something completely explosive. He explains why the frontier model is the only model anyone wants, and willingness to pay for it is nearly unbounded. His own firm has gone from tens of thousands of dollars in AI spend last year to seven mi
- StandardSummaries onlyDan Sundheim - The Art of Public and Private Market Investing
Published Feb 24, 2026
My guest today is Dan Sundheim. Dan is the founder and CIO of D1 Capital Partners. He thinks about markets and businesses constantly, and has built a career entirely around that obsession. He manages over $30B across both public and private markets, with investments in SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic, and a public portfolio of names you may never have heard of. Dan shares the story of the short case he wrote on Orthodontic Centers of America and posted on Value Investors Club, which crashed the sto