The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

  • Connor Teskey: Inside Brookfield’s Culture, Capital Allocation, and Competitive Edge

    Connor Teskey is the new CEO of Brookfield Asset Management, one of the world’s largest investors, managing about a trillion dollars across infrastructure, power, real estate, private equity, and credit.  In this exclusive in-depth interview,…

  • [Outliers] J.W. Marriott: Building an Empire Without a Master Plan

    Bill Marriott built the largest hotel company in the world. But he didn’t open his first hotel until he was 55 and he fought against it the whole way. In fact, the man that would…

  • Inside the Mind of Robinhood Co-Founder Vlad Tenev

    Robinhood’s co-founder reveals the brutal reality of surviving an 80% market crash, going “founder mode” to cut corporate bloat, and what actually happened during GameStop. Vlad Tenev is the co-founder and CEO of Robinhood. Not…

  • [Outliers] Phil Knight: The Obsession That Built Nike

    Phil Knight is the founder of Nike, the brand that reshaped sports and became one of the most powerful companies in the world. What would you do if your bank, your supplier, and your government…

  • Nicolai Tangen: The $2 Trillion Mind

    Nicolai Tangen is the CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund. He is responsible for managing $2.1 trillion. That’s roughly 1.7% of every listed company on earth. In this episode,…

  • Michael Ovitz: The Business of Relationships

    Michael Ovitz co-founded CAA and helped reshape Hollywood, then took the same playbook into tech investing and advising founders. In this conversation, he breaks down the operating rules that kept CAA from losing clients, and…

  • How McDonald’s Took Over America | Ray Kroc [Outliers]

    Ray Kroc turned McDonald’s from a single roadside restaurant into a system built to scale. At 52, after decades selling paper cups and milkshake machines, he opened the first McDonald’s in 1955 and helped grow…

  • Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want

    Morgan Housel breaks down the exact framework he uses to build wealth, minimize financial stress, and buy freedom. While most financial advice focuses on how to get rich, Morgan explains why the skills needed to…

  • The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking | Peter D. Kaufman [Outliers]

    Peter D. Kaufman is the Chairman and CEO of GlenAir, the editor of Poor Charlie’s Almanack, and was a decades-long friend of Charlie Munger. In a talk that was never meant to be made public,…

  • James Clear: How to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

    James Clear is the author of Atomic Habits, a global bestseller that has shaped how millions of people think about habits, consistency, and long-term change. In this conversation, James explains how habits shape identity, why…

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