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Patrick O'Shaughnessy

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#78
LinkedIn Rank
4,298
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36
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312,100 followers

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Private credit is one of the most discussed topics in markets right now, and there is a lot to make sense of. The current discourse is almost entirely focused on symptoms. Alan Waxman has spent the...

Market Analysis & Trends Article Fund Management Regulation & Policy Market Cycles Industry Trends Apr 08, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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Sergey Levine is a top robotics researcher and co-founder of Physical Intelligence -- a company building foundation models that can control any robot to do any task in any environment. The company...

Market Analysis & Trends Text Robotics Foundation Models Large Language Models Artificial Intelligence Mar 31, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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William Hockey on how an early stage employee takes way more risk than a founder: "If I'm making $400-500K at Google or Meta and go to an early stage company to get 1% of this company and make $90...

Founder & Startup Advice Video (LinkedIn Source) Founder Journey Hiring & Talent Startup Failures Mar 25, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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My conversation with Shyam Sankar, CTO of Palantir Technologies. Shyam has spent nearly 20 years as the most important person at Palantir that most people have never heard of. We spend a lot of ...

Events & Speaking Engagements Article Dual-Use Technology National Security Semiconductors Government Contracts Artificial Intelligence Mar 10, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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John Arnold was one of the most successful energy traders of all time, and after stepping away from markets he built a foundation devoted to solving America's most critical systemic problems in a p...

Events & Speaking Engagements Article Artificial Intelligence Robotics Electric Vehicles Nuclear & Fusion Clean Energy Mar 04, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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Dan on why hyperscalers will be a worse business model over time even as growth accelerates: "AWS, Azure, GCP are going to accelerate for a while just because their customer base -- Anthropic, Ope...

Market Analysis & Trends Video (LinkedIn Source) Artificial Intelligence Large Language Models AI Infrastructure Cloud Computing Feb 24, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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My conversation with Daniel Sundheim. He is the founder and CIO of D1 Capital Partners, which manages over $30B across public and private markets. There's no one as passionate about investing as...

Market Analysis & Trends Article Public Markets Fund Management Artificial Intelligence Aerospace Market Cycles Feb 24, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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This is my second conversation with Josh Kushner. Josh started Thrive in 2011 and the firm now manages ~$50 billion. We cover the iconic investments that defined it: Instagram, Stripe, GitHub, an...

Investment Thesis & Strategy Article Investment Thesis Portfolio Management Fund Management Leadership Founder Journey Feb 18, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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Alex Behring and Daniel Schwartz have almost never spoken publicly about how 3G Capital invests and operates. The firm is different in many fascinating ways. Every fund they raise is designed to m...

Investment Thesis & Strategy Article Investment Thesis M&A Hiring & Talent Leadership Fund Management Feb 10, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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This conversation with Ben Horowitz gets into sides of his story you don't often hear. The people who shaped Ben tell you a lot about how he sees the world. His father grew up communist and later...

Events & Speaking Engagements Article Investment Thesis Fund Management Leadership National Security Feb 03, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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Gokul Rajaram is one of the most prolific product builders and investors of the last 20 years. He helped build the core ads and product businesses at Google, Facebook, Square, and DoorDash, workin...

Events & Speaking Engagements Article Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Advertising SaaS Product Development Jan 29, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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Only David Senra could get me to be on the other side of the mic. Because I don't plan on being interviewed often, I wanted to share this conversation, which I so enjoyed, with our audience. It w...

Events & Speaking Engagements Image Leadership Founder Journey Brand Building Hiring & Talent Jan 20, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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Ladder was my first angel investment, made entirely on trust in Tom Digan when I had no idea what I was doing in venture. What followed is one of the most unlikely and dramatic business stories I'v...

Portfolio Company Wins Article Founder Journey Product-Market Fit Customer Acquisition Mobile Apps B2C Jan 13, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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Reed Hastings built Netflix around two ideas that everyone talks about, but are extremely hard to do in practice. The first is finding a simple idea and taking it extraordinarily seriously. Even f...

Founder & Startup Advice Article Media & Entertainment Hiring & Talent Company Culture Leadership Board Governance Jan 06, 2026 View on LinkedIn
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The best growth stock of the 2010s wasn't a tech company. It was Domino's Pizza. "There are three value equations in pizza: quality, value and convenience. When Domino's started its run, it starte...

Investment Thesis & Strategy Video (LinkedIn Source) Investment Thesis Public Markets Competitive Advantage Brand Building Dec 16, 2025 View on LinkedIn
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My conversation with Martín Escobari, Head of Growth Equity at General Atlantic, explores the history of the firm and the current state of growth and emerging markets. He shares why this is the be...

Market Analysis & Trends Image Growth Stage Emerging Markets Market Cycles Public Markets Macroeconomics Nov 25, 2025 View on LinkedIn
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My conversation with Ariel Emanuel centers on the multibillion-dollar "anti-AI bet" he’s making on live events, sports, and IP. As AI makes digital content cheaper and everyday work more automate...

Investment Thesis & Strategy Image Artificial Intelligence Media & Entertainment Investment Thesis Industry Trends Nov 19, 2025 View on LinkedIn
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Wolfgang Hammer helps founders and CEOs, at both startups and massive fortune 100 companies, use storytelling to better understand what they do, and why it matters. In many ways, this conversation...

Founder & Startup Advice Image Brand Building Marketing Leadership Founder Journey Nov 11, 2025 View on LinkedIn
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Luca Ferrari is the co-founder and CEO of Bending Spoons, one of the most fascinating companies in Europe and just became Italy's first decacorn. He describes it as 25% private equity firm and 75%...

Investment Thesis & Strategy Image Investment Thesis Acquisitions Venture Debt Operational Excellence Hiring & Talent Nov 04, 2025 View on LinkedIn
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Colossus is hiring for two roles. We're looking for someone in each of the following categories: FEATURES WRITING - Obsessed with capitalism and culture - Perfectionist when it comes to facts,...

Team & Firm Culture Text Hiring & Talent Revenue Growth Sales Strategy Company Culture Oct 22, 2025 View on LinkedIn
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Rank History

Apr 2026
#78

Content Categories

Market Analysis & Trends 8
Events & Speaking Engagements 7
Investment Thesis & Strategy 7
Founder & Startup Advice 6
Personal Journey & Reflections 4

Topics & Themes

Artificial Intelligence Leadership Investment Thesis Founder Journey Hiring & Talent Industry Trends Fund Management Brand Building Public Markets Competitive Advantage Company Culture Macroeconomics National Security Media & Entertainment Market Cycles Marketing Acquisitions Operational Excellence Product Development Manufacturing

Top Quartile Benchmarks

Based on top 94 of 376 in Venture Capital

Posts
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Patrick: 107 ↑
Likes
21,855
Patrick: 25,849 ↑
Comments
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Patrick: 1,994 ↑
Avg Likes
291.4
Patrick: 241.6 ↓
Avg Comments
20.9
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Benchmarker Score
25,178
Patrick: 29,837 ↑
Posts/Week
2.4
Patrick: 3.0 ↑
Avg Post Length
447 chars
Patrick: 576 ↑
Trending Topics (Top Quartile)
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