Hello, I'm Ted Sides, and this is Capital Allocators.

This show is an open exploration of the people and process behind capital allocation.

Through conversations with leaders in the money game, we learn how these holders of the keys to the kingdom allocate their time and their capital.

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My new book, Capital Allocators, How the World's Elite Money Managers money managers lead and invest releases tomorrow.

I've been on a bit of a podcast tour the last few weeks appearing on some of my favorite shows.

I thought it would be fun to share an interview about the book here, so I asked Patrick O'Shaughnessy to interview me for the show.

Our conversation covers the journey of the podcast

itself and lessons from the book about interviewing, leadership, and investing. Pick up a copy at

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Capital Allocatorspodcast.com. I hope you enjoyed the book and the discussion of it with Patrick.

Well, Ted, I've been looking forward to doing this with you. I think we're going to go in all sorts of

different directions, but since it's two podcasters talking on a podcast, I think we'll begin there.

I think you were the fifth or sixth guest that I had on my experiment of a show early on.

And then you probably started yours. I don't know, not that long after I started mine.

So we've sort of done this together.

It'll be fun for me to hear the journey.

I've never actually asked you, like what it's been like, why you made the decision to do it,

how it's grown, what's been hard, what's been fun. So I want to do all that to begin our conversation.

We'll also talk a lot about investing. You've got a new book coming out. We'll talk about that. let's begin at the beginning. What was the impetus to get into this experiment in the first

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