James O'Shaughnessy
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Sep 10, 2026
Jimmy SoniHOST
My name is Jimmy Soni.
Jimmy SoniHOST
I am the editor-in-chief of Infinite Books, and I am guest hosting for Jim O'Shaughnessy.
Jimmy SoniHOST
My guest today is Ryan Rush.
Jimmy SoniHOST
Ryan spent nearly a decade with the Phoenix Suns, where he started as an intern and left as the assistant general manager and VP of basketball operations, running everything from roster strategy and data science to scouting and health and performance and everything in between.
Matt HarrisHOST
And we've been really deep in those stories in this railroad series.
Daniel GamboaHOST
Ben Thompson of Stratechery was on Invest Like the Best a few days ago with Patrick O'Shaughnessy, and I loved how he closed.
Daniel GamboaHOST
He said something like, Google built its business by buying up a lot of the dark fiber lines that were sold for scraps after WorldCom failed.
Daniel GamboaHOST
And he talked about Google deploying massive amounts of capital into the AI build out, some of which is capital from Berkshire Hathaway, who owns the BNSF Railroad, which of course, owns the Northern Pacific Railway that we're going to talk about today.
Paul WiegeHOST
And I got Malcolm Todd in earrings right here on the monster.
Paul WiegeHOST
Jim O'Shaughnessy, MonsterBT99.5.
Paul WiegeHOST
This was our Outbreak Cell last week and now part of the playlist.
Paul WiegeHOST
Steve Lacey.
Hayden MartinHOST
[chuckles]
Kyle PorterHOST
I, I truly, I've been going down the path of, I, uh, I read, uh, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, who runs the Invest Like The Best podcast, runs a magazine called Colossus.
Kyle PorterHOST
He's, he's very thoughtful, good, great interviewer.
Kyle PorterHOST
And he had this thing five or six years ago about how he just has, l- like, just doesn't do goals.
Charlie D. BeckerGUEST
Because I was going to do this project anyway, but last summer I applied for a fellowship and I got a fellowship that is essentially the result of something like this.
Charlie D. BeckerGUEST
A gentleman named Jim O'Shaughnessy, who's a very, very successful financier, basically set up a venture fund and he set up this fellowship to do exactly like you're saying.
Charlie D. BeckerGUEST
to fund people's passion projects, projects that would explicitly not be able to get funded anywhere else, which is how I conceived this project.
Charlie D. BeckerGUEST
Kind of a plot twist is I've actually had people reach out to me since I went viral and the project has evolved and be like, hey, what could you do with like 100, 10, 100 times the amount of money you have now, which is something I never saw coming.
Justin GordonHOST
I have a sticky note on my computer that says, keep trying to open doors, make sponsors do deals with you.
Justin GordonHOST
This is from an interview Ari Emanuel did with Invest Like the Best, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, about deal making.
Justin GordonHOST
And there's always a deal to be made.
Justin GordonHOST
That's what Sam did early on to get his first small success, which would turn into more successes.
Bushy MartinHOST
Can you sort of sum it up for us a little bit? Because I think there's some real gold in what you've just mentioned there.
Ramin NakisaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yeah, the first time I really realised how important that message was, was a story that I'd heard from Jim O'Shaughnessy, who's written a brilliant book called What Works on Wall Street.
Ramin NakisaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So he's a kind of quant investor, An incredibly funny guy.
Ramin NakisaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He has the best memes on Twitter.