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Five Good Questions Podcast

Welcome to Five Good Questions. I’m your host, Jake Taylor. Fact: the average American watches 5 hours of television per day. What would the world be like if we dedicated one of those hours to reading books instead? I don’t know, but I’d like to find out. So to inspire others to read more, I ask five good questions of interesting authors and share the results with you every Friday. Let’s see if together, we can’t rescue some of those lost hours. In addition to author interviews, we also publish "The Hikecast." The Hikecast is a show where interesting people take me on their favorite hikes or walks and we talk about big ideas in an unconstrained format.  No planned agendas, just deep conversations, recorded out in nature. The idea is for you to put on The Hikecast and get outside to simulate taking a hike with us.  I want you to feel like you're there with us out in nature.
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Dec 18, 2015

Michael J. Mauboussin is an investment strategist and has been in the financial services industry for more than twenty-five years. He has also taught at the Columbia Graduate School of Business since 1993, and is on the board of trustees at the Santa Fe Institute.
He is the author of two previous books, Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition andMore Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places and is coauthor, with Alfred Rappaport, of Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns.

Dec 11, 2015

William Green is the author of "The Great Minds of Investing."  He has written for The New Yorker, Time, Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Bloomberg, and The Economist.  He edited the Asian, European, Middle Eastern and African editions of Time.

Dec 4, 2015

Tren Griffin works at Microsoft.  Previously, he was a partner at Eagle River, a private equity firm controlled by Craig McCaw, with investments in the telecommunication and software industries, including McCaw Cellular, Nextel, Nextel Partners, XO Communications, Teledesic, and many start-up firms.  His early career included five years working and living as a business consultant in Korea and Australia.  Tren blogs about investing and other topics at 25iq.com.  He is the author of The Global Negotiator: Building Strong Business Relationships Anywhere in the World; Korea, The Tiger Economy; Taiwan's Economy; Ah Mo: Legends from the Northwest; and More Ah Mo.

Nov 27, 2015

Kabir Sehgal is the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of five books including Coined: The Rich Life of Money And How Its History Has Shaped Us.  He has written for MarketWatch, New York Observer, TheStreet, CNBC, Quartz, ZeroHedge, and Atlanta Business Chronicle.  He has appeared on CNN, PBS, NPR, C-SPAN, Bloomberg, CNBC, Fox News.  He was a vice president at J.P. Morgan and is a Grammy winning producer.

Nov 20, 2015

After serving as a Captain in the United States Marine Corps, Dr. Gray received a PhD, and was a finance professor at Drexel University.  Dr. Gray’s interest in entrepreneurship and behavioral finance led him to found Alpha Architect.  You can learn more about his firm at http://alphaarchitect.com.

Nov 13, 2015

Dorie Clark is an Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and the author of Reinventing You (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013) and Stand Out (Portfolio/Penguin, 2015), as well as the e-book Stand Out Networking.  A former presidential campaign spokeswoman, she is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, TIME, and Entrepreneur.  Recognized as a “branding expert” by the Associated Press, Inc., and Fortune, Clark is a marketing strategy consultant and speaker for clients including Google, Microsoft, Yale University, Fidelity, and the World Bank.  You can follow her on Twitter @dorieclark and download her free 42-page Stand Out Self-Assessment Workbook.

Nov 6, 2015

Andrew Palmer is the business affairs editor of The Economist, with responsibility for the business, finance and science sections of the newspaper.  He was previously finance editor, banking editor and Americas editor, among other roles.  He has been with the Economist Group since 1996, and lives in London.

Aug 27, 2015

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Gary Antonacci has over 35 years experience as an investment professional focusing on under-exploited investment opportunities.  His research introduced the investment world to dual momentum, which combines relative strength price momentum with trend following absolute momentum.  Antonacci is recognized as a foremost authority on the practical applications of momentum.

Aug 23, 2015

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Born in Montreal, Gillian Zoe Segal has lived in Manhattan since she was eight years old.  She received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan and a law degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.  She is also a photographer.

Aug 23, 2015

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Bonnie Marcus, M.Ed., is a certified executive coach, speaker and author.  A former corporate executive, Bonnie founded her firm, Women’s Success Coaching, in 2007 with the mission to help professional women promote and position themselves for success.  Her latest book, The Politics of Promotion: How High Achieving Women Get Ahead and Stay Ahead, provides a road map for women to navigate the complexities of their workplace to get the promotions they deserve.  A contributing writer for Forbes and Business Insider, Bonnie has also been published in Entrepreneur, Women in HR, Reader’s Digest, Diversity MBA, and CIO Magazine.  She has been featured in Fast Company, Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, and Huffington Post.

Aug 23, 2015

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Paul Allen is a Professor Emeritus at Mississippi State University.  He holds a CPA, DBA (Doctor of Business Administration), MBA, BPA (Bachelors of Professional Accountancy) and previously worked as a senior accountant for 5 years with Exxon Co. USA .  He has been widely published in accounting, finance and marketing journals.

Aug 23, 2015

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Michael Yogg is trained as both a historian and an investor.  He holds three degrees in history from Yale and Harvard and worked in the investment business in Boston from 1978 until 2012, in positions ranging from analyst and research director to portfolio manager and chief investment officer.  Before that he taught history at Harvard, and before that served as an officer in the U.S. Navy.  He knew Paul Cabot personally from 1978 to 1994.

Aug 23, 2015

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Barbara Oakley, PhD, PE is a professor of engineering at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan and a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, San Diego.  She is the author of A Mind for Numbers and co-teaches Coursera – UC San Diego’s massive open online course “Learning How to Learn.”

Aug 23, 2015

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Ron Fierstein was a young lawyer on the team of litigators from the prestigious patent law firm of Fish & Neave representing Polaroid in its epic patent battle with Eastman Kodak over instant photography technology.  He had the unique experience of working closely with Polaroid’s founder and star witness, Dr. Edwin Land.  After leaving the practice of law in the early 1980s, he enjoyed a long and successful career in the entertainment industry, representing artists in the recording (Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin, Mary Chapin Carpenter) and theater (Harvey Fierstein) industries.  He is a co-producer of the current Broadway hit, Kinky Boots.

Aug 23, 2015

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Samuel Arbesman is a complex systems scientist and writer, whose work focuses on the nature of scientific and technological change.  He is currently a Senior Adjunct Fellow of the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado and a Research Fellow of the Long Now Foundation.  He lives in Kansas City with his wife.

Aug 23, 2015

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Barbara Gaughen Muller is the founder of Gaughen Global public relations and co-author ofRevolutionary Conversations, The Tools You Need for the Success You Want.  Her late husband, Robert Muller, was the Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations for 40 years.  Barbara is the president of the UNA-USA Santa Barbara & organizer for the Rotary World Peace Conference.

Aug 23, 2015

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Scott Fearon has spent thirty years in the financial services industry.  Since 1990, he has managed the hedge fund Crown Capital.  The fund has significantly outperformed the S&P 500 by investing in fast-growing companies while shorting the stocks of “dead companies walking,” businesses on their way to bankruptcy.  Scott holds a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Aug 23, 2015

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Nick Gogerty is a financial expert with experience in technology and asset allocation.  He’s worked with some of the world’s largest hedge funds, banks, and science research institutes.  Nick is also a guest lecturer at Columbia’s Executive MBA program on innovation and macro-economics.  He’s interested in large complex problems and making difficult things easier to understand.

Aug 23, 2015

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Michael Shearn founded Time Value of Money, LP, a private investment firm, in 1996, to devote his attention to selecting and researching stocks and private investments.  He launched the Compound Money Fund, LP, a concentrated value fund, in 2007.  Shearn serves on the Investment Committee of Southwestern University, which oversees the school’s $250 million endowment.

Aug 23, 2015

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After serving as a Captain in the United States Marine Corps, Dr. Wesley Gray became a finance professor at Drexel University.  Dr. Gray’s interest in entrepreneurship and behavioral finance led him to found Alpha Architect.  Wes earned an MBA and a PhD in finance from the University of Chicago and graduated magna cum laude with a BS from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Aug 23, 2015

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Jeroen Bos, a Dutch investor, has worked his entire career in the financial services industry in England.  He worked for many years at stock broker Panmue Gordon, in the City of London.  It was here that his interest in value investing  developed.  This process accelerated after the October 1987 market crash, during which time he took inspiration from the Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham.

Aug 23, 2015

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Mr. Faber is a co-founder and the Chief Investment Officer of Cambria Investment Management.  Faber is the manager of Cambria’s ETFs, separate accounts and private investment funds.  Mr. Faber has authored numerous white papers and three books:Shareholder YieldThe Ivy Portfolioand Global Value.   He is a frequent speaker and writer on investment strategies and has been featured in Barron’sThe New York Times, and The New Yorker.  Mr. Faber graduated from the University of Virginia with a double major in Engineering Science and Biology.

Aug 22, 2015

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Andrew Orr holds Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees in English, and loves all things science fiction.  Some of his favorite science fiction writers include Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, and Philip K. Dick.

He dreams about one day hitching a rocket ride into space, and wonders when real-life humans will set foot on the Red Planet.

He lives near Seattle with his wife and daughter.

Aug 22, 2015

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Vitaliy N. Katsenelson, CFA, is Chief Investment Officer at Investment Management Associates in Denver, Colorado.  He is the author of The Little Book of Sideways Markets and Active Value Investing.  He immigrated to the United States from Murmansk, Russia in 1991.  From 2001 to 2007, Katsenelson taught investment classes at the University of Colorado at Denver, Graduate School of Business.

Each year in June, Vitaliy hosts VALUEx Vail, an invitation-only conference where serious value investors share ideas and learn from each other’s experiences, while enjoying family fun in the gorgeous Colorado Rockies.

Aug 22, 2015

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Mohnish Pabrai is the Managing Partner of the Pabrai Investment Funds and Dhandho Holdings.  Since inception in 1999 with $1 million in assets under management, Pabrai Investment Funds has grown to over $690 million in AUM with an annualized gain of 17.7% (versus 5.2 % for the Dow).  He is the author of two books, including The Dhandho Investor.  Mohnish is also is the Founder and Chairman of the Dakshana Foundation, which is focused on providing world-class educational opportunities to economically and socially disadvantaged gifted children worldwide.

Guy Spier is the manager of Aquamarine Fund, an investment partnership inspired by the original 1950’s Buffett partnerships.  In 2007 he made headlines by bidding $650k with Mohnish Pabrai for a charity lunch with Warren Buffett.  Guy recently published his first book, The Education of a Value Investor.  In 2009, Spier and his family moved from New York to Zurich, Switzerland to escape the noise of Wall Street.  He attained his MBA from Harvard Business School and has a First Class degree in Economics from Oxford University.  He spoke at TED India and co-hosted TEDx Zurich.

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