Alex Ossola hosts and produces The Wall Street Journal’s What’s News podcast in New York. She previously reported and produced for the Journal’s Future of Everything podcast and worked at Quartz and Futurism. Her education includes Hamilton College and NYU’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program, a background that informs her reporting across science, technology and business.
Amy Arnott is a portfolio strategist at Morningstar and co-host of The Long View. Her research includes retirement spending and portfolio questions, and she has co-authored Morningstar’s State of Retirement Income research with colleagues. She contributes to Morningstar’s public investing coverage and joins conversations that connect investment research with decisions about retirement, diversification, and financial planning.
Barry Ritholtz is chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management and host of Bloomberg’s Masters in Business. He created The Big Picture and wrote Bailout Nation. His work examines markets and the behavioral errors that can undermine investing, while his interviews explore the careers, ideas, and decision processes of investors and business leaders.
Ben Carlson directs institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management and co-hosts Animal Spirits with Michael Batnick. He created A Wealth of Common Sense to explain finance in accessible language. His career has centered on institutional portfolios, including work for an investment consulting firm and an endowment investment office. He joined Ritholtz in late 2015 to build its institutional and family-office business. Carlson also co-hosts Ask The Compound and has written books about saving, investing and money.
Ben Felix is Chief Investment Officer and a portfolio manager at PWL Capital. He co-hosts Rational Reminder and creates investing videos on his own YouTube channel. His education combines a mechanical engineering degree from Northeastern University with an MBA in finance from Carleton University, alongside CFA, CFP and CIM designations. His public work explains investing research and financial decisions, connecting the evidence discussed on the podcast with practical questions facing individual investors.
Ben Gilbert co-founded and co-hosts Acquired, where he and David Rosenthal research the histories and strategies behind influential companies. Before podcasting became his focus, Gilbert worked as a software engineer and venture capitalist. At Microsoft he helped develop Office for iPad, and he later built and invested in startups at Madrona and Pioneer Square Labs. His background spans product development, company building, and technology investing.
Ben Johnson is Morningstar’s head of client solutions in asset management and a co-host of The Long View. His earlier Morningstar roles included global passive research, ETF research, and equity analysis. Before joining the firm, he worked as a financial adviser. His background brings fund structure, indexing, and portfolio implementation into the show’s discussions with investors and researchers.
Bo Hanson co-hosts The Money Guy Show with Brian Preston and is a co-founder and partner of Abound Wealth Management. He holds the CFA and certified financial planner credentials. Hanson first appeared on the show in 2011 and helps explain financial planning concepts through examples, audience questions and discussions about the choices involved in working toward financial independence.
Brad Barrett is a co-founder and host of ChooseFI and a CPA who left corporate work to focus on financial independence education. His podcast conversations explore saving, investing, retirement planning and the life choices behind financial goals. He draws on both guest expertise and the experiences of the ChooseFI community, often turning broad ideas into specific questions about household decisions.
Brian Preston founded The Money Guy Show in 2006 and is a co-founder and managing partner of Abound Wealth Management. A CPA and certified financial planner, he explains personal finance through the Financial Order of Operations framework. He is also the author of Millionaire Mission, which develops his approach to organizing financial decisions and building wealth over time.
Cameron Passmore is Chief Executive Officer and a portfolio manager at PWL Capital, with more than three decades of professional experience. He earned a commerce degree at McGill University and holds the CIM, FMA and FCSI designations. As a Rational Reminder co-host, he joins conversations about personal finance, investor behavior and financial markets. His firm biography emphasizes building a lasting advisory business that improves Canadians’ financial lives.
Chamath Palihapitiya founded Social Capital, a technology investment company, and co-hosts All-In. His investing has spanned areas including healthcare, artificial intelligence, climate technology and space. Before founding Social Capital, he was a senior Facebook executive working across growth, platform and mobile. He studied electrical engineering at the University of Waterloo, and brings experience in technology operations and financing to the podcast.
Christine Benz directs personal finance and retirement planning at Morningstar and co-hosts The Long View. She joined Morningstar in 1993 and previously led its fund research team and edited Morningstar Mutual Funds. She is the author of How to Retire, bringing research and practical planning questions together in her writing and interviews about retirement and investing.
Corey Hoffstein is chief executive and chief investment officer of Newfound Research and a co-founder of Return Stacked ETFs. He hosts Flirting with Models, interviewing practitioners about systematic investment strategies. His research has appeared in investment journals, and his education includes computational finance at Carnegie Mellon and computer science at Cornell, informing the technical focus of his conversations.
Dan Bortolotti is a portfolio manager and Rational Reminder co-host known for Canadian Couch Potato, the investing blog he launched in 2010. Before joining PWL Capital in 2013, he spent more than twenty years working as a journalist, writer and editor. He earned his CFP and CIM designations in 2015. His book Reboot Your Portfolio explains how investors can build and maintain portfolios using exchange-traded funds, continuing his work on accessible, low-cost index investing.
Daniel Mahncke is a podcast host and equity analyst with a finance and economics degree from Goethe University in Frankfurt. He gained experience at a family office before developing an online investment research platform. On The Investor’s Podcast and The Intrinsic Value Podcast, he examines individual businesses alongside his co-hosts. Their discussions connect company fundamentals, competitive positioning and future growth with valuation, helping listeners follow the reasoning behind an investment thesis.
David Beckworth is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and directs its monetary policy program. He studies the Federal Reserve’s tools, targets and operating framework, alongside Treasury markets and the dollar’s international role. A former US Treasury international economist, he hosts Macro Musings and holds an economics doctorate from the University of Georgia.
David Friedberg is chief executive, chairman and co-founder of Ohalo Genetics, and founder and chief executive of The Production Board. His work focuses on agriculture, food and life sciences. He previously founded The Climate Corporation, which Monsanto acquired, and held product and corporate development roles at Google. An astrophysics graduate of UC Berkeley, he co-hosts All-In and often discusses science and technology businesses.
David Rosenthal co-founded and co-hosts Acquired with Ben Gilbert. A former venture capitalist, he helps research the business histories, strategic decisions, and competitive advantages explored in the show’s long-form episodes. Rosenthal studied French literature at Princeton and earned an MBA at Stanford. His work on Acquired brings together primary-source research, financial documents, and interviews to explain how enduring companies were built and why they succeeded.
David Sacks is an entrepreneur, investor and All-In co-host who co-founded Craft Ventures. He joined PayPal as its first product leader and later served as chief operating officer. He subsequently founded Yammer, an enterprise collaboration business acquired by Microsoft. His operating and investing experience centers on software companies, including the relationship between product-led adoption, customer growth and business sales.
David Senra created Founders in 2016 to study entrepreneurs through biographies and business history. Each week he reads a book and draws out practical lessons from the subject’s decisions, habits, and company-building experience. His work has covered hundreds of biographies, creating a catalog of entrepreneurial case studies. Senra also hosts the separate David Senra interview podcast, where conversations with living founders build on the historical research that underpins Founders.
David Stein created Money for the Rest of Us to help individuals understand investing and manage their own portfolios. He previously served as chief investment strategist and chief portfolio strategist at FEG Investment Advisors, where he co-led research and helped build an asset management division. His current educational work draws on that institutional experience to explain investment decisions and retirement planning.
Ed Elson is an analyst and writer who co-hosts Prof G Markets and First Time Founders. His work includes research and writing for Scott Galloway’s No Mercy / No Malice newsletter and books including The Algebra of Wealth and Adrift. Before podcasting, he worked as a research assistant to Michael Wolff. On Prof G Markets, he also leads briefings and specialist interviews.
Erik Townsend launched Macro Voices in 2016 after a career in software entrepreneurship and global macro investing. He founded Fourth Turning Capital Management and operated its hedge fund until retiring from fund management in 2018. On the podcast, he interviews specialists about markets, energy and the economic forces behind investment decisions.
Felix Jauvin hosts Forward Guidance at Blockworks, interviewing investors and financial specialists about macroeconomic conditions and their implications for asset prices. His work focuses on the relationship between monetary policy, financial markets and crypto. Alongside guest interviews, he participates in market roundups that discuss new economic data, liquidity conditions and competing investment interpretations.
Guy Raz is a journalist, producer and podcast creator who hosts How I Built This. He helped create TED Radio Hour and Wow in the World, and co-founded Built-It Productions and Tinkercast. Before focusing on podcasts, he worked as a foreign correspondent for NPR and CNN and hosted NPR’s weekend All Things Considered. His interviews explore the experiences behind businesses and creative careers.
Harry Stebbings founded 20VC and hosts The Twenty Minute VC, interviewing venture capitalists, founders and operating leaders. He began recording the podcast in 2015, building a network through conversations about startups and investing. His work now connects the media platform with venture investment. The show ranges from financing decisions and investment judgment to the practical details of product, sales and company growth.
Jack Farley hosts Monetary Matters, where he interviews investors, economists and other financial specialists. His conversations examine monetary policy, bonds, commodities and the mechanisms underlying investment arguments. He also conducts public panel interviews for the Monetary Matters Network. The podcast’s extended format gives guests room to explain their evidence while Farley explores the details behind their conclusions.
Jack Forehand is president of Validea and co-host of Excess Returns. He has helped develop the firm’s systematic investment models and is a co-author of The Guru Investor. A CFA charterholder and CFP professional, he brings experience with quantitative strategies to interviews about factors, portfolio construction, investor behavior, and the challenges of following an investment process.
Jacob Effron is a managing director at Redpoint Ventures, where he invests in growth-stage companies across artificial intelligence, enterprise software and healthcare. He joined the firm in 2020 after working in product at Flatiron Health, with earlier experience at Off Grid Electric and McKinsey. He hosts Unsupervised Learning, connecting conversations with researchers and founders to the business implications of AI.
Jason Calacanis is a technology entrepreneur and fund manager who co-hosts and executive produces All-In. He also hosts This Week in Startups and runs Founder.University, a program for early-stage entrepreneurs. His investing background includes working as a Sequoia Capital scout and backing startups as an angel investor. He wrote Angel, a book about investing in technology startups, published in 2017.
Joe Weisenthal co-hosts Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast with Tracy Alloway, exploring markets, finance and economics through conversations with practitioners and specialists. His financial journalism began with TheStalwart.com in 2005, followed by writing for outlets including Dealbreaker and Techdirt. He joined Business Insider in 2008 and Bloomberg in 2014. At Bloomberg, his work has included newsroom editing and co-hosting the market-close television program What’d You Miss? from 2015 to 2021.
Jonathan Mendonsa is a co-founder and host of ChooseFI, whose work combines financial independence education with community building. Alongside Brad Barrett, he discusses spending systems, investing and the choices that can make work more optional. His appearances in the current archive include expense audits, community teaching and asset allocation, connecting practical money questions with experiences shared by listeners and guests.
Josh Brown is chief executive of Ritholtz Wealth Management, which he co-founded in 2013. He co-hosts The Compound and Friends and What Are Your Thoughts? with Michael Batnick. His public conversations draw on his work helping people invest and manage portfolios, combining market commentary with observations about investor behavior, company developments, and financial advice.
Justin Carbonneau is vice president of Validea, where his responsibilities include sales, partnerships, and media relations. He co-hosts Excess Returns and contributes to the network’s investment discussions with Jack Forehand and Matt Zeigler. Carbonneau holds an MBA from the University of Connecticut. His work connects investment research with the questions facing individual investors and financial professionals.
Kara Swisher is editor-at-large of New York Magazine, host of On with Kara Swisher, and producer and co-host of Pivot. She co-founded Recode and previously hosted Recode Decode and Sway. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produced and hosted the All Things Digital conference series. Her journalism and interviews examine technology companies, media and the leaders whose decisions shape their wider influence.
Katie Greifeld is a Bloomberg News markets reporter and Bloomberg Television anchor, as well as Matt Levine’s co-host on Money Stuff. Her coverage focuses on exchange-traded funds and fixed income. Her television work includes The Close, ETF IQ and Wall Street Week. She joined Bloomberg in 2016 after completing a master’s degree at Columbia Journalism School, and she studied political science at Haverford College. Her reporting spans financial markets across print, television and audio.
Katie Martin is a Financial Times markets columnist, editorial board member and co-host of Unhedged with Rob Armstrong. Her writing includes the weekly Long View column, which examines market trends and investor behavior. She previously served as the FT’s markets editor and worked on its live news service. Before joining the FT in 2015, Martin spent 11 years covering markets at the Dow Jones and Wall Street Journal group.
Kevin Avery became the host of Chat With Traders in April 2026. He began trading in 2016 and describes a particular interest in the psychology of markets, decision-making and dealing with uncertainty. His interviews bring together traders with different styles and levels of experience, examining the personal development, methods and risk decisions behind their careers.
Kyle Grieve is a value investor, author and manager of his family’s portfolio. Before focusing on investor education, he worked as a smart-home integrator and network specialist. He co-hosts The Investor’s Podcast and The Intrinsic Value Podcast, where he participates in company research and valuation discussions. Those episodes examine business models, competitive advantages and investment prospects, drawing connections between the operation of a company and the price an investor might pay for it.
Laura Shin is the founder and CEO of Unchained and hosts its core interview podcast. A former senior editor at Forbes, she reports on crypto and the people building the industry. She wrote The Cryptopians, a reported account of Ethereum’s early development and the first major cryptocurrency boom. Her conversations explore technology, financial incentives, governance and regulation.
Lenny Rachitsky writes Lenny’s Newsletter and hosts Lenny’s Podcast, concentrating on product development, growth and professional progress. His work combines researched advice with interviews of founders and experienced operators. He also invests in startups as an angel investor. Across the newsletter and podcast, he focuses on practical questions facing product leaders, people building companies and others developing their careers.
Logan Bartlett is a managing director at Redpoint Ventures, where he focuses on growth investing in enterprise software, including applications and infrastructure. He joined Redpoint in 2020 after six years at Battery Ventures and primarily partners with companies at the Series B and Series C stages. His podcast archive examines the operating decisions, financing and leadership behind technology businesses.
Luke Vargas hosts the morning edition of The Wall Street Journal’s What’s News podcast. He joined the Journal in 2021 after serving as senior producer of the Skimm’s Skimm This. Earlier, he worked as a United Nations correspondent and hosted The World in 2:00, bringing experience in international reporting and concise radio news to his podcast work.
Maggie Lake is a financial journalist and a principal interviewer on Wealthion’s current podcast. She speaks with economists, investors, and market strategists about monetary policy, bonds, commodities, and changes in the global economy. Her interviews ask guests to explain their market outlooks and the portfolio implications of their views, while the wider Wealthion catalog includes additional presenters and formats.
Marc Rubinstein writes Net Interest and hosts its companion podcast, Net Interest Extra. He is a former investment analyst and hedge-fund manager with more than twenty-five years of experience in finance, including a decade as a partner at Lansdowne Partners. Before that, he worked as an investment-bank analyst. His work examines the financial industry through writing and practitioner interviews. He also consults for companies and investment firms and invests in early-stage financial technology businesses.
Matt Levine writes Bloomberg Opinion’s Money Stuff newsletter and co-hosts its podcast with Katie Greifeld. He explains the mechanics and oddities of finance using experience from both law and banking. Before journalism, he taught Latin, earned a law degree at Yale, clerked for a federal judge, practiced mergers and acquisitions law at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and worked in corporate equity derivatives at Goldman Sachs. He joined Dealbreaker in 2011 and moved to Bloomberg two years later.
Matt Reustle previously hosted Business Breakdowns and led Colossus, following a career in institutional investing. He worked on the investment team at Raven Capital Management and spent about a decade at Goldman Sachs across sales and trading and research. His Business Breakdowns interviews explored company operations, financial models, and competitive advantages. His published conversations remain part of the catalog, including detailed examinations of businesses across software, finance, and consumer markets.
Matt Zeigler is a managing director and private wealth adviser at Sunpointe Investments, a content editor at Panoptica, and a co-host of Excess Returns. He also writes and produces work under the Cultish Creative name. His conversations connect money and markets with personal experience, culture, and the stories that influence how people make decisions.
Meb Faber co-founded Cambria Investment Management and serves as its chief investment officer, managing ETFs and separate accounts. He hosts The Meb Faber Show and writes about investment strategies through books, research papers, and his blog. His career has included equity and quantitative analysis, and his interviews explore global markets, diversification, and the practical application of investment ideas.
Michael Batnick is a managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management and co-host of Animal Spirits with Ben Carlson. He writes The Irrelevant Investor and also appears on The Compound and Friends and What Are Your Thoughts? His book, Big Mistakes: The Best Investors and Their Worst Investments, studies costly errors made by prominent investors and the lessons they offer. Batnick’s work connects professional investing, financial writing and conversations about markets and everyday life.
Mindy Jensen co-hosts BiggerPockets Money, where she discusses saving, investing and financial independence with guests and Scott Trench. She has invested in real estate for decades and co-authored First-Time Home Buyer with Trench. Her conversations draw on long-standing interest in household finances and on the practical choices involved in building wealth, owning property and moving toward retirement.
Patrick Boyle is a finance educator and former portfolio manager with more than twenty years of investment-management experience, particularly in quantitative finance. He co-founded Palomar Capital Management, which was sold in 2018, and has worked at RBS, Millennium and Nomura. He has taught finance as a visiting professor at King’s College London and Queen Mary University of London and written three finance textbooks. His podcast and videos explain markets, financial history and the mechanics of investing.
Patrick Ceresna co-hosts Macro Voices and The Market Huddle and teaches trading through Big Picture Trading. His professional work combines market analysis, options strategies and portfolio risk management. The firm’s educational material emphasizes identifying opportunities, planning positions and managing downside risk, while his podcast appearances connect those trading mechanics with broader economic and market developments.
Patrick O’Shaughnessy is the founder and host of Invest Like the Best, which he launched in 2016. He interviews investors, company builders, and other experts about the ideas and methods behind their work. O’Shaughnessy also founded the Colossus media network in 2020 and is the founder and CEO of venture capital firm Positive Sum. His professional work connects investing with a sustained interest in how people build businesses, make decisions, and learn.
Quinn Thompson is a macro investor and a recurring participant in Forward Guidance’s market roundups. He discusses the relationship between policy decisions, bond markets, economic growth and investor positioning with Felix Jauvin and guests. His appearances offer an investor’s interpretation of changing financial conditions, complementing the show’s longer interviews with specialists in individual markets.
Rob Armstrong is the Financial Times’ US financial commentator and an author of its Unhedged markets newsletter. He co-hosts the Unhedged podcast with Katie Martin, discussing the forces behind financial-market moves. His FT career has included reporting on banking, editing the Lex column and serving as chief editorial writer. Before becoming a journalist, Armstrong worked as a hedge-fund analyst. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University.
Scott Galloway teaches brand strategy and digital marketing at NYU Stern School of Business. He founded Red Envelope, Prophet Brand Strategy and L2, and has written books about business and economic life. He co-hosts Pivot with Kara Swisher and Prof G Markets with Ed Elson. His commentary draws on marketing, entrepreneurship and company strategy to examine technology and financial markets.
Scott Trench co-hosts BiggerPockets Money with Mindy Jensen and is a former CEO of BiggerPockets. He invests in real estate and stocks and has worked as a real estate broker. His books include Set for Life and First-Time Home Buyer, co-written with Jensen. His podcast discussions examine financial independence, investing, income and the tradeoffs involved in using accumulated wealth.
Shane Parrish founded Farnam Street and hosts The Knowledge Project. He writes about decision-making and mental models, authored Clear Thinking, and co-created The Great Mental Models book series. He also started the investment company Syrus Partners. His interviews examine how experienced people think and work, connecting business leadership and investing with habits that support clearer judgment in everyday situations.
Shawn O’Malley is president of The Investor’s Podcast Network. An Elon University finance and entrepreneurship graduate, he previously worked in S&P Global Market Intelligence and gained experience in wealth management. He co-hosts The Investor’s Podcast and The Intrinsic Value Podcast. His company breakdowns examine how businesses make money, their competitive strengths and growth opportunities, and what their shares may be worth, applying lessons drawn from the network’s investor interviews.
Stephen J. Dubner hosts Freakonomics Radio and co-wrote the Freakonomics books. Before concentrating on books and audio, he worked as an editor and writer at New York magazine and The New York Times. He earned an MFA in writing at Columbia University, where he also taught. His interviews and reported stories explore economic incentives, social science and human behavior.
Stig Brodersen is CEO and co-founder of The Investor’s Podcast Network and a value investor through Stig Brodersen Holding. He makes his portfolio and investing record public, accompanying the holdings with letters about his decisions and investment process. His discussions connect individual company research with the judgment required to manage a portfolio over time. On The Investor’s Podcast, he studies businesses and investment ideas with fellow investors and guests.
Ted Seides founded Capital Allocators and launched its podcast in 2017. His interviews focus on the people and processes behind institutional investing. Before building the platform, he co-founded Protégé Partners, where he served as president and co-chief investment officer, and began his career in Yale’s investment office under David Swensen. Seides is also an author and has developed educational programs, industry gatherings, and advisory work for asset owners and investment firms.
Tracy Alloway co-hosts Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast, which she helped launch with Joe Weisenthal in 2015. Her reporting examines financial markets, economic systems and the businesses that connect them. Before concentrating on the show, she led Bloomberg’s Asia Pacific news desk and Cross-Asset Markets team and worked as a television anchor in the Middle East. Earlier, she covered US banks and markets at the Financial Times and served as deputy editor of FT Alphaville.
William Green is the author of Richer, Wiser, Happier and a journalist who has spent more than twenty-five years interviewing investors. His writing has appeared in publications including The New Yorker, Time, Fortune and Forbes, and he has edited international editions of Time. His Richer, Wiser, Happier interviews explore the habits, ideas and life choices behind enduring investment success. The series is also featured within The Investor’s Podcast feed.
Zack Fuss is the chief investment officer of Shoni Holdings, a single-family office, and has hosted Business Breakdowns for Colossus. His conversations explore the histories, economics, and competitive positions of individual companies with investors, executives, and industry specialists. The work follows how a business operates and where it creates value, using detailed company discussions to illuminate the decisions and financial models behind familiar names in public and private markets.