This week's guest is private equity expert, Doug McCormick. Doug is on a mission to teach financial literacy to interested investors. With few public school teaching students anything about business or finance, Doug has designed a free tool on his website so people can take their personal finances and apply them to corporate financial statements. In addition to this topic, Doug teaches the audience interesting topics about private equity.
TIP101: Creativity Inc. – A Study of Pixar’s Ed Catmull
In this episode, Preston and Stig read the book, Creativity Inc., by Ed Catmull. This was a fantastic book for anyone wanting to learn how to be more creative. Additionally, the book goes into great detail describing the important aspects of designing a business that will have an enduring competitive advantage.
TIP100: Cold-Calling Our Audience and What We Learned From Billionaires
In Preston and Stig's 100th episode of The Investor's Podcast, they celebrate by cold calling a few members of their audience. The members of the community can ask any question they want in an unscripted and open format. Additionally, Preston and Stig talk about what their key take-aways were after studying billionaires and the market for 100 shows.
TIP099: Alibaba & Jack Ma by Duncan Clark
In this episode, Preston and Stig learn about the Chinese billionaire Jack Ma. Jack is the founder of the internet company, Alibaba, which is the biggest internet company in Asia. His company has over 407 million users and quickly growing. Within the next five years, Alibaba may ship more packages per day than all the daily mail in the United States. Preston and Stig learn about Jack by reading Duncan Clark's new book, Alibaba.


