50X Podcast

Hosted by Will Thorndike in collaboration with Kent Weaver, Miles Wood, and their team at Compounding Labs, 50X aims to dissect the anatomy of extraordinary long-term investments. In each episode of 50X, we look in detail at an investment that has appreciated at least 50-fold. From the seat of the professional investor and occasionally the CEO, we explore its origins, evolution, and eventual outcome, studying key themes around long-term value creation ranging from operations, capital allocation, and culture to pivotal buy and sell decisions. We track the often circuitous route to exceptional long-term returns and examine how that rarest of investment commodities—conviction—is created, maintained, threatened, and sometimes lost. As active investors, producing content is not our day job. Though we hope our perspective and accompanying curiosities will guide each interview in a direction that’s valuable to practitioners, our episodes will rarely conform to podcast conventions. In full disclosure, our cadence will be irregular and our volume will be low. With each new episode, we release full episode transcripts, show notes, our extensive internal research, and related proprietary investment materials. To learn more and access exclusive research, visit 50Xpodcast.com.