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Pitch The PM

PitchThePM 34 Episodes Oct 8, 2026

Pitch The PM is a podcast for professional investors, hosted by Doug Garber, a former top analyst at Citadel and senior portfolio manager at Millennium. Each episode applies the Variant View Investment Checklist to high-conviction stock ideas, blending timeless lessons from Buffett, Munger, and Lynch with modern AI tools. The show offers a real-time look at the research process and aims to help listeners sharpen their investing edge.

Episodes

EP. 54: Is The AI Boom Causing Machinery Scarcity?
EP. 54: Is The AI Boom Causing Machinery Scarcity? Oct 8, 2026 00:45:06 My long time confidant, Jarrett Harris, Director of Research at IronAdvisor Insights joins the show to share his latest insights. He is quintessentially mid-western and was my go to source for learning about the on the ground pulse of the industrial economy when I was at Citadel and Millennium. As part of IronConnect, a heavy equipment industry service provider, Jarrett has unparalleled access to
EP. 53: Why is DKNG not Benefiting from the Prediction Markets Surge? Is it the VC Sydney Sweeney  Effect on Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)?
EP. 53: Why is DKNG not Benefiting from the Prediction Markets Surge? Is it the VC Sydney Sweeney  Effect on Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)? Oct 1, 2026 00:50:34 Prediction markets are surging, but DraftKings is moving in the opposite direction. Is the issue market share? Rising customer acquisition costs? Or simply a reset from last year’s growth expectations?In this episode, Bernie McTernan, CFA, Managing Director and Senior Analyst at Needham & Company, breaks down the rapidly changing prediction-market landscape. We discuss Kalshi’s first-mover adv
EP.52 Why Point72 Wins–20 Years Next to Steve Cohen with Chandler Bocklage, Head of Business Development
EP.52 Why Point72 Wins–20 Years Next to Steve Cohen with Chandler Bocklage, Head of Business Development Sep 24, 2026 00:37:03 Chandler Bocklage spent nearly two decades working alongside Steve Cohen, managing a portfolio before leading Business Development at Point72. In this episode, we discuss what separates good investors from great ones, how Point72 develops portfolio managers, why intellectual curiosity matters more than almost anything else, and how AI is reshaping the future of fundamental investing.If you've
DoorDash’s ($DASH) Growth Upside–A High-Conviction Investment with TimeSquare’s Consumer PM Ed Salib
DoorDash’s ($DASH) Growth Upside–A High-Conviction Investment with TimeSquare’s Consumer PM Ed Salib Sep 18, 2026 00:50:45 In 2001, Ed Salib walked into TimesSquare Capital Management as the firm's first intern. Twenty-five years later, he's co-PM of the TimesSquare Quality Mid Cap Growth ETF ($TSCM). So what does a 25-year fundamental investor do when one of the market's most debated stocks goes on sale?Ed passed on DoorDash's 2021 IPO, kept it in his research “bullpen,” and bought the 20% sell-off on
EP.50: Why Stanley Drunkenmiller seeded Rich to build the next Bloomberg!l–with Rich Falk-Wallace, CEO & Co-Founder or Arcana
EP.50: Why Stanley Drunkenmiller seeded Rich to build the next Bloomberg!l–with Rich Falk-Wallace, CEO & Co-Founder or Arcana Sep 10, 2026 00:54:15 In 2019, Ken Griffin, Founder & CEO of Citadel, was looking for some of the best risk-takers on Wall Street. He landed on Rich Falk-Wallace, then a top analyst at Viking, who went on to become a Portfolio Manager at Citadel’s Surveyor Capital.So what comes next after becoming a PM at Citadel at 29?For the past five years, Rich has been building Arcana, a financial technology platform designed
EP.49: Why the AI Boom Is Still Early with Daniel Pilling from Sands Capital
EP.49: Why the AI Boom Is Still Early with Daniel Pilling from Sands Capital Sep 2, 2026 01:04:17 Daniel Pilling, Co-PM of the Sands Capital Global Growth Fund, has spent nearly 20 years investing across long-only and long-short strategies, including time at Fidelity, Millennium, and Balyasny. Today at Sands Capital, he takes a very different approach: concentrated, deep-dive investing in high-quality growth companies with the potential to compound for years.In this episode, Daniel breaks down
EP.48: Tipper X The Hedge Fund Analyst Who Became an FBI Informant
EP.48: Tipper X The Hedge Fund Analyst Who Became an FBI Informant Aug 25, 2026 00:56:36 Tom Hardin, formerly known as “Tipper X,” helped the FBI unravel one of the largest insider trading investigations in hedge fund history. The FBI flipped him, convinced him to wear a wire that built more than 20 cases. The hero of the story was Tom’s wife, who stood by him the entire time, allowing him to survive the intense emotional weight.In this episode, Tom walks through how he crossed the li
EP.47: Activist Investor Pushing for an Epic Turnaround at Eagle Bancorp ($EGBN)
EP.47: Activist Investor Pushing for an Epic Turnaround at Eagle Bancorp ($EGBN) Aug 20, 2026 00:43:36 My former colleague and banking guru, James Abbott, is living his passion with the launch of Diligence Capital Management (DCM).DCM runs a concentrated, net-long financials strategy alongside a tighter-net long/short financials portfolio. James and his team bring more than 50 years of combined experience in financial services—and a deep understanding of how banks operate, where they underperform,
EP.46 He Trained Bryce Young Before Anyone Knew the Name — Then Built the Fastest-Growing Independent Research Platform on Wall Street
EP.46 He Trained Bryce Young Before Anyone Knew the Name — Then Built the Fastest-Growing Independent Research Platform on Wall Street Aug 13, 2026 00:34:53 I met Tim Arthurs, the second week when I joined Millennium and knew he was an “A” player. He still has notes from every time he called me on a stock. He’s a process guy. And it has led to his success. He founded Seaport Research Partners, which has become the fastest-growing independent equity research platform by attracting the top research analysts and empowering them with aligned incentives. E
EP.45 Palantir ($PLTR): Is the Leading Growth Rate Sustainable? With Gil Luria, Head of Technology Research at D. A. Davidson
EP.45 Palantir ($PLTR): Is the Leading Growth Rate Sustainable? With Gil Luria, Head of Technology Research at D. A. Davidson Aug 11, 2026 00:56:52 Gil Luria and I dig into the bull case after another blockbuster quarter with 93% YoY growth. The reason Palantir wins is their head start on building an enterprise-wide ontology, unconventional usage of forward-deployed engineers in their SaaS model, and customer-aligned, outcome-based pricing. We debate $PLTR’s valuation, future growth trajectory, and AI-driven software budget crowd-out.“Retail
EP. 44 - She Quit at 29 With No Code, No Co-Founder, No Funding – Now Hudson Labs Is Finance AI that has a “No Hallucination Guarantee”
EP. 44 - She Quit at 29 With No Code, No Co-Founder, No Funding – Now Hudson Labs Is Finance AI that has a “No Hallucination Guarantee” Aug 6, 2026 00:59:43 She Quit at 29 With No Code, No Co-Founder, No Funding – Now Hudson Labs Is Finance AI that has a “No Hallucination Guarantee”Kris Bennatti (@)  CEO Hudson Labs (Toronto), a former forensic-accounting data scientist who built the first LLM for finance, back in 2019 before anyone knew what to make of it. Her co-founder/CTO Suhas Pai literally wrote the book – O'Reilly's "Designing Larg
EP.43 - SpaceX ($SPCX) Irrational Exuberance? Space Winner or Street 50% Too High
EP.43 - SpaceX ($SPCX) Irrational Exuberance? Space Winner or Street 50% Too High Jul 30, 2026 01:06:35 "Our numbers are not even half of consensus. Treat the syndicate's number as an extremely optimistic bull case.""We think we're already very optimistic—but consensus is even more optimistic.""Launch is what makes 100% of the value of SpaceX.""Frontier AI is building very high barriers to entry.""Everybody wants to be part of the SpaceX story.&qu

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