Claude Shannon was a polymathic genius. Vannevar Bush believed that Shannon was “an almost universal genius, whose talents might be channelled in any direction,” according to the book about Shannon’s life, A Mind at Play. Bush himself was a giant amongst men; among his achievements were the construction of an analog computer (a differential analyser) in 1931, and leading the Manhattan Project (the name of the US government’s project to build the atomic bomb during World War II) to success. As for Shannon, he is perhaps most well-known for the creation of information theory in the 1940s, a collection of ideas that form the foundation for much of how information is transmitted electronically today. But he was not just an amazing scientific thinker – he was also an incredible investor. David Senra has a podcast series named Founders and in an October 2019 episode, Senra spoke about his learnings from reading A Mind at Play. During the episode, Senra said:...