Patrick OShaughnessy founded Positive Sum, a venture capital firm, and Colossus, a media and podcast company, and hosts Invest Like the Best. Patrick OShaughnessy's Twitter Score is 457 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #440 (top 0.5%) out of 389,587 accounts on this platform.
Patrick OShaughnessy founded Positive Sum in 2020; the firm, led alongside Sam Cates, manages $308M in assets across 2 investment funds and 24 active portfolio companies, focusing on patient, long-term capital for early-stage companies and using Colossus as a distribution resource for portfolio founders. Its crypto and Web3 holdings include Alpaca, a stock, options, and crypto trading platform, Ambient, a single-contract decentralized exchange, Casa, a secure digital asset storage service, and Limit Break, a Web3 games company.
Patrick OShaughnessy launched Invest Like the Best in 2016 and founded Colossus in 2020; Colossus publishes a digital and quarterly print magazine and operates a podcast network that includes Invest Like the Best, Founders, and Business Breakdowns. Colossus has published crypto-focused editorial coverage on Hyperliquid and Paradigm, and Invest Like the Best has featured an episode on the intersection of crypto and AI with Ribbit Capital founder Micky Malka.
Patrick OShaughnessy has been mentioned by 552 accounts, totaling 2,020 mentions on this platform. He has published 23,423 posts since 2013 and has 342,855 followers as of July 2026.
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