How and Why To Invest - with Investor and Entrepreneur Phil Strazzulla
Update: 2025-07-22
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His work stands where elite investors and successful entrepreneurs meet. Phil Strazzulla himself is both of these, and in this episode of The Builders Podcast, he joins host John Busby to share hard-earned lessons from 20+ years of investing, pouring sweat equity in startups, and quietly building a category-leading HR software review platform.
Phil and John discuss:
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Phil and John discuss:
- Phil’s personal investing philosophy rooted in margin of safety
- Why the “weirder” the deal, the better the opportunity
- A major investment failure — and what it taught Phil about leadership
- The unconventional path that led Phil to start Select Software Reviews
- How Phil is hedging against AI’s impact on search with word-of-mouth and trust
- Why listening to your users is the only real growth strategy
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