My guest this week is Phil Huber, the Head of Portfolio Solutions at Cliffwater. The private credit market has exploded recently, with Assets under management reaching a staggering $1.2T last year. I’ve been a little skeptical of this asset class, so I asked Phil to come on and convince me otherwise. We talk about the demand side of the equation, whether we ... Show More
Nov 21
Cosmo Jiang - Unpacking Digital Asset Treasuries - [Making Markets, EP.70]
My guest today is Cosmo Jiang, Partner at Pantera Capital. Pantera was one of the earliest institutional voices to embrace digital asset treasury companies, or DATs, and helped catalyze the Solana DAT wave. We begin by unpacking the DAT investment thesis using a traditional funda ... Show More
46m 50s
Nov 7
Chris Boettcher: Health Without Hacks - [Making Markets, EP.69]
My guest today is Chris Boettcher, co-founder of Boettcher Health. Chris has a rule: if a health plan isn’t sustainable, it’s not worth doing. Today, he breaks down how to build a health system that actually lasts. We talk about the myth of willpower, how modern food and medicine ... Show More
39m 23s
Oct 24
Paul Bloch: Powering the AI Revolution - [Making Markets, EP.68]
My guest today is Paul Bloch, co-founder and CEO of DDN. Once bootstrapped for decades, DDN is now a multi-billion dollar company partnering with Nvidia, Google, and Blackstone, helping customers train the largest models in the world and deploy AI at scale. We discuss how Paul an ... Show More
38m 45s
May 2023
Kieran Goodwin - Imagination, Volatility, and the Pursuit of Alpha - [Invest Like the Best, EP.331]
My guest today is Kieran Goodwin. Kieran spent over two decades at the frontier of credit investing. During the global financial crisis, he was a Partner and Head of Trading at King Street Capital, which grew from $4 billion to $20 billion while he was there. He then left to star ... Show More
1h 1m
Sep 2023
Michael Simanovsky - A Platform Approach to Real Estate - [Invest Like the Best, EP.344]
My guest today is Michael Simanovsky. Mike is the Managing Partner of Conversant Capital, a real estate investment firm he founded in early 2020. Conversant aims to be the most flexible capital provider in real estate, investing across public and private markets as well as equiti ... Show More
1h 6m
May 2022
Jeff Jordan - Building & Investing in Marketplaces - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 276]
My guest today is Jeff Jordan, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Jeff has one of the most interesting set of experiences of guests that I’ve had on the show. As an operator, he has been the General Manager of eBay.com, President of PayPal, and CEO of OpenTable. As an invest ... Show More
1h 21m
Jul 2021
Steve Mandel - Investing Behind Change - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 235]
My guest today is Steve Mandel, founder of Lone Pine Capital, one of the most successful hedge fund and investment firms of this generation. In our conversation, we discuss how the investing business has evolved since Steve’s start in the 1980s, why it’s so difficult to drive alp ... Show More
1h 11m
Jul 2023
Chris Paik - Venture Investing Frameworks - [Invest Like the Best, EP.338]
My guest today is Chris Paik, who is a General Partner at early-stage venture firm, Pace Capital. Before Pace, Chris spent eight years building and investing alongside last week’s guest, Josh Kushner, at his firm Thrive Capital. During that time, he sat on the board of Twitch. Ou ... Show More
1h 30m
Jan 2022
Sam Englebardt and Richard Kim - Investing in Immersive Worlds - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 259]
Today, my guests are Sam Englebardt and Richard Kim, general partners at venture fund, Galaxy Interactive. Having come from the media and finance sectors, respectively, Sam and Richard joined forces in 2018 to invest in their shared thesis that immersive digital experiences would ... Show More
1h 21m
May 2022
Eric Glyman - Reimagining Corporate Finance - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 275]
My guest today is Eric Glyman, co-founder and CEO of Ramp. Ramp is best known for its corporate cards but it has a range of software products to help finance teams save money and time. Since its founding in 2019, the business has grown rapidly and was last valued at $8 billion. E ... Show More
1h 2m
Nov 2022
Bob Elliott - A Macro Tour - [Invest Like the Best, EP.302]
My guest today is Bob Elliott, the CEO and CIO of Unlimited, which creates low-cost index ETFs for alternative investment strategies. Prior to co-founding Unlimited, Bob was a senior investment executive at Bridgewater Associates where he served on their investment committee and ... Show More
1h 21m