Apr 17
Will Guidara on The ROI of Unreasonable Hospitality | #627
Today’s guest is Will Guidara, author of the New York Times Bestseller Unreasonable Hospitality and former co-owner of Eleven Madison Park, which was named the Best Restaurant in the World. He is a Co-Producer on the Emmy Award-winning series The Bear. His new book, Unreasonable ... Show More
52m 14s
Apr 10
Software Winners & Losers in the Age of AI (w/Alex Rubalcava & Paul Bricault) | #626
Today’s guests are Alex Rubalcava and Paul Bricault of Amplify.LA, a pre-seed venture capital firm. In today’s episode, Alex and Paul break down the opportunities and challenges AI is creating for both startups and investors. They discuss the changing economics of software, what ... Show More
1h 12m
Apr 7
Liquid Private Equity & Volatility Laundering (Owen Lamont & Randy Cohen) | #625
Today’s guests are Owen Lamont, a Portfolio Manager at Acadian Asset Management, and Randy Cohen, a finance and entrepreneurship professor at Harvard Business School and co-founder of PEO Partners, which is a leader in the emerging liquid Private Equity alternatives space. In tod ... Show More
1h 21m
Dec 2023
20VC: Why Now is the Best Time to Invest in Emerging Managers, Biggest Mistake Emerging Managers Make When Fundraising & Investing Lessons from Investing $1.5BN Per Year and Being Early Investors in Thrive, a16z and Founders Fund with Peter Lacaillade
<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Peter Lacaillade is a Managing Director @ <a href= "https://www.scsfinancial.com/">SCS Financial Services</a> where he leads its private investment program where he oversees the firm's activities in private equity, opportunistic credit and private ... Show More
1h 2m
Sep 2023
Will England - A Primer on Multi-Strategy Hedge Funds - [Invest Like the Best, EP.342]
My guest today is Will England, the CEO and Co-CIO of Walleye Capital. Walleye is a multi-strategy hedge fund headquartered in Minnesota that manages around $5 billion. Our conversation is a primer on multi-strategy hedge funds, which have become a force in markets through the su ... Show More
1h 21m
Apr 2022
Retail Investing, Pt. 1: International Exposure
<p>With questions around equity outperformance, tech overvaluation and currency headwinds in the U.S., retail investors may want to look internationally to diversify their portfolio. Chief Cross-Asset Strategist Andrew Sheets and Chief Investment Officer for Wealth Management Lis ... Show More
8m 45s
Oct 2017
20VC: What Does It Take To Raise A Venture Fund Today, An Analysis of The Explosion of Seed Financing & Why IRR No Longer Takes Centre Stage with Samir Kaji, Senior Managing Director @ First Republic Bank
<p class="p02" style="text-align: left;"><a href= "https://twitter.com/Samirkaji">Samir Kaji</a> is what one might call, a master of all things seed stage and micro VC financing. Over his 18 years in venture capital, Samir has assisted or advised over 700 companies and 300 VC fir ... Show More
29m 10s
May 2022
Aswath Damodaran - Making Sense of the Market - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 279]
My guest today is Aswath Damodaran, a Professor of Finance at NYU’s Stern School of Business. Aswath is one of the clearest teachers of investing and finance in our industry and through his blog, books, and YouTube has open-sourced his wisdom for decades. This conversation is a m ... Show More
1h 57m
Aug 2021
Blackstone: Beyond Buyouts - [Business Breakdowns, EP. 20]
Today, we will be diving into Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager. Founded in 1985 as a boutique M&A advisory business with $400,000 of seed capital. The firm now manages over $600 billion across private equity, real estate, credit, and hedge fund strategies ... Show More
43m 52s
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 12m
In Episode 113, we welcome entrepreneur and hedge fund expert, Stan Altshuller. Meb starts by asking Stan to give us his backstory, and how he came to co-found Novus Partners.
After Stan gives us his origin story, Meb asks about Stan’s broad approach to the markets. Stan tells us that at Novus, they start with data. This data encompasses everything from publ ... Show More
<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/ScottDSandell">Scott Sandell</a> is the Managing General Partner of <a href= "https://www.nea.com/">NEA</a>, one of the leading firms of the last 3 decades with now close to $24Bn under management and a portfolio includ ... Show More
