Dovi Frances is an international financier, entrepreneur and founding partner of SGVC, a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles. Over the course of his career, Dovi has invested more than one hundred million dollars in some of Silicon Valley’s most prominent and disruptive financial technology companies. He holds a Guinness world’s record for creating th ... Show More
Sep 2023
Air Lease Corporation: Steven Udvar-Hazy
Before Steven Udvar-Hazy was out of high school, he started working as an airline consultant. You could do that sort of thing back in the 1960’s, if you knew the industry—which indisputably, he did. Born in Communist Hungary, Steven was obsessed with aviation at an early age, mem ... Show More
1h 6m
Aug 2022
LVMH: The Wolf in Cashmere’s Conglomerate - [Business Breakdowns, EP. 68]
This is Zack Fuss, an investor at Irenic Capital Management. Today we’re breaking down the world’s largest luxury business, LVMH. The LVMH story is deeply reflective of the vision of its 73 year-old founder and architect, Bernard Arnault. Today, the business generates €75 billion ... Show More
53m 35s
Apr 2020
How Entrepreneurs Succeed Outside Silicon Valley
Alex Lazarow, venture capitalist at Cathay Innovation, says that start-ups in cities around the U.S. and the world are creating their own rules for success. While Silicon Valley companies have sparked key innovations and generated huge wealth over the past few decades, not everyo ... Show More
26m 53s
Oct 2018
Ep11 - Ray Dalio| Principles: Life and Work
In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, Bridgewater Associates, out of his two-bedroom apartment in New York City. Forty years later, Bridgewater has made more money for its clients than any other hedge fund in history, and grown into the fifth most important private compa ... Show More
1h 38m
Feb 2024
EUVC #280: Tej Panesar, Partner at Prism Ventures on LP investing in life sciences
Today, we are joined by Tej Panesar. Tej is a Partner at Prism Ventures, the UK-based institutional investor focused on the life sciences and healthcare sectors.
Prism invests in the best-of-breed funds managed in the US, UK, and Europe through fund of funds and co-investment pro ... Show More
1h 16m