Podcast · 253 episodes
How I Invest with David Weisburd, page 8
by David Weisburd · English
How I Invest with David Weisburd is a podcast that interviews the world's leading institutional investors. Previous guests include The Ford Foundation, Northwestern University Endowment, CalPERS, Stepstone, and other top limited partners.
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E267: Why 95% of LPs Misread Private Market ReturnsWhy private-market returns are hard to measure, how Kaplan–Schoe PME compares private funds to public benchmarks, and what the data says about risk-adjusted performance, beta/alpha, dispersion,…22 Dec 2025 · 26 min · 11 chapters
E266: J.P. Morgan CIO: Mistakes Top Investors MakeJP Morgan CIO and U.S. equity derivatives head Hamilton explains how options help investors stay invested by expressing precise views, managing downside, and improving risk-adjusted returns.19 Dec 2025 · 43 min · 23 chapters
E265: What the Coach to Sequoia, A16Z and Benchmark Learned About Power and PeopleExecutive coaching for investors and founders on “power and people,” arguing that relationship management is the highest-leverage job because relationship work is important but not urgent, so it gets…18 Dec 2025 · 58 min · 24 chapters
E264: The Asymmetric Edge: Generating Alpha in VentureHow venture funds generate “alpha” via asymmetric information, founder referrals, heavy diligence, and intuition; plus a market outlook on humanoid robots and fund strategy learnings.17 Dec 2025 · 38 min · 16 chapters
E263: Inside the $5 Billion Fund Backed by 700 LPsHow LeadEdge built a $5B growth-equity platform backed by ~700 individual LPs across six funds, and how it wins deals via LP-driven value add plus a strict “LeadEdge 8” investment metric framework.16 Dec 2025 · 46 min · 17 chapters
E262: The 50-30-20 Portfolio: How Institutions Are Rebuilding 60/40How institutions are rebuilding the traditional 60/40 portfolio using a 50/30/20 framework, emphasizing alternatives, open-architecture model portfolios, and liquidity-aware portfolio construction…15 Dec 2025 · 45 min · 17 chapters
E261: How Sovereign Wealth Funds Create Alpha w/Peter MadsenPeter Madsen, CIO of Utah’s sovereign wealth fund, explains how sovereign wealth funds can generate “alpha” via factor-based investing, rules-based public equity, shifting small-cap exposure into…12 Dec 2025 · 33 min · 13 chapters
E260: How Founders Access Liquidity in Pre-IPO CompaniesHow Colson Equity Financing helps late-stage founders/executives access liquidity in pre-IPO companies without selling at steep secondary discounts, using structured equity financing (variable…11 Dec 2025 · 42 min · 19 chapters
E259: The Institutional Way to Invest in Crypto w/Rennick PalleyHow Stratos (with Rennick Palley) invests in crypto “institutionally”: venture portfolio construction aimed at consistent top-decile IRRs, and a liquid strategy designed to capture crypto beta…10 Dec 2025 · 1 h · 20 chapters
E258: Ryan Serhant: Why Leaders Who Don’t Evolve Get Left BehindRyan Serhant on why leaders must evolve, using his real estate career and Netflix docu-series “Owning Manhattan” Season 2 as proof—covering social media-driven deal flow, vulnerability, CEO scaling,…9 Dec 2025 · 38 min · 15 chapters
E257: What I Learned Advising the World’s Top CIOs at Goldman SachsJulia (Goldman Sachs Asset Management) explains what she learned advising global CIOs on portfolio construction—why “risk” is emotional as well as technical, how top CIOs balance qualitative judgment…8 Dec 2025 · 46 min · 24 chapters
E256: What Fintech Will Look Like in 5 Years - Steve McLaughlin (FT Partners)Steve McLaughlin (FT Partners) argues fintech’s next phase will be dominated by AI-enabled investment banking and tokenization of real-world assets; he also explains why FT Partners focuses on…5 Dec 2025 · 38 min · 14 chapters
E255: How to Hire the Top 0.1%Talent-first recruiting for AI startups; defining “S-tier”/top 0.1% engineers, how to build “talent density,” and why capital is less of a constraint than scarce AI talent.4 Dec 2025 · 35 min · 14 chapters
E254: How to Build a 100-Year Venture FirmHow to build a 100-year venture firm; venture investing philosophy across 20 years; power-law outcomes with risk management; liquidity via secondaries; VC incentives and alignment with LPs; how to…3 Dec 2025 · 43 min · 19 chapters
E253: How Great CIOs Think w/Bill BrownHow Bill Brown, CIO of a multi-billion family office, thinks about investing and running a team: focus on progress (not busywork), “hang out in the right places,” seek asymmetric “big hits,” and…2 Dec 2025 · 47 min · 21 chapters
E252: Inside the Mind of a 29-Year-Old Billion-Dollar Fund ManagerHow Eva (29) and cofounder Christian built Legalist into a litigation-finance asset manager, pivoting from legal analytics after Y Combinator’s counsel, choosing successive funds, scaling AUM, and…1 Dec 2025 · 27 min · 9 chapters
E251: Why 95% of Funds Don’t Pass LP Diligence w/Alex EdelsonHow seed funds use AI in sourcing and diligence, and how an LP (fund-of-funds) decides which emerging GPs to back using “real talk” references and portfolio-construction/ownership criteria.28 Nov 2025 · 36 min · 17 chapters
E250: The GP Fundraising Playbook: From First Meeting to Final CloseHow a venture fundraising professional builds LP pipelines from first meeting to final close, using “market mapping” and value-first outreach; why fundraising is never “easy”; and how to structure a…26 Nov 2025 · 51 min · 18 chapters
E249: How LPs Unlock Liquidity Without SellingNAV loans for LPs to unlock liquidity without selling illiquid private fund positions.25 Nov 2025 · 35 min · 16 chapters
E248: The Institutionalization of GP Stakes: What Comes NextKaz Investments’ view on “GP stakes” (GP growth capital) as a thematic, private-markets strategy, including structure, downside protection via contractual management fees, underwriting (fundraising…24 Nov 2025 · 27 min · 12 chapters
E247: Why Wall Street Is Wrong About AI w/ Dan IvesDan Ives (Wedbush Securities) argues Wall Street undervalues AI’s “physical AI” and infrastructure ripple effects, and explains his valuation method, contrarian process, and how he “pushes buttons”…21 Nov 2025 · 51 min · 21 chapters
E246: Private Equity in 2025: Fees, Rates, and the Law of Large NumbersHow private equity and OCIO/interval funds may perform in 2025 amid higher fees, higher interest rates, liquidity constraints, and consolidation; how to pick advisors and build portfolios that…20 Nov 2025 · 59 min · 29 chapters
E245: From $0 to Billions in a Regulated MarketPete founded Green Thumb Industries in the legalized cannabis era and scaled it into a highly profitable, multi-state operator by choosing “unsexy” locations, focusing on profit and operational…18 Nov 2025 · 52 min · 19 chapters
E244: Structural Alpha vs. Storytelling w/Alan McKnightHow CIO Alan McKnight (Regents Banks) advises pension funds vs family offices, focusing on liquidity/illiquidity trade-offs, interval funds, behavioral finance, and “structural alpha” (e.g.,…17 Nov 2025 · 58 min · 20 chapters