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How I Invest with David Weisburd

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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00:35:05

E255: How to Hire the Top 0.1%

How I Invest with David Weisburd ·

2025/12/04

What does it take to recruit the top 0.1% of engineers in the world — and why has talent become the ultimate constraint in AI?In this episode, I’m joined by Chris Vasquez, Founder & CEO of Quantum Talent, one of the most in-demand technical recruiting firms in the AI ecosystem. We discuss why elite engineering talent has become the core bottleneck in AI, how companies can actually attract S-tier builders, what founders get wrong about hiring, and why talent density—not headcount—is the strongest

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00:42:49

E254: How to Build a 100-Year Venture Firm

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2025/12/03

How do you balance power-law outcomes with real risk management while building a durable venture franchise?In this episode, I speak with Mark Peter Davis (MPD) — Managing Partner of Interplay, entrepreneur, author, podcaster, and one of New York’s most active early-stage investors. We discuss how Mark’s philosophy of investing has evolved over 20 years in venture, why VC psychology is so different from other asset classes, and how he manages for both outliers and consistency across vintages. Mark

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00:47:00

E253: How Great CIOs Think w/Bill Brown

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2025/12/02

How do the best family offices consistently spot power-law opportunities and avoid the trap of “fake busy” work?In this episode, I’m joined with William (Bill) Brown, CIO of the Terrace Tower Group, about the lessons he learned working for billionaire Leonard Stern, how he helped evolve a legacy real-estate portfolio into a globally diversified family office, and what pattern recognition looks like across trades like the Big Short, crypto, and private credit. We discuss how Bill thinks about

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00:26:40

E252: Inside the Mind of a 29-Year-Old Billion-Dollar...

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2025/12/01

How do you scale from a $10M first fund to managing over $1.5B — all in one of the most capacity-constrained asset classes on earth? In this episode, I talk with Eva Shang, Co-founder and General Founder of Legalist, about dropping out of Harvard, getting into Y Combinator, pivoting from legal analytics to litigation finance, and raising their first $10M fund long before they had any track record. We discuss why Legalist chose the fund model over the venture-backed originator model, how they

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00:35:45

E251: Why 95% of Funds Don’t Pass LP Diligence w/Alex...

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2025/11/28

What does it actually take for an emerging manager to convince a top LP to invest?In this episode, I’m joined by Alex Edelson, Founder of Slipstream, and one of the most respected LPs backing elite seed funds today. Alex pulls back the curtain on how LPs use AI, what “real talk” references look like, how he evaluates GPs, and why only a tiny percentage of funds ever make it through his screening. We also dive into portfolio construction, picking and winning founders, why deep tech requires more

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00:51:12

E250: The GP Fundraising Playbook: From First Meeting...

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2025/11/26

What does it really take to raise a venture fund—and why does fundraising never get easier, even at Fund 5 or Fund 6?In this episode, I talk with Yasmine Lacaillade, Founder of Sinefine and one of the most respected capital formation leaders in venture. Yasmine shares her journey from TPG Axon in London to joining Drive Capital at Fund I—years before it became consensus. We discuss why fundraising is always difficult, how LP sentiment shifts every 2–3 years, and why top fundraisers treat the

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00:35:04

E249: How LPs Unlock Liquidity Without Selling

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2025/11/25

How do LPs unlock liquidity from private-fund positions without selling at a discount? In this episode, I talk with Alex Simpson, Co-founder of Liquid LP, a platform that provides NAV loans backed by LP and GP interests in private funds. Alex explains how NAV loans work, how lenders underwrite illiquid portfolios, and when borrowing may be preferable to selling in the secondary market. We also discuss how different types of investors—high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and institutions—use

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00:27:17

E248: The Institutionalization of GP Stakes: What...

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2025/11/24

What makes a GP interest valuable — and how do you evaluate a manager beyond the fund they’re raising today? In this episode, I talk with Mark Wade, CAIA, Partner at CAZ Investments, about how his team assesses GP interests, private-market managers, partnership structures, and long-term durability. We discuss why GP transactions have evolved, why some firms seek outside capital, and the practical differences between investing as a GP versus an LP. We also touch on evaluating leadership succession,

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00:50:30

E247: Why Wall Street Is Wrong About AI w/ Dan Ives

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2025/11/21

Is traditional valuation dead for the biggest winners of the AI era? Or have investors simply been looking in the wrong place?In this episode, I talk with Dan Ives, Managing Director and Global Head of Technology Research at Wedbush Securities, and one of Wall Street’s most followed tech analysts. Dan has covered the software and technology sector for 25 years, becoming known for his bold, high-conviction calls on Tesla, Nvidia, Microsoft, and Palantir long before they became consensus. We break

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00:59:05

E246: Private Equity in 2025: Fees, Rates, and the...

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2025/11/20

Is private equity still worth it — or has the industry scaled its way into mediocre returns?In this episode, I talk with Nolan Bean, CFA, CAIA, Chief Investment Officer and Head of Portfolio Management at FEG Investment Advisors, an independent, employee-owned firm advising on $90+ billion in assets for endowments, foundations, healthcare systems, and mission-driven institutions. We dig into the state of OCIOs, interval funds, private equity, and why Nolan believes the lower middle-market still

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00:51:35

E245: From $0 to Billions in a Regulated Market

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2025/11/18

How do you build a multibillion-dollar company from scratch, walk away at the peak, and reinvent your life around purpose, generosity, and impact?In this episode, I talk with Pete Kadens, one of America’s most respected first-generation wealth creators and one of the leading philanthropists focused on closing education and opportunity gaps across the U.S. Today. Pete and I dive into how he built Green Thumb Industries (GTI) into a multibillion-dollar cannabis company, the unsexy strategies that

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00:57:52

E244: Structural Alpha vs. Storytelling w/Alan McKnight

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2025/11/17

What separates elite CIOs from everyone else? In this solo-style deep-dive conversation, I sit down with Alan McKnight, Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer at Regions Asset Management, to unpack how one of the industry's most respected allocators makes decisions across public and private markets. Alan oversees investment strategy, risk management, and portfolio construction across the firm's full platform — and brings decades of experience from leadership roles at Truist,

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00:03:01

E243: The Gift Hidden Inside The Biggest Crisis

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2025/11/16

What happens when you’re forced to face your biggest fear?In this solo episode, David Weisburd shares a deeply personal reflection on how moments of crisis can become the crucible that forges strength, resilience, and clarity. Drawing inspiration from Lloyd Blankfein’s reflections on the 2008 financial crisis, David explores why confronting your greatest fears—rather than avoiding them—can transform you into a more powerful, anti-fragile version of yourself. From Joe Rogan’s public reckoning to

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00:41:58

E242: How an 18-Year-Old Harvard Dropout Raised $47M

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2025/11/14

Can a 23-year-old Harvard dropout build the next billion-dollar company? In this episode, I talk with Steven Wang, founder and CEO of dub, a U.S. copy-trading platform that lets you automatically mirror the portfolios of real investors and traders. We get into why he thinks most retail investors won’t get good at stock picking, why the future is about picking people, not tickers, and how dub is trying to turn social-media-driven, mimetic trading into better financial outcomes. We also cover the

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00:33:46

E241: How Spirits Became a $1 Trillion Alternative...

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2025/11/13

How do you turn whiskey barrels into an institutional asset class? In this episode, I sit down with Giuseppe Infusino, Chief Investment Officer and Managing Partner at InvestBev Group, to explore how a real asset like aged whiskey is quietly becoming one of the most uncorrelated and profitable investments in alternative markets. From his early years at RVK advising multi-billion-dollar allocators to managing institutional portfolios in a niche category few understand, Giuseppe shares how InvestBev

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00:52:42

E240: The Edge: Risk, Discipline, and Judgment in...

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2025/11/11

What separates great investors from generational ones—and how do you actually find the next Elon Musk? In this episode, I sit down with Mike Annunziata, Founder & Managing Partner of Also Capital, a solo GP fund backing the world’s most ambitious hard tech founders. Before launching Also Capital, Mike spent years at the Cornell University Endowment, helping allocate over $1 billion across venture and private equity managers—giving him a front-row seat to what “world-class” really looks like. We

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00:28:40

E239: FemHealth Ventures: Sara Crown Star on...

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2025/11/10

How do you turn purpose, legacy, and innovation into a single investing philosophy?In this episode, I speak with Sara Crown Star, Venture Partner at FemHealth Ventures and President of SCS Innovations. Sara shares how her experience growing up in one of America’s most prominent families shaped her values as an investor and why she believes the next trillion-dollar opportunity lies in women’s health. We discuss the evolution of FemHealth Ventures’ investment thesis, the creation of the “FemHealth

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00:07:09

E238: Acting Fast and Slow

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2025/11/09

Why are we wired to chase quick wins instead of lasting breakthroughs—and how can investors reprogram that bias? In this third solo episode, David Weisburd unpacks the neuroscience of decision-making and how understanding dopamine can dramatically change the way you operate as an investor, founder, or builder. Drawing on insights from his conversation with Dave Fontenot of HF0, David explains why long-term rewards (“slow dopamine”) create compounding advantages while short-term hits (“fast

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00:59:49

E237: The $150 Trillion Revolution in Private Markets

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2025/11/07

How do you democratize access to private markets and what happens when everyone can invest like a VC? In this episode, I sit down with Kendrick Nguyen, Co-Founder and CEO of Republic, the global platform that’s opened up private investing to over 3 million people across 150 countries, facilitating more than $2.6+ billion in transactions. We unpack how tokenization, fractionalization, and regulatory innovation are reshaping private markets. Kendrick explains how Republic is bridging the gap between

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00:46:24

E236: How the Top 0.1% Founders Build AI Companies

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2025/11/05

Can founders 10x their progress in 12 weeks? In this episode, I speak with Dave Fontenot, Founder of HF0, a groundbreaking startup residency that’s redefining how AI companies are built. HF0’s model—part hacker house, part monastic focus—is based on the idea that startups grow fastest when founders eliminate every distraction and operate in uninterrupted flow. Dave explains how the residency model is helping founders make “two years of progress in 12 weeks,” why the most dangerous distraction is

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