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.
174 episodes transcribedHow should families think about portfolio construction when traditional diversification breaks down? David Weisburd speaks with Michael Phipps about...
How do experienced LPs evaluate venture managers in an increasingly crowded and bifurcated market? David Weisburd speaks with Kate Simpson about her...
How does one of the world’s largest pension funds shift its culture, governance, and investment process at scale? David Weisburd speaks with Nicole...
Why have consumer startups fallen out of favor and why might that be the biggest opportunity of the next decade? In this episode, I talk with Brian O...
Why does today’s venture market feel increasingly untethered from historical precedent? David Weisburd speaks with Narayan Chowdhury about structura...
Why did private credit secondaries emerge, and what problem do they solve for investors? David Weisburd speaks with Rakesh Jain about building one o...
How do you raise $875M in one of the hardest fundraising markets in decades and still outperform on DPI, IRR, and culture? In this episode, I sit dow...
What separates enduring investment firms from those that quietly break as they scale? In this episode, I talk with Chris Brimsek, Managing Director o...
How well do venture capital returns really reflect skill versus structure? In this episode, David Weisburd speaks with Abe about what large-scale An...
What does it take to build an investment firm outside the traditional private equity model? David Weisburd speaks with Jeff Schwartz about founding C...
How do family offices approach investing differently from institutional capital? David Weisburd speaks with Robert about building Align, identifying...
What happens when the marginal cost of intelligence approaches zero? David Weisburd speaks with Richard Socher about building U.com, the evolution of...
What role do independent sponsors play in today’s lower middle market private equity ecosystem? David Weisburd speaks with Tom Duffy about how TIFF p...
Why do some venture-backed companies struggle to survive despite strong technology and teams? In this episode, David Weisburd speaks with Trey Ward...
Why do the best investors spend more time preparing for what can go wrong than forecasting what might go right? In this episode, I talk with Mark Sot...
Why does venture capital break when liquidity disappears and what actually creates alpha when markets get hard? In this episode, I talk with Logan Al...
What if the most powerful investment strategy isn’t optimization but making one truly great decision each year? In this episode, I talk with Joshua B...
Why is the hardest discipline in growth equity not finding great companies but refusing to grow past the point where returns break? In this episode,...
Why do the biggest investing breakthroughs come not from complexity, but from simplicity and why is that so hard for smart people to accept? In this...
What if the biggest barrier to earning returns in alternatives isn’t access, fees, or performance but friction, complexity, and behavior? In this ep...
