In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen - Mala Gaonkar - SurgoCap Partners की Founder (Hindi version)

Episode Date: February 6, 2026

सच में बेहतरीन बिज़नेस को बाकी कंपनियों से अलग क्या बनाता है? हेज फंड SurgoCap Partners �...�ी founder माला गांवकर, Nicolai Tangen के साथ बात करती हैं कि ऐसी कंपनियों को कैसे पहचाना जाए जिनके पास मजबूत और टिकाऊ फायदे हैं। वे समझाती हैं कि कैसे पुरानी टेक्नोलॉजी नए तरीकों से बाज़ार में उथल-पुथल मचाती है, क्यों वे अपनी इन्वेस्टमेंट टीम को जानबूझकर छोटा रखती हैं, और कैसे डेटा साइंस सोच की गलतियों को कम करने में मदद करता है। माला अपने इन्वेस्टमेंट के खुले अनुभव शेयर करती हैं—जैसे Nokia को शॉर्ट करने की गलती और NVIDIA को बेचने के बाद दोबारा न देखने का पछतावा। वे अपने करियर को क्रिएटिव राइटिंग और ग्लोबल हेल्थ में समाजसेवा के साथ बैलेंस करने की बात भी करती हैं। $6 बिलियन assets के साथ, SurgoCap यह साबित करता है कि फोकस और जिज्ञासा ही नतीजे लाते हैं।——Mala Gaonkar - Founder of SurgoCap Partners What separates truly great businesses from the rest? Mala Gaonkar, founder of hedge fund SurgoCap Partners, joins Nicolai Tangen to discuss identifying companies with durable competitive advantages. They cover how old technologies disrupt in new ways, why she keeps her investment team deliberately small, and how data science helps reduce cognitive biases. Mala shares candid investment lessons including the pitfalls of shorting Nokia and not revisiting NVIDIA after selling. She also reflects on balancing her career with creative writing and philanthropic work in global health. With $6 billion in assets under management, SurgoCap proves that focus and curiosity drive results. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hi, everybody. I'm Nikolai Tengen, Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund's CEO. And today I'm quite much because I'm with Mala Gavkar. We've got a lot of the same from one point eight billion dollars and now he's $6 billion to come back. This is the first,
Starting point is 00:00:18 he had three years in Lone Pine Capital in founding partner to work which up-tacred from the most successful hedge funds from the end up. You're coming from here. Here, I came up to be very much. Thank you. You know,
Starting point is 00:00:29 You know, And this what's the work is? Yeah, Sergo Cap is the way can't do
Starting point is 00:00:35 that he who many investment firm are the this year, it's a market's risk with
Starting point is 00:00:40 market to market to make sure, risk is risk, not that volatility. And we
Starting point is 00:00:46 this has made this kind of that we're that the in the
Starting point is 00:00:49 world in the much business from very much business and we
Starting point is 00:00:53 have And we're a product, actually, our process is. A very transparent process, which in very factors to look at all. You actually, as well you've said, my seeked-whoed-whoed-saback, my many glitions and seeked-whoe subac of the people who I've been three years' business's
Starting point is 00:01:12 good people in Lone Pine in my poor staffed with invest and seeked. So, this is distillation to Sir Goulda. A great business to paychant-carned to make-carned many different factors are. But, my case
Starting point is 00:01:23 shan-dard business is that who has who have been long long time to go to moits are. And this is
Starting point is 00:01:28 our actual differentiation is the same. So, it's the way to come to work. How many great companies?
Starting point is 00:01:35 As I said, it's a lot is it's a lot. I'm not like, that's a lot we're just focus on, where I'm
Starting point is 00:01:42 like, that's age is a very very high-fackard so. So, now, now, the investing
Starting point is 00:01:48 of investing onupupup , we're a technology business is, So if you're an aerospace company or made tech business or financial data business,
Starting point is 00:01:56 so you're in your backbone in a technology company if you're in a big paymone and quality with deliver to deliver to you, then you have a tech business and I think that business's a tech stack map
Starting point is 00:02:06 to understand a thing is which we're a lot time bettap especially in non-tech business this is the first point. The second is how many technologies are in time in
Starting point is 00:02:15 different ways disruption lairre like if you look at auto industry who takes who tech industry to employing
Starting point is 00:02:22 that is a a technology which which in 1970 which is
Starting point is 00:02:30 this I'm much when we we've used that we're going to is one.
Starting point is 00:02:47 It's very interesting that the new technologies are new ways are disruptions and we're we're in non-tech businesses in these opportunities
Starting point is 00:02:54 do not even we're going to but when you you've set then you have put up you have some kind of
Starting point is 00:02:59 kind of some of there's a one is focus, so we decided I I'd say I I'd
Starting point is 00:03:06 keep to make a thing, one is focus so we're so I'm just I'm going to I'd want to be
Starting point is 00:03:11 that I'm team's shorty he's the same consistent advice and I'm many of the podcast on the podcast on
Starting point is 00:03:18 you're all right you're doing or chutey businesses' founder. Main part the main part the same
Starting point is 00:03:24 thing is not only a U.M. Yeah, one dollar to multiply billion dollars is easier
Starting point is 00:03:30 easy to be but a lot but you keep in working and collaborative cross-border thinking
Starting point is 00:03:34 environment to make sure that's creative ideas generate to make important is the
Starting point is 00:03:39 important was the How many small? We're a investment team which in data science team also we're in regular basis on the same table's all the table
Starting point is 00:03:48 so we're a proper roundtable discussion can't. You know, you've seen as Jeff Bezos, we talk about but we're
Starting point is 00:03:56 but we're just a pizza box-to- team size but we're gonna I'm... I'll say this per-person is a per-pitsa not a pizza-in-re-
Starting point is 00:04:03 We're things to we're the we're the most pizza-caning people are said we we're about we're about 11 kilo per person can't
Starting point is 00:04:09 Yeah, yeah. It's quite interesting. I've been not thought. But when you have a company do you're looking at least,
Starting point is 00:04:16 then you know, so, uh, you know, what's the answer? We're seeing, we're seeing, we're doing and as I'm saying,
Starting point is 00:04:23 and as a new technology, uh, new ways, how bad-lap, so it's a angle we're, we're a
Starting point is 00:04:29 , we're a same check-in- check-list, be I'll say, and you're, and you're, how you're, and you're,
Starting point is 00:04:35 how you're, how you're, as we're in the investment career in the start in the making we're
Starting point is 00:04:41 making sure that now we're now that's very much you're able to you're not you're not that's much
Starting point is 00:04:46 much much party data check can't which in which made and take adoption and take adoption and across
Starting point is 00:04:52 other data points of automated tracking which we we're in 90-the-dash- in the career
Starting point is 00:04:57 in the career in can't be in. How you you can't how you can't do you?
Starting point is 00:05:02 So, very specificly, if you if you're product adoption to track to track to do.
Starting point is 00:05:07 When we were in in 1998 in in Lone Pine in the early adoptions looking at least
Starting point is 00:05:13 Adobe products about when they were when they were they were a lot of a lot of a lot of
Starting point is 00:05:19 a lot of service would be a service is often to find to be tricky
Starting point is 00:05:25 would be quite tricky but but now now in these work we actually survey bots
Starting point is 00:05:28 use we can't we both we're we're augmented human surveyors and
Starting point is 00:05:33 other deeper dives we can't make we can't we're using we're used track and we're we've got to
Starting point is 00:05:41 say we've got to say that's a scale and scope not that's not that the product adoptions they can't get to know who can't
Starting point is 00:05:47 who can't and who can't so it's not. So this in take stack mapping, product adoption, customer adoption, and yet
Starting point is 00:05:54 even the common consumer adoption data there's many things share things share of which now
Starting point is 00:06:00 can't be so chacked can't be you? I think it's that it's small and
Starting point is 00:06:06 maybe they're small to need to be because human collaboration is the best that's
Starting point is 00:06:10 the good at the same important things that things that are the industries
Starting point is 00:06:16 borders across to like AI how may influence or how air or
Starting point is 00:06:22 space in whether it's how much it's I'm that I look at
Starting point is 00:06:27 the angles, uh, I'm so much it's just AI to see technology
Starting point is 00:06:30 in AI in AI in technology any of those some of the other, or some other things
Starting point is 00:06:37 that you are the most that's the , I'm the most the medical technology in the thing that's
Starting point is 00:06:43 that's not much much a lot of much than it's not to be a very special and roachic
Starting point is 00:06:50 other. If you you're a imaging space look, like MRI, CET, scan,
Starting point is 00:06:54 and PETT scan, so in medical image the satiquity, clarity and speed and
Starting point is 00:07:00 speed to be being, it's, it's the like 70% the rate rate from the just a lot of
Starting point is 00:07:05 years. It's a lot of a lot of the world of the ability of the ability to be very much very much more
Starting point is 00:07:12 much more than and this type of obviously it's a care more quality to make a so I'm that it's a
Starting point is 00:07:19 area is a area and it's a this is a pooran being how are being and you
Starting point is 00:07:24 know, and you know, I think that these bimaries to stop in the big part to stop to
Starting point is 00:07:29 a big part has a big area is that surgery how do you think that people
Starting point is 00:07:34 in the manufacturing sector in AI and robotics about about what
Starting point is 00:07:39 people people never can't be that the the
Starting point is 00:07:42 whole world there is there and they are and they are now
Starting point is 00:07:46 robotic surgery are very especially intuitive surgical like companies so I'm I think it's a
Starting point is 00:07:53 more big category where you're you're a real innovation is looking where you're where haptic feedback mapping
Starting point is 00:07:59 software and surgery and surgery kind of technology's combination such in some
Starting point is 00:08:05 can't go back to be making. Medical students for easy training and
Starting point is 00:08:11 all together a better mahal that this therapeutic elage can't can't be
Starting point is 00:08:15 can be made and as you know, health care costs to control on a big churts
Starting point is 00:08:20 and I'm umed I'm not that you need to be a lot of it's a so yeah
Starting point is 00:08:26 I think this idea that's how technology non-tech businesses intersect and how
Starting point is 00:08:32 we're using and how we can't use we're de-bias can't be able to be able to
Starting point is 00:08:38 is that we have we very interesting. Now, you're in a concentration in a when you're
Starting point is 00:08:43 you're going to you're quite a lot of so you're so, so let's you know, how do you
Starting point is 00:08:50 I'm I'm just I'm just these four verticals on the focus on which are
Starting point is 00:08:54 enterprise data like broadly tech, financial services health care services and industrial technologies
Starting point is 00:09:00 because I think it that are that are where emerging technology disruption that themes
Starting point is 00:09:05 are the same relevant and where where you can market leaders see who have very durable
Starting point is 00:09:10 modes who are incremental returns for work for you're in incremental return on the capital you can't
Starting point is 00:09:15 make the way, it's way, so we're so we're just in four areas focus on
Starting point is 00:09:23 and we're we're the thematic exposure about and we think that's a reason why it's a
Starting point is 00:09:27 reason, I think it's a offense gives you know, because some or some some kind of market
Starting point is 00:09:33 structure's passive nature of a little odd factory rotation can disrupt this portfolio can disrupt can't be. It's a time and we're in the
Starting point is 00:09:41 four sectors in all each in many of many different investment ideas where we're we're not going to we're just other name for
Starting point is 00:09:49 we have long-term thesis of and much more and you're back back to talk about so you're back so you
Starting point is 00:09:56 so you're how do you do you guys I'm a quality spice up to we're like businesses on those businesses on who has
Starting point is 00:10:03 modes are and who long duration take away. And we're we're in we're very de-biased
Starting point is 00:10:08 are the way and we're just my or team intuition on. Based not not the basic not really systematic
Starting point is 00:10:14 thinking on not that's the siloid thinking per. This is it's really very exciting because it's a
Starting point is 00:10:21 bigot-cutting thing is. And it's actually to actually is a really and I'm like it's a lot of
Starting point is 00:10:26 more back and Nicolai, you have to put a investment process student but you're You know, we both Kahneman, Twersky, and Thaler's
Starting point is 00:10:34 kind of love. I remember, that one of my papa had me a Bertrand Russell a great quote which was, manushy could do just he doesn't
Starting point is 00:10:43 want to think. And it's very simple. Like Kahneman System 1 and System 2 thinking about about about the system 1 thinking is intuitive gut feeling which is such in positive
Starting point is 00:10:52 it. It's insaniette to doze and fluid reactions to give me and it's bachhoo work hard to be but it's really to thinking,
Starting point is 00:11:00 which is very much difficult which is which is in really in and methodically and logically and logically
Starting point is 00:11:04 think to be I'm always this I'm always this thing and my team and our portfolio system to thinking so
Starting point is 00:11:10 here I'm here I'm here I'm one I'm a first I'm a master's thesis for that's right in the
Starting point is 00:11:17 fesslele in which actually in this about it so let's you, you you're when
Starting point is 00:11:22 you're when you you're using and when you're you're using? So you're your career
Starting point is 00:11:28 career during pattern recognition of your use in how much how much
Starting point is 00:11:32 I'm my pattern recognition in my pattern recognition in I think that the bad
Starting point is 00:11:37 badlaw is that now I'm not individual analytical viewpoints
Starting point is 00:11:42 but I'm about I think I'm and I'm maybe
Starting point is 00:11:47 I'm person or CEO or leadership or hero model to
Starting point is 00:11:53 the same in the same-samage context in the companies and businesses were doing he was a lot of time.
Starting point is 00:11:59 And this I've done done to be a hard-learning I've seen many failures did you know. My first
Starting point is 00:12:05 work in World Bank in junior analyst as Russia and Mongolia to work I'm going to this is a poignant example
Starting point is 00:12:13 I'm in I was a think that we're going to if we're if we're we'll be the government
Starting point is 00:12:20 bank branch to try it can't be stock market can't capitalism, liberal democracy everything,
Starting point is 00:12:25 everything's very would be the history of the end end of the what was a little
Starting point is 00:12:29 different from it's not, it's instead of many many many people and there's many
Starting point is 00:12:35 there's a lot of uphacy's uphous and all news headlines in all things
Starting point is 00:12:40 all things you're you're you're just just a not not over
Starting point is 00:12:45 and you can't and you umed not even like that people can't be the way
Starting point is 00:12:49 to think I'm not at a same thing that's you're going to see the same you're going to be able to be a lot of
Starting point is 00:12:58 there's a you know, you know, to be a microscope so you can't you're sort of
Starting point is 00:13:04 think that these businesses in the context in that's in how can't how we can't be
Starting point is 00:13:09 so that I'm so much I'm that I'm how much we're going to these specific failures
Starting point is 00:13:15 how can't right right right you're you can invests
Starting point is 00:13:19 can't you? Yeah. So then you're a lot of why you do you
Starting point is 00:13:24 think we're we're obviously know that private area and private areas and
Starting point is 00:13:30 we're we're not the public markets in the first any companies not but they're some
Starting point is 00:13:36 in some in some there's some time in some the other reason why the
Starting point is 00:13:41 other reason why it is a often the the most of the most of substs disruptive are not
Starting point is 00:13:44 bad-law core on but the other it's the not, this is my fundamental view is.
Starting point is 00:13:49 And the corner of the businesses, private companies, unsung founders who are that's
Starting point is 00:13:54 there's there's there's there's not, so much, not the globally in
Starting point is 00:14:01 these four shetroes. These four big industry which we're focus we're, it's our
Starting point is 00:14:05 responsibility is a private companies to back is a piece of just it just it's
Starting point is 00:14:10 it's a easy? You're how you like, you know, like, do you think, bang,
Starting point is 00:14:15 I'm going to this is a so, it's not, it's a long, it's a long-in-
Starting point is 00:14:23 process is a long incubation process so I'm so I'm and then and then and then and the
Starting point is 00:14:31 broader networks we have, I'm discussed, but then, but then, on the world is it is a field is about it. It's an obscure industry
Starting point is 00:14:40 trade show to go to do that automation new robotic systems feature can't where I'm a new idea may be able to. It could be a ongoing survey who we're
Starting point is 00:14:50 we're doing we're doing we're doing to see to bea what they're doing, what are doing, what are trying, who are doing and
Starting point is 00:14:58 who not doing. So, this isal in, I say, I'm going, it's a lotcure where from I'm the bests ideas
Starting point is 00:15:05 is the other than it's that I'm just the bad players talk to although it's obviously important so then you
Starting point is 00:15:11 you're going to what you're a little other thing. As you first you first, you know first,
Starting point is 00:15:17 system one and system two thinking about the was that that's a fine filter to gozger which is
Starting point is 00:15:23 overall investment checklist is I very I'm very I'm very I'm very I'm should be
Starting point is 00:15:28 we're we're going we're we've been before I've said that I'm We see that we have theses to track
Starting point is 00:15:35 to track-c-cred-a-trika-h and it's that we're in that's the reason why I think we're we're going to many colorful names of biases
Starting point is 00:15:43 are you like, like confirmation bias, availability bias, or sunk-cust bias. When I'm my many investment glotties,
Starting point is 00:15:52 then they're all these biases one or two or other of these kinds of this is a natural and it's in some
Starting point is 00:15:56 positive aspects but, but in investing to maybe maybe maybe I'm just like that we have a data point
Starting point is 00:16:03 which we have invests we're in unbiased way to join us to make a team and I
Starting point is 00:16:08 this is a track can't and make we're not nother end up so I'm this way to I'm a lot
Starting point is 00:16:16 time I'm going to make sure that we're not we're talking about we're talking about about about we're
Starting point is 00:16:23 but I also want to we're that we're so much so my time to think about this part but
Starting point is 00:16:29 what assumptions are made that's probably is going to which are wrong. Things are where are
Starting point is 00:16:33 going to be wrong, where market disruptions are such. And this is a thing I'm
Starting point is 00:16:38 there's a big thing. So I'm my team say, let's go more from Tomo's
Starting point is 00:16:45 more more than thoughtfully missing out this we're sure, we're we're doing,
Starting point is 00:16:50 we're we're doing, we're we're trying to make sure we're going to make sure sure But if not can't do it,
Starting point is 00:16:56 then we have to make sure to make sure that our circle of competence what is, but keep so I'm so I'm I'm going to
Starting point is 00:17:04 my ideas that too much the team as far as specific stocks you? How do you do they? Do you?
Starting point is 00:17:12 They're doing or they have a lot of and my team is good and I this chute's group with this group of the
Starting point is 00:17:20 stock-making and have a lot of the stock making and I'm in my collaborators to use I'm
Starting point is 00:17:27 such in a people who are the decision making process for the important are very important
Starting point is 00:17:32 and I'm a lot team support is a strong team need to I'm a coach and
Starting point is 00:17:40 mentor to look I think he a big driver is that I can I can't
Starting point is 00:17:45 make sure investment talent to act and they can't mentor can. So
Starting point is 00:17:50 someajdery to let me just to let's go to the red flags are, who you're going to do you? Yeah, so
Starting point is 00:17:56 my nazard in the first is compromise. If you're just valuation because you're going to
Starting point is 00:18:00 a business in a business in vesting or then you're you're saying, but you're
Starting point is 00:18:05 doing that other some other are you are you are you, so this a red flag
Starting point is 00:18:12 is. Investment decision to be much much emotional when. When I
Starting point is 00:18:16 it's ever I'm when I'm I'm, I'm quite a lot of upstahed so I'm this a red flag
Starting point is 00:18:22 mantey. We're just we're just we're doing that we're being used to be able to work and thought to just a lot of focus on.
Starting point is 00:18:31 And I'm like that he's the where bias subhavavoc root is, because we're human selfhavoc from the big and romantic
Starting point is 00:18:38 point to find out of this is we're weqas we're trying to we're trying to who who was a but we're just
Starting point is 00:18:47 I think it's that it's a world in fact it's a very difficult and it's very factors are that are really
Starting point is 00:18:55 and there's some things to and I'm do you know that's that I'm doing. This not I'm going to I'm going to
Starting point is 00:19:02 make the emotions to not easy. I'm not you know, I'm not you have a methodology and
Starting point is 00:19:08 process to be which it's you're to thinking may and such tools can't
Starting point is 00:19:13 which you and your team in this direction in to make a step-in' you know, as we we're not going to talk about the market's
Starting point is 00:19:21 that's the same narrative on the number's on. So you're not you need, and you're going to say, and that context the end of the end up
Starting point is 00:19:33 the end uprored and I think it's balanced to make it's a balanced-crued you're a long-term moit, a definitional quality to do you're up.
Starting point is 00:19:43 So, what kind of quality signs you're looking? So, when I'm moit to make a matter of a matter of money, I mean, it's a matter of high incremental RICs on work is,
Starting point is 00:19:51 because, after car, it's a business value that return per nearer to the incremental invested capital and that capital. And that capital you can't pay
Starting point is 00:19:59 they, on them, you're to payers, so you're going to drive-and, and then it's multiple types of but,
Starting point is 00:20:07 actually the best the things, if it's the best if it's just price is that I don't want to make it. But if you're price
Starting point is 00:20:12 bad to add future innovation, market growth, new geographies or new products to do you're so it's show. So, R.O.C.
Starting point is 00:20:18 could drive multiple levels is a big part. The other you can't how can't capital can't pay that.
Starting point is 00:20:25 Some businesses, especially best are the high incremental returns are. But in which they're going to get any
Starting point is 00:20:30 the capital amount to that's not there. That's the growth market is that they're kind of business and if they're there.
Starting point is 00:20:37 And if they're and we're today technology sector in the sector in the execution risk is a lot of so I'm look that we're
Starting point is 00:20:45 seeing we're that we're looking at a capital level of the result of the current the new business sales and size
Starting point is 00:20:51 to make, because it's this is execution risk has, which I'm much I'm much need to
Starting point is 00:20:55 need to be incremental return combination, the capital which you can make up in the return in the one
Starting point is 00:21:02 in a positive and other in the other in execution risk of negative things to manage to
Starting point is 00:21:05 how we we're all things about So, now, in the portfolio you have what you have
Starting point is 00:21:12 about about but you know, but a bestere investment of the you doggard did you, and who you
Starting point is 00:21:17 may be some things on up on. Yeah, I'll say that, uh, a,
Starting point is 00:21:25 uh, on the other part, we've been in these investment have, and this is
Starting point is 00:21:29 the business's bests' bad is, I'm the thing that's that's actually that is, that is the
Starting point is 00:21:33 chip stack with what is we're going to we're going to So you have TSM like business who are who are known-me-am-en-h who are actually
Starting point is 00:21:41 this cornered-one. This is Taiwan-Chi-Neh-Kornered in. Especially in process engineering in the whole thing. So it's in a thing about
Starting point is 00:21:48 about the but it's the way that's the systematic mode that's not a easy, where there's a small, an easy thing
Starting point is 00:21:55 not that's not that's only that's only the money is that's the process is the right
Starting point is 00:22:00 to the kind of can't be able to how to who are the business are which are the
Starting point is 00:22:04 type of dynamics have to I'm in I'm a I'm a real deal with there's a
Starting point is 00:22:09 little bit there's there's a lot of talking about about about but I'm
Starting point is 00:22:14 that's training is but influence is a real currency is a real kind of we're going to
Starting point is 00:22:21 work work and we're and they're especially LLM in B. Google's appenference
Starting point is 00:22:25 stack would be open AI Anthropic and other and I'm and I'm I think that it's
Starting point is 00:22:32 Google's TPU's what is the kind of thing, it's a lot of realchance. So, Essex or ASEC chips, application-specific
Starting point is 00:22:39 chips, which are the workload for design and which it's because it very long time to make the way to
Starting point is 00:22:44 and so we this type of theme on very much the theme of we've been talking about but I'm
Starting point is 00:22:51 I thought that go-to-market modes of combination and and long-to-mark process innovation and the world and the world-bher-
Starting point is 00:22:57 doctors and nurse practitioners of the group in the system in the actual it's executing are they're going to it's a lot of it's a lot of
Starting point is 00:23:05 it's a lot of area where big business such in uphering and been made sure. So chip stack layer that's what is there's probably these two big packets
Starting point is 00:23:14 and mad tech layer which is going to it's new, not. I think it's a other different category here where there's a new know that AI shabre than
Starting point is 00:23:25 it's a lot than it's a lot more disrupting are and it's the real-time data and data analytics in some
Starting point is 00:23:30 proprietary data provider have. I think it's really really shaned business is really shaned
Starting point is 00:23:34 business where they're they're they're both of workflow both are both
Starting point is 00:23:39 these three and they're a very basic innovation engine with often much modes made.
Starting point is 00:23:45 So they're kind of companies? So they're such business would for example financial
Starting point is 00:23:49 data data do you so so think you your portfolio for you for XX
Starting point is 00:23:53 Clarence or fixed income or equity market for all real time pricing
Starting point is 00:23:57 about I think it's real-time data which, like, any LLM for, it's ever to be much difficult because it's real-time nature are.
Starting point is 00:24:04 But it's trading and compliance-upas-to-as- the actual workflow embedded are, which are that's difficult so that's that people can't
Starting point is 00:24:13 be able to them can't be but I think it's a look to see or understand, me really look-mugged
Starting point is 00:24:19 much much difficult. When you you invests are, so you're how you're the time horizon how to how it? As a time for the
Starting point is 00:24:25 Zahir, shots are are different catalyst driven and they're often nine-mahean-a-combe catalyst period but on the long side, as I said, I'm saying, I'm just in the duration to look at least,
Starting point is 00:24:37 we're in factors' combination to look at least, which incremental return and capital go ahead-biddle. Which is on incremental return can lay-as-as-a-you-all from our valuation horizon to see three-five-sail-scycle in
Starting point is 00:24:49 but ideally, we're in this-a-buevers lookers. Yeah, so shorting to the long investing can't be
Starting point is 00:24:57 can't be a one of the one way? This is a very good question. Because it's a lot of
Starting point is 00:25:02 the last time, as well, it's the about it's about to think so, sometimes you can't
Starting point is 00:25:08 you can't that longs too-hut- -hut-hut- -h-er- -h-h- -h-h- I-h-
Starting point is 00:25:14 I'm- I'm-l I'm- and they're much-to-m and it's- often-the-of-a- I think that
Starting point is 00:25:21 it's the other you have to you have to they're when they're going to they're this
Starting point is 00:25:29 combination are you like clear price competitive pressure, clear share competitive pressure which are those pricing pressure and then they're
Starting point is 00:25:36 other factors together, like management by the management by the wrong execution, you have a quite a good
Starting point is 00:25:42 shot but you're but the problem is that those factors combination you for you for you're
Starting point is 00:25:47 a very time frame in front of a difficult work. And then it's all the factor rotation and the
Starting point is 00:25:52 current of the market's positive project to join which are quite the other funds do you're
Starting point is 00:25:58 you're going to you're doing which are you're doing you need to think about you need to do you?
Starting point is 00:26:04 We're short are. This is very stressful are. I'm just I'm just I'm just
Starting point is 00:26:10 because you because you you're both long time and when you are the so you're just in bursts
Starting point is 00:26:16 like it's and they're very longs You don't even till you're not. You're probably a week for you're not?
Starting point is 00:26:21 And then you're for the you're not? Yeah, but you still are the absolute profit dollar shots tauts.
Starting point is 00:26:27 Do you? Do you? What do you look that valuation is very mind-reacted we're not we're going to
Starting point is 00:26:32 stock-based comp, we're all the different ways and things are and things are very conservative way.
Starting point is 00:26:38 And it's the reason I that I've that I've I've said that I've said I've said that I'm thinking
Starting point is 00:26:43 I'm going to I'm going to risk-adjusted return to be And I think that you I think that valuation and you in the first how you're
Starting point is 00:26:49 it's a lot of and you're in the information as amount of important let's go and let's
Starting point is 00:26:57 and you and you're you mean you you've got it you've got you've some important things,
Starting point is 00:27:06 yeah, I think it's many things that I'm really I'm really good I'll say that I've the best best of the
Starting point is 00:27:17 one of the one of the first we've got to talk about I'm a very good idea of a very special talk about you
Starting point is 00:27:24 we're talking about we're short we're shorted we're going to one of the one Kno Kina was shot and I had
Starting point is 00:27:31 Nokia to shot did. This is this is interesting thing. So, I thought I was really I'm really
Starting point is 00:27:36 so I'm and then obviously in 2014 in Microsoft came and he he got to $7 billion in $7 billion
Starting point is 00:27:42 to buy. And that he was it was a very dardnark day and then after 18 months back Microsoft
Starting point is 00:27:48 made it's right off did it and it's you're not you're not and you're all you're
Starting point is 00:27:53 too much as you have said on the short side so you're so what all the
Starting point is 00:28:00 sook he is if you if you're a single business to think yeah you're
Starting point is 00:28:04 right you're very you're really you're you're you're
Starting point is 00:28:07 you're you're not really so you're so you're not so you're alone in only,
Starting point is 00:28:14 but it's a systematic way to think that's a lot of different different things
Starting point is 00:28:17 that's a thing that's that I'm that's not that's not not really not really and that's
Starting point is 00:28:25 one is, and Nokia the one is and another is balance sheet leverage
Starting point is 00:28:30 from like public LBO and I'm much difficult to see that I'm
Starting point is 00:28:34 maybe it maybe he's maybe he's maybe he's I'm I'm a business in invest
Starting point is 00:28:38 which I'm over leveraged they're very good business were over leveraged But as a result, when
Starting point is 00:28:44 much time and very macro tension I'd, then they'd to them to work to be able to work to be a lot of
Starting point is 00:28:51 a lot of there's got to like Alte's business in like the third I think that's most interesting AI chip stack
Starting point is 00:29:00 on our chat up as and how how can't technology new ways can't work out out
Starting point is 00:29:05 such is NVIDia. So, NVIDia is a pretty type of a GPU business to work
Starting point is 00:29:11 see, which he was that was. But then 2015 in we had we have deep reinforcement learning,
Starting point is 00:29:16 deep mind papers came. And it very interesting and exciting and you see how you did not really
Starting point is 00:29:22 how much how do you would be the GPU is the parallel computer machine learning to turn to
Starting point is 00:29:29 work to work to work to work. We didn't know. We didn't know that you have been
Starting point is 00:29:34 but you definitely saw that machine learning in early stage in what was later in
Starting point is 00:29:39 generative AI and it. And the The truth is that that time, video game for GPU to other, a big crypto component was the same gaming and crypto he had been in Vidaeco.
Starting point is 00:29:49 And I said, yeah, but this AI thing would, and it was a big thing. And they got, and they'd look, to, quite a lot of crypto in one-sacrash and in China, permit-mendery because gaming in gaming which business's video gaming
Starting point is 00:30:05 history of demand of the driver was, that time. So, I made it sell to it. which I didn't do it but the big bad thing is that's a but a big
Starting point is 00:30:15 guilty was a big thing that that's the back in VEDIA What you have come on the same. You know
Starting point is 00:30:41 back to buy it. Yeah, but I'm right in, this is a way in, this is a problem. And I'm like,
Starting point is 00:30:46 I'm like, because it's a important and interesting offer, when you're not, you're a lot of and you're often me the way to
Starting point is 00:30:54 it's a lot of, then it's a thing, it's a thing, and I'm a lot of things, other, financial leverage
Starting point is 00:31:03 about, saavhany beratning about, versus leverage the other driver which we're we're all happy
Starting point is 00:31:07 and the bias about we've got we've been we've been first talked which in the sunk
Starting point is 00:31:12 cost bias also I'm I'm going to you're some personal nature are you have,
Starting point is 00:31:17 I mean, I mean, I mean, you know, I mean, you know, you're a time in India
Starting point is 00:31:22 in India made, and you think, this multicultural background the world, and
Starting point is 00:31:28 investment to look to you're a lot of , I'm going to India in India in BAD
Starting point is 00:31:34 on, something that was with me had been brought and this all the same and I'm like it's a lot of that's a
Starting point is 00:32:41 which has been who's the way to give and I'm really much a lot of and I'm like it's
Starting point is 00:32:47 my family my partaddy in jail in because they're they're in Gandhi's against a jadey in aandoling
Starting point is 00:32:53 in and I'm and I'm like that's someajab and you're how you back back back
Starting point is 00:32:58 this, this vachachachachach being being someasawes more bansupto's more than a more bansbuthed up. Now,
Starting point is 00:33:04 this up this thing in the many times it was a lot of because there's a
Starting point is 00:33:09 local social and local dynamics were much and a much much rich literature
Starting point is 00:33:14 and and it's such a that's the that was much much bad that was and so I
Starting point is 00:33:20 think that I'm just I'm really this part of that I'm this thing for what it's going to
Starting point is 00:33:26 what it's what will you're you're you're going to you're you're a role model
Starting point is 00:33:31 and I'm I think that when you when you've launched to any the first big launch, the biggest big hedge fund launch, is not? This is a lot of
Starting point is 00:33:41 great thing. Investment in the world in a manh of being any way. I'll say, first, I'm first, I'm just
Starting point is 00:33:48 that this record very soon will be a and I'm sure. There, some really really talented men are.
Starting point is 00:33:54 I'm just I'm not, but I'm just a investment community and maybe maybe a philanthropic community to be a role model
Starting point is 00:34:00 will be my work and my and my my own and my kind of a important part is a very important
Starting point is 00:34:07 part is a business is a very much a business is a way you're any way that is a very meritocracy
Starting point is 00:34:13 business is that I think that I mean I I'm at a sign of high-mongal grhhh
Starting point is 00:34:19 but if I if I investment return then I'm then I'm therewasment out there's there will be
Starting point is 00:34:24 the law who my product chri'd want to be So I think it's a very meritocracy-wally industry and I'm just ummeded that's a sergo-jay-hage-hap-hrued and the platform you're running
Starting point is 00:34:36 they're in this industry in the industry for the value-jording to the way because I'm really think that it's a great place that's an endowmentally curious and all kinds of people, who are and upy-of-y-who-you-all-you-all-kind-a-kind-old-a-old-gut-a-old-gut-a-old good are
Starting point is 00:34:51 because you're a lot of different things in different things there's you're a lot of
Starting point is 00:34:56 you're a lot of a lot of a lot of you're how do you do you do you?
Starting point is 00:35:04 I'm like, uh... Uh... Uh... Uh... Uh... Uh...
Starting point is 00:35:10 I'm a lot of two main things are. I'm... two main things are one, the two main things kind of
Starting point is 00:35:15 you can't you can't talk about you. So, Philanthropy morchee, I had been very july shirwate
Starting point is 00:35:22 so I'm in the first year I'm back to do you and you're like I'm a investor to work to work and you
Starting point is 00:35:28 actually he's really good social entrepreneur and to support and he's that we're we're going to see that we're
Starting point is 00:35:33 so I'm really lucky that you met you're at that time you're in health to be starting to the time.
Starting point is 00:35:42 But they're they're a very good mentor and they and he's he's a lot of people who's hathiered bant
Starting point is 00:35:48 dacety just a It's better it's to beaughty women to cross-past to make, things to do it's not
Starting point is 00:35:55 and it's actually that's the and it's not to make, so much to do you need to do anything, for example,
Starting point is 00:36:04 in a gramean maternity clinic in, I've had other people, and I've seen and other's I've seen, who I've
Starting point is 00:36:11 worked with, and this same, the same, Gates Foundation in work were doing, and I'm Sergo Health
Starting point is 00:36:17 should be, and this This is the part of one dash of the same more than a far and our the idea of much had to how much
Starting point is 00:36:23 we're able to how we're better better and we're targeted data set with such in the data and data
Starting point is 00:36:30 and data not but behavioral data. So I'm think that AI in somebabil things of things of
Starting point is 00:36:35 one is one of AI in why join to AI in the question to help to help to help
Starting point is 00:36:39 that that will click can't click click can't but why and I'm and I'm
Starting point is 00:36:43 like this badee behavioral data to join which you can you can use a basic Bayesian networking math and use using to tell me that any way not going to do not. Or, why is community, XYZ, Garbh, Neroadhaq,
Starting point is 00:36:58 why not are not doing? It is a such that we're both time are having. And data to a public good to our and data science to a public good to look it, it's something that we're a lot of time to have. So this philanthropy effort is a big hyssa
Starting point is 00:37:11 and we help to help for Bill and Melinda Gates, Camp Foundation, and other ones as groups and local governments, with them with them with them and a different part, we've been in the maternal mortality for a lot of
Starting point is 00:37:20 so that's a country to target to get a lot of that's a lot of money, who's every year is a billion dollars and it's a
Starting point is 00:37:29 and then we're going to come and there's a mattern't really is a real problem. We're in US in the technique how can't do you
Starting point is 00:37:37 can't use how and then it's with an actual program should have Dara's with who has been who had you have you've got a
Starting point is 00:37:44 interview you have moms for rides to do it. Samosia maternity plan and it made sure to make sure to make sure not that
Starting point is 00:37:49 the men's really a real in a real thing should be interesting thing. This was transport was not that's a
Starting point is 00:37:54 so, why do you need to be so I'm here. But I'm think it's a important side
Starting point is 00:38:00 where technology and philanthropic both are. Creative work about really interesting about it is that I'm
Starting point is 00:38:07 really that we think we're the people's the best that we think we're whether we're whether we're whether it's
Starting point is 00:38:11 if they're creative work and so I this way I'm so I'm so you're in college from the same
Starting point is 00:38:15 from the little bit of you know, I'm not I'm not, I'm not, and I'm and we're
Starting point is 00:38:21 we're all different ways of many different things people of a group and then then you do you're
Starting point is 00:38:29 dinner are and we're and we're and we're and we're some of they're a there's a
Starting point is 00:38:33 lot of prediction So this narrative self and I how I see it's a between between there's a
Starting point is 00:38:38 versus social self and social context and so I think that conflict is a thing which I'm like to write and think about me
Starting point is 00:38:45 and it's actually amazing. Teller project about about about the yeah, so theater of the mind this is a
Starting point is 00:38:51 realoscience experiments of a series on a series I'm I'm what was what was
Starting point is 00:38:55 what was what we're in which we're talking about we're talking about Tverski's
Starting point is 00:38:59 work in Tverskii's for example. A game which is the dictator game where the game where the people who
Starting point is 00:39:06 can't be a people who can't they're all the they're all right and they're just and I'm sure I'm just in I'm going to go
Starting point is 00:39:15 and I'm going to want to go to the world's one of the world's one of the but I'm there's a new, it's there's a lot of
Starting point is 00:39:22 he's made he's a different context in a experiment about thinking about a sensory, pro pro preoception with the sameercepsion with and this is a
Starting point is 00:39:30 godiard's share in this work, this work in a Swedish lab Aerson Labs'n't and when we met to we thought, it's true, it's actually a
Starting point is 00:39:38 theater piece. This is a case. This is a kind of a other life is who a lot of life is living in these experimental
Starting point is 00:39:45 pathos with yeah, it's this is never very successful and now. And now it's Chicago's good man theater
Starting point is 00:39:50 in just, so he's really really much much it's really new and tazard the wayne and it make sure of it's a lot of
Starting point is 00:39:59 kind of a lot of sort of thought you're going to how you do you know, I think that all the idea back back to how it's all
Starting point is 00:40:07 just all the mind in narrative and actually context of the context about and this notack of allagic other characters
Starting point is 00:40:12 how powerful and they're all together and they all right and they're all this is a full systemic process about about
Starting point is 00:40:18 I'm thinking it it's all common point is. Two is curiosity. I think in these
Starting point is 00:40:26 every time in every time in the same need to help to help or some bad investment to do not and
Starting point is 00:40:33 it's just how much to make a great, creative work work. I think that second is
Starting point is 00:40:39 unhhhh . Lickna Vinnamrata is a exercise is. Mere Baking other come
Starting point is 00:40:43 other can without, it's really can't make a more short story or not. Dunya in
Starting point is 00:40:47 any other many. there's I think it's a good chakr because if you're from from the first from curious and humble you're looking at least you're more than what is
Starting point is 00:41:25 it's more than what is how much is the but you're you're not even you're just a so I'm just a chakr is a good chakr in the first wheel
Starting point is 00:41:34 to get to and I'm like that it's a lot more more amazing more than what is how is what is? You're when up?
Starting point is 00:41:42 I'm every day I'm like 6'bages up at least up at I'm a lot of I'm a lot of I'm a lot of I'm just just thinking
Starting point is 00:41:48 time bittal and then I'm just sometimes I'm sometimes I'm sometimes I'm know, I'm need to be able to
Starting point is 00:41:54 work just you're doing, usually walk and you're going to work, uh, gohmed away. Do you?
Starting point is 00:42:02 Do you? Or just cuth, you're just cuth and things are looking right? No, my day
Starting point is 00:42:07 other parts of I'm my past I'm a lot stuff had so I'm just my time I'm just
Starting point is 00:42:15 I'm I'm going to I'm going to I love I love with my friends, my family, I'm going to
Starting point is 00:42:20 go to the long hike on so they're a lot of people who are people who are disconnected to be able to
Starting point is 00:42:27 and friends and friends and to be able to use to be fantastic uh quare, you back to
Starting point is 00:42:33 I'm a lot I'm a curious, humble and an incredible professional and you're very much
Starting point is 00:42:38 thank you so much thank you thank you Nikolai thank you thank you

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