Michael Weisz of Yieldstreet has a real knack for finding unconventional opportunities and a strong entrepreneurial spirit. We talk about the development of the platform, the democratization of finance, and the international scaling of the firm. Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/1GUe94…

"The question was, will the Fed cut 25 or 50 basis points? Who cares? It doesn't matter. You need to step back and say, is this the end of a mega cycle?" Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/5uxi09…

Lost Classic - Jim Simons talk in 1999 at the old Greenwich Roundtable. Don't run with the pack, be guided by beauty and hope for good luck. The rest of this archive is a gold mine: Dalio, Singer, Icahn, Gabelli, Zell, Charley Ellis and Peter Bernstein. youtube.com/watch?v=d53MYh…

Private Capital Podcast is now #5 in family office podcasts. I thought it would take a year to break the top 5, but it only took seven months. 😊 Grateful to all my devoted listeners and subscribers, who are now in 35 countries! 🎉

👉 “If you're a multi-generational family office, you might need a brand, meaning you want your belief system as a family to be passed on over and over. And what is that belief system? That's your narrative. That's your brand.” LISTEN: open.spotify.com/show/18Ikp0HbT…

"I own what I know, and know what I own." David Salem of Hedgeye about how to allocate $5 billion dollars, filtering out impulsive managers, the persistent edge of Seth Klarman, and what taxable investors get wrong about the endowment model: open.spotify.com/episode/5Jkfva…

How can we standardize an otherwise serendipitous process? How can we make something that was valuable and irregular, something that is equally valuable, but now completely reliable? - on 3i Members deal network. LISTEN: open.spotify.com/episode/0movjk…

"A lot of the AI drug discovery work that we're doing centers around production of data that allows us to learn the language of biology in a sense." Amazing conversation with Jim Tananbaum of Foresite Capital: open.spotify.com/episode/3PejgY… Jim Tananbaum Foresite Capital

Michael Fisch is a founder and the CEO of American Securities, a $23 billion private equity firm that originated in the Rosenwald family office. LISTEN HERE: open.spotify.com/episode/12ZyeG…

Save the Date - May 15th is the next Circulus Family Office Summit in New York! Come see Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., Former Vice-Chair of the Federal Reserve in conversation with Rebecca Patterson. Apply to attend: forms.gle/ess1AwraFCrcpW…

Matt Fleissig and his co-founders took Pathstone from $1 billion to $162 billion. His story: open.spotify.com/episode/4WCVQb…

Jason started Mudrick Capital with $5 million right after the GFC and runs $3.4 billion today. We explore his current take on the debt landscape, his toughest year, creditor-on-creditor violence, and the wild ride of AMC. Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/7c9OBW…

The story of one of the most interesting firms to spring from a significant family office: Pritzker Private Capital. LISTEN HERE: open.spotify.com/episode/1cRNev…

Mark Strauch of Alpine Investors delves into their intriguing CEO-in-Residence program. Prioritizing the acquisition of leadership talent before making investments gives them a unique approach to scaling portfolio companies. LISTEN: open.spotify.com/episode/5bHe3B…

Joan Solotar runs the private wealth business at Blackstone, which at $250 billion is a quarter of the firm. Success is about relentless innovation, strategic information flow, and building enduring, scaled businesses from the ground up. LISTEN: open.spotify.com/episode/5dghvq…

Thanks to all who made the second Circulus Group Family Office Summit a big success! We had a full house at this oversubscribed event in NY. Our private briefing with Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. and Rebecca Patterson was a highlight. Follow us: circulus.substack.com

Andy Unanue, former COO of his family's iconic business Goya Foods, provides a detailed account of his journey from helping grow the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the U.S. to launching his own private equity firm. LISTEN: open.spotify.com/episode/0UsiTV…

In a remarkably candid interview for the Private Capital Podcast, former Fed Vice Chair Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. pulls back the curtain on the immense and often impossible trade-offs at the heart of monetary policy. LISTEN: open.spotify.com/episode/3maLoi…

LISTEN now to our excellent panel on High Performing Family Offices. We had a great discussion: youtube.com/watch?v=k0nxzS…

Adam Waterous built the world's largest oil & gas M&A firm by challenging the status quo and now runs the largest oil and gas PE firm in Canada. LISTEN: open.spotify.com/episode/3E94zt…