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Alan Waxman

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Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

Or we're looking at a company and this customer is more interesting.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

And then the last thing is just sometimes all of a sudden you start to see free deals, data centers.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

Obviously, that's not a good example because we started doing data centers back in 2017 with AirTrunk, which we can talk about because that's a company we started with sort of the white sheet of paper, which is actually just got bought Blackstone for, I think, $16 billion or something like that.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

So we'll get a deal and it comes top down, bottom up.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

And sometimes we just have a view on something and we'll start doing a bunch of primary research.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

But a lot of it's through primary research, through relationships, but it comes from everywhere.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

It's not one place, it's everywhere.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

And that's the whole point of our firm is that because there's no silos and no fiefdoms, all those things get circulating up.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

All of a sudden we see a theme from our

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

power people.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

We have a team that all they do is power.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

Our data comms people, data communications, and we see a com for our real estate people.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

And this is what's going on with AI, the constraint of power, putting all those on one umbrella.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

I'm like, hey, let's have you guys all work together on this.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

We have 25 themes running through the platform right now.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

I'll just give you a few of them.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

Number one is partnering with big companies, big corporates to help advance their business.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

A firm we talked about thinking about partnering with asset originators and banks to basically help their origination, help their operating leverage.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

So that's a big thing in our asset-based finance business.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

Our real estate business, the idea of people getting older, wealth tech.