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Andrew Milgram

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Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Andrew Milgram - Full-Contact Capitalism - [Invest Like the Best, EP.436]

So I think the city has an ongoing and vested interest in regulating the system.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Andrew Milgram - Full-Contact Capitalism - [Invest Like the Best, EP.436]

The method of that regulation is the medallion.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Andrew Milgram - Full-Contact Capitalism - [Invest Like the Best, EP.436]

I also think, look, there is a true moral imperative to the city persisting around the medallion system.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Andrew Milgram - Full-Contact Capitalism - [Invest Like the Best, EP.436]

By far, we're large participants in this space, but the largest set of owners in the space continue to be individuals that own medallions.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Andrew Milgram - Full-Contact Capitalism - [Invest Like the Best, EP.436]

So the city, and we can talk a little bit about this, we cut an unbelievably forward-looking deal with New York City to protect individual operators.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Andrew Milgram - Full-Contact Capitalism - [Invest Like the Best, EP.436]

City has essentially invested a huge amount of money in protecting those drivers and their livelihood and the capital that they've put into the system.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Andrew Milgram - Full-Contact Capitalism - [Invest Like the Best, EP.436]

If you were to completely displace that capital, it would obviate all the work and investment that the city has done.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Andrew Milgram - Full-Contact Capitalism - [Invest Like the Best, EP.436]

I don't think the city has a real interest in doing that.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Andrew Milgram - Full-Contact Capitalism - [Invest Like the Best, EP.436]

And while autonomous will probably someday displace the driver,

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Andrew Milgram - Full-Contact Capitalism - [Invest Like the Best, EP.436]

and therefore displace their earnings power, you can swap that earnings power for the ability to contribute capital.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Andrew Milgram - Full-Contact Capitalism - [Invest Like the Best, EP.436]

So the medallion becomes a capital asset that they contribute into the system, and they can cut an individual economic relationship with whatever autonomous operator is in the system at that time.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Andrew Milgram - Full-Contact Capitalism - [Invest Like the Best, EP.436]

So we do think about risk-adjusted returns.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Andrew Milgram - Full-Contact Capitalism - [Invest Like the Best, EP.436]

The companies and assets that we invest in, they're distressed.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Andrew Milgram - Full-Contact Capitalism - [Invest Like the Best, EP.436]

I always say to our investors, we don't have the benefit of opening up the paper and saying, well, I think this Google thing's got legs.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Andrew Milgram - Full-Contact Capitalism - [Invest Like the Best, EP.436]

Let's put some capital in it.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Andrew Milgram - Full-Contact Capitalism - [Invest Like the Best, EP.436]

We're looking at problems.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Andrew Milgram - Full-Contact Capitalism - [Invest Like the Best, EP.436]

The problems that we end up chasing as investors are problems we think we can solve.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Andrew Milgram - Full-Contact Capitalism - [Invest Like the Best, EP.436]

We think that there are structural fixes.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Andrew Milgram - Full-Contact Capitalism - [Invest Like the Best, EP.436]

We think there are operational fixes.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Andrew Milgram - Full-Contact Capitalism - [Invest Like the Best, EP.436]

But importantly, there are fixes that we think we can tackle.