Andrew Milgram

So, look, I don't like what I see in the K-shaped economy.

I don't think that it's great that we have this growing divide between the haves and the have-nots.

I think that the magic of America is that anyone can make it, my father included.

And I think that it is magical that a kid from Beaumont, Texas, who lost his father at an early age, could end up in Greenwich, Connecticut, sitting across from you talking about the things we're talking about.

And that's a really remarkable opportunity that doesn't exist anywhere else in the world.

I mean, it really doesn't.

So in order for the next Abe Milgram, my father, who came to this country in the 1950s, in order for him to be able to come back as the next whomever, we need to have a system that works for everybody.

We need to have a system that provides for opportunity and access.

It has to be a system where you can work hard and earn a good living, but you can also take entrepreneurial risk and be rewarded for it.

When we design a system or allow a system to calcify such that the haves will perpetually have and the have-nots will perpetually not have, that's a system that is doomed.

And it's not the American way.

It's not the American system.

And I think that we stand at a moment in time where we have some hard decisions to make.

By the way, this is not a political comment on any individual party or person or any of that.

It's more a philosophical view on where America is and where the system is.

I think we as a system, we as a country have to have a lot of grace for each other and a desire to see not just the guy in the mirror win, but the neighbor.

We need to see our neighbors win.

We need to make sure that the people who make America great enjoy its prosperity.

I think there's lots of interesting ways that people are investing.

I'm always interested in how friends, colleagues, people I meet are allocating capital, how they're thinking about things.