Atif Gilani
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114 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 22 Jan
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They have a lot of new ideas, new competencies.
They're better at AI than we would have ever been.
So we've learned so much about AI adoption within our firm and how we can push that out to our portfolio companies from one of our
So, yes, there is this flywheel effect that Jesse was talking about.
You learn from your junior people.
They learn from you.
And in a way, what we talk to them about is that we are looking to bring in more entrepreneurs in the firm, not more managers.
And we're also constantly screening people, not just for their pedigree and resume, but for their potential.
This is spending time with them and having a good sense of who you want to bring into the firm and who you...
Do not.
Jesse was mentioning to you our chief people's officer.
She's someone who had never done any HR work.
Jesse got to know her through his time with his local church.
And she had such amazing people skills that Jesse kept talking to me that we need to bring her on.
And when Jesse approached her a couple of times, she said no.
The person who is running our IR was actually an asset manager at Vanguard.
But we saw in her the passion, the detailed orientation, which many times you don't see in other IR people.
So we are really screening for attributes, not for people's backgrounds.
And when we are hiring our people, we tell them the first couple of years are on us.
Even when we are hiring who you may consider plug and play investor who comes from a brand name private equity firm, we say to them, look, we do things slightly differently.
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