Daniel Lubetzky

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616 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 12 Jan

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Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin · How Kindness Became a Billion-Dollar Business Strategy with Daniel Lubetzky · 12 Jan 2026 podcast

I look like a phantom of the opera raccoon.

I think the most important thing is now that I'm an investor, I always thought that the entrepreneurs are the good guys and the investors are the bad guys.

the truth is more complex everybody's driven by their own narratives of who they are and everybody's a human being but the more decisions that everybody makes everybody rationalizes to be consistent with their decisions so you need to look at the body of work look at the person in totality and look at their reputations and understand who you're getting in bed with because odds are that

And by the way, Kind hit it out of the park.

My problems with my private equity partners happened in spite of the fact that Kind was their best performing company and they still did those things.

And after they got the biggest return in history, within three months, they had invested in three competitors and given them our playbook.

It was really annoying.

No, but there were things that I learned from them.

I also, to be honest, there were things that I learned from my partners that helped me get to where I got.

So it's a complex reality.

But the truth is that, for the most part, private equity companies...

are doing this for a reason, which is a market reason to make money.

And you need to really understand what their motivations are.

I think the most important thing is align incentives.

Find the best.

First, look at the integrity of the people.

And then second, try to align the incentives.

And then you have a better chance that things will go well if you find people that are good people and the incentives are aligned so that as they grow, you grow.

very oftentimes the incentives that are negotiated are misaligned and that and that creates a lot of problems when did you decide to get out completely because you're

Last December, I sold my final stake in Kind.

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