David Weisburd
speaker
10,434 appearances
70 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 2d ago
David Weisburd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Professor Steve Kaplan, previous guests, University of Chicago researcher, talked about how private equity firms used to go and pitch him in the 90s.
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And he would always ask this question of like, what's your differentiation?
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And they would, some of them would look at him and say, That's we don't do that.
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That's kind of weird.
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And now today you just have these incredibly complex operational value add and all these processes.
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And that's just a matter of the hyper competitive.
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competitiveness.
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It's kind of like the Starwinian evolution of managers.
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A lot of managers don't realize also from the LP side, a lot of those LPs have chosen their managers.
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Is there a common characteristic among funds and the ways that they generate alpha today across the private markets?
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I'm still thinking about this comment that you meant that track record is not the thing that's predictive.
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It's really decision making and processes.
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Maybe you could double click a little bit more on that.
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What are you looking from somebody that you would consider to be a great manager?
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Is two managers, one has processes and one doesn't.
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Why is the one with processes better?
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to be able to explain it.
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And what about on the manager level, what benefits are there into having very specific processes?
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I'm wondering whether it helps solve two main issues in a firm.
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One is chasing
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