David Weisburd

What's one piece of advice you could give an earlier Robert when you were starting your career that would have either accelerated your success or helped you avoid costly mistakes?

But what are some practical ways you could invest more into your network?

Is that just in-person meetings?

Is that frequency meetings?

Sometimes those side quests could make us significantly stronger in our main quest, which is it's a level of sophistication or a level of a different way of looking at things and relating to people that becomes really useful in our core functions.

Well, on that note, Robert, this has been absolutely a masterclass on family office investing.

Thanks so much for jumping on the podcast and looking forward to continuing this conversation live.

That's it for today's episode of How I Invest.

If you're a GP with over $1 billion in AUM and thinking about long-term strategic partners to support your growth, we'd love to connect.

Please email me at david at weisbergcapital.com.

We were just chatting offline and you mentioned that you were at the McGuire Woods Conference and there was over a thousand independent sponsors at this conference.

Tell me about that conference and what does that tell you about the space today?

So give me some numbers.

How big has this independent sponsor market gotten in the last few years?

How do you know you're not being adversely selected when it comes to these independent sponsors?

Aren't they just...

funds that couldn't raise.

Maybe if you go upstream to why there's so many high quality independent sponsors today, what's changed in the last five years?

the fees that independent sponsors charge both management fee and carry today?

What's the market look like?