David Weisburd
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9,425 appearances
64 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 5d ago
David Weisburd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Absolutely.
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You want to be able
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Just to use a baseball analogy, if you had a batter that was batting once a day a hundred games a year for ten years, that would be a thousand at bats.
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If you have a batter that's batting a thousand at bats per day, like a Citadel.
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even over a year, that might in some ways be a stronger tracker.
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And you said track record is not the most important.
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Processes are more important.
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Double click on exactly what that means.
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Is it more common that a firm is really excellent in one of those areas, or is it kind of birds of a feather flock together where they might be really good at one thing and that starts they start to improve the entire process across uh value chain?
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As I mentioned the top of the podcast, you've been an investor for twenty-five years, including at foundations like the Moore Foundation, as well as being the founding CIO at Berkeley.
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How has the private markets evolved over that twenty-five years?
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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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