David Weisburd
speaker
9,902 appearances
67 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 4d ago
David Weisburd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's alpha-sense.com how I invest.
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Speaking of partnership, when you look at a fund management team, not just one manager or two managers, but holistically, what are you looking for from the entire team?
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It's a very common cross interrogation technique that LPs have taken from FBI and counterterrorism agents, which is you take but it's basically the prisoner's dilemma.
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You put the prisoners into different rooms, ask them the questions, figure out where there's consistency and where there's inconsistencies around the story.
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They were not afraid of that.
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It's like the best bluff is no bluff.
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The best way to have transparency and all these things that you want in a firm is to actually behave in that way day in and day out, whether there's an LP in the room or not.
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One
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percent.
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Ties back to what you were saying before, this confidence versus arrogance, this knowing your story in and out, knowing where you win, where you don't win, what your strategy is what's your strategy is this isn't something that just should be in the mind of one manager or the two managers.
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This should be a cultural wide phenomenon.
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So another way, those things that you looked for in the beginning of your career, as they played out, they were actually representative of of a successful firm.
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You mentioned this coherency.
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of their strategy.
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There's a famous Einstein quote, if you can't explain something, you don't understand it.
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Is there truth to that when it comes to great managers?
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I had previously on the podcast Eric Becker, who co-founded Cressit in Chicago, and they've grown to two hundred fifty billion dollars AUM, but between his
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entrepreneurial career and founding Crescent, he went out and he interviewed the firms and the the companies that have been around for hundreds of years trying to figure out what's the through line in these companies that survive five, ten generations.
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And basically came to the conclusion that the only thing that could really survive for that long is values and culture.
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There's nothing else that was sustainable over more than twenty, thirty years.
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