David Weisburd

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10,028 appearances 68 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 3d ago

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How I Invest with David Weisburd · E424: 32-Year Notre Dame CIO on Sequoia, Venture Capital & Concentration · 2 Sep 2026 podcast

You mentioned this coherency. podcast-host

of their strategy. podcast-host

There's a famous Einstein quote, if you can't explain something, you don't understand it. podcast-host

Is there truth to that when it comes to great managers? podcast-host

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 podcast-host

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. podcast-host

And basically came to the conclusion that the only thing that could really survive for that long is values and culture. podcast-host

There's nothing else that was sustainable over more than twenty, thirty years. podcast-host

It's also interesting because in many ways the exceptions actually prove the rule. podcast-host

So everyone talks about Renaissance technology, this firm that returned, I think, forty percent over thirty years. podcast-host

And a lot of people think there was this some secret algorithm that they kept almost like the Coca-Cola recipe. podcast-host

But really that's not it. podcast-host

It was really the recruiting of PhDs. podcast-host

It was the machine that built the algorithm that has sustainable competitive advantage. podcast-host

If you ask Ken Griffin, it's not their algorithms, it's not podcast-host

Not even their execution, it's the culture, it's the recruiting. podcast-host

And the day that they stop recruiting these great firms, there's a half life to how long they could continue to sustain. podcast-host

and their success. podcast-host

And it broke the Einstein thing that we were just talking about. podcast-host

It's very difficult to simply explain. podcast-host

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