John Kim

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590 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 14 Jul

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Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · John Kim - How to Raise a Few Billion Dollars - [Invest Like the Best, EP.482] · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

Barack Obama, he looks and says, well, you know what?

I want to be change that you can believe in.

I want to be inspirational.

And he also has very little foreign experience.

So he hires his opponent to show he can cross the bridge

and also happens to be one of the most experienced people to ever sit in that chair, Hillary Clinton.

It just harbors out, who do I want you to see?

And that person has to be of industry.

So when I meet somebody who says, well, the reason why I could be such a great fundraiser as an investment banker, as an ex-deal partner, is because I understand the system.

I look and go, that's exactly the wrong person.

The person that you want as Secretary of State is someone who actually understands the language and what's going on.

If you don't understand what's going on in the Middle East as Secretary of State, but you understand policy and how the president thinks, that's not so helpful.

If you don't understand what's going on in Asia and how all that dynamic works in the culture and the politics, it's not so helpful to the president.

But you understand what the president wants, great.

but you have to understand what they want.

And that intersection of who they are and what you are is the intersection of what a great investor relations professional is.

It depends on what your ambition is.

In the end, the easy way to think about it is what kind of candidate do you want to support?

There are people in the world, and I'm not judgmental about this, who say, look, I just want to be on a winning team.

And there are candidates who are really strong candidates who aren't necessarily people that giving them substantial sums of resources are going to do great in this world.

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