John Kim
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590 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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It's a little bit like jobs.
When you find that candidate who is magnificent in their ability to attract capital and develop relationships, and they happen to be somebody who also is somebody who you ethically and emotionally just adore and want to see do well, that's like winning the lottery.
But unlike...
a bad marriage.
It's not a binary experience.
My experience is that to be a secretary of state, be a head of investor relations, to have many powerful benefits and great intrinsic joys, because the flip side of it is, is that if you enjoy the job, you do like your job, you enjoy the job of curiosity and meeting people and learning.
Well, if you like traveling a lot, frankly, if you like interacting with people and playing the game of discovery of the person, and this is about as good a job as exists because you get to play the exploration of people every minute of every day.
When you're a secretary of state or you're a head of investor relations and you're meeting all these people, you sometimes get some great intellectual stimulation, but you always get a opportunity to actually engage at the coalface of the human condition.
And it's amazing what you get to experience.
You know, I'd say that this is true for anybody who's done this job for a long time or the job that I used to do for a long time is that you make some incredible friendships because by definition, you spent all this time trying to get to the other side of trust.
Well, what is the other dividend?
It's not the money that you actually were able to attract.
It's that you actually became friends with the person.
Cannot be any other way.
If you're authentically developing trust, then you're authentically creating a friendship.
The inner game of fundraising is really about putting the person in the room as the center of all conversation.
That I actually don't exist but for the fact that I'm in your mind at this moment in time.
I actually am just an object in your mind.
And that object in your mind is being processed by all the stuff that is Patrick O'Shaughnessy.
And so now that I'm living in your mind, what can I do to, in this case, make myself interesting, make myself compelling, make myself somebody you want to meet again, make myself somebody that you are satisfied that you actually invited onto your podcast because I'm inside your mind.
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