Josh Parker

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Making Billions: The Private Equity Podcast for Fund Managers, Alternative Asset Managers, and Venture Capital Investors · 3 Principles Used to Raise $500M in 2 Years · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

Yeah, raising institutional capital for anyone who's done it, for anybody who's attempting to do it, knows that track record is incredibly important.

And the way that you demonstrate that really is different in almost every situation.

So in that situation, we had a very nascent track record as a young firm, but we had a substantial track record

I've been in this business for going on 25 years now doing roughly the same thing.

And so we're able to point to direct investments that I had made or led as a principal and before being a principal as a key member of a team and before that, the journey that I was on.

And so I think what folks have to be able to do is transparently unpack who they are and how they got into where they started to where they are now.

Because what...

Allocators of capital are looking for is that consistency and that reliability.

There's no proof that what you did before will mean you can deliver the same thing again.

Every disclosure and every investment deck will player that right up front.

But the trajectory that is demonstrated by the track record is super important.

I think the ability to sort of, you know, roll out of bed in the morning and raise half a billion dollars doesn't come from just sleeping well the night before.

It comes from, you know, working your tail off for many years ahead of that.

I think in terms of what investors really want to see, folks, in addition to that track record point, which again, I'll just say,

every investor is going to look at that a little bit differently.

There's no perfect track record.

There's no perfect way to get there.

It's really just about being transparent and, and, and enforce right about again, where, where you've come from, how you've gotten there and where you're going.

I do think investors want to see a certain level of discipline within a firm in order to make an investment.

So one of the benefits of partnering with Legal General for us is we were in a startup mode going into a scale up mode and we're able to

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