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Martín Escobari

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Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

No, it's much more about winning as a team as opposed to winning as an individual.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

First of all, it takes forever to explain.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

We'll do it at scale right here.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

Deliver up to do it again.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

The other downside is fundraising is a perpetual activity.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

Whereas for a lot of my competitors, every five years, it's a six-month sprint that all they do is fundraise, and then they can not fundraise for another four and a half years.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

Yeah.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

It's kind of like binge dieting.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

You only do it once every six years.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

And for us, it's a no-brainer.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

I think most humans go from FOMO to fear.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

And one of the traps of our industry is you can only fundraise when things are very expensive because that's when everyone's on FOMO.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

There's always someone in the world that has excess capital, even in a time of fear.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

And you go there.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

There's another, you'd be surprised.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

I do this like in Brazil.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

One other of our tricks, our tricks, our strategies to navigate global complexity is in every geography we're in, we have the best families, the most entrepreneurial families become investors.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

And we cultivate them, not necessarily for their money, but for their insights around the country and around the entrepreneurs with which we partner.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

And it takes a really long time.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Martín Escobari - Inside General Atlantic - [Invest Like the Best, EP.449]

And a lot of those families are typically entrepreneurial.