Patrick O'Shaughnessy

What, if you could just snap your fingers and improve some aspect of the abstract platform, would you improve or change?

It would be brand.

Say more about that tendency for individuals to have more of a quote unquote brand these days as investors than firms.

Yeah, exactly.

If I rewind back to prior to age 26 and think about the rest of your life, what are the things that have happened to you that have most made you who and how you are?

So it was a good little side business for high school.

Talk to me about the experience of starting a hedge fund and getting a little bit more serious about the investing side of things from a young age.

Yeah, sure.

If you were to describe the nature of whatever chip you have on your shoulder from early to mid-20s through to today, how has it changed?

And how would you describe it?

What else outside of art and investing gets most of your attention?

Family art and investing.

I have no time for anything else.

If you think about the entire process now of this little world you've constructed around yourself to have this incredible high throughput, high expansive frame of reference, to use Ovid's term, and all the things you're doing, 30 pitch meetings a week.

If you had to zone in on the single thing that gives you the most energy over and over again, what is it?

The only part of this ecosystem I haven't asked about is the LP side.

What have you learned matters to LPs and a similar set of sensibilities of how you structure things to find, pick and win the best LPs as well in the sort of process that you run to do so?

What have we not talked about in the world of VC investing that you think is important and intrigues you?

It's a really interesting way to think about it.

I feel like we've covered a tremendous amount of information and gotten so much of your life.