Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Martine is co-president and head of global growth equity at General Atlantic.

We talk about General Atlantic's unique founding story and how its long-term structure, including permanent capital, a single P&L and partnership culture, allows it to invest differently than other growth equity firms.

We discuss the firm's global perspective and particularly why the premiums

Thank you.

Martin also reflects on his incredible personal story.

He talks about growing up in turbulent Bolivia and the role of curiosity and optimism in sustaining a long investing career.

Martin's infectious energy and genuine love for investing made this conversation both insightful and a lot of fun.

Please enjoy my great conversation with Martin Escobari.

Alex, who introduced us from 3G, told me this incredible story about you getting a job after him telling you no and what you did to get it.

Can you tell us the story?

What an amazing origin story.

What have you learned from Alex and from his team?

Do you have a story of your own that is the closest to a great spearfishing outing?

As an entrepreneur, I wasn't an entrepreneur.

This seems like a moment of that is happening maybe on mega steroids.

Think of a company like Cognition as a recent example that I know well, where the pace of growth of the business is just sort of hard to believe that it's possible.

Serving developers, maybe previously a company like Stripe, which is one of the great companies in the US in the technology world,

is a certain size.

It's grown that size over 15 years.

And these things are growing at a pace that it's sort of hard to wrap one's head around.