Ryan Miller

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4,581 appearances 12 recordings 2 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 10 Aug

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It'll be litigated.

It'll be interpreted in bad faith, and it'll take five years and millions of dollars to resolve.

Not a position any of us want to be in.

You need both.

You need trust so deep that you're willing to have hard conversations because you know the other person wants the same outcome.

The fund succeeds and we stay partners if the partnership is good.

And you need the transaction, so it's clear that if things fall apart, you both know exactly what that looks like.

See, the best partnerships I've seen, and I mean the ones that have survived 20 years, they're built on explicit clarity.

They're boring.

They sound like contract language, but they allow people to push each other hard because they're not fighting over terms.

They're fighting over ideas.

And that, my friends, can be extremely healthy, especially in fund management.

So now I want to talk about the cost of getting it wrong.

I want to walk you through what happens when you skip this work.

You meet someone, chemistry, great energy, you like them, you think you're the same on paper.

You raise capital, you're excited to close your first few deals, everything is smooth.

Then maybe 18 months in, something breaks.

Maybe it's operational, maybe it's strategic, maybe it's a disagreement on capital allocation.

And you realize we never actually talked about this.

We never decided how to handle this.

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