Steve (Stephen) Ketchum

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528 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 15 Jul

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How I Invest with David Weisburd · E403: Why the Best Investment Firms Stay Small | Sound Point Capital Founder · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

So if I think about-

The three most important things, and look, I'm the CIO, and so I have veto rights over every trade that we do, and I sit on our investment committees, but we've done, one of the things I'm most proud of is we've brought in people to run our different businesses better than me at what they do, right?

That's an important part.

No, it was... Not even a little bit.

Not even a little bit.

Over the past 10 years, and it wasn't the case 10 years ago, but when I find somebody to either build or take over or run a business line, and I know they're better and smarter and more knowledgeable than me, it makes me excited because it gives me leverage.

I'm not saying it's not humbling, but in the long run, it's a good thing.

And so I want to get back to your question.

So if I think about the handful of things that are most important for me to do to continue the success of SoundPoint, one is just coming in and putting out fires and dealing with things every day.

And I'll get back to the office after this podcast.

There'll be a fire to put out and I can't tell you what it will be.

I think another really important thing, because we want to continue to do great things, is to be the keeper or the driver of the reality distortion field.

If you think about people like Elon Musk and Steve Jobs, they pushed their employees in a way that people didn't even expect they could be pushed, right?

So growing from $35 million, and that's million with an M,

to $46 billion and doing it in a thoughtful way is audacious when you think about it.

And I'm proud of what we've done, but there are times where I had to push people and have them exceed their own expectations.

And then I think the third aspect that I spend a lot of time with is investors.

And I think we're in a world today.

Customers.

At the end of the day, we serve at the pleasure of our LPs and our partners and our investors.

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