Steve (Stephen) Ketchum

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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 I find that that's when I really get to do my reading, I get to do my thinking, and that's where I'm away from real-time firefighting mode and I'm into existential, futuristic, how do I continue this reality distortion field and continue to try to do audacious things and build a firm and make sure that we're not locked into short-termism, that we're focused on long-term ideas and the execution of those ideas.

The bigger fires find their way to my office.

But I will tell you, and this goes hand in hand with the comment I made about finding people that are smarter than I am to run our investing businesses.

Over the past few years, I've helped create leverage for myself by making sure that there are people that are really good at putting out those fires such that they don't get to my desk or get to my office.

And in some cases, I don't know about them.

And there are many cases where a few months after the fire is put out by not me, by somebody else, and I learned about the fact that the fire has been put out, which makes me happy.

And one of the things...

that is really important in an organization, especially as it grows, is I've done a better job in the last five or six years of making sure I have leverage and have people that are good firefighters.

And now one of the things I'm focused on in the organization

is to make sure that they have firefighters underneath them, people that can put out, and it's not, look, it's not just putting out fires.

Part of it is executing on the plan, right?

And everybody who is senior and valuable at any organization,

needs to look for people who can provide them leverage because it will allow them to do their job better.

And by the way,

And maybe this is a different analogy than firefighting because look, it's not growing an organization and creating excellence isn't just about putting out the fires quickly, although that's important.

Part of it is about doing things with intent, right?

And so it's a coincidence that we have 10 or 12 interns every summer.

and i had lunch with our intern class and going back to your point about humbling i look at their resumes it's like oh my god they're you know i get better every year i i couldn't steve ketchum couldn't get hired as an intern at you know at some point whatever 35 years ago but one of the things i said to all the interns is i said look i am obsessively focused on

AI and how it can help us generate alpha for our investors, how it can streamline our business, increase our margins, do a better job than human beings of parsing through data and providing information to our investors and making them happy.

And I said, even though I'm obsessed about it and use it

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