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

I have investors and there were people that supported me when I had this audacious idea of starting a business in the depths of the great financial crisis with no track record.

And so there were people that I had built trust with who made a bet on me.

So that's an example.

There are people who, and you really do know who your friends are.

You learn who your friends are when you start a business.

Another compounding effect was trust.

the relationships that I had formed and the advice I got from people who had perhaps already done something like what I did.

So I think it's being able to go back and I think about a prior life I was an investment banker and your first handful of years as an investment banker, you're working 120 hours a week and sleeping under your desk and

pulling all-nighters and eating bad Chinese food.

And you form these bonds with the people that you work with.

And to this day, if I need to get advice or ask for favors, six months ago, we got a great new deal for our core middle market lending business from somebody I had worked with 30 years ago who'd built a successful middle market private equity firm.

So for me, overwhelmingly, the combining effect is the relationships that I had built.

You're in the foxhole, and again, even though, as you said, there could be, in a different situation, there could be no commonality whatsoever, that shared experience, which is profound.

When you're sleep-deprived and when you're working hard and getting beat up by... You're almost in this existential crisis where you don't know if you can make it.

And you're constantly in a fight-or-flight mode, and that shared experience is...

Especially when you're starting out a business like this, if you don't want to be the proverbial person who's watching that pot of water boil, right, and staring at it.

And the important thing, I think, in building a good organization, whether it's an asset manager or a widget company, is knowing that there is a process doing all the right things.

And in asset management, one of the most important processes is raising capital.

I can promise you that

For a capital raising process, whether it's at SoundPoint or any other firm, for the person who runs a particular business, for the portfolio manager, that process always takes longer than expected.

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