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

And look, there are other criteria that obviously cultural fit is important, but being smart and good and having a good track record at whatever your skillset is.

I think one of the things that I've learned in the 17 or 18 years that we've been at it is

If you make a hiring mistake, especially at a senior level, it can impact the entire ecosystem.

So we take great pain, great care in making sure that we don't make hiring mistakes.

And it means that the process is deliberate and thoughtful.

We spent a lot of time.

One of the things I've learned is when you're interviewing somebody and you get towards the end of a process and you ask for recommendations, people that you can call to check up on a person, no one in the history of interviewing has ever given a potential employer people that might say negative things about them.

And so we have to be our own little private detective agency.

We don't ever want to put somebody in jeopardy in terms of having their employer know that they're looking for another job.

But we dig really, really, really hard to make sure that we've hired the right person.

And again, it's skill set, it's performance.

If they're, for example, if they're a

a prospective investment team member.

But at the end of the day, overwhelmingly, it's about cultural fit.

And like I said, if you hire somebody that is a square peg in a round hole, it permeates and it affects everybody around them, everybody in the organization.

And so that's when I look back and think about mistakes.

And again, we're in the risk business.

So of course, we're making investments.

We try to minimize our mistakes, but mistakes will happen.

But

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