Tom Hardin

Like, so those really, those really neat opportunities in your twenties to have those trips, but also a lot of pressure to perform.

That's quite a phrase.

Yeah.

So at my first firm, it closed around the.com crash, 2002, 2003.

I

I treaded my own account for other firms for a few years.

And then I finally got my second job in 2006, where I was hired as a junior partner by a senior partner who was starting a hedge fund.

His seed capital came from a legendary value investor named Julian Robertson, which is called Tiger Management.

So back in the day, the two biggest names in hedge funds were Julian Robertson and George Soros, which has a different connotation today, but those were the biggest names at the time.

And so

This guy was my mentor, probably 20 years older than me, and said, hey, Julian Robertson's giving me money.

I'd love for you to be my junior partner.

So now I'm 28.

I mean, anybody at Wharton in my class would have loved to have this opportunity.

So now I'm in this position to potentially make a bunch of money because now I've gone from being an analyst to actually being a partner, so having a piece of the equity.

But around the mid-2000s now, I also become aware that illegal insider trading is going on.

And I get to find that, too, because people hear the term insider trading.

What is it?

And so insider trading is buying or selling stocks on information that's material, non-public.

And then you get because somebody breached their duty to their client or the company.