Vlad Barbalat

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638 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 23 Jun

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Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Vlad Barbalat - Investing $120 Billion in Permanent Capital - [Invest Like the Best, EP.479] · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

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But I've continued to find that I get an incredible amount of personal satisfaction from building and being part of an organization that is making progress, that is making things better by things.

I mean, that can mean product.

I can mean customer experiences.

I can mean the careers of the people that are in my vicinity.

My God, it's one of the most satisfying things in the

you help other people progress through their careers.

You don't think about that when you're younger, but it is truly satisfying.

I've gotten more comfortable through time with spending more of myself at work than I have before.

Before I would be very wary of that because I didn't want to have

somehow my kids see less of me because I am a workaholic.

But my whole frame around that has evolved.

I don't think I'm a workaholic, but I am obsessed with making things better and being part of this organization and team.

It's not about you, it's about the organization as a whole.

and how it can continue to get better gives me real satisfaction.

I have three boys, so inevitably I want to set an example for them best I can through my experience of what it means to be a productive human being, what it means to be a good father, unbelievably important, what it means to show them love and support and care, try to do that best I can every single day.

I think they would find that they get a healthy balance, and that balance moves through time.

My 17-year-old, my firstborn, literally needs a lot less of me today than he did 10 years ago.

I think that's less of something he thinks about because it's so natural.

It's something that I think about, and I grapple with, is it okay that we interacted for 10, 15 minutes?

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