conferences

“With the evolution of capital introduction, with evolution of conferences, it's really hard to find those unknown managers these days.”

“And what's happened in the world of the LPs is I think a lot of LPs have decided I rather work from home And then go to the conference and bang out a lot of meetings and then go back work from home.”

“But what we learned was most CEOs are knocking around these conferences without a plan. No one's really thought about how do we get the value.”

“Most conferences are not going to check all four boxes that I just talked about. That's probably half a dozen conferences in the world. You could be happy with getting two in one event.”

“When I was on the fundraising side years ago, we would just partner up, we'd make friends with strategies or funds that were not competitive with what we were doing, and now you've expanded your reach dramatically.”