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Ashby Monk – Total Portfolio Approach and the Future of Asset Owners (EP.480)
- ▶ 50:09 Ashby Monk Most graduates of Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Berkeley, they barely know what a pension fund is, let alone a sovereign fund, let alone the difference between a reserve investment corporation and a stabilization fund. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:23 Ashby Monk Those podcasts are a part of our work at Stanford. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:13 Ashby Monk The first one with my friends, Evan Greenfield of BCI and Dane Rook of Stanford with me.
Josh Wolfe & Brett McGurk – Venture, Geopolitics, and the Next Frontier (EP.476)
- ▶ 14:36 Josh Wolfe Amazing network of young, bright, brilliant math Olympiad winners in high school that have gone on to computer science at Stanford and MIT, went to work at OpenAI at 19 years old, and then at 22 years old are leaving and starting a…
- ▶ 23:37 Brett McGurk I was in at Stanford.
Chris Heller - Ten Years of Weird Alternatives (EP.420)
- ▶ 53:54 Chris Heller We both started our careers in investment banking, but she got me a job at Stanford Management Company at the Stanford University Endowment. 2 times in the scene
Matt Bank - "GEMs" of Risk, Asset Allocation, and Manager Selection (EP.419)
Stephen Nesbitt – Innovation in Private Markets for RIAs (EP.410)
- ▶ 14:14 Steve Nesbitt You could also be lucky if you're an institution like University of Michigan, Stanford in the industry that they can get access.
David Salem - Investment Wisdom from the Owner's Box (EP.409)
- ▶ 18:52 David Salem It was Swenson here and Jack Meyer there, and Mike McCaffrey from Stanford, Larry Landry from MacArthur.
- ▶ 47:45 David Salem It was Harvard and Yale, Stanford to a lesser extent, some very, very wealthy families.
Mike Maples Jr. - Identifying Startup Pattern Breakers (EP.406)
- ▶ 13:07 Mike Maples, Jr. Work with him on the case, and so we became really good friends, and he started to tell me all about what he thought was happening and the changes in the industry that were about to unfold, and so we became kindred spirits, and then he…
Graham Weaver – People-Driven Private Equity at Alpine (EP.391)
- ▶ 14:22 Graham Weaver I fly out to Stanford.
- ▶ 57:25 Ted Seides What have you found similar or different when you're teaching at Stanford? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:33 Graham Weaver And the other person would be Irv Grossbeck, who teaches at Stanford, and he was a professor when I was there.
Cliff Asness - Simple Investing is Hard (EP.385)
- ▶ 12:09 Cliff Asness One, a guy named Bob Blitzenberger, was a great guy, said, go to Stanford. 4 times in the scene
Classic Deal - Burger King by 3G Capital (EP.384)
- ▶ 1:12:28 Alex Behring We were lucky to recruit this gentleman that was an MBA at Stanford, went down to Brazil.
Letitia Johnson - Concentrated and Long-Term at Amherst College (EP.382)
- ▶ 8:23 Letitia Johnson My boyfriend got a job at Stanford.
Richard Sandler – The Prosecution of Michael Milken (EP.372)
- ▶ 58:26 Richard Sandler And about 10 years before I wrote the book, a friend at Stanford said, I'll do this class with you, and we taught at Stanford Law School, pretty respected law school, and the class was really well received, and it got me all my…
Magnus Grimeland – Day Zero Investing at Antler (EP.369)
- ▶ 22:51 Magnus Grimeland We get more applicants now in a year than Harvard, Stanford, and MIT combined.
Ana Marshall – The Climb to Investment Excellence (EP.360)
- ▶ 6:59 Ana Marshall And at the same time, I was teaching the class at Stanford that more or less follows the line of the book.
Chad Hutchinson – Professional Athlete to Professional Investor in Sports (EP.351)
- ▶ 11:42 Chad Hutchinson The odds are I should go to Stanford. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:51 Ted Seides So take me through those years at Stanford and playing the two sports, getting your education, how that all came together. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:27 Ted Seides Did you leave Sanford early then?
- ▶ 17:10 Chad Hutchinson I would show up and pitch at Stanford, and I would just go compete. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:58 Chad Hutchinson I actually couldn't walk into the stadium when I left Stanford.
Rick Heitzmann – New York Venture Investing at FirstMark Capital (EP.350)
- ▶ 10:28 Rick Heitzman So they had to open their spigot to people who were not engineers, didn't go to Stanford, and were people who were going to work hard and maybe had some background in investing.
Allison Thacker – Different Perspectives and Different Assets at Rice University (EP.348)
- ▶ 1:00:59 Allison Thacker Would you be better if you went to Stanford for a few years and were number two?
Ted Seides – The Art of the Interview (EP.330)
- ▶ 41:57 Ted Seides And I would start with something that I heard from a professor that coaches public speaking at Stanford.
Kipp deVeer – The World of Private Credit at Ares (EP.329)
- ▶ 8:36 Kipp deVeer I got into business school at Stanford, went out there, spent two years in California.
Don Mullen –Single-Family Rentals at Pretium (Capital Allocators, EP.324)
- ▶ 25:54 Don Mullen And whether you look at Stanford, Harvard, Fannie Mae, almost any economic analyst will tell you we're short somewhere between three and seven million houses.
Amy Falls – From Bonds to Boards to Leading Northwestern (Capital Allocators, EP.316)
Ashby Monk – Investor Identity, Navigation, and Resilience (Capital Allocators, EP.312)
- ▶ 7:26 Ashby Monk But look, I think why I'm excited to be back is I have this new platform at Stanford. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:36 Ashby Monk And then once you know where you need your cash in the future and what you have today as a portfolio, that's when people like me at Stanford and Adapar elsewhere get really excited about the optimizations we can run.
- ▶ 28:05 Ashby Monk By the way, the problem I have with the fact that not everybody knows this is all these technologists at places like Stanford or Princeton or Harvard, they don't even know that these pension funds are spending this much on this technology.
- ▶ 42:17 Ashby Monk We go to Stanford, and we sit around the table, and we talk with each other about our problems, and then we pool our resources to try to develop solutions, and we do that because we don't have tons of resources at the ready to go and work…
- ▶ 1:00:21 Ashby Monk I'm splitting my time between Adapar and Stanford right now. 2 times in the scene
Aaron Sack – Branded Middle Market Investing at Morgan Stanley (Capital Allocators, EP.311)
- ▶ 3:23 Aaron Sack There were just much better qualified people with engineering degrees from Stanford and Cal Berkeley and wherever, but I could process a lot of disparate knowledge and make it cohesive and write about it, and so I became a go-to for taking…
Tom Steyer – Investing to Save Humanity (Climate Solutions EP.1, Capital Allocators EP. 300)
- ▶ 15:43 Tom Steyer But there were a couple things I wanted to move back to the West Coast, because I'd gone to Stanford, and I was an age to somebody from the West Coast.
Anthony Scaramucci – Another Winter and Another Rebirth (Capital Allocators, EP.292)
- ▶ 25:27 Anthony Scaramucci He grew up on the campus of Stanford University.
Charley Ellis - Figuring Out Investing and Vanguard (Capital Allocators, EP.286)
- ▶ 31:04 Charlie Ellis One of my brothers went to Stanford.
Melanie Pickett – Modern Technology in the Investment Office at Northern Trust (Capital Allocators, EP.281)
- ▶ 8:37 Melanie Pickett For investment managers that were typically either single asset class or single function, but then these institutions end up tying together these very, very complex portfolios through a series of systems that weren't really meant to do…
Ted Seides – Insights on investing and podcasting (Capital Allocators, EP.269)
- ▶ 9:25 Ted Seides Randy Kim, who's now at Rainwater, and Rob Wallace at Stanford.
Avichal Garg – Programmer-Centric Crypto Investing at Electric (Manager Meetings, EP.34)
- ▶ 6:51 Manish Gandhi Upon graduating from Stanford, discuss the early part of your career prior to moving into crypto and starting electric, and how this impacted you in becoming the type of investor you are now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:15 Avichal Garg He was in my freshman dorm at Stanford, so I've known him for 15 plus years at this point.
Ashvin Chhabra – The Aspirational Investor (Capital Allocators, EP.260)
- ▶ 49:42 Ashvin Chhabra You're in an arms race with Stanford and Harvard.
Chris Dixon – Frameworks and Investing at Scale (EP.258, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.05)
- ▶ 53:47 Chris Dixon And you'll see a lot of people who, you know, I finished Stanford computer science, and now I'm going to go work at Facebook for four years.
Sahil Bloom – Creativity, Investing, and Engineered Serendipity (Capital Allocators, EP.249)
- ▶ 6:54 Sahil Bloom I was a pitcher, and shortly thereafter, Stanford offered me a scholarship to come play, and I remember telling my mom, like, oh, it's junior year of high school. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:04 Sahil Bloom I played for four years at Stanford and had an amazing experience. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:42 Sahil Bloom I was fortunate to have mentors who at least got my foot in the door or the Stanford Athletic Network, whatever it was, and literally got rejected just like down the line by all of these places. 3 times in the scene
Renata Quintini and Roseanne Wincek – Renegade Spin-Out in the Supercritical Stage, Venture is Eating the Investment World 11 (Capital Allocators, EP. 242)
- ▶ 8:03 Renata Quintini And then got my MBA at Stanford. 4 times in the scene
Annie Lamont – A Lifetime in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 9 (Capital Allocators, EP. 238)
- ▶ 7:32 Annie Lamont So I got out of Stanford at the time that Silicon Valley was exploding. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:06 Annie Lamont I mean, I'm a political science major from Stanford, so I'm actually interested in public policy, and it's one of the reasons that I get into healthcare, and it's one of the reasons that I get involved with FinTech.
Fabrice Grinda – Canvassing Seed Stage Marketplaces at FJ Labs, Venture is Eating the Investment World 4 (Capital Allocators, EP.232)
- ▶ 59:40 Fabrice Grinda And as a result, you can imagine that it's no longer just the computer science majors from Sanford who are going to be building startups, but it's going to be art history majors and musicians and artists at large.
Sean O'Sullivan – Start-up Development at SOSV, Venture is Eating the Investment World 3 (Capital Allocators, EP.231)
- ▶ 31:17 Sean O'Sullivan We have adjunct partners that come in, and they're very distinguished folks from Stanford and MIT and Harvard and whatnot.
Justin Fishner- Wolfson - 137 Ventures (Manager Meetings, EP.25)
- ▶ 10:32 Nat Frazier We can even go back pre-Stanford. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:15 Justin Fishner-Wolfson And even going back to that time, John Powers, who is a CIO at Stanford, he did more for my career than almost anyone else.
Barry Sternlicht – Masterclass in Real Estate in a Post-COVID World (Capital Allocators, EP.216)
- ▶ 5:49 Barry Sternlicht So I only applied to two schools, Harvard and Stanford. 2 times in the scene
Leda Braga – Systematica Investments (Manager Meetings, EP.10)
- ▶ 36:14 Leda Braga You can, you can walk up to a campus in a university, and you can talk about how, what we do is data science, investment management, and I attended a conference in Stanford a while ago, and I remember there were some other speakers from…
Matt Spielman – Executive Coaching in Asset Management (Capital Allocators, EP.210)
- ▶ 20:02 Matt Spielman Studied nutrition science at Stanford.
Bill Ford – General Atlantic (Manager Meetings, EP.03)
Ashby Monk – Innovation in Institutional Portfolios (Capital Allocators, EP.196)
- ▶ 14:20 Ashby Monk I had been at Stanford for two years and I was doing this big project up in Canada.
- ▶ 40:34 Ashby Monk It was started on my balcony at Stanford.
- ▶ 59:07 Ashby Monk And I actually never backfilled my time at Stanford. 2 times in the scene
Private Equity Masters: Paul Salem – Providence Equity Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.175)
- ▶ 36:06 Paul Salem And when I get the good fortune of talking to, whether it's students at school, or Harvard Business School, or Stanford, and I always say, I think my best talent was like a headhunter.
Chris Dixon – The Future of Blockchain at a16z (Capital Allocators, EP.172)
- ▶ 37:40 Chris Dixon Stanford has a blockchain cryptocurrency course for computer science undergraduates. 2 times in the scene
Diversity Equity & Inclusion 5: Daryn Dodson – Training and Action at Illumen Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.168)
- ▶ 6:26 Daryn Dodson Running around the class like a superhero was what my mom keeps in her framed report card, and my parents took my side as a young black boy at the time and took me to, uh, another kindergarten that was more conducive to superheroes, but I…
- ▶ 17:17 Daryn Dodson Well, one of the profound things that happened when we were organizing at Stanford to bring down students and 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:04 Daryn Dodson And we recently published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences with two Stanford professors who have PhDs respectively, one, Dr.
- ▶ 28:59 Daryn Dodson The first pillar is evidence-based research and collaboration with Stanford.
- ▶ 43:01 Daryn Dodson I could be wrong that there's not a massive opportunity and many of the most talented people in the world, but I think our Stanford paper helps to buttress the idea that that's likely true, that a black entrepreneur that's high performing,…
Chamath Palihapitiya – The Social Capital Flywheel (Capital Allocators, EP.167)
- ▶ 1:08:55 Chamath Palihapitiya One of the biggest ones was probably my speech at Stanford.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 1: Jacob Walthour – A Blueprint for Diversity (Capital Allocators, EP.151)
- ▶ 35:21 Jake Walthour So when I went to work at ATOS, Ann Cassells was this legendary allocator who came from Stanford University.
Daylian Cain – Master Class in Negotiations (Capital Allocators, EP.138)
- ▶ 25:38 Daylian Cain And Stanford's and MIT's, and so they were like, what do I bring a firm? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:56 Daylian Cain And it said Princeton on the front, and on the back, this is gonna sound awful, thanks, no thanks, Harvard, Yale, MIT, Stanford.
Michael Mauboussin – Consilient Observations in a Crisis (Capital Allocators, EP.127)
- ▶ 5:22 Michael Mauboussin This is great work by Robert Sapolsky at Stanford University on stress, and I won't go into the great details, but the big punchline is that when we're stressed, these certain conditions for sure contributing to that, we shorten our time…
Greg Fleming – Building and Running Rockefeller Capital Management (Capital Allocators, EP.125)
- ▶ 1:02:50 Greg Fleming John Gardner was a Stanford graduate, and in a 1991 commencement speech, he talked about self-renewal, and then he gave that speech in different places, and it's everywhere now.
Dan Rasmussen – Private Equity Risk and Public Equity Opportunity at Verdad Advisers (First Meeting, EP.15)
- ▶ 9:58 Dan Rasmussen Bridgewater is like, take MIT and Harvard's economics department and Stanford and Caltech's comp sci department and have them run by a cult leader and shift that all together, and you've got Bridgewater.
Gregory Zuckerman – Decoding Renaissance Medallion (Capital Allocators, EP.119)
- ▶ 39:22 Gregory Zuckerman So these are guys who are just groundbreaking, running departments, Stanford University, David Donahue.
Anne Martin - Pulling the Oars as CIO of Wesleyan University (Capital Allocators, EP.114)
- ▶ 8:12 Anne Martin He was moving to the West Coast to take the Stanford freshman rowing job as a coach, and
- ▶ 9:57 Anne Martin He had been the freshman rowing coach at Stanford and then coached at a high school in, in San Francisco, and in 2000, he was invited to be one of the coaches for the Olympic team.
- ▶ 29:40 Anne Martin But on the other hand, if you find somebody you like and no other great investors are investing alongside you, I think you have to ask yourself, like, am I that much smarter than all these people at Yale who have been doing this for 20…
Ash Fontana – Investing in Artificial Intelligence at Zetta Ventures (First Meeting, EP.11)
- ▶ 17:52 Ash Fontana Jocelyn's born and raised in the Bay Area and went to Stanford.
- ▶ 28:40 Ash Fontana Stanford, obviously, leading institution in many ways.
Ana Marshall – Applied Direct Investing at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.111)
- ▶ 15:36 Ana Marshall And in 2002, 2003, with the notable exception of Stanford and Yale and
Joe Lonsdale – Entrepreneurship and 8VC (First Meeting, EP.09)
- ▶ 4:25 Ted Seides He began working at Peter Thiel's PayPal while Joe was an undergrad at Stanford and upon graduation became an early executive at Thiel's Clarium Capital, which became a multi-billion dollar global macro hedge fund.
- ▶ 7:34 Joe Lonsdale So I got to know Peter from entrepreneurship stuff at Stanford and from a paper he'd started called the Stanford review, which I was the editor of and started talking about a lot of different things with him.
- ▶ 10:10 Joe Lonsdale My roommate at Stanford at the time, really, really bright guy, he kind of took the lead along with me, and we started just running and staying up late at night, and sketching up, like, different ways that the product could work for the…
- ▶ 12:27 Ted Seides And when you dive into one of these ideas, you mentioned a couple of times your friend for your roommate from Stanford, a bunch of your friends.
Scott Kupor - Andreessen Horowitz (First Meeting EP.07)
- ▶ 6:26 Scott Kupor I came out here to go to school, so I went to Stanford and was lucky to kind of stay through law school, and about halfway through law school decided that I didn't actually want to be a lawyer, which, as my parents always remind me, was…
Michael Novogratz – Galaxy Digital (First Meeting, EP.06)
- ▶ 39:49 Mike Novogratz Harvard and Stanford are in.
Brent Beshore - Micro Buyout Adventur.es (Capital Allocators, EP.79)
- ▶ 11:12 Brent Beshore And, you know, it took a lot of research to kind of come to conclusions, but then seeing a lot of this reinforcing information coming out of Stanford and Harvard around search funds, which is kind of a similar type thesis to attacking in a…
Mark Baumgartner – Luck, Risk and Uncertainty at the Institute for Advanced Study (Capital Allocators, EP.77)
- ▶ 11:54 Mark Baumgartner I was headed by the former head of finance at Stanford, Paul Fletterer, and Terry Marsh, who was the former head of finance at Berkeley.
Manny Friedman – Non-Linear Financial Systems (Capital Allocators, EP.61)
- ▶ 21:11 Manny Friedman That's the basic gene editing technique that came out of Stanford, MIT, and Harvard, but it's just mind-boggling what the implications are, and so I look at everything.
Kim Lew – The Carnegie Way (Capital Allocators, EP.52)
James Williams – Curating The Getty's Assets (Capital Allocators, EP.50)
- ▶ 10:49 Jim Williams And Princeton and Stanford and Ford Foundation, and they were saying, why don't we look like that?
Andy Redleaf - Evolution of Markets (Capital Allocators, EP.46)
- ▶ 29:45 Andy Redleaf He insisted that while we were there, I should go visit Stanford.
Ali Hamed - Novel Asset Investing (Capital Allocators, EP.40)
Michael Mauboussin – Active Challenges, Rational Decisions and Team Dynamics (Capital Allocators, EP.36)
- ▶ 55:08 Michael Mauboussin So Brian was a professor at Stanford and had done this work on this concept called increasing returns.
Deep Dive into Hedge Funds (Capital Allocators, EP.34)
- ▶ 58:49 Ted Seides It could Seth Alexander, who I worked with, and Paul Valente at Bowdoin, and Andy Golden at Princeton, and Peter Ammon at Penn, and now Rob Wallace at Stanford.
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