Q Where did this idea for Dockside come from?
A There's been this huge trend in the hedge fund community towards the centralization of investment programs. The multi-strap model has been a big beneficiary of that. There's a lot of infrastructure alpha and putting together return streams on one balance sheet. Back in twenty-twenty-two, I was talking both with Derek and Tony around this concept. Maybe we could put together a product and service leveraging capabilities that Walleye has built on Our business, we've been doing managed accounts through our multi-strat fund going back to 2014. Could we make that available directly to Tony and Derek as the end owners of Capital to start a managed account platform? It seemed like a great idea and a great way to add value to these guys. Let's go out and build a business together. Pretty fortunate that these guys were entrepreneurial in that respect. You don't always find that on the allocator side of the table.
AI assessment note: “Back in twenty-twenty-two, I was talking both with Derek and Tony around this concept.”