Drogen: Starkiller models its investment approach on AQR and Tiger Global
Leigh Drogen · Leigh Drogen – Quantamental Approach to Crypto at Starkiller Capital (Manager Meeting, EP.32) · Jun 2, 2022 · at 57:53
Leigh Drogen, founder and CIO of Starkiller Capital, describes his primary professional influences to Ted Seides.
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“We try and pattern ourselves off of some mix of AQR and Tiger Global, and I think he's done it right, and he's taken his lumps along the way sometimes, but Times like this, he gets to come back and say, Hey, look, you know, the process works.”
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