Graham Weaver: Building businesses yields 100x returns versus 2x from cost-cutting
Graham Weaver · We asked a $18.9B Investor how to survive the AI bubble · Apr 7, 2026 · at 27:08
Graham Weaver, founder of Alpine Investors, contrasts the financial returns of long-term business building against traditional cost-cutting private equity models.
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“Building things is a lot more durable than ripping things apart. Cause you can make like one and a half times your money, or maybe, maybe even two times your money ripping stuff If you're lucky, if you time the exit just right. But if you actually build something times your friend and it could be, I mean, you can make a hundred times your money.”
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