Best Jim Hightowers Podcasts (2024)

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Top Corporate Executives Should Have to Feel the Summer Heat

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Being a lifelong Texan, I’m used to hot summers. But what the hell – 99 degrees in June! Last year, we had 80 days of 100-plus temperatures, and we’re looking at 90 days this year. I can’t moan in self-pity, though, for the globally-warming furnace is now searing the whole country, even in northern climes where people are used to having days in Aug…

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Why Louisiana’s Kids Won’t Listen to Their Pious Governor

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For us Texans, there’s nothing new about Bible-thumping politicians bedevilling us with the foolishness of their dogmatic Christian piety. A century ago, for example, a proposal was made to offer bilingual education to Spanish-speaking school kids. But it was quashed by the governor, who solemnly declared: “If English was good enough for Jesus Chri…

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NEA's Peter Barris - From operator to VC legend, how Peter transformed NEA into a venture juggernaut 1:02:31

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Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. His career started when someone said to him, “well, have you thought about venture capital? We don’t think that you’d be any good at it.” The rest is history. Today’s episode features one of the legends of the venture capital industry. Peter Barris joined New Enterprise Associates in 1992 after a sto…

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A few quick thoughts about Biden’s performance at the debate

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“OMG, it’s all over! We’re doomed! Biden lost the debate!” But wait, the election is not a debate contest. It’s a choice between two visions of what America is and what it can become. We’re not just electing a person, but a government… and a future. Of course I wish Biden had performed better Thursday night, but we’re not choosing “debater of the y…

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Friday Signpost: Happy Pride, for All!

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We see it everywhere these days, don’t we? Glorious, beautiful Pride flags all around—even in the store windows and on the websites of major mainstream corporations. Wow, we think, equality for all sexualities is really hitting its stride! And then we see that those same corporations are donating to MAGA conservatives, hateful Republicans, and othe…

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The Right-Wing Turns Anti-Corporate! Sorta… Not Really.

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Wow: Big political news, folks! In an astonishing twist, some far-right-wing Republican groups and politicians are demanding that their longtime corporate allies – such as Walmart, the Koch brothers, GE, and Wall Street banks – stick to their business and stop interfering in the people’s political decisions. One group, the National Center for Publi…

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NewEdge's Rob Sechan and Cameron Dawson - growing a cutting edge $44B platform to serve the wealth channel 59:56

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Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s episode features the architects behind one of the industry’s faster growing wealth management platforms, NewEdge. We welcome NewEdge CEO, Managing Partner, and Co-Founder Rob Sechan and NewEdge CIO Cameron Dawson. Both Rob and Cameron have a wealth of experience in both wealth management and …

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Should Congress Honor Donald Trump with a Medal, a Statue… or What?

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Here’s a member of Congress with too much time on his hands… and way too little of anything on his mind. Greg Steube of Florida, is a run-of-the-mill, extremist Republican specializing in such partisan slapstick as trying to nullify Joe Biden’s election and install GOP loser, Donald Trump, as president. Upgrade your subscription But Steube went ful…

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Friday Signpost: Turning Out the Vote This Year, and Beyond

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When it comes to agitating and organizing for change, there are lots of tools at our disposal: protesting, running for office, legal actions, and, of course, VOTING. And the right is making it increasingly more difficult to get to the polls, to get to the correct polls, to know who—and what—is on the ballot… ugh. Fortunately, there’s a nationwide o…

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Let’s Put Labor Day to Work for Workers… and Democracy

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What if Labor Day was not about giving working families one measly Monday off to sleep in, rush to the beach, do some 12-oz elbow bends – then report back first thing Tuesday to start another 364 days of pulling the corporate plow? Upgrade your subscription Instead, imagine if working stiffs themselves took hold of this day, putting it to work rall…

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2024 European Private Market Trends: An AGM x Pangea podcast shorts collaboration 1:07:20

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AGM collaborated with Pangea Group, a firm that helps B2B fintech companies with go-to-market strategies, at a live event they hosted on private markets in London with Schroders and Illuminate Financial to gather thoughts from some leaders in private markets on their views of the industry’s future in Europe. We asked seven private market participan…

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The GOP’s New Plan to Enrich the Super-rich… Again

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Excellent news, people: Republican officials are mounting an all-out political push for a massive cut in our taxes next year! Well… by “our taxes,” they don’t mean yours. Rather, here they come with another absurd sob story about giant corporations and the super-wealthy suffering unbearably from excessive taxation. Claiming to feel the pain of thes…

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Friday Signpost: Sex Ed Is a Great Prophylactic Against Fascism

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Attacks on reproductive freedom! Attacks on queer & trans folk! Attacks on books! It’s enough to make you want to scream into the void. Thankfully, there’s an alternative to screaming into the void that you might not have heard of yet—and solid action you can take. Let us introduce you to EducateUS. Read more…

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Hear Corporate America’s New Euphemisms for Gouging You

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We should pay attention to corporate America’s fluctuating wordplay, for their frequent contortions of language disguise ploys to dupe, confuse, and rip off us hoi polloi – i.e., their customers. Upgrade your subscription For example, here’s a mouthful that’s been gaining popularity among manufacturers of food products: Price Pack Architecture. It’…

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Ritholtz Wealth Management's Michael Batnick - real talk on private markets 1:06:05

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Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. On today’s show, we turned the tables. We welcomed famed podcast co-host of Animal Spirits and The Compound and Friends and writer at The Irrelevant Investor, and Managing Partner and Director of Research at $4B AUM Ritholtz Wealth Management Michael Batnick to come on the show to share a wealth mana…

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There’s the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly… and Then Sam Alito

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Sam Alito is so ugly that he can’t even see his ugliness. I don’t mean looks, but the deep inner ugliness of character that keeps oozing from this so-called “supreme” judge. Start with the unabashed lies he told senators to win his lifetime appointment to America’s powerfully-undemocratic judicial branch. Lie Number One was his promise not to mess …

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Big Books, Little Books, and Weeds: What We're Reading and Listening To

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To wrap up our weekend, we thought we’d take a few minutes and share what each of us here at Hightower HQ has been reading and listening to in recent weeks. What recommendations do you have? Leave ‘em in the comments! Leave a comment Read moreBy Jim Hightower

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Return of the Swamp Drainer: Making a Mockery of Democracy

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Remember Donald Trump, the “swamp drainer”? In 2016, candidate Trump promised to end the grubby money corruption of American politics. “The special interests, lobbyists, donors,” he rightly and righteously noted “make large contributions to politicians and they have total control of those politicians.” Asserting that he knows the political rot bett…

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HgCapital Trust's Chairman of the Board Jim Strang - a masterclass in private markets 1:04:39

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Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s episode features a masterclass in private markets from a guest who has seen it all. Jim Strang is a deeply experienced private equity professional who has been part of the industry as a GP, LP, investor, consultant, and now a teacher, board member, and advisor to a number of firms. I’d probab…

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Going from Democracy… to Plutocracy… and Now to Kleptocracy

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One group of oppressed Americans has become especially outspoken this election year, contending that top government officials (Democrats in particular) are ignoring their community’s basic needs and stifling their pursuit of economic advancement. I speak, of course, about the tragic plight of our nation’s downtrodden multi-billionaire class. While …

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Friday Signpost: Your Music for the Movement Playlist, 1990s Edition

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Hot on the heels of our 1980s playlist… we’ve got … drumroll… the 1990s in political movement music ready for you! We love seeing how the music really spreads through genres in this decade, continuing the roots of branches sprung prior ones. Let ‘er rip! Prior playlists: 1960s 1970s 1980s Leave a comment Read more…

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How Silly Can Right-Wing Culture Warriors Get?

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If you’re wondering whatever happened to Ron DeSantis, he’s now re-ensconced in Florida… goofier than ever. Last year, backed by a covey of billionaires, Governor Ron was all set to be our next president until national voters discovered he has the personality of a dirt clod and the political sensibility of a tin-pot totalitarian. Upgrade your subsc…

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Cruising Along with Ted Cruz

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A Republican senator once tried excusing the egomaniacal right-wing nastiness of his colleague, Ted Cruz declaring, “sometimes Ted is his own worst enemy.” I said to myself: “Not while I’m alive he’s not.” Upgrade your subscription But now, I’m reassessing, because Cruz keeps descending deeper into self-pity and self-destruction. For example, he’s …

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Monthly Alts Pulse Ep. 10: Taking the pulse of private markets with Lawrence Calcano, Chairman & CEO of iCapital, and Robert Picard, Managing Director, Head of Alternative Investments at Hightower Advisors ... 21:36

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Welcome to the 10th episode of a collaboration between iCapital x Alt Goes Mainstream. Here’s the latest episode of the Monthly Alts Pulse, a live conversation in studio with Lawrence Calcano, the Chairman & CEO of iCapital, who as the leader of a platform that is responsible for the majority of individual and advisor-led investment flows into the …

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3i Members' Mark Gerson - building engaged investing communities 40:38

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Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s podcast is a special show with 3i Members co-founder Mark Gerson. Alt Goes Mainstream’s first sponsor is 3i Members, an investing network built on community, collaboration and capital that was co-founded by Mark Gerson, Billy Libby, and Teddy Gold. 3i Members is a global deal network for acco…

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Marc Rubinstein of Net Interest - an in-depth tour of financial markets with an expert in finance and history 59:52

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Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s podcast provided us with an in-depth tour of financial markets with a student of both finance and history. And what a tour guide we had. Marc Rubinstein, an investment professional with 25 years of experience researching and investing in financial services joined us on the show. Marc started …

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Braughm Ricke of Aduro Advisors - building a fund administration business 44:52

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Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s episode features an enabler of the micro VC movement who has now scaled his business into one of the industry’s larger fund administrators. Braughm Ricke is the Founder and CEO of Aduro Advisors, a leading fund administrator that has carved out a sterling reputation in the VC world. He's grow…

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Monthly Alts Pulse Ep. 9: Taking the pulse of private markets with Lawrence Calcano, Chairman & CEO of iCapital, and Haig Ariyan, CEO of Arax Investment Partners 22:59

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Welcome to the 9th episode of a collaboration between iCapital x Alt Goes Mainstream. Here’s the latest episode of the Monthly Alts Pulse, a live conversation in studio with Lawrence Calcano, the Chairman & CEO of iCapital, who as the leader of a platform that is responsible for the majority of individual and advisor-led investment flows into the a…

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Yieldstreet's Michael Weisz on unlocking access to alternatives 58:15

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Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s episode is with a fintech founder who has scaled one of the larger private markets investing platforms for individual investors. Michael Weisz is the Founder and CEO of Yieldstreet, a leading private markets investing platform, with more than 450K members and $3.9B invested (as of October 202…

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Steve Case, Chairman & CEO of Revolution and Co-Founder of America Online, on revolutionizing the world on purpose with passion 56:29

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Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s episode with an internet legend provides an illuminating window into how the past can help inform us about the future. Steve Case is a pioneer and a visionary. He built one of the foundational companies of the internet, AOL, that brought America and the world online. As one of America’s best-…

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Hamilton Lane's Griff Norville on how private markets are moving from the Stone Age to the digital age 50:47

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Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s episode takes us into the world of technology with an expert in private markets tech. Griff Norville is a Managing Director and Head of Technology Solutions at Hamilton Lane, the $903B AUM (*Inclusive of $120.2B in discretionary assets under management and $782.9B in non-discretionary assets …

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Lessons from a leading operator: Growing ECi Software Solutions to $500M revenue and $200M EBITDA with Net Health CEO & Carlyle Operating Partner Ron Books 48:24

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Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today we have the operator’s view on the show. We bring in someone who rose up the ranks of a private equity-backed software company to be CEO of that company — ECi Software Solutions — that now generates over $500M in revenue and $200M in EBITDA. We welcome Ron Books, now an Operating Partner at Car…

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Blue Owl Capital's Global Private Wealth President & CEO Sean Connor on working with the wealth channel 52:36

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Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s episode takes us inside the world of wealth from the perspective of one of the industry’s largest alternative asset managers. We are joined by Sean Connor, President & CEO, Global Private Wealth at Blue Owl Capital, a firm with over $160B in AUM. Sean highlighted a number of key insights for …

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Monthly Alts Pulse Ep. 8: Taking the pulse of private markets with Lawrence Calcano, Chairman & CEO of iCapital 20:04

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Welcome to the 8th episode of a collaboration between iCapital x Alt Goes Mainstream. Here’s the latest episode of the Monthly Alts Pulse, a live conversation in studio with Lawrence Calcano, the Chairman & CEO of iCapital, who as the leader of a platform that is responsible for the majority of individual and advisor-led investment flows into the a…

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Blackstone Chief Technology Officer John Stecher on how technology is transforming private markets 48:58

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Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s episode takes us inside the mind of a tech titan who is at the forefront of shaping the market structure evolution in private markets. John Stecher is the Chief Technology Officer at Blackstone. He’s responsible for all aspects of technology across the firm and advises the firm’s investment t…

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Chris Long on building $29B credit investment firm Palmer Square and a winning NWSL soccer team, KC Current 56:22

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Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today we have an incredible discussion that spans the world of private credit and the growth of women’s sports - and how those two topics intersect in the guest’s daily life. Chris Long founded Palmer Square Capital Management, an approximately $29B+ asset manager focused on corporate and structured …

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Stories from building Blackstone, Airbnb, and private markets with Laurence Tosi of WestCap 1:16:01

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“The room where it happens … No one really knows how the game is played The art of the trade How the sausage gets made We just assume that it happens But no one else is in the room where it happens … When you got skin in the game, you stay in the game But you don’t get a win unless you play in the game.” Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podc…

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$28B Sanctuary Wealth on working with the wealth channel 48:35

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Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s episode dives deep into one of the fastest growing independent wealth platforms in the US — Sanctuary Wealth — and how alternatives is a major ingredient to the growth of their firm and the RIA space more broadly. We have Sanctuary’s MD and Head of Alternative Investments, Patrick McGowan, an…

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Monthly Alts Pulse Ep. 7: Taking the pulse of private markets with Lawrence Calcano, Chairman & CEO of iCapital 26:46

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Welcome to the 7th episode of a collaboration between iCapital x Alt Goes Mainstream. Here's the latest episode of the Monthly Alts Pulse, a live conversation in studio with Lawrence Calcano, the Chairman & CEO of iCapital, who as the leader of a platform that is responsible for the majority of individual and advisor-led investment flows into the a…

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[Repost] The 10X Podcast - How Everyday Investors Can Access Blackstone, Apollo, and KKR? 32:35

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A few weeks ago, the tables were turned and I sat down with David Weisburd of the 10X Capital Podcast to talk about the ongoing transformation of private markets. The wealth channel is becoming a centerpiece of the LP universe. Every alternative asset manager either has — or has to have — a strategy for working with the wealth channel in today’s pr…

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Building a $3B real estate hospitality investment platform with Carlos Rodriguez Jr. of Driftwood Capital 1:01:27

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Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. On today’s episode, we travel around the world of hospitality investing. We talk with Carlos Rodriguez Jr., the Founder, President, and COO of Driftwood Capital, one of the US’s leading hospitality sponsors with over $3B in hospitality assets under management. They’ve found a way to do both the tradi…

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J.P. Morgan Asset Management's Tyler Jayroe on how one of the world's largest financial institutions approaches private equity 48:04

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Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. On today’s show, we welcome a senior member of the team at the world’s 3rd largest alternatives manager. Tyler Jayroe is a MD and Portfolio Manager in the Private Equity Group at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, which manages over $2.4 trillion of assets on behalf of a diverse group of global institutio…

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Stride VC's Fred Destin on how to build trust in a competitive, chaotic world 55:56

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Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. On today’s show, we welcome a long-time VC investor who brings the perspective from both sides of the pond. Fred Destin, the founder of Stride VC, a seed fund operating out of London and currently investing out of its second £123M fund, shares his views on the venture capital industry. Prior to Strid…

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Master of micro VC, Chris Douvos of Ahoy Capital, on why there's always room for a Bugatti in a market full of Fords and Toyotas 51:44

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Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. On today’s show, we welcome a veteran of venture, a champion of portfolio concentration, a master of micro VC. Chris Douvos has taken a mosaic of experiences as an allocator at both endowments and funds that worked on behalf of institutional investors to found Ahoy Capital in 2018, an intentionally r…

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Monthly Alts Pulse Ep. 6: Taking the pulse of private markets with Lawrence Calcano, Chairman & CEO of iCapital 22:31

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Welcome to the 6th episode of a collaboration between iCapital x Alt Goes Mainstream. Here’s the latest episode of the Monthly Alts Pulse, a live conversation in studio with Lawrence Calcano, the Chairman & CEO of iCapital, who as the leader of a platform that is responsible for the majority of individual and advisor-led investment flows into the a…

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Monthly Alts Pulse Ep. 5: Taking the pulse of private markets with Lawrence Calcano, Chairman & CEO of iCapital 20:30

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Welcome to the 5th episode of a collaboration between iCapital x Alt Goes Mainstream. Here’s the latest episode of the Monthly Alts Pulse, a live conversation in studio with Lawrence Calcano, the Chairman & CEO of iCapital, who as the leader of a platform that is responsible for the majority of individual and advisor-led investment flows into the a…

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How Shannon Saccocia, the CIO of $67B AUM Neuberger Berman Private Wealth, thinks about the changing role of alternatives in client portfolios 59:52

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Today’s show brings us inside the mind of a top allocator and CIO in the private wealth world. We talk with Shannon Saccocia, the CIO of Neuberger Berman Private Wealth, a division of NB that has almost $70B of assets under management. With over 24 years of experience, Shannon brings a wealth of knowledge on private markets to bear. At NB Wealth, s…

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How private equity and the NIL are changing the game for sports with UCLA QB and NIL National Male Athlete of the Year, Chase Griffin 43:34

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Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s show dives into the collision of culture, sports, and finance. We talk with Chase Griffin, a student-athlete and QB at UCLA, who has become a pioneer in the college athletics Name Image Likeness (NIL) movement and is the 2x winner of the NIL Male Athlete of the Year awards from the NIL Summit…

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Jamie Rhode, Principal at family office Verdis Investment Management, on how to drive the most meaningful returns in early-stage venture as a LP 48:11

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Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. On today’s show, we bring the institutional family office perspective to private markets. We talk with Jamie Rhode, a Principal at Verdis Investment Management. Verdis is a single family office based in Philadelphia that was built on the rich legacy of the family, a major business family, that has sp…

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Taking the pulse of seed investing and creating an actively managed index of early-stage innovation with Maelle Gavet, CEO of Techstars, one of the world’s largest pre-seed investors 51:23

9M ago51:23

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Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today we bring on one of the world’s largest pre-seed investors to cover what the state of early-stage investing looks like. We welcome Maelle Gavet, the CEO of Techstars, a leading accelerator and global investment business that works with early-stage startups. Maelle has taken a background where sh…

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