How I Invest with David Weisburd
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Latest episode: Tue Apr 29 2025
How I Invest with David Weisburd is a podcast that interviews the world's leading institutional investors. Previous guests include The Ford Foundation, Northwestern University Endowment, CalPERS, Stepstone, and other top limited partners.
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Apr29E159:How a 24-Year-Old VC Landed Cendana Capital as a Limited Partner w/Paige Doherty35mins
Apr25E158: How to Find the Right LPs for Your Next Fund w/Meghan Reynolds57mins
Apr22E157: DA Wallach: Spotting Genius in Elon & Zuck's Early Days49mins
Apr18E156: Inside the Mind of a $1.7B Endowment CIO w/Jim Bethea71mins
Apr15E155: Ben Horowitz: "The Classic VC Model Is Done”41mins
Apr11E154: How a First-Generation Immigrant Became a Top CIO: Paul Chai's Story43mins
Apr8E153: Blake Scholl on Boom Supersonic: Learning from Elon Musk & SpaceX50mins
Apr4E152: The Peter Thiel Mistake This Crypto VC Won't Make41mins
Apr1E151: The Rise of Asset-Backed Credit w/Billy Libby32mins
Mar28E150: Tax-Aware Investing: Insights for Family Offices and UHNW Individuals49mins
Mar25E149: From $0 to $1B in 3 Years: Fin Capital's Meteoric Rise in Fintech Investing39mins
Mar21E148: TIFF's $8B Portfolio Revealed: Strategies Institutions Need41mins
Mar18E147: Inside the Mind of a $2.4 Billion Investor w/Charlotte Zhang22mins
Mar14E146: The 92% AI Failure: Unmasking Enterprise's Trillion-Dollar Mistake25mins
Mar11E145: Is a 35% IRR Really Achievable? Exploring Search Fund Returns21mins- Mar9E144: How the World’s Top Investors Compound Their Advantages8mins
Mar7E143: From Fame to Fortune: How Celebrities Turn Fame into Billion-Dollar Brands19mins
Mar4E142: How to Generate Alpha on $350 Billion w/CIO of CalSTRS Scott Chan44mins
Feb25E141: Balaji Srinivasan: The Rise of Network States and the Fall of Nation-States49mins
Feb21E140: Hamilton Lane Co-CEO on the $950 Billion AUA Business30mins
Feb18E139: How HIG Went from $75 Million to $67 Billion AUM25mins
Feb14E138: Do Relationships Drive Financial Returns? w/Jeremy Heer20mins
Feb11E137: Lessons from Managing $300 Billion Dollars w/ John Skjervem (CIO of URS)26mins
Feb7E136: Navigating Startup and Venture Capital Legal Risks w/Constantine Karides22mins
Feb4EP135: How to Access Top Quartile Venture Capital Funds w/Mel Williams29mins
Jan31E134: How I Accidentally Started a Billion Dollar Tech Company w/Carta CEO Henry Ward34mins
Jan28E133: Lessons from Investing in 2200 Startups (in 23 Minutes)23mins
Jan24E132: How Nichole Wischoff Raised a $50M Fund in 5 Months29mins
Jan21E131: Can VCs Make Money in Deep Tech? w/Nick Shekerdemian28mins
Jan17E130: CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost on the Future of the $500 Billion Pension Fund34mins
Jan14E129: The Number #1 Predictor of Startup Success w/Ken Smythe30mins
Jan10E128: iCapital CEO Lawrence Calcano on the New $145 Trillion Entering Private Markets38mins
Jan7E127: Interview with CEO of Top AI Company Backed by Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures24mins
Jan3E126: How much Bitcoin should Institutional Investors hold? w/CIO of Bitwise30mins
Dec31E125: Co-CIO Alifia Doriwala on RockCreek’s $16 Billion Edge19mins
Dec27E124: Is Venture Capital Entirely Based on Luck? University of Chicago and Oxford Study31mins
Dec24E123: Should LPs invest in Venture Capital? w/Gregor von dem Knesebeck20mins
Dec20E122: How an $80B Asset Manager Seeds the Growth of New GP Talent42mins
Dec17E121: What Billionaires Do Differently in Investing with Ron Diamond38mins
Dec13E120: Why Bigger Isn’t Always Better in Private Equity and Venture Capital w/Teddy Gold22mins
Dec10E119: How the Visa Foundation Invests w/Najada Kumbuli21mins
Dec6E118: Loyola University's $1.2 Billion Edge21mins
Dec3E117: What Will Family Offices Invest into in 2025? w/Hansen Ringer42mins
Nov29E116: How Everyday Investors can Access Private Equity w/Pantheon ($70B AUM)34mins
Nov26E115: Is the 60/40 Portfolio Outdated? w/James Langer30mins
Nov22E114: Brockenbrough $4.3 Billion Investment Edge21mins
Nov19E113: Christopher Zook: Playing to Win - Lessons Learned from Scaling CAZ Investments to $8B and Building a Winning Culture53mins
Nov15E112: Jake Paul: How to Build a Multi-Billion Dollar Startup32mins
Nov12E111: KFF’s (Kaiser Family Foundation) CIO on their $700 Million Venture Capital Edge37mins
Nov8E110: How Legacy Knight Scaled $1.5 Billion in Under 5 Years43mins
Nov5E109: Top Tier Capital Partners ($7B+ AUM) - Lessons Learned from Investing in 450 Funds32mins
Nov1E108: What is the Future of Venture Capital? w/Charles Hudson39mins
Oct29E107: Caltech’s CIO’s $4.6 Billion Investment Strategy49mins
Oct25E106: How Pantheon ($60B) Invests Globally18mins
Oct22E105: Ryan Serhant: How Successful Entrepreneurs Manage Time (1,000 Minute Rule)39mins
Oct17E104: How to Start a Single Family Office w/Justinas Milašauskas16mins
Oct15E103: Alex Hormozi - Private Equity’s Next Billionaire?58mins
Oct10E102: Interview w/Kellogg School of Business Dean18mins
Oct8E101: Lessons from University of Texas ($70B) and Stanford Endowment ($40B)35mins
Oct3E100: CIO of $2.9 Billion University of Illinois Endowment36mins
Oct1E99: How to Pick Top Decile Venture GP’s23mins
Sep26E98: How the $3.5 Billion University of Rochester Endowment Invests22mins
Sep24E97: How Institutional Investors Access Crypto33mins
Sep19E96: “100% Alpha Portfolio” - Levy Family Partners17mins
Sep17E95: How to Raise Private Equity in 202440mins
Sep12E94: How to Invest $70 Billion40mins
Sep10E93: Why Do Most VC’s Underperform?29mins
Sep5E92: How FT Partners Beats Bulge Bracket Banks (Steve Mclaughlin)37mins
Sep3E91: How Elite Endowments Invest in 202424mins
Aug29E90: Lessons from Diligencing 3,000 Venture Capital Funds36mins
Aug27E89: How a Fund of Funds backed by one of the world's largest insurance companies is revolutionizing venture capital24mins
Aug22E88: Lessons from Investing in 81 Venture Capital Funds - Dave Neumann14mins
Aug20E87: Lessons from Investing in 1,400+ Startups - Jamie Biddle and Steve Kim29mins
Aug15E86: Investing $20+ Billion for Nonprofit Institutions - Michael Miller36mins
Aug13E85: Raising $6 Billion in Institutional Capital - Mikhail Blancovitch26mins
Aug8E84: How NFL, NBA, and MLB Players Invest27mins
Aug6E83: Tax Benefits of Investing in Venture Capital w/ Michael Schulman21mins
Aug2E82: Why LPs Use Fund of Funds to Invest into Venture Capital w/ Fernando Saiz26mins
Jul30E81: Ryan Serhant: The #1 Sales Mistake You’re Making43mins
Jul26E80: How ~$16 Billion Multi-Family Office WE Invests29mins
Jul23E79: Mike Maples on How to Return 100X+ on Seed Investments52mins
Jul18E78: Fmr. CIO of CalPERS ($495 Billion) on Private Markets Investing29mins
Jul16E77: Justin Pollack on PineBridge’s ($168 Billion AUM) Investment Thesis34mins
Jul11E76: How FirstLook Picks the Top 10% of Venture Funds23mins
Jul9E75: Insight Partners’ Direct and Fund of Funds Strategy18mins
Jul2E74: How the $4B Kresge Foundation Invests into Venture - Venus Phillips19mins
Jun25E73: John Merrill on GroveStreet’s $10.5 Billion Investment Strategy36mins
Jun18E72: Investing in Top Emerging Managers with Jamie Rhode36mins
Jun11E71: Interview with RAISE Global Summit & Akkadian Founder Ben Black43mins
Jun6E70: How VC Fund of Funds Work with Alex Edelson19mins
May29E69: How Texas Municipal Retirement System Deployed $1B into Venture Capital17mins
May21E68: The Smithsonian Institution’s Venture Capital Edge23mins
May16E67: Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta CIO - Muthu Muthiah27mins
May14E66: Melinda Gates’ Pivotal Ventures on Investing in VC - Erin Harkless Moore35mins
May9E65: CEO of Bitwise on How Institutions Access Crypto34mins
May7E64: How Startups Can Access $13 Trillion in Retirement Capital - Eric Satz33mins
May2E63: Chris Rizik on The Rise of Midwest LPs27mins
Apr30E62: Babson College's $700M Endowment on Venture Capital48mins
Apr25E61: Erik Iverson and Mike Partsch on WARF’s $3B Endowment Strategy19mins
Apr23E60: Emerging Manager Alpha At Scale with Michael Downing27mins
Apr16E59: How Jordan Nel Spots Winning Venture Funds31mins
Apr11E58: Claude Grunitzky on Democratizing Access to Venture Capital28mins
Apr9E57: Eric Poirier CEO of Addepar on Lessons from $6 Trillion in Assets24mins
Apr4E56: Robert Rodriguez on Hollywood, Artificial Intelligence, & Film Finance32mins
Apr2E55: Eric Sippel - Lessons from Investing in 45 Venture Capital Funds25mins
Mar28E54: Morgan Creek Capital’s Endowment Style Investing – Frank Tanner22mins
Mar26E53: Northwestern University - Harisha Haigh on Manager Selection25mins
Mar21E52: StepStone's Hunter Somerville on How to Scale LP Capital26mins
Mar19E51: How $1B+ Family Offices Generate Alpha in Venture Capital - Ron Diamond21mins
Mar14E50: Founding GLG and Growing it into a $600 Million Revenue Powerhouse — Mark Gerson25mins
Mar12E49: Top Tier Capital Founder David York on 30 Years in Venture25mins
Mar7E48: The Ford Foundation on Returning 28% CAGR While Improving Society18mins
Mar5E47: Sean Warrington of Gresham Partners on Avoiding False Signals in Investing19mins
Feb29E46: Atul Rustgi of Accolade on What is LP Value-Add and Can it Lead to Alpha?28mins
Feb27E45: Lindel Eakman on Whether Venture Capital Returns are Higher than Hedge Funds, Private Equity, and Buyout36mins
Feb22E44: Chris Prestigiacomo of SWIB ($140B AUM) on What Pensions Look for in VCs18mins
Feb20E43: Sasha Pieterse (Alison) of Pretty Little Liars Reveals Her New Venture Backed Startup32mins
Feb15E42: 6 Hard Questions You Should Ask LPs When Raising Your Venture Capital Fund with Katie Riester31mins
Feb13E41: How Everyday Investors Can Access Blackstone, Apollo, and KKR?32mins
Feb8E40: Dave McClure on Delivering a 60x & 40x fund and Founding 500 Startups47mins
Feb6E39: Guy Perelmuter on Generating Alpha in Deeptech41mins
Feb1E38: Carrie Thome & Grady Buchanan of NVNG on How to Raise Capital from Corporate LPs36mins
Jan30E37: Errik Anderson on Co-Founding 20 Biotech Startups Cumulatively Worth $10B+61mins
Jan26E36: Masterclass on Portfolio Construction with Anubhav Srivastava, CEO of Tactyc23mins
Jan23E35: Ben Gallacher of Cannonball on "Value per Dollar Invested" and How it Predicts Fund Performance42mins
Jan18E34: Aakar Vachhani of Fairview on What The Top 1% of GP’s Share in Common60mins
Jan16E33: Charmel Maynard, CIO of University of Miami on Building a Venture Book34mins
Jan11E32: Ashby Monk, Stanford Professor on How to Become a Billionaire in Private Equity56mins
Jan9E31: David Friedberg on How To Build a Billion Dollar Startup48mins
Jan4E30: Alan Feld, Co-Founder of Vintage Investment Partners on How to Handle Succession in VC48mins
Jan2E29: Lo Toney, Plexo Capital on How He Raised Capital from Google, the Ford Foundation, Mass Mutual55mins
Dec14E28: Roland Reynold, Industry Ventures on Investing $7 Billion into Startups & Venture Funds45mins
Dec12E27: Fernando Pontaza of Invariantes on Why 25% IRR is the Gold Standard in Venture34mins
Dec8E26: Winter Mead of Coolwater on Building the YC for GPs50mins
Dec6E25: Jeff Galvin, CEO of Addimmune on Finding a Cure for HIV34mins
Nov30E24: Joshua Berkowitz of Berkocorp on Why LP's Should Care about IRR% not TVPI62mins
Nov28E23: How Israel’s Largest Hospital Delivers Care to Palestinians through “Peace Through Health"26mins
Nov21E22: Alex Edelson of Slipstream on The 4 Sources of Alpha for Emerging Managers58mins
Nov16E21: Jake Paul and Joey Levy of Betr on How to Build a $100 Billion Company33mins
Nov14E20: James Heath, dara5 on How Family Offices Access Top Venture Funds54mins
Nov9E19: Raja Doddala, Head of VC at Churchill ($47 Billion AUM) on How LP’s Should Diligence GP’s38mins
Nov7E18: Avlok Kohli, CEO of AngelList on How He Turned AngelList into a $4 Billion Dollar Company52mins
Nov2E17: Tracy Fong, Albourne Partners $700B+ AUA, on How Endowments Access Emerging Managers42mins
Oct31E16: Beezer Clarkson on her new $1.4B Emerging Manager Fund with CalSTRS55mins
Oct26E15: Scott Painter on His Relationship with Elon Musk and the Future of Mobility48mins
Oct23E14: Jason Calacanis on How He Returned 4,000X ($25K into $100MM) on a Single Investment40mins
Oct16E13: Shai Goldman on What Differentiates Venture Funds that Generate 3X+ DPI?40mins
Oct2E12: Jamie Rhode on Why 95% of LPs Can Only Achieve a 10% IRR when the Mean Return is 50% IRR49mins
Sep26E11: Neil Datta, The Forbes Family Trust's Approach to VC | Is there Alpha in Due Diligence?40mins
Sep18E10: Michael Kim | Founder of Cendana Capital on How Small VC Funds Can Return 200X+50mins
Sep12E9: David Clark | Investment Director at VenCap on What Every LP Gets Wrong About Power Laws46mins
Sep5E8: Apurva Mehta of Summit Peak on Why Fee Sensitivity Leads to Adverse Selection in Venture42mins
Aug28E7: Samir Kaji | Founder and CEO of Allocate on How the Top 5% of LP’s Invest in VC35mins
Aug21E6: Steve Chasan | Head of Investments - Rothschild Foundation on how GPs Can Navigate the VC Reset29mins
Aug14E5: Jonathan Hsu | Co-Founder of $1.6B AUM Tribe Capital on What Data Shows is Product Market Fit29mins
Aug7E4: Dr. Abe Othman of AngelList | Data, Research, and Quantitative Investing in Venture Capital52mins
Aug1E3: Ramzi Samara of MASIC | The Rise of Saudi Arabia and the MENA Region in Venture Capital34mins
Jul24E2: Jordan Stein | How Cresset Partners Raised $40B, Invested in Andreessen Horowitz + Founders Fund35mins
Jul16E1: Chris Douvos | Venture compared to other asset classes, the Solo GP phenomenon, and Chris's investing thesis50mins