Paul Graham highlights a common change in management style as firms grow: from founder mode to manager mode. Manager mode is the conventional wisdom that you need to layer up and delegate as you scale. Many founders find that this doesn’t work however—it kills their firms. Founder mode is maintaining direct connectivity with the team. https://t.co/IPEvyzXjYS
Sounds like Jensen Huang 60+ direct reports, and all of them attend the same weekly meeting: https://t.co/PuL2dBcsyP
Everyone is raving about “What Went Wrong With Capitalism.” Even the man trying to make capitalism go right, @NicolaiTang1 shared with the FT that he thinks it’s the best of the Summer. Congratulations to our friend Ruchir Sharma on the book—it’s been a pleasure to watch the Breakout Capital Partners journey. Read the book on how the music might stop and what we can do to keep it playing.
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Mayweather, Money and Motivation.
How does the socioeconomic environment of a manager’s childhood shape their attitudes to risk and reward, their hunger, drive and passion to perform?
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Does gender affect investment performance?
Within the hedge fund space, less than 1 in 20 firms have a female portfolio manager. What makes this statistic even more poignant is that women managers often outperform their male counterparts.
https://t.co/a12x7CAmTa
From Zero to Hero - CEO, Erik Serrano speaking at the @Bloomberg Hedge Fund Start-up Conference on how Stable Asset Management sources, selects and seeds top quartile emerging managers to build world-class asset management firms. #seeding#HedgeFunds#Bloomberg
Thank you @DeutscheBankAG for another excellent DB Bridging the Gap Conference in Phoenix last week. A thoroughly interesting event with a great selection of panel discussions and attendees.
Stable Asset Management is looking for “younger, hungrier" asset managers, CEO and co-founder Erik Serrano Berntsen said. @CNBC@CNBCi
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Thank you to @100WomenFinance and @KPMG_US for hosting the 3rd Annual East Coast Investor Conference. A thoroughly interesting day with over 100 industry professionals in attendance.
Millennial Leadership: Balancing Power, Profit and Purpose - Stable CEO, Erik Serrano speaking @MilkenInstitute London on how millennial leadership has begun to dictate trends in the boardroom.
What can David Beckham teach us about hedge fund seeding?
As part of our investment process, we take time to understand a hedge fund manager’s personal attributes. In this Seeds of Wisdom, we discuss age and the role of youth.
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