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Episodes from How I Invest with David Weisburd

E429: Dr. V on AI, Market Bubbles & Finding the Next Anthropic

E429: Dr. V on AI, Market Bubbles & Finding the Next Anthropic

What if the biggest mistake in venture capital is investing in what already looks like a great venture investment? In this episode, I sit down with Dr. V (Vaibhav Agrawal), Founder ODDBIRD VC, is a San Francisco-based venture investor who spent nearly a decade at Lightspeed, to explore why he…

Sep 14, 202633 min
E428: Michael Green on Peter Thiel, SpaceX, and Inefficient Markets

E428: Michael Green on Peter Thiel, SpaceX, and Inefficient Markets

What if passive investing is actually one of the biggest active forces shaping markets today? In this episode, I sit down with Michael Green, Founder and CIO at Tier1 Alpha Asset Management. Michael challenges the conventional view that stock prices primarily reflect fundamentals, arguing that the…

Sep 11, 202646 min
E427: AQR's Peter Hecht on AI, Market Bubbles & How the Best Investors Build Portfolios

E427: AQR's Peter Hecht on AI, Market Bubbles & How the Best Investors Build Portfolios

Peter Hecht, Managing Director at AQR Capital Management, explains why diversification has to be measured by underlying risk rather than the number of investments you own. At AQR, diversification is a core principle: thousands of relatively small, uncorrelated investment decisions can collectively…

Sep 9, 20261h 5m
E426: American Securities CEO on Warren Buffett, Private Equity & Playing the Long Game

E426: American Securities CEO on Warren Buffett, Private Equity & Playing the Long Game

What happens when a private equity firm refuses to chase every new opportunity and spends 30 years getting better at one thing? David sits down with Michael Fisch, co-founder and CEO of American Securities, to unpack how the firm grew from a $71.4 million first fund to $23 billion in AUM without…

Sep 7, 202654 min
E425: What 30,000 Founders Taught Me About AI, Judgment & Top Founders

E425: What 30,000 Founders Taught Me About AI, Judgment & Top Founders

David sits down with Byron Ling of Twelve Below to unpack the judgment required to invest at the earliest stages of technology. After roughly 30,000 founder meetings over the past decade, Byron believes the strongest signals rarely appear on a résumé. He looks for an almost biological drive to win,…

Sep 4, 20261h 0m
E424: 32-Year Notre Dame CIO on Sequoia, Venture Capital & Concentration

E424: 32-Year Notre Dame CIO on Sequoia, Venture Capital & Concentration

What can 32 years as a university CIO teach you about identifying exceptional investors before everyone else does? David sits down with Scott Malpass, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Grafton Street Partners and former Chief Investment Officer of the University of Notre Dame, to discuss the…

Sep 2, 20261h 6m
E423: Castelion CEO on Elon Musk, Hypersonic Missiles & the Future of Defense

E423: Castelion CEO on Elon Musk, Hypersonic Missiles & the Future of Defense

David sits down with Bryon Hargis, co-founder of Castelion, to unpack why rebuilding America’s defense manufacturing capacity has become a national security imperative. Bryon explains why decades of consolidation and outsourcing weakened the defense industrial base, why America could struggle…

Aug 31, 202658 min
E422: Founding CIO of Berkeley Endowment on Track Records, Contrarian Investing & First-Time Funds

E422: Founding CIO of Berkeley Endowment on Track Records, Contrarian Investing & First-Time Funds

Why do so many GPs misunderstand what institutional LPs actually care about? David sits down with John-Austin Saviano, an Backing & Building Challenger Investment Firms and Former Endowment CIO, argues that one of the biggest mistakes GPs make is overemphasizing track record. Great LPs care less…

Aug 28, 20261h 9m
E421: Jack Purcell — Building an $11B Private Equity Firm

E421: Jack Purcell — Building an $11B Private Equity Firm

What if the biggest edge in private equity isn’t finding better deals, but designing better incentives? In this episode, I sit down with Jack Purcell, Managing Partner at Ridgemont Equity Partners, to unpack how alignment helped turn a Bank of America spinout with fewer than 15 people into a…

Aug 26, 202652 min
E420: Why Infrastructure Is a $40 Trillion Opportunity

E420: Why Infrastructure Is a $40 Trillion Opportunity

What if the biggest AI investment opportunity isn’t AI companies, but the infrastructure required to make AI possible? David sits down with Stuart Waugh, Managing Partner of Northleaf Capital Partners, to explore why the AI boom is creating massive demand for power, data centers, communications…

Aug 24, 20261h 9m
E419: Venture Capital Has a Liquidity Crisis

E419: Venture Capital Has a Liquidity Crisis

Venture capital was designed around a relatively simple model: invest in a startup, help it grow, and eventually exit through an acquisition or IPO. David sits down with Benjamin Black Powerlaw Corp. (Nasdaq: PWRL), Akkadian Ventures, Ben invests in growth-stage technology companies while providing…

Aug 21, 202639 min
E418: AI, Venture Capital & the Future of Investing

E418: AI, Venture Capital & the Future of Investing

Most venture firms think AI is another productivity tool. David sits down with John Melas-Kyriazi co-founder and CEO of Standard Metrics—the AI-native portfolio management platform used by leading venture capital and private equity firms—to discuss how AI is transforming every stage of investing,…

Aug 19, 202659 min