Continuing last week's discussion, I will share 5 more creator-founder lessons. Persistence Isn’t Enough Just because you don’t give up doesn’t mean you’ll succeed. This is where too much motivational content can actually hurt you. A successful entrepreneur tells you to start companies.
Reading time: ~15 mins I often get questions about lessons I’ve learned as a public equity investor-turned creator-turned founder. This series shares those lessons. Whether you’re a corporate employee, an investor, or a founder (especially a creator-turned-founder), I hope you find value in ideas
Jeff Ubben didn’t leave Fidelity because he was bad at the job. He left because he was too good at it—and the money wouldn’t stop coming in. He kept trying to shrink the number of names in his portfolio, but the fund kept getting bigger and positions
Fund Intelligence
Launches, Shutdowns, and Pivots
Career
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If you have spent your whole career in public equity, whether on the sell side, at a hedge fund, a mutual fund or a family office, it feels natural to think going corporate should be easy. You know business models. You have built countless forecasts. You have talked to management
Fund Intelligence
Before Citadel and Millennium: How Art Samberg’s Pequot Capital Invented the Modern Hedge Fund Platform
Investor Profiles
Career
After years helping candidates break into the buy-side, I’ve noticed a pattern: the biggest career detours don’t come from bad interviews — they come from bad questions. * Questions that show you haven’t done your research (for the role a RESEARCH analyst) * Questions that show you don’t
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Causes and Implications for aspirants