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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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.
E240: The Edge: Risk, Discipline, and Judgment in Venture
How I Invest with David Weisburd
52 minutes 42 seconds
1 month ago
E240: The Edge: Risk, Discipline, and Judgment in Venture
What separates great investors from generational ones—and how do you actually find the next Elon Musk?
In this episode, I sit down with Mike Annunziata, Founder & Managing Partner of Also Capital, a solo GP fund backing the world’s most ambitious hard tech founders. Before launching Also Capital, Mike spent years at the Cornell University Endowment, helping allocate over $1 billion across venture and private equity managers—giving him a front-row seat to what “world-class” really looks like.
We talk about how LPs identify the next top-decile fund managers, why the best founders are like amateur pilots, and how to find the tiny behavioral tells that separate the merely ambitious from the truly elite. From identifying credibility under pressure to understanding the physics of hard tech investing, Mike shares a rare, insider’s look at the art of backing outliers.
How I Invest with David Weisburd
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.