Alt Goes Mainstream

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today we have an incredible discussion that spans the world of private credit and the growth of women’s sports — and how those two topics intersect in the guest’s daily life. Chris Long founded Palmer Square Capital Management , an approximately $29B+ asset manager focused on corporate and structured credit with offices in Kansas City and London, in...

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s episode dives deep into one of the fastest growing independent wealth platforms in the US — Sanctuary Wealth — and how alternatives is a major ingredient to the growth of their firm and the RIA space more broadly. We have Sanctuary’s MD and Head of Alternative Investments, Patrick McGowan , and Director of Strategic Partnerships, Oksana Pozn...

A few weeks ago, the tables were turned and I sat down with David Weisburd of the 10X Capital Podcast to talk about the ongoing transformation of private markets. The wealth channel is becoming a centerpiece of the LP universe. Every alternative asset manager either has — or has to have — a strategy for working with the wealth channel in today’s private markets. We discussed: * Why the wealth chan...

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. On today’s episode, we travel around the world of hospitality investing. We talk with Carlos Rodriguez Jr. , the Founder, President, and COO of Driftwood Capital , one of the US’s leading hospitality sponsors with over $3B in hospitality assets under management. They’ve found a way to do both the traditional things in real estate investing and devel...

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. On today’s show, we welcome a senior member of the team at the world’s 3rd largest alternatives manager. Tyler Jayroe is a MD and Portfolio Manager in the Private Equity Group at J.P. Morgan Asset Management , which manages over $2.4 trillion of assets on behalf of a diverse group of global institutions and individual investors. Tyler’s team, the Pr...

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. On today’s show, we welcome a long-time VC investor who brings the perspective from both sides of the pond. Fred Destin , the founder of Stride VC , a seed fund operating out of London and currently investing out of its second £123M fund, shares his views on the venture capital industry. Prior to Stride, Fred was a General Partner at Accel and Accom...

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. On today’s show, we welcome a veteran of venture, a champion of portfolio concentration, a master of micro VC. Chris Douvos has taken a mosaic of experiences as an allocator at both endowments and funds that worked on behalf of institutional investors to found Ahoy Capital in 2018, an intentionally right-sized firm focused on working with smaller, e...

Today’s show brings us inside the mind of a top allocator and CIO in the private wealth world. We talk with Shannon Saccocia , the CIO of Neuberger Berman Private Wealth , a division of NB that has almost $70B of assets under management. With over 24 years of experience, Shannon brings a wealth of knowledge on private markets to bear. At NB Wealth, she works closely with investment leadership to e...

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s show dives into the collision of culture, sports, and finance. We talk with Chase Griffin , a student-athlete and QB at UCLA, who has become a pioneer in the college athletics Name Image Likeness (NIL) movement and is the 2x winner of the NIL Male Athlete of the Year awards from the NIL Summit and Opendorse. Chase has excelled on and off the...

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. On today’s show, we bring the institutional family office perspective to private markets. We talk with Jamie Rhode , a Principal at Verdis Investment Management . Verdis is a single family office based in Philadelphia that was built on the rich legacy of the family, a major business family, that has spanned over three centuries. At Verdis, Jamie is...

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today we bring on one of the world’s largest pre-seed investors to cover what the state of early-stage investing looks like. We welcome Maelle Gavet , the CEO of Techstars , a leading accelerator and global investment business that works with early-stage startups. Maelle has taken a background where she’s been a CEO, COO and operator at the likes of...

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today, we travel to London to talk with someone who has seen the evolution of the European tech ecosystem up close. We discuss the rise of Europe with Isomer Capital ’s Co-Founder and Managing Partner Joe Schorge . Isomer is a pan-European fund-of-funds, co-investment, and secondaries platform that is on its way to €1B AUM. They’ve invested in 70 VC...

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Startup stories are often stuff of dreams — and today’s podcast is a story about one of tech’s most unlikely venture capitalists . Journalist and professional soccer player turned immigrant turned self-proclaimed “best carwasher in San Jose” turned Persian rug salesman turned top Silicon Valley seed investor Pejman Nozad , the Co-Founder & Founding...

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s episode features a pioneer in the sustainable investing world. Bill Orum , who is a Partner at Capricorn Investment Group , has proven that investors can do well and do good at the same time. Bill and his Partners have led Capricorn, a $9B AUM sustainable investment platform serving families, foundations, and institutional investors for over...

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. On today’s show, we dive into the world of wealth management with one of the industry’s leaders, Haig Ariyan , the CEO of Arax Investment Partners . Haig has seen it all. He went from someone who grew up in the advisory world as a wealth manager at Dean Witter Reynolds to ultimately becoming President and CEO of Alex Brown, America’s first investmen...

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. On today’s show, we have a fascinating episode that combines the macro and the micro. Nimble Partners Founder John Burbank and Partner Ken Wallace come on the show to share their unique perspectives and discuss both the nuances and intricacies of investing in private markets and early-stage venture. Nimble Partners is a technology investment platfor...

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Recently, I had the pleasure of hosting a live podcast at the Allocate Beyond Summit , where I interviewed Avy Stein and Jordan Stein from Cresset . Allocate ’s founders Samir Kaji and Hana Yang brought together a fascinating and thoughtful group of allocators, family offices, and VCs for an engaging two days of discussion about private markets. At...

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s episode dives into an important and growing part of the alts ecosystem: how investors can access and invest into alternatives through their retirement funds. We have Eric Satz , the CEO of Alto , a self-directed IRA custodian, with us today to discuss how he’s on a mission to provide everyday Americans with the same investment opportunity lo...

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Wealth managers are increasingly participating in private markets, and for good reason. Today’s podcast is with an expert allocator in the alts space, Phil Huber , who has not only been actively investing in private markets as the CIO of $18B Savant Wealth , but has also authored a book about how advisors can approach private markets. This podcast i...

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today we peer into one of the most fascinating companies in private markets, AngelList , and talk with AngelList’s CEO Avlok Kohli . AngelList is building the operating system for modern startups and tech innovation, and as such, they see themselves as building a company of companies. AngelList has had almost 19,000 startups raise capital from syndi...

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today we talk with John Avery , an executive who is leading the charge for private markets, Web3, and tokenization at one of the largest publicly traded financial services companies, FIS . FIS is one of the world’s leading financial services companies. Over 95% of the world’s banks work with FIS. Their asset management technology processes $40 trill...

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. On today’s episode, we talk with Seyonne Kang , a Partner at StepStone , which acquired her former firm, Greenspring Associates. StepStone is a global private markets firm that provides customized investment and advisory solutions to some of the world’s most sophisticated investors. StepStone has a total capital responsibility of $602B of assets and...

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. On today’s episode, we have Sheel Mohnot , the co-founder and Partner of FinTech VC fund Better Tomorrow Ventures . Sheel is a career fintech investor and operator. He has built Better Tomorrow Ventures into an active pre-seed and seed stage fintech VC that has grown to over $225M AUM. Prior to founding BTV, he was the GP at 500 FinTech, where he wa...

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s show was recorded live from AltsLA 2023 in partnership with CAIA . CAIA is the leading global professional body dedicated to alternative investment credential programs. On this episode, we speak with Daniel Joye , where he oversees Infrastructure investing at LACERA , the $58 billion AUM Los County Employees Retirement Association. Daniel an...

Welcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. Today’s show was recorded live from AltsLA 2023 in partnership with CAIA . CAIA is the leading global professional body dedicated to alternative investment credential programs. On this episode, we speak with Mark Anson , the CEO and CIO of Commonfund ($28B AUM). Mark and I had a fascinating discussion on private markets. We discussed: * Why size dis...