My Life in 4 Trades

🔥 THE NEW REAL VISION - join the waitlist https://www.realvision.com/waitlist Dealing with danger, tragedy, or failure can often cloud our future, making it nearly impossible to predict where the path may lead. The same can apply to life’s highest points. Sa’ad Shah, managing partner and co-founder of Noetic Fund, joins Maggie Lake to share how his life experiences and career journey, both joyous and painful, have brought him to where he is today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ben Harburg, founder and managing partner at MSA Capital, has been at the intersection of the U.S., China, and emerging markets for years. He joins Maggie Lake to share the highs and lows — and the lessons learned — of a career focused on China tech, Asian private markets, and the Middle East. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From a prop trading desk to the NYSE on IVOL's launch day, wiz portfolio manager Nancy Davis shares her journey. Nancy Davis, the founder and CIO of Quadratic Capital Management, has enjoyed a storied career, from a post-grad career at Goldman Sachs to being on the opposite side of the famous London Whale Trade and launching her own ETF. She joins Maggie Lake to share how the highs and lows have shaped her winding road. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Get advice from the founder of the top media domain brokerage in the world. Andrew Rosener, the founder of the number one media brokerage in the world, joins Maggie Lake for a captivating conversation about how he’s remained at the tip of the spear in the digital asset realm. Plus, he shares his worst trade and how he managed to come to terms with a $1.9 billion loss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mike Green’s market expertise is forged from crisis. From navigating the bursting of the dot-com bubble to riding the commodity boom and surviving the Great Financial Crisis, he learned that investing requires much more than just understanding balance sheets. In this episode of My Life in 4 Trades, Mike shares the lessons he’s learned on his way to becoming one of the most respected fund managers in the business. Recorded on February 16th, 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The legendary investor Mark Ritchie walks us through his life, from his early years growing up in Afghanistan to the Chicago Board of Trade to meeting his future wife, and how it all ties into his trading philosophy. He also shares a famous quote — attributed to Mark Twain — that has greatly influenced his life both on and off the trading floor: What are the two most important days in your life? "The day you are born and the day you find out why." Mark joins Maggie Lake for a deep dive into why this quote inspired him, how he learned about the importance of sizing trades, the right time to cut and run, maintaining patience, and much more from his storied trading career. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One thing you can learn from Harris Kupperman’s story is that you can never control the outside forces that impact a trade. Sometimes there’s geopolitical risk or corruption involved. Sometimes there’s a global pandemic. But where there’s risk, there’s also opportunity. Kupperman, the founder and CIO of Praetorian Capital and the author of the “Adventures in Capitalism” blog, joins Maggie Lake to discuss his approach to event-driven investing — and how he’s managed to minimize risk while maximizing profit over a 20-year career — on this episode of My Life in 4 Trades. Recorded on October 28, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the latest episode of My Life in 4 Trades, David Rubenstein, co-founder of one of the world’s largest private equity firms, shares the best and worst trades of his storied career. Plus, he offers key advice for budding entrepreneurs. Recorded on December 8th, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dr. Peter H. Diamandis is an international pioneer in innovation, incentive competitions, and commercial space. He's also a three-time best-selling author, public speaker, and philanthropist. On this episode of My Life in 4 Trades, Peter joins Maggie Lake to discuss how technology will reshape the next decade, what it was like risking his career to send Stephen Hawking to space, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In part 2 of this special edition of My Life in 4 Trades, Real Vision co-founder and CEO Raoul Pal opens up about mistakes he’s made trading Bitcoin and the crucial lessons he’s learned from them. He also digs into his all-time favorite trade – a special investment that has nothing to do with finance. If you missed Part 1, you can catch up right here: https://www.realvision.com/podcast/mylifein4trades/page/1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You’ve never gone as deep with Real Vision co-founder and CEO Raoul Pal as you will in this special two-part episode of My Life in 4 Trades. Raoul talks to Maggie Lake about everything from his childhood in the U.K. to his early days in finance – and, of course, the most impressive trades of his career and what he learned from them. Join us next week for part 2. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Harris “Kuppy” Kupperman, the founder and chief investment officer of Praetorian Capital and the author of the “Adventures in Capitalism” blog, has been investing for more than two decades. You don’t survive that long in financial markets without accruing some success. Kuppy joins Maggie Lake to discuss his approach to trend-following and event-driven investing, with illustrations from the early days of COVID-19 about minimizing risk and maximizing profit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Award-winning hedge fund manager and market commentator, Hugh Hendry, joins Maggie to break down his fascinating career, what he learned from 17th century rice traders, and more. For more on the series, visit My Life in 4 Trades. This episode previously aired on April 13, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Todd Edgar was once one of Wall Street’s star proprietary traders. Before he started Atreaus Family in 2019, he worked for some of the biggest houses in investment banking. In this episode of My Life In Four Trades, Todd shares the critical lessons he’s learned over nearly three decades in financial markets, explaining to Maggie Lake how “naïve optimism” helped shape his entrepreneurial mindset and why embracing lifelong learning is the key to success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Anthony Scaramucci has worked in two of the most pressure-driven environments in America – investment banking at Goldman Sachs and the communications shop in the White House during the Trump administration. And he’s seen and experienced all sorts of success and failure. In this episode of My Life in Four Trades, the founder and co-managing partner of SkyBridge Capital and chairman of the SALT Conference shares with Maggie Lake how his humble upbringing shaped his career and what it taught him about the value of authenticity. **NOTE - This interview was recorded on October 10th, 2022** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chris Sullivan, a portfolio manager of Hyperion Decimus, transitioned from traditional finance to crypto – and he says it’s the best move of his career. A lot of that has to do with crypto’s freek-market system, where bailouts are not an option. Chris explains how that cutthroat culture has attracted – and continues to attract – some of the best minds in the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Born into a family of cotton traders, Alexander Stahel is a natural when it comes to commodities. Alexander grew up in Switzerland before he migrated to the U.K. to begin an investment banking career. Now the chief investment officer at Burggraben Holding, the Zug, Switzerland-based firm he founded, he’s focused on finding great value in a few public and private companies. In this episode of My Life in Four Trades, Alexander explains why – just like golf – trading is not a “perfect” game. He also talks about how to avoid blind spots and shares his forecast for the energy space. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of My Life in Four Trades, Jeff Dorman, a co-founder and the chief investment officer of Arca, gets personal with Maggie Lake. Jeff explains why he quit traditional finance, shares the lessons he had to learn and unlearn after years of working on Wall Street, and talks about how he’s become a calculated risk-taker. After trading at leading TradFi firms such as Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and Citadel, Jeff moved to Los Angeles for a new blockchain-powered career and to find a work-life balance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There’s nothing ordinary about Bill Browder’s life. After earning an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1989, he moved to Russia with the intention of becoming the “biggest capitalist in Eastern Europe.” Bill’s dream manifested with the opening of the Hermitage Fund, which became the best-performing hedge fund in the world. In this captivating episode of My Life in Four Trades, the venture capitalist turned political activist joins Maggie Lake to share the distinct highlights and harrowing downsides to his success: taking on and taking down business oligarchs of the old Soviet republics, the tragic death of his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, and his emergence as Vladimir Putin’s No. 1 enemy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

KPTL Arbitrage Management is one of the few crypto hedge funds that managed to profit from Terra’s crash. Its founding partner, Jay Janer, sheds insights on his journey from TradFi trading desks at Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley. He shares his approach to navigating the world of digital assets and explains why agility is a key characteristic of successful traders, regardless of asset class. Read more about Jay Janer’s top tips on the Real Vision blog: https://www.realvision.com/ML4T32 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices