Last year, people were buying lottery tickets for one fiftieth the value they were at the end of last year. And so all the portfolio mathematics that made venture really interesting just seemed to vanish in the last two years. But i think if you're looking to have really strong returns over a multi decade period, people return expectations were crazy last year. If you do 15 % annualized for a very long period of time, the numbers get really gofe vig really, really fast.
Dan McMurtrie is the Portfolio Manager at Tyro Partners, an asset management firm for institutions and HNWIs; and the General Partner at Anchorless Bangladesh, an early stage venture fund focused on Bangladeshi startups. Links:
Show Notes:
- Are we in the schadenfreude part of the market cycle?
- Going back to the fundamentals
- Solving the agency problem
- Taking concentrated beta risk
- Having clarity around your goals
- The behavioral risk in investing
- Do not get married to your investment thesis
- It’s always you vs. you
- Investing is about understanding other people's mistakes
- Societal costs of stablecoins being unstable
- Compatibility of social media and representative democracy
- Issues with the current US Govt. administration
- Number one existential risk for US currently
- Risks of information overload
- Improving education about commerce
- Dopamine manipulators
- Leadership vs. Stakeholder management
- America vs China for policy changes
- US legal immigration system
- And MUCH more!