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Tom Gayner, Co-CEO of Markel discusses the evolution of Markel into a Fortune 500 company, the secret to success in the investment business and much more…

The World According to Boyar

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Is There a 360 Degree View of Where to Allocate Capital?

Mark L Ventures had about $2 million in EBITDA last year of the ventures, I think had about $400 million or so. Would you be surprised if one day ventures value is significantly greater than that of the equity portfolio? No. So we really don't think about a target as to how big insurance should be or how big ventures should be. What we think about is on every single day when we come to work, we think, what is the logical thing to do with capital? And if that answer would point us in a certain direction, disproportionately for a certain period of time, that's going to become bigger. That's an outcome, not a goal or a target.

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