Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
01:08:12 · Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Vlad Barbalat
[01:08:12] S0: I love doing this with you. I love your story. I love the way you built this thing. I think it's extremely distinctive. It certainly is one of those 10 referent branded capital LPs that I think everyone out there wants. It's so interesting to me. Maybe I should make this a series or something to really help the world understand how each of these huge pools of capital thinks and works. I think you know my traditional closing question for everyone, what is the kindest thing that anyone's ever done for you? [01:08:36] S2: This is the one question I knew was coming. I've thought about it. I had so many thoughts on who I should describe, I've been fortunate to have many. I'm gonna come back and maybe do something that I haven't seen others say on your podcast, I'm gonna come back and say the kindest thing is this group of people that have fought for constructed pathways for legal immigration to The United States. So my gratitude is to America and my gratitude is to the people that for reasons they didn't have to, allowed people like me to come to America to have a very very very different life than I would have otherwise had. To allow me to have an impact on people that are in my vicinity and surroundings, hopefully a positive one, and to find a way to learn from that gratitude and continue to have pragmatic optimism that America is essential to the world. It is still the shining city on a hill and I want to do whatever I can to remind people of that, to contribute to it, and every single day be grateful for being an American citizen.
01:09:43 · Patrick O'Shaughnessy
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