Glenn Dubin - Highbridge
Just did a podcast with Glenn Dubin. Super nice guy and I got the honor of doing his first podcast ever.
If you don't know, he founded Highbridge Capital Management and now manages his family office.
He shared some very interesing insights about growing up, building Highbridge for longevity not size, and the tailwinds he sees right now (especially in roll ups)
Generating Alpha Podcast on Spotify
Glenn Dubin? The New York financier?
Yep!
It was a reference to the Conan / Jim Downey meme about Epstein. Maybe a little too niche reference, in retrospect
Ok, it's eating me - who the fuck are your parents kid? This, the Steve Cohen, and Alan Patricof interviews make it obvious you're nepo connected. These are not people who sit down with high schoolers unless they're related or part of a family that's tied to either a large LP or source of dealflow in some capacity. Not holding it against you, but it's definitely sticking in my head the few times I've turned on your show.
It's cool that you're starting down this road but try listening to some other big finance podcasts and develop your questions a bit more. I know you're still young, but these interviews are so basic and bland you're wasting bullets bringing in these big names and not getting into anything that's particularly deep or thoughtful. The sooner you can develop that interviewing skill and come up with better questions/topics, the quicker people will ignore the aforementioned nepo question and actually appreciate what you're doing.
It's plain wrong, but not going to try to argue since it will get both of us no where.
I stand by my statement that there's some sort of nepo connection here. There's no universe in which you're getting these folks to sit down for an interview without one when they regularly deny much larger content creators and official news outlets even 5-minute talk slots. Maybe it's not so far as an LP or dealflow component, but someone attends the same country club or is part of the same social circle as someone that knows these guys. There's no way they're just talking to a random high schooler out of the goodness of their heart based on a cold email. It admittedly doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things because whether or not your family's connected is irrelevant to whether or not the interviews could be good.
Re: your content being bland. These are incredibly basic interview formats, but that's alright because you're so incredibly young. I'm just saying you would greatly benefit if you worked to aggressively improve on that front. You're getting sitdowns with massive names and would blow up in a big way if there was some deep substance in these interviews. You don't even have to come up with original questions, just copy/paste the from scripts of shows like 20VC, BG2Pod, Acquired, Capital Allocators, SaaStr, or Invest Like the Best and you'll be producing content that's top-tier. Maybe consider lengthening the interviews wherever possible. Then with the time factor, if you keep at this for 2-3 years and maintain the guest quality you could easily build a top 10 finance podcast.
If you can't take criticism from someone who genuinely wants to enjoy these interviews (you've literally spoken to some folks people look to as role models, myself included), you're going to have a hard time building an audience.
Darn. I was gonna listen to this later today but will now pass. Nothing worse than a bad interviewer
I promise to you it will be worth it. We don't go into the weeds of finance but talk about their careers and experiences. I recommend either this or the Alan Schwartz one.
I definitely would not say they're bad. Just young & inexperienced, and it understandably shows. The Steve Cohen interview for example felt like he was answering questions at a high school or college forum. Clearly these guys have a big edge with getting big names to sit down with them. I just wish they were asking more insightful questions where the answers couldn't be dug up through a somewhat thorough google search. Give us finance nerds something we can't find anywhere else and you'll have a product some would readily pay a subscription for.
OP this is a good point. I tried showing the podcast to a friend of mine after listening to the Steve Cohen one and he specifically cited he wasn't interested between the content/question style and rejected checking out anything else you've posted purely based on the fact it was obvious nepo. I don't think it was fair, but fixing the former would definitely help silence people who have a problem with it because of the latter.
Just want to address this. Our goal audience isn't people already in finance or self described finance geeks. It's high schoolers and college students looking to get in finance. We are focused on learning about the person more than what they do, most podcasts focus on what they do and we think who they are is also really important. None of the prominent guests are through connections although I do live in Greenwich which probably helped. Everything was cold outreach though. The main reason these people are willing to join me is since I am interviewing them about their career and their advice to the youth.
I’m not trying to dox the kid, but his dad was a key player at Bridgewater lol. I just don’t get why people downplay their nepotism—it doesn’t mean they didn’t work hard.
I grew up in the same area as OP, and honestly, nepotism is the main reason most kids around here even know what PE is in high school. It’s a huge advantage.
Not downplaying it, all of what I built is myself though. Helps the area that I live.
By the way, if any of you have feedback for the episodes. Would love if you DMed me and if we could chat. Really want to make this the best it can be.
To OP's credit, maybe guys like steve/glenn are ok being on the podcast because they know OP isn't going to be the 1000th guy bothering them about their investment process/lessons learned, etc., or whatever everyone on here wants to talk to them about and instead steve/glenn would like to just talk more generally and just give advice to the youth.
Exactly...
I would keep doing what you are doing if you like it, instead of following a certain script to build a following and then not enjoying podcasting. Enjoy the process and if taking conversations in another direction with your guests feels like a natural step then do that when appropriate / as you learn more too.
Conversations like these will make finance industry / jobs and their appeal more accessible to regular highschool students than usual hardo topics/ones targetting working professionals (tons of podcasts do that already)
Fair enough, but you called the podcast "generating alpha" just FYI
So yea, thats also where the confusion is, as people are expecting more investment lessons vs. the generic story of their background
idk if i would brag about being associated with this guy
glenn dubin is a noted associated of jeffery epstein
some VERY suspect articles about him with epstein
https://nypost.com/2024/01/04/news/epstein-victim-claims-she-had-sex-with-glenn-dubin/
https://nypost.com/2019/12/18/jeffrey-epstein-wanted-to-marry-ex-girlfr…
Yeah, OP should've asked about his escapades with Jeff.
"What was your favorite room on the island?"
Hey little buddy,
Instead of coming here and name dropping your guests, how about giving us a headline dunk of whatever meaningful stuff your lovely guests discussed on the show to galvanize interest for folks to check out your show instead? I can also make a post about coming across Jamie near Grand Central but wgaf
I don't know you, but you shouldn't be bringing on men who were 1) heavily involved with Epstein for decades and 2) he and his wife were accused by multiple victims of exploitation and tr*fficking of very young people.
I am also concerned he is trying to groom you. Because why would a man with this history be acting as a "mentor" to you??! This does not add up. He does not have seem to have good intentions here.
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