How Difficult is Fund Raising for Founding a Hedgefund?

How difficult is it to fundraise when founding a hedgefund. Is it entirely determined by your network, or does your pedigree play an important role? How much money could a senior investor at Tiger Global, for example, expect to raise? What about a PM at Millenium? What about a PM of an average performance pod? What about an experienced trader at Jane Street?

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I used to do Asia-Pacific PE (kind of like FoF). Now I do something else but happy to try and answer questions on that stuff.

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