Youngest people you’ve seen start funds?

Just curious. I know a kid out of undergrad who manages like $5m (professors mostly, family is poor). Hayden Capital is another one, pretty sure the founder started that when he was in his mid 20’s.

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Anonymous Monkey:

You're lying to me.


Wrote this "Situational Awareness" paper about AI on his way out of OpenAI.

Bay Area tech ppl (incl. the Stripe guy and others) wrote him a massive check to go giga-long AI beneficiaries.

 

$5m is a great amount to start with!! Plenty of funds start with very little capital. I'd kill to have another $5m to manage at my fund. 1-2% on $5m is $50-100k in base fees, add performance on to that and that could be $150ish!

 

UhtredSonOfUhtred

$5m is a great amount to start with!! Plenty of funds start with very little capital. I'd kill to have another $5m to manage at my fund. 1-2% on $5m is $50-100k in base fees, add performance on to that and that could be $150ish!

No, plenty of funds 30+ years ago started with very little capital. The market is a completely different universe now. 

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Santiago Santos just started Inversion Capital and is pretty cracked 

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