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The Tim Ferriss Show

#362: Graham Duncan — Talent Is The Best Asset Class

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4.617.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2019

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

"Everyone's genius is right next to their dysfunction." Graham Duncan

Graham Duncan (@GrahamDuncanNYC) is the co-founder of East Rock Capital, a multi-family office investment firm that manages $2 billion for a small number of families and their charitable foundations.

Before starting East Rock 14 years ago, Graham worked at two other investment firms and started his career by co-founding an independent Wall Street research firm. Graham graduated from Yale with a B.A. in ethics, politics, and economics. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves as co-chair of the SOHN Conference Foundation, which funds pediatric cancer research.

Josh Waitzkin, the chess prodigy who served as the basis for the book and movie Searching for Bobby Fischer, calls Graham "the tip of the spear in the realms of talent tracking and judgment of human potential in high stakes mental arenas."

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Can I also your personal question?

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Now I just sit in the perfect time.

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What if I could be out there?

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I must have a netty-borganism living this show on metal-hintless television.

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Lead to Paris show.

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This episode is brought to you by LinkedIn Marketing Solutions, the go-to tool for B2B

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marketers and advertisers who want to drive brand awareness, generate leads, or build long-term

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relationships that result in real business impact.

0:37.8

Could be all of the above.

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I've had Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn on this podcast a number of times, often called

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the Oracle of Silicon Valley for many different reasons.

0:47.1

And he among other people and friends of mine have made me more and more interested in LinkedIn

0:52.3

as a platform as an ecosystem in the last few years.

0:55.7

And it's very nuanced.

0:57.2

It's very subtle but can be used in some very powerful ways.

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With a community of more than 575 million professionals, LinkedIn is gigantic but it can be

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hyper-specific.

1:07.9

You have access to a very diverse group of people all searching for things they need to

1:12.9

grow professionally.

1:13.9

That is explicitly the purpose of LinkedIn.

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