Graham Weaver on Private Equity

Masters in Business

Bloomberg

Business, Entrepreneurship, Investing

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Graham Weaver, who is the founder and CEO of Alpine Investors, a PeopleFirst private equity firm in San Francisco which invests in software and services. Graham has been in private equity for over 20 years, having started Alpine in his dorm room at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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0:00.0	I'm Bob Pittman, Chairman and CEO of IHART Media.
0:04.4	I've spent my life building brands and running companies like IHART Media, MTV, Casa
0:10.0	Dragones de Quila, America Online, AOL Time Warner, Six Like Steam Parks, even Century
0:15.1	21 Real Estate.
0:16.1	I love to study others who've been in the trenches doing the same thing.
0:20.2	That's where my podcast, Math and Magic comes in.
0:23.2	Each week, we'll hear from business leaders like Christian Jewel, Global CEO of Group
0:27.9	M.
0:28.9	Important Beheder of People Realized.
0:30.7	It's okay to fail.
0:31.7	And it comes out of Silicon Valley.
0:33.1	Listen to Math and Magic on our very own free IHART Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever
0:38.7	you get your podcast.
0:42.7	This is Mesters in Business with Barry Redholz on Bloomberg Radio.
0:50.2	This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest.
0:53.3	Graham Weaver is founder and partner at Alpun Investors, a private equity firm, focusing
0:58.8	on software and services.
1:01.9	Graham has a really interesting background, both engineering at Princeton and essentially
1:08.6	launching a PE firm while he was a graduate student at Stanford.
1:13.1	Everybody knows a story about Michael Dell launching a computer business out of his dorm
1:18.5	room in Texas.
1:20.1	This could be the first PE firm I'm familiar with that got started in a dorm room.
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