How Wrestling Informed this Investor's Recruiting Strategy / COMBAT

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Private Equity is about building great teams to evaluate talent and in turn risk. Mike McMullan is a private equity investor, and formerly was a 4x All American for wrestling at Northwestern and a college wrestling coach for the University of Pennsylvania. Spartan Up Combat series host Ryan Warner talks to Mike about the key ingredients for building a successful team.

In this episode you’ll learn

-The parallels between building great teams as a college coaching and private equity investor

-The role of risk taking in evaluating talent

-How to sell people on your idea or business

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0:00.0	If you're a firm, like how can you differentiate yourself from other firms in the process to win that business?
0:05.8	And if you're a program like what do you offer that's different beyond just like saying we'll give you a full ride?
0:11.1	You're listening to Spartan combat on Spartan up.
0:16.4	Learn from battle tested combat athletes with your host Ryan Warner.
0:22.1	Spartans! This is Ryan Warner. Spartans!
0:24.0	This is Ryan Warner.
0:25.0	You're listening to the Spartan Combat Series here on Spartan Up.
0:28.0	My guest today is Mike McMullen,
0:30.0	four-time All-American for Northwestern.
0:32.0	Now he's in private equity and we talk about
0:34.8	the parallels between being a private equity investor and building great teams.
0:38.8	We'll see you next week Spartans. This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by
0:42.4	Inside Tracker, the ultra-personalized nutrition and wellness platform that analyzes data from your blood.
0:49.0	Go to inside Tracker.com and save 33% with the code Spartan Up.
0:55.0	I do want to hit on before we get to your current situation the time you spent at
1:00.0	PA, a University of Pennsylvania, that is.
1:04.4	What sticks out to you there is any big learnings
1:06.6	or any big, I don't want to say life lessons,
1:08.6	but things you took away from that experience.
1:11.5	It's a great question a lot.
1:14.0	Basically, you know, we,
1:18.0	Northwestern was great.
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