RWH026: Wealth & Health w/ Jason Karp
The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires) - The Investor’s Podcast Network
Stig Brodersen
4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2023
⏱️ 121 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TIP. |
| 0:02.9 | Hi there, I'm really excited to introduce today's guest, Jason Cup, who's one of the most |
| 0:08.2 | interesting and thoughtful investors I've ever interviewed. |
| 0:12.0 | At first glance, Jason is the ultimate overachiever. |
| 0:15.9 | As an economic student at Wharton, he came in the top four in his class. |
| 0:20.6 | The same time, he was an exceptional athlete to compete as an academic or American and |
| 0:26.4 | all Ivy squash player. |
| 0:28.3 | After graduating summer cum laude from college, he became an extremely successful investor, |
| 0:33.6 | racking up superb returns as a portfolio manager at high profile firms like SAC Capital. |
| 0:40.2 | He then founded his own investment firm, Turbion Capital Partners, and launched one of the |
| 0:45.2 | hottest hedge fund startups in history. |
| 0:47.9 | At Turbion, he rapidly attracted more than $4 billion in assets, and he got off to such |
| 0:53.7 | an impressive start that he won the institutional Investor Award for emerging hedge fund manager |
| 0:59.4 | of the year back in 2015. |
| 1:02.7 | It all sounds pretty glorious and almost effortless rise to success, but under the surface, |
| 1:08.8 | the story was a whole lot darker and more painful. |
| 1:12.8 | As you'll hear in today's episode, Jason was so relentlessly driven and intense that |
| 1:18.6 | he almost destroyed himself both physically and emotionally. |
| 1:22.9 | When I interviewed him for my book, Richard Weiserhappier, he told me that he'd been clinically |
| 1:27.6 | depressed during the last few years that he worked at Turbion, and that it felt as if his |
| 1:33.2 | soul was decaying because trading stocks seemed relatively hollow and meaningless to him. |
| 1:39.6 | After a couple of years of poor performance, he took a radical step, returning his investors |
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