Hello, I'm Ted Sides, and this is Capital Allocators.

This show is an open exploration of the people and process behind capital allocation.

Through conversations with leaders in the money game, we learn how these holders of the keys to the

kingdom allocate their time and their capital. You can keep up to date by visiting capital

allocatorspodcast.com. As we finish up book launch week, I thought I'd share this interview

conducted by Jenny Heller, my friend,

the seventh guest on the show, and the president and chief investment officer of Brandywine

Group Advisors. We discussed the business of capital allocators, entrepreneurship, effectiveness,

and investing, including a brief description of my most recent private equity fund investment.

Please enjoy this interview of me by my friend Jenny Heller.

Ted, it's such a pleasure to have the opportunity to interview you today. I've listened to so many of your

podcast. I've had the opportunity to be on the other side've listened to so many of your podcasts. I've had the

opportunity to be on the other side. So I'm really looking forward to this. Jenny, it is always a

pleasure to get a chance to talk to you. So let's dive in because there's a lot of things I'm

curious about and I know our audiences too. Most people's genius lives right next to their eccentricity or whatever it is that they struggle

with. I think you're gifted at drawing out and engaging with people's superpowers,

gleaning insights from these and curating them in a way that is either investable or useful.

Would you define your genius this way? And the counterpoint, how has this shown up as eccentricity for you or something that you've struggled with?

I'll let you define genius that way. You know, I don't really know. It's hard to say, yes, that is my genius.

What I can say is that one of the things I found is that aspect of doing interviewing just comes naturally and

easily for me and more so than other people. And the commonality, whether that's the interviewing

process on the podcast or just throughout my life and how I might define that is I'm just really

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