Career Advice for Emerging Investors

Recently, I've had various discussions with young tech investors who, despite early successes, feel they've stagnated in their careers and are looking to make a change. The challenge is that mid-career recruitment is starkly different from entry-level hiring. Based on my diverse experience in various firms at all stages of investing (venture => mutual fund) and a decade of observing my investment club peers, I decided to put some of my thoughts to paper for easy sharing. For the sake of this, I define mid-career roles as roles that offer the beginnings of genuine autonomy, where there is a very real path to permanent risk-taking authority within an organization. My advice can be summarized in three points, each of which I’ll expand upon. 1. These are much more idiosyncratic, bespoke and scarce roles- understand that the rules of recruiting are different 2. Look for P-P-P- platform - person - path 3. Start thinking about you personal specialization and moats Understand that this recruit

Recently, I've had various discussions with young tech investors who, despite early successes, feel they've stagnated in their careers and are looking to make a change. The challenge is that mid-career recruitment is starkly different from entry-level hiring. Based on my diverse experience in various firms at all stages of investing (venture => mutual fund) and a decade of observing my investment club peers, I decided to put some of my thoughts to paper for easy sharing. For the sake of this, I define mid-career roles as roles that offer the beginnings of genuine autonomy, where there is a ver