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...that? Extra driven for whatever reason. Maybe daddy told them they weren't good enough and they wanna show daddy how good they are. Maybe they have a twin brother. Twins are where we are competing with one another. They love one another, but they com
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...it. The drive of within. And I think a lot of times people have a chip on their shoulder that's something they wanna prove or just be competitive with something. You know, my brother and I are best friends. I I wanna beat his butt always. I wanna be
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...are competitive deals that you want to win, I'm sure, that other great firms also want to win. How do you win when you want to? The ethos of the firm is never sell against anyone else. There are truly a lot of firms that we respect deeply, and we wil
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And if you see it, it's pretty intent on playing to win. We can win from any situation. There is an element of we are here to win the market. We are not here just to play, you know. There's an intensity that language matters in the sense that you've
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...competitive streak with your dad even though you have different ideals in many other ways. Yeah. You know what, Ben? If you're not competitive, you shouldn't be in the investment business. Yeah. But I would say it's not competitive with others. It's
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...but drive and grit that is the other side of that coin are rare. And people who have it end up being entrepreneurs or something resembling entrepreneurship because it is such an unstoppable force. But it's amazing. Like if you don't have it, it's a t
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financial or career, and it retains them and makes them feel worthy in a way that I find difficult to do otherwise. The best people want recognition, whether that is compensation, title, or something. There's lots of ways to do it. I think people als
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the ways in which we wanna do it with our values and integrity, I think, are things that we're even more focused on. We can talk about talent whenever you want, but there's a line that I use at the firm all the time, which is if you actually have to
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...Drive. How do you think about your, quote, unquote, competitors? We think about competition in probably more of a positive sum capacity than others. We feel like we have a lot to learn from other firms. We have deep respect for a lot of other firms.
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...driven are the ones that are entirely focused on improving themselves constantly. It's this level of self motivation and self awareness that is entirely a competition between them and themselves. And I think that is the thing that I've seen from the
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...be competitive. I have one that is, we are the Yankees, and we're gonna act like it. And what I mean by that is not we're gonna be arrogant or we think we're the best team or something like that. What I mean by that is we're lucky enough to be a part
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...not competitive, you shouldn't be in the investment business. Yeah. But I would say it's not competitive with others. It's competition with ourselves. I mean, we just wanna be the best that we possibly can be. So everything we do at our firm is in se
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fear of not being relevant in ten years? I don't think the people that show up today and look at this beautiful campus feel the same hunger we felt when we didn't know if we were gonna make it. It's a circle of life. But how do you instill a desire o
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what you are trying to build and why. Great question. We have three north stars at Alpine. One is to be the number one performing private equity fund in the world as measured by MOIC. Our specific goal is five x on every fund. Number two is we wanna
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