E434: Warren Gibbon on How AI is Changing the Private Markets

Highlights:

• Why investors should re-underwrite the case for private markets.
• What the endowment model’s historical returns may be hiding.
• Why Warren believes public-market value creation is underestimated.
• The risk behind today’s massive AI infrastructure spending boom.
• Why private equity faces a much harder environment going forward.
• How passive investing may be changing the behavior of public markets.
• Why “boring and hard” investments can remain structurally underfunded.
• How Warren would deploy $100 million of fresh liquidity today.

Guest Bio:

Warren Gibbon is a Multi-Family Office Chief Investment Officer with 14 years of investment management experience and a focus on U.S. and global equities. His expertise spans asset allocation, equity research, portfolio management, investment analysis, and valuation, with additional interests in behavioral finance and the construction of diversified portfolios across public and private markets.

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