Meet The Private Equity Investor at the Intersection of Finance and Self-Help

‪@grahamcweaver‬ is the founder and managing partner of Alpine Investors. He started Alpine out of his dorm room at Stanford and started buying companies with his credit card. Over the last 22 years, he built a private equity firm with $16 billion in assets under management.

In this conversation, Weaver unpacks his unique investment strategy, what daily habits have transformed his life, and why he believes we should all strive to live an asymmetric life.
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TIME STAMPS:
00:00 - Intro
00:35 - Discovering self-help
05:12 - The origin story of how Graham founded Alpine Investors
09:07 - Raising $4.5 billion buyout fund
13:12 - Learning crisis leadership
16:56 - Offense deck vs. Defense deck
19:47 - Graham's internal battle in life
21:54 - Graham's most transformational daily habits
26:42 - How Graham generates ideas
31:09 - Graham's writing process for clarifying his thinking
33:07 - How he deals with feedback on his 1M+ follower TikTok account
36:02 - When he knew he wanted to live an asymmetric life
38:52 - How important it is to set quantifiable, measurable goals
42:08 - Why change often requires your life to get worse first
45:02 - Graham's top 3 books for making big life change
46:58 - How to get over the motivation slump
49:41 - Graham's best parenting advice
52:38 - How Graham defines the word success